Loads of free time…Now the question is, where to start?

As the title implies, I have loads of free time on my hands now, although I am still required to go to school (it’s weird like that :\) I remember wanting to do a lot of things once I had some free time, but it kind of feels like I suddenly don’t know where to start at all. Therefore the need for this post, I guess…

Firstly, something I will need to do at some point in time is clear the extremely long list of raw doujins, comic and magazine scans I have managed to gather over the past few weeks, i.e. delete the not-so-well-drawn-or-interesting ones, take a good look at those that look promising and maybe upload them to mangahelpers if necessary/possible, and maybe organise my folder so everything’s divided into oneshots, complete series, NSFW and SFW (although I mostly don’t prefer NSFW works unless the rest of it is really awesomely drawn or it’s just an awesome series like that), BL and non-BL (the same is true here).

So far I’m glad I’ve found some oneshots and doujins by Kouga Yun, Kawashita Mizuki and Yasuhiro Kanou. I also found some awesome works from  on MangaHelpers (wasn’t aware they had them before this), although some series aren’t completely uploaded.

Furthermore, I would like to complete Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) sometime soon. I really love the graphics and music and gameplay isn’t too hard. I now know it’s been quite popular for a while, with various fan translations and even a fansite in addition to the fact that it’s going on WiiWare soon, but even I am amazed that I didn’t hear of it before I tried looking for random, non-shmup(I’m horrible at these) sfw doujin games.

Now in addition to Cave Story, there are several other doujin games that I managed to find. And there are also the otome/non-rated games which I have not tried yet. I’ll probably give myself more time to try those out…

I might try and scan my volumes 7 and 8 of Otomen sometime soon, unless someone else decides to post it up somewhere before I do. I don’t find the series as epicly hilarious as I used to, but well… it’s funny. :\ And since I do own the volumes I might as well share them, right? Not like VIZ seems to be translating it, last I saw of the English volumes was 3 or 4. If I have time, I might scan some volumes of Arcana and try to clean them so shu doesn’t have to |D But then again she owns more volumes than I do (In fact, all of the latest ones), so. :|

More importantly I will also have to work on some translating :d Lots of Arcana oneshots haven’t been translated, especially the um less interesting ones. But I think it’s important to release anthologies as a set instead of loose releases here and there, and when it’s not in a set you don’t really see the theme being coming through very strongly… Also, oneshots which may not be so well drawn and instead have an interesting story won’t ever see the light in the English community. It’s also true that you’ll never see the really bad, but most of the stories in Arcana are decent, although only a few are excellent or great. And hey, you need to know the bad before you can appreciate the good, right?

Smint is also bugging me to translate Hetalia doujins recently, even if I’m really not part of the fandom. I like the art for most of those which she sends me, and the very concept of Hetalia is interesting (although vaguely disturbing), but that plus fujoshis = …. and even worse when it’s nsfw…. And it is weird seeing characters with names of countries, anyway. They use those since they’re much shorter than their full name usually.

I may also consider translating a few oneshots I’ve found (as mentioned earlier) if I don’t find any online yet, and since most of the raws are clean, I might only have to do typesetting (my first time!). Or if I get lazy I know I can surely count on Smint. |D

Hm I have been thinking about creating an original website too, but finding proper webhosting seems to be a b*tch, and I am totally unfamiliar to the ways of web designing. As to what the website would be about… Hm. I was thinking maybe for that manga viewing idea I had aeons ago, but maybe just making one for fun would be easier and less… risky. Some free webhosting sites seem to be pretty cautious about letting anime/manga stuff get onto sites they host. Copyright laws are a b*tch too.

Oh! And my Wii has been untouched since I got Rune Factory Frontier and played it for a few weeks. My PSP has been kidnapped by my brother for use in camp, and I only last used the PS3 in a long time the day before yesterday to play Guitar Hero 5. Yes, it is awesome. But that alt-up-down strumming is so hard orz. And I still can’t master Hard mode yet :\ Stupid orange button.

See what I mean by too many things I want to do? And that’s not all, I’m not sure how much work the school will be giving us even though we only have two examinations left. (I guess I should be brushing up on my Chinese before national exams knee me in the face, but…)

Speaking of which, I should be reading more English books in general…e-books maybe…

Ahwell no use just talking about it, it has to be followed up by actual action. I shall try and select oneshots I want to work on tomorrow or something. And maybe start scanning Otomen. And in the free time in between, read some more doujins or at least clear out those I know I won’t bother reading anytime soon.