[color=#2B547E]So... Lately I've been debating whether or not to quit Menewsha. I really haven't spent any significant time on here since... Like the first half of the summer I think. It's a good site and stuff I just don't know...

I'm in college now, 3rd year, and things are getting pretty hectic. I've a lot more work to do with upper division classes and preparing to study abroad next semester. And... I'm just making an assumption here... But I think I probably would rather spend my time looking at things like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre while I'm there. And while I'm here? I'd honestly rather spend my time with my boyfriend or doing the work I need to do rather than being distracted by Mene.

I sold back quite a bit of my inventory the other day... None of the Atlantis items that I love so much, but a few other things that I don't really care about. I think for now... I'll keep my account and my items for now but I'm going to be taking the link off my bookmark toolbar... That way I won't be so tempted to click on it all the time.

It isn't an official quit yet... Just maybe a test run? Even if I don't really want to be an active member of the site anymore I think it'd be interesting to still log on once and a while and take a look at how far Mene progresses and how it evolves.[/color]

I had no idea that there was a blog page here on Menewsha. Shows how much I pay attention. Anyways, for those who are curious, my name is J Victoria and I'm almost 21. my birthday's soon in fact. Here's me...
[IMG]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w80/Hijiri_Minase/Janisoldface.jpg[/IMG]

that's kind of an old picture, but I don't think that I've changed much.

Nothing much to say, but if you're interested in avi art, PM me.

[COLOR="Thistle"]Two things to talk about, the movie titled 'Nothing', and the book, 'Buddha Boy'. The first, I have wanted to mention for a while, but titling a blog entry as 'Nothing' May be a bit misleading.

Anyway, it was a -wonderful- idea, the creators of Nothing had. But, it moved slowly. like, 1/3 of the way through and your finally done introducing characters you never see again? Now, lets back up. The movie was about two men who 'discover the power to be able to make anything they hate disappear'. Ho-wow. Interesting, no? Well, they didn't discover they could do anything until the movie was nearly over!

I'm not saying it was bad, yet, though. I mean, interesting ideas- no, -amazing- ideas where in it. Deleting memories they hated(though I disagreed with the idea) was one of them.

It was the end that shot the movie with a cannonball of spikes. That burned. With pepper spray. pretty much, the physiologically-messed-up guy deleting everything that had made him that way, then began to hate his friend, and they stared deleting each other, until all that was left was their heads... I mean, freaky...? Then, when neither could erase the other, they discovered their true friendship- and bounded their little heads off into nothing...

Oh, and they would never die. They erased anything of the sort.

Soo.... lets live forever in white space? ...-fun-.






Alright, In the cooler section, Buddha Boy. What an amazing book! I mean, it ended on a note I usually don't like with books- but it was done -right-! The whole book was interesting, no boring parts. It was to the point, and short. But you could just feel everything.

It's about a new... strange... student, who is an amazing artist, told from the perspective of a different boy.

Go read it, now.

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Edit: [URL="http://xx-jinx-xx.deviantart.com/art/Thanks-Toonami-98634795"]Thanks Toonami...[/URL]

Browsing the Anime/Manga forums on Menewsha, I saw one thread in particular that caught my eye.

[I]'Farewell, Toonami...'[/I] My eyes widened. [I]Sweet sacred spring of Stranglethorn, this can't be good.[/I]

My cursor moves over the link, checking the date - 09-21-2008 - and I click it, nearly dreading what might lay beyond. The first post was by Digital Kakashi. [I]Never heard of him before...[/I] I stopped, actually reading the post.

[I]Last night was the end of Toonami. Many anime fans were introduced to anime because of it and after 11 years it's gone for good. ;_; Adult Swim seems to be heading in the same direction unfortunately...[/I]

The whole world stood still around me. Either that or I had frozen in time, and the rest of the world was moving on with out me. I repeat that sentence in my mind, not quite able to believe it.

[I]Many anime fans were introduced to anime because of it and after 11 years it's gone for good...[/I]

Images flash before my eyes. A few clips from Dragonball Z I had thought I had forgotten; sitting on a couch next to my cousin when I was three, watching Bob fight Megabyte for the upteenth time in Reboot; some vague memory from the Justice League; the end of a Sailor Moon episode...

I had watched those shows sitting next to my cousin or from my parents knee. Those shows had become a part of my childhood... a part of who I had become. I had watched the recorded tapes of Reboot until they wore out and my dad forbad me from watching them again, least they completely give out, but by that time I had already memorized each and every character by heart. And while I had nevered watched the other three as much, they still had helped shape who I became.

Toonami? [I]Gone?[/I]

Eleven years... Eleven freaking years. I just can't believe it.

The first post has a link to a "Old, Old" Toonami promo video. I click on it, opening the YouTube video in another tab. It has some really nice music, and clips from a few different shows they aired. One thing in particular that is said catches my attention.

"No one is gonna give you a map. You've gotta walk your own path."

I sigh. Yeah, we may have to walk our own paths, but what about the PAST of those paths, the things we saw and heard that made us choose the paths we take? What if a large part of who we are just... disappears after inspiring so many of us? Then what? Do we still walk that path, or what?

I replay the video then scroll down, reading other peoples comments.

[I]one of the last messages tom ever gave us...

You Will Be Missed....R.I.P Toonami....Stay Gold [/I]


[I]Toonami made me who I was today. I'll never get the old old toonami. Before it just went down the crapper...I love you Toonami[/I]


[I]after i watched toonami for the first time i thought "wow, this kicks the crap out of saturday morning cartoons!" [/I]


[I]thanks toonami.
youll memory will live on....
toonami fans(including me) will miss you.
to us.youll always be gold.-bang. [/I]


[I]God, nostalgia just smacked me in the face
i remember this from when they first showed it
R.I.P. GOOD TOONAMI R.I.P.
i remember when it wasn't about kid-friendliness but about awesome shows and good inspiration and lessons [/I]


They were all along similar lines, everyone got hit with a bit happiness of watching a video aired on such a familiar station, but that feeling was nearly wiped away from nostalgia, sorrow, and thanks. It seemed that everyone wanted to say their bit about Toonami before we all felt that we would have to let go of it forever.

"Don't fear failure."

I hadn't heard that line the first time around. It was odd. All of us, gathering at this video, saying our final farewells. Each standing on the seperate paths we took, but all of us lead here from the same source that made us who we are. And here we stood, being told not to fear failure and to walk our owns paths by a video of a thing that we all loved and knew.

I can feel the tears behind my eyes, but I don't let them fall- something I've gotten really good at over the past few weeks. I wonder what life will be like, knowing in the back of my mind that someday in the future I wouldn't be able to just go and track down Toonami, and go all nostalgic of the old days. Sure, I can find the recorded episodes online, but that just isn't the same.

So I guess we'll just have to keep on moving with life, putting on the happy face even if we aren't. A part of our childhoods is gone, but not forgotten. And it will live on in the hearts of each person it inspired as we grow and reminisce.

So like they say, we have to keep walking our paths and keep asking questions so we can be the best we can be.



R.I.P Toonami
1997 - 2008
Stay Gold


(Copasted from my deviantART submission, [URL="http://lathrine.deviantart.com/art/R-I-P-Stay-Gold-98902356"]"R.I.P - Stay Gold"[/URL] YES, I go all nostalgic 'n' crap when something like this happens. :< )

[QUOTE]But hold your breath
Because tonight will be the night that
I will fall for you
Over again
Don’t make me change my mind
Or I won’t live to see another day
I swear it's true
Because a girl like you is impossible to find
You’re impossible to find [/QUOTE]

What I would give for a boy to sing/say something like that to me... I'm twenty and I have never even been on a date... I guess it bothers me because I see how happy some girls about their boyfriends (even if I question the relationships in general). Maybe it's just cause I'm a little lonely. Who knows...