7 March 2003 CE 11:29pm
bleh.
I was going to archive and write a rant, but I can't find the pic I wanted to scan. So you all must suffer.
Oh, and I'm lazy.
6 March 2003 CE 12:13am
I am productiveness!
I ran out of manga to mock and/or be traumatized by. So I did something productive. No, I didn't write fic. No, I didn't work on the HnG page I keep threatening to make. Hell no I didn't do my english homework. Instead I did something I've been putting off for a couple years. I purged my old files.
Okay, so it doesn't sound like much. But you have to realize we've been transferring files forward as we replaced computers since I was in 6th grade. That means I had over 10 years of files to sort through, delete, and figure out which copies of various files were newer. It took about 3-4 hours all told.
Okay so none of you care, but I'm proud that I finally got it done damnit!
3 March 2003 CE 8:23pm
BAD CLOWN NO BISCUIT!
HISOKA IS NOW BLATANTLY PEDO'ING. AUUUUGH! Could he be any more OBVIOUS? *screams in pain*
I hate you Milkman Dan!
3 March 2003 CE 7:35pm
Tastes like burning.
I would rant about Hikaru no Go, but all my brain space has been reeling at naked!Hisoka. It's not a good type of reeling. It's the "oh my GOD, he's naked. IT BUUUUURNS!" type reeling. Worse yet I looked at this just a few minutes before english class this morning, while I was still half asleep. As the day progressed my mind would randomly produce images of naked!Hisoka to torment me with. Naked!Hisoka is roughly the equivalent of seeing the pedophile who works as a birthday clown from down the block naked. Except he's buff and has strategically placed text bubbles. Actually, if it weren't Hisoka I probably wouldn't be traumatized. But it is. AND HE'S NAKED AND IT BUUUUUUUUUUURNS! Augh.
I also got the Chobits softcore pr0...I mean Chii Photographics "Your Eyes Only" (ha, the title is porny, I'm not wrong), which is basically the Chobits artbook given that all the color work has Chii in it somewhere. If you're a lolita cosplayer, you'll love it. If you're me you go "Oooh, pretty, but so much skanky lolicon".
Have I mentioned yet that naked!Hisoka BURNS? IT HURTS SO VERY MUCH!
I'll just go hide under my desk now...
2 March 2003 CE 12:37am
Rantypants!
First off I would like to rant about my dad this morning. I'd told him I needed to be up by 9:30am for a meeting at school. What does he do? Wakes me at 8:30am and nags me EVERY 15 MINUTES AFTER to get out of bed. Jerk. Just because he's not asleep doesn't mean I have to wake up too.
Next rant. People on dalnet keep adding random nicks I have registered to their channel aop lists and then plaguing me with memos to join their channels. It's REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING GETTING 7 MEMOS EVERY DAY IN MALAY. The solution? Join the channel and start kicking, banning, and deopping. Wow, do they remove your ops quickly.
Less ranty. Over the course of my love/hate relationship with HnG I have decided to make a page for it. No, not a happy cheesy informative fangirl page. I'm going to cite with examples the reason why the fashion police need to beat up Obata Takeshi. I'm only 3 volumes into the story and have 10 examples on the list.
Final note: Yes I'm blogging more here, trying to keep the original lines between this and the livejournal better defined. The original plan was that all the HP stuff would be there because some people were getting tired of reading about it. The result of this is that with my recent HnG rantyness I've been writing more things here. Deal.
28 February 2003 CE 10:19pm
Quick note
I moved all the archive links to their very own page because they were taking up more space than I thought was healthy for them. I also edited all the previous entries to link back here and to the archives rather than having the GIANT LIST O' LINKS. Enjoy.
28 February 2003 CE 7:45pm
Because Clamp can be crossed over with anything
Please note the sarcasm up there. I really don't want people to write more bad crossovers with Clamp series.
There is a really terribly cheesy fic in the HnG section on ff.net called Wankage (that's wank-age, not wan-kage). It is, as you may have guessed, a crossover with Clamp series. SEVERAL Clamp series. Tokyo Babylon, X, Clamp Campus Detectives, and (amazingly enough) Card Captor Sakura. It is a terrible, terrible fic. And absolutely fucking hilarious in that "it hurts to read" way. It also suffers from numerous timeline and continuity problems and rather heavy handed writing. Not to mention the fact that Isumi apparently owns a BeBoy Zips and Waya wants to borrow it (keep the yaoi titles out of the fics, it just screams "FANGIRL WAS HERE"). And then there's the really really out of character Kakyou. But since it was written by some of the poor SOBs that got stuck at Katsucon because of the snow, I can forgive them (you have to do SOMETHING while trapped at a con after it's over). And hey, it's got decent grammar/spelling (as in I didn't notice anything really wrong, which is a nice change for the HnG section).
I failed to mention that I love Ayahana Min. She writes disturbingly messed up manga that is very cute at the same time. She wrote Akazukin Chacha, WHICH IS FAR MORE MESSED UP THAN THE ANIME. Anyways, she has a new tankubon out of short stories called "Pyon" and it broke Diana. Several times. (I had to make her get if off the shelf for me because she's taller.) "Pyon" has all kinds of special things in it, but my favorite is about the toddler versus the dog. But the Oni-guy one is pretty special too. Anyways, if you need something fubar to read that's short, pick it up. XD
It wouldn't be a blog entry without me bitching about HnG, would it? Mitani's suspenders are very nearly as bad as Akira's shorts. Someone needs to send the Fashion Police to beat up Obata Takeshi. I think I'll go mock Ayatsuri Sakon again.
27 February 2003 CE 10:21pm
Shallow materialistic whore time!
For those of you who don't remember, a few days ago, I talked about volume 1 of Lagoon Engine, mentioning that I couldn't get the collector's set. Well that was at the San Jose Kinokuniya. Today I ended up in San Francisco and guess what that Kinokuniya had? Well yes, they did have gay porn, but that's not the issue! They had the collector's set for Lagoon Engine 1. And I bought it. Because I'm a shameless materialistic whore!
So, for spending more than 2 times as much, what's the difference? Well the most blatant thing is the 20 min drama cd (on a cd single). The cd is a christmas story (the tankubon was published 12/17/2002), and it's just really cute. One of the most interesting things is that the main characters are played by young boys rather than women. Ragun En (age 12) is played by Ochiai Motoki (age 12), and Ragun Jin (age 11) is played by Kamiki Ryuunosuke (age 9). Other than that the only noteable voiceacting is Ishida Akira as Shintarou (the frootloop). Oh, and Sakamoto Maaya is in it if you really care (as Housui Ayato). Other than that, the dust jacket is different (not as cute in my opinion), the cover under the dust jacket is printed with pictures rather than the generic Asuka pink, the title picture is different, instead of fanart, the atogaki is a short comic about the drama cd and an interview with the actors, and the thank you note includes people who worked on the drama cd.
After putting it off for 4-5 years, I bought myself Blue today, all I need now is No Disc.
In happy news, I found the neck ring for my Youzen costume which I feared I had lost. I should probably change the pins on it because the current ones are bending.
And finally, a Hikaru no Go note: Mitani's hair has been voted off the island.
26 February 2003 CE 9:46pm
And the beat goes on...
So last night was (once again) the last episode of Cowboy Bebop on CN. And always people tend to talk about how sad it is and there's a few people that continue to insist that Spike isn't dead (oops, was that a spoiler? deal with it). I would be disappointed if the series ended any other way. This is the right ending for the series, and anyone who says otherwise doesn't get it. Somehow people get caught up in the desire for a "happily ever after" and forget that there is more to a story than that. Spike wasn't really living a life, he and Julia couldn't have been happy together, and if you pay attention to the dialogue (in Japanese and English) everything is set up so that it is obvious that Spike will not survive. So please don't complain that you don't like the ending, because everything leads to this and anything else would be wrong (if you really want I can do a literary analysis of this).
On a happier and shallower note, Kya and I last night figured out the reason for Touya Akira's fashion (or lack of). Put a pair of scissors in his hands and he gets confused and mangles his pants instead of cutting his hair. We're also slightly concerned that even if he did manage to cut his hair he'd have a dorky bowl cut (I have a perverse wish to see what he'd look like bald).
The pic this month is from Dragonball, and it is in honor of Kristi's monkey problem. She told me to use a pic with a monkey in it, and Son Gokuu is technically a monkey (it was either Dragonball, Saiyuki, or One Piece). I chose this pic because they're dressed like pirates, and pirates make everything better. Scan is taken from the Akira Toriyama illustration collection "The World", which I got cheap at Book Off.
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