Well, it's that time of the year again. Ultra-important exams that determine the future of my entire life. How fun!

This time, it's AS levels, which make up a half of my entire A level and plays one of the biggest factors in deciding if I get into university or not. I can get all Bs without trying, but being in my family, I need to score over 90%. Because mother's a perfectionist and my dear brother did just that.

So what do these delightful exams entail? Well, my English literature exam consists of two one-hour essays (not to mention closed-book), both halves of my Biology and Chemistry exams are on the same. Bloody. Day. (i.e. I need to learn an entire year's work for one day) and my physics paper is split across two weeks, which is the only one that sounds remotely do-able.

Ain't life a bitch?

Well, time for the obligatory OCT updates.

~OCT Status~



Well, although I'm no longer a contestant, my current "favourite person ever," =Haikera-Baiketsu, is allowing Charles to tag along and shank people every now and again. Go read her round 2 entry ([link]) and my Round 2 SE to understand what's going on there.



My opponent, ~ashes2steel, has posted up his contending entry against The Magician, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it, even though there are obvious signs of it being rushed towards the end. But he really did Maggy justice. [link]
For comparison, mine is here: [link]



My audition is up, and I'm raring to go. EX has some great participants so far, but the number of mary sues and terrible writers is astounding. The current laughing stock is ~RatedDX, an 18-year old guy who writes like SquirrelKing. His character is evil for no reason, with no motivation and is about as deep as a dried-up coffee stain. And is about as likeable as said stain.



I was against Simmons101 here, and boy was his round epic. Like, unbelievably so. Despite it being poorly written and rife with cliche, it was dramatic, fun to read and just plain badass. Go read it.
His: [link] [link] [link]
Mine: [link] [link]

Update: Simmons won. Yay for him!



Our ref is up, I've scripted our audition and now it's just a case of bothering ~Greennite until he gets around to drawing it.



Well, I challenged my buddy Sensit to a rematch in an OCT. And since he's judging in EX, we had to find a new one. And between such horrors as Boom Town and Redemption, we found End Of Days. So, in a completely non-canon entry, I'm entering Charles to fight his Nathan. I still don't know how the universe will survive such an apocalyptic meeting of douchery, but it's going to be fun.


~And Now, to feature some wonderful art from friends~


~Shadow-Theif has drawn no less than three wonderful pieces of art featuring Mr. Aerverington in a wonderfully unique style. Seriously, shadow, start uploading more, I want to see into that sketchbook of yours. Even if scanning absolutely ruins it.
[link] [link] [link]


You may have seen her posting around all of my stuff and being my number one (and only) fan, and she's even done some very talented fanart.
[link] [link]

I now owe both of these people some kind of written adventure. Or a poem. Basically something that I can do which doesn't suck (i.e. writing).