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Hey Jade, I hope that you'll enjoy looking at the topics I posted about my fic. One thing is that I do get technical about certain things, though there's usually important info in that technical stuff that comes back into the story later as the plot develops. Also, a lot of the characters are female, and some have their origins in other fic that I've written. Also, there's some pretty significant plot twists from Guyver and even Twilight canon (I can PM you about those and other things if you're interested), and tons of OCs. Things here also do connect somewhat with other Twilight fan fic I've written--some of which are also waiting to get finished, including one with two of my OC's (named Lia and Camel) that's almost 50 chapters long--thankfully, it's not too insanely far from it's finish. I do believe that you'll like a lot of my OC's and a couple of things I did with a couple of Guyver characters. Speaking of which, I'll probably try in a few minutes to start work on writing--hopefully in a day or two, I can get finished with this current chapter. Update: I'm almost done with chapter 10. I should have it finished by tonight.

There's a couple of threads--one in the fan fic/fan art section called "My Guyver and Twilight fic that I've hinted at" or something like that, and one more about info in the story in the science and technology area at the top of that page. I haven't posted it anywhere, and, actually, I've had a bitch of a time working on it recently because of work and being sick off and on. I have been working on chapter 10 of it for over a month now. There's a ton of Twilight, Guyver, and original characters in it, some of which--especially the OCs, you may find to be cool, as well as some of the events in the story so far. It's mostly a comedy/action story written for fun and humor. I've seen the films and read the novels (BTW, I'm a guy ), and I remember Bio-Booster Armor Guyver as a kid from the OVA cartoons and the live action films. This story isn't as over the top violent as they were, but there's still fights and action. It also includes a lot on cars and World War II era weapons and technology--two more of my favorite things. As mentioned, I do have a couple of threads, but nothing posted as far as the actual story here or anywhere now, but these are discussion threads, so feel free to read and comment

Well, I've been writing some fan fic, but it's a Twilight Saga/Guyver crossover. Probably not for everyone, even fans of Guyver. Though in Guyver, such a story of the Guyver allied faction and Chronos cooperating is an interesting concept. That even to some degree seems to be happening in the actual Guyver manga now if I read the discussion right.

But when we think back to when Mizuki and Tetsuro were shown into the house where Alky was sleeping, I'd have to say that it's either Murakami/Imakarum, or Alky's got some teleportation powers up his sleeve.

I'd hate to imagine what 50 Shades of Bullshit would be like if some integrated that into a Guyver fan fic. If I were Shizu, I'd take Agito over Christian any day. Agito might not (seemingly) have many romantic feelings for Shizu (at least to the same extent she does for him), but I prefer that over that S&M bullcrap. I'd write a parody of 50 Shades called Eight .50 Calibers of Death about a WWII P-47 pilot after Mr. Grey. Granted, some of my characters in the fan fic--including Shizu--have read 50 Shades, but she says that it's crap compared to Twilight. But that's my opinion of 50 Shades and it's fan fic, after all Now a question: if Shizu was to be somehow processed into being a part human, part vampire being, I do wonder how that might improve on her powers, outside of anything that's "added" during processing.

OK then, volume 20, chapter 120, pages 16-18. Shizu commands the surviving Zoanoids to attack their comrades who were supposed to reinforce them after she herself kills a significant number of them when they tried to attack her because of her ability to heal and power the other Libertus and mess with the energy levels of the other Zoanoids. She seems capable as Griselda of not only protecting the Libertus from interference from another Zoalord, she can then control Chronos' Zoanoids if she wants to.

Nope, in Volume 18, Griselda overrides Barcus' control and commands a group of Chronos Zoanoids to turn on those sent to reinforce them.

In my fan fic, Shizu becomes a vampire hybrid (to give her immortality and enhance her powers/battle abilities). It's my understanding that in Twilight that vampire hybrids can only be born, hence, we end up with Renesmee/Nessie being Bella and Edward's daughter. But considering the freaky drenn that both Chronos and some Twilight characters have been up to in both stories, it's conceivable that Shizu and Agito--granted, with creative liberty common in fan fic--can find the means to reprocess her into something else, including something part vampire. It also helps that they find a friend (of Shizu's) who is already a vampire hybrid that they can gather info on. And we've seen Shizu be able to control other Zoanoids by blocking out the control of other Zoalords. With that in mind, based on genetics, it's possible then that Shizu can control, at least in theory, vampires and vampire hybrids. However, as I said, it usually doesn't really work out that way, exactly. She can still communicate though telepathy with anything, provided that it's at least part human or part vampire. Other than that, her enhanced powers do allow her to penetrate virtually any mental shield. She becomes a ridiculously powerful battle creature because of her combination of human, vampire and Zoaform attributes. Nonetheless, the Twilight characters are have very useful attributes in my story at least that help them--and the Guyvers--defeat other vampires and Zoanoids.

If that's the case or if they can be manipulated, could it be conceivable that someone with really powerful psychic powers, such as Shizu (as Griselda) can force them to fight? Of course, in my story, vampires and vampire hybrids, and even the wolves are at least somewhat resistant to influences like that. Bella would be highly resistant because that's her main ability--as well as using it to protect others. For her part in my story, Shizu (because of reprocessing) is much more powerful as a psychic, and though--partly though some inability, and partly because she chooses not to--can't really directly control several Twilight creatures, she can still use telepathy to communicate with them and give them info, even in her human form.

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't posted here in like forever. Here's some highlights in my life since I last posted. --I finally saved up enough money to buy some stuff on Amazon that I've been wanting for a while. --I'll be going out on an outing with some friends within the next few days --Audi dominated the Sao Paulo WEC round, while Toyota went down to a single car effort, lacked performance, and got taken out in an accident. At least Audi found something useful for the rear dorsal fin on the R18: it caught an errant wheel from one of the cars after a pit stop went bad. --I'm convinced that after watching the NASCAR race at Richmond last night, that to many fans that mayhem=action. May I refer them to Bio-Booster Armor Guyver, especially the OVA: --I had blood work done yesterday, and I need to see about getting a doctor's appointment set up within the next week or two. So that's about all the major stuff that I've been up to.

And even that's a bit open to debate: Guyver was first published in 1985, and Shin was introduced in the Manga in the early 1990's. Most of that time, Armenia was still part of the Soviet Union. And then there's the issues that the country has faced since then to the present day. So I would be interesting to see what Shin's thoughts are of his homeland during those eras.

And that's the problem with such comparisons. Within the canon of one universe, the writer will always find a way for something to (at least in theory) be defeated. That happens enough within the canon of such stories with it's own characters, like the Guyver Units' control medals and the Zoalords' Zoa-crystals. If they can be destroyed or irreparably damaged, that Guyver or that Zoalord is toast. But when such characters are inserted into another universe or canon, especially if they're an enemy to the main heroes, the newcomers will have some way written in for them to be destroyed. As Ryuki wrote, the best way to deal with this is to take them out of their canons and put them in a neutral world or universe. As a writer, I sort of had to do that when I decided to write a fan fic derived from both the Twilight Saga and Bio-Booster Armor Guyver. What complicates matters there is that there are some vampires and such that are allied to Guyver characters, and some who aren't. So how does one side lose and the other side win? That's the great thing with fan fic, that we can do damn near whatever the hell we jolly well want with it, as long as we have a good explanation for how things work. However, in something more serious than fan fic, we do have to push these characters out of their universe and into a neutral one that the writer has to make up. Otherwise, it's just going to be biased eventually to who's side the writer is on. Of course, it should be pointed out also the big difference between manga and most western comics in terms of writing style. A lot of the Marvel and DC comics don't really have a clear ending point, where as most manga does, including Guyver, though we don't see where the end is going to come. It's been in publication for nearly 30 years and there's still no clear end in sight. We know it's coming, but not when.

And I have another idea for a Twilight fan fic, this one centered on what the Volturi did during World War II. That is, if I ever get around to writing it. Between work, other things I'm involved with, and my current fan fic, it'll be an uphill battle to get stuff done with it. But I have another Twilight/Guyver crossover that's WIP. It's mostly about Twilight and Guyver characters in Volterra. Caius from the Volturi gets his hands on some Zoanoid processing equipment, and has managed to find some World War II era armaments. However, considering that I believe that most of that stuff wouldn't stand a chance against Twilight vampires or vampire hybrids, I'd have to say that Caius' chances against a Guyver, even in basic form, are equally as slim. For instance, how would a basic Guyver do against a Panzer VI Tiger/King Tiger tank? I assume that the Tiger wouldn't do well, but how quickly would it's fate be sealed, since modern MBTs would barely withstand an assault by normal Zoanoids. This is probably better suited for the science area, but did anyone during WWII have anything that could challenge a Guyver of a similarly powerful creature? It's not like RAF Mosquitoes could drop a 4000lb bomb on such a creature or a Lancaster could drop a 11 ton Grand Slam on them, or at least do it accurately. I guess if modern weapons can't do a damn thing to them, 70 year old weapons would be just as about as useless.

Well, all I can say is welcome to Takaya-san's expressions of regrets for killing off Oswald Lisker/original Guyver II so early in the manga. The biggest thing that he seems to personally feel that he let himself down on was the fact that Oswald didn't even get much of a backstory. We only got enough to know that he's cocky, contemptuous of some of Chronos' management (the only people who probably hated Genzo Makishima more were Agito, Shizu and Yohei, and of course Richard Guyot), and enjoyed the power and authority his position at Chronos gave him. I do see Yoshiki bringing Val in does two things: it's an homage to Guyver: Out of Control, which is no where near as popular as the 12 episode OVA and the TV series, and it does give him the opportunity to give Lisker some (much belated) backstory by having Val essentially being his lil' sister, adopted, half, or otherwise. Only issue with how Mr. Takaya does things, though, is that the whole period that Bio-Booster Armor Guyver has been in publication (1985-present), it's been in a monthly Shonen Manga mag (Shonen Captian or Shonen Ace primarily), and only one compilation volume gets released a year (up to two a year in early years of Guyver), and only about 5-6 full chapters get released in a year, and with only about an average of 15 pages a month getting released (it used to be 30 a month in early days), between those factors, telling the story does become agonizingly slow. It's great that so much detail gets shoe horned into the story, but having new material released once a month on average does make things move pretty slow to the point where, as Matt suggested, it may be just as well to take a few months off and hope that a couple of full chapters have built up. Of course, this is unlikely because most fans of Guyver are pretty die hard and will always wait for the next portion of the story to come out and discuss it Speaking of which, it'll be interesting how high Val got up the ladder at Chronos, and if she even out-ranked Oswald. Oswald and her stepfather, as pointed out, def. seemed pretty damned surprised that she got as far as she did as quickly as she did. Of course, she obviously still was greatly bothered by her brother's death, but, as asked earlier, who will she try and take her wrath out on: Sho, or Chronos, or both? She teamed with Guyot when he attacked the mansion that Sho and his friends were staying at. But did Val want to fight Sho and/or Agito (if she felt up to fighting the latter), or is she using her association with Guyot as a means to an end against either Sho or Chronos?

And this is something that I thought of just a few minutes ago re-reading this topic. After Shizu and Agito captured the control medallions from the Ark at the Arizona HQ, Agito attempted to create his own gigantic armor after Sho was able to permanently take control over the original (to the point where Agito had great difficulty trying to get it back and had to give up on it because of Sho's willpower willing the armor to him). Agito and Shizu concluded that Sho knew something about the history of the Guyver units and Zoanoids/Zoalords and the Advents that they were unable to figure out. Clearly, Shizu, Agito and Dr. Hekkelring figured out that it was something that Sho picked up from the info he gleaned from the Relics Point Ark's control medallions. We all know why Sho created the Gigantic Guyver Armor (and the Exceed armor as well)--to allow him to take on Zoalords on even terms for the former and to give him the power to decimate any threat beyond a "normal" Zoalord for the latter. It was a product of Sho's thoughts, dreams, and imagination based on what he'd seen from Alky and his desire to protect his friends and the people of earth from Chronos. However, clearly, Shizu and Agito, at least at first, didn't really know this. After all, this is something that Sho never shared with them, and in fact, he's only shared these thoughts in any real detail with only a very small handful of people--Tetsuro, Mr. Hayami, and maybe Mizuki and Natsuki. Aso and Toki also probably know a bit about this, but not as much as Sho may've confided in with his closest friends. But Shizu and Agito figured out that, clearly, Sho's willpower had to come from somewhere, and that he probably knew something that they didn't at the time. So we head back to Agito obtaining his own gigantic armor though his learning about stuff from the Ark's control medallions. The part where Shizu and Hekkelring were freaking out and Agito was like "that's it, that's the reason! That's what Sho knows!" is where Agito found the source of Sho's power and will, and that seemed to be when Alky destroyed the asteroid that the Advents intended to use to destroy the earth, and how much firepower it may take to destroy Alky if one or the other has to fight him. Hence, I have a theory. Maybe Agito was trying to "beat" a truce or alliance out of Sho, using the Gigantic Armor he aquired as a means to demonstrate to Sho that "I now know what you've known for a while now!" Sort of like how Aptom threatened to deliver an ass-kicking to Sho over his reluctance at the time to fight Murakami/Imakarum unless he got his "fire" back to fight. Of course, it would've been simpler for Agito to just take things at face value, since he couldn't get the original gigantic armor back under his command that Sho had to have gotten a major willpower/desire to kick someone's ass boost. But he had to go see for himself, and all he got for his efforts was Shizu nearly killed by Val/Female Guyver II when she was trying to protect Mizuki, Tetsuro and Natsuki from her and Guyot, and Sho demonstrating that he's now the equal of Agito as a fighter and a demonstration of what Sho may do to him if Agito goes out of his way to piss him off again, that is if Sho intended for the Gigantic Exceed to be a warning for Agito. I do think that Sho did that to prove to Agito his will to fight beyond any shadow of doubt. However, the info that was exchanged between them though their units' control medals may hold the key to what actually happened. However, I do believe that it's highly unlikely that Agito can easily manipulate Sho again, and that any possible allegiance between them will have to be a true allegiance, and not just him using Sho as a means to an end like last time. Sho's grown up and has some balls now, and he's no where near as willing to take crap from people like he was at the beginning of the story.

Looks kinda like fan art. It def doesn't look like Guyver I's design from the very early issues of the manga. In fact, it looks to be influenced by the design the armor took on couple of volumes in, or even the OVA. But it's def not original manga art. Of course, the Bio-Booster Armor Guyver light novels are pretty rare and obscure, so I might have come from that for all I know, but it certainly could be fan art or doujinshi.

Well, I did say that I'd have more about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and here I go. I already mentioned the some of the stuff about Audi winning it yet again in the post I made about Rob driving either the Tesla or the A5 he was photo'd with, and I mentioned the Audi R18 e-tron quattro diesel-electric hybrid car in that post. That's the car of which one example won Le Mans yesterday. It was the first win for 2013 pole winner Loic Duval, the third for many years Le Mans and Audi veteran Allan McNish, and it was a record extending 9th win for Tom Kristensen, AKA "Mr. Le Mans". Though I enjoyed the outcome of the race and the fact that Toyota was able early on to make a race out of it (the Toyota threat faded once the track dried out and the Audis were consistently a couple of seconds a lap faster), my enjoyment of the race was tempered by two things. First, with mixed weather conditions and tons of caution periods (mostly due to barrier damage), the race lacked flow and it was frustrating waiting out caution periods for those barrier repairs. And also, if anyone has read news about the LM24 this year, you'll know that a driver named Allen Simonsen, a friend and countryman of TK, died shortly after an early race accident when his Aston Martin slid off the road into a barrier and impacted a tree behind the barrier. Simonsen was attempting to avoid a spinning Ferrari when the fatal accident occurred. After that, it was definitely less fun watching the race for quite a while, and it's a dark cloud that will hover over the race for quite a while, too. I enjoyed the outcome and the battles, but I didn't enjoy the caution periods and certainly didn't enjoy hearing that someone died in an accident, let alone one that it seems that the death could've probably been prevented. It all sort of reinforced my reasons why I won't likely be watching the full race next year. It's just getting harder and harder for me to stay up and watch the whole race. A 6 hour race, fine, a 10 hour race, OK, a 12 hour race, well, it's long but easily manageable. 24 hours? A pretty big stretch for me now. Not that I could watch the whole race next year even if I wanted to anyways, due to Speed Channel's rebranding as Fox Sports 1. If it's not NASCAR, I don't see it getting a ton of coverage there as far as motorsports go. But at least some of the guys who I hoped would win did, and Porsche in the two GT classes did get their 99th and 100th Le Mans class wins. With Le Mans out of the way, I went back to work today, and I had a pretty good day overall, but it's hot and nasty where I live, as it is though most of the American Mid-West. And it'll be that way most of the rest of the week. At least I have plenty of fans here at home, and I have the AC installed in my bed room. So that'll help when I'm in there playing VG's and such. Aside from the weather totally sucks, I'm fine right now. At least I'm not one of the guys who goes to LM and and gets hungover from all the partying that happens in the infield of the track, and at least I'm not the guy who mooned the camera during Speed's coverage of the race. I'm glad that Speed reporter Justin Bell (who's father Derek won LM 5 times) didn't see that happen until later LOL. I'll be back later

Hi everyone. Well, I did say that I'd have more about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and here I go. The race was petty well dominated by the three Audi R18 e-tron quattros that were entered, with the #2 winning, and the #3 getting third after losing time due to a punctured tire, and the #1 losing more than half an hour after an alternator failure. It was the first win for 2013 pole winner Loic Duval, the third for many years Le Mans and Audi veteran Allan McNish, and it was a record extending 9th win for Tom Kristensen, AKA "Mr. Le Mans". Though I enjoyed the outcome of the race and the fact that Toyota was able early on to make a race out of it (the Toyota threat faded once the track dried out and the Audis were consistently a couple of seconds a lap faster), my enjoyment of the race was tempered by two things. First, with mixed weather conditions and tons of caution periods (mostly due to barrier damage), the race lacked flow and it was frustrating waiting out caution periods for those barrier repairs. And also, if anyone has read news about the LM24 this year, you'll know that a driver named Allen Simonsen, a friend and countryman of TK, died shortly after an early race accident when his Aston Martin slid off the road into a barrier and impacted a tree behind the barrier. Simonsen was attempting to avoid a spinning Ferrari when the fatal accident occurred. After that, it was definitely less fun watching the race for quite a while, and it's a dark cloud that will hover over the race for quite a while, too. I enjoyed the outcome and the battles, but I didn't enjoy the caution periods and certainly didn't enjoy hearing that someone died in an accident, let alone one that it seems that the death could've probably been prevented. It all sort of reinforced my reasons why I won't likely be watching the full race next year. It's just getting harder and harder for me to stay up and watch the whole race. A 6 hour race, fine, a 10 hour race, OK, a 12 hour race, well, it's long but easily manageable. 24 hours? A pretty big stretch for me now. Not that I could watch the whole race next year even if I wanted to anyways, due to Speed Channel's rebranding as Fox Sports 1. If it's not NASCAR, I don't see it getting a ton of coverage there as far as motorsports go. But at least some of the guys who I hoped would win did, and Porsche in the two GT classes did get their 99th and 100th Le Mans class wins. With Le Mans out of the way, I went back to work today, and I had a pretty good day overall, but it's hot and nasty where I live, as it is though most of the American Mid-West. And it'll be that way most of the rest of the week. At least I have plenty of fans here at home, and I have the AC installed in my bed room. So that'll help when I'm in there playing VG's and such. Aside from the weather totally suckin' a$$, I'm fine right now. At least I'm not one of the guys who goes to LM and and gets hungover from all the partying that happens in the infield of the track, and at least I'm not the guy who mooned the camera during Speed's coverage of the race. I'm glad that Speed reporter Justin Bell (who's father Derek won LM 5 times) didn't see that happen until later LOL. I'll be back later

Sorry I haven't posted any thing on this forum at all in like forever, but I've been pretty busy lately with work and other things. Tomorrow and into Sunday is the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race. Audi have dominated in the WEC so far, and have won the 12 Hours of Sebring, and 6 hour races at Silverstone and Spa. Toyota are hedging their bets on whether or not they can run 12 lap stints at Le Mans compared to Audi's 10-possibly 11 laps. So far, though, the furthest that Toyota has run in testing is 11 laps at Le Mans. On top of that, Audi have often been 2-4 seconds a lap faster in practices and testing so far. That's more than fast enough for Audi to knock out Toyota's range advantage. I'll be back to more routine posting possibly starting Monday, or at least soon afterwards.

I like the idea of the Nazi documentaries because they show some really corrupt and inept stuff going on. It's actually kinda shocking to think that a political and military machine that conquered much of Europe by the spring of 1942 and had an "empire" that extended into western Russia, North Africa, and almost all of western Europe had some pretty screwed up stuff going on. And that's not even counting the evil of the Holocaust. There was also political and military blunders and ineptitude. In particular, I enjoy the studies of Benito Mussolini and Fascist Italy if you want a comedy/tragedy/tragicomedy of errors. And of course, Tea with Mussolini is one of my favorite World War II themed movies, even if it's kinda a PG-rated chick flick (remember, I'm a fan of the Twilight Saga), though I also liked the old Great Escape and Battle of the Bulge films that the History Channel used to air often on Saturday nights. I really like the Nugus/Martin WWII documentary series and others like them, such as Hitler's Bodyguard, Secrets of World War II, Nazi Collaborators, and The Secret War. I also like shows and books that talk about WWII technology and weapons, because he weapons and tactics do sort of shed a light on how things worked and even give a bit of a lead in to the political factors and strategies in the outcomes of such battles. I like to study the Pacific Theater as well, but one area that often really gets overlooked IMO is the North African/Mediterranean Theater, also known as the Southern European Theater. Much of the discussion focuses on Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Pacific and the Atlantic, but some of the fiercest battles and most interesting events happened in Southern Europe and North Africa. Maybe that neglect is what draws my interest there.

Hi everyone. For those of you who might know me, I have admitted to being a World War II history fanatic to a degree. Hence, when an interesting one's on, I often will watch it. I have two favorites that I've always taken time to watch, and one's called High Hitler, and the other is Hitler's Bodyguard. In High Hitler, the story of how Adolf Hitler was probably turned into a meth addict by his personal doctor Theo Morell is told, as well as some rather unconventional medical treatments that Hitler put himself through to cure various ailments, such as his frequent stomach upsets and, as Dr. Morell put it, "constipation and colossal flatulence", which is what started this whole deal with the weird medical treatments. The most prominent of these treatments included a series of injections that were heavily loaded with methamphetamines, as well as some potion that was made from human feces. Yep, Dr. Morell was a craptastic crack pot who unwittingly helped bring down his own Fuhrer, and probably made the Allies job much easier than it would've been otherwise--after all, Allied commanders actually though that Hitler was worth more to them alive than dead because of his blundering from 1942 onwards. And then there's Hitler's Bodyguard, a 13 episode series from the makers of Churchill's Bodyguard (which I have yet to see) talking about the bodyguard elements of Hitler and other Nazi party officials. After you watch enough episodes, you do really begin to wonder the following: How the hell did this bastard live until 1945?! For those of you who know about the history of such things, it's known that Winston Churchill had very few bodyguards, namely a former Scotland Yard detective named Walter Thompson who adopted the codename "Intrepid" and a handful of other people who he commanded. Hitler, on the other hand, had thousands of bodyguards. This series does show that bigger isn't always better, and how confused things were within the bodyguard elements of Adolf Hitler, and, in fact, it was partially intended to be that way by Hitler himself. Hitler always though that a certain amount of chaos in the ranks did help insure his safety and also kept his underlings occupied with rivalries so they couldn't challenge him for power. Other dictators did much the same, namely Benito Mussolini and, to a lesser extent, Joesph Stalin. Hitler's bodyguard included a palace guard that was part of the dreaded SS which soon became a mechanized Panzer division just before World War II broke out, and even a special division of the regular German Army called the Fuhrer Escort Battalion, which was at one point commanded by Erwin Rommel before he became head of the German Army's Afrika Corps. As part of the regular German Army, and not the SS, the Escort Battalion was granted Amnesty after the war as simple enemy combatants as opposed to being a criminal organization. But it did show how far some were willing to go to ensure Hitler's protection, as the Escort Battalion guarded Hitler's military HQ's, such as the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, in modern day Poland. But, remember what I said about how "bigger isn't always better"? In hindsight, Hitler's Bodyguard as an organization was so large, unwieldy, and over-complex that many screw ups did happen, some of which nearly lead to Hitler being assassinated. A Swiss man got tickets to view a military parade in 1938, and nearly shot Hitler if it wasn't for his Close Escort Command elements. He also tried to assassinate Hitler in Berlin and at his Bavarian retreat called the Burghoff, and was only caught when police questioned him about riding a train without a valid ticket. In 1939 during a Munich Beer Hall memorial celebration, Hitler avoided being killed in a bomb attack only because he left the festivities about 15 minutes early, and then there was the July 20, 1944 bomb plot at the Wolf's Liar. Those were just three of the over 40 attempts to kill Hitler before and during World War II. His own generals were able to plot an attempt to have him removed from power that nearly succeeded if not for some political poker playing by Hitler to obtain the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and even in the last days of the war, some of those closest to him wanted to snuff him and other Nazi leaders out. Add to that political infighting within the ranks of the massive security apparatus, it's kinda a wonder that Hitler survived so long. So many plots to kill him nearly succeeded and it was often chance and fate that intervened to save on of history's most evil men, and if any such plots succeeded, the course of history could've been significantly changed. World War II may've been shortened or even averted in Europe, at least in the way that the events as we know them now, had Hitler been killed in any of those attacks. Anyone else here a fan of historical documentaries? As I said, I'm a pretty big fan of World War II history, and it's interesting to think about what could've happened if some event intervened to change history as we know it. Also, its kinda funny to think that Hitler may've been turned into a meth addict in part because he suffered from stomach cramps, constipation and bad gas...

OK, fan fic update. I finally finished chapter 8 a few days ago, and on Sunday, I already got nearly half of chapter 9 done. It's a chapter involving Lia, who is the wife of Camel, fighting a couple of Zoanoids who were attempting a plot involving plastic explosives. She soon finds out what they were planning to us it for, and, though not as sinister a plot as she suspected initially, she still stopped them from carrying out something evil. Aside from the fact that some Twilight characters (Bella, Edward, Renesmee, Jacob) and Guyver characters (Shizu and Agito namely) show up, it's mostly about Lia acting on her own to stop the plot. This also includes a demonstration of Lia's powers, which involves manipulation and generation of electrical and electromagnetic fields. Her powers would put those of Elegen to shame, and would also turn him into a smoked eel if he fought against her. Actually, if anyone wants a character list and descriptions, I'd be happy to post them here for when I get this story finished, beta'd and published, or if anyone just wants to know what I'm doing with it.

Hi everyone. At work, I now have what I consider to be a pretty tedious, miserable job for a while. I'm probably gonna spend a majority of the coming days that I work shredding documents. That involves removing staples and paperclips, and standing over a noisy, droning machine, and having to stop to empty it. Not really physical labor, but it's boring, tedious, and a job that feels like it's gonna take for-smegging-ever. Other than that, I've been fine recently. The weather can't make up it's friggin' mind, it's hot one day, cold the next, just annoying. I have been working on my fan fic recently--finally--too. It took me forever to finish chapter 8, but I'm half way though chapter 9 after only working on it for one day over a couple of hours. It's an action chapter with my OC Lia in it, so it's gone kinda fast. The more action/humor/emotion/story driven chapters do go by kinda quickly when I'm allowed time to work on them. I'll explain more in the fan fic thread about this story. But aside from that, I haven't been up to too much. I'll be back later

For my part, I'm gonna try coffee with some artificial sweetener I bought today. Because I have diabetes, I've been trying to cut back on my sugar intake, and the plain coffee at my house is pretty god-awful without some sweetener for it, and flavored coffee syrup isn't getting the job done alone. With flavored coffee, it's fine, but the plain coffee is some really concentrated instant stuff.

I do have to say as someone who about a week ago found out that I'm diabetic, and also tends to be moody, I've found that the best thing that one can do with any food is portion control. Instead of eating 2-3, or even 1-2 big meals a day, it's better to try and eat 4-5, or in some cases even 6 smaller meals a day, and don't keep meals so spread out. That's probably part of my diabetes problem, because i used to eat usually only 2, or sometimes even 1 big meal a day. That can cause a big energy crash, and you have to compensate by snacking, which doesn't do one's weight or blood sugar any favors. I've cut back on sweet snacks and fried foods--not completely, mind you, but I've cut back a bit, and I'm on medication for my stuff now. My blood sugar at it's lowest since I had it first taken during a physical was 198. I'll bet that times during some days it was significantly lower than that. But since I've started on my altered diet, my blood sugar went from a high of 329 last Friday morning, to a low of 215 this morning. Still a ways to go, since I've been told that normal is between 90-160 or so for most people. You don't have to cut out fast food and sweet stuff--I haven't. But it's about portion control and meal planning, and find healthier alternatives to some things.