Friday, April 6, 2001 -- 05:36 p.m. Hmm. Blogging from 'tousan's work is interesting. At least I fit in -- I got a pretty new pant-suit while I was up in Toronto. XD XD I was really lucky today; I wound up sitting next to a very, very handsome guy on the train. The only problem? He was twenty-five. *deflates* However... *perks* those family friends I mentioned last entry? I've grown up with them, pretty much, but I hadn't seen them for a couple years. The guy, Douggie (I should really call him Doug now... he's bigger than I am, after all), has grown up into a very, very, very cute guy. Quiet, brilliant, cute, well-spoken and all-around wonderful. Unfortunately, I'm more of an older sister to him than anything else, and he's always been a little brother to me. It's not fair, really. ^_^;; Plus, I have the feeling that I'd squick his real sister, Emily, who's always been a good friend of mine. Pity. If Doug ever does get a girlfriend, she'd better be able to match him... Did I mention that he likes manga and anime? Including shoujo stuff? *shiku* *shiku* Hidoiiii~! (And please, let him not remember this website...) -- At the moment, I'm up in Toronto, having a lovely time getting greasy and grimy working on a far-too-old motorcycle for a project. Ah well. One of my dear family friends is letting me use the computer. Blogging from here is fun... So, Tin, have you written any more Turn? Or the Hana-Kimi fic? Saturday, March 31, 2001 -- 03:02 p.m. Having finished my SATs for this year, I've found that people can really be far too self-centered. Also, I'm not going to bluntly tell them that they're being bitches/bastards. It's that social thing -- I really don't want to hurt anyone. Fuck. That. I want to scream and run and shriek and kick people, and Dan's out of the state, so I can't take my frustration out on him. So, dear bloggie (and those who read it), you get the brunt of it. It's nice to have friends. It's nice if friends decide they like your other friends. If it's an equal friendship. Which some of mine aren't, and so recently it's been driving me up the wall. Funny, before I came back to the US, I always wanted to be the person that heard everyone's problems and tried to help. And now I am, and I don't like it one fucking bit. It depresses me. And then I never see the other side of that person ever again. I become the person who listens quietly to someone rant on about how so-and-so didn't like them, and how their life sucks and how their grades, even if they're really good and better than mine, suck so badly. And it's not just one person who does it, either. It's a cumulative effect, and today's just the day that it's all gathered to a point that I can't just keep it bottled up and dole it out in a bit of angsty writing. Suffice it to say, I'm in a very Bad Mood. Don't touch. I bite. And kick. And scratch. And whine. Damn, I wish I could whine to someone without being judged for doing so. Am I supposed to be some happy-genki-teenage-girl all the time? I have a headache. I'm definitely not genki or happy right now. Friday, March 30, 2001 -- 09:02 p.m. Mika-chan pointed out that I had a CCS fic that I was working on way back at Christmastime. Ahaha... ^_^;; So, Tin-oneesama, here's another carrot for me to dangle in front of your nose. A Sakura's Pregnant Fic. Have fuuuuun. XD Friday, March 30, 2001 -- 04:20 p.m. Mei-chan, good point. It was late and my thinking was fuzzed by it. ^_^;; Gomen ne... But I still plan to be evil and not share Arcadia with Tin-oneesama until she writes more Turn. XD And Tin... it /was/ supposed to be short. It just kinda... grew. And Meimi egged me on. In other news... Sakura-oneesama is far too talented for her own good (and mine!), so I wound up trying to ruin and destroy (ahem) two of her pictures. ^_^;; Anyway, here's one of Krad and here's one of her originals. Keep in mind that this is first and second times, respectively, that I've tried to color anything in. ^_^;; Friday, March 30, 2001 -- 04:07 a.m. Oh yes, I am evil, according to Mei-chan. So tell Tin-onee to write more Turn or Hana-Kimi, and then I'll dole out more Arcadia. See? I swear I'm going to tie you to that chair, O-nee-sa-ma I WANT MORE TURN, DAMMIT! Thursday, March 29, 2001 -- 01:32 p.m. Oneesama, not only am I probably taller than you... but I've been waiting longer for more Turn. *leer* So I'm perfectly capable of tying you to your chair until you do write more Turn or that Hana-Kimi fic. And I'm such a sweet, angelic little imouto, aren't I? Just ask me. Not only will I not let you see more of Arcadia, I'll not let you see that little extra fic about Celcia, Toki, Fin and Access after they're reincarnated. And Zen, too. *leer* And I won't even think about writing a back story for Fujitaka -- as in, answering the question of how the Book of the Clow got in Fujitaka's basement, how Clow's personality manifested itself in him before and after he learned about it. Not until you write more Turn. Wednesday, March 28, 2001 -- 03:55 p.m. New Hana-kimi tanks. Leering fangirlishness. Damn, Sano looks good without a shirt... Tuesday, March 27, 2001 -- 06:07 p.m. Scary thought. If Zen were ever to regain his memories of his life, and have enough power to reincarnate... O.o;;; The very thought of 'Natsuki-neechan' is scaring me. Tuesday, March 27, 2001 -- 12:56 p.m. *fiendish leer* Tin-neechama, I will gnaw and bite and tie you up until you finish Turn and the Hana-kimi fic. Just see if I don't. And I won't let you see any more of Arcadia. So! Best start writing, neechama. I'm re-watching Kare-Kano and going H_H all over again. The first four episodes are by far my favorites, while Mika-chan seems to like the Tsubasa x Kazuma episode. *coughcough* Explosions do seem to be your style, eh? And Arima remains as adorable as ever. Sunday, March 25, 2001 -- 01:17 p.m. o/~ Had a bad day again / said I would not understand... Ye gods. I've felt so much like that song for quite a while now. I adore Dad, normally, but when one gets several awards and glowing teacher comments, and he seizes upon the one iffy comment (a single sentence, let me note) in the whole two pages of praise... I've tried damned hard this year to do well in class; last year I did awfully, as well as the year before (Mika-chan can attest to that -- evil PhySci), but this year, I've kept my grades to straight A's and B's. Simply because he, when he was younger than I am, was the top student at Queen's University in Kingston, does not mean that I have to be the same way. Dammit, I'm smarter than that. I have a life. He didn't. And, before I start to grumble about the unfairness of all that, let me note that there's more Arcadia up. And this was supposed to be a relatively simple fic... Ahha. BBS: Meimi-chan, I empathise. Since I'm the only one who has a decent collection of anime at school, I get random people walking up to me and asking if I can loan them such and such a series, and I feel like such a prat if I don't have it or can't loan it out. Ann-san (*leer*), I agree with Meg-oneesama. If you don't finish it, we'll sic sugar-high Suppi-chans on you. I'm sure Eriol will cooperate. XD XD *leer* Speaking of Meg-oneesama, is it fair to say that I'll gnaw on your ankle until you finish Icebreakers 2 and the Tanjoubi fic? Thursday, March 22, 2001 -- 02:23 p.m. In thinking about Dark and Krad and their relationship (as well as Satoshi and Daisuke's relationship), I wound up with a possibly interesting theory. Nothing is perfectly good, and nothing is perfectly evil. In many cases, evil works for good (take, for example, Eriol), and good works for evil. The best intentions can lead to the worst consequences, and the worst intentions can have unexpected benefits. How, do you ask, does this apply to D N Angel? Theory: Dark and Krad are two opposite ends of the spectrum, one who was once pure good, one who was once pure evil. Holding this to be true, Krad's obsession with the Hikari family sprung from the wish to keep them from any and all harm, be it physical or emotional or otherwise. His original intentions -- ie, to be a protector -- developed into an obsession, and later, into the darkness that we see in him in the current manga. Dark, on the other hand, was once truly evil (according to this theory -- did I mention that it's an Interesting one?). A thief, bent on having fun and having everything he wanted his way, and no-one else's, gradually found that his actions had a good effect upon the others, and slowly developed into a halfway-decent... whatever he is. Now, if this holds true, then Krad and Dark are still diametrically opposite deep within themselves. The 'Violation' mentioned in the March chapter may be the idea that, once upon a time, Krad and Dark were one, er, being (D N Angel?), and the fact that Krad had been sealed away for so long that it never became an issue of joining the two together again, until Krad resurfaced close to Daisuke, and thus, Dark. Which, in turn, leads to all sorts of less-serious fangirlish thoughts... *leer* But seriously, this is something I've thought about for quite some time, and it has its flaws... but I really think it's an interesting theory. Wednesday, March 21, 2001 -- 12:04 p.m. It was recently shown how different Spanish and American cultures are, especially in the realm of the equality of the sexes. Take, for example, my life in a British boarding school to the north of Madrid; girls -- in their perfectly pressed skirts and starched white shirts, knee-high socks and black dress shoes -- were delicate and no boy would dare to ask a girl to play soccer or any other sport with them. Girls were given immunity from any sort of roughousing save mild teasing. In order to play soccer with the boys, I had to prove that I wasn't going to break if they took a shot at me. Considering the fact that I was taller than several of the boys, the fact didn't seem to run through their mind that I was just as tough as they were. The girls merely sat upon the wall, crossed their legs and watched innocently as I got messy and tired and scruffy playing with the boys, and later pounced upon me when the boys talked to me instead of them. It figured. Now, back in the US, soccer is considered a girly sport, and girls are just as tough as the boys they fight with. Scholastically, girls do considerably better than the boys on tests and in class, and more go on to college. However, the boys do not have the same level of chivalry and politeness that the boys in Spain did. Do I see a connection here? Perhaps. What fun. A rant provoked by the Expos class where the girls simply want to gossip and the teacher leers at all of us, especially the pretty girls with no brains. 'Eroticism' in our writing, indeed. Talking about buying a dress in plain language holds no eroticism. The fact that we are not allowed to criticise our peers' writing is another point against the class; people who are in their final year of high school ought to be able to write coherent, full sentences, using commas and semi-colons. However, when I even venture to say that it could have been phrased better, I get called for nitpicking. Dammit, I proofread for people! I'm supposed to notice these things. Monday, March 19, 2001 -- 09:43 p.m. XD More Arcadia! Even if Takumi is being irritating and not even trying to cooperate... >_< naughty, naughty. Parents are weird people. Take, for example, Dad; he sees that I have a A/high B average at school, and immediately seizes upon the fact that I have a single C as a result of one bad test grade in my Bio class. In spite of having been one of three people in my grade to have gotten a letter asking me to enter some of my writing into a contest, in spite of having gotten stellar comments from my teachers, he still insists that I am the worst student in the world. It's really depressing, honestly. Okay, self-centered little whine over. Oneesama, where is this Extreeeemely Fun ExT fic? XD XD I want to see, too! And your tape is being copied now, actually. I ought to have money enough to send it to you over Spring Break (buying D N Angel 1-4 wiped out my last paycheck, you see), so... expect it soon. XD Tin-onee, I keep missing you on AIM. ;_; It's evil! (and... you should write more Turn. Or... I'll figure out some evil sort of torture? Maybe not doing that extra bit of Reflection that I was plotting?) Ann-san! XD XD We had fuuuuun talking, didn't we? *leer* And you Must Come to Animania. Soon. Mei-chan, daisukiiii~! You're the best prereader anyone could ask for, and you always turn out to be right! (Now, are things difficult enough for Maron-tachi yet?) Tuesday, March 13, 2001 -- 12:05 a.m. Actually, Oneesama, ExT Lemon Fun isn't quite what I was looking for. *fanged niko* Icebreakers 2, however... and more Hedgehog, maybe... I'm just so happy that Dan-oniichan decided that I could have a copy of it because I run the GH anime club. XD XD Even if we are showing Slayers... ;_; Monday, March 12, 2001 -- 04:59 p.m. ... Being told by your own father that you make him sick isn't the nicest of experiences. Especially when it's yelled in the loudest tone he can manage, in a relatively small room. And yet, it happens to me. Teen angst is something that I'm supposed to grow out of, correct? I hope so... and I hope I grow out of experiences like this. Because, at the moment, it's not making me feel all that great about myself, in spite of having done lots and lots of volunteer work over the weekend, having gotten a Spanish paper that no-one in my class (aside from my best friend and I) had done in, and catching up on all my math work. And I even got the duck in Advanced Biology! And still, those three words are going round and round in my head. It's so fucking depressing. There is one good thing about school: I have a few friends there who will stand by me even if I'm a total mess. So they helped me through the day, and I got home and deposited my books on the table (since Dad was ranting about how I never do my homework, why don't I just do it in front of him?), and promptly hopped into the jacuzzi and steamed the annoyance out of myself. More or less. Watching Shishio Makoto die over and over again may be a bit morbid, but... On a totally different note... Meimi, I didn't see this in the manga, but did Celcia and Toki reincarnate as well? Because Yashiro's kids look suspiciously like the pair... and it might be amusing, considering Toki's "Must not get jealous, must not get jealous..." Sunday, March 11, 2001 -- 07:29 p.m. The odd irony of puns... They're only really funny when they're unintended. Or sexual (but then, anything sexual seems to be fair game for humor).
Ryan-oniichan:*through phone* So, where's Mom? Is she busy?
But then, I'm not all that happy with Mom at the moment. She has the new Dragonriders of Pern book, and she's not reading it, but she won't let me have it (I could finish it in two hours, tops) until she's read it. And she's the slowest reader in our family! It'll take her two weeks to finish it! ;_; And Dad brought it home specially for me!! I found out that it was out in the UK, and that Dad was going to England for a business meeting, and asked him if he'd get it for me... and she takes it! Hidoiiiiii~! Though I have to admit that I only asked for it out of morbid curiosity. The reviews haven't been kind... Sunday, March 11, 2001 -- 12:28 a.m. XD Oneesama, you owe me lots and lots of ExT Lecherous Goodness. Dan-oniichan is copying the second CCS movie for meeee~! Subbed by him (no poor grammar!) from a lovely DVD~! XD XD XD And, mochiron, I'll copy it for you! Demo... Ann-san wasn't there. ;_; I brought my Hana-Kimi tankouban, but either she didn't recognize me or she wasn't there. Hidoi desu waaaaa~! And even when watched at An Hour Beyond Sanity, Furi-Kuri makes no sense whatsoever. And it's affecting me. I need to get an electric guitar. I already have the short hair and moped and the freakish attitude at times... I want that guitar now. Sunday, March 4, 2001 -- 07:38 p.m. Ne, Ann-san, I have more volumes of Hana-Kimi if you want to borrow them, since Wizzywig doesn't get it in (though they have the keychains!!!) save in the odd issues of Hana to Yume. And since you live in A^2, I think, it shouldn't be any trouble to loan them to you. XD Just look for the utterly insane, utterly frozen person with a black leather jacket on a green moped zipping by... (^_^;;;) and that's me. Or we could meet up at next week's Animania, if that's better. If, that is, you want to borrow my tankouban. I have 2-9. Sunday, March 4, 2001 -- 12:32 p.m. H_H Rurouni Kenshin figurines being sold in Toys R Us... And they have a Battousai figurine, too. HOSHII~! Another frightening thought: Tenshi ni Narumon on US TV. Is it possible? Personally, I find that rather frightening, as the general sugariness of the show makes even me gag. Think of it being edited and put on US TV with bad voice actors and choppy dialogue... it'd be justification for many of the fears of the otaku watching the development of anime in the US. Saturday, March 3, 2001 -- 09:09 p.m. Parents are the most irrational people alive, I've discovered. Though it was my father's decision to haul me out of school for this family ski trip, when he received the interim reports (which were issued last week, while we were on that ski trip) he suddenly decided that incompletes were all my fault and that I should be in trouble. Even though it was his fault that I had incompletes and in spite of the fact that I'd made up the work that I was missing this week and now have my usual B+ average up again. Parents are strange like that. Even my Mom, who is normally the most understanding about such things, tried to make me feel really bad about it and succeeded quite well. ;_; But at least I got to talk to Shi-chan. ^_^ Friday, March 2, 2001 -- 10:07 p.m. Interesting. The Harry Potter movie trailer is up and it's looking... decent. Oddly enough. In other news, here are some horrors that we hope that will never be inflicted upon a bride anywhere. Especially that satellite dress... it's a built-in chastity belt. Ahem. Ganbatte kudasai, Shi-chan~! I noticed that you were on this morning, but I didn't have time to talk. ;_; I had to run to Expos (which, it turned out, was a complete waste of time...) or I'd miss a 'test'. I *heart* the new layout. XD Wednesday, February 28, 2001 -- 07:11 p.m. Really, being like Charlie Weasley is a compliment. Being like Remus Lupin is a compliment, too, even though I'm lack the shaggy fur at certain times of the month. Why is it that I'm far more like the guys of HP than the girls? Ginny Weasley is the fifth one down on my list... Ah well. Hagrid is third... XD On other topics... I scrapped Arcadia. At least, major parts of it. Meimi pointed out some things that I'd missed in the translations... and they were crucial things to the fic. So off it goes to the rewrite center... what fun~! Monday, February 26, 2001 -- 10:36 AM XD XD XD The first chapter of Arcadia is done. ^_^ U-re-shiiii~! It's pretty short, in the way of things, but I couldn't expand on it more without it sounding ponderous and far too descriptive... so I just ended it at that point. It was all I'd planned for the first chapter. Did I mention, Meimi-chan, that I adore you muchly? Tuesday, February 20, 2001 -- 01:55 p.m. I liiiiiiiive. Sort-of. Remind me never to try to follow my insane, cliff-jumping (literally) older brother down a ski slope with far too much ice on it and covered with moguls. Not to mention, dead trees. Thank god I didn't break my arm... CCi-tachi, I miss talking to you... and it's only been, what, four days? Gah... Mika-chan, any character without your trademark existential angst... to quote Sean Gaffney, "How about 'happiness' as a new overarching theme?" *grin* Ooooh yes, Sakura-oneesama, I know the feeling. Extra-strength midol and skiing... an interesting combination. Wednesday, December 13, 2000 -- 03:11 a.m. *shrieks* Meg-oneesama! I love you dearly, but where did the HP/CCS crossover go? It was in your temp folder and now I can't find it when a friend was asking about it... ;_; Monday, February 5, 2001 -- 09:49 p.m. Sakura-oneesama, I feel your pain. :P Men are lucky in that way, ne? Tin-oneesama... I never see you online anymore. ;_; I must just miss you in my mornings or something. Anyway, could you divulge the plot to that KKJ fic you were planning to your dear little imouto-chan who really really wants to know? O-ne-ga-i? Meimi-chan! Sugoi desu wa, imouto! Sisters in slackerdom, yes we are~~ *hearts* I wub you. Meg-oneesama, I've been missing you too the past couple days. ;_; Since I finally ordered the DN Angel tankouban from Wizzywig, I want to cackle over them when they arrive... but with my luck, they'll arrive in the week I'm away skiing. Bah. I hope they arrive sooner, so I can read them on the way. If they don't, I'm going to have to get something else to read... Jin-san, I haven't met you on AIM yet... but I want to. *hearts* Finding floors is a Good Thing. I found mine recently, and I discovered that carpet feels nicer on feet than piles of dirty laundry... Sunday, February 4, 2001 -- 10:26 p.m. Ragabash-san is very right. It gets to be a huge chore weeding out the really decent fanfics from the ones that we see with Mary Sues and those which are generally just bad. Dead-tree (I like, I like!) editions usually have one thing that those bad fanfics don't: an editor. But anyway... I love my school. Or rather, I love my school's student-run acting company (aptly named Voodoo). Tonight was their closing night of a series of short plays (ranging from the rather startling 'Love Letters' to the absolutely hilarious Oedi) that had even our solemn and staid headmaster cackling. And how he cackled! Oedi was a spoof of Oedipus, with some lovely lines: Oedipus: Oh my GOD! Oh MY GOD! I've killed my FATHER and married my MOTHER!!!! The Seer: Well, it could've been worse... *waves cane* You could've murdered your mother and married your father! I was cackling like mad... Saturday, February 3, 2001 -- 04:56 p.m. Through a total lack of decent programming on TV (and a certain amount of morbid curiosity) I found myself watching a Cardcaptors episode just now. I begin to see why there can't help but be a huge gap between the original fans of the show and the new dub fans. For one, the characters are almost completely different (Syaoran apologizing, of all things... Tomoyo acting like a brat, and Sakura being aggressive and weak by turns), and for another the magic has been considerably toned-down and changed. Take, for example, the Release sequence on the Sealing Staff. Instead of 'Key that hides the power of darkness...', it's changed to something like 'holds the power of light...' If they ever start showing anything about Eriol, the kiddies are going to wonder about exactly what is going on with that. The continuity is messed up as well (for example, the latest episode was the SHOT card, which is no-Kaho, wheras they've had the ERASE card episode already). Kero-chan has mentioned Yue, but as far as I know, Sakura hasn't caught even half the required Cards. And on and on it goes. Well, one interesting point: they will not have to change Kero-chan's voice when he can change into his true form. That doesn't stop me from twitching, though... Friday, February 2, 2001 -- 11:29 a.m. Digging through my old CDs last night, I found a copy of Celine Dion's 'Let's Talk About Love'. Oh yes, that infamous CD that people listened to until they were sick. And then I realized that, if Savage Garden is the soundtrack for D N Angel, that CD was the soundtrack for Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. Every. Single. Song. It was frightening, and at the same time I was giggling like mad. Though the image of Miyako singing 'Treat Her Like A Lady' is rather scary.... Wednesday, January 31, 2001 -- 06:43 p.m. There's something truly wrong with a doujinshi that has Touya x Sakura ( O_o;;;;;; ) being titled 'All Day Long'... Tuesday, January 30, 2001 -- 02:48 p.m. Watching Syaoran get more and more jealous is absolutely hilarious... and a bit sad, almost. The Skiing Episode was great; imagine Eriol as a teller of ghost stories, with Sakura-tachi around a fire without any other lights, with Sakura getting more and more nervous each second. Syaoran steps in, noting that it's nine o'clock and they ought to get to bed. (Another reason to love our dear little gaki, neeeee? ^.^) Did I mention that our dear gaki barely evaded kissing a tree while trying to ski? He went flying down the slope at full tilt and out of control, and Eriol took off after him and got between him and the tree to stop him (let me tell you, from personal experience, how much that can hurt if it's not done right...)... And then Sakura must've frightened Eriol a bit later on... but that would be telling! Monday, January 29, 2001 -- 08:41 p.m. "Motto motto tabetaaaiiiii~!!!" I saw that episode today... Mika-chan and I couldn't stop howling over it. XD XD XD Oneesama-tachi, imouto-tachi, you were so right... it's absolutely hilarious. It must be said: Anyone who makes a BUBBLE card is insane. Absolutely raving mad. (But then, that's what makes him adorable, too....) Tin-oneesama, hidoiiii~! No Escaflowne fic, no Turn 3, no Hanakimi... ;_; Oneesama wa hidooiiiiii~! |
