the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

IF YOU HAVEN'T POSTED A REQUEST HERE, DO SO. Or I won't be able to give you anything for Christmas. /sadfaces at

A-also, for those of you who keep asking: I honestly have no idea what I want. G-get back to me some other time. ;;

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27513 / 50000 words. 55% done!

One of the funny things I have discovered is that when I'm working on a long project like this one, I have to occasionally break away between scenes in order to watch or read porn.

I've never needed to do that before. o_o

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Finally getting my RP groove back, and it is absolutely wonderful. I've also been archiving old entries in between all of this RL madness

ILU, guys. You know who you are. ♥

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I could rant about the weird shizzle going on in hitman_reborn, and TL;DR on the art of fanmixing, but I'll save your flists the pain.

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Was supposed to have my first MA class today, only to discover that it was dissolved.

I've talked about how hard it was to get that class in the first place, right?

FML.

ON OTHER NEWS MY KIDS SEEM VERY HAPPY TO SEE ME AGAIN. Idk whether it's because they like me or because they think I'm an easy professor to pass or both. Will have a proper report on that at the end of the week, yep.

Before anything else:

THANK YOU SO MUCH, LUVI!

She got me the loveliest, most shamelessly fangirlish gift ever for my birthday, and I totally didn't expect anything. SERIOUSLY, I LOVE YOU!!!111oneoneone

Much love also to le_esperance and mlina, who both popped me before on the premise of getting me a gift!

Much love as well to khursten and botling for the paid accounts and icons, and to desumethis for this lovely fic!


Now for update things I've accumulated since the last time I went online~


( Written on June 3, 2009. )

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And now, today's updates!

I went to sleep last night thinking "Y'know, it'd be really cool if my internet connection went back up on my birthday but LOL AS IF THAT WOULD HAPPEN!"

And it did. @_@

THANK YOU, EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, FOR ALL YOUR LOVELY GREETINGS AND GIFTS! I gots mah paid RP accounts, and icons, and fiiiiic, and love! *A*

Some members of the family were over earlier for a nice, quiet lunch~ some others will be coming in later for dinner! Dad and I will also be getting my laptop, with luck!

...Obviously, I lack coherence. Must be the happy. I feel like a kid again!

That was a pretty crazy weekend.

I also attract creepy stalker things.





Anyway, uh.


ADMU things: Puttered off to ADMU to see if I could hook up with the Faura crowd (AND I DID AND IT WAS MARVELOUS), so I figured I might as well pick up my report card. Good thing I did too, because it turns out that I totally aced my second semester. FLAT 4.0 QPI, BB. ...But all good things come hand-in-hand with HOSHITFREAKOUT stuff, and I'll have to go back to school tomorrow to meet with the Chair. Idk why, it's supposed to be routine, but... yeah. @_@

Family things: Going to Batangas over the weekend since Older Brother #1 is having his wedding ceremony there - he and my sister-in-law Yas have been legally married for the past five years, so this is a really big thing, finally getting to see them walk down the aisle in church and all. That also means I'm internet-less for a while, but I think I need the break anyway.

House things: I know I only mentioned this in passing, so I suppose I ought to announce it now... I've been camping out in my brother's room along with all my stuff for nearly two weeks now because my own room is being renovated. We're getting rid of the furniture, repainting, remodeling and yeah... so far, so good, so I promise I'll have pictures up once everything is set. I also demand a room-warming sort of party thing when all is ready!

Fangirl things: SLKDHG;HSADHGHSAD SO MANY FUCKING SERIES TO WATCH AND GODDAMNIT FMA Y U DO DIS AND ALL THE NEW ANIMU IS SO SHINY BUT THANK GOD I'M DONE WITH ONE PIECE BUT I STILL HAVEN'T PUT A DENT IN MY MANGA BACKLOG ALTHOUGH THE MARATHONING WITH THE OTHER STUFF HAS ME SORTA UP TO SPEED aaaand I think I'll shut up now. orz

Girl things: Cramps this time of the month were terrible, but thank god it hit before I had to go out of town. Also: mom and I went to the mall intending to go home with just the underwear I needed for the gown, but we ended up buying under wear, sleep wear, every day wear, random wear, and... iyeah, you get the picture. Suddenly, I'm a woman again. o_o

Writer things: This post is supposed to have shiny fic things since I've been accumulating finished stuff over the past few weeks, but... uh. B-BUT I PROMISE TO HAVE STUFF NEXT TIME. /twiddles

RP things: Srsly thinking of dropping stuff in favor of other things and more time to the stuff that matters, but theskytides is marvelous, as always. Also, I am having way too much fun playing Roy Mustang. Srsly.


Not-so-randomly, I seriously miss the koushien people. Summer's been good to me in terms of reconnecting and I know I've been hanging out with you guys as much as I can, but I feel the need to maximize the time before school drags me off. ;;

I'm supposed to have a nice, hopefully entertaining post regarding RL stuff here, but that can wait. See, on most days, fandom stupidity doesn't do much of anything to me beyond making me want to point and laugh, and, barring that, make a semi-snarky post about it on Plurk. This one, however, is a special case.

Fandom rant, AHOY! Srsly, what is with some people bringing their close-minded views into their reading of a series?


( ...Not this argument again. )

The lessons at the end of the day is breathtakingly simple, kids:

Don't force your cultural ideals down another country's throat. Heck, on a smaller scale, don't force it down another person's FANDOM. Find a point of intersection between where you're coming from and where the work's coming from. Trust me: the results are bound to fun and interesting.

Read more, and please, read CAREFULLY before you judge anything. It's one thing to sound smart. It's quite another to BE smart.

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I have heard from a few reliable sources that the person who made the post that I just deconstructed is a pretty good fanfic writer. I haven't read her fiction, but I'll have to say that now, I really don't want to. If she brings this narrow-mindedness into her craft, then I sure as hell don't want to touch any of that with a foot-long pole. It's probably as pretentious and as misguided as her fanfics are. The fact that I'm VERY SENSITIVE to authorial tone probably isn't going to help either.

Am I being unfair? I don't think so. You really, honestly can't separate one's fiction from the rest of what they are as a person, especially when it comes to matters of taste and intellect. You know what they say about empty cans and coins. Having such a close-minded approach stunts your growth as a writer.

Of course, that's just MY opinion of things.


EDIT: khursten has posted her own take on the matter over here. Go read it?


EDIT #2: Okay, so now that people are popping up and certain personal attacks ARE being made of which I do not have any control of, I'm disabling further comments. I'm doing this because there are people in my circle who are becoming uncomfortable with the sort of exchanges going on here, and I want to stimmy the damage, if only for their sake. I am not, however, going to lock this entry. I believe that vitriol aside, my position is clear and is well-informed from another viewpoint on the issue. As such, it deserves to be read.