Hikaru no Go fandom Sorry for the late post! I've been gone for a while because I was working on my blind_go entry! Now that the deadline is over I can finally say that I'm surprised people are hesitating to guess my fic, even with clues! I messed up with akira_chan's head for around half an hour before I finally told her she was right all along. =P Guess me by going to answer_key and this post in the kifu_archive where I posted a clue to my fic. Drabbles or art await. :) Still working on the requests from lyndra and ver, as well as Maaya's Yashiro!

Which reminds me I should make a post about the best for hng_deathmatch! Orz fail.

Cosplay Uh, the half-finished Russia was surprisingly popular! XDDD; I was surprised people recognized it, even if I was carrying some sunflowers. I think that if we do end up having the United Nations day on the 24th next month I'll have my sister go as Russia and I can go as Austria again maybe? I kinda miss that big blue coat of doom. =D Or maybe we can finally be HRE and Chibitalia. I have to think about it carefully because I might have work. My pictures are of course here in multiply just like before. Feel free to grab whatever!

I've finally moved out of my sister's room to my own. We still need to sort the books because unfortunately they were mixed up during the renovations. But I've got tons of shelf space now, which is good. My Booksale purchases will need a row of their own soon. =\ I have around 6 volumes of CLAMP, two of Samurai Champloo, vol 3 of Alichino (I'm missing volume 2!) and an extra copy of Petshop of Horrors vol 1.

Duct tape prom gowns everyone should see them!

Apparently it's the season for colds still. I have this nasty head cold/runny nose combination that probably is driving people to wonder if I have that nasty H1N1 flu. >_> The powers that be at work finally decided to move us back down to the 16th floor where the lockers are, thank god. They also decided to lock headsets to workstations, forgetting that the number of headsets available on the floor is less than the number of functional workstations. Because of that, I ended up getting a spare un-locked headset while taking in calls today.

The DSi is giving an error message when we try to use the flash cart. Cue the dying cries of the person who just wanted to finish her game of Digital Devil Summoner. ;_;

In what may sound like good news, I am re-reading death games and retrieving the unfinished chapter 3 from the flash cart so I can email it to myself at work. It's going to be something to do during long hardware diagnostics. ^^;

I need to draw more and get better lead. This Stabilo HB is not really my thing, I prefer 2B because it's much softer. Austria as practice. I know I made a mistake with his ahoge. I almost changed it to America but his eyes were just too Austria-ish.

Mood sick

Busy Weekend: had work till Saturday morning, and then the whole team decided to go to an amusement park for fun and games on Sunday. Hm, maybe I'm not really an amusement park person. I was doing a big NOOOOO~ for most of the rides. -_-; I somehow avoided a second run on Anchors Away, but didn't get to avoid the Log Jam. There should be a non-stressful amusement park for people like me!

Hm, I may have an idea now for my blind_go fic, but sadly, most of the cliches will not fit it. ^^; I'm feeling seriously isolated at work, but hah, I'm really not into heartfelt discussions of people no one knows about, so I'll just say, goodness, do I feel like Ochi right now! It helps that I proceeded to download Sugar, Vistlip's single Ozone and some Nega. *Puts on headphones and ignores the world*

Finally done with my turn in hng_deathmatch. In case you haven't figured it out by now, this is Gwen Kley about to make long expository notes about her two entries, including bonus stuff, and randomosity.

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First day back to work, and as always, you get a varied set of calls. First there were the quick ones, which is basically me being a switchboard operator (“Give me a moment, let me route you over to the correct department!”), the valid ones (trickiest thing today was about a video card replacement), and the lastly, the head-desking, today-is-just-not-my-day ones. I had one customer insist on speaking to a supervisor when she's out of warranty, and would not take no for an answer. T^T I mean, I can support you within reason, you know!

hng_deathmatch is drawing to a close, and I'm cheering on the possible winners. I'm going to win my bets, I think! Hee~♥

Quick break from the world at large, an unfinished entry for subrosa_tennis currently at 5k plus. Future Tezuka/Fuji. Obviously something that was made with the idea of padding wordcount!

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Location office! Mood amused Music Vanilla Mood - Shizuku

About hng_deathmatch Well, now that it's the semi-finals that's one less round to worry about? I knew what I wanted to do if I reached the end, but I didn't know what to do on the step right before that. >w< I'm not looking at the polls anymore! It's just too stressful and the two heats are seriously close this time around.

Someone on the Sugar comm posted that she was selling off the singles. I'm wibbling. SO. HARD. Sugar is my current going home music, so yeah, this is my heart breaking into little little pieces. My favorite song is Aruiha Uragiri to iu nano ai, and even though I know they have stronger songs, this just makes me happy~♥

Don't forget that this is a required download to keep your life happy: Carlos, Man of Love. I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF IT, OKAY?

::Today's goals::
- secret project~♥
- doodles (also yet another secret project)
- even moar doodles. (this time for drive A!)
- hng_deathmatch final entry draft (because I was told win or lose, there's a 3rd place playoff)
- clean the rest of the scans. I'm on it AD-kun~♥
- find the Hikaru no Go singles and upload them somewhere. It is a grave oversight. D:
- die a little from the strain of points 1-6.

I finally got the chance to see the doctor who diagnosed me today. The wait was terrible, as it was a Sunday and there were a lot of people who needed to get their appointments rescheduled and I spent nearly forty-five minutes waiting, but it took me less than ten minutes to get my fit to work. The good news is I'm pretty okay now, and the but I was advised to keep away from people for a couple more days. Which is ALL GOOD to me~♥

I played the DSi for a bit, got bored, and started sketching Yashiro as I promised doumeki in the HikaGo fandom chat the other night. Here, have a picture of the WIP. I need references of manry chests and hanbok!



I also began work on my Retro Fest entry. I hope the prompt right, something about Remus watching Severus make potions?


I decided to do a bit of shopping while I was in the mall. It's been a while since I've been to Powerbooks and the like, and I found out that Powerbooks now have an old books on sale section, just like National in Cubao. Funny thing is I saw a lot of volumes of Moon Child in the 50% section, and the only HikaGo there was a volume I already had. Had to stop by Egg and their bag sale, and got myself a new wallet. My old one was also a sudden purchase, but I feel like the new one's much roomier~♥

I went to Saizen and spent a bit of time browsing. I got a brush pen, some hair clips and origami paper. Sadly there weren't any cute punk rock iron on patches, but then they wouldn't go with my Austria flag and piano!

The pretty pretty haul. Also, note Aria #4! I don't have #3 though, which is ridiculous. I have the special edition black and white covers, and I saw the regular covers with this one. I was tempted to buy them D:


I bought a lot of food to bring home! I got some coffee buns from Roti Mun, which smelled heavenly right out of the oven. They still smell good even after all the travel they've been through! Le Coeur de France was having a buy one, take one sale, so I got some chocolate croissants and Italian Beef ones, mango tarts, and garlic bread. I didn't even get to tast the croissants~ D:

Finished a batch of reference cards for drive_a! I placed stickers on one side and I plan to draw on the remaining space as practice.

Mood accomplished

Results are out. Um. I'm still in.


Thank you to all those who made this an interesting and heart stopping round, especially for certain heats! I'm sure you all figured out I was in by how I kept pestering you to vote.


I still don't know what I'm doing here.

This is quite stressful! I wonder if I'll survive till the next round?

Mood devious

Guess who realized that she'd been spamming her own f-list by updating her fic journal? *facepalms* Just revamped the layout of 5_in_binary, which is also now updated with my solo entries from blind_go. I haven't added all of my fics for HikaGo yet, which made me think: wow. I have written a bit for the fandom by this time, hm?

I got to see how many WIPs I left hanging in blind_go, now, so I'm considering which one I should finish first. It's either the assassins one or Ogata's and Sai's history from the visual kei one, as I've got a rough outline for either. I've got to see which one will ping me stronger. Or you can help me decide by commenting which one you want to see finished because I'm a sheep that way. ^^;

Guys, some of the matches in hng_deathmatch are really close! Heat 8 is currently tied! I know there's an option included in case of a tie, but we only have till Thursday to vote, so if you haven't, vote! :D I've done my part in voting for all the rounds with a poll, and I can't wait to see what will happen in the quarterfinals.

Tonight's my last night of vacation, I'm back to work Thursday night. Woe.

Added Feeling vain? Do you have a fanfiction.net account? Update your fanhistory author's page. I was making certain I didn't randomly use my old handle anywhere when this popped up. D: I feel like I've been scanned and marked down somewhere as a potential carrier of fujoshi-ness.

I have shingles on my head. That's the neck, face, and scalp. I have no idea where I got it but it's painful and I can't draw at all. D:

I'll be down for most of the week. For the teams I'm signed up with for drive_a, concept art will be coming as soon as the twitchy pain goes away. ;_; sorry!

also hng_deathmatch round 1 entries are up. And they're all so good! Please vote!