April 23, 2015

Hello, blogosphere. This is Neil Cullen Rush. I once tried writing a Wordpress blog at the behest of my sister, who recommended it as an alternative to writing lengthy Facebook statuses, but decided that Facebook is easier to access than Wordpress and that I did not have the time for the blog and decided to leave that blog and forget about it. However, now that a new assignment in my Berks Career And Technology Center Communications Media Technology program requires me to start a blog,  I will operate it and continue to use it after the assignment has ended. Since the assignment also apparently requires me to learn how to operate wikis, I will set up accounts on Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, Wikia Wiki Network, and Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance to edit content about the multitude of things I like, or at least peak my interest. A lot of these wikis are made for fanfiction as well, so I will probably set up an account on Archive Of Our Own, a website for both original fiction and fanfiction that lacks some of the more arbitrary rules of the infamous Fanfiction.net, such as not being allowed to mention real-life celebrities in stories. I will try to make my stories actual stories, rather than the bizarre romantic tales people usually associate with fanfiction. Anyway, on to telling about myself. I was born on July 3, 1996 to an awkward but still loving family. I spent my life going through many different phases of interests, as we all do. At age four, it was Hot Wheels cars. At age five (and continuing to this day), it was the Lego theme Bionicle. At age seven, it was claiming to despise little girl's stock character Strawberry Shortcake, yet also making her the equivalent of a girlfriend in the first original imaginary stories I made up. At age eight, Teen Titans. Age nine, Sonic the Hedgehog, despite lacking the hand-eye coordination to play any of the video games until age ten (and it's even still questionable now) and the systems to play those games, resorting to watching the 4kids dub of the Sonic X anime, a dub that is pretty bad, looking back. Age ten, the marketing websites for Aquapod natural spring water bottles and Lunchables pre-made meals, due to their marketing promoting fun for kids and the Aquapod website's depiction of boring parents as zombie henchmen and henchwomen to the villain made up on the website named The Baron that wanted to remove Aquapods and fun from the world out of spite for being grounded for life and told he can never have fun again after flooding his birthday party just because he can (I know, it's really, really dumb, but should you really expect good storytelling from a WATER BOTTLE COMPANY? Didn't think so.) Age eleven, Transformers. Age twelve, Total Drama Island. Age thirteen, Ben 10. Age fourteen, Chuggaaconroy and all of his Let's Player friends making videos in fall 2010/spring 2011. Age fifteen, getting out of Little Keswick School, the theraputic special-but-not-too-special needs all-boys boarding school I was sent to for my ninth and tenth grade years due to my family's dissatisfaction with Wyomissing Area School District's administration at the time. Age sixteen, teenage character actress Chloe Grace Moretz, because when you're at an all-boys boarding school and can't ask out girls you think you may like, you may resort to thinking that one of the truly talented actresses roughly the same age as you is your soulmate. Age seventeen, South Park. Age eighteen, Netflix original content, such as BoJack Horseman, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (the first half of the season), Daredevil, and Knights of Sidonia. Around age thirteen, I began to daydream about my life as if it were an animated action-comedy with myself and some of my friends as superheroes of sorts, but not in the traditional sense. Rather than make alternate superhero identities for the characters, complete with ugly costumes, I thought it would be cooler if they fought evil just as themselves, but with superpowers. The series is constantly being reworked in my head and on paper when I can get the time to write and draw it down. There were plenty of just plain awful ideas I had early on, such as giving the team a designated damsel-in-distress that hung with the team to look pretty and always needing to be saved by the rest of the team, or having that damsel-in-distress in question date Justin Bieber to the chagrin of the rest of the team and organizing a way-over-the-top death match between Bieber and a hired fighter that Bieber loses, obviously, yet somehow segways into an anti-revenge message. However, its current state is probably the most complete it can get. The series is to be called "Geekz," a science-fantasy-superhero-action-comedy-drama series that is, essentially, a mix between Big Bang Theory, Avatar: The Last Airbender, South Park, and a much more extreme version of my own life. Set in a version of our world in which people that heavily invest themselves in role-playing games, history, science fiction, fantasy, old sports teams, one specific genre of music over all others, characters with origins in comic books, video games, cars, animation, gourmet food, advanced technology, toys, and film have superhuman abilities (something that eventually results in the entire population of Earth being superhuman for a period of time), it focuses on the life of Nelson Resh (obviously an adjustment to the name Neil Rush), a teenage boy that, due to his high level of knowledge in a variety of topics, has superhuman senses, heightened skeletal and muscular density, and the ability to control both lightwaves and shadows (I played around with giving him the ability to control ice and giving him the ability to use any power he sees anyone else use, but decided that the light and dark powers went with the series' themes the best). He and an often rotating cast of characters loosely based on friends of mine, each with powers of their own, must save the world from various people that are either loosely based on people in my life I am less than fond of or based on things I consider issues in society. Combining sharp satire, likable characters, relatable tragedy, quirky humor, insane action, and what I hope will be a production schedule similar to South Park, it could easily become the most important TV show ever. Or not. I may end up reworking it into a different media outlet, the characters and ages may be changed entirely depending on preview audience reception to the ten different incarnations I have in mind, and I may just skip to one of the eighteen different version of the sequel series I have in mind in which one of the original Geek Teams trains the next generation of Geeks, a team that would consist entirely of original characters, depending on reception to those series. I have two ideas in mind separate from Geekz as well. Those would be Rabittworld, a surreal post-apocalyptic comedy film in which rabbits have become the dominant species of Earth, and Let's Player: The Rock Opera, a rock opera/stage musical about a boy that wants to be a Let's Player. All these ideas I have definitely make it a good idea to have an account on an original fiction and fanfiction website, and I hope that my stories can get out to the public in some fashion. Now that my life story and ideas are out of the way, this blog will be primarily for media critiquing. I will be reviewing books, comics, movies, music, TV shows, video games, and viral videos that interest me on this blog. As long as I have at least ten regular followers that support what I have to say, I'll be happy.
Links to websites and videos mentioned in video-
BCTC CMT Program Page
Wikipedia
Uncyclopedia
Wikia Movies Hub
Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance
Archive Of Our Own
Fanfiction.net
Little Keswick School Website
Wyomissing Area School District Website