Attention Duelists!

MY HAIR IS TELLING ME IT'S TIME TO BOARD.

"Oh no," you whimper. "Not Abridged Series references!" But the webmaster just laughs.

"Fool," they sneer. "Stop turning this into a story. This is a blog post, not an epic novel. But if it were…"

You shake your head, and then craftily reveal your weapon: the webmaster's awful attempts at drawing.

Their eyes widen.
"You wouldn't!"

"I will if you don't promise to never make Abridged Series references again," you threaten.

"Ha, like I'll stop!" The webmaster laughs. You shake your head again…

"Hey, everyone!" You stage-whisper, dramatically holding out the bad art. "Come see-"
"No!" screeches the webmaster. "I won't do it again! Just- just don't show anyone the art!" You set it down, smugly. Another day saved by you, the visitor. Another viewer spared from Abridged Series references. And then you realize this is supposed to be a blog post, and it's all another plot of the webmaster. She's typing it right now… What a nightmare! You scamper down the line, dodging text, but you trip. You're trapped!

And our story ends here.

Anyways, I've been attempting to draw (not pretty) lately. Thanks for the plug by Relith ( http://morphinerose.wordpress.com/ ) who doesn't live here anymore. I want to wish you guys a Happy Thanksgiving. I get time off so I might make pages- and I might make some today. It's sometimes difficult to think of ideas, but that's part of the lovely challenge.

I suppose I will attempt to draw more visitors to read my dull antics by linking from various accounts. I know it's not a well-done blog, but it won't always be a blog.

I spent most of my morning thinking about meeting several celebrities and wondering what it would be like. It involved exaggerated squealing. Yeah, I'll spare you guys.

It's almost December and the weather is rather crazy. It gets warm but then it suddenly becomes cool and foggy or overcast. I prefer the fog, really. It hasn't rained yet (typical California).

Lea also got me hooked on the Babymouse comics. They are pretty cute. They're VERY quick reads, though. They were probably designed for younger kids, but I still like them. :3

I don't think Ubu Panoozi will be up as soon as I originally did. This time last year I was dreaming of a website, planning out layouts on pieces of paper (and hiding them from the teacher). I had a huge amount of ideas for pages that I won't use. That seems so long ago, even though last (school) year was probably the shortest year of my life. I feel like I want to say thanks… must be early Thanksgiving spirit. I might, just might, update my deviantART with an actual drawing. I'm practicing. I'm not very good.

Nearer and Nearer!

Not dead, just nearer to my goal.

I made three pages today. Yes, not very valuable alone, but together, they make… ehm, a cool trio. This won't be a long post; it's just a report. I've also piqued Relith's interest, and she might do some art. She's been translating a bunch of things into Japanese lately, I heard. Anyways, I'm proud of making three pages (and slacking off on schoolwork :3 ) today. I put a lot of effort into them. It's not the code versions, just the Microsoft Word versions! But that's very good if you want to make sure your spelling (and grammar, though the grammar check is unreliable), and they are pretty long. For some reason doing social studies always makes me want to post to the blog. After the whole Eraser thing, it's hard to blame me. I realized that I have absolutely atrocious grammar! I don't know how to remedy this problem. I always thought that my grammar was decent.

I spent a large amount of time on the computer making pages today, but don't I always? I was a bit obsessive about order and wording of the pages; I might have to redo them sometime, or at least slightly edit them. They were all at least two pages long since I tend to ramble, fairly useless and hopefully original. I tried, though, and effort and heart count in these sort of things. I just don't know why someone would really read nearly four pages about Pokemon that resemble food, especially if I wrote it! I probably would, admittedly, but I tend to read extremely long things on weird subjects like that. It was kind of a survival guide about which Pokemon you can eat and thus disturbing. Answer: Nearly all Pokemon, though I zeroed in on the ones that really looked like food- I also want to marry Bulbapedia now. They really helped me on certain things, though I knew which Pokemon I wanted to use and about them.

I just hope someone out there will actually read my pages sometime. I tried to make them entertaining but as I'm not necessarily funny, the back of a soda can has more entertainment value than most of my work.

Anyways, more walls of text for pages later. My other two contributions were affiliation-related. They are also walls of text, especially the second one, which probably will prompt more than one aspiring affiliate into gouging their eyes out in defeat and frustration. I could prune it a bit, but I honestly tried to make it slightly more brief (and failed, apparently). Me putting my soul into somehow generally means it's a tl;dr moment for the world. I hope you guys are happy…

Before I go, I'd like to mention a great webmistress at pokemonfictions.com. Her name is Kioso, and you can tell she has a very lively personality. She's got some funny characters, and likes to do many things. I liked her website because it offered her own brand of new, original things, mostly related to her fictional universes. It was pretty entertaining, and I really enjoyed some of her ideas. I also enjoyed the layout, a nice black and purple outfit that looked quite good and like she obviously put some effort into it!

Unfortunately, today I returned and apparently Kioso has been flamed a lot, and spammed by trolls repeatedly. She's not some wimp, but she was pissed and got very upset because of these unwanted visitors. I didn't happen to see any of the flamers, but they were harsh, probably jealous. Things have gotten pretty bleak for Pokemon Fictions, since Kioso got fed up due to the hate. She was doing well before that, but now, looks like she's discouraged. Now, I know that every webmaster and mistress has had a moment like this, when they were frustrated and wanted to give up! I don't approve of badgering her to make new pages, or being rude or annoying to her right now, but I think we need to encourage and support her. It's not like she got bashed a bit and decided to take a break- she is sort of underrated, and doesn't feel like she gets nearly enough respect. Webmastering has gotten frustrating for her! I think we need to support her, and let her know that her site is worthwhile. I don't know Kioso personally, but she seems like a great person with a lot to say and to contribute to her site, and she's taking a well-deserved break, I guess- I just don't want her to fizzle out and quit. She needs to keep going, to keep being inspired, but she's really been overworked. I say we appreciate, encourage, and send positive, heartfelt messages about what we like about Pokemon Fictions, and honor her decision. She needs to know that she does have fans, and that people care about her site. She got some response when she posted the 'I'm taking a break' message, and is probably feeling a bit better, but she deserves a roaring response. I think most webmasters do in their times of need. She wasn't trying to be melodramatic and flounce around, and she's not doing this for attention: she was just honestly admitting her anger and frustration.

Much luck to Kioso.

But mostly about Pokemon!

Ubu Panoozi is mostly about Pokemon. Pokemon is love, and besides, my love for Naruto isn't at a particular strongpoint; there will be a few other things but mainly Pokemon. Pokemon sites are really versatile anyways (it could be comics about Pokemon without specific canonical characters and such).

Also random funny thing: I was looking through a text book dawdling, not doing work and devising historical crack pairings, and stumbled upon a picture of a Noh mask. There were two, and I found myself admiring the peculiar triangular eyebrows on one. The other had normal eyebrows, but this one was cool-looking. I liked how the eyebrows, a dark silvery color, shone- hey, wait a minute! It turns out that someone- the former owner of this textbook, no doubt- had penciled in the artistic brows. Wow.

This particular former owner seems to think that they can get away with whatever scribbling they want. I beg to differ, Mysterious Former Owner! Your villainous defacement will stop for good once I- well, tell the world about your evil, disrespectful, triangular-eyebrow-marking ways. See how your plans are unraveling around you? Not so proud now, Former Owner, nor when the police show up at your door to apprehend you, sirens blaring. I am your nemesis, for I am The Eraser, proudly rubbing out all humorous vandalism! Ha! Foiled!
"Darn you, Eraser! My plan was brilliant, and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you and your meddling drawing-spotting powers!"

"Thank you, Eraser! The day is saved!"

"All in a day's work. Now, go back home while I talk to the police, for this has been another victory for… The Eraser! Completely normal student by day, vandalism-fighting tattletale by night!"

Yep. Oh, don't tell me you haven't had dorky superhero fantasies like that one. Don't tell me that, for we all have. Deep in our hearts.

I seem to have scared you off. Oh, well.

"Holy toast, Eraser! The Former Owner is wreaking havoc on the medieval Japan pages!"
"Looks like a job for… The Eraser! Guardian of all things textbook!"

"Ha, ha, Eraser. You think you're so clever, but you've really fallen into my trap. Now, I will proceed to tell you my evil plan while doodling all over your precious textbooks."
"You can't win, Former Owner… I won't let you. NO, NOT THE TEXTBOOKS! YOU DEVIOUS VANDAL."

"Ha ha, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it."

"On the contrary, Former Owner, looks like the joke's on you!"

"What the-? How did the Eraser slip out of my hands? HOW?"

Et cetera. Now, if you need me, I'll be saving the illustrations.

Next week, on a Very Special Episode of the acclaimed Ubu Panoozi

*cue dramatic music* One dream, of fail. One hope, one ambition, a cornucopia. One person who absolutely can't write dramatic scripts.

This… is Ubu Panoozi. Coming soon to an Internet near you.

This empty blog is trying to tell you something. It's telling you that we have sufficient funds.

While choking back the dust, this blog is breathlessly telling of birthday money, hoarding, equaling a prized amount.

And untold riches…

But mostly that AYAME HAS ENOUGH MONEY TO START PRODDING HER PARENTS ABOUT GETTING A WEBSITE AND OH SHE'S ALSO BEEN WORKING ON A TERRIBLY DONE LAYOUT AND WE MISS YOU RELITH.

That is all.

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I bet you totally want to tune in for the season premier! I have some dumb ideas up my sleeves that are sure as toast going to play a part. There will be no initial affiliation scrabble. We will be unpopular and affiliates will be unopened. Popcorn will be provided and dust will be blown.

Stealth plots will almost certainly be made to lure Relith back for unknown, possibly sinister purposes that absolutely do not involve coding. (No, really.)

"We just want her for the lulz," Ayame, an Internet resident, claims. "We had good times, you know. She [Relith] used to draw cats. And she used to spazz. These were attributes we could trust."

"Yep, good times," recalls resident Lea, with a glazed look on her face. She goes on to comment that the times she had with Relith were awesome and "shiny".

"I'm not actually saying this," adds Lea. "It's actually Ayame typing this, but, hey, you know, I would totally be cheering Relith on about now. Really."
Relith was unavailable for comment.

As of press time, opening dates are unknown.