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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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2:06 am - Soul Carnival 2: Part Two!
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| Monday, February 1st, 2010
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2:21 pm - Headaches: I has them!
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OF COURSE IT WOULD BE METRIC WRENCHES!
Now I see why all my relatives would scream whenever someone mentioned metrics.
current mood:  frustrated
current music: "Creek Mary's Blood" ~ Nightwish
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1:22 am - Oh, DC, still failing, I see.
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Just watched the animated Wonder Woman movie from last year with AD.
God, how many times can a movie attempt to make a statement about feminism and just miss the mark completely? Even Gail Simone helping write it didn't help.
Apparently, there are only two kinds of women in this world: the strong ass kickers, and the weak, useless, 'brainwashed' girly girls. Augh. It was like an hour and a half of Real Women Don't Wear Dresses. The one girly Amazon that likes to read and doesn't like to fight? Yeah, she gets stabbed in the back (literally) by one of the tougher girls. She only becomes a 'real' Amazon after she dies and comes back fighting - so her character literally only gets redeemed by becoming an ass-kicker.
And good god, I lost count of all the "MEN SUCK" comments. Were those supposed to make me feel empowered? Because they didn't. I also liked how the Amazonian 'utopia' basically consisted of women sitting around fighting like gladiators all day long. But hey, at least there are no smelly men to bother them!
And how about that Steve Trevor! Didn't he just make you want to drop your panties with his looks and personality, ladies? His charm? His uhh... badassity? Anything? No? Man, you'd think for a movie about female empowerment, we'd be empowered enough to have a good-looking, interesting love interest for once. I mean, there wasn't a single ugly girl in this thing, but the only good-looking guys in it were Ares and his son (pre-death, uhh)? All the women must kick ass or they're considered worthless by their sisters, but the one guy that's not a Greek war god mostly stands around and looks dumb? I see DC is as savvy about its target audience as ever!
The really sad part is, the movie had a chance to make a real statement about women and feminism and the value of both, and completely missed it at every turn. Instead, it wasted a bunch of time on taking down high heels, piggish womanizers, and opening car doors for women. Oh, and Diana herself likes to use phrases like "You sound like a girl" and "it's not polite to hit girls". Hmmm, which is more sexist - opening a car door, or using 'girl' like it's an insult?
current mood:  pissy
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| Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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6:52 pm - LOOK AT THIS FUCKING CAR!!
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So I got the car!
Guys, meet Ichigo the car, aka Itsy, aka Beri-tan.
And because I'm sure that page will disappear someday, here are some of the pictures:
( Cut to spare your loading times my squee! )
We went to Navy Fed and found out that Drew, the awesome guy that sold it to us, was selling it for about $2,000 less than Navy Fed was saying it was worth (after taking off $700 because I forewent fixing the scratches on the bumper and nicks in the windshield). So yes - my new payments are about $100 less a month than they were for the Rio, although my insurance went up about $40 a month (I added some stuff to it, though). All-in-all, though? SQUEE~! ♥
current mood:  excited
current music: "Go Insane" ~ Fleetwood Mac
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| Monday, January 25th, 2010
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7:31 pm - Don't jinx me now!
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Just came back from getting AD's WRX STI, like he wanted. On our way there, we test drove the red and white Mini that I'd seen at Firestone. IT'S SO COOL, it's like driving a JET. A STEAMPUNK JET.
The guy selling it was awesome. The only thing I'm going to have to do is buy a paint stick to fill in some marks on the bumper and get the windshield replaced, as it has several pits in it from rocks and things. It's still a really good price, and the salesman took off for the damage on it (otherwise, it's in really good shape!).
But I didn't get to go to Navy Fed and put in for it yet. We took too long at AD's car's dealership to be able to go. And he also didn't really want my car as a trade-in. Apparently, I'll get a tax write-off if I donate it that's worth more than he'd give me for a trade-in, so that's what I'm going to do with it. I gotta do something with it, because it's so broke that I can't fix it affordably. :|
B-But THE MINI IS SO AWESOME GUYS I WANT IT. D:
current mood:  cheerful
current music: "Jama wa Sasenai" ~ Okui Masami
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| Sunday, January 24th, 2010
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2:38 am - You Don't Know IchiHime Shippers, vol 1
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So in the interest of promoting a better understanding of the elusive (but much discussed) IchiHime shipper in their native environment, I decided to put together this informative fandom pamphlet (with the help of my friends list, of course, since I can't pretend to speak for an entire ship).
See, we often see blatant misinformation - dare I say, outright lies - disseminated about us and ours to fandom at large. Many of the IchiHime Boogiemen heh, I keep typing 'Boobiemen' put forth to scare fandom onto the 'straight and narrow' of shipping, as it were, are actually nothing more than Strawmen set up to make the opposing viewpoint look better and more attractive. A Strawman can also be taking the half-baked opinions of one supporter of an idea and proclaiming them as being what all supporters of the idea think, simply because they're the easiest to argue against or dismiss. So here today, let's set some Strawmen alight, shall we?
( You bring the straw, I'll bring the lighter! )
Wow, that turned huge. ANY ICHIHIME SHIPPERS WANNA COME UP TO THE ALTAR FOR TESTIMONIALS?
current mood:  contemplative
current music: "Monster" ~ Lady Gaga
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| Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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4:24 pm - Just my luck.
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So, on the way to the Juicy boutique in Williamsburg today, the Rio starts acting funny. RPMs climbing, speed dropping slowly, kind of like it's climbing a hill or trying to shift and just can't do it. I have the pedal to the floor and it's getting 4,000 RPMs and speed is still dropping. Just as I'm telling AD that something is really wrong here, something pops in the engine, all the engine lights come on, and RPMs drop to zero. Car is irrevocably dead. Won't even turn on.
And wouldn't you know it, I'd completely forgotten my phone.
Luckily, AD had his on him (and luckily he'd decided to come with me today) and called a tow truck. My insurance also won't cover a rental car for mechanical problems, so we're now without a car other than Matsu's, which has a cracked radiator and is really only good for jumping to Target or K-Mart or McDonald's. Past that, it's not going to do anyone much good, and it certainly won't get us to work. Oh, and the rental place isn't open on the weekends. So we have no car until Monday. Which means I'm going to miss a day of work.
Not. Happy. Especially since I'd just spent $300 on it yesterday to get it up to code for inspection and to find out why the engine light was coming on. Apparently, it was the knock detector, which Ed (our mechanic) said would be fine another couple months. And from all appearances, he was right - the knock detector probably wasn't what went out. It was probably the transmission.
In which case, it'll probably cost more to fix than the car is actually worth. Sadly, I am not that attached to it, so I'm probably going to get another car.
Luckily, just as we were walking out of Firestone, I was telling AD that if I get a new car, I want it to be a Mini Cooper in any color other than black. And wouldn't you know - there sat one behind Firestone, without tags on it, and it was red with white stripes and a white roof. It is also $11K, 2002, 87,000 miles, AND gets 29 MPG. Well, fucking presto! I will name it Ichigo and call it "Itsy" or "Berry-tan" and I will actually Armor All the interior and keep it clean and not let any trash inside it and and and ;;
Leigh Ann, you will be happy to know that this car is supposedly "fun to drive". Uhh.
Kia Rio, you better hope all that's wrong with you is a bolt that fell out of place or something, or your dirty, keyed-up ass is gone. Although I do feel kinda bad, because this is the first time something has actually been wrong with the car that wasn't our fault. And we drive the shit out of it.
current mood:  morose
current music: "No Surrender" ~ Weiß Kreuz
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| Sunday, January 10th, 2010
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3:17 pm - Time for books!
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I admit, I've been shirking some of my administrative duties over the past week and a half so I could play Soul Carnival 2 (for the record, I'm done with the main story, and after a hiccup with the memory card, just need to get a Complete on the Karakura Challenge Stage and anything in Hueco Mundo that I missed, and I'll have unlocked those two super-awesome Lust videos) and read trashy romance novels (and fanfic).
First off, I stocked up on Harlequin romance novels on a whim, which I haven't read since I was like 13. They're incredibly short, and I can generally plow through one in a night at work. The weird thing that I noticed is that they seem to have a series now about 'Innocent Wives', and another one called 'Pregnant Brides'. APPARENTLY, VIRGIN BRIDES HAVING BABIES IS A GENRE NOW.
I don't know if that's the sad part, or that I actually bought three of them.
So I've read two of them and went back to Borders and picked up one more called Pregnant by the Warrior (they all have horrible names, good lord) along with a YA novel called Girl in the Arena (about a teenaged girl fighting in a bloodsport and it looks fucking awesome) and something called Vampire Darcy's Desire. Yep, you guessed it - Pride and Prejudice AND VAMPIRES.
Let me digress here for a minute and say that I've never read Pride and Prejudice. I did, however, read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last October! I've just never gotten around to reading the original work. So instead, I continue to pick up what is basically published fanfiction of it. This time, it's vampire fic (because I'm of the firm opinion that EVERY SERIES HAS VAMPIRE FIC - sadly, there's only two IchiHime vampire fics out there, neither of them complete). I expect this book to be friggin' awesome.
Anyway, let me tell you about the two romance novels I read so far.
First up is Desert Prince, Bride of Innocence. I picked this one up because I thought "Oh hay, an Arabian prince instead of a business tycoon, AWESOME!" Because I find business tycoons incredibly boring. Well, as it turns out, the prince is ALSO a business tycoon SOB. He's also a complete and unrepentant douchenozzle pretty much the entire way through the book. But that's okay, because so is the innocent virgin English nanny that he knocks up and then forces to marry him. They both have suitably angsty pasts (her daddy didn't love her, his mom ran away from the palace leaving him as the black sheep of the family) that keep them from acting like rational human beings towards each other. He accuses her of being a lying whore all the way through the book, even though he took her virginity in the first 50 pages, and just... GAH. I hated both characters. And apparently the author is doing two more books exactly like this in the next two months - joy! Moving on!
Next we have Blackmailed Bride, Inexperienced Wife. It's almost like they're trying to describe the entire plot in the title, like a bad FF.net story ("Hobbit Lobs Ring Into Volcano!" - considering all these stories have similar titles but are by different authors, this had to be an editorial decision). This one was actually good. The pacing was much better - the characters moved together at a believable rate of speed, had realistic reactions to things, didn't spend the entire book hating each other, and best of all, both characters were likable. There also wasn't this HUGE POWER GAP between the characters - in fact, the male lead (who is a business tycoon, sob) had his entire family killed in a freak boating accident because the female lead's grandfather ruined them financially. OH SNAP! There also wasn't the annoying "white girl/swarthy latin guy" pairing thing going on - the female lead was conveniently redheaded and blue eyed (I guess so the white women reading at home could identify with her better), but they were both still Sicilian. Which isn't to say the male lead doesn't basically render the woman powerless in their situation, because he does - it's pretty much in the title - but if you're reading this book you're looking for that kink first of all, and secondly the reactions were at least believable and the woman didn't turn into a doormat because of it. I'm definitely going to look for this author, Annie West, again.
More book babble to come when I work my way through the others!
current mood:  relaxed
current music: "Big Love" ~ Fleetwood Mac
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| Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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2:38 pm - Soul Carnival 2: Part One!
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As promised, here's a run-down of Soul Carnival 2! My Japanese isn't great (in fact, it's mostly non-existent), so I can catch small phrases here and there, but not everything that's said. Which is alright, since this is mostly just an adaptation of the manga into SRPG format.
( This is gonna be long! )
current mood:  hungry
current music: "Express Yourself" ~ Madonna
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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5:49 pm - Christmas wtfery, as usual.
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So I get a call from Mama at 10 o' clock last night, almost in tears, telling me she can't find Angelina a Barbie Dream Townhouse and if I couldn't please pick her one up while I'm up here to bring it to Tennessee tonight. For the record, this doll house is $150 (which I don't happen to just have lying around, especially since I already bought Angelina about $150 worth of presents) and is sold out everywhere Mama could possibly get to.
AD, being the kind heart that he is, volunteered to get it for her (with Mama paying him back so he doesn't steal her present, but also because he already got her about $50 worth of used games), except for the fact that... oh yeah, IT'S SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE UP HERE, TOO. Considering it's the day before Christmas Eve, that's not too surprising. Although we did see it when we went shopping for her week before last.
But here are some interesting facts. Mama swears up and down that this is the ONE THING Angelina REALLY WANTS for Christmas this year, that she has her heart set on, because it's three stories and has an elevator "just like the one I got you when you were five!" The really nice $70 two story Three Musketeers doll house is also not good enough for this occasion, for some bizarre reason. Angelina has exactly four Barbies, and if I were to make a guess, doesn't really have all that many toys. The odds of her suddenly OMG NEEDING a $150 dollhouse for her four dolls that is just like the one Mama got me when I was five? Yeah, I'm not thinking they're all that high. I'm thinking she's projecting like CRAZY. Again.
When faced with the possibility that she won't be able to get this doll house, Mama goes "Well, I guess I'll just take her to Toys R Us and let her pick something out herself or get her a pair of shoes instead". Yes. SHOES. FOR CHRISTMAS. FOR A FIVE YEAR OLD. When I started yelling at her for this, she went "Well, she likes them Sketchers with the sparkles!" THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE JESUS GOD. The idea of taking her to Toys R Us on Christmas Eve and just buying her something is also pretty crappy - you could do that any day of the year, but you picked the busiest shopping day of the year. It also ruins the fun of, you know, getting a Christmas present. Not like Mama has ever bothered to wrap or hide our presents from us - she just buys them and hands them over, like "Here you go, I know it's two weeks before Christmas, but Merry Christmas!" And then we get the joy of watching other people open presents on Christmas day, but without actually... getting to join them.
The really shitty part is that she could take that $150 and get her a ton of less expensive toys. But apparently Christmas presents don't count unless they're super-expensive and useless.
The other funny thing she did today was to tell us that she cleaned Angelina's PS2 that we got her last year out. We didn't actually get her any games for it last year, since we weren't exactly sure what to get and we knew she'd never had a game system in her life. This year, AD actually talked to his co-workers who have kids, asked what their kids liked, and got her some kid games (I believe he got a Disney Princess game, two Spongebob games, and the Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy). When I told Mama this, she went "Oh, what she really wants is Pac-Man!" Yes, because a five year old who's never played a video game in her life will desperately want PAC-MAN OF ALL FUCKING THINGS WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN. It wouldn't even be so bad if MAMA was the one who wanted Pac-Man, but no. No. This is either because her boyfriend wants Pac-Man or that's the only video game she knows.
AD went and got it for her anyway. He also got Eternal Poison for me for Christmas, although I'm not touching it until Christmas Day, dammit. :|
current mood:  aggravated
current music: "Out of My Head" ~ The Black Eyed Peas
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| Saturday, December 12th, 2009
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3:28 pm - Lust Arc = WIN!
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| Monday, December 7th, 2009
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6:37 pm - lol life
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So me and Matsu went to K-Mart this afternoon to get, among other things, Triscuits, Q-tips, and marshmallows.
While there, a little old lady with a brand new credit/debit card (we could still see the activation strip on it) kept getting her card declined. She insisted this was because she couldn't remember her proper zip code (K-Mart makes you enter it for some godforsaken reason). The shift manager assured her that, no ma'am, the zip code is only important if you have American Express, so it's not that. (We figure she hadn't activated her card properly)
Instead of getting out of the line and trying to figure it out or using another form of payment, this gracious lady stands there and argues with the cashier, then phones a life-line, then stands around stupidly some more, then calls her mother over, blah blah blah.
While all this is going on, the little old lady behind her in line is getting increasingly pissed off. When she turns to us and the guy in front of us and says something nasty about it (loud enough for Crazy Zip Code Lady to hear, natch), Zip Code lady goes "BUT I SAID I'M SORRY!"
So Angry Lady leaves her stuff on the conveyor belt, pushes her way to the front, and walks off. But there for one glorious second, me and Matsu thought there was going to be a Little Old Lady Deathmatch at K-Mart.
current mood:  amused
current music: "Rock the LM.C" ~ LM.C
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| Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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4:45 pm - Snowflake exchange!
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| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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8:29 am - It's so accurate!
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On the twelfth day of Christmas,  crystaldawn sent to me... Twelve lemons drumming Eleven nerds piping Ten xellos a-leaping Nine slayers dancing Eight angels a-milking Seven mstings a-swimming Six orchids a-laying Five cle-e-e-eaving cicadas Four sturdy condoms Three dramatic precious Two snuff fics ...and a bleach in a camp fuck u die.
My first thought: Just the one?
My second thought: OMG CLEAVING CICADAS!
In Paradise Lost related news, God is a FLAMING DOUCHEBAG. "LOL I created the angels to have free will because I wanted to know that when they praised me, they really meant it!" Is it just me, or does this make him sound like a creepy, clingy, emotionally needy boyfriend? "TELL ME YOU LOVE ME! DO YOU MEAN IT? REALLY?" And then proceeds to set up a 'test' to see if you're cheating on him.
So basically, Milton is writing God like the guy from Project Megan.
current mood: amused
current music: "The Divine Conspiracy" ~ Epica
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| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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4:46 pm - Literature, oh how I love you!
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So I'm reading Paradise Lost, and everything's quite epic and nice... until I get to the part where Satan tries to leave Hell for the first time.
Let me paraphrase here:
( Cut for 350 year old spoilers and massive squick )
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR CRY, SERIOUSLY WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU MILTON YOU BLIND SONUVABITCH.
current mood:  confused
current music: "Revolution DeathSquad" ~ DragonForce
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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1:06 am - Sweet merciful fanfic Jesus!
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So I finally took the time to fix the glaring formatting errors on my fanfics today!
Except it wasn't all of them - it was only the fanfics written in AppleWorks on Rail, my iBook. For those who haven't experienced this particular pain in the ass, it broke all of the formatting so that everything - everything - was single-spaced. So I had huge walls of text for fanfic. Which wouldn't have been so bad, if it was only a bunch of one-shots. But noooooooooooooo, it was also my super-epic multi-chapter Weiß Kreuz creepfest fic, which is one of my favorites, so I was mightily chagrined by the lack of proper spacing. I am also chagrined by the fact that no one will ever read this fic, but that's because it's somewhat het and WK, so whatever
In fact, it somehow managed to hit every single WK fic I've got on FF.net. The Slayers fics were all fine! The Wedding Peach fic was fine (thank god)! And the Bleach fics are definitely fine. And not only was the spacing borked, but I guess AppleWorks doesn't have spellcheck? Because I apparently had bizarre spelling problems six years ago. I mean, I'm misspelling weird shit here and I clearly did not have the means to go back and figure out what I was doing wrong. (This was also apparently when I spelled Tot 'Tod' and Schoen 'Chen'. IDEK man)
So I reformatted and replaced the content in all my Weiß fics and uploaded three Slayers fics that I had somehow not put on FF.net. I doubt they'll get any reviews, because the fandom is dead, but I just figured I'd put them there for completion's sake. I kind of feel like some old has-been musician, releasing a greatest hits album with new, never-before heard B-sides!
Hilariously, one of the Slayers fics already got a review that was like "OMG THIS IS GREAT, PLEASE WRITE MORE FOR THIS FANDOM!" Uhh, dude. If I wrote any more Slayers fics, Xellia fandom would become so imbalanced that I would somehow absorb other people's fics and become a black hole of fic.
current mood:  busy
current music: "World Map -Last Area-" ~ Shoji Meguro
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| Friday, November 27th, 2009
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3:45 am - Icon/Gif dump!
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So the topic of conversation turned to Lady Gaga tonight (as it often does), and I decided to go through Bad Romance and make gifs and icons. SOME OF THEM SUCK, I have no illusions about my gif making skillz, but I'm at least moderately entertained.
( Lady Gaga is a pyro and I have too much time on my hands today! )
And then there's these, which... yeah, it's an old picture that everyone and their dog has seen, but I just now got around to making icons out of it because someone finally translated it this week (apparently, Hollow!Hime is into bondage! Who knew!).
( God help us all. )
I kind of want a spin-off (or just a doujin, that would be fine) that's just these two yelling at each other and cackling in autotune.
current mood: amused
current music: "Three Point One Four" ~ The Bloodhound Gang
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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6:11 pm - Je veux ton amour, et je veux ta revanche~
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I can't believe none of you have posted this yet. My flist is slipping.
Some thoughts:
- I can't believe no one thought to censor her AMAZING STRAP-ON THAR.
- She must cost a fortune to put on a show, with all the shit she breaks, sets on fire, crazy-ass costumes, crazy-ass dancing boys, etc, etc
- All I can think about that costume is that she's dressed up like an Arrancar version of Liberace. Which really isn't all that different from how she normally is, when you get right down to it.
- This may be why the new guy at work yesterday was trying to convince me she was a transsexual.
- I must get this new album. It came out today, didn't it?
current mood: bouncy
current music: "Bad Romance" ~ Lady Gaga
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9:24 am - lol reading
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Oh gdit - the Strange Angels books are friggin' addictive. I'm half-way through Betrayals and I'm already pissed that I have to wait until June for another book. It doesn't help that they're spectacularly fast reads (after the first chapter, which drug in both books).
( Some thoughts, cut for spoilers )
current mood: busy
current music: "I Can't Wait" ~ Stevie Nicks
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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1:08 pm - My own personal art fetish.
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So we went to Jerry's Art-o-rama today, which is actually down on Providence in the Kempsville section of town.
HOLY SHIT. This was like. You know how your art class in high school had ALL THIS ART SHIT? THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. There wasn't a pussy-ass scrapbooking section, there weren't kiddy-ass crafts and pom-poms and shit, it was aisles and aisles of brushes, paints, pastels, canvases, models, modeling clay, manga screen tone and PAPER. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST AISLES OF PAPER. WATERCOLOR PAPER!!1! CROQUOIS BOOKS!!1! ALDJFKLSJKS!!!
I was really only going for masking fluid and some background brushes for these Christmas cards, and maybe to see what they had in the way of chalk pastels, but oh my fucking god. First of all, they sold individual pastel sticks, so I got three Rembrandt sticks in some nice tan colors for Ichi!doll. But EVEN SO, they had a 'luxury box' of like 60 Rembrandts for $30. List price is $160.
But besides that. Besides that. They had an ENTIRE AISLE OF WATERCOLOR PAPER.
For those who have never had the misfortune of shopping for arts supplies with me (which is everyone but the boyfriend and Matsu), I have some weird hang up about watercolor paper. I love it. PREFERABLY COLD PRESS, but anything will do. Spiral-bound, unstretched, circle, rectangle, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT, I MUST TOUCH IT. I found blank watercolor greeting cards yesterday? That is what everyone is getting for Christmas. It doesn't even matter if I'm going to use my watercolors on it or not - if I had my druthers, I'd use watercolor paper for everything (although I usually just use Vellum because it's somehow less-sophisticated and I don't want to waste watercolor paper on random sketches. I horde it like gold okay).
On the flip side, we found out that Sakura Microns are no longer manufactured. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Apparently, they've been replaced by Prismacolors, since it's the same company. I guess this is a 'they changed it, now it sucks' thing, because I just can't find it within myself to get excited over black Prismacolor pens when I'm used to tan Microns. I guess I'll get over my disappointment, but. MNEH. Screw you, Prismacolor, you expensive bitches.
current mood:  artistic
current music: "The Islander" ~ Nightwish
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| Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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3:33 pm - Borders Run!
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So today, I finally broke down and got:
- the last two volumes of Her Majesty's Dog. I stopped at volume 7 and bought 8 and 9 on autopilot, but never read them. I DON'T KNOW WHY, since volume 7 ends on a cliffhanger and now I'm all impatient to finish the series. DAMN YOU, MICK TAKEUCHI. But, uhh - if you like IchiHime, I recommend this. A lot. Actually, I just recommend this a lot in general, since it's probably the best shoujo title I've read all year. Wild Ones is second, which is also awesome and hilarious. And then Bound Beauty, which may move up since it's only got three volumes out so far.
- volume 2 of Jack Frost. It's some kind of acid trip horror manwha. It looks like the plot is supposed to center around a girl who can survive any wound (including having her head lopped off), but you mostly just watch Jack fight like a psycho the entire time. Now with 200% MOAR BLOOD SPLATTERS!
- Betrayals by Lili StCrow. It's the sequel to Strange Angels, which I read right before Halloween. I was kinda torn about getting Strange Angels in the first place, since the description made it look like it was another Ho Hum Kick-ass Girl Fights the Supernatural With a Snarky Sense of Humor title, but when you get into it, it's really... actually more interesting than that. Dru doesn't come off as perfect or superior, which is actually refreshing - actually, she's pretty fucking inept, regardless of all her "I KNOW SO MUCH MORE THAN EVERYONE" attitude. And her wit isn't all "lol I am so much better and more snarky than everyone else here", she just seems to think it is. She's actually more dickish than anything. But in a lovable way, not in a way that makes you want to smack the piss out of her (although you occasionally get that, too).
I swear, the people at Borders are going to think I'm schizo or something.
current mood:  creative
current music: "The Divine Conspiracy" ~ Epica
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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8:01 am - Oh Ria Tajima, I love you~
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3:54 am - Icon relevant!
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So I wound up calling in to work tonight. I woke up feeling even worse, if that's humanly possible. Headache, chills, dry mouth, dizzy, super-tired, and having had some REALLY FREAKING WEIRD DREAMS, possibly inspired by last week's storm (fuck you, storm. STILL). I would almost think it's the flu or something, but I don't have a fever. Matsu drove us to Taco Bell, where we saw the Great Parking Lot Lake, and McDonalds and I almost fell asleep in the car a lot.
I guess the tea I got from McDonalds woke me up (maybe it was caffeine withdrawals? idek man), because I then proceeded to talk smack about Bleachness and swap doujin on RPS with Eski and Miranda. Hilariously, I did not start the conversation! And then, in a Nyquil-fueled frenzy, I bought a membership to Doujin-Moe.
So to Linda Project, seriously guys. Why did you do that? That doujin didn't need a sequel, and sweet Jesus I am so tired of the 'last page pregnancy shot', can we just stop doing that in like half the rape doujin ever made? PLEASE?
Although, Ria Tajima? You are my hero forever and ever, even though all your books inevitably go futa. You just make it so cute. ;o;
current mood:  tired
current music: "I Would Die 4 U" ~ Prince
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(Play the Alice Game?)
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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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3:55 pm - Aimless complaining~
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So I went to the Richmond meet yesterday. Miss Mae's house is HUEG. I think it's easily the biggest house I've ever been in, good lord. Pictures forthcoming when I don't feel like regurgitated cat piss.
Unfortunately, this necessitated me drinking a boatload of coffee (for those who don't know, I quit while I was dieting so that I could concentrate on drinking water), operating on little sleep, and driving for a total of four hours, round-trip. By the time I got home, I was zombiefied. Matsu asked me how the meet-up went and I could just barely grunt at her. I don't think I managed a coherent sentence.
I then proceeded to go to work and sleep nearly all night. Which helped for a few hours, because I was feeling well enough to go to Denny's and eat with AD! I think we missed this last Sunday. ;_;
(As a side note, while there, I read a volume of Her Majesty's Dog. There's a scene where the Love Rival is yelling at the Male Lead something to the effect of "You say you want to protect [the Female Lead], but you think that only means protecting her body! You don't notice what's going on with her heart!" Is this some kind of Japanese love trope? Because how many times has Ichigo gotten that? Two? Three now?)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand then I went to lie down and woke up with a little twinging headache and a sty. I feel like utter garbage. As an added bonus, I also feel like I can't get enough water, even when I feel like I'm going to pop because I've had too much. AUGH.
current mood:  sick
current music: "Paparazzi" ~ Lady Gaga
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(7 Rosa Mystica won Play the Alice Game?)
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009
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9:20 am - My job lololololol
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So yesterday sucked enormous donkey balls.
First of all, I basically got guilt tripped into coming in this weekend. On the day of the doll meet. Because everyone else wants to go to the Radcon Social~ Which is the exact same thing that happened last time there was a doll meet, which I was too exhausted to go to because I'd spent the night at the shipyard! It is a rare, rare job that makes you put in for days off on days you already have off in advance.
I am saying 'fuck it' this time, though, and going anyway. I don't even care - I'm dragging my laptop to work with me so I can write there, or possibly pirate internet or something.
Then, when I woke up yesterday afternoon, I found out the power in the apartment had been knocked out because of the storm! Thanks, Nor'easter! Even better - the shipyard is flooded, so I didn't have to work last night. :3 THAT'S WHAT YOU BASTARDS GET FOR SCREWING MY WEEKEND PLANS. When I left yesterday morning, there was already a little river on the roadway leading to the Enterprise that was ankle-deep, but apparently that 'little river' became completely impassable by yesterday evening. The tide also came in and flooded the area directly in front of the Enterprise, so I wouldn't have even been able to get onto the ship. One of the parking lots was also flooded out. Whoops? :D
I did manage to get some of Prince of Flowers cleaned, though, in between the power outages. Hopefully I'll be able to finish that tonight - after the first page, the other pages haven't taken that long.
Also, I get a log with Dag's Ichi tonight, I'M SO EXCITED~~~ ♥
current mood: cheerful
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(Play the Alice Game?)
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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8:27 am - I was looking for an excuse to use this icon
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In response to a comment someone made that was like "All IchiHime people ever talk about is how good at sex Ichigo and Orihime would be" (wow, genius - welcome to every fandom ever! Next thing you know, they'll even be *gasp* writing made up stories about them actually doing sex! The nerve!) and also because I have needed to make this an icon ever since that doujin got translated. Because I literally spit at my monitor when I saw that panel.
The keywords are extra lulz.
BUT ANYWAY, I have things I need to accomplish this week (and beyond).
- Clean doujin pages for Prince of Flowers (I've got the cover and the first page fixed, but the first page had a grid in the background and it literally took forever to fix up)
- Post for my characters (I always say I'm going to do this and I never do ;~;)
- Shopping Friday (including cleaning my car out. Ugh, it's so filthy)
- Doll Meet Saturday (hence the car-cleaning)
- Work on Chapter 7 of fanfic (if I get to chapter 8, it will officially be the longest I have ever written on one fic ever)
- Sand out Ichi!doll and little boy doll's seams
- Face up and body blushing on boy dolls
- Sew doll outfits
- Avoid being murdered by Dagger for taking on too many tasks in a row
But really, I'm just chomping at the bit to get to the fanfic part. I was in a groove with that last chapter and I'm reluctant to let that go. D: Maybe I can start up again Saturday night?
current mood:  content
current music: "Higher Love" ~ Steve Winwood
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(18 Rosa Mystica won Play the Alice Game?)
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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11:13 pm - Box openings two, three, and four!
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YES WE DID THREE AT ONCE TODAY. Like I said, CHRISTMAS.
So when last we left our ridiculously large group of dolls, they were all prettied up and waiting to spring Ichi!doll and the others from their cardboard jail cells...
( Last time, on As The Box Turns... )
current mood: bouncy
current music: "The Path of Thorns" ~ Sarah McLachlan
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9:59 pm - Box openings! One of Two!
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There are a LOT of pictures here, so I'm breaking this up into two posts so it's easier to load.
Yesterday, we got the box with Ichi!Doll in it! HIS BOX WAS HUGE, but not as big as the box we got today, which contained both an Iplehouse Elder Female and an Iplehouse Junior Male. It's a good thing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) Matsu's good at waking up, because I slept RIGHT THROUGH that sucker.
Anyway, I refused to open Ichi's box until Hime and Gypsy were reassembled, because they had to see him in. So in the space of two weeks, we've gone from having one solitary only-child to having HALF A COVEN of these things we need six more, ftr, before we can start sabbats. Momoka is the High Priestess.
I was also lazy and didn't post pictures of Gypsy's box opening (mostly because I didn't want them up until I'd blushed her, because she looks unholy without a face on). So the first post is going to be devoted to her box opening and her and Hime's 'spa treatment', so to speak.
( I even gave them little fur bathrobes! )
current mood: accomplished
current music: "Sisters of the Moon" ~ Fleetwood Mac
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(6 Rosa Mystica won Play the Alice Game?)
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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9:19 am - Id, Ego, and SuperEgo
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This is an essay I've wanted to put together for a while, but just couldn't find the right reference page in the manga. But now that I have, whooooo, let's go!
First of all, I'd like to acknowledge draiol, who was the first person I've seen that noticed this. It was because of her roleplaying that I went "Oh hay, she's right, and that makes a scary amount of sense!"
Secondly, a disclaimer. I don't agree with everything Freud postulates, nor do I expect any modern woman to. A lot of his stuff comes from a time when women weren't exactly treated as being psychologically equal to men (hence how he writes them off almost completely in his theories on Oedipus Complex and in several other places). However, this isn't the place to argue about how valid or not valid Freud's theories about the psyche are! What this is the place for is exploring how those theories relate to Ichigo's psyche, since they've very obviously been inserted into Bleach. So before I get a single comment going "BUT FREUD IS WRONG AND SEXIST", I will cut it off at the pass by saying that for the purposes of this essay it doesn't MATTER, and I don't CARE.
That all being said, let's begin!
( Freud in Bleach, or Here, Have a Huge Character Analysis of Hichi )
current mood:  geeky
current music: "Sweet Dreams" ~ Beyonce
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(2 Rosa Mystica won Play the Alice Game?)
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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12:30 am - Let's welcome another addition!
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No pictures yet, but AS PREDICTED, my other new baby, the Sleepy Narsha arrived today! So her birthday is Halloween! I think I'm going to name her Gypsy Rose.
Because you can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl, and sometimes even I like to reach back to my white trash roots.
She also has a tiny Nel wig that arrived from Ndoll today. So she's going to spend half her time as Ichi!doll and Hime!doll's misbegotten girl love child, and the other half the time as Nel. I'm totally making her a little skully hat out of air dry clay. FUCK YEAH CRAYOLA!
current mood: cheerful
current music: "Just Be Conscious" ~ Hayashibara Megumi
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(2 Rosa Mystica won Play the Alice Game?)
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