You can’t seem to fall apart without an earthquake

HELLO~  ♥ ♥ ♥

Hi. Wow. Been way, way, way too long. /o\ But I'm back~ And I have massive catching up to do!



Er, apparently Raw Paradise and OneManga shut down? And the internet semiexploded? But hey, it's not like there aren't a ton of other aggregate sites out there and at least the scanlation teams weren't targeted. Links break, but the internet moves on. So is life.

I have been doing the job thing, and by 'doing' I mean 'failing', so I am in the process of trying the job thing again. Family drama continues, but I have managed to extricate myself from it, thank god. I have been studying for the LSAT because I really can't avoid that much longer. I managed to loose my freaking driver's permit because it expired, how sad it that. It took a freaking MONTH to get a new one. (it is now official, I hate the DMV with a truly unholy passion. they made us wait outside for hours then told people to go home and come back tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and ARGH! it's summer! in florida!i still get twitches thinking about it.)

Have discovered Florence & the Machine. This should be interesting. Turns out it's good writing music.

Hm, fannish stuff. I watched BBC's Sherlock and I loved it to pieces. Or, alright, I loved the first and third episode to pieces, I kinda hit fast forward for most of the second. But the first and third were awesome! I read some Sherlock Holmes in middle school - Hound of the Baskervilles and a few short stories - so I was able to pick up on enough of the injokes for the show to be very amusing. ETA: aside from the slashyness, of course. :D  (And my ass is he a high functioning sociopath. They don't have a word for what he is, but it's not a sociopath. Yes, even if he exhibits some a disturbing number of the typical behaviors, there's a reason the DSM-IV is set up with a fluid diagnostic criteria - . /stops self before sidetracking into an Abnormal Psych rant.)

But yeah. Sherlock rocked. Ya'll should watch it.

Oh! And I read through the scanlations of Oofuri! I have lots to say about this!! ♥ (truthfully it's mostly along the lines of, 'oh god abe. ;_; i understand, bb, i do, but you can't do that. please stop doing that.' And what is this 'Kimobe' thing? And Meoto? And OH MY GOD WHY DID IT END THERE OH MY GOD. I think I will be needing some Oofuri icons. :D

The new PH chapter is out! And...so are all the other chapters I missed! orz Chapter recaps of those coming v. v. soon. And I think I'm gonna try reposting the faq, too, if for no other reason than to provide resource links now that OM is down.

Holic: ...you know, I'm feeling massively nostalgic for spazzy highschool!Watanuki. And Yuuko. And Himawari. Not that Watanuki isn't rocking the sexy outfits, but I miss the charm of how the series used to be. Still love it though. Damn you, CLAMP.

Belated reactions to PH and xxxHolic -



( Pandora Hearts, you know what this is about )




( And Holic. Watanuki, Watanuki, Watanuki... )

Here's the thing about that Stupid Egg. In my head? It is a black hole. Ever it showed up, every time I tried to think about what the hell it could be, all of my thoughts just went WOOOSH, into the void, never to return.

It drove me so crazy that for a long time, whenever I saw mention of that Stupid Egg, I plugged my fingers in my ears and went LaLaLaLaLa. Stupid Egg. La. La.

...and then I (maybe) had a breakthrough.

And there's every chance in the world that I'm wrong, but since we're getting very, very close to the wire (Sept 30!), I figure it's now or never. Time to put my chips on the table, so to speak. So.

( i think i know what the egg is, maybe, possibly, omg THAT STUPID EGG )

Tsubasa...is ending?

THIS FREAKING MONTH???

Oh my god.

*wanders around dazed*

...wait, what about Holic?

It is now three hours into the 28th. Where are my chapters. *cries*

Things that make me happy: discussion on the xxx_holic comm! :D :D :D Half of it is me blabbing away at anyone willing to talk to me, but still. Discussion! :D

Things that make me feel FLAMES on the sides of my FACE: The Last Airbender movie and the new headshots of the four leads. -_- (see racebending and aang_aint_white for more details.)

Things that are pleasantly surprising: The last Saiyuki chapter! That was interesting. More on this later.

Things that I really need to get my ass working on: Cliche Bingo. *small voice* Someone teach me how to write fanfic? I think I forgot...

Things that WILL happen sometime soon: getting G on either LJ or DW. It's gonna happen. I will make it happen. Yes, I will.

Things I am pondering: Is it possible to start up a Holic-reread comm? We've got a break right now and we're heading into the final stretch, so it seems like a good time to start one. Maybe something like, read two chapters a week, then discuss? Anyone on my flist interested?

1)  I have been spending my days playing a lot of Rock Band and reading some ST:Reboot fic.

I was playing yesterday when Conventional Lover by Speck came on. It's important to note that  I read the band name as 'Spock' at the time.

So I'm playing the song and it's gets about a third of the way through before I really start listening to the lyrics. I started laughing and laughing and messing up my score beyond belief because that is one tricky chorus, but I did not care because I was laughing too much.

A little taste.

"I wanna be your captain, my Pon Farr is a-risin'
So step on over here girl, my love is enterprisin'."

And since I had read the band name as Spock at first, I spent the entire song imagining it was Spock singing it instead of a Trekkie fanboy. I think my interpretation is better. XD




2) On the subject of Star Trek, there's something I feel the need to make very clear.

I am not a Trekkie.

I come from a solidly Star Wars based household. My early scifi experiences were all built around good, Force-based values, none of this  wamsy-pamsy Prime Directive mumbo jumbo. It has always been an established fact in my understanding of the extended universe that Kirk was a tool and Solo was made of awesome. That was just the way things were.

The movie...may have changed things. I think I'm having an existential crises. People, I have been to Memory Alpha. *holds head in hands*

I am not a Trekkie, I am not a Trekkie, iamnotatrekkie.




3) The new Holic chapter is out! Am still waiting for translations since written Japanese and I do not go well together. Then again, spoken Japanese and I don't get along all that well either, but at least we're on speaking terms with each other. (haha, see what I did there, i am so lame. /o\)

Watching SYTYCD right now while I wait for the Holic OAD to download. I expect it might be done sometime next month. -_-

Go faaaaaaaaster.

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