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*Wails* I want Photoshop! I want X (pirated and therefore crappily translated but so what)!! I want my mangaaaaaa!!!!
*snif* Now. Must go work on that Magic story. Neermph. Must go work on the potential Earthsea ficlet. Neeeerumph. Life is a very disturbing thing. Snrk....hahahah...
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Monday, July 23, 2001at
09:39 a.m.
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Bwaha. I saw that Taryn of Asphyxia fame was startin' a fanfic archive, so I attempted to join. *shivers* I hope I make it I hope I make it...The word that I currently appear to be stuck on is "mukluk", hee. Crazy Kokaze. Wo shi feng zi, haha. The fun @ Emily's went well, yep yep. We discussed inappropriate *cough* subject matter and other things. What, yes, there are other things, yes. What a surprise.
On another note, sorry Morgana! I hope I didn't upset you too much by changing the look of your newest entry...*cringes*
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Sunday, July 22, 2001at
07:31 p.m.
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I prolly should archive this page soon...hm, I wonder. *yawn* I made the Misantrophia page all purty with Mr. Rhys-Meyers, hee. The design still sucks, although a little more than before due to my twiddlings. Oh well, you live and learn, right...not...-_-() going over to Emily's for an "unpacking" session. After a month of gathering dust, the props must be coated with the wonder gray matter. Lovely. Procrastinators to the end, I tell you.
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Sunday, July 22, 2001at
01:09 p.m.
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Yarg. The house is vacant; the other denizens are off doing errands, how unexpected and original. I want to mess with fonts, yes yes yes. Ho. Whoever remarked that I sound like Santa when I "hoho" must be gotten rid of before they give anyone else bad ideas. *stretch* There's a big black bug (no big black bear, sorry folks) under the fridge. I hope it dies. No, Kokaze is NOT a sadist, she just doesn't like insects and other invertebrates. What, you don't believe me? *darn it*
I was good last night because I posted the 3rd chapter of the Robin Mckinley ficcy on FF.net! Finally! It's rather short though...so the fourth chapter is forthcoming, in case you cared. I don't suppose you do...rereading "Shao Nian Tian Zi" (The Teenaged Emperor, sorta) for the umpteenth time, simply because I'm deprived of the library, and I'm leaving in a week or so for the warm equatorial climates of Singapore. *snif* Farewell library...farewell 'Net...
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Saturday, July 21, 2001at
10:20 a.m.
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Hm. Maybe Morgana encountered their "database problems". Someone who reviewed my Earthsea fic suggested I write another, set after Tehanu. If I take this on, I'll delay all the other monsters on the hard drive. But you know I will, don't you....*sigh*
Yesterday drew lovely pic of Mr. Jonny Rhys-Meyers, who played Steerpike in the PBS miniseries Gormenghast a few weeks prior. *drools* Heheh...heheheheh...
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Friday, July 20, 2001at
08:15 a.m.
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Hah, sorry Morgana for the incorrect username...then again, the one I gave you was pretty funky, so I guess you have an excuse for not realising that something was wrong...-_-()...pardon Eva's inability to spell/type.
OOOOH! I saw the ad for the X OVA at Dreams of Sakura. It's quite nice except Kamui's eyes are the wrong colour...-_-()...again. The other piccy from Newtype is nice too, manga style.
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Thursday, July 19, 2001at
09:11 a.m.
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The new bloggie-kin is UP! Misantrophia. I'm so proud...*snif*
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Wednesday, July 18, 2001at
10:15 a.m.
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Aloha all! I am starting another bloggie, yes another bloggie, to provide space for Morgana and I to communicate. HOHO. *ahem* Anyways, I've resorted to reading poetry...yes, I'm out of booksies to read. Lirael will prolly not be returned to the library and brought to me until we leave for vacation. *mutters* And nothing else I'm waiting for will be available 'till after school starts, darn it all. Luckily I am in a pleasant mood (as indicated by use of the funky endings on words, -ie).
Well, now I am off to hone my HTML! Ahahaha!
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Wednesday, July 18, 2001at
08:56 a.m.
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How sad, my favorite LOTR spoofie's writer is going on vacation for 3 weeks...*snif*...the story about magic is starting to stagnate, and I wanna write a funny CLAMP story about pedophilia and sado-masochism...(don't stare, it's not polite). At least we've got new packs of those soft Cha rice cakes (yummy) and assorted Chinatown products. *sigh* Read this week's TIME magazine, they have an interesting article on another prehistoric human ancestor and some stem-cell stuff. If I express my own opinion people will prolly brick me, but I think unformed _cells_ simply are NOT human beings. If these cells have been discarded, great. If they have been produced especially for the pupose of saving people (people who have been alive, accomplishing things, mind you), great. Probably even better. I don't quite understand the "moralists" who preach against "taking innocent human lives". Well, your stupid denial and blindness to facts leaves suffering people who have contributed society to die while "saving" clumps of cells that were not torn from anyone; they were either discarded out of free will or produced. And these "moralists" are the same who would overrun the world with humanity and associated problems, disregarding the actual usefulness of this overwhelming population and merely insisting that "they are God's" or some such religious dogma. Face it; reality is more vital than religion, and despite what you think, it has been alive longer. Before your gods and worshippers there was survival, talent, instinct. And now, when the world is dawning to the realization that we could destroy ourselves, it's pointless to cling to futile religion as saviour.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001at
09:59 a.m.
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Browsin' around on FF.net again, and found a DN Angel fanfic shrine thingie. Unfortunate that it only has a few ficcies as of now, but whenever I think of an idea (or not) I shall promptly write a fic. *stretches* Sitting here and typing that story (temp title is "Magick") is wearying. Morgana, if you be out there, hello and an evil laugh. *mwhaha*
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Monday, July 16, 2001at
02:15 p.m.
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*Yawn* People who like to dominate should go out for governmental careers. Especially since lots of those facilities happen to be understaffed. *snickers* INS*snickers*
My god, someone give me something in the way of literary amusement. I had a throbbing headache for the past two days (an occurence notable for its rareness) and have now recovered. Stupid glasses. I _knew_ they weren't going to cooperate from the moment that they insisted on falling down my nose. *growls*
The story about magic in a "corrupted" world is going fine, I expect to hit page fifteen today, at least. Hoo, if I finish it that would be great. I have the next few pages in my head but given my, ahem, roundabout style I probably will go way off-topic and then end up in a dead end with vicious plot robbers at my heels. *sigh* The world of a freelancer must be a hard one. How glad I am that I do not number among their ranks.
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Monday, July 16, 2001at
09:02 a.m.
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Ah, almost forgot to mention; I have officially requested Lirael from the public library!! *whoops* I love the library, even if some of its branches are a tad on the small side...computers, books, what a combination...*drifts away mooning over her upcoming read*
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Sunday, July 15, 2001at
09:12 a.m.
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Eep! The DSL is finally fixed up! Hooray for technology...
I wrote several thingies in the space of the few days I was absent from the 'Net, and so will post them on FF.net and link them here. *sigh* You know when you can't find anything to read when you get books like Life on the Mississippi and Shelley's Collected Poems. Started a new, "original" story about a weird magical organization in "Lenden", or "London". *Chuckles* It's quite amusing. *Laughs crazily and runs away*
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Sunday, July 15, 2001at
09:01 a.m.
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Hmph. The ISP at home has some demented problem and so I am now forced to update at the _library_, for god's sakes. *Sheesh*
Summer boredom is finally settling in...ugh. I went to an used-book store a couple days back and bought 3 books for $8...good deal eh? A Tanith Lee hardback, The Changeling Sea, and The Sign of Four(Sherlock Holmes obsession, you understand). So I was happy. That was the day of the six-hour wait in the INS waiting room, ugh, and the day that the DSL decided to quit cooperating.
Now that the ranting is finished, I thank god for the library's great consideration in providing us with these computers. *bows reverently*
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Saturday, July 14, 2001at
02:12 p.m.
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Ugh, what awful weather. *rubs forehead* And the novel is still sitting placid-as-a-duck in the annals of the computer's hard disk. Ah, the drama. Will I ever touch the file again with my pointer-thingie? Will it ever be complete? Will it ever be even READABLE? The suspense continues...I've finished Faces Under Water already...compared to GWTW it's nothing. Besides, I'd already read it once. Good stuff, genuine Lee material, I think. That Darkness, I one was a mite too scary for me, heh. Still patiently waiting for Ms. LeGuin's publishers to churn out her new Earthsea novel, On the Other Wind or something. And Lirael remains absconded in the recesses of some horribly posh bookstore shelf. Damn hardcovers. *coughs* Excuse the profanity. Went around checking on some random Harry Potter sites (the imaginations of some of those slash writers are scary...who am I to talk?) and discovered out of sheer accident a vast underground Les Miserablés fanfic archive. *shivers* That's one book I'm scared of. *shivers again*
I feel like a duck. They should rename it to "duck days of summer"...feeling a bit bloated with the laxness and all. Sweating under the feathers. And now begoggled like Mousse, ha. And now, to rouse the resident junk food junkie from before the television screen and thereby conveniently remove myself from this screen. *runs away before she comes back*
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Monday, July 9, 2001at
02:51 p.m.
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As can be seen, I have caught not one but TWO bishounen today!! AHAHA! Poor things...
Glomped Kamui on
Monday, July 9, 2001at
11:09 a.m.
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Wrote an "essay" on writing last night, Drily VS Dryly. Whatever else it is, it's certainly stupid. Ahem. The new glasses are pretty decent (aside fromt the fact that they fall down), and I recommend Johnson's Bedtime Baby Bath 'cause it's extremely yummy-smelling...quite soothing...ahh, it's just nice.
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Monday, July 9, 2001at
08:29 a.m.
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Wai wai! Finally FINALLY put Kamui here. @_@ Bishounen yo...and thank you for suggesting a more readable layout--you know who you are...
Glomped Kamui on
Sunday, July 8, 2001at
07:29 p.m.
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Hm. That was a nice and poorly written schpiel yesterday, huh?...-_-()...what a stuffy day. Perhaps it shall progress as the day goes on. Hopefully so. I was going to muse on the possible ending of X here but I don't feel like doing another big long thing. (Not that yesterday's was particularly big or long, though.) Ah, what the heck...
If anyone recollects, on the very first illustrated page of the X1 tankubon, there is a series of shots of a desert-like city--meaning that it's basically a devastated city, with the buildings sticking out of the sand-like debris, large metal things, large concrete things, etc. We see a bunch of people in what appear to be capes of some sort, and nice teaser shots of whom I take to be Arashi and Subaru. (You know, the familiar imagery of the caped mysterious people...*shudders*) Then we see a mega-close-up of someone's (*cough* I wonder whose)mouth. He is saying with a smirk, "Let me kill him." Then begins the actual tankubon. Now unless CLAMP is seriously deranged and is going to change this shot of the future (?), it seems as though this is Kamui, and he's talking about Fuuma (?). Well well, this is certainly unexpected. Can it be that eventually Kamui turns evil? Or is this supposed to be one of those symbolic representations of Kamui as his evil side as well as his good? (@_@() how confusing)
Also, we can be sure that the following characters are about as good as dead.
-Hinoto. No questions about it. Remeber the "vision" of herself being killed by a sad-looking Kamui?
-Sorata. Probably. I don't see how CLAMP could save him without damaging their "angsty and depressing" image.
-Kakyou. See above. *snif* Poor thing...
Some more people I think will have to go, and why.
-Yuzuriha. To add to the angst factor, probably. *shrugs* I don't like her, can you tell?
-Arashi. Think Romeo and Juliet.
-Karen. She has to be cried for.
-Aoki. The family man killed for Karen or for his family or both...something like that...-_-()
I doubt that anyone could say anything about the Kamuis. Hopefully the end won't be anything like the movie's. Considering that the plotlines thus far are so dissimilar, and that CLAMP (I think) has remarked that the ending of the manga will be nothing like the movie's, there is some slim hope for their survival. And as for Subaru...he's bound to pop up later and kill himself. I know it. *sobs*
*blowing nose* Okay, now that I'm good and depressed, let's go read RG Veda over again. *breaks out in tears* How could they kill Ryu-ou?! and Kujaku too!!...
Glomped Kamui on
Sunday, July 8, 2001at
09:02 a.m.
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I read somewhere a few days ago that CLAMP is indicating that X will end interestingly...I suppose that this is their oh-so-subtle way of playing with their readers' minds. After finishing RG Veda, I see more and more similarities--parallels, really--between the two works. Both involve the mindlessly devoted "protection" of "one who will kill you" by a "strong and silent" person/people (i.e, the protection of Ashura by Yasha-ou and the protection (consciously or not) of Fuuma by Kamui and vice versa). Themes of violent pasts (and presents and futures, for that matter)dominate both of these manga. Ashura, obviously, is the representative of Kamui. There's the bleedin' gorgeous "black" Ashura (Fuuma, duh) and the cutesy, angsty, and sweet protective kodomo Ashura. There are prophets, stargazers v.s. dreamseers; there is the inevitable killing off of the "good" protagonist's friends by the "bad" side of his psyche.
However, this isn't to say that these two works are _exactly_ alike or anything. Gods no. For one, RG Veda is a good deal shorter and more to-the-point...*cough*...
as much as I love X, the first eight or nine volumes were filled with gorgeous art but little plot movement. And recently, the Asuka installments seem to be diminishing in length if not in beauty. *sighs* What's the matter, CLAMP? I want the good stuff!
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Saturday, July 7, 2001at
09:12 a.m.
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Wrote a nice angsty little hourfic called I Forgot last night and actually got a decent amount of sleep! *stretches* Yay! Still only halfway through GWTW 'cause I was "sidetracked" by RG Veda...*sigh* something which always seems to happen to one such as I, huh? Heheheh, I must go check to see if any fool has read my ficcy yet. ~.~
Hard to believe that Sarah's changing her name...oh well, it _is_her name, I suppose she can do whatever she wants with it. But I wouldn't change my name...probably because I can't think of another name that I like and would recognize when others called me. *Stretch--yawn* Eh, who cares. I like my name, yes! *nods*
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Friday, July 6, 2001at
07:49 a.m.
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Eh, on volume eight of RG Veda already. *grins drunkenly* This is what happens when you're disposed to new-book mania. *falls over* 'nyways, it's good stuff. *yawn* What a surprise....eh? *growls* This looks stupid, with Daaku-san tiling himself. *grrrrr*...
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Thursday, July 5, 2001at
09:10 a.m.
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YATTA! Got the mangas: 1)Angel Dream-You Su Lan; 2)RG Veda; 3)Japanese Inu-Yasha. The only problem is, I can't read Japanese...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2001at
06:55 p.m.
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Made lots of changes today...*beams with pride* this place pleases me now. And my HTML level went from less than zero to maybe a one out of ten. Yipee! XD
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Wednesday, July 4, 2001at
04:46 p.m.
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Waa, it's the 4th of July already. Time passeth fast, and soon it'll be time to...*gulp* return to school...noooo
...this summer was actually rather enjoyable, in a dull way. *sigh* The new mangas haven't yet arrived, and I'm busy drawing myself as a _tiger_, of all things. When you do portraits of yourself as animals, you know you're either deranged or bored...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2001at
08:56 a.m.
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I triumph!! *gleeful grin* At last, everything looks semi-decent on here. *runs off laughing*
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Tuesday, July 3, 2001at
06:59 p.m.
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hohoho...added this delicious piccy of Dark after much struggling with the code. *covers eyes*
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Tuesday, July 3, 2001at
08:27 a.m.
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YES! This is good enough for me...
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Monday, July 2, 2001at
03:02 p.m.
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Hmph. I wonder if this is actually good practice for such HTML illiterates as I. (Whoo, what sentence structure...too bad I can't even get this text to display in a colour other than black.) >.<;; Kokaze no baka.
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Monday, July 2, 2001at
01:43 p.m.
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The first day on the job....
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Monday, July 2, 2001at
10:29 a.m.
