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I went virtual trick-or-trating. Made me feel a little better. Yay!

( The Haul )

Even if you're a little familiar - if you've seen pictures of him or something - I'd be glad to hear opinions.

I think I might've found a wig that would need minimal styling to be just about right - but it's late and I'm not sure, and I'm planning on looking at it again in the morning when I'm not tired and sort of half focussed on my report still.

Anyway, if you are willing to take a look and tell me what you think, visit here and scroll down until you find the rock star wig (the blond version, obviously).

Thoughts? Does it look close enough? I think it is, but I'm not totally sure... Help me out if you can!

Here are concept sketches of Kurapika's hair in the anime, for those who are willing to take pity and help me make a decision. Thank you in advance!

And now... bed.

Why is it suddenly getting cold out? I know it's fall, but really. It's usually still warm around this time of year. Hell, it was warm yesterday!

Just in time for the Welcome Back Barbeque. Hah, fun times.

There will still be free food, though. Free food is good. And I work at BC Network afterwards, which is good because I like that place but bad because it means stress because I still worry that I'll mess it up somehow.

Ah well. I will do my best. No one can ask more of me than that.

Started another Hunter X Hunter ficlet. I think I actually will post this one for sure, but only if it ends up being finished and turns out the way I want it to. At least it'll have a clear beginning and ending.

Plus, I think it's fun.

I guess we'll see how it goes.

Also, writing random drabblets in response to requests here. They're supposed to be one or two lines, and I suppose I might do one or two liners for later requests, but so far they've all been a couple paragraphs at least. Some are crack pairings, because Karasu is evil.

Grabbed from catia

List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they're listening to.

1. Pale - Within Temptation

2. Believe in Tomorrow - Sunflower's Garden (Hunter X Hunter OVA 3 opening)

3. Pray - Wish (Hunter X Hunter OVA 2 opening)

4. Listen to Your Heart - DHT

5. A Song of Storm and Fire - Yuki Kajiura (Tsubasa Chronicles soundtrack)

Grabbed this one from sailormac

Make me an icon. (Or get someone else to make it for you, I'm not picky.) It can be just a cropped picture or a simple line of black text on a white background. However, what I'm looking for is an icon that you really, really think I should have or use. Something that you feel typifies me. Soemthing you feel would make an appropriate default icon. Show me what you think of me and/or my journal.

I can't guarantee that I'll use any or all icons, but I definitely want to see what anyone who decides to play along comes up with!

I've seen this kicking around - I just have to assume it's a meme, but it didn't come with instructions. However, the description kind of says it all. I assume that you pick 20 OTPs and list them.

Like hell I have 20 OTPs. You guys get ten. I think third_requiem only listed five on her journal anyway. Granted, she actually gave reasons for each of them...

Ah well.

( Ten OTPs )

It is my birthday today, and I am 23 years old! Yay! And I just found out yesterday that it's also feather_down's birthday - she is 21 years old. Happy birthday!

So far I've gotten a card from my parents and one from my grandmother. The one from Grandma also had a $100 gift card for Chapters. I'm getting $50 worth of stuff from Chapters from my mom too, so I think I'll be set for manga for a while.

Yup. It's been a great birthday so far already.

Also, yesterday I finished writing up drabbles for the Hunter X Hunter 20 Themes, and have posted them here. Some are general fics and some are shounen-ai/yaoi. They're all either 100, 150, or 200 words long.

I had a lot of fun writing them. It was a lot like writing haikus, since you can only have the one brief scene - like a clip in time. It was a great exercise, and I wouldn't mind doing it again some time.

We'll see, I guess.

I spoke to Dalia on MSN last night... I haven't seen her in about three years now, I think. It was nice chatting with her again - and she sent me an e-card, too. I got two e-cards in total; one from her, and one from V. They both arrived shortly after midnight, so I saw them before I went to bed - which was nice.

This is a beautiful song. I downloaded an AMV with this song on it, and absolutely fell in love. The AMV wasn't that great - not bad, but not great - but the song is. I downloaded some more by the same group, and most of them were pretty nice, too.

Excellent.

True Story. A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage. The day the teacher was to hand the papers back, she called up the second student and told him she would pray for him when he went to hell. The student asked why would he be going to hell, and why he got an F on his paper. The teacher told him that Catholisim is against gay marriage. The student looked at her for a minute, then said aloud, "I'm gay." The teacher kicked him out of class as if he had said fuck or worshiped Satan. A girl in the back of class who had a boyfriend and was obviously straight got up and left too.

If you would leave the classroom, repost this. It doesn't matter if you're straight, bi, or gay. It doesn't matter if you're Catholic or not. Everyone is a human being and deserves happiness.

I watched the other Hunter X Hunter Musical yesterday. It was more entertaining than the first, just as people had told me. Actually, it looked like the seiyuu were having a lot of fun actually playing their characters in live action. Kurapika looked the best - which you'd think would be odd, given that his seiyuu is female, but since it's Kurapika... nope, he looked about right. Gon looked a little odd, but that's probably the lack of hair more than anything.

The Zoaldyeck family is crazy, too. No wonder Killua never wants to go back home. I like the scene where Hisoka makes them all dance, though.

Ah, fun times.

I also read some more of the manga. The new storyline involves mutant killer ants. I'm not too impressed. I've taken to skimming through the ant scenes and just reading the stuff Killua and Gon are actually part of. Like chapters 217 and 218, which inspired me to write a very, very brief accounting of Gon's First Date (sort of?) in which Killua is obsessive and Gon is clueless. But I guess if you've read the manga, you know that already.

And poor Pokkoru... They finally bring him back in, and look what happens! Yeesh.

Well, I finished watching the last Hunter X Hunter OVA yesterday... It makes me sad that it's over, even though I still have the manga and the musicals to go through. It's just not quite the same.

Anyway, though, here are my thoughts on the OVAs.

( Under here )

In other news, I started working on the Hunter X Hunter 20 Themes, which were posted on one of the LJ communities by someone who'd already done them. So far I've done 8, in a series of drabbles, double drabbles, and one drabble and a half. I'm hoping to get a full-sized fic out of at least one of the themes, but we'll have to see, I guess.

And now, I work. Evil work...