Zodai

Confession: Nothing makes sense anymore after you're killed around 20 times by a newborn orphan using his mom's placenta that is still stuck to his umbilical chord as a weapon. Good shit man.

Confession:  I just realized Rains and Cyr's avatars are matching. 

Confession:  I just realized Rains and Cyr's avatars are matching. 

That was an interesting watch.  ^^

Confession: I fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop

Confession:  I just realized Rains and Cyr's avatars are matching. 

nooooooooooooo~
yes, yes it is.   
Confession: This is the only thread I really check nowadays too.

Hope you find some more soon.  ANd yes, this thread is good.
Confession:  I wrote up a synopsis for the main plot thread for the new sub-editors and one of the reactions was very positive.  It feels nice

Confession: I cried girly tears to this last chapter of Sakura no Uta that I read. Because.. Sca-ji is such a fucking winner and I can't even believe it.
Lino, return to the Skype group so we can all read Sakuuta together!

Confession: SAMURAI JACK HYPE
This has been a good year for my childhood self , digimon and samurai jack? Gimme moar. Well technically they are in 2 separate years but you get what I mean!

One thing you have to keep in mind about charities is graft and mismanagement... which are endemic to most.  Over-hiring plus overpaying is one of the most common problems, and another is actually misusing funds or mismanaging them.  There are charities out there that use less than ten percent (some use almost none) of the money they receive to fulfill the goals they state.  Those Christian charities that put those commercials on 'spiritual television channels' about starving children are classic examples of this... some funds get diverted for mission trips, others for the advertising costs, and yet others go to the costs of filming all those mini-documentaries.  In the end, far less of the money they take in goes to the actual sufferers than they say.  Say you get a single child you can donate to specifically on a network... well, they receive multiple donations for that single child.  However, since each of those donations is equivalent to what is needed for that child, the rest tends to disappear into mission trips and more documentaries.  This is what I call 'ideological graft', because in the eyes of the people running these charities, helping these people's physical situation is frequently secondary to helping their 'spiritual' situation. 
These people honestly don't realize what they are doing, and for the most part, considering the relatively small amounts we are talking about, it is not as large a disparity as you might think in most cases, but it is still money that could have gone to help even more people with less donations.  Some versions of these charities actually manage to finagle free plane tickets and free film-crews through connections, but for every one of those, there are two more that are misusing the funds they receive, at least one some level.
In other words, good intentions don't always bring the best results.  'Charitable organizations' is a term that can be pretty deceptive... and without anyone involved ever being conscious of how something is wrong.  This kind of blindness is a common malaise amongst the 'charitable' world... not to mention that just giving food out tends to have the result of destroying local agriculture and creating new starving mouths. 
Edit: Something to keep in mind is that the really good charities really are good... like the United Way and the Salvation Army.  It is just that organizations with multiple ideological goals (the above example) tend to get derailed along the way rather frequently.  On the other hand, those same organizations will frequently reform themselves from within, cutting back on those diversions of funds and expenses.  Charities are inevitably a mixed bag, and management of them will frequently change like musical chairs, resulting in different priorities.
Edit2: I generally donate to the United Way and the food banks here... I've had relatives who were reliant on food banks in the past.  Also, I occasionally donate to veterans' charities... but finding one of those that isn't corrupt is pretty hard... and it changes from year to year.  Sadly, they are one of the ones most likely to mismanage or misuse funding.
Edit3: lol, if you couldn't tell, I got burned early on donating to a charity that turned out to be mismanaging their funds, so I got paranoid about charities in general after that... when I first started working, I had a lot of extra money for the first time, so I started donating to a charity for WWII and Vietnam vets... and it turned out that almost all of the funding was going to pay for advertising and personnel costs.  They eventually got shut down for fraud. 

That actually worked.
O_O
Why can't it be that easy for me D:

Honestly it feels like difficulty in some areas.  I think I had a small period like that after my first breakup ;-;  With this kind of a situation I usually believe there's some sort of emotional fulfillment or attachment that isn't there, and so they end up a bit clingy because they have a hard time finding that elsewhere.  Personally it's best if someone has some non-relationship goals or meaningful lives outside of romance or just that one person because then they can use that to support themselves along with their significant other instead of placing the burden of their entire emotional support on them.

The world needs more lewdness.
 
But only when I'm actually feeling lewd.  Because when I'm not I'm probably trying to write and then I feel guilty because I feel like I should be interested but I'm not.

Generally speaking, the characters are the most important aspect of character driven stories, and the plot is the most important aspect of plot driven stories. You can have great characters in a plot driven story, but that just makes things even better.
Character driven stories are stories that are focused on the inner conflicts of characters and their relationships, so obviously strong character development is a must here. The decisions of the characters drive the story forward. A lot of literature and romance fall into this category. In plot driven stories, twists and action take centre stage and the action tends to drive the story forward. Obviously Star Wars tends to fall into this category, and also all of David Eddings novels.

Confession: Someone gifted me (yes again) the Hyperdimension Neptunia 2 and 3 on Steam

Solution: vanilla doushinji
I can rec you some if you want
Confession: Today I got laughed at for still being single. Again. Fuck.

Confession: I've been trying to complete the first page in a manga I'm creating. But I'm a lazy bum. Can't even finish the line art. 
 
Confession 2: I showed my mother one of my recent drawings and the first thing she said instead of voicing her praise for my work was "Why don't you ever draw black people?" I then proceeded to spend two hours drawing a black person. It came out decent enough. Thanks mom.

Talking about immune system in class. Inflammation comes up. 
Confession: I said "yay pus!" and a girl in front of me gave me this revolted glare.  I couldn't help but laugh out loud and disturb class for about 5 seconds. 
Confession: I feel like I have to confess every time something like this happens that I sincerely enjoy the fact that I can enjoy others impressions of my antisocial tendencies. 

http://www.writingexcuses.com/
 
You're going to need this.
 
All of it.

Plot twist: Homura is actually hsmsful's sister

You can do!  You can do!
 
I've tried writing diaries of some kind on my end but I don't think it quite worked out.  Mostly because I wrote them in the form of sending mail to my waifu and I couldn't think of what to say ;-;

Back on the topic of women are we?
*WARNING -- If you do not want to hear me gush over my relationship, continue on with your life without looking xD*

I believe Zeno's earlier post conveys my thoughts.

Confession:
On a more positive note