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Arii: Yuner, Viya wants me to write Serious Character Studies instead of amazing crack. D:
Yuner: what does your heart tell you? D:
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Viya: and I'll lock you in the wardrobe. ><
Arii: what, and subject me to sexual torture? XD
Viya: what else do you do with people you have locked up in your wardrobe?
Viya: make them iron?

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February 11th, 2020

This post just contains things that I want to remind myself to do in the future--not things like "Clean room" or "Take out garbage", but FUN stuff. Important stuff.

It might have other things too at some point, but for now it is just...

The To-Do List of Doom )

Also, I've decided to start keeping a masterlist.

My Prince of Tennis Fanfiction Masterlist )

Rules of the LJ (read: Things To Expect From Me) )

July 1st, 2009

Intensive Tennis

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Right, so. Recaps of Prince of Tennis episodes, OVAs, myus, and assorted extras (ie: Shinpuri rants and wibbles, the occasional fic or badfic rec, and much meta, charts, and essays).

Go read it. It's by three four five people, counting me. Go read it! It is a lot of fun. Kelfin is HILARIOUS.

May 31st, 2009

Hello flist

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Yes, hallo. Just thought I would say that.

Natsu desu! Semester no Nihongo wa futatsu dekimasu yo! Yatta! Ahahaha. Fluent desu ka--atashi? Iya iya iya. Demo, ganbarimashita. Kore kara motto motto ganbarimasu! Hai! Arubaito wa... arimasen. T_T Demo, kinou wa arubaito no interview arimashita!
Ja... Atashi no nihongo wa dou desu ka? Tensai teki? 8DDD

That is all. :DD

February 27th, 2009

Birthday!

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It's mah birthday!!

Also. I wish to inform you all that I has the BEST. BOYFRIEND. EVER.
Yes. YES I DO. Don't you even try to argue, because I have two words that will win every debate about S/O Bestness from here to when Ryleh rots.

That's right. Oh yeah.

STUFFED.
CTHULHU.

He gave me a STUFFED CTHULHU. OMFG. OMGOMGOMG OMFFFFFG.

I HAVE WANTED ONE FOR ALWAYS!!!! He made me sit down with my eyes closed and had this whole little speech about when we first started dating, he always found it endearing that one of our Things was to answer "Cthulhu" to any request to change the subject. At which point I was like "O___________O" but with my eyes closed and started omg-ing because *I KNEW*. So I started subvocalizing my "eeeeeeeee" so that when he put the, yes, STUFFED CTHULHU in my hands, I was already ready to climb a few octaves.

Then I remembered that a few months ago, he mentioned that he already bought my birthday present, and no I could not have it.
Then I remembered that I'd MENTIONED wanting a Cthulhu plushie more than anything ever a few months before THAT.

And so my mind is just blown. Just. And. He. And. ASDFGJKL:.

Also, he carried me over a puddle yesterday.
So, yes, I am going to keep him for *ALWAYS*. ASDFGHJKL: his exes are IDIOTS for letting this treasure go just cause they don't want to deal with long distance. PSH. PSH, I say.

*SNUGGLES CTHULHU PLUSHIE*

Give me birthday wishes!!!

PS. I am thinking of naming Stuffed Cthulhu "George". Thoughts?

January 21st, 2009

About fic.

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It has been a while since I've written any new fic, hasn't it?

I should probably do that.

Kelfin (my new real life BFF) has been nagging me to get around to writing more of the crossover, so maybe you'll see a new chapter one of these days.

Maybe.

What do you guys think?

January 4th, 2009

So I just finished reading this book which you guys may have seen, Here, There Be Dragons, and commenting to [info]coppervale (the author, James A. Owen) about how much I liked it.

Now, I'm going to be honest with you here. Before I picked it up, and while I first started reading it, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I'd heard some rumors about it, and, well... I'd been spoiled as to the identity of the three main characters. So I Doubted. And I Questioned. I was lost, so lost, childrennnnnnnnnnnn.

Weirdly, what saved the book for me was that I knew who those three main characters were! Every time James pulled something that looked suspiciously like--I'm sorry to say--the rather newbie-writer thing to do of copying popular mid-20th-century fantasy, I squirmed because I wanted to like the book, I did, but that sort of thing is, well, wrong... but then I remembered--"No. No, shit. Shit, he has an EXCUSE. A really GOOD excuse! The only excuse that you could possibly get away with! Is he going to get away with it?" and so for the first half of the book or so, that was a great source of cognitive dissonance, because even while the stern, cruel-hearted Inner Editor disapproved of it, the wide-eyed, eager-to-learn Inner Writer kind of admired him for:
A) Thinking up the only, ONLY good excuse for reviving the cliches old standbys, and
B) Having the guts and bravery to do it. I wouldn't have, and for that, I forgive him.

Then I got over it, and kicked my Inner Editor in the face when she tried to manipulate my feelings and guilt-trip me by crying, and about that time, the Inner English Major had it dawn on her that there were TEN QUINTILLION PUCKILLION literary references in this book and... she was catching them all.
It was kind of amazing. I remember being younger and reading books which supposedly had literary references in them, and boring to boot, and being sad and disappointed when they flew right over my head. It sort of made up for all of that childhood sorrow.

And it's FUN! Oh my goodness it's such a fun little novel! Charles! I love Charles! Bug! I love Bug *SO MUCH*. John and Jack are pretty cool, too, but I don't have the great affection for them that I do for Charles. And Bug, especially in terms of how the Three-Who-Are-One gave him knightly training and swimming lessons (<--a favorite part of the book).


In conclusion: You should read this book! And buy it, because the author is a cool guy. Especially read it if:
1. You are English. (The three main characters are all Oxford men!)
2. You are not offended if Cambridge University is insulted and belittled. (The three main characters are all Oxford men!)
3. You've ever read any literature of the fantastic: Tolkien, CS Lewis, HG Wells, Lewis Carrol, Jules Verne (eeeeeee), Shakespeare, Dante, Poe, Doyle, and any and all fairy tales.
4. You spent your childhood with your nose in a book, esp. Narnia. If you liked Narnia, you will luuuurve this book: More English people sent on wild adventures to fictional places! During the War! Yay! We love those sorts of books!


Also, there are BEAUTIFUL full-page arts at the beginning of every chapter, drawn by the artist himself! (For samples, check out his livejournal, [info]coppervale. He makes art posts every once in a while.)

PS. Off topic, but also relating to lit: I will be writing more in the coming semester! Stay tuned for rants about the latest problem in the novel!

December 31st, 2008

ChatSnippits 2008! wooo!

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Hello, dears! I know I haven't been around much... ^^; Did you miss me?

On to business, then! What you've all been waiting for!

Chatsnippit FTW! )

August 2nd, 2008

Okay, as promised, the photos of the Inui Juice that I had on Friday:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0067.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0068.jpg

Aaaaaaand me totally having a Special Moment with my daifuku:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Ariaste/img_0075-1.jpg

And now, SPOILERS.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOOIIIIIILER. Most of the reason that the spoilers are here is because [info]readerofasaph enables me to be really awful and torturous to those UNLUCKY LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZARS who don't have Victory of Eagles yet. You know that I couldn't have thought of this kind of cruelty on my own.

(AHAHHAHA. SO HERE ARE THE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. WHICH YOU CAN'T READ. BUT YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. MUAHAHA.)

Spoiler spoiler spooooooooilery spoilers like nothing that has ever been spoilt before SPOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIILERS. LOOK THEY ARE HERE )

VICTORY OF EAGLES, DO WANTED!

CAN HASDED!

YSPLZ!

CAN HAS VICTORY OF EAGLES U SAD LITTLE PPL. CAN HAS WHEN U SAD LITTLE PPL *DO NOT CAN HAS*. >DDDDD

KTHNXBAAAI!!! *sticks nose back in it*

August 1st, 2008

lawls

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"So by that time, half of the 35 people there for Christmas dinner have been in and out of the laundry room where are my dirty underwear--but at least it was the purple ones, cause they were pretty."

--Jodie, mom's best friend.

Am on a day trip to Tampa with the two biddies. Currently at Jodie's house, waiting for some other travel companion to arrive. Yay for her wireless and funny stories!

When we arrived, it was 8 AM and she had coffee and smoothies and cinnamon buns ready for me and Mom, and she said "Would you like coffee or smoothie?" and since food in the morning makes me ill, and caffeine counts as food, I said "Smoothie, please.

So she hands me this glass of something feckin' green, and I take one look at it, peer more closely, put it RIGHT down on the counter and ran out to the car for my camera.

(MY CAMERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. MY BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL CAMERAAAAAAA. IT'S NAME IS FANON AKAYA. BECAUSE IT IS A CANON ELPH, GET IT?)

Pictures of the Inui Juice smoothie forthcoming.

I drank it and it was really good, though! When I asked what was in it, I was told "Welch's, green apple, carrots, spinach, a slice of pineapple, and a little lemon," and I nodded sagely, for it is indeed true Inui Juice! *delight* The right color, the right combo of weird ingredients, and they even have this special blender that apparently has blades that spin so fast that they break down the cell walls to make vital nutrients more easily accessible without enzymes!

*wibbles*

July 31st, 2008

D:

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You guys, you guys. I was just told by some guy that initially, he got some redflags from me because of the loving Prince of Tennis so hard, but now that he's talked to me, he can see that I'm okay.

"Ahahaha!" says I. "I give everyone red flags! 'She's crazy! She's obsessed! She's weiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiird!'"

"Yeah, I thought you may have been sarcastic when you said you don't like anime--"

"--I was being honest--"

"But now I believe you. You're much too sane!"

.....

....

..... I'm. I'm what.

He... and... *I* am *TOO SANE*? ME. I. MYSELF. ARII, THE EMBODIMENT OF RIKKAI BOYS DOING CRAZY THINGS AND QUEEN OF THE CAPSLOCK.

TOO SANE.

I... I'm troubled that I have been accidentally leading him astray or something... DDD:

D: That's the first time anyone's told me I'm TOO SANE.

Too sane. Jeez. *snort* What am I supposed to do, paint a squid pink, put it on my head and shout "TARUNDORU"?

THE BEST IDEA EVER

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So Adam is a bit of a GENIUS. We were talking about the documentary, and I showed him the beginning of my draft of the Credits, and how I'm doing *EVERYTHING*...

"That's right, you played every instruments--"

"No," I replied, "I can't play anything--"

"--Kazoo...recorder..."

"Well," said I. "Those ARE legitimate NaNoly instruments."

SO THEN I HAD THIS BRILLIANT IDEA FOR THE SOUNDTRACK TO BE CHARIOTS OF FIRE PERFORMED ON KAZOO QUARTET! 8D AND THEN MACEY SUGGESTED THE THEME TO TITANIC AND I TOLD HER THAT THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA AND I CANNOT SEE ANY SITUATION IN WHICH IT WOULD FAIL. :DD

July 30th, 2008

asdfghjkl;

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WOW I really don't post here much, do I? XD It's been nearly a MONTH since I said anything.

It's not because I don't love you guys.

(I do.)

It's just that you all know ANYWAY that if you want to hear any information about how my life is going, you have to get me on IM and either subtly prompt or wait five minutes and then settle in for the giddy, vertigo-inducing digressions and trails of thought.

Right? Right.

That said, NANOWRIMO DOCUMENTARY. OH YES. It will be epically awesome. "Humorous, yet insightful," I've been telling some of you. "Contemplative, yet inspiring. Dramatic, yet profound. With clearly-staged moments of epiphany and swelling background music. Maybe Chariots of Fire?"

I'm directing, producing, consulting for music (with Macey), kidnapping a film major to run the camcorder (borrowed from the library), kidnapping music majors and stalking the school choir for music, puttering around with the college's video editing equipment (chyeah, like I know what I'm doing. I'll have to flirt with that film major that runs the camera. Hn. =|)

... Yeah, I have big visions for this. The documentary while also tackling the NaNo's 100K Challenge, AND taking sixteen credits AND trying to survive the cold...

At least my suitemates are awesome and my roommate, being tiny, is only like half a roommate. =| She is pocketsized. I am going to use her for a footwarmer. But that is beside the point.

The title of this documentary, worked out with the lovely lovely Teffy, is: "TruNoWriMo: The Inspirational Tale of Truman State University Novelists (or: 30 Days, 50000 Words, and a Whole Lot of Numb Butt)"

Thoughts questions comments suggestions accolades? <3

July 4th, 2008

Death in the family!

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Yup. Atobe-fishie died. I came home from my gayboy's house and mom told me and I was like "Really?" so I went to look, and yup. So then I was like "Huh. Damn. Well, I always hoped she'd die before Yukimura."

Cause I did. Said it the first day I got them. XDDD

So yeah, flushed Atobe. >.> The service consisted of "Oh come on, pour out of the damn bowl already--ah, there! Bye fishie!"

Um. A moment of silence? XDD

Yukimura-fishie is still happy and healthy and swanning about knowing he's pretty. *coos at him*

July 1st, 2008

Help! DDD:

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Okay, I know that there is SOMEONE who can be useful, I just can't find her. I'm agonizing over the crossover, and I can't trouble Mellow about it because she hasn't been feeling well lately, so...

Who wants to make herself available to talk about sub-plots and pairings and set-ups and such? *hopeful* It would be awesomesauce if SEVERAL people wanted to and we all got together in a chat and brainstormed. D: So. Anyone? Please?

June 24th, 2008

Kanatest

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Another one of the programs that I have installed on the TARDIS is... well, it says it's a game, but I call it amazingly addictive drugs.

It's called Kanatest, and it's this program that drills the Japanese kana--there's all sorts of preferences: You can do drills line by line (a-i-u-e-o, ka-ki-ku-ke-ko and so on) and go for as long as you like while the kana show in random order, or through while showing each kana once, or once through and reshowing the ones you got wrong... You can also set up a user-defined test and pick from the bank of all 104 kana so you can drill just on the ones that trip you up,

I've been playing for a little over 24 hours now: I've learned all of the hiragana, and I can do any one line (a 5 question test) of the basics (a to n) in 5 seconds with 100% accuracy. The more complicated ones (like pu and gyo, both of which have that hateful " addition--is there a name for those kana?) take a bit longer, and I still slip up from time to time.

And I am SO. ADDICTED. Memory games have always been some of my favorites, and I have been known to creep out my friends and family with the unnatural skillz. So you can imagine the glee.

First time this morning: 104 hiragana in 5 minutes 27 seconds with 93% accuracy

2nd: 104 in 5 minutes and 5 seconds with 94% accuracy

3rd: 104 in 4 minutes and 51 seconds with 95% accuracy

4th: 104 in 4 minutes 38 seconds with 98% accuracy

Additional rounds can be found here. )

June 23rd, 2008

ooh, Shiny

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So this is a pretty cool thing--I just installed a blog-entry-poster on my computer, so this is me just testing it out... seeing if it truly works... Yup. Neato, innit? :DDD

ETA: ACH MEIN GOTT, THAT'S FANTASTIC SEXY! *_*

June 20th, 2008

Title: The Princes of Tennis and the Sorcerer's Serve: Chapter Six
Pairings: Foreshadowing.
Characters/POVs: Atobe, Sanada, Marui, Akutsu, Inui, Echizen.
Wordcount: ~8000
Chapter Rating: PG-13 for Akutsu's language
Chapter Summary: The first day of classes.
A/N: [info]rancidmelody is a cruel, cruel mistress, but she does a damn good beta. Apologies for the hiatus, children. (Many thanks to [info]thephoenixboy, who britpicked again for me. You're great, pet!)

Previous Chapters

CHAPTER SIX: In Which Akutsu Visits the Kitchen And Akaya Gets Hit In The Face With A Broom )

ETA: Please feel free to discuss in the comments future chapters and what you would like to see. =)

June 19th, 2008

HALP

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The sixth chapter of the HP/PoT crossover is DONE, it's just not FINISHED--Mellow and I are having trouble coordinating a time to edit it together, so CAN SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY GOOD AT BETA READING PLEASE TAKE AN HOUR OR SO TO WHIP ME INTO SHAPE?

Onegaishemasu! DDD:

June 12th, 2008

A trip!

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Okay, kiddos, I'm off to the other side of the state for my cousin's wedding! \o/ I won't be back until Sunday, and then you shall all have a lovely present.

Yes! I hear you muttering in the audience, and I say again: Yes! There WILL be the sixth chapter of the crossover! >DD The end is nigh! It is imminent! I'm three scenes, a hard edit, and a strawblerry (kindly supplied by Pickle-wifey) away from finishing it! Joy! Elation! Let there be rejoicing in the streets!

Mm, I can promise many, many amusing things. First day of classes... Timothy McChristopher-Watkins III, Esquire (prepare yourselves to have a new favorite character)...
Yeah, I'm really happy with how this chapter is turning out. It actually has, you know, PLOT. Rather than the nasty boring shit that the first five chapters were? Yeah. This is better, I promise. Who wants to do the second beta?! (Because Mellow gets to do the first)

I'll see you on Sunday, lovies. <3
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