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Listen to me talk about culture, entertainment and other things I like. The sort of things that occupy my mind are Bionicle, other Lego lines, Star Wars and more.

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Thoughts on Thinking

I Can't Believe I Used to Be Such a Terrible Author

For the past few weeks, I've been revisiting the oldest fanfiction of mine still on BZPower. It's something that I always imagined I would do. Maybe it's some kind of compulsion, but I'm kind of obsessed with going back and constantly revising my own work. I joined this site in 2007 and for me the "Golden Age" was from that time to the Dataclysm. Losing all the fanfictions I had written before that point really felt like the burning of the Library of Alexandria to me. I remember it as havin
Thoughts on Thinking

Cartoons and Escapism

Originally, this blog post was going to focus on Code Lyoko, but I have decided to expand it to be about escapism and fiction in general, since I have recently begun watching (and binging) Twelve Forever. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes drama regarding the show's creator that I won't be talking about. The show was first recommended to me by a former friend I no longer talk to back when it aired around 2019, but I have not sat down to watch it until now. If you read my previous entry, in
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The Post-Bonkle Period

Consider this to be an addendum to my recent topic about the BIONICLE Dream. I tried my best to make that topic normal and not too depressing (and I will leave to you how successful I was). Since BIONICLE has ended (and by that I mean since 2010; G2 barely registered for me as an event), BIONICLE itself, the time from when I got my first set in 2003 to 2010, feels like my own personal "time before time." On one hand, it does feel like time existed as a BIONICLE fan, and even that BIONICLE i
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Secret Mission #5: Mirror World is Hilarious

I will post a full review when I've finished the book, but so far, HFSM #5 is, intentionally or not, the funniest piece of HF media. One of the villains is punished because, in upside-down "evil is good" world, not robbing a bank when you have the chance to is a crime. The logical implications of this universe just make me laugh. The villain (I think it was Toxic Reapa) make it sound like an inconvenience, because he already robbed that bank twice that week and was tired. I'm not going to d
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Early Hero Factory

Personally, I believe that Hero Factory 2010 captured a lot of what made both late BIONICLE and early Hero Factory kind of bad. The quality of the pieces themselves still suffered from that weird molding issue from 2008, which made them stiff, disjointed and prone to breaking. Furthermore, the main good guy sets (the Heroes) were incredibly difficult to pose. Stormer, Stringer, and Bulk suffered from the bizarre choice to integrate their weapons directly into their arms, and the dual-wielding He
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16 Years

Wow, as of today, I trade in my gold Mask of Control for a trans-blue Mask of Creation. I've been a BZPower member for 16 years, since October 7, 2007. I have been a BZPer for more than half of my life. The site definitely is not the bustling metropolis it used to be. I remember the almost overwhelming feeling of there being too much for me to ever consume. The first thing I would do when I got home from school is check BZP for new Set Reviews or BIONICLE sales. I'd browse the Set Database
My World History Book

My History Project

For a while, I've been working on something. It's a 100-page history of the entire world, beginning with the invention of writing in ancient Sumer and going all the way to the modern day. It has not been easy. I have been able to work on it twice a week and make 5-8 pages per session. I am 90% of the way done, and my mind is racing. This is something that part of me has always wanted to do. I loved watching The History Channel and asking my dad about the Civil War and American Revolution wh
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Atakus' Quote

Atakus' BIONICLE.com quote is: "No one rides into Roxtus without getting past me. And those that do, heh, never leave." It sounds intimidating at first, until you realize Atakus is admitting he's bad at his job. I thought more about the quote, too, and realized there's quite a bit more going on here than at the surface. When Atakus says "getting past" does he mean "sneaking past" or passing him at all? Are there certain people he is supposed to let in, or is he supposed to turn away everyon
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You've Never Read an Entire Book

When you read, your eyes look at symbols that stand for sounds, and those sounds represent concepts. Reading requires both of these events (symbols-to-sounds, and sounds-to-concepts) to take place. It happens so quickly, we can ignore the middleman if we want. Writing systems like Chinese are called logographies as opposed to true alphabets, because Chinese characters don't stand for sounds at all, just concepts. You have to learn as many characters in Chinese as there are ideas. English sometim
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