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Jose Rizal on Wikipedia
A Jose Rizal site in both English and Tagalog.

Those pages are actually at the top of a set of book guides. If I was in the mood I'd translate them to English, but I'm a bit busy right now. O_o And my crack versions of their description (with help from

osmalic) sound scary in the calm light of day:

blue_cage Well, for example Ibarra - at first clueless!emo boy who ranks as Noli's Pika*Pika boy. Everyone loves him, except for the parish priest, but then who'd want an aging Dominican anyway? He's got a shoujo love story with childhood friend Maria Clara, but events (and a dashing boater by the name of Elias) just might change his destiny! Oh, btw, don't you think there's some UST between him and Padre Salvi?

osmalic: ...................NO COMMENT ON SALVI.

blue_cage XD Fine. *erases last line*

blue_cage Padre Salvi: For Padre Salvi, see Snape.

blue_cage And Maria Clara: Somehow, she has a backbone. O_o; Almost Mary Sue-ish, because she is likely based off Jose Rizal's ideal girl at that time, but she was willing to sacrifice self for her lover, and it comes with a terrible price.

osmalic: I actually agree that she's Mary Sue, but the one thing I admire about her was how she didn't faint, not once! XD

blue_cage Mm, true.

osmalic: (And Rizal noted this, too. Heh.)

blue_cage mm, before I forget: Placido Penitente - The name says it all. Decides to join "The Cause" after much wangsty!UST with a UST prof. Unfortunately, fanon!Placido often goes ballistic, tearing at his shirt and begging that someone, anyone, get rid of his USTs. XD I like the Placido bit.

osmalic: "I'm a stubborn uke! I make it worth your while."

blue_cage XD oh right. Simoun: See Count of Monte Cristo for original. Edmond Dantes is a bit boring though, I think it's because Simoun did that I'm a head without a body routine in the Quiapo fair. Is actually Pika*pika boy Ibarra seeking revenge and still going emo over Maria Clara. He's so used to being emo that when he learned tha spoileralert!*Maria Clara died*spoileralert he couldn't go on with his murderous intentions. Almost blew up a house, but went all emo.

osmalic: And then in the end, Basilio realized: "Am I going to be an emo!kid like Ibarra now that Julie's dead?" -->during El Fili's epilogue, while Florentino is being noble and brave.

blue_cage Basilio and Crispin - brothers who did not have time to get incestuous because one gets killed soon after they were introduced.

osmalic: (But no one's stopping anyone who wants them to be incestuous before they're introduced!)

blue_cage Basilio is then left to fend for himself and his kinda cuckoo mother, who is wandering the streets looking for them

blue_cage Capitan Tiago: actually a decent fellow, typical Filipino who doesn't mind bending the rules to get what he wants. Fond of cockfighting

osmalic: And his daughter! ........That sounded wrong.

blue_cage Might or might not have a thing for Ibarra senior, depending on what you read between the lines. (Please, don't tell us if you think so! XD)

osmalic: No...I think the guy who told Ibarra about his dad could have, though.

blue_cage Maria Clara is the apple of his eye, and his reason for living. Too bad the story ends with them separate though. And oh, yes, that officer! He was never named, was he?

osmalic: Officer?

blue_cage yeah. He was.

osmalic: Oh, you mean who told Ibarra about his dad. He had a name, he introduced himself in the third chapter. I...think?

Said "officer" is Tiniente Guevarra. XD

Yet another Rizal site. Ignore the graphics, and check out the list of articles pertaining to perceptions of Rizal as a hero.

Jose Rizal on Project Gutenberg. Both El Fili and Noli are translations by Charles Derbyshire. I think I have an extra copy of the translation by Leon Ma Guerrero, but what I want is a list of the quotations used in chapter headings. Anyone know where to find them?

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holmesian Still hedging over what to write, but I did find out that doing an advanced search for "detective stories" in Project Guterberg yields works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Honoré de Balzac, and two books by Agatha Christie. The search results seem to include some horror mysteries as well, but I haven't checked it out. I'm going to download a couple of the Lock and Key Library, edited by Julian Hawthorne, to sample what he thinks were the best of the mysteries back in the days of yore. :D

The University of Adelaide e-text library has a list of books under the theme "crime". I've yet to look through the authors list and check if they missed mentioning something in their collection, but it links to a download of the complete Father Brown stories by G.K.Chesterton.

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...really off topic but I keep reading "Sanagi" as "Sanada/Yanagi" and. whut.

*facepalms* Thank you, now I have images of them doing really strange things to the song! *adds that to the list of things to mention to

_dilation during the next crack convo*

dot dot dot I have yet to hear this song but I should probably look up the lyrics translations: y/n?

Oh, I already got it for you from a wordpress blog named Word of Songs (http://atashi.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/xxxholic-movie-theme-sanagi-theme-from-xxxholic-the-movie/):

Sanagi : Suga Shikao

As if you can directly and clingingly touch my body’s thin mucous membrane
Those insensitive fingers of yours didn’t shudder and hate me
But whenever it came to you, you’d leave me behind and give nothing but lies
From the start, you made a habit out of thinking that I’m a fool…

I didn’t think that a day like this would come
But I still feel your presence over there

After you left, my body has already since then turned chrysalis-colored and dried out
I’ll be reborn in the cold room of winter, just like a beautiful butterfly
Those wings are still wet, so that I won’t be made useless by someone else
I’ll open them little by little, dreaming about flying in the sky…

If a day like that suddenly came about
I wonder, then to where should I fly with those wings?

Like how livestock don’t have names, I’ll forget your name
Rather than remembering you and crying, I’ll erase you entirely

Will a day like that come about someday?
Are the days with you already forgiven?
Will a day like that come about someday?
The splendid days will be someday…

I. oh maaaaan ahaha it doesn't fit them at all that's awesome and hilarious and whut.

I know! Now I have bad visions of them as Doumeki and Watanuki and that's just so wrong, man, Yukimura is frigging Yuuko and uwaaah, what is this xxxHolic!PoT edition doing in my head? XD

Ahahaaaaaaaaa that is weird, yes. And. uh. IactuallyconsideredaHolicPoTcrossoveroncebutitdied.

Ahahahahahahaha, then it's time to revive it! *pokes pokes pokes* You know you want Yuuko!Yukimura to be mysterious in those kimonos while solving problems for the rest of the Kanto area boys. XD

Noooo. xD; And anyway, it was literally a crossover, as in, semi-angst, because Sanada goes to Yuuko to ask her to heal Yukimura, and the price he might pay, and. uh. yeah.

Ooooh, what sort of price was Sanada willing to pay!? (Now it makes perfect sense why you were reacting to the Sanagi titled. XD) semi-Angst is good too! ♥

xDDD That's why I never went any further in it; I couldn't decide. (It does? xD; My brain just reads weird. xD; )

*mighty poke* Urgh, you are evil! Actually, it'll amuse me like hell if the price was the Kanto Championship because it involves beaking promises, lots of emo!moments, etc., but then that's just me. ^^; (Ahahahahaha, yes it does. This just means my brain reads weird too. And Sanagi's a nice sample of why I'm obsessing over Suga Shikao. ♥)

xDDD Yeah, Kanto Championship is pretty emo-ish, huh. (Haha, Suga Shikao... is okay, IMO. I'll listen to it, but it's not one of the songs I put on loop.)

Oh, ignore me, I'm just deprived of my emo!fics while I try to make crack porn. *weeps* And hm, maybe I should edit my playlist to add more crack dance tunes, so my brain's all gone. *downloads Bust a Groove music*

xDDD; Serious fic is actually easier for me to write than crackfic, actually. Crackfic drains me. ^^; *is currently stuck between Ink Stains and Through the Gates* DX Haha, I should mod my playlist too; it's been mostly soft rock/emo stuff lately. 8D

Oh yeah, actually, I had a talk with a friend about the thin line between crackfic and badfic, because she said reading my crack!porn was like being in ff.net. >_<; So I guess that experiment drained me. Maybe the thing they say about comedic acting and dramatic acting applies to writing as well?

And ahahahahahaha, I understand the soft rock/emo playlist. Last month's

fst month saw me dling everything from instrumentals to crack like Pinky and the Brain themes, though mostly emo. O_o;

Yeah... I think I ranted on that a long while back, about an RP though. I was basically just going argh, because crack didn't mean you had license to go OOC. @__@; And yeah, actual serious crack without going over that OOC line is hard. *tilthead* Comedic acting and dramatic acting? What's that?

Yeeeeees, that comm. xD; Especially the DN and KH Orgy13 fsts, and then there was also Schuldig FSTs... yeah. xD; a lot of rock/emo though, because given the characters? Not surprising. xD

Oh, God. RP-ing. *shudders* I once joined an original RP but I never read one after. There's just too much room for emo!wangst, insanity and OOC-ness to seep through the doors. And maybe crack, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. XD And the acting bit is this saying all actors say on television here: how it's so easy to shed tears and go angsty, but comedy needs timing and skill. I totally agree with that idea.

Oh, yeah, all those KH fsts. I stopped counting them when I hit twenty. XD I'm pretty sure I lost half of my free space because of those.

xDDD; Haha, yeah... I think I might have only ever found two good PoT RPs. Elsewise, geeeez talk about OOC. Most PoT RPs, it's all about getting their charas into the pants of other charas, and... yeah, me? Not interested. I went through RPs quickly, back before I got into CFUD. And oooh, yeah, definitely agree. Comedy needs a lot of skill to get right. O:

xDDD; 20? Really? I didn't bother counting at all. I don't think I downloaded most of them either, just 'cause I didn't have the space for 'em.

~~Well you know it didn't help that Konomi kept adding more and more boys to the harem series that is PoT...~~*coughs* Actually, I never DID look up PoT RPs. Maybe a sense of self-preservation stopped me, I don't know. XD

Well, there would be less if you count all the individual FSTs posted together to be one post. XD *pretends she isn't listening to one of those fsts right now*

*snickers* I know, seriously. How many characters is it now? And all boys. ...Yeah, that was probably a good move on your part. 8Db

xDDD!

Though, great Scott, I guess following RPs can be addicting and wildly entertaining. *looks up

campfuckudie and dies from all of the comment threads*

......you know, getting to know you led me to a lot of things. O_o;

*g* Well, CFUD is a multi-fandom RP, and... yeah it moves really fast. xD; *kind of has trouble keeping up with it herself now* And I'm in it. xD;

8D Is that a good or bad thing? xD

Yeah, so I noticed. *tries to keep up with so many comment threads* Hm, maybe I should back away very, very slowly before I start getting crazy ideas of trying it ou, because demme, I don't have enough crack for this! XD

I think it's a good thing as long as I keep a lid on it.♥

It's kind of hard, yes. But you should try it out! We want more PoT people! And Reborn people! And ES21 if you're into that series. :DDD BUT PoT! Geez, PoT has such a horrible track record, you have no idea.

Haha. ♥

(Oh shit, did I just spend the past hour and a half snorting up CFUD? XD) And really, my app would be shot down immediately, I don't think I'm very good beyond random spazzing and crack!emo!porn. (Oh wait.) *looks up* Why aren't there more PoT peeps? O_o;

(It is addicting, isn't it? 8Db) Well, mine would be too, if it were just the rough draft. That's what you get betas for! :D (haha. xD) Because a) we keep forgetting/are too lazy to pimp, b) there are already tens of PoT RPs out there that are easier to get into, c) we shoot down any OOC-ness so very hard, d) previous track record for PoT appers isn't that great.

Okay, so another hour gone and wtf I'm just trying to follow the doctors here. XDDDDD Oh, gyah, who are you RP-ing anyway? *buried right now under a few fight threads*

Mm. I think yeah, maybe they got turned off by the app voting period (yes, I'm reading that too! XD Help!) and yeah, there are so many RPs (PoT-only or multi-fandom) out there. It's so easy to over/under-play the character quirks.

Random bad ideas that popped out of nowhere: On the first day in camp Bianchi would greet everyone with her Poison Cooking I before using a few tentacles to develop more poisons, Agon will insult Hiruma turning gay, make crazy shit piecemeal of zombies before hitting on every girl on camp, or hahahahahahahahaha, Horio being Horio will brag about his two years tennis experience before being bitten by vampiric ducks and becoming Horio!zilla. *coughs* Oh God. *facepalms* Didn't say anything lalalalalallalalalala!

xDDD; I follow the ES21 cast, Angel Sanct cast, Tomo, and Chisame+Chizuru and PoT cast, normally. Thankfully, they overlap sometimes. Occasionally I follow the DGM cast. xD; And Gantz. Nishi~ Sometimes Bleach cast. Need to watch for Kodachi from Ranma more too. It does help that I know generally which posts they're likely to post in, though. And I play Atobe. xD;

Ooooh, well, I still think the app voting is a good idea. It gives the community a heads up on potential problems that might come from a certain character and flush that out before they get in (ie: Akito from Furuba, or someone like that). Also keeps out potential OOC people. I will never stop being glad I voted out the damn valley girl-esque!Mukahi app that showed up once. (What do you need help on? xD?) Yeaaaah, so most PoT RPers don't bother, 'cause they think it's too much trouble. xD;

Haha, oh god, I want a Bianchi so badly. xD; Agon would be weird in camp, since everyone from ES21 cast so far is pre-Christmas Bowl. We actually had a Horio briefly! :D Didn't stay long though. D: Idled out. But yeah, they were briefly considering Horiozilla... I can't remember if they actually went through with that? And the vampire ducks are awesome, and Niou got swallowed by one once. xD; And saw magical mushrooms, uh. 8Db But Niou's gone now. And Ishida's gone too, oh geez. T________T

So far I've traced some Hiruma with Katou lovin' (my eyes bugged out when I saw that!), a bit of Cabin 10 love, some Legal Drug action, a few dead people (oh, so people DO die! XD) and I think I found a really old post about the cfud sixth month anniversary with an Inui and Renji wandering about? I've also stopped by the wiki, and learned that girls top boys hands down, Rikuou has a zipper fetish, panty raids happen, and I should fear genderswitching viruses. O_o Does that sum up the experience? XD Ohohohohohoho, ore-sama! *bows*

Hm, I guess you do have a point, since it's so easy to stop being IC when tentacled monsters and people left and right can hit on you. O_O; Ugh. The idea of valley girl-esque!Mukahi should be shot! It's up there with apron only!Sanada in the list of OOC hatred. (Okay, so apron only!Sanada is giving me hives now shouldn't have thought about that yay!)

I won't be able to decide who to do for PoT, because yeah, it's been a while. XD *waves at Fudoumine detective agency walking away*

Oh, gah, well, imagine what havoc Bianchi would cause if someone who looks like Romeo is walking around camp! XD Waaaah, I want to see that! Mm, but Agon's history with Hiruma would bear telling, you know. XD I think even moogles won't revive them. ^^; Oh wow, Horiozilla would've been totally cool, and then someone will try to tame him and turn him into a camp tourist attraction or somethin' under threat of the Inui Juice. XD Niou got swallowed by a vampire duck? O_______o; WHAT?! *shock* The flora and fauna around there's definitely scary.

The Hiruma/Katou thing is hilarious, because they just keep goading each other on. xD; Cabin 10! Is fun, yes. Himejima and Kio, haha. (People do die! And then they get revived through moogles. 8Db) And oooh, wow, haha Inui and Renji. Wandering about? Which was this? O: And yeah, CFUD is basically a "if it's funny, go for it" type of RP. 8D With, uh, strictness to make sure people are IC. :D

Yeah... I mean, characters develop through the RP (like Ari for example), but that's something that happens over time, and the base personality is still there. OOCness... isn't tolerated, yeah. And yeah, I kind of slammed the Mukahi down. ^^; I really need to stop being so harsh with PoT apps though; I have trouble giving the benefit of the doubt to people who would probably deserve it. Ehehe. (...Apron only!Sanada, whut. I'm not going to ask.)

xDDD; Wait, what's your current fandom then?

We need Lamboooooooooo. xD And I guess? But dude, the moogles have dealt with Ishida and Nishi's rivalry; they can deal with Agon and Hiruma. xD; (Ishida and Nishi have killed each other... is it 37 times now? Ah, well, it's ended. >: ) xD; Well, Horiozilla would only happen because of camp, and camp effects don't typically last that long anyway. O: Niou got swallowed by his vampire duck, yeah, but the vampire duck also grew huge 'cause of toxic forest water. 8Db And yeah. xD

It's particularly evil, since I've read both series and now I can't see them apart. Guh! XD I feel the gay love pheremones just coming out of that cabin, hey! And I have no idea how I got to that post, I was wandering around the wiki, I think, and the thread was mentioned along the way. I think they were drunk on beer, like, I think Inui was making out through dirty algorithm talk with Excel and well, it was pretty weird. XD Oh, yeah, it's a riot, and agh, people can bodyswitch too! (Komui/Ishida/Cake = OTP ♥)

Well, if you think aboutit, it's within your rights to slam them down, since you'll be interacting with them till the die permanently, escape, turn into a tentacle monster or quit, whichever happens first. I guess it's hard to get the nuances of the full character with the meager screentime most PoT character gets, and they (the apps) probably spent that time not paying attention and fangirling like crazy. (And yeah, apron-only!Sanada, the stuff of nightmares. I think the only possible explanation is he was in the bath, got attacked, grabbed the sword he always brings with him, defends himself, and then grabbed the first article of clothing he found before going down to kick some Hyotei ass. Uh. Oh God. *puts crack alert on that*)

I was (or still am) in PoT, HikaGo, Detective, Conan, Angel Sanct, Yami no Matsuei, D.Gray-man, Bleach, Tantei Gakuen Q, Naruto, FF 4 & 6, ES21, Yu-gi-oh!, HanaKimi, Juuni Kokki, Vagrant Story, and some more, I just can't recall, really. O_o I'm like a human sponge when it comes to detail, so I remember most of the characters in those. ^^;

Waai, if you have Lambo do you will infuse a level of crack with his ten year canon! Imagine what would happen if people get hit, nooooo~♥ Bianchi would be the new cook and people will die more quickly and stuff. XD (What? Oh, that explains that bit in the Ishida thread about those vampire ducks in his bed. I was wondering what he meant about those deaths!) Oh, damn, What is this, a list of all potential cataclysmic events to happen in camp? XD Oh, damn. I think I should stick to flirting around with the Fudoumina detective agency idea now, the crack concentration's just too high now. ^o^;;;

xDDD; Drunk on beer... oh, there was probably still alcohol back then. Either that, or the alcohol berries. They might have been chibi then, too, but the icons are probably gone now. xD; ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Basically. Except sex. And sugar. And now alcohol. xD;

I guess? Haha. I just feel bad about it sometimes, 'cause the number of people who get in v. the number of people who app is ridiculously small. xD; (Uuuuuh. haha whut.)

Oh wow, that's a lot. xD; Tantei Gakuen Q! I need to catch up on that. :D

*g* Well, the 10 year bazooka isn't likely to hit other people, since Lambo almost always aims it at himself. And anyways, I'd always wondered what would happen if you shot the bazooka at someone who would be dead within ten years, because you're supposed to switch places with your self ten years from the future. If nothing happened, or if you just disappeared for five minutes... that would be a really, really horrible premonition, seriously.

xD; It's not that much crack, really.

Hahahahahaha, no, the icons are still there and it was real beer, apparently. O_O I really should try to track back where the heck I found it, shouldn't I? Hey, I heard cigs are out now too. *points to Katou*

My friend's fault totally. She stops by with a bunch of anime or manga, leaves it in the comp until I look at it. Then I get hooked. She's done this trick on me for around a dozen times already, so yeah, twelve of my fandoms are because of her, totally. XD I like having friends like that.

Oh yeah, that would be totally weird if it turns out you're dead already! What, you turn into a pile of ash for a few minutes. XDXD

Huh, that's odd, I can't remember at all. ^^; And nah, I don't think cigs are out? They were briefly, when the store got blown up, but they're back again.

Haha, nice. I wish I could do that with my friends, but the only IRL friend I have at the moment that follows anime isn't fond of shounen much at all.

Or just... disappear. Yeah, that'd be kind of bad. xD;

It must've been crazy back then. XD Oh, cigs are back in? I guess Sanzo and Katou did their point weapons bit on people in protest and cig withdrawal. ^_^;;;

Aha, that's just - sad. Shounen anime is for everyone, male, female, young and old, BL lobers or homophobes! ♥

Oh, crap. So if you're dead when the ten year cannon hits you, wouldn't that mean everyone who wants to kill you now has a valid reason for their attempts? After all, you're dead in ten years' time! XD

Haaah, they were special times. One of the most awesome things was everyone's last minute spam scramble to hit 1mil comments before the New Years. *g* And I think they're back?

Yus! >:

xDDD;

I admit, I was hunting for that 1 million comments thread, it sounded completely insane. XD 1 million! Didn't lj say something like, "Stop flooding us! Waaaah! *emo tears*"

xDDD; I. I remember vague mentioning of "we broke LJ!" 'cause there was a brief database error or something. xD; THE MOON WAS FALLING. Or no, that was camp anniversary. xD; I think. Yeah. xDDD

*laughs* LJ, the breeding ground of insanity. :D BTW, how is mama!Atobe doing? I've been reading a lot about omelettes lately.O_O

xDDD; Insisting that he's not the mother, dammit. We haven't done much, 'cause we all get on at horrendously weird schedules, so. ^^;

XD It doesn't help that the egg looks like Ryoma, but~♥ Well, you have the rest of the week! I wish you good luck in going insane with the eggbaby! ♥

Indeed, haha. xD And yeah, probably, after midterms.

Eep. I forgot to mention that Sanagi means Chrysalis. XD

Ah, the NMT/EF crack! #@____________________@# T___________T

One of the days, I am bequeathing my NMT/EF plot bunnies to you. Just let me find 'em in my PI 100 files. (Yes, you read that right. NMT/EF fanfic plot bunnies for PI 100. It's in a short, sort-of-sweet and brain-dead-simple essay.) XD

BTW, what is UST? And is your icon above Kurama? May I have the original image if so!? XD

Yes, the NMT/EF Crack! XD It's great fun, really.

Wait, uh, not just to me, I hope! :D We have to spread the love of NMT/EF to the whole wide world!

UST stands for Unresolved Sexual Tension, and now you'll start hitting me with a spoon, I know it. XD Sadly, the image in the icon isn't Kurama, it's Wild from a Shiho Sugiura manga called Koori no Mamono Monogatari. I can't find the exact image online but here's how he looks like (http://www.geocities.com/entristecer/ice/RapWild3.jpg). The blonde's name is Rapunzel. XD

Of course there is Ibarra/Salvi UST. Simoun/Basilio UST. And Ibarra/Elias UST. Heck, maybe ~~Mary Sue~~Maria Clara and Ibarra's engagement is from a Kapitan Tiago/Ibarra Senior UST.

Damn you, Rizal. What cracktastic novels you have left us... #T__________T#

Do the Ibarra/Elias and Simoun/Basilio count as UST when we can come up with scenarios where they can get in on without breaking canon? XD And, ooooooooooooh, you broke my brain with Kapitan Tiago/Ibarra Senior UST being the reason for their engagement! @_@

Rizal, actually the master intrigero of that time. XD

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