ARGLEBARGLEBARGLE. My masochism has returned. :FFF

I'm back to reading Berserk. Yeah, I inexplicably got sucked back in again, by Farnese of all people. She is a pretty interesting character – pyrophiliac Rebellious Princess and Templar Knight with maaaajor issues, whom the spoilers tell me will eventually have a Heel Face Turn and hang out with Casca while learning magic from Schierke. So yeah, very interesting character.

And the manga is, well, exceptionally good but... oh Berserk. I hate so much about the things you choose to be.

( Ranty-rant about the ladies and how the narrative hates them. Contains triggers. )

Some random thoughts

• Am I strange for finding Defying Gravity both strangely compelling watching and a little bit on the naff side? #

manonlechat The original Inu Yasha anime ended a few years ago when the animators ran out of manga storyline. The final chapters of the story have now been made into a 26-episode series. Viz has been releasing subbed versions over the web the same day they air in Japan.


...Oh my god, internets, flist... FAIL. YOU HATH ALL FAILED ME. *shakes fist at LJ, especially particular people from shared old old fandoms*

How could no one on my flist possibly have mentioned this???



BTW, I love you all and hope you had a happy Thanksgiving! Still, dude.

So the last time I went home to visit the parents, I came back to town with two squash.

One of these squash was, I kid you not, substantially larger than my fifteen-pound cat. The neighbors and I ate just the neck of the monstersquash in a huuuuuuge vat of soup... leaving over 3/4 of it left for future use. It's now occupying a sizable chunk of my freezer. I haven't even opened the second squash yet.

I went home again for Thanksgiving.

I came home with four more squash (three pumpkins and an acorn).

Now my Christmas prayer goes like this:

"Oh please oh please oh please, let there only be six squash coming back next time. Because I'm clearly caught in either an arithmetic or an exponential progression, and I am just not mentally prepared to deal with sixteen more squash..."

Has anybody got any easy, low-fiddly non-dessert recipes for pumpkins/squash? Between low-carb and low-fat restrictions, pumpkin pies/breads/cakes are kind of out of the question, and I've made a bunch of soup and a bunch of curry and am trying to figure out what else to do that's mass-squash-using (ravioli's way too fiddly to use that much squash with, and my freezer would explode...)

Hi, I'm Lucy, I'm 16 today(!!!), and I live in Rhydyfelin, in a town called Pontypridd (South Wales). I've never actually met any Welsh lolitas, so I'm veeeerry interested in making some lolita friends and perhaps attending a meet-up sometime! Are there any fellow South-West-of-Britain-dwelling-lolitas out there who are interested in going out for shopping and lunch in the near future? I know there used to be a group who met in Bristol a lot, but I haven't heard from them in a while...
Soz for the introduction post >-<


Lucy

Something so dumb and dangerous that the Japanesse report on it in 'wtf' tones.

So, after an absence of far to many months, yesterday I headed off to Gunman Airsoft for a day of running around and playing with expensive toy guns. The day didn't start too well as my gun is still firing too 'hot' (360fps rather than the safe 350fps) so I had to shell out an extra £20 on a rental. Thankfully the site owner, Josh, spotted my situation and instead of my having to use either a regular rental AK or M4 (neither of which I personally like) he let me rent his G3SAS which worked like a dream.

As I was there by myself I got put in with a bunch of people that I'd never meet before, however they were all rather groovy and included a bunch of youngish lads (sub-25, beyond that I have no idea) who's response to getting shot was to laugh and compliment the person that had just gunned them. The games themselves were the normal mix of retrieval, clearance, and assault missions but it all had rather a different flavor to what I have been used to as it started with a 'single-shot-only' slow game rather than the old opener of a blindingly fast full auto game. It really set the pace and the mood for the rest of the day, resulting in some spectacular displays of honorable game play, temper control, and determination to have a laugh by both teams. I was mostly doing assault and a bit of command, the former cause it meant I got to shot at people and the later because the largest 'group' of people on our side was 3 people so someone needed to co-ordinate things. Got props for both parts, and managed to keep my 'kills to deaths' ratio around the 2:1 mark.

Downsides of the day were the aforementioned AEG problems, the obligatory feeling like my body had been through a mill afterwards, and having 2 of my 4 grenades fail to detonation (including the perfectly placed one that I managed to get through a window from about 12 feet away). Small things though, so I'll let them slide in the face of outrageous fun from everything else. The weather was also somewhat crappy and cold, but although it threatened to rain all day it managed to hold off till the evening so I'll mark that up as 'could have been so much worse'.

My target for next year is now set at '5 events', along with finally getting my AEG to have the right FPS and picking up a launcher as I've been lusting after one for 2 years now. I'm sure that house, kittens, health, money, and having other things to do with my time will get in the way of all of that but a man has to have goals. Especially when they involve firing BBs at each other.

Some random thoughts

• argh! my airsoft gun is still firing too hard. It's managed to go from 355 to 360 FPS after a downgrade. My gun defies all logic #

So Ten Inch Hero has been on my to-watch list since I read a transcript of this scene:





knowing that Jensen Ackles would be playing Priestly. WARNING: this is the second best scene in the movie.

The VERY best scene in the movie( spoilers )

Well I was all set to do next week's Bible reading, when I accidentally spilled hot chocolate all over my poor Oxford. Because I am smooth like that. So while Daniel 1 and 2 are busy drying out, have some Bible babble that I'd already typed up.

Today's subject: the Johns of the New Testament!

( And I don't mean toilets )

Okay, so the Literary Review has a Bad Sex In Fiction Award that is an attempt to: 'draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it'.

The shortlisted passages are here.

The best, and by 'best' I mean most atrocious (imho) is this one:

( Warning: A Sex Scene That Will Get You To Join A Nunnery Behind The Cut )

Fashion Intervention
by aishuu
Fandom: Glee
Characters: Rachel and Kurt
Rating: G
Wordcount: 650
Spoilers: For Hairography
Summary: So how did Kurt go about getting Rachel to agree to a makeover? A missing scene.

( When someone needs a makeover, I simply have to take over... )

Contained therein: Sakura the pimpmistress~, NaruHina-SasuSaku-NaruSasu quick pics to celebrate I Feel Like Playing With Hair day, a sexy no jutsu SasuSaku, and my OCs Breanna the cheerleader werewolf and James the grumpy businessman.(I hope all the pics show up DX tell me if they don't, devart's been acting weird)

( zomgpics. )

The drabble theme over at dokuga_contest a couple weeks back was Fling, and the un-cut version of my entry has been added to Unspoiled.


Chapter 16: Quite Contrary
Author: Forthright
Rating: G
Words: 395
Summary: CU. Sesshoumaru is displeased with Kagome.

Story Summary: Something goes awry during a trip through the Well, and Kagome is stranded in the distant past, where she encounters a familiar face. When a very young Sesshoumaru decides to keep her, the consequences ripple through time. SK. To begin at the beginning, here's the link to Chapter 1.

I totally get filial piety.

I really do.

But my dad left me a week's work of dishes since he knew I'd be coming home, and told me that my duty as his daughter is to "serve him." And by "serving," he means cleaning.

News for you, dad. My job is not to serve you. Saying I should have a responsibility to do some chores is very different language than serving him.

After Thanksgiving dinner, one of my younger male cousins who is now a junior at Rutgers thought it would be funny to not help out with cleaning and tell me that I can be his maid. I nearly decked him. And I don't mean that figuratively. That aside, dinner went fabulously well and there were many Black Friday sales that I went to with my other little cousin.

I would like to write a post about things I am thankful for but I think that will have to wait a couple of weeks, since that's when my deadlines are up.

Some random thoughts

• #pumpit till the end starts to bleed #
• #pumpt like a $3 whore #
• #pumpt like godzilla had bent it over a rusty radiator #
• twitpic.com/r5tq8 - The joy of web 2.0 #
• twitpic.com/r5tz8 - #pumpit win for @chococat #
• #pumpt man. Stop bouncing the ball and do a dance for the viewers! #
• #pumpt man. SHOE ON HEAD! SHOE ON HEAD! SHOE ON HEAD! (please) #
• #pumpt man. Shoe on head please! #
• #pumpt shoe on head. shoe on head. shoe on head!! #
• #pumpt, #pumpt till she cries for moar!! #

Amanii [11:31 PM]: yoooo
Amanii [11:31 PM]: you know what I'm mad about
CatzeR!na [11:31 PM]: ?
CatzeR!na [11:31 PM]: wht
Amanii [11:31 PM]: have you ever been so ashy, that you leave dust behind in your leggings and shit
CatzeR!na [11:33 PM]: ?
CatzeR!na [11:33 PM]: what ?
CatzeR!na [11:33 PM]: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA
CatzeR!na [11:33 PM]: and yes
CatzeR!na [11:34 PM]: that happens to me in winter
Amanii [11:34 PM]: omg i was trying on my outfit that ima wear tomorrow
Amanii [11:34 PM]: and when i was taking the shit off and i was noticing the dust speckles
CatzeR!na [11:34 PM]: for some reason that sounded like th eopening of a chris rock joke
Amanii [11:34 PM]: i was like daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
CatzeR!na [11:34 PM]: ASHEEEH
Amanii [11:35 PM]: Ima have to take one of my 5 hours baths
Amanii [11:35 PM]: and exfoliate
Amanii [11:35 PM]: because the regular 1 hour baths wont be enough
CatzeR!na [11:35 PM]: LMAO

This meme has been on my flist like a bad habit:

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration.

Now, I'm not going to answer the questions like an obedient little girl, but if you have any questions, consider this an invitation.

Also, I loved this week's fannish5 :

Name five characters who would throw the best holiday gatherings.

1.) Barney Stinson. Can't you just imagine it? It would be leg -wait for it- dary.

2.) Iroh. He would be an amazing host. And the tea would always be hot.

3.) Gordon Gordon from Bones. The food would be to die for, and he's shrink your head to boot.

4.) Saetan SaDiablo. I would LOVE to dress up for dinner at his house.

5.) Loreleai Gilmore is NOTORIOUS for throwing epic parties.

Going to a play. I leave you with this:

Manchester Meet up

A while back me and Yuna_tulin posted a entry about plans to organise a manchester meet up, its just a friendly meet up for old and new lolitas.This is the plan:

Saturday 5th December 09
Where: Outside the urbis, Manchester central
About 1min from the train station and 4mins from the bus station
Time: 1pm although me and Yuna_Tulin will be there at 12.30

Once everyone arrives we will be going to a chinese buffet for lunch, the reason for this is to make it easier for everyones dietry requirements. It cost £5.50 and is a lovely place me and Yuna_tulin have been to many times.
After lunch we will visit afflecks palace and some photograpghs together.

Oujis, Dandys and Loltas of all types welcome!

EVEN IF YOU'VE TOLD ME YOUR COMING BEFORE- YOU MUST TELL ME YOUR COMING THIS TIME BECAUSE I AM PUTTING A LIST TOGETHER!
Reply with Definetly attending, possibily attending or cant attend.

If you have any problems send me your email i'l add you and help you out whether its with directions or you'd like to be picked up eleswhere.

Issue 3 is go!
Issue 3 is at the printers and arrives in lovely boxes on the 1st of December. Pre-orders are available on the website now.

I've been playing with the cool online magazine software Issuu and made a preview. Warning: One penis



Please do add ratings and reviews!

( Distribution etc )

Have a nice weekend everyone!
- Suraya

Aha, found out about this thru my twitter friends. Here be a youtube clip from the regional news coverage of the event. OMG, comics aren't just for kids, SHOCK HORROR. Let's play Spot Who You Know XD

Oh Lord save me from the temptation of the sin that is Black Friday.

The thought of me missing out on major sales are killing me

I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend I shall not spend

> A>;

I'm mad Rio even showed me this.


YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

http://www.ricoche.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14097

'spoding in 3... 2... 1...

Some random thoughts

• To buy a house you complete, then you exchange contracts, then you get the keys. Right... because "Completion" shouldn't be the final stage #
• sugababeslovewindows7.com - what the fuck! This is just astoundingly daft #
• I am amazed that there are specifically designed nasal steroids for improving your nose. I know it is medically dull etc but still #

And now Part 2 of the SIMOUN FANART SPAM! Which would be the spoilery and/or porny section.

So, WARNING: this spam contains SPOILERS for the entire Simoun series, including deaths, not!deaths, sex-changes, and so forth.

( Spoilers spoilers spoilers )

( And the NSFW section, which is spoiler-free )

( And one pic that is both NSFW *and* spoilery. Er. )

( And finally, a funny relationship chart of Chor Tempest, also spoilery )

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! As a present, here is an artspam I've been compiling for a while now:

SIMOUN ART SPAM!

It's big, so I broke it into sections. Section 1 is spoiler-free art!

( We were all maidens once... and some of us still are! )

I'm full of mashed potatoes, rolls, yams, and turkey. I'm contemplating pie with ice cream and also in the mood for a meme.

The Smut Writer's Meme: Name any pairing from past or current fandoms and ask me a question. I'll tell you anything you want to know about their sex lives from my own personal fanon.

I really want to sew more extensions onto clips.
I really want that thick hair, but my issue right now is my own.
I've noticed that my scalp starts getting really itchy after a while of wearing my clips :/ Which is probably my allergies to metal, and since my hair is still pretty much flat, it's having more direct contact with my scalp...
And then not to mention the regular soreness of having extensions in while your hair is freshly permed. Not that fun. It's really uncomfortable compared to before and I'm not that sure why.

Like... I have a millimeter of new growth that I feel, but it's only at the very top of my head, and obviously only a little bit of new growth like that I can't do much with :/

I'll probably make more clips. I want really thick hair for the tea party, do the whole gal fullness if I could, etc. etc.

I also want to try and do my favorite hairstyles with it. But it's all really difficult when my hair's still really flat and not trying to act full again.

UGH I HATE YOU RIO. I want that 40 dorrah weave and have hair to my hips, god dammit.


I'm also probably gonna have to start curling the hair at the top of my head at night so that the roots try to naturally stay upwards rather than flat down. Otherwise if I wait I don't think the huge hair ain't gonna work.

iopff hdoufdgbi ofdugb sdhyfg I want to experiment with gal makeup and try on the outfit I've been thinking about for next Saturday, but my mom's friend is here :/ I know he's lonely by himself and all, but I'd wish he'd leave already. Seriously.

Poll #1490798 How is robinbloke going to fuck his house up with a turkey this year
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

Will he

A merry Thanksgiving to all my colonial chums ^_^

Good Thing! The new series of QI starts tonight. YAY! Also, more Misfits.

Bad Thing! These American anti-gay-marriage ads are insane. Edit: But good thing! This parody response is wonderful, and has George Takei.

Good Thing! Anton Vowl's Christmas cards for Daily Mail readers are fabulous.

Bad Thing! People think they have the right to know what BBC employees earn. Problem is - apart from privacy concerns and all that - unless they know what other people in the media industry earn, the raw figures for the BBC tell them nothing. It's just another excuse for the Mail to have a go at the BBC. When I worked at the Beeb, you actually earned slightly less than the competitors because of the benefits of working there (job security, status, looks good on CV) and because it's publicly funded, but it would obviously still look like a lot to someone on minimum wage.

Good Thing! That kid who peed on a war memorial got community service. Seems to have had a sensible judge who wasn't going to imprison him just to "send a message".

Also, it's sunny. Hurray!

It looks like my scanner is now officially as dead as the proverbial doornail.
Le suck.
Next week I'll try to go to Fnac and get a new one.
They had a nice Canon at a very reasonable price last time I looked so that's good.

Some random thoughts

• right now all the stress about the house is being caused by either parents being mental or other people having attacks of the stupids #

LOOOOOOOOOL

Kishimoto is trolling the fandom again. XD Though I feel bad for some of you flistpeoples.

(spoilers are on chuunin if you wish to witness them in all their trolly glory)