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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 Apparently, they've been replaced by Prismacolors, since it's the same company.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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
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8:11 am - The best review I've ever gotten.
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OK, I think I'll start the paypal fund that will PAY YOU to update this FAST
and to make it a LONG fic (with plenty of hot lemony goodness interspersed, of
course!).
Did someone just. Volunteer to pay me. For porn.
Holy shit, that's kind of awesome.
current mood:  surprised
current music: "Party in the USA" ~ Miley Cyrus
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| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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5:29 pm - HimeDoll is home!
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I went to the office today to pick up a package from UPS (they'd left a note on the door), and I find I'm just in time to intercept the mailman! As it turns out, he stopped right in front of our building. So I ask if the package is for me, which of course it is. :DDD
So after talking to him for a minute, I get my huge ass box and bring it upstairs!
Also of note: Today is my mom's birthday. So she now shares a birthday with a doll with tits bigger than hers. :'( I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL HER
( This doll is fucking awesome okay )
current mood:  ecstatic
current music: "But But But" ~ Ishida Akira
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| Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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6:14 am - Supreme success!
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I finally, finally updated my fanfic! Hooray! After it sat on my writing journal for nigh on to two months without seeing a single peep from me, I finally took the time this past week to whittle away on it. And finally, after putting in about 500 words every other day, I took out the last 2000 tonight!
AWESOME.
In other news, we made our purchases today with the loan money! They were:
- Iplehouse's Akando
- Iplehouse's Jessica
- Iplehouse's Ryan
- three pairs of shoes for my Sleepy Narsha
- two pairs of shoes for Ryan
- two pairs of shoes for Akando
- two pairs of shoes for Jessica
- at least two wigs for each, sometimes three or four. I even found a magical super mullet!wig for Akando!
- several sets of eyes
- another pink Dollmore carrying bag, because I am rather enamored with the one I have - I just need a bigger bag for the big dolls.
So yeah, we bought the entire country of South Korea today.
current mood: accomplished
current music: "Sweet Surrender" ~ Sarah McLachlan
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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4:01 pm - It's okay, Ichi - it happens to all Vizards!
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Wow - I was so excited, because I thought for a second that I was the only one making 'Ichigo can't get it up when fighting for Rukia' jokes about this new chapter, but it looks like I wasn't the first to get there! Darn! Either way, erectile dysfunction = best new trolling technique I've seen in a while! I will have to be sure to use this mercilessly.
Can't wait for the new chapter, to make hilarious macros of it.
In other news, the dolls shipped today! We're just waiting on our EMS routing number, so I can stalk the package mercilessly as it wastes away in customs on into the weekend.
current mood:  amused
current music: "TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT" ~ Beat Crusaders
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| Monday, October 19th, 2009
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10:22 am - Poor, neglected fanfic!
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So I'm once again working on my poor neglected fanfic. I feel very proud of this kind of rekindling of my creative spirit, since I have a horrible tendency to drop fanfics and leave them as eternal WIPs (hi, Broken Wings, I'm looking at you, you unwritable piece of crap AUGH why do I still love you).
I think part of what brought me back was one of the reviews I got for the last chapter I put up, in which the reviewer got a solid half of their guesses about the plot sort of right, and the rest wrong. So now I'm like "I have to at least do this chapter to prove them wrong!" WHICH IS A STUPID REASON TO WRITE, but I really do love this dumb fanfic.
Anyway, in the past week, I've gotten 1000 words down, which is pretty good, considering it was stuck at about 1000 for two months. So now it's 2000/5000, which is pretty good progress and pacing for me - I was worried this chapter was going to run long, AGAIN.
Also, I'm a horrible person, because the more I think about future chapters of this fic, the more I want to put in a Matsumoto/Orihime skinship scene. Damn you, Doujin Moe, this is all your fault.
current mood: busy
current music: "Somewhere" ~ Kuwashima Houko
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| Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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12:57 am - Matsu is a bad person and should feel bad.
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So Friday, Matsu and I went to Navy Fed to do my biweekly deposit into Savings there (which is supposedly my doll fund, but is in actuality a fund to make sure we have food at the end of the pay period, because I suck with money HARDCORE).
Except it was raining and nasty, so the drive-thru was backed up. I whined about it, and Matsu was like "Let's go inside, then. Besides, didn't you want to get a loan, anyway?" At which point I whined some more, because I am a great big winner like that. But we went in anyway and asked to see a loan officer (who could also make my deposit for me, because the line inside was just as bad. LOL Navy payday LOL). And after sitting around reading Entertainment Weekly for about 45 minutes, we saw one and put in my loan application.
And got approved for $3000.
So now my doll fund has $3160 sitting in it. And I am trying to work up the nerve to buy the dolls we want. The thing is, I'm fairly sure we're getting an Iplehouse Akando (or possibly two, so he can have a white twin >:3), and Jessica, but past that, I have no idea where I'm going with this. I also think I want the Iplehouse Ryan for my little boy, but I'm not sure what I want for my little girl. Dollmore Narsha? Another Iplehouse? IDEK man.
ETA: Oh goddamn you, Sleepy Narsha, you win. You are fucking adorable.
Also, some kind anons apparently love my Hime and Shere's Ichi. I wibbled a little lot. THAT MADE MY WEEKEND.
current mood:  calm
current music: "Dreamer" ~ Prince
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| Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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2:23 am - Picture post!
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The first of at least two! Woohoo!
THIS IS THE PRETENTIOUS ARTSY FARTSY STEVIE NICKS POST - you can probably only really see her face up in maybe one of these. Posts out in decent lighting will occur tomorrow, because I was too lazy to set up the stuff I got today. I'll probably do more next weekend, and again when we get the new dollies.
( On to the pictures! )
current mood: artsy!
current music: "No More Candy 4 U!" ~ Prince
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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6:13 pm - And Juliet, she is the sun
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In the spirit of Halloween, and since it's the beginning of October, I figure this is as good a time as any to get this out there. So this has been nagging at the corner of my mind for a while - a long while, actually - but only just recently have I realized that I should really... write this essay out so that I don't have to flail around when I point these things out to someone I'm talking to on IRC. So here, have an essay on pagan symbolism in Bleach!
Updated Oct 11th, 2009: to add a section on Tarot symbolism! So there are now four sections!
( This is bound to be long and rambly )
( I. The Devil and the Phoenix )
( II. She is the Sun )
( III. The Descent of the Goddess )
( IV. The Empress and the Moon )
End
I think that pretty well covers the three four things I wanted to cover. And now everyone is going to think I'm a fruit loop. But like I said, this is all completely subjective speculation, so if I'm a fruit loop, at least I'm a well-entertained fruit loop!
current mood: accomplished
current music: "Sleeping Sun" ~ Nightwish
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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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6:29 pm - Willy Wonka is clearly a pedophile.
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So I just saw these in the convenience store last night and had to try some.
Yes. Puckerooms. Yes, they look just as suggestive as you think they do. THEY ARE MUSHROOM-SHAPED GUMMIES. FIGURE IT OUT.
I'll admit, they're good as hell! But seriously, guys, who thought of this? Was someone just sitting around Wonka going "omg you guys, we have to try this and see how long it'll take before parents complain"?
If so, I would like to shake their hand, because that's distinctly made of WIN.
current mood: amused
current music: "Four Horsemen" ~ Yngwie Malmsteen
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| Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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4:49 am - Everyone loves weekends!
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Ahh, 8s, how I missed you.
Anyway, spent all day today fixing Momoka's face up, which was the last thing I needed to fix. It turned out pretty darn well - I put her brown eyes in and they really compliment the eyeshadow I gave her. I was worried it was too stark at first, but once again, the wig and eyes balanced it out and it looks really good. I'm really happy with this face up - I think it's my best one yet. She almost looks like a whole different doll.
But I'm not going to take pictures until next weekend, since I have to wait to buy the props I want from Michael's for a fall photoshoot. She looks seriously amazing guys, I can't stand it!
In RP news, I. I seriously love my Ichigo and Yoruichi, guys. Yoruichi is teaching Hime horrible things to do to Ichigo, it's amazing. And my two Ishidas (there was a point Friday night where I was threading with them both at once and. Couldn't tell which one was which when I was getting notifications. They're both that amazing). I am also le sad because Hime's baby in BDR is being dropped because of some kind of OOC wank and this is sadness-making in the extreme.
I'm also having a ball interacting with zombieAU!Ichigo, because apparently Orihime in this AU is supposed to just cry and hide a lot because OH NOES ZOMBIES I LOVE YOU ISHIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and mine is reacting like "Okay, so... do they fly? How long does it take from being bitten to reanimation? Can my powers fix a bite? How do you get infected? How are you killing them? What are you using?" IF YOU DON'T THINK ORIHIME LOVES ZOMBIE MOVIES, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY MISJUDGING THE CHARACTER. I mean, she even has a Zombies jersey on in one chapter, come on guys. But this keeps weirding the Ichigo there out and catching him off guard and it's hilarious, especially his little thought tags. And then she started telling him about Micro and I lol'd a lot. A LOT.
On another note, this weekend Matsu and I discovered that McDonalds has, for the first time in literally years, a collectible set of Coca Cola glasses available when you purchase a large value meal. THESE ARE REALLY COOL GLASSES YOU GUYS, they're classic Coke glasses, just with different coloring in the glass. We got like six of the smokey brownish-grey ones and then when we went through the drive thru tonight? THEY GAVE ME A BRIGHT BLUE ONE OMG.
"OMG MATSU," says I, in the drive-thru, "This is so cool, McDonalds never has collectible glasses anymore! I remember when I was little they did and my mom got a whole set of Smurfs glasses! And they were really glass! It was amazing! LET'S GET THEM." So I've started collecting them. GUYS I AM APPARENTLY SUPER GHETTO, because I want to replace my current clear, plain tumblers (which keep breaking, they're five years old) with these glasses. I'm getting at least eight of them, okay. Possibly more so that I can have an even number of brown and blue ones.
Matsu thinks I'm hilariously insane. We were driving back from McDonalds and I was squeeing because OMG THEY GAVE ME GLASSES THEY GAVE ME AN EXTRA ONE OMG THEY'RE MADE OF REAL GLASS and she's like "You need to post this to your LJ". And so I am. :Db
current mood: chipper
current music: "Suigintou no Yoru" ~ Sugiyama Noriaki
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| Saturday, September 19th, 2009
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12:29 pm - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
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Following up yesterday's post about 'how not to be a crappy uke', we now have 'why people are drawn to bad characters'! Because every so often, I have to try to explain this to someone who is annoyed at how many characters seem to fall all over themselves to get cut up/hurt/molested/sexed up and/or otherwise hurt or violated by a bad character. Or I get to watch someone pee themselves because their character's girl ditched them for a 'bad boy' (which ranges from being wince-inducing if the girl is particularly stupid, or hilarious when the guy that got dumped is a passive-aggressive twit that just ~can't understand~ why ALL GIRLS GO FOR BAD BOYS D:)
( This is not the 'Rejected Good Guys Club', boys )
current mood:  contemplative
current music: "Suigintou no Yoru" ~ Sugiyama Noriaki
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| Friday, September 18th, 2009
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9:16 am - Passive characters and YOU!
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There's something that's been bugging me (and numerous other people) for a while, so in an effort to service the LJ roleplay community (heh), here, have a post about submissive/passive characters, and how not to fuck them up!
See, for every yaoi manga and romance novel out there, there's an ideally passive, submissive character (usually the one that the reader - usually female - is meant to identify with) getting all the attention of the big bad seme or dashing Fabio love interest. As such, LJ roleplay is full of these characters - the innocents, the ditzes, the charming subs that everyone wants to touch and grope and make not-so-innocent! And since there are so many of them everywhere, the odds run that there's going to be more bad ones than anything else.
This post is for you, the player of that feminine, passive, submissive love interest that everyone wants to touch! So that you do not fuck up your character and make no one want to touch them.
( Trust me - I have experience here! )
current mood: busy
current music: "I'll be there" ~ Hayashibara Megumi
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| Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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9:46 am - Reposted because LJ is an ass and I need to check heights better
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SO GUYS I'M GETTING OFF TWELVES EITHER THIS WEEKEND OR NEXT WEEK, I'M NOT SURE YET WHICH. Both options mean I only get one day off this weekend, but if it means getting off 12s, I am all for it.
But that's not the important part. The important part is this, which I am ordering tomorrow with all this overtime money. HER NAME IS GOING TO BE HIMEKO YOU GUYS I am so original.
But I also have a poll for you all, under the cut.
( What should my next purchase be? )
current mood: cheerful
current music: "Bye Bye Beautiful" ~ Nightwish
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| Friday, September 11th, 2009
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8:32 am - Astonishing X-Men #1-6
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So Leigh Ann lent me her TPBs of the first... I'm guessing 18 issues of Astonishing X-Men. The ones written by Joss Whedon. I finished the first TPB and. THOUGHTS. I CAN HAS THEM.
I'll just go by character, it's easier that way.
Wolverine: Apparently, it's really, really hard to fuck up Wolverine, because he's the only character that's been consistently written by like a million different writers and never changes significantly. They just change his history around to suit their needs. IDEK.
Anyway, Wolverine's one of two characters I didn't have any major gripe with, so I figured I'd get him out of the way first. And for the record, I'm not a huge fan of his - he's just not the kind of character I'm nuts about. But I really liked him here. And I will get to why in a few minutes.
Beast: Again, not much different from what I remember here. Yeah, he does kinda pussy out and go "MAYBE I WANNA BE CURED", but... I mean, if you looked like that, wouldn't you consider it, too? And of course, anytime a 'mutant cure' storyline comes into play, at least one X-Man will go "MAYBE I WANNA BE CURED". Since the team's so small, that role automatically goes to the one with the freakiest powers and/or appearance - apparently, Beast's looks won out over Cyke's eyebeams.
Kitty: Okay, I'm... really torn on this one. On the one hand, shout-outs to the 80s, hay! Always worth brownie points there! On the other, it's like Leigh Ann said - "For the duration of this comic, the part of Kitty Pryde will be played by Buffy Summers". She's snarky and witty and acidic and... yeah, Kitty *can* be all those things, but she's also got a pretty big heart and a big compassionate streak and... we're really not shown that here. Maybe for her to work best, she needs another friendly woman to bounce off of (like Ororo or Rachel, you know?). Instead, all she gets is Emma Frost, which is like trying to mix oil and water here. I really can't blame her for hating Emma, either, considering the Hellfire Club was the Villain of the Year for like three straight years in the 80s. It's like she was transported, fully-grown, from 1985, with none of the stuff that happened in-between being acknowledged.
Also, with Piotr getting resurrected, she kind of... lost whatever personality she had to schmoop at him. Like... I fully support them getting together, but COME ON GUYS. It almost looks like she was put in this story specifically to have a sympathetic female presence and to give him a reason to come back from the dead. Again. Also, color me skeptical about him - he's not been sane since I started reading the books like fifteen years ago, I highly doubt I will ever read comics where Piotr isn't some whackadoodle-wannabe-bad-guy-because-my-sister-got-killed-again. Like literally, I started reading around Uncanny 297 - he went nuts in 305 and hasn't really gotten back to normal since then.
Emma: You know, occasionally, glimpses of her awesomeness shine through! But it's mostly drowned out by omg insecurity about replacing Jean (protip: when you steal someone else's husband, you no longer get to complain that he likes her better. Just a thought) and omg insecurity about maybe I'll involuntarily become a villain again and omg Scott I wanna hump yooooooooooou and omg I'm so hot with my half-an-outfit and omg I'm going to be a bitch to Kitty just because! I just. STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT SHIT THAT IS YOUR OWN FAULT. She literally at one point says "I've got the best body money can buy, awesome super powers, and a vast fortune, yet I still rank behind a corpse". And then she calls Jean a cow. Uhh, seriously? She's DEAD. I'm not feeling any sympathy for someone that just can't let that shit go, you know?
At least Madeline Pryor had a reason to complain. For fuck's sake.
Scott: Is a bag of dicks. No, really. Wolverine won massive brownie points with me just for beating the shit out of him on the lawn and reminding him that he was a huge douchebag for everything that happened to Jean. For once in my life, I almost kinda want Jean to wind up with Wolverine, because seriously, Scott is such a huge cock that I can't even get behind the idea of him ever being happy now. Jeezus, has Rachel disowned him yet? She did, right? RIGHT? I DIDN'T IMAGINE THAT?
Also, ffs, either let Emma lead the team, or get the fuck off the position. Stop this "letting Emma talk through me" shit. It's goddamned annoying.
Things I hope happen in this comic:
- Scott gets pushed off a cliff
- Emma actually becomes leader of the team after Scott gets pushed off that cliff
- Emma stops whining about shit that is her own fault
- Beast and Wolverine get drunk together like the good old days
- Kitty gets a personality
- Jean comes back from the dead and bangs Wolverine, JUST FOR THE LULZ
current mood:  bored
current music: "Beautiful Dirty Rich" ~ Lady Gaga
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| Sunday, September 6th, 2009
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11:15 pm - September Dolly Meet, now with over 9000% more pictures!
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Because I know the world can never have enough pictures of dolls and things! Pictures from September's dolly meetup in Richmond!
( You know you love this. )
current mood: accomplished
current music: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" ~ Starship
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12:27 am - Doll Meet Up Preview!
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So I spent like six or seven hours in Richmond today at the dolly meet up (and also shooting the shit with Leigh Ann, which is always fun and interesting |D)! We met up at a place called King Williams Miniatures, which sells... lots and lots of doll furniture.
( This doll has better furniture than I do. )
This is going to be the only thing in my house that I ever put Pledge on. Srsly. For as much as I paid for it, I damn well better take care of it - that shit cost $300. And that was with it being 20% off!
current mood: cheerful
current music: "FantasMic" ~ Nightwish
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| Friday, September 4th, 2009
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8:19 am - Bleach idiocy, take 5498
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| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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10:17 am - Stuff and things!
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1. Looking forward to fun tea party times in Richmond Saturday! Leigh Ann, you're going, right?
2. I am somehow not completely wiped from working 12s so far this week. Actually, it's not been that bad - I'm just missing all the fun stuff ALL OVER THE INTERWEBS. Like Amat Party Days and our new Ichigo and Grimmjow introing SOB. I even missed an Id post in BDR, but Draiol is on the same time as me in the mornings, so I managed to at least exchange a few comments with her.
3. I'm actually getting... longer reviews now! I'm kind of amazed at this! I even had one that was speculating in depth on what changes were made to the various characters and on what was gonna happen next! (for the record, she was 1 in 4 for her guesses, but she got eerily close with some of them!)
4. It's Orihime's birthday! It took CLB a whole three comments to start saying "Happy birthday, now resurrect Ulquiorra your boyfriend". Really, I'm impressed with their restraint. And mine, for not resorting a Fifty Naked Ichigo post.
current mood: amused
current music: "The Islander" ~ Nightwish
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| Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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8:25 am - A few things:
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1) Two things that puzzle me about IchiHime fics:
- Red bean paste. Seriously, guys, it's not that scary or exotic or gross. There are not whole stores dedicated to it in Japan. In fact, the Japanese PUT IT IN EVERYTHING and you're not showing how clever you are by having Orihime eat buckets of it in every single fic ever. When she says she's going to get red bean ice cream? You do realize that's like me saying I'm going to get like Neapolitan, right? IT'S A REAL FLAVOR. IT'S EASY TO GET. GO TO YOUR GODDAMN LOCAL ASIAN GROCER GUYS, REALLY.
- Little Blue Men. They are in every fic ever, I swear to all that is holy. She'll be having an otherwise normal conversation and then suddenly start randomly dropping Little Blue Men into it, usually accompanied by daisies. And the only fic it made any kind of sense in was the one where she's suffered head trauma. I'm serious here, this is how widespread this is. I get the feeling this is an in-joke from FLOL, or just a way to show you're one of the cool kids or a Smurfs reference or something, but come on guys. You can make her wacky and random without making her RANDOM LOL TEEHEE.
2) I have a vague headache and my stomach is vaguely upset. Sob. I wish I knew what was going on here.
3) This week's filler episode has Renji fighting his zanpakuto and Hichi in it. And blessedly little Rukia. God, I remember before I looked at fandom, when I actually still liked her. Now she just makes me want to cry a lot. I am tempted to watch it. I am going to go to sleep and if I get up and the urge is still there, I will probably wind up updating this post with "GOD WHY DID I DO THAT".
SIGH.
Edit: 4) This Sengoku BASARA doujin has me wanting to scream stuff like "Double!" "Triple!" "Basara!" and "Fever!" after doing random everyday things.
"*finishes the dishes*" "BASARA!!!"
"*finishes porn log*" ""
current mood: tired
current music: "The Poet and the Pendulum" ~ Nightwish
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