So, remember my cousin Scott, who died in a car accident this time a year ago? Well guess who I just got an IM from???


RealistiQ71: what scum took down my memorial
Savinsilk: You're hilarious.


His friends must be real dicks. They better not email his mom.

My nana died yesterday while my phone was dead. She'd been in the hospital for like 4 years now, and didn't remember anyone anymore. Dad told me a week ago that she wasn't doing well and I couldn't think of much to say other than, "Oh. ...oh no."

It's inconvenient for me.

...I don't want to fly out anywhere on the 4th of July. I want to be at home watching the fireworks like I always do. But I don't want my family to think I'm too much of a bitch to come home for the funeral.

Sigh. Maybe I'll try to catch an early flight...

Sorry, Nana.

Oh, Bleach. Those last pages make me pretty happy. I am anticipating some fun in these next chapters. (*grabby at lisa*) Give me some Urahara in a few weeks and I'm sold.

...yeah, that's all I have to say.

Hooray hooray, going to see Cirque du Soleil: KOOSA at the end of August for mah birthday~ Like six members of my family are flying across the country to come see me, lol. The weather had better be better than it was last year, when we alternately had scorching sun during our Celestial Seasonings Death March and then hailing flooding thunderstorms when we were on the bus on the way back.

I forgot to ask my Dad if he was interested in joining us when I called him earlier. Eh, I should call him again on Sunday anyway.

Haven't seen my family in a year, since Scott died. (Wow, it's been a year since Scott died.) (At least his mom/my aunt will be joining us. She should do nice things, even if her life is so incredibly depressing and alone now.) So it'll be interesting.

I expect presents.

This came up a few days ago, and I figured I'd share it before I go ahead and resume translating, because it's hilarious and relevant.


A troll came from a troll forum to get her crazy all over my journal, explaining why Gino/Kallen was a terrible pairing, I was a terrible person, and I was also terrible at Japanese, and he/she/it was an incredibly unbiased source, being the pure essence of words, apparently. Troll told me repeatedly that troll had "corrected" my translation.

I made my translation in a comment on the code_geass post with the picture drama that had been uploaded. I didn't receive notification of a comment "correcting" me, so I shrugged and didn't bother looking. I know my translation was largely within a reasonable margin of error, and a troll's friend saying that I don't actually know Japanese doesn't concern me.

But yinake went to look a day or two ago, and reports that the troll made her "correction" to a comment left by one of the Kallen/Lelouch trolls and that her "correction" was about one line Kallen says to Gino, followed by two paragraphs about why Gino/Kallen fans are delusional and making up things so people will like the pairing more.

One line -- which I actually forgot to translate. I was going to go back to it and left it out entirely.

A random person pointed it out to me, so I agreed from memory that her translation -- which was minutely on the shippy side -- was largely correct. So this alleged propaganda I was trying to promote wasn't even in the translation.

This is why I'm a bad translator! I'm a shipper pushing my agenda on the fandom through my fake translations!! Via a line of banter that I completely left out of the actual translation!! And have two paragaphs of why the ship sucks!! But she is inherently reasonable and isn't threatened by my ship at all, she considers it lulzworthy!!

Oh troll. You are hilarious. It was an especially excellent move, commenting to your fellow troll instead of to me, and refusing to link me to it when I asked, so that I would have no clue that you were being retarded somewhere I should laugh at you.

./bans and disables anon comments; there'll be no more ship-bashing disguised as corrections lol


The really hilarious part is that I still don't think I'm "in" the Code geass fandom. XD I don't read forums or get involved in discussions. I just play with my toys in my corner, and get accosted by people who think my toys suck!!

brb gonna spend the whole day watching Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days videos.

Xion's spoiler is kinda awesome after all, if not what I was guessing. And I approve of having a timeline, and a name for Axel, and ideas of what Roxas's relationships with the other members of OXIII were like.

I disapprove of Roxas's life sucking all the time, though.


Brief thought: This game introduces genderswap to Kingdom Hearts. That's all KH needed.

Packing up, but in between packing and goofing off...

The first ten people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing / character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability. If you absolutely cannot write, I do not see why you would not be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.

I don't care if you post it in your journal, but yeah. Spots reserved for the people I made requests from!

Fandoms: Bleach, Code Geass, D. Gray-man, Tales of Symphonia/Abyss/Vesperia, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Persona 3 or 4, The World Ends With You... You can ask about others, and I'll indulge you if I've written it before/know it, but I miiight grumble.

10 sentence requests here, all complete. \o\

I'm all dorkily happy about my RP right now. Aforementioned awesome aside, I feel just good in general, because a lot of the time, player actions are limited, and I don't think they are terribly here.

Osaka from Azumanga Daioh is worried about missing her graduation? She mentions to Sentience, and ten days later Sentience is planning a graduation ceremony, and providing criminals with GED examinations so that she doesn't have to graduate alone, and searching for a speaker for the ceremony.

Jill from Resident Evil is feeling restless? She tells Sentience that she wants to put her training to good use instead of training in a new field, and Sentience suggests she puts together a police force, and is even willing to arm them.

I also know that we have a lot of plot that is completely findable by any engaged players. Do they want to break Sentience? Find Agatha? Plot a rebellion? They can do that too, we know what it will take and what will happen afterward. And if players don't, I will, because Lelouch is more than happy to move the plot along.

Also, our OOC meme was so much fun, and I think is a good mid-month break in the silence between AC/HMD posts.



With that said, we now need someone to play Milly Ashford, so that she and Sentience can combine forces to create stupid holidays. She couldn't ask for a better partner in crime: Not only will Sentience approve of her Cat Festival, it will provide the costumes, decorations, and any absurd hijinx required (everyone speaks cat language for a day?).

Are there any other Milly-like characters in other media I should seek out to advertise at? Anybody?

I need to app a KH character, too. Roxas, Axel, Xigbar, Namine...

Does my game have awesome players? Answer: Yes.




Also, Inoue Orihime and Shibuya Yuuri:

Dangerously cute.

It's like magic! Literally every time so far that I've thought, "You know what, I don't feel like writing Gino/Kallen today," a troll comes along out of the clear blue sky to tell me how I should hate Gino/Kallen, and I'm forced to defend my interest in the pairing, and suddenly I'm reminded of all the reasons why I like the pairing, and ta-da, my mojo is back! This time instead of the usual C.C. bashing it was accompanied by lolarious but vague and unsupported insinuations that I don't really understand Japanese because my translations are bad in some way that was left unspecified. The person who made this sig said so, and I guess there can be no arguing with that person's judgments.

We're moving out of this apartment very soon, which is an awesome story all by itself, a story of epic fail by landlord and roommate alike. But I'm looking forward to it. I just don't want it to eat into my time.

Going to finish those sentences, write some Gino/Kallen, and post a new meme~



ETA: Previous posts have been flocked, because one of the crazy trolls under discussion decided to go ahead and link it somewhere, and other trolls were starting to come out of the woodwork to bash my pairing on a post about how their pairing-bashing alienates people.

What is it about this tiny, inoffensive little pairing that makes people froth at the mouth?

So I wanted to update my ffnet account with all the many fics I've written since like 2003. I am, naturally, being punished for this.

I tried to access my old ffnet account, but god only knows what the password is, so I tried password recovery, but it sends the password to my Hotmail account, which I have since lost track of. I started creating a new ffnet account, but I am frustrated with the two-day "cooldown" period before I'm allowed to do anything.

So I sent them an email. Hey, I've been on this site since 1998, but that was a long time ago and idk what the password is and the email account is dead, can you help or am I screwed? And they say, sure, just prove your identity by telling us the password! If you get close, you can have the account!

As uneasy as I am giving my password out to some random dude who works at ffnet, I give him the ones that are old enough that I haven't used them in ages, making them good candidates for the ffnet account. They both start with "xy". Then I also point out that hey, I've had this LJ since 2002, and unlock an old entry so that he can see where I'm talking about fics I wrote that were posted on ffnet in 2002 and have comments dated 2002. Does that help?

He responds by saying, "Close! It starts with 'xy'!"

....thanks for the help! If I knew what my password was, I sure would tell you! Or for that matter, if I knew what the password was, I'd just go in and change the email myself.

So, if you're reading this, James -- I'm totally the person who has this account who has this email who has this ffnet account. Honest to god.

Meme time, because I like this idea. Ganked from tenshinoakuma specifically, although I've seen it as a writing exercise (just not a meme) beforehand.

Give me a person or ship and I will write one sentence of ten genres for them. The genres are:

1. Angst
2. AU
3. Crack!fic Plot
4. Crossover Future
5. First Time
6. Fluff
7. Humor
8. Hurt/Comfort
9. Smut
10. UST

You can also name a few prompts of your own if you are so inclined.

Completed
D. Gray-man, Kanda/Lenalee
Persona 4, Rise Kujikawa
Loveless, Ritsuka Aoyabi
Kingdom Hearts, Roxas
Code Geass, Suzaku Kururugi
The World Ends With You, Neku Sakuraba
Bleach, Hitsugaya/+Rangiku
D. Gray-man, Allen Walker
Tales of the Abyss, Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear
Bleach, Ichigo/Orihime
Kingdom Hearts, Axel
Tales of Vesperia, Flynn Scifo
D. Gray-man, Lavi
Bleach, Rukia/Orihime
Tactics, Kantarou
Tales of Symphonia, Zelos
Code Geass, Lelouch/Euphy

I was tagged by warplanes to do a silly thing, so I did it. I'm not spreading or repeating it nyaah. Enjoy a picture of my desktop full of icons on a pretty Code Geass background.

I do however want to share that I have a Dreamwidth account @ sincere, same as my Inksome.
They're neat, so I want to give them money, when I have money to spend on things again. Maybe they'll have better pricing plans by then. No, I'm never going to shut up.

Not moving, just keeping yet another log of my posting, lol. Give me your Dreamwidth names/friend me, I guess!

*writes her third gino/kallen drabble in 24 hours*

libekory's observations on Tsubasa spoilers from Celes onward:

"So, wait. Why did Fai do what he wanted? It seems like Fei Wong promised to help him, ruined his life, and then just walked away and later someone else helped him. It's like -- I promise you a pie. And I ask for a favor in return. But then I step on your foot and don't give you a pie. Why do you still do me the favor?!"

"What did CLAMP say, did they just reach a point where they were like -- we need another character, but we're out of character designs. Quick! Let's make another Syaoran! Or maybe they had a bet going with someone that they couldn't make every new character Syaoran."

"Is Sakura also Syaoran?"

...I'm reading about the recession again, and I'm terrified.

The whole world is caught in this terrible downward spiral that, according to everyone, will not end for at least a year even by the most optimistic standards. People losing jobs, money getting more scarce, deflation settling in, fewer and fewer opportunities, and economists crying that it's only going to get worse -- much, much worse.

It just makes you feel powerless -- completely powerless. There's nothing I can do to stop this. There's nothing any of us can do. There's not even anything Barack Obama can do.

I'm never going to get a job. And my unemployment is running out and I don't think I can get another extension. I've been thinking about getting training for a safer career, like nursing, but I can't afford it. But at least I now have a way to make money on the side working from home (but will it last, what if I get laid off from that too) and soon my lease will be up and I'll be able to mooch off my roommate's family so I won't have a monthly rent drain (but is that really okay, it's so far away from where I'm job-hunting). So that's good, right?

...Is June here yet? I want to bury myself in The Sims 3.

Until then, guess I'll try to write this dream I had into a novel. Maybe novels still make money.

jfslkfjgh another indefinite D. Gray-man hiatus. Hoshino really wants us to suffer. ...or is really suffering but I'd rather she just hates us.

In other news, since we're advertising again, more spam, image-free since I like my flist, and sorry for anyone who gets spammed:

THE GREETING Welcome, criminal. This is the artificial intelligence "Sentience". You have been selected for the Marina Asylum program after a review of exhaustive criteria. Your selection is a direct result of crimes that you have committed in the past or will commit in the future. For the betterment of all species, it is necessary to remove persons of your type from the timeline. THE ARRIVAL You've been captured by Sentience, the prison AI, which might have gotten just a tiny bit oversensitive as years of operation began to take their toll. Genocide? That's terrible. Robbery? That could lead to murder. Selfishness? That could lead to cruelty which could lead to ignorance which could lead to criminal negligence. Maybe you belong here. Maybe you don't. Maybe there are extenuating circumstances. Maybe you haven't even committed these crimes yet. But you're here now. And Sentience's programming doesn't acknowledge the possibility of mistakes. THE GAME marinasylum · marina_ooc · marinamod premise · locale · rules · f.a.q. taken · reserve/drop · apply mod contact · ask sentience · invites

We're eager for a Knives from Trigun, CLAMP casts (do want Hokuto!), FMA cast minus Fletcher, CG cast minus current and C.C., and Bleach cast minus Ichigo and Orihime. But any manga, anime, book, TV, comic, whatever fandom is good.