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HK and now back to the fold.

So everybody, everywhere
Don't be afraid, don't have no fear
I'm gonna tell the world, make you understand
As long as there'll be ~~music~~fandom, we'll be comin' back again

Shoot have I been neglectful of this side of the fandom or what? Fortunately dreamwidth works at work (for now!) even if lj doesn't, so I can post. And boy do I have something to post!

My sis, her friend and I went to HongKong last March for something really special. Like epic special - like I will never forget it for the rest of my life sort of special. I saw Hyde for reals and he is as beautiful as his pics, except he's real and Ken and - /squees.

( L'arc~en~Ciel and the rest of the HK trip under the cut. )

Current Mood: awake

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Work A somber mood has descended, the honeymoon is over, etc., etc. They're downsizing the company's support group which meant our supervisor spoke with some of us to let them go or to let them move to another support dept. ._.; I'm still here, somehow, though this uncertain air is wrecking havoc

Blind Go I may finally have a story to tell. I'm still waiting for it to develop further in my head, but if it doesn't work out I may have to do a previously abandoned idea. ._.;

Remaining cosplay plans for the year TnB's Antonio (apparently I can make myself look manly enough, though we're joking about the chest hair part in facebook) (Cosmania Day 1), [C]'s Masakaki, Dekiwaku Hiyama Kiyoteru (Cosmania Day 2?). This Sunday I'm going as Nyotalia!Russia but I'm still sewing, and keeping my fingers crossed I will finish on time to go to Best of Anime/Manila bookfair. Cosmania plans are easy to do since a. I'm gonna help our group prepare since two of them might enter the individual cosplay contest b. I have the camera with me, and I want to take pictures of the cosplayers. I wish I had a Gakupo to go with for the Dekiwaku cosplay, but *shrugs*

In other news: the English translation of vocaloid's Kiyoteru and Gakupo's Dekiwaku (溺惑) makes me giggle and squirm. I'm like, "Really, now, sensei~♥?!"

Other than blind_go, well.

There is definitely some hate happening on me when it comes to the internet. I can't post on lj, on ij, but I hafta pimp this out.

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Livejournal's troubles and our internet issues caused me to be offline for quite a bit, even when I intended to be post here more. ._. Talk about bad timing. I'll catch up in a bit, friends ^_^;;

Random stuff I've been drawing - Barnaby from Tiger and Bunny

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Hey! I'm still alive~! *invokes Portal 2 ending song xD* LJ's been wonky lately on my end, or maybe it's my internet. *shrugs* We really should get DSL for the house one of these days. Had a bit of fun around Rapture last Saturday because I was on my way home at 6pm and I looked up at the sky for five minutes, before going "Huh. Just like May 6 2000." and went off my merry way.

Recently I keep falling asleep the moment I get home. It's very annoying, because it throws me off schedule. :| I've been meaning to test the sewing machine again and practicing for a skit for the next Toycon but - *shrugs* We only have less than a month or so to go.

Random thought: It's a good think Hetalia's and HikaGo's timelines are at odds, or you can imagine Shindou invoking Poland's rule during haya-go with Fukui:

Shindou: I won't give up!
Fukui: Hey, I know what you're up to!
Shindou: Poland's rule!
Fukui: That's cheating!
Shindou: Nu-uh. It's gonna be my turn forever!
Fukui: Let me invoke Estonia's rule then: SHINNNNDOOOOOOUUUU~!

(Obviously this will never work in canon, or with Touya I have no idea if Hikaru would even try.)

Rec for the day:
APH fancomic HRE-Germany goes to Venice to see North Italy during Carnivale.

♥

BG Reveals, fic rambling.

blind_go reveals are up! I think I was fairly obvious with my choice of characters to write, but then who knows? This is Kakurenbo who wrote The Cat Coalition and Two paths.

The Cat Coalition was easier to write - I adore cats and when I was younger would do pretty much what Kaneko did in the fic. And at the back of my head I kept thinking that there were other people in the HikaGo 'verse who are associated with cats, like Mitani, for example! He had his slanted eyes and that chapter page where he was handing a fish bone to a cat. ^_^ I kept the story simple - like how a child would remember what was happening. I have to admit that my first thought about the ending was getting the cat run over during a rainy afternoon (!!!) but I'm glad I went with the Mitani adopting the cat route. I might've traumatize Kaneko for life otherwise D:

So the second fic, Two paths, is one of those fics I've wanted to write but never got the chance to do so. Be around me long enough and you'll notice that Ogata/Shirakawa is actually my OTP (!) despite having written weird stuff for Ogata to fap over. If there were equivalent people for the Morishita and Touya stables, Ogata and Shirakawa would be the ones for each other, etc. *is slightly going off-topic here so -*

But! The fic itself didn't hint at there being a pairing for the two. (Well not yet, anyway!) What I definitely wanted to showcase was the difference in how the two were portrayed to love the game, so I made Shirakawa grow to like the game naturally, whilst Ogata passion for the game stemmed from his focus being directed to it from early on. If Ogata sounded boring, I'm so sorry! He learned his bad boy pimping ways when he was an adult. ~~Totally from other Meijin students or even the Meijin himself, ahahahaha~~

Well, I hope you didn't mind my ramblings! ^_^
I've created a tumblr full of random stuff not-so-recently. Idek why I have one ahahahaha~

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: at the office
Current Music: someone's recording

Entry tags:

blind_go

Busy days ahead -

Hi, I’m posting at work and kinda half out of my mind (rating is hell O_o) so some of these will not make sense. But hey, did anything special happen to you this Friday the 13th? The only crappy thing that happened was the Seattle’s Best barista forgot to give a fork for the sans rival, and the cover for my Raspberry Kiss Mocha was a bit loose. ^^;

Music Currently glutting on NICO touches the wall and School Food Punishment, the bands I recommended over at lj the other day. Right now I have almost all the singles from SFP, but having problems getting stuff for NICO aside from one single. ^^;;

This weekend is going to be a bit busy, based on the to-do list I made. I have a couple of things I need to do for local fen and coworkers, and I need to make sure I do as trixie reminded me and go on determining who won the themes challenge in this round of blind_go. Also, I'm going home later than usual tomorrow morning; I plan to wait till the malls open so I can look for a wig and appropriate cloth for my sister (June cosplay plans : Fantasia Russia with a Ukraine! And Succession!Austria) as well as to ask our neighbor to sew the Austria coat and inner vest since it’s beyond my meager sewing skills. Then I’ll meet the rest of the war of Succession Group on Sunday to schedule practice and other important tasks just to cover all the bases. And I do plan to sleep sometime as well. >_>

Speaking of blind_go: I spent my whole fx ride to work reading through blind_go round 3’s chat, and found out that I seem to owe people the following chat prompts. I think they’re from muri, tari, ver, imbrii, ai, and other people. I’m not indicating who asked for what especially for the latter half.

( pretty much the most random list of people to ship/fic together in HikaGo, and some other series (oh hay Prince of Tennis) )

That was the same chat where people got assigned a HikaGo character, and why I was listed as Tsutsui and Ver as Isumi. I think it wasn’t the same chat that made us cousins, though! xD

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: school food punishment - RPG

Quick music share from C the Money of Soul and Possibility of Control

C: the Money of Soul and Possibility of Control is currently one of the series I'm following this season. I've got five others (Kaminomi, Sekaiichi, Deadman and Ao no Exorcist and Zexal) but I really like the opening and ending theme for this particular series, so I waited for someone to up a full version somewhere.

Yes, you read the title right. People duel with money. Not the money you have right now, but the money your future potential is worth. A penniless Economics student named Yoga Kimimaro is chosen to duel by a representative of the Midas Bank at random.

You'd freak out too if a pink-haired dude in a tophat pops out of nowhere. >_>

His potential takes the shape of a fighter that is called an Asset (you probably expected that ahahaha!) he calls Mashu. Attacks and defense are called out during a Deal, and the numbers are taken from your potential. If you win, your potential increases. So it's like dealing in the stock market, with fighting. ^^;

Kimimaro + Mashu.

Anyway, you're not here for me to flail over it. You're here for the music, right?

NICO touches the Wall - Matoryoshika
The OP Theme. Reminds me a bit of Heidi from Maid-sama (the ending theme Yokan) but with a lighter vibe.
school food punishment - RPG
The ED theme. This is a PV Rip.

Current Location: home
Current Music: School Food Punishment - RPG

May 8 2011: reporting with pics. And stuff. And cosplay.

Warning: Pic heavy post, random ramblings, family (my ugly mug! xD) and cosplay under the cut.

( May 8 2011: Bulacan + Metrocomicon 2011 Day 2 )

quick icon dump

Blind Go Fics are UP! You can find them here and omg so excited! I'll be making a guessing post soon, but first let me unload what happens when Photoshop is open and chat is open and yeaaah.

BG Chat icons

Blind Go survivors icons

I'll post them to kifu_archive once I have more than ten of them, which should be around tomorrow at the rate I'm churning them out ^^;

Feeling better and panic mode on

Thank you for all the messages of concern, I'm feeling better now. What we thought was measles was just a sort of rash because of the heat. What I did have was a combination of high fever, UTI and mild pneumonia. (Okay, so maybe that wasn't reassuring. ^^;v) The fever was the really bad part - I'd had high fever for five days before I agreed to be checked into the hospital because I thought it would go away. ^^; Nevertheless after a couple of days' confinement and IV and really weird stuff, I'm fine, and even went to work last night. I kinda felt bad for the people who took up the slack for last week, so I treated them to Starbucks when I saw them. Right now I'm just fixing up the paperwork for the hospitalization and drinking meds for whatever is left in my system.

Blind Go Panic mode has set in, because there's less than twenty-four hours left, and I've yet to submit. ^^; I'll be lurking in chat tonight while I wait for entries. ^_^;

Entry tags:

rl is killing me

Sick.

Have measles. Confined to room. Now wondering if I can make the blind go deadline.

Sick but-

Hi, currently hibernating for the past two days at home because of a weird flu/heat exhaustion c-combobreaker. So if you were trying to message me I'm really sorry!

Here, have something fun while I recover. :)

You are a Opportunist Seme

Preying on the clueless is what you're all about. You really don't intend to hurt anyone, but if a bit of harmless manipulation can get you what you want, you're not beyond taking a little advantage of someone, which you figure is an even exchange for your companionship anyway. Not one for lots of drama, you are best paired with the Clueless Uke, who will appreciate your attention and never bat an eye at your slightly sneaky ways.

Most compatible with: Clueless Uke, Innocent Uke

Least compatible with: Badass Uke

What seme or uke are you? Take the experience at SemeUke.com, or get seme/uke merch..

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Arashi: Lotus

Three bulletpoints.

blind_go IDs have been sent out. *spazzing* It's official, guys. The game is a-foot, and what do I do about it? I ended up re-reading my old BG fics O_o; The unfinished ones! I'm setting myself up for some trouble, ain't I? I'm trying to finish "In search of your tomorrows" which is the Hikaru is an unlucky soccer player fic (just a little bit more and it'll be done!), and the Erlkonig fic.
I just finished a sentence scan for the drafts of Death Games chapter 3 – at least the drafts I have at work. I have no doubt I have multiple drafts at home of the same chapter, so I’ll have to bring this particular draft for yet another sentence comparison with those. ^^; I realized there was a scene shift and characterization mistake for Sentarou, so I’ll have to think of a way to make it work. I’m also trying to find the references I had for Interlude, because I need the translations for Takesato’s story. Actually, I just need a lot of references to update it.
Something totally unrelated to writing: I keep falling asleep at work!

Current Mood: restless

so how many days does this make it? Two? Three?

Apparently Mercury retrograde is hitting me hard. LJ is down, and Edgar is having weird symptoms yet again D:

So lj lets me update my icons (which are all lovely!), but I can't reply to posts, click on lj-cuts, and open community entries. Brilliant, abso-bloody-lutely brilliant! I'm just going to curl up here into a ball ~~and trawl ff.net in the hopes of something catching my fancy.~~

Quick notes: Interest gauging poll on

blind_go chat can be found here. Sign ups are extended until the 10th of April (!) so if you are pinged by the theme, please join here. ^_^; Though it's kinda hard joining when you can't even comment on anything orz orz orz.

...I actually napped while in front of my pc. I may need to turn in soon. >_>

Big Edit Crossposting on DW let me post! YAY!

This is a fluffeh post.

I just had to write it as fluffeh. Because fluffy is not enough. It has to be fluffeh~ /that was the drowsiness talking.

marshmallow fondant.

Currently finishing on the graphics for winners of

blind_go. One of the Shindou art I was trying was more suitable for a header than a banner, so

hostilecrayon got a layout xD; Speaking of Lish and fluffeh:

Sweet games to play (133 words)
Touya wasn't sure what to say when Shindou brought out his present. It was unexpected, and an immensely suitable for a Go pro, but no doubt the bakery shop Shindou had commissioned this cake from knew that they were nerds for Go.

"So what'cha think? It's great, isn't it?" Shindou proudly took off the lids from the chocolate go-ke, and motioned for Touya to sit across him. The edible goban with black and white fondant pieces was 13x13, and, as Shindou said, was a chocolate cake with a minty mallow filling.

"Don't tell me they're actually functional."

"Sure are. We have to stay in here with the air conditioning and all, but otherwise it works. Come on, you know you want to."

Touya shrugged, and grabbed a handful of the white pieces for nigiri.

Most recent post to the Snupin Comm. NWS!

Sleeping!

-- even more help Japan links

Quick link roundup because I'm strangely groggy today and I might turn in early:

More on helping Japan (continuation of links from my previous post)
From Ariri-nee: Arashi_on's fundraising drive - works a bit like the help_Japan auction, from what I can see.
From Ariri-nee again: Arashi_on's fundraising garage sale
midori_lover is also offering fic for Hetalia in this thread
Negshin at DA is offering a limited edition print with 6.50 of each sale going to tsunami and earthquake charities. Visit the store here for the rates on international shipping.
One of my friends is also accepting commissions for Japan
TsubasanoUmi@DA has an auction thread for art on help_Japan
Jin (behind_infinity@DA) had also posted links for ways to donate, as well as an option for local fen to donate at Tamashii Con on March 19.

A related post: How to check the charity you wish to donate to courtesy of

jade_mushroom. I learned a lot from her comments on my previous post.

I wish I could offer something for the auctions, but I know that I'm a terrible flake when it comes to deadlines, so rather than cause problems later, I'll donate to the local Red Cross this Saturday.

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I swear tomorrow I'll make a meaty post about what's happening to me, but right now, me is taking a backseat while there are people that need all the help we can give.

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In more light-hearted news: Signups for blind_go round 11 are up.

[Signal Boost] What you can do to help Japan

Originally posted by

tomboy_typist at [Signal Boost] What you can do to help Japan

Reposting and boosting from

gehayi 's post.

The American Red Cross is taking donations. You can even specify where you want the donation to go. (Note If you specify where you want the funds to go, said donations will be earmarked for that country alone, instead of any excess being funneled to others in need.)

The British Red Cross has a disaster fund, if not a special fund for the earthquake victims.

Convoy of Hope is already helping the earthquake and tsunami victims, and is accepting donations.

Network for Good--a collection of charities--is working to give relief to the victims of the quake and tsunami. The organizations participating are:

( relief for your flist )

You can also go to

help_japan on LJ. They're having a fandom auction, starting on March 14th. All proceeds are going to vetted charities.

Note: updated post based on comments.

On a quick note: people I know who currently have auctions running:

Other threads/offers (not necessarily in help_japan
flonbonne's offer for fic for donations to the Red Cross

I'll make a more rambly post about life later.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: JBF~Punk Ballade Mix

Was not productive :|

I got distracted by changing the layout here on lj - I was tired of the default blue smooth sailing I was using, so here's a tweaked layout based on one at

fruitstyle. I love the layouts they make there, and I didn't realize I've spent over an hour creating the banner and tweaking the colors. :|

Anyway, please don't forget that blind go's mini-round: All or Nothing went off without a hitch! All the fics can be found at

answer_key and I'll be posting my own guessing post on

5_in_binary. I'm shocked - SHOCKED I tell you - that Ver hasn't guessed me yet. :)

pops right back here

A quick post to assure you all that I'm still alive, and rather pleased by my computer upgrade. I've finally retired Figaro after eight long years of support, and now my desktop, aptly named Edgar, is taking the brunt of the downloading/browsing/art-making workload. I've only gone through a tenth of its one terabyte HDD, and I'm crossing my fingers it won't take me less than six months to run out of space. Which is entirely possible, you know! :D

( A cut to the two photos of things I've been busy with )