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I'm officially addicted to this song. I found a decent AMV to it on youtube if anyone who hasn't heard the song wants to hear it. It's very catchy and haunting. I like.

Cody is showing me Vandread. So far it seems good. He has been trying to show me Steel Angel Kurumi, Maburaho, and Kurogane Communication, but my reaction is pretty meh. Vandread seems like it will be more fun. I find the premise interesting. I especially liked the propaganda video on the men's world where the "women" are all big bloodthirsty monsters. I'll be interested to see the women's world to find out what kind of differences there are.

Also, the opening song is catchy. Note the combination of mecha and fanservice. Can anyone tell why this is one of Cody's favorites?

Ganked from nighteevee

Pick a fictional character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions to the best of my abilities:

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.
2) Is he/she important to the general plot?
3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?
4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?
5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)
6) Is there anything about the character you would change?
7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)
8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?
9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone whose new to the fandom?
10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

I'm back from Vancouver. Ate way too much. Spent a lot of money. Had fun.

I got box sets of Azumanga Daioh and Genshiken, and a new Tsubasa Chronicles purse. Also the latest volumes of Tsubasa Chronicles and D.Gray-Man manga. Woot.

Tired now...

Damn, I can be vain sometimes...

☆ The Fanficcers Love Meme ☆

Basically you post stating your pen name, the fandoms you write for, and a link to where your stuff can be found. Then you invite people to tell you their favorite fic of yours.

So if anyone wants to... yeah. I also wouldn't mind seeing the ficcers on my friends list starting a thread for themselves so that I can reply to them.

Cody's in Vancouver for a couple of days. It's not bad having the apartment to myself, except at night. I always seem to want to pig out on snacks when I'm by myself at night. Luckily, we don't have any and I've managed to convince myself that it's too cold to go get some. Go me.

I want some good romantic angst. Fanfic would be nice. I don't know which fandom to go hunting in. I've been watching Onegai Teacher, which actually has some pretty good romantic angst, but I've already seen it so it's not as exciting.

Meh.

If I were more motivated, I'd write something myself, but I'm not. I just want something nice and satisfying to read or watch. Something dripping with a real romantic tension. I can't find what I'm looking for, and that frustrates me.

At least I don't work tomorrow. Woot.

Ganked from sailormac.

Give me a series, and I'll tell you about my "personal fanon" for that series. If you want to be more specific (character), that's fine as well.

I just bought and read the Princess Tutu manga. I did this despite numerous bad reviews from fans of the anime series, basically because of a combination of my love of the story and the fact that I had read two *good* reviews written by people who made some decent arguments.

( And, yeah - spoilery stuff for Princess Tutu )

So... Christmas. It was good. I didn't get a chance to make this post for a while, because Christmas Day was packed and I got mildly sick on Boxing Day and didn't feel like doing anything beyond lying on the couch and watching TV (or watching Cody play games). Then yesterday I worked. And today I'm working too, but I'm on break now. So, yeah.

The major present this Christmas was the Wii I got for Cody. It was my big surprise, and it worked out great because as of about two weeks before Christmas, the Wii is sold out everywhere. I had two packages that were 'To Kelly and Cody from Santa' which I put under the tree at 7am on Christmas morning. One was the Wii and the other was an extra set of controllers plus two games: Twilight Princess and Mario Party 8. Both have been tested already.

Cody was surprised and very, very happy, so the gift was a success!

I also got some clothing (including a Ctrl Alt Del shirt from Cody), Trivial Pursuit 80s Version, a couple of pictures for our apartment, the sewing machine from my parents, the entire manga set of Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne and an assload of DVDs. The DVDs included: Princess Tutu complete set, Kyou Kara Maou season one, Sukisho complete set, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World complete set, Onegai Teacher complete set, the 2nd and 3rd Pirates of the Carribean movies, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles (yes, the original cartoon, and yes, ALL of it), and Mummies Alive (the first four episodes).

I seriously will still be watching all of this when Christmas comes around next year. I already have a ton of stuff to finish watching. But it's still going to be a lot of fun. Hehe.

So far Cody and I have been making our way through Mummies Alive and Ninja Turtles. I love old cartoons...

I just have to get this off my chest, and I want to make sure that none of my friends end up with the same problem I did. Because it sucked.

This past February, I ordered a wig from this site. It seemed like a great site. I got in touch with the owner, who was really friendly, and she agreed to make me a wig for the convention I was attending in August. She even said she might have it by the end of July for me, which I thought was great. So I paid her in advance. Around $150 or so. I didn't expect to hear from her for a while since she had other orders, but no matter. She said she'd be able to do it for me, and I was pretty sure that if she found herself in over her head, she'd let me know so I could make other arrangements.

Naive, much? Yeah.

Every time I notice this person has updated her site, it annoys me. She is full of apologies for not getting wigs done due to real life problems, which is fine. I sympathize! Home life comes first, of course. But she has my email and my phone number! A short message explaining the situation would be common courtesy! Instead she is full of excuses about internet connection and no free time and being sick. And yeah, okay, those are good reasons for not getting wigs done. But unless you are terminally ill (and I don't believe this, because she's taking commissions again, which is not something a terminally ill patient would do), it's not difficult to let someone know that you're not going to be able to provide the service they PAID you for.

In short, no response to my (many) emails. No notice on when or if she ever plans to do my wig (or reimburse me, which is what I really want since I'm not wearing that costume ever again so the wig is worthless to me now). She says she is behind and now she's taking more orders.

So, yeah - don't be stupid like me. Don't order from her. You won't get your wig on time, that's for sure, and I have my doubts as to whether she's actually a legit seller. It seems an awful lot like I got swindled out of my money at this point.

So today, I finished reading the Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne manga.

Wow. Just... wow. I can't express how much I enjoyed it right now. The art, the story, the final battle at the end... the romance...

Oh man, the *romance*...

I loved it. The Chiaki/Maron dynamic (or Sinbad/Jeanne, however you want to think of it) was just *awesome*. So much romantic tension! You could cut it with a knife. And I could've died happy after the scene near the end where she declares her love for him and he just dives on her. That was beautifully done.

Also, Fin's story just about had me in tears! Fin! Access! They were such a cute pair, too... It was so sad, and so wonderful, I loved it!

Agh... I just don't have enough words to say how ridiculously happy I am after reading that series! It was just... so... I don't know, wonderful!

I'm going to start watching the anime next... I'm a little hesitant, though, because there are a lot of changes and some of the things I adored in the manga are gone in the anime. I wish I could just see everything that I just read in animated form. It'd be lovely...

Oh well, we'll see how it is soon enough.