Itteh Bitteh Panda-Viewing Committeh

My plane leaves in a few hours. 22 hours' flight, and then we're there.

Oh gods, I'm going to China! *hyperventilates off several walls* I'm going to Asia! I'm going to see a bit of my dream come true. Waaaaaargh wurble groagh meh ^__^ (<-lemming being eloquent)

I still have half my bags to pack, Santa is here early and thus the lemming has been run over by a steamroller.... and I shall /not smoke/ for - at least 4 days at most a week - *dies*

WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! CHINAAAAAAA!!!

Guess you can tell - I'm happy.

Photo-reminiscing

I finally managed to persuade myself today to move my furry lemming ass off the internet and /walk/. I took my camera with me and took a 2-hour stroll around the neighbourhood where I grew up.

Things have changed - of course. It was to be expected. Things look smaller. Some stuff is being built now, some stuff has disappeared. Whole streets have been reconfigured, to the point of lemming confusion.

But ye gods, things look /smaller/. And dusty. And very sunny.

And nothing could have matched the feeling in my stomach, because this will always be the place where I go to find my peace, to find my energy. Where every corner is filled with memories. This is where my uncle, my cousin, my grandpa and I were walking one day, and my cousin kept mistaking blue for green and the other way round. This is where I broke my stockings playing football with the boys. This is where I scratched my leg and nearly gotten tetanos. This is where a tyre swing used to be. And among these spaces are pockets of space that I have no memory of at all - which is refreshing.

I have written about this before, about how much and how inexplicably I love the appartment buildings of Bucharest, but these are dearer to me by far, because around them I built this world of stories and exploring, back in the day when I was young enough to believe that two streets from me there lived a dragon, and that Heaven was concealed between two trees on the little island in the middle of the park.

The curse of Naruto is upon me! [also, having fun in Jrock land is good for one's health]

I am at wits' end! Which, as anyone who knows me will tell you, is just a brief 5-minute stroll, but that's so beside the point it's actually... meh T__T"

I'm in a state of limbo where I've joyfully finished reading Gakuen Alice some days ago, but am unable to let go of the fandom just yet. Normally, this would translate into a bunch of other days' worth of watching AMVs and reading fanfics but... I /swear/, there aren't more than 10 good fanfics out there! As for AMVs... not even Gin would have the guts to go there. Not even on a dare from Aizen.

I looked through ff.net. I raked lj upside-down and crossways, and except for a rather /bald/ NatsuRuka community, I came across /nothing/! Not even decent MikanNatsume fics (which I would have normally abhorred, since they are the canon pairing. Bohohoring!)

I did have fun one morning with a fic written by a very funny author, "How to write a bad Natsume x Mikan fanfic." Seriously, look it up, it's a doll! And sadly, since it was among the first ones I read, it totally fucked up my perception of all the other ones. Because, by Jove, they /all/ fit the bill. Indiscriminately! Self-insert, next to no characterization, oodles of bad description, "paragraphs? what paragraphs?!", Mary-Sue OCs, et cetera up the whazoo. *mumbles something about there being this one fic where Mikan gets abused by her boyfriend, but then Natsume has to up and save the damsel. Puke*

Oh, and everywhere I looked, there was *growl* Naruto! Communities like "11 reasons" or "30 kisses"? One in two fics was bloody Naruto! Fanart? Naruto. Icons? Naruto. Blooming Naruto and his moronic whiskers everywhere! ARGH!

Then I tried looking for sites that stream /subbed/ xxxHolic or Kyou Kara Maou, and guess what I bloody found: NARUTO!

I swear it's after me. I am being haunted by Naruto. Fuck, of all the lame ways to go...

In other news, I also took an afternoon off to indulge in some Jrock fanfiction, since my apetite was sparked by some Diru fics (like, when in doubt or at a loss, choose yaoi! =))...help me?) That at least assuaged my fears and proved that Gakuen Alice wasn't the only fandom shipped by authors that were 14 years old maximum... or at least people who write as such. From this particular experience, kids, we can thus learn that:

- Gackt can, sometimes, be filled with quilt, so much quilt that it's eating him up inside (see?! I /told/ you that lint is evil!)

- Mana is a historical man (on several occasions). Hwell, now!

I also learned some new and enlightening aspects regarding head-shaving as lice prevention, spirit summoning on Christmas eve and random gay sex. Shall I expand? /:)

Even further removed from any particular subject... I'm beginning to like Yoshiki (X Japan) more and more. His MySpace blog was such a warm and endearing read. And I felt the need to hug him on several occasions. It's sad but heart-warming to read about his feelings concerning Hide's untimely disappearance. Also, can I please move into his pool? ^__^ (yes, I'm aware that makes no sense. Also, I can't believe he took coffee and hot chocolate to people camping outside the venue waiting for his concert. Stuff like that is from another world altogether.)

Ummm... not making much sense. Wasn't really planning on it, but it would have been a nice added bonus.

I cried watching the "Tears" PV again. If I keep this up, people will start calling me emo =))



May the 9 tails of Naruto be with you!

Life in color

I came across a very nice meme while surfing the web looking for /good/ GA fanfics (oh ye gads, I'll come back to this topic.)

You have to use Flickr for it, but it's ok even if you don't have an account (I don't, o I left the last question blank).
* Type your answer to the questions into a flickr search
* Using only the first page, pick an image
* Copy and paste each of the urls in the Mosaic Maker

The questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to do when you grow up?
10. Who/ what do you love most in life?
11. Choose one word that describes you?
12. What is your Flickr name?



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Thank you and congratulations to the people who took these pictures. They are simply amazing. (except for the Gackt one, which is also smexy, and would be even more so, if only you could see the man's face. But alas, I'm too lazy to fix that ^_^)

Lemming cleaning up her room

Yep, that wonderful once-every-four-years time when the lemming grabs all her school books and notes and shit and makes a bonfire out of them in her front yard! With pole-dancing and cookies and pumpkin juice! (um... not really, not in the least because I don't /have/ a yard. What I actually do is grab armfulls of the foul stuff and throw them in teh dumpsteh. ^__^ )

So going through the papers carefully, since I have this bad tendency of writing /important/ things on scraps of paper/book pages/etc, I came across a piece of paper that made my day. I actually do vaguely remember reading one of the Harry Potter books (translated in Romanian by that wonderful woman Iepureanu, whose butchering/assassination skills of the English language are as of yet unparalelled, at least in my small limited world) with a sheet of paper next to me, in order to jot down what I found particularly amazing, funneh or plain awe-inspiring in the way of translating epic fail.

I'd like to apologize to non-Romanian-speaking people, because you'll just have to miss out on this joke of near-cosmic proportions. Just take my word for it - it's bad. It's also really really /sad/. Of course, I may have just missed out on some rather /expansive/ chunks of my own mother tongue. That can happen, right? >.>

I don't remember much about the context these phrases were taken from (heck, I don't even remember the book. It must have been the sixth, though, because of the whole "scales=solzi" debacle. So I'll just transcribe directly what was on the sheet, lemming notes and all.) Some are "false friends", some are plain non-existent in the Romanian language, some are just poorly worded for a (primarily) kids' book. And don't argue with me on that last one. Anything licensed to Edmond (or Egmond or whatever the name of the publishing house is) /is/ primarily a kids' book.

Without further ado...

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- fara a lasa sa transpara nici un semn de neliniste

- se intreba cand avea sa sune nenorocitul ala

- prin crapatura usii vazura o fasie dintr-un barbat, cu chipul incadrat de doua perdele de par negru, era palid si cu ochii negri (frazeologie FTW!)

- vrajitor-sef al Vrajustitiei (the Vajthatz lady strikes again! Woot!)

- chip calos (I can only assume this came from "callous". KEK!)

- cemaifacimaibaiete (WTS arm and leg to see what generated /this/ masterpiece)

- o frumusete rapitoare, care iti taia respiratia

- macar Tonks are simtul umorului si este amuzanta (redundant beta-ing much?)

- trialul de Quidditch (ce s-a gasit fata noastra sa romanizeze...)

- scales = solzi. This will never ever /ever/ cease making me laugh

- Ron reusise niste parade cu adevarat spectaculoase. (prob. de la "a para", although... KEK MAMU!)

- McLadden "s-a dus dupa tigari" - when Hermione threw the Confundus curse (L/N 2008: what, that seriously was in the book?! Even I can't believe it =))....)

- macheta stranie si penata (adica cu pene, conform d-soarei Iepureanu) a sistemului solar

- pentru ca fata (din context, era vorba de Ron =))))))))) lolz0r) nu patise nimic grav, fiindu-i administrat antidotul imediat (well, I /know/ he's a pussy, but come /on/, woman!)

- durere leshinatoare. No words, no comment.

- cand spui ca aveti o multime de lucruri in comun, vrei sa spui ca si el traieste in curbura in forma de U? (what. the. fuckz0r.)


- Dumbledore gemu si incepu sa geama (no, you don't say... Liek srsly now, ever heard of a Beta?!)

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So yeah. I'm still laughing. You should, too, unless you fail to see this funny and perceive it as bloody sad instead. In that case: 1. you are emo or 2. you're too busy packing your bags and running away from this "picior de plai, gura de rai" land of all grammar&vocabulary possibilities. In that case, see you on the other side.

Ummm.. didn't see this one coming >.>

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Control freak with a tomboy attitude. *sag* I swear, these people have probably met me IRL or something...

Gakuen Alice follow-up

Oh noes! I'm almost up to date with the manga. Damn! From now on I'll have to wait a whole two weeks for it to update. "Gakuen Alice", meet the fellow titles in the waiting room - Bleach, Ouran and Loveless. *rips hair out of head. Because she can. Also, because she's tired of having near-heart-attacks from all the tension*

Mmmm, the delicious tension... and Natsume is almost getting boring, professing his love for Mikan all over the place. 'Slike, the only thing he has left to do now is to ask for Mikan's hand in marriage from Yuka. WTF, it's not like he's not in the same room with her as we speak =))


Anyway, follow-up from this post (questions, suppositions and suppositors - as in the stuff you put up your butt, of course):

- does Mikan have a third Alice or something? I know, it would seem like too much to give the biggest moron in manga history THREE Alices - as many as Sakurano (whom I love immensely right now), but I haven't gotten the feel of the mangaka well enough to know whether or not she would "stoop so low" (plotwise). Also speaking about the mangaka and how low she's willing to stoop (which is not very, as far as I would like to believe), it would be too much to believe that the cassandraic dreams are /not/ becacuse of an Alice, but just because Mikan is so smart and pretty and intelligent and BLAH. I mean, that just doesn't happen :))

Soooo... explanation! I wants! Gimme! *remembers Tono accusing Tsubasa of sexually harassing Mikan, then saying "Gimme!" It was so wrong, and so beautiful!*




- what is the deal about Hii-sama's words, that "there should not be a problem about Mikan resonating with Sakurano"? I always got this feeling that they are somehow connected - more than simply through Sakurano's love and respect for Yuka. Could it mean that...

(and yes, I /am/ going to leave that phrase unfinished because

a) I don't really know how to finish it yet =)) and I don't want to dumbly start assuming that he's her relative of some sort - although the difference in years between him and Yuka is kinda the same as that between Subaru and Hotaru, and come on, Yuka played a tad too lovingly with those two

and b) because the manga does this sentence-leaving-in-mid-air so much that I've grown white hairs because of it. I swearz! Ask my hair-stylist :))...)




- Ooooh, Tsubasa! I wants you alive and well and goofing around! Please! I am starting the "Tsubasa cannot possibly ever ever die ever" League tomorrow. Who wants to join?




- I also wants more Youichi! (because he is a lot of sex too, in his 13-year-old-form. I am a loli-shouta *hangs head in shame. Also, since head is pointing down, it's easier to see all the lovely "lollies" =)))))*)




- I wonder if Yuka was a Hanahime when she was in school. That would explain Hii-sama's interest and knowledge in that domain, but wouldn't it be a let-down if that was all there was to it? ^____^




- Is Mikan really going to leave with Narumi? Or with Yuka? Guess not, since that would end the entire manga pretty quick =)) And we'd never get to know what the Elementary School Principal's plans are, and I /want/ to know about them. Sadly enough, the manga wouldn't end if /Hotaru/ was leaving - and that sucks cock so profusely I can't even express it in its entirety.

That was that was that... prolly. Though I still have a chapter and a half to go, and as was the case with the Bartimaeus books, I'm trying to make it last. Fuck it, I'm so worked up that it'll take me some time and a couple of cigarettes to go to bed. Can't believe this is over a silly manga. Oh, how the cookie crumbles! Senpai, what have you done to me?!!!!! *hyperventillates all around senpai. Finally succumbs to fatigue and drops with her head in senpai's lap. And starts drooling.*

Musical love and joy (currently making me feel slightly sexeh, because, as all my acquaintances have had the joy/pleasure/sickening experience to hear over these past weeks, "Natsume is so much sex, KYAAA!!!" *cue lemming going slightly berserk*. Also because the way those boys go "La la la" in the chorus makes me giddy)

DespairsRay - HOLLOW

Itteh bitteh suicide committeh

Argh graaaah gurgle bleah.

(that was me after 2 days under my dear mother's acute surveillance, having me apply to moronic positions all over the bloody world, positions which, I would dearly like to mention, I am in no fucking way qualified to obtain.)

I am bloody drained. And I so wanted to have fun with the Drabble meme from Senpai. *moans and bitches like there's no tomorrow*

Thank god all the options have apparently been exhausted (kinda like how I've been exhausted myself) and I can now get some peace and quiet. I still don't have the energy, though, to either do the Drabble meme or read Senpai's one, because I /know/ it won't manage to get at my wittle heart like it could if I were... more rested? Less frustrated? Less scared of the future? Pffft.

But... hell... Versailles is a panaceum right now, so I'll just go listen to "Shouts & Bites" really loudly, then get my creative juices juicing. royXed, here I come.

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Later edit: I have bloody done it! (there seems to be a lot of "bloody" in this post, apparently =))...hah...ha?)

The drabble meme, featuring the beautiful Roy - Ed pair.