No really, not another post about bump of chicken.
In no particular order, my life since August has consisted of the following things.
1.
As previously mentioned, Sam made me get facebook. It has been an experience. It makes my computer function three times more slowly and makes me spend hours sending my poor blue rabbit Yanagi-chan into coves to fight toxic monsters, where he ultimately loses and I spend the next three days trying to build up enough money to buy myself exotic moccasin socks so I won’t die, which of course means I instantly go into battle and die anyway and have to start all over again. I thought Facebook was about never keeping tabs on all your high school and college friends so you could see what kind of dork lives they’re leading now, but apparently it’s really all about something called Superpoke and letting your friends send you virtual garden gnomes. The internet is so strange.
2.
DDR has taken over my life. I love it. I want to buy a pad of my own but unfortunately I don’t really have the ability to charm my neighbors with my dancing exhibitions through our thin walls and thin floors, so I have been stalking and skulking around my friend’s apartment. We figured out how to make DDR sims, and my life will never be the same again. So far we have made sims to Yellow Cherry, Kat-Tun, Bump of Chicken, FLOW, M-flo, Arashi, Kimeru (MY FRIEND PUT A TEZURYO VID AS THE BACKGROUND TO “MAKE YOU FREE” AND I NEARLY DIED OF JOY OKAY), Rie Fu, Porno Graffiti, Nana Kitade, and UVERworld. this is only the beginning. But seriously, oh my god DDRing to “Signal” while Kat-Tun dances at you in the background, oh my god so happy. Just. So happy.
3.
For Labor Day I found myself on a road trip and we wound up stopping by a national veteran’s cemetery. I’d never been to one before, it was actually a really powerful experience despite being hot and stifling and generally boring Midwest-ish.
Insert scathing political commentary here.
4.
QUARRY-HOPPING. You may not be aware, but the region of the world I live in is famous for quarries. We had an Oscar-winning film made here about 40 years back that prominently featured the local quarries, and the penchant of the yokels to go swimming in them. I’ve never been swimming in one, but the delight of stumbling across a quarry in the woods is pretty fabulous all on its own.
5.
I’ve been trying to hike more. There are so many amazing hiking trails in this area. Our city just won like the Parks & Rec Academy Award for parks. My mom asked me recently what kept me in this city, and I stammered lamely that hello, I had a job and I couldn’t just pack up and leave. What I wanted to say is that it’s one of the most beautiful places to get out and have fun in that I’ve ever seen, and it’s so full of surprises, and I love just getting out in the woods, and I love the books and the music and the leaves in autumn and just. It’s home.
Not that I wouldn’t drop it all and move to Manhattan in a heartbeat, but I love it here.
Hiking, though? Kind of sucks. It’s hot and it’s dusty and there are FLIES EVERYWHERE. Ugh. I’m still easing my way into it. :)
6.
That’s Dave and Nubli at our favorite sushi restaurant. I never liked sushi before I discovered this place but the more I try it the more I am becoming addicted. They have this amazung udan, oh my god. This particular night I had wasabi for the first time ever. I have a whole new appreciation for Fuji now. :/
7.
Slowly but surely I’m making my way through this one-season anime remake called Terra E (Toward the Terra), which I was persuaded to watch because of the meme. It’s a bit slow but the artwork is just beautiful, and I’m enjoying the plot (futuristic battle between the humans and the cylons telepaths and so far I love the main character. (Oh, and I am in complete love with the theme song, “Endscape” by UVERworld. Listening to UVERworld a lot lately because of this, actually. A++.)
that’s Jomy on the right, his beautiful glowing hot lol sensitive predecessor on the left. *___* Jomy’s eyes are mesmerizing. I seem to be a sucker for old-school anime eyes. But seriously, I like him a lot and also: why are all the main characters twelve? Why twelve? WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE 12-YEAR-OLDS, JAPAN?
8.
Okay, perhaps it is because all the shows are animations, and animations are for 12-year-olds. But still.
I have watched 30 episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2 days. 
toko tried to get me into this 6 months or so ago and it didn’t click. I hated the English voices. But let me tell you, they’re easy to withstand once you get into the story. It helps that there are a couple of members of the Avatar creative team on Deviantart and they somehow wound up on my DA watchlist. You can only be bombarded with storyboards so many times before it piques your curiosity.
But I really really like it so far. It’s so well-paced and I like what geeks the creators are. I wish the voices weren’t so cartoony, but so far I am dealing. And hey. It is a cartoon.
9.
♥♥♥♥♥
DEATH NOTE. Don’t get me wrong, Death Note is some crazy fucked-up shit and I am one of the annoying fans who threw up their hands in disgust somewhere around issue 65, not immediately after the you-know-what but close. Jackie must want to kill me because I have never experienced the joy that is canon Mello and Matt and Near. but somehow I have survived.
but LIGHT AND L. <3 I have not-so-secretly been wanting to indulge my love for pairing since I read the manga in March. I got a DevArt account purely so I could stalk DA artists, and I know I have sent out multiple pleas for Death Note AU smutfics. i know they are out there. They must be out there, because how can they not be, honestly? Lately I have been reading badfic at AFF.net. There’s apparently a Death Note doujinshi video game (oh Japan, oh, Japan) where L totally tops Light and decorates him with candy and cake and pastry.
No, seriously, I’m not kidding. SEE? Oh, Japan.
Anyway, the image above is from this amazing cosplay group this chick Behindinfinity is in. I am so addicted to their cosplay group that I almost joined the forum they post all their shit at, but instead I just silently lurk and stare and have lustful images of LightxLxMisa.
SEE WHAT I MEAN AHHH.
But I really. really love LightxL, it is like this sweet and terrible sickness, especially because there is basically no good fic for it, especially not good dark fic. You’re like, it’s fucking Death Note. It’s fucking L/Light, how can there be no dark fic? And yet it’s all “L has a sugar fetish. Can Light help? Fluff. Yaoi. Plz review!”
It’s all either that or crappy Mello/Matt crack. This is why I hate DN fandom. I am going to lurk and leech and wait for my ideal darksmut AU. It has to come. It must come.
10. Yuletide!!!!!!!!
YULETIDE YULETIDE YULETIDE!
I LOVE YULETIDE SO MUCH. I can’t believe how much I’m looking forward to this year’s. I hope I get hot fuzz slash. I WANT HOT FUZZ SLASH SO BADLY. It is my new crack. I’ve prolly watched hot fuzz five times in five weeks. It’s just so sweet and superbly crafted and careful and funny and Wicker Man homage and makes me feel like a film geek and YAY. My other requests are pretty run of the mill, but Hot Fuzz is currently sweeping me off my feet. Oh Nick/Simon. *____*
In other news:
- I wrote a Point Blank fic yesterday, of all things, and a bad Tezuryo ficlet for Kish the other day, under extreme duress. But if you guys haven’t checked out her Tezuryo drabble meme, please do so, for her and me and all those of us who still love Tezuka/Ryoma the best. Seriously, people, if you don’t put forth the effort, you may lose Kish to TezuFuji fandom. Go, go, write. *glowers*
- I miss Akira/Hikaru so much lately, but every time I go to read fic I am overwhelmed with the blahs. Please someone, rec me new Akira/Hikaru fic that is sweet and snarky and romantic and love-filled and not crossover AU or gen. I need falling in love over gobans, please, and I think I have read basically everything in the fandom except for the most recent blind go, and I just want something fresh and lovely and sweet and. Oh, Hikaaaago. It has been too long. :((((((
- Lately my life has been about resumes and job interviews. Oh, and car mechanics, because nothing beats having to hike a quarter mile in your interview clothes on a hot day after your car overheats. Life has been extremely interesting lately, and I wonder if that’s just because it’s only been recently that i’ve felt ready to let it be that way. It’s a good, good feeling.
- Have been shortlisted for a position as a movie blogger at Snarkerati, and I really hope I get it, because dude. Nobody has more geek-chic crap to say about movies than I do. Keep your fingers crossed for me! <3
- because it bears repeating:
Happy. Everything lately is basically just happy.
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- 10.22.07 / 1am
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- i hate anime, imagespam, life
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- akira/hikaru, death note, fandom, fic, hikago, life, me, prince of tennis
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http://park12.wakwak.com/~seeta009/orangepekoe/k_prince/image/06cg_5.jpg
How can you not want L to top as much as possible, with things like this? HOW
also those cosplayers are hot, like really hot, especially the Misa oh my GOD, also speaking of 12-year-olds, have you seen this: http://i20.tinypic.com/10xro29.jpg
also let me reiterate how much YOU WOULD LOVE NEAR/MELLO, it’s a shame that you are still missing out!!! also i read the other parts of this entry too, i swear. if you had posted a separate entry all about death note you would have seen proof, when i replied to this talking about how pretty quarries and jomy are, and that one with happy one-track-mind spam. =;
I DO LOVE NEAR/MELLO! I just. Love it from afar, and oh my god, THAT PICTURE REMINDS ME OF EVERY HARRY/DRACO CHILD AU EVER WHERE ONE OF THEM IS TURNED INTO A KID AND THE OTHER ONE HAS TO BABYSIT. GOD I LOVE FANDOM. THAT WOULD BE THE MOST WONDERFUL CLICHE EVER FOR DN. IMAGINE LIGHT HAVING TO BABYSIT TODDLER!L. ASFKLJADS;LFDSFL YOU KNOW THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GIBBERISH REALLY IS THE ONLY APPROPRIATE RESPONSE.
actually, now that you mention it…
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3136889/1/Chibi_Trouble
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3818253/1/Blue_Smoke
AND HOW CAN YOU LOVE NEAR/MELLO FROM AFAR WHEN YOU NEVER EVEN SAW NEAR’S EPIC SPEECH OF DELUDED LOVE AT THE END OF THE SERIES, HUH? TELL ME.
AMAZING
YOU NEVER LISTENED TO HYBRID RAINBOW, DID YOU.
LOOK I HAVEN’T LISTENED TO ANYTHING BUT MAN OF LA MANCHA AND STUPID GIRL PUNK FOR MONTHS, DON’T TAKE IT PERSONALLY I’D JUST RATHER WATCH TV THAN LISTEN TO MUSIC LATELY
BY THE WAY YOU SUCK
I think it is because I have been ruined by Japan, honestly. I used to be one of these shippers that was all “oh, they switch off, that’s the best way” - and I still am that way about H/D and AkiHika - but now I have FIRM BELIEFS that some people are never allowed to top, haha.
Like, as hot as L is when he dominates, all I can think is that he needs Light to take over and take him and control him, i don’t know, maybe as some kind of fucked-up punishment for the sin of compromising his duty and his commitment to justice by letting Light survive when clearly he has never shown that kind of mercy before, and to people far less guilty.
(note that in my head there is no world where L doesn’t win and Light doesn’t survive, haha).
for the sin of not compromising his duty and his commitment to justice by letting Light survive (note that in my head there is no world where L doesn’t win and Light doesn’t survive, haha).
I’m confused! If he doesn’t compromise his duty to justice by letting Light survive, where’s the sin? I can’t see even Light being able to come up with a plausible explanation for that!
I can see him being all “I gave up their worship for you, L, so at the very least, YOU better treat me like a god and get on your fucking knees!”, with L all “*____* yes kami” and becoming Light’s entire “new world”. And Light’s defeat at his hands isn’t really a defeat after all.
That being said, my L-imprisons-Light-and-dominatingly-seduces-him-into-giving-up-on-Kira fantasies just won’t abate.
http://park12.wakwak.com/~seeta009/orangepekoe/k_prince/image/06cg_6.jpg
I mean.
HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT WORDPRESS?
YOU CAN EDIT COMMENTS. *EDITS COMMENT TO FIX TYPO*
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
yes, now THAT i can see. and it’s fucking hot. :D :D :D
BUT SO IS THIS:
http://www.tegmentum.net/dnbpt7.html
I did, actually, stare at that picture a really long time wondering if i could see that scenario playing out. actually, haha, L brainwashing Light via sex torture to FORGET that he is Kira is an interesting scenario. I think I might be a bit sadistic. :/
I don’t think L’s submission has any power to it if it’s just L doing it to placate Light for giving way to him.
No, I think there’s something really powerful in the image of L wanting to be controlled by the same body who controlled the fate of millions of people. I think he gets off on it and I think he is disturbed by it and a little addicted to it and let’s face it, he’s totally in love with Light, even the psychotic elements. I think deep down he wants to be in Kira’s hands, knowing that Kira now will never hurt him.
I don’t think L’s submission has any power to it if it’s just L doing it to placate Light for giving way to him.
That’s not what I meant at all! I can see it as L really, truly worshipping Light, but also needing to stop Kira no matter what…so in your scenario where L DOES win but Light DOES survive, I can see L giving into Light completely in the bedroom and really really meaning it, while simultaneously never giving an INCH to him morally. THEIR DYNAMIC IS COMPLICATED AND NUANCED SEE AJA. YOU NEVER KNOW WHO IS ON TOP AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
He’s definitely in love with Kira imo, and I love it. I’m just not sure I automatically translate that to “wants to be controlled by Kira” (as opposed to “wanting to own him”), but I can really see it both ways, which is fun.
WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS BAD TEZURYO FIC WHY? :((
oh, sweetie, it just was A BITCH TO WRITE first off, and i couldn’t really pinpoint what i wanted to say. just one of those moments where i felt like it didn’t quite click.
but i’m very blushy and happy that you liked it. <3 i enjoyed reading the whole meme so much.
FUCK YEAH!! I knew you’d get into Death Note sooner or later! But hmmm, what to do about the fics? Where to find a good writer that has proved her skill in multiple fandoms? Where could we find such a ficcer? OH GEE, IDK GUYS, LOL.
I don’t know what’s going on with you and LJ these days, but have you seen the capslock_dn community? How about the anon meme? CL_DN is where all the cool Death Note fans hang out. You should come. PLEASE?!
It’s nice to see you updating again, btw. :)
haha, thank you. I have been spazzing about DN off and on since I read it, haha, just in a rather….subtle way for me. As in, I’ve probably only made one or two mentions of it a week on LJ as opposed to the CONSTANT INTENSE SHRIEKING I am generally wont to do about other things. (Because Death Note’s so subtle and all. *eyeroll*)
I was on the DN anon meme! Not very heavily, only for a thread or two, but I was there! I’ve seen capslock_dn, but *all* the capslock communities kind of confuse me, I’m not sure how to play so I tend to stay away. BESIDES I AM NOT REALLY ON LJ LOL SO. I AM TRYING TO REFRAIN FROM LURKING. Except that I have been lurking in Quaedam’s journal for about a month, she is the most amazing DN artist ever and I only found out recently she had an LJ. If you haven’t checked her out, she also drew the Grindledore art I displayed on my LJ the other night. She is wonderful and incidentally I think you two would get along splendidly - you would like her brain! :D :D :D
as for writing DN fic, I can’t imagine how I could manage to find the time, especially to write the kind of LONG UNSUBTLE SMUTTY PLEBEFIC I WANT TO WRITE when I can barely find the time to finish my Hikago and Tenipuri WIPs. ;)
OKAY IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR 12-YEAR OLDS AND INSANELY BEAUTIFUL AMAZING ANIMES, ‘SEIREI NO MORIBITO’. I’m just saying. It’s all up on veoh.com. I am only on episode 11 (of 26), but very shortly I am going to go insane and pimp this all over the known universe, and SOMEONE NEEDS TO WATCH IT SO I CAN TALK ABOUT IT AT THEM.
Additionally, I also have been recently hammered over the head with Avatar, and have entirely caught up in the past like two weeks, and I love it with this huge irrational hilarious love whose keystone is IDK MY BFF SOKKA. He just. SOKKA.
I keep telling myself I should go to b-town just to see all the hype, but….. IU kids…..
I HAVE TO ADMIT IT WAS KIND OF STARTLING TO GO FROM DDR (WITH KAT-TUN SIMS AND ALL) TO… GRAVES.
I have the entire first series of Avatar downloaded. So many intelligent people I know are in love with it. Have yet to bring myself to watch it though because… the main character is bald :|
AFTER I MADE THIS POST AND ALL I WAS LIKE, UH, AJA, YOU COULD HAVE SEGUED THAT BETTER. There was also supposed to be a picture of a crappy midwestern oriental garden so i didn’t look like i just went around tresspassing on other people’s property and being morbidly obsessed with graveyards. but i seem to have deleted it.
The writing on Avatar is very good! And the pacing is fantastic. I had to stop for the moment halfway through S2 and I am angry because I really want to catch up. It took me a while to bring myself to watch past the first few eps as well, because of the voice acting - I really don’t like cartoon voices for the most part. but Avatar is really good despite that, I think. Plus the girls are all really hot and kick-ass. And the main emo kid, Zukko, is so totally a Draco-In-Leather-Pants trope that it’s hysterical.
“February 26, 1984”
:(
facebook is fucking amazing huh. i wish there was more to do on though it so i wasn’t just constantly refreshing it for no reason.
That cosplay group is made of win. Those quarry pictures are lovely. I love that you’re into DDR. I can’t do sims. :( My life has been made of cell phones, planning for next year, and PoT-though-it’s-mostly-branched-off-into-D-Boys. >.>
Tezuka is Ryoma’s pimp in the A/U I’m writing. I thought I’d throw that in there. I need a beta. I’m trying to get Tilly to beta since she BEGGED me into running with this silly, twisted idea, and all I can think while writing Chapter One is how badly I want to get to future chapters. Yet I love Chapter One oh-so-much.
What is it about A/U’s that I love so much?
Oh yeah, I repeat: Tezuka is Ryoma’s pimp. And Fuji is ACTUALLY a gay serial killer. FOR REAL like on a Poppy Z. Brite level. 0___o
To the Terra! I read the manga over the summer and really enjoyed it, and am glad you’re liking it too–I haven’t watched the anime adaptation but must have stared at the opening on youtube at least five times, so happy was I to see those designs translated into gorgeous color animation.
When reading I found the character relationships to be really striking, or at least strikingly intimate, to the point where it made complete sense when I learned after the fact that the author also wrote old-school BL manga.
::. . . back to lurking::
I AM ALREADY READY FOR ANOTHER UPDATE, WHERE IS IT?
i just spent the last three hours thinking you meant another update of the thing, before realizing, just now when i signed on, no. you meant another update of my stupid blog.
THAT BETTER FUCKING MEAN YOU SPENT THREE HOURS WORKING ON AN UPDATE OF THE THING
I AM TRYING TO BE NOT DEMANDING WHERE THAT IS CONCERNED FOR THE TIME BEING, BECAUSE I CAN’T BE AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO DO A PROPER GOOD JOB AS SLAVE-MASTER.
but three hours is a long time! I HOPE YOU MADE USE OF IT BECAUSE I AM GOING TO COME AROUND TO SLAVE-MASTER YOU TONIGHT, MARK MY WORDS. >:(
I MAY NOT BE AROUND AT ALL AT THIS RATE. IT’S JUST THAT THE PROSPECT OF PIRATING FREE WIRELESS, EVEN IF IT IS FREE SHODDY WIRELESS, IS SO MUCH MORE APPEALING THAN SHELLING OUT FOR DSL AT THE MOMENT, HAHA.
I WILL TRY AND CAMP OUT AND WAIT FOR YOU. I AM ANGRY THAT I GOT BOOTED WHILE YOU WERE ON. :(
AHHH TECHNICALLY I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AROUND TONIGHT EITHER. IN FACT I AM ONLY ONLINE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I’VE SHUT OFF THE PART OF MY BRAIN THAT REALIZES I SHOULD BE DOING SCHOOL THINGS, BECAUSE SCHOOL THINGS MAKE ME WANT TO CRY ATM.
HMMM. WANT TO JUST EMAIL THROUGH WORK FOR THE TIME BEING?
Aja, you whore, acknowledge my existence. I AM YOUR REASON FOR IT.
I JUST SENT YOU A VAMPIRE, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME.
This has my wholehearted seal of approval, especially the DDR parts. Being joyfully kinetic FTW, especially when combined with appropriately frantic music.