Warning: Contains Glee

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) )

So I realized I hadn't burbled about Yukimura and Atobe for a bit. <3 I was just cleaning their tanks, so they're all squeaky clean and sparkly nice. Yukimura's sitting on the bottom of his, freaking out a little bit about the strange shiftings of his world, but I did Atobe's first, so she's okay, she's forgotten it already and had a nibble to eat.

Pretty fishies, pretty fishies! <3

In general, both of them are quite well. It has been nearly a month since I got them! And they are still alive! The family is so proud.
Yukimura's fins have gotten a little longer, I think, and he swishes around the tank with them draped about MOST gracefully, so a ten out of ten to me for the naming. Seriously, he looks more and more like his namesake every day. I fully expect to walk past his tank one day and swoon.

Remember how Atobe was all pretty white-silver with that little blue spot near her tail? Well, the spot is bigger now. It's sort of smudgy looking, but that just means it looks more like the Hyoutei uniform, rather than a mole. So. That's okay. It's a sort of shimmery iridescent, like the rest of her, and so when she swans about her tank, fluttering her fins, she looks very splendid. <3

PRETTY FISHIES PRETTY FISHIES.

I just had another look at Yukimura--he's fine now. He ate his food and he's nosing at his plant to make sure it's okay. Of course it is, silly, I just cleaned it for you. And your nice blue rocks, and your marble. Atobe wishes she had a marble just like it, so you can be smug about that, okay?

I know. I play favorites with my fish. .______. What do you expect me to do?

I forget if I mention this before or not.

See, cause I'm about to be going off to COLLEGE! Real college! Leaving my dearly despised family!

But I'm also leaving a whole lot of people who adore me, and whom I adore, TO PIECES. So of COURSE everyone's making me promise to keep in touch, and therefore, I am putting together the Mailing List of Doom and Despotism.

It will be for weekly installments of ARII BRAND(TM) AWESOME, and by AWESOME, I mean a Newsletter. Would anyone from here like to be on it? I'll still be posting a little about college on my LJ, but it will be much different from the Newsletter. I dunno. I thought I'd offer the opportunity to anyone who is interested! If you are, just reply with your email address and I'll add you. Anyone may! People I know well, people I don't, acquaintences, minions, members of the congregation, lurkers, people who hate me, people who love me--whoever wants to get a rambling email per week.

It will be full of snark and wittiness, and sometimes whining, and sometimes spluttering glee, and a lot of news, and possibly the occasional profound insight.

So as some of you know, this summer I am going to build a (Warning: Sketches are first-draft and very amateurish, cause I can't draw for shit) steam-powered vehicle, otherwise known as The Hieronymus Proprio Motu Peregrination Machine.

My wonderful family has promised to help me out when it comes down to building it, but first I need to actually order the parts.
So, uh. Does anyone know anything about *anything* about machinery? What parts I'll need, other than a boiler, wheels, pistons, a flywheel and uh... yeah, that's all. >.> What else do I need, children? And where can I find it? DD:

So I would like to, very quickly, share some of my political views with you. I find that once I tell people about my candidate for the 2008 Presidential election, they take to him quite readily.

As I don't want to waste your time, I have designed a single image that sums up my views--behind the cut.

( Vote for... )

Your thoughts on the matter? ;DDD

So this is the project that I was working on today: The Prince of Tennis Birthday Calendar! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

You see, I was thinking to myself, "God, I miss so many characters' birthdays. I wish I had some sort of visual..." So I printed out a calendar and spent half an hour or so with colored markers--it was one of the most joyful half-hours of my week. I have a color-coding fetish, you see.

"Perhaps other people have this problem too," I thought to myself. And thus, several hours of painstaking labor later, I bring you this gift. ^.^

The Calendar
ETAx54857127932: OKAY WHAT THE FUCK. Version Ten-BAJILLION. POINT EIGHT. UPDATE YOUR CALENDARS AGAIN, PEOPLES.

Coded by school color for your convenience, with clearly marked divisions between each zodiac sign, just in case you ever need that sort of thing.
It's fairly self explanatory.

Look at all the benefits of it! DID YOU KNOW:
--That Jackal and Shinji share their birthday?
--That Shishido and Bane share theirs'?
--That Yanagi's birthday is the day after Inui's, and that they are Geminis? Appropriate, eh?
--That Davide is a Scorpio, cusp of Sagittarius? No, you'll probably never need to know that, but isn't good to know anyway?
--That November has the most birthdays? (Fourteen)
--That June and February have the least? (Four each)

What do you think? :D Am I missing anyone? Did I make any errors? Are the school colors easily identifiable? Is it easy to use? Discuss.

I have a project! For it, I need to know the birthdays of the members of Shitenhouji and Jyousei Shounan. Does anyone know if they've been released? If so, where can I find them? Or you can just tell me, if you happen to have extraneous information like that just lying around in your head.

Plz plz. :3

FYI for those of you who read my April Fool's post, exploded with woe and misery, and didn't click the "Further Details" lj-cut.

NO, I AM NOT LEAVING FANDOM.
YES, I WILL KEEP WRITING FIC.
I LOVE YOU GUYS~ <3

I don't think I'm going to finish the HP/PoT crossover. I dunno if it's because I'm blocked, or if it's just that I've gotten my annual bout of being utterly sick of fandom. But I don't think I'll be writing fic much anymore, if at all. DDDD: If you can try to rope me back into fandom, I'd love you always, because this has been my favorite fandom of all my fandom-career.

( Further details. )

ETA: On another, more serious note, I just read the news about anjenue. DD: I... Wow. I didn't know her, I didn't even read too many of her fics--she did write the most adorable Marui/Jiroh I've ever seen, though. I'm a little bit awed--she must have been eighty kinds of awesome; I'm disappointed that I didn't get a chance to know her better.
But... In the afterlife, there will be cake and OTP porn.
My condolences to everyone who knew her.

So remember a month ago? When it was my birthday? And some of you promised drabbles and fics and cuteness and love?

Where are they? I just needs them because I'm in a scrapbooky mood today, so that's what I'm doing.

People who promised me stuff and have either NOT COME THROUGH (What would Yukimura say? *tsk tsk*) or I have lost the links to the present and need it again (what would Yukimura say? *shame*)--ZEE BLACK(blue?pink?red?)LIST:
thisisthesmile, ice_killer, darth_claire, sabriel, eriea, clayin, sushimustwrite FOR FUCK'S SAKE WIFE, WRITE SOMETHING. DDD:

<3 I LOVE YOU ALL, and the SCRAPBOOK LOVES YOU TOO.

PS. Does anyone have "Voodoo Child" by Rogue Traders?

Oh they are so cute! <3 They *EAT*!

Atobe's such a twitchy little freak. And Yukimura gets SO EXCITED when I put food in his tank! He goes up to the surface and flutters his little fins fit to bust. And I think he made a bubble nest or something, because there's this cloud of bubbles floating in one corner of the tank and he goes over and stares at it sometimes. So cute!

PS. My ficus bonsai, Marylin, is doing quite well.

So, uh. This Doctor Who business.

The Master, who used to be called the Professor (Professor Yana, to be exact) when he was in hiding, but then stole the Doctor's TARDIS and skipped away with it, and the Doctor is very angsty about the whole shenanigans, and wants nothing more than to live happily ever after with The Master in teh TARDIS.

So, uh. Am I hallucinating? All this Master-Professor-Yana stuff... Nnnnnnn. >.> Is there something wrong with me, or did you guys see it too?

(I hear there's an Emperor in Doctor Who as well, but I haven't seen him. I want to make a Troika icon with it. :3 And crossovers. <3)

ETA: DDDDDDDDDDDDD: I AM HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF YOU. Where are the PoT people who sat there with big incredulous eyes and said "O HAI DATA PAIR, HOW R U???"
Y'all suck. D:

Yukifishie and Atofishie are so cute. :D They go flirtyflirty round the tanks; they know they're pretty.

(YUSSSS PRETTY FISHIES WHO IS MY PRETTY FISHIE!? WHO? WHO? YUSS! YOU MY PRETTY PRETTY FISHIE.)

Yukimura likes swimming up and down, and nosing at his shinyshiny marble, and sitting on his little blue rock that I gave him (I gave him four or five, but he likes one of them best). Also, tucking himself into the leaves of his plant.
But mostly I watch him and he sashays baack and fooorth, fluttering his fins--which look EXACTLY like his namesakes's hair, have I mentioned?--and going "Yuss, I am the prettiest in the land." Sometimes he forgets what a corner is. ._.

Atobe thinks the surface of the water is ticklish, so she'll swim up and touch it with her dorsal fin, and then zip down to the bottom really fast, and then do it ALL OVER AGAIN. She's also fond of her purple rocks that I gave her and her shinyshiny marble. When she isn't tickling herself on the surface, she inspects the rocks very carefully--It is Serious Business.
I am debating on putting this huge chunk of amethyst geode in.
Yes, of course I'm giving Atobe purple decorations. >.>

HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY! 88- (<---Arii's retarded looking four-leaf clover)

I bought two bettas yesterday. I know, I finally succumbed to fashion and peer pressure (Note to self: If best gayboy can talk me into cutting off half my hair, should have known he can talk me into buying fish. YUDAN SEZU NIKOU! >.<)

One of them is female and silvery white-blue, with one little spot of dark blue, so I named her Atobe. Coz of the silvery white-blue, that's like his hair... and um. The spot is like his charm point. :DDDDD *wiggles finger at Atobefish and croons*

And the other is male and this looooooooovely shimmery royal blue, with lovely wavy long blue fins that have just a biiiit of shimmery greeny-blue at the base so his name is Yukimura.
I hope he doesn't die first. >.> *wiggles finger at Yukimurafish and burbles*

Title: The Princes of Tennis and the Sorcerer's Serve: Chapter Five
Pairings: A lot of implications.
Characters: Ensemble, Tezuka's POV.
Wordcount: ~5000
Chapter Rating: PG-13
Chapter Summary: On language barriers, the removal thereof, and Sortings.
A/N: crimson_raining and silver_spray are loyal, wonderful ladies who bestow so much encouragement that I wonder "Wait, who are they talking about?" I don't deserve them. (You guys rock. :D) Incredible thanks to thephoenixboy who caught a few embarrassing mistakes and tweaked my Britspeak.

Chapter Archives

( CHAPTER FIVE: In Which There Is Sorting )

I need a beta for the Fifth Chapter of the PoT/HP crossover--is anyone competent and up to it? =D

Title: How Yanagi Renji Went Off-Book
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen
Wordcount: ~900
Summary: In which Yanagi develops his own style of data management. Warning: Contains Niou and Akaya
A/N: Most difficult-to-title fic! Began life as a bunny sometime last week--yuki_scorpio mentioned a longing for Renji-fic, and, being inspired, I wrote this.

( Fic is here )

ANON KINK MEME FOR GOOD OMENS

( Eh what? )

So I was thinking... What do YOU guys want me to write? I mean, here I am, poking around at my cute little fics, being bossed around by Viya... How about some variety in my assignments?

I'm sure some of you have had thoughts of "Man, I wish Arii would write *insert bunny idea here*. She'd pull it off so damn well..."

This is your chaaaaaance! They can be cracky, they can be angsty (it's difficult for me, but I'll do my best), they can be thoughtful, romantic... Maybe not porn, though. XD

So. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO WRITE, FLIST? Prompts can be in any format: A pairing with a premise, or a snip of a song, or a line of dialogue, or a setting...

(PS. I'm only writing PoT fics. I will dismiss any other fandom, except maybe Good Omens. If it's a really nice bunny, I'd write for G.O.)

(PPS. More than one request is fine too. :D)

So I have run across this at LEAST three times so far in the past week. Is it some new fad? Who invented this? XD Anyway, I thought we could give it a go, ne? :D

Teh Summary Meme
Pick a fic of mine, write as a bad a summary for it as you possibly can. I will then wibble and flail and try to guess.