THERE AIN'T NO GETTIN' OFFA THIS TRAIN WE'RE ON

orz

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:20:25 GMT

Kinda hard to save up to move out when your parents want to use your entire income for bills, huh? "But yours is all disposable~!" So don't use that as an excuse to go out and impulse shop when you're going to use my cash to make up the difference, jerks. (And I've got my own bills to pay, too!) To make matters worse, they cut my hours at work... Granted, it's nice to FINALLY have a day off, but now I'm kind of missing that extra $50 a week, y'know? /sigh

In other news, I started playing Wild Arms 5 (UNDUB~ HELL YEAH MIZUKI NANA!) the other day (FINALLY, right? lawl), and it's pretty addicting, especially the alternate outfits, awright! Having trouble getting attached to any of the characters though, with the exception of Rebecca - she's moe-moe and I hearts her muchly. Oh, and I want to cock-punch Dean pretty hard. That's about it.

Just a few more chapters until we finally say goodbye to Aqua Lad... Oh, Ohtsuka, what happened to you? ;_; You did give me a pretty spectacular icon, buuuuut that's neither here nor there.

THEN WHAT IS HERE?

Some Cranberry Splash Sierra Mist, that's what. Hell yeah, bitches, this shit is tasty.

BTW GUYS, I'll be better about commenting more in the future, I swears it. I'm just supar busy!

Bleeeeh.

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:12:34 GMT

(Titles are unnecessary! You'll notice that all I use are grunts and groans anywho.)

I don't know if the emotional high from releasing so much fucking Slayers (FALCEEEEES) did it, or my allergies/sinuses are kicking into overdrive or what, but man, you guys, I feel like somebody shoved my head down a toilet, flushed about three times, and shoved a log of- er, a wad of sopping wet toilet paper into one of my nostrils. (Not that I'd know what that felt like, laaaaawl.)

Uuuuughhh... I kinda hope it is a cold, since that'll be gone in, what, a week as long as I pound the echinacea. HELL YEAH, ECHINACEA AND ORANGE JUIIIIIIICE! Speaking of which, Rob (who I'm still pissed off at - he gave me the sickest-looking bruise EVER in that last altercation) gave Melly and me a six-pack of orange juice yesterday which was cool, and then I saw that it was like a month expired. HE'S TRYING TO KILL US, YOU GUYS AAAAAAHHHHHH

Anyway, I feel so dizzy right now, I don't know if I'll be able to concentrate on translating for a while... Whoo.... God, I hope we get the next chapter of Bara-ho out on time. Those fangirls are fucking scary when it comes to that stuff.

Woah, come to think of it, I've been posting regular entries quite a bit lately. Pretty cool. HAY GUYS I LIKE VENTING TO YOU PLZ LET ME DO IT SOME MORE D=

Edit: OH OH, I THOUGHT UP ANOTHER GOOD ANALOGY! It feels like someone shoved a CHEESE GRATER down my throat, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I'm whining~

HAY LOOK AT ME, I'M POSTING! Also, the fruits of my paycheck.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:47:50 GMT

Hay guys, I'm making a post on 9/11 without talking about 9/11 because everybody ELSE is talking about 9/11, although all I remember is that I was in Pottery class when it happened (on my way to underwater basket weaving, laaaawl) and saying, "LOL THAT IS SO SHOOPED."

But it wasn't, and then I felt bad. But only a little.

WAIT A MINUTE, I JUST TALKED ABOUT 9/11 ON 9/11 WHAAAAAT IS THIS BULLSHIT.

In other news, I just did a MASSIVE amazon order, woop woop, WOOP. Here, have some summaries and tell me what you guys think!

Title: Vampir
The story of a guy who is killed when a suicidal girl jumps off the side of a building and onto his head. He wakes up later in a hospital after being seemingly revived, but with blond hair and red eyes - oh, and he can talk to ghosts. He later runs into a girl named Hokuto who tells him he's now a half-dead resident of both the world of the living, and of the dead...

I haven't read the entire first volume yet, but from what I gather it's very much a psychological thriller, exploring the darker side of people. (Spoiler! The girl who commits suicide at the beginning of the story does so because her dad's a bit of a pedophile and... Well, mommy promised it would all stop once she turned 18 - Mommy LIED.) It's pretty interesting, and the art's nice enough, but it feels a bit more shoujo-y in execution than a seinin as it's labeled.

Title: Rakia
After a little girl, Luna, and her family move from Japan to be with her father working in America at Area 51 (UH OH, WARNING BELLS), they take a trip to Las Vegas on vacation when they find a ragged old man staggering along the side of the road with wings carved into his arms. Feeling sorry for the ol' hobo, they offer to give him a ride when he refuses, saying he doesn't have the right to live. They call an ambulance regardless and are back on the road shortly (after Luna gives him her HERO SAMMICH WHICH IS ABOUT AS BIG AS SHE IS TALL) when they pull over because Luna has to go potty. Awww. After an altercation with her brother, Luna screams from the side of the road, telling him to "Go die, you filthy pervert!" when AN 18-WHEEL LUMBER TRUCK IMMEDIATELY SMASHES INTO THEIR CAR VAPORIZING EVERYONE INSIDE before it finally flips over, with one log of wood still attached, forming the shape of a cross of holy carnage in the middle of the road, pointing straight up at the sky and protecting Luna from harm. And THEN it gets weird.

Saying anything from there would be a strange, strange spoiler in and of itself, but I will say the art is absolutely gorgeous, in a hyper realistic kind of way. The story has a strange fanatical Christian-turned-Occult flavor to it, and Luna finds herself thrown into all sorts of odd situations because, well, she has the power of God. Or something like that. It's creepy as hell, and personally, I'm not a big fan of saintly characters like her, but the carnage and BRUTAL usage of irony kind of makes up for it. Yeah, I'm a sick bastard. Gotta problem with that!?

Title: Mebius Gear
SEX, GORE, SEX, GORE, SEX SEX SEX, GORE GORE GORE.

From the creative mind of Toshiki Inoue and penned by Koshi Rikudo (OH BOY, MORE WARNING BELLS) comes... Well, geeze, I'm not even sure how to describe this one, so I won't even try. All I know is that there's a bunch of robots running around masquerading as humans and taking huge ass bites out of other peoples faces - by which I mean shoving cookie cutters into their heads and basically punching out their FACES (link not for the faint of heart, lawl). There are some wacky concepts involved - a lady with an army of killer robots who sleeps with a guy and then kills 'em, a schoolgirl with a killer robot who kills OTHER robots, creepy boy bands with even creepier stalkers... Basically, take the most perverted scenarios you can think of, and this title will surpass them all. Examples include one of said creepy boy band's creepy fangirls... Uh, pulling a towel out of an unmentionable orifice and offering it to one of them for use after a concert. (Said member is understandably HORRIFIED.) Well, she subsequently cuts off part of his head and stores it in formaldehyde, if that says anything.

Title: 70 Billion Needles
Takabe Hikaru would appreciate it if you'd stopped talking to her and left her alone, please and thank you. That's why she wears those absurdly huge headphones all the time - she's drowning you out, man, just accept it and walk away. ... At least, she'd prefer it that way, but all that kind of changes when an extraterrestrial visitor (made of PLASMA!) crashes into the sea right in front of her on a school trip and, uh, kind of vaporizes her. Oops. In order to revive our heroine, the intrepid alien is forced to join itself with (er) her remains, permanently entering Hikaru's subconscious, and she'll be the first to tell you that this guy does. not. shut. UP. So much for cranking up the volume... The reason he's here? To kill OTHER aliens invading Earth before they wipe out the human race - and to do that, they have to join with a human host, too. Who needs friends when you've got an ethereal voice speaking directly into your head 24/7?

So far, this is my favorite of all the new titles. The main character is cranky as hell (but not to the point of being a bitch), and she even begins to warm up to new people as the story progresses. If you're familiar with it, the premise is kind of like Parasyte, only if the alien leaves the hosts body, the HOST will die, not the other way around. Now we just have to see if he decides to annihilate the human race himself...

Title: Lost Universe
EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH.

And, well, that's about it. How sad is it that I wanted to post this before midnight so I didn't have to re-write my tag line? Ahhh, the things I'll do for... Well, nothing, really. I need to start doing more TsuBun summaries/translations, aaaaaaah.

Now that I think of it.... Slayers TsuBun (kids') novel vol 1, chapter 1

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:29:55 GMT

The most recent post over at the Slayers community totally reminded me I hadn't posted this anywhere yet... Woops.

Anywho, for those interested, a full translation of Slayers - Lina and the Magic Chimera Swordsman ch. 1.

Slayers (Tsubasa Bunko) Volume 1, chapter one (rough draft)
Lina and the Magic Chimera Swordsman
Written by Nanbou Hidehisa
Translated by Rebmastu (who retains intellectual property of the translation, not the original work.)

Chapter 1
"The gifted beautiful sorceress. Her name: Lina Inverse."

"Fireball!"
KA-BOOM!

The flame spell I released from my fingers hurdled towards the bandits standing before me and exploded, blasting the villains sky-high. Deep in the mountains, situated among ancient boulders that looked to be several centuries old, I had tracked down a rogue band of thieves at the behest of the mayor of a nearby village which had recently fallen prey to their pillaging. Even finding the lair would be a matter of sheer impossibility for any ordinary person... So it's a good thing I'M not a normal person, and the word "impossible" doesn't exist in my vocabulary!

After all, MY name just so happens to be Lina. Lina Inverse. I'm sure you've heard of me somewhere, since I'm a pretty famous sorceress, if I do say so myself - I'm a genius in my own right, and cute to boot! Anyway, saying that finding the bandit's lair was a "walk in the park" would be giving it way more credit than it really deserved.

"Oh~hohohoho!"
KA-BLAM!
"Hah! Bandit scum! You have some nerve trying to defy the almighty Naga, the White Serpent!"
Crackle!
"You're 8 quadrillion years ahead of your time!"

Incidentally, the black-haired girl standing at my side and hurling blasts of attack magic every which-way was Naga, the White Serpent. If you took one glance at her pitch-black mantle and dark clothes, not to mention the skull pendant hanging around her neck, you'd be hard-pressed not to see her as anything other than an evil sorceress... But in reality, her biggest crime is making enemies of the people around her, and bringing despair upon her allies - and having fun with it, too. In short, she's nothing more than an exceptional idiot.

Now, as for why a gifted sorceress such as myself has joined forces to fight alongside such an explosion-loving blockhead.... Uuuh, to be honest, I just went with the flow of things, and this is how it turned out. After all, no matter where my travels take me, Naga is always hell-bent and determined to chase right after me! Seriously, how am I supposed to help that?

"How rude! I'm not chasing after you at all! The only reason I'm spending all of my time traveling with YOU is so I can strike at your weak spot when you're least expecting it, and when that time comes, I, the almighty Naga, the White Serpent, shall assume the throne of the world's most beautiful, gifted sorceress! Oh~ ho ho ho ho ho!" Naga cut me off in mid-thought, almost as though she could read my mind, and laughed loudly.
......Wait, wait, she's totally convinced herself to do it, too! Oh, wow, that's just low.

But in any case, that's all beside the point. The lair we had infiltrated originally hid about 100 bandits, but thanks to my and Naga's sneak attack, we rendered the vast majority of them unconscious in one blow. Doing a quick head-count over the fallen bandits' surviving comrades, I figured all we had to take care of now was about sixteen or seventeen stragglers, give or take.

Turning to Naga, I yelled, "Let's finish off the rest of these guys already and claim their treasure!" Uh, but before we go any further, I'd like to state for the record that we didn't accept this job JUST because we were after the bandits hidden treasure, or anything like that, but there's nothing wrong with giving ourselves a teeeeny-tiny reward for doing a good deed, right? Right.

"I hear you!" Naga called out her affirmative, and we both began to incant spells powerful enough to wipe out the rest of the bandits in one fell swoop - Naga preparing a "Freeze Arrow" spell, and I began to cast a "Mega Brand," when suddenly....

"Hold it right there!"

A tall, blond man, the source of the cry, I thought, appeared out of nowhere and leapt between us and the bandits. By the looks of him, I figured he was a wandering swordsman, maybe somewhere around 18 years old? He probably thought we were being assaulted by bandit thugs and decided to come to our "rescue."

"That's as far as you go," the blond swordsman proclaimed as he strode to stand before Naga and me, facing the bandits as he drew his sword. "Now tuck your tails between your legs and run home, you dirty thieves, and I'll spare your lives!"

....Uh.

Sorry, pal, but you totally just wasted a bad-ass entrance.
But just as I was about to turn to the swordsman to tell him that....

"....Hey, Lina."
Naga crept over to my side. She leaned close to my ear, tugging on my sleeve.
"This guy looks pretty capable. let's leave these small-fries to him and book it."
My eyes wandered to the swordsman's back. "Him?" I asked.
"Listen," Naga explained, "You want to get your hands on that treasure just as much as I do, right? If he handles the riff-raff, we can grab the gold and scram before they even know what hit 'em."

Hmmm. Can't argue with that logic. With my mind set, I quickly brought a few tears to my eyes and gazed up at "My savior, the great swordsman."

"Pleeease, mister!" I called up to him in an adorable voice, clinging to his chest. "These bad, bad people captured us, and now they want to sell us as slaaaaves!"

It worked. The swordsman practically ripped his sword out of its sheath and brandished it at the bandits. "You bastards!" he cried out. "You won't get away with this!" And with that, he rushed into their midst, holding his weapon high over his head.

One thing was for sure, this guy was good with a sword. It seems like things would be a piece of cake from here-on-out, just like Naga said.

Slash!
Clang!

Almost as soon as the thought crossed my mind, the remaining bandits had fallen.
Which led to our next problem.

The bandits lay scattered about haphazardly, their eyes rolled back into their sockets so only the whites were visable.

"Oh, thank you sooooooooo much, Mr. Swordman~!" I daintily dashed to the swordsman, and called out in my sweetest, most adorable voice. Prepare for the beautiful Lina-chan's charming bomb~

"Don't sweat it, kid." The swordsman slid his weapon back into its sheath with a clean clink. "I couldn't just stand by when I saw a bunch of bandits attacking a frail little boy like yourself and his mother. That goes against my code, y'know?"

"Uh... huh?" Without thinking, I froze on the spot and my jaw dropped.

A... A boy and his mother?

When you look at me, a prime example of beauty, where do you see a boy in that? Huh?

......Well, sure, I've always been a little on the short side, and I might not have much of a figure yet, but I'm a growing girl, darn it! I'll get there!

"W-What part of me looks like I'm Lina's mother!?" Naga swung her head around, looking anxiously around her own body.
In Naga's case, I couldn't blame the guy for thinking she was older than she actually was, though.
If you don't want people to mistake you for an older person, get rid of those stupid, evil-looking clothes, why don't you?

"But still," the swordsman scratched his head as he glanced us over again, "It's dangerous for a lady and her little boy to be traveling all by yourselves. Were you with anyone else?"

"No." Bravely keeping my anger at being called a "little boy" yet AGAIN in check, I shook my head.

"Well, that's not good.... Alright, I've got it!" The swordsman tapped his fist in the palm of his hand. "I'll take the two of you home. Where do you live?"

My face stiffened. ".........Er.....No.....Well, we're on a wandering journey for our own reasons right now, and it's not like we have a solid destination in mind.... But I guess we were kind of heading towards Atlas City in the meantime, or something like that..."

By the way, Atlas City is a huge metropolis that was in this general area.

".....Lina... Do you think I could beat the living snot out of him?" Through all that talk of "the boy and his mother," Naga's face had been twisted by the pulsing vein on her forehead.

"Alright, we'll go with that!" Either this guy was ignoring our rage, or he was completely oblivious to it; either way, resolve showed on his face. "I'll escort you two to Atlas City myself, how about that? I'm Gourry, by the way, a swordsman."

"...Th-thank you for the offer, Gourry-san, but there's no way we could possibly impose on you so much...." I began.

You gotta be kidding me. There's no way I'd willingly go wandering around with a rude guy like him.

Gourry patted me on the head with a smile. "Come on, you're just a kid! Don't go turning me down now!"

J-Just a kid~!?

"Th-thanks, but we'll pass," I insisted.

"Come on, don't say that," Gourry said.

"Thanks, but..."

"Now, now."

"No, no."

"Now, now, now."

"No, no, NO."

Well, this isn't good.
Gourry looked like the stubborn type - he wasn't caving.

Naga looked on in obvious annoyance. ".....Whatever," she finally sighed, rolling her shoulders, "Just make up your minds already."

And in the end....

******************

Naga and I walked down the main path, a few paces behind Gourry, towards Atlas City. A small mountain range loomed far off in the distance, and the only audible noise among the endless fields of grass was the sound of our feet crunching on the dirt road.

Naga sighed and flipped her long, black hair over her shoulder. "If only he were a bad guy," she griped, "We could just BLAST him off into those mountains..." Part of me agreed with her, but Gourry seemed to be following us out of genuine concerned for our safety. I mean, we couldn't just ditch him by the side of the road and scram, could we? Ahh, I can't think about this any more. My head's killing me...

Gourry turned around to face us with a smile. "It's starting to get dark out, little boy!" he called. "Be sure to hold your mother's hand!" And to top it all off, he winked at us. He WINKED.

....Geeze, when is this guy gonna wake up and realize I'm a girl!?

Aaarg! This is making me so angry! I can't take it any more!

Chapter 1, end

Un-proofed or beta'd, so I'm not sure how well it reads, but hey. Feel free to comment with corrections 'n stuff, if you'd like.

Oh! On an unrelated note, if any of my FListers follow, say, Barajou or Evangelion Datenroku, keep an eye on spoiler_tag. (AWESOME NAME, RIGHT?) I'll be posting spoiler summaries/partial translations of those and a few other series (Like Gurren Lagann: Spiral Boy, or whatever it is, and Da Capo: Girl's Symphony), so... I dunno, friend it preemptively? XD

Posting for the sake of posting? Hell yeah!

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:37:53 GMT

So... NOT MUCH GOIN' ON HERE, NOPE, NOT REALLY. I'm at work right now, and the weather has me in a foul mood, not made any better by the incessant chattering by my fellow coworkers. Man! Is it too much to ask for some peace and quiet? I'M GOING INSANE HERE, GUYS. FOR SERIOUS.

Other than that, not too much new on the home-front. Mom, Rob and the kids went away for the week, but psht, what do I care? I'm working most of the time anyway, so it didn't make too much of a difference to me. D= Pity, I was so looking forward to it, too... Gah.

In the meantime, I've been doing my translating thang, have a few chapters of WHATEVER on my computer that need to be uploaded... Namely, I've been re-translating Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku, since my earlier translations are so terribly inaccurate it's embarrassing - but seriously, how many times have I harped on that point? TOO MANY TO COUNT, THAT'S WHAT! Also trying to browse a few new series for TP to pick up once Aqualad is finished (which will be extremely soon) - I've got my eye on a series called Vampir, but the name is a bit of a misnomer, since it has, uh, no vampires. (What?). Seems to be a psychological thriller of some kind which would be a welcome change for once, since I'm getting SICK and tired of Shoujo and the, uh, mentally impaired/"gimme gimme" readers it tends to attract. But hey, not all of 'em are stupid. ~~Just the ones who come from Mangafox.~~ But for the time being, I ordered an issue of Afternoon, a seinin mag, to peruse some of the more dude-oriented titles. 'Cause they're easy.

And aside from that... THERE IS NOTHING TO REPORT.

THIS IS REB, SIGNING OUT.

It's nice to do this every once-in-a-while.

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:52:30 GMT

It's a super nice day out today, and my first day off in three weeks thanks to Melly covering for me! I feel kind of bad about that, though... It's a drag spending a day without Melly, not to mention that place sucks. =( Booooo.

So now that I have a stress-free day off (or at least I would, if my boss didn't live with me and enjoy bringing it up every time I saw him. Working with family sucks like that.), what am I doing? Sitting by the pool, translating manga about HOOKERS! And nude modeling. BUT THE HOOKERS PART SOUNDS MORE INTERESTING! I can't go swimming though, since my swimsuit seems to have gone missing after last summer, no clue why. Bah. OH WAIT, THAT PARAGRAPH TOTALLY INSINUATED I'M NUDE MODELING, AHAHAHAHA. H-Hey, guys? Y-you have pretty sensitive gag reflexes, don't you... Stop thaaaaaat.

I keep trying to spell swim as "suim". I've been translating so much lately that I've been confusing pronunciations between languages, which is kind of geeky and lame and I feel bad about it. Blah. Anyway, we're probably going to move Turtle Paradise to its own domain soon, which is AWESOME. But I can't go into detail about what that'll entail, 'cause that would get way too many peoples hopes up for something I may or may not do... Heh. I'm being MYSTERIOUS, isn't that geeky!

And now this post is getting way too long, so I'll stop. But hopefully the first chapter of SLH, Shouoto-sensei's manga she did BEFORE Barajou will be out pretty soon! x3 Soooo text heavy.... Phew.

HOPE YOU GUYS ARE HAVING FUN TODAAAAY

SPOILER

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:22:27 GMT

BILLY MAYS, NOOOOOOOOO!

I LOVED THAT MAN, AND HIS HILARIOUS SELF-PARODIES.

DADADADADADADAAAAA~

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:26:14 GMT

(KA-BOOM!)
(The icon doesn't necessarily reflect my mood - IT'S JUST SO DAMN CUTE AND I NEVER GET MAD AT ANYBODY, BUT I REALLY, REALLY WANTED TO USE IT D=)

None of my fine friendslisters seem too active lately! This is disheartening! But have no PHEAR, for I am active on the blog-o-sphere!

WHAT THE HELL, FIRST THE JOKE AT SLAYERS AND NOW THIS. I must really be high.

.....Heh.

So yeah, today Rob(stepdad)'s sister has a renewal of vows with her husband of a handful of years because she's a massive hypochondriac and is convinced she's going to die this year. This is the same psychopath who, after Mom mentioned her history of cancer (BRAAAAAINS), tried to one-her-up by outlining her medical history and all the paaaaainful procedures she's had to gone through because of her HISTORY OF HERNIAS. She's an attention-whore and drama llama, and I don't like her, so I don't think I'm gonna go. T_T I suck with weddings and big formal events like that, anyway.

IN THE MEANTIME, I'M HUNGRY. SOMEONE GIVE ME LUNCH IDEAS. X3

......Now that I think about it, what the hell was I trying to accomplish with those sound effects up there, anyway!? Oh yeah, "My Boss, My Hero".... That's a really weird drama. The protagonist's "friend" creeps me right the hell out, but maybe it's just his actor.

Oh, and I changed my title text for the layout, 'cause random, nonsensical Japanese text just doesn't do it for me after all. NOW SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN OR IS MY HOSPITALITY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!?

I has.... A NEW LAYOUT! AGAIN!

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:14:39 GMT

At Kyo's suggestion A MILLION FRIGGIN YEARS AGO, LAWL, I have changed my layout to a more AWESOME one featuring SLH - Stray Love Hearts! Yes, another one of Shouoto's works... God. We're such whores. Or maybe I'm the only whore. Huh.

I laughed so haaard when I made up that title, GOD. Mostly because it rhymes and I'm a cheesy bastard like that. (Kioku no Merodi, karappo no mune ni, SIT DOWN AND DRINK YOUR GODDAMN TEA~ I smell a WINNER!) Gotta keep the "Sit down and drink your goddamn tea!" bit. NO ONE REPLACES CID IN MY HEART, EVER EVER EVER EVER~

Aaaaand that's about it. AND NOW, I have to finish editing the script for SLH (which is almost done YAAAY), and then I gotta get to work on chapter 6 of Barajou. Gotta get it out by the 21! WISH US LUCK GUYS

Ah, J-Dramas. Where would I be without you?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:23:43 GMT

Melly downloaded GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) the other day, so we've been watching that like mad... AND GOOD LORD IS IT AMAZING. XD It's so ooooold, but the acting's pretty good, surprisingly enough. Oh, who am I kidding? THE OLDER IT IS, THE BETTER THE ACTING! .....Probably. Anyway, the actor playing Onizuka is mad hot. I recommend it! (I don't think I'd ever be this into Dramas if it wasn't for ceruleanghost's drama pimping. For realz.) Watching another newer drama this series called "Atashi'nchi no Danshi," which is... significantly less compelling. I'm just watching it 'cause I like the (dead) father figure. Pretty twisted stuff right there.

GOD, I KNOW THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE I WANTED TO POST ABOUT!

Uh... Not really. Getting royally sick of Slayers again, but I'm considering just driving TP to finish AquaLord in one huge swoop just to get it off our plates. God, I hate Aqua Lord. YEAH, I SAID IT. TOMMY OHTSUKA COULDN'T WRITE A COMPELLING STORY IF IT KILLED 'EM. Falces is soooo badass, but a pain in the ass to translate. ;_; SO MUCH TEXT, GOD. Barajou's coming along, I guess... Slowly? We'll probably put out the first chapter of SLH before we release chapter six, though. Anyway, WHAT AM I USING MY PERSONAL JOURNAL TO TALK ABOUT WITH THIS CRAP, GOD!? I gotta figure out a better way to organize the staff members... Kinda losing track of what everyone's doing. xP

AND IN OTHER NEWS, MUST BUY A PAID ACCOUNT NEXT WEEK. I miss my icons. Boy, I sure did collect a lot of 'em. xD

Blah.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:34:39 GMT

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS AN ATTENTION WHORE.

Take the spotlight off the guy for fifteen minutes and he starts his shit right back up. GOSH.

In other news: There is no other news. Carry on! In the meantime, JOIN THE FORUM.

EDIT: On a surprisingly fandom-y note, check this MAD out (Some bits on the site are definitely NSFW). I've never watched Clannad, but... Good Lord, I bawwed like a bitch. Spoilers for, uh, everything concerning Nagisa, at least, plus the second season. (I guess some of the effect might be lost if you can't read Japanese... but I doubt it.)

Meh.

Tue, 26 May 2009 05:02:31 GMT

Deleted my other post, if anyone was unfortunate enough to read it. Bleh.

I need to change my layout. This one's starting to tick me off. Gah.

And back to fixing up Evolution.... Goddammit. I should have chosen THIS as my final solo project. This whole "working as a team" thing is a drag. Easy, but boy is it slow.

Blarg.

Tue, 12 May 2009 02:20:59 GMT

Sometimes I feel like a real dork for getting so butt hurt about everything.

Just ask Melly - When I say I get butt hurt about everything, I MEAN everything.

Gah. (But maybe this time I was justified about it? I don't even know.)

RANDOM POOOOST

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:09:09 GMT

Yeah, remember that post I made about making a barajou community the other day? TOTALLY disregard that. xD It seems the other community (barajou_no_kiss) is active and posting is tooootally cool. So go join that one. Plz? Plz, plz? Barajou needs an active fandoom. D= BECAUSE I WANT BARAJOU ICONS.

//pointless post

On to other things!

My chest has really been hurting lately... but it's only when I'm thinking really hard/stressed about something. Can't see a doctor about it though, since I don't have insurance. Meh. All I have to do is not get stressed out, right? Easy enough. xD

AND THAT'S IT. BACK TO EDITING THE NEW CHAPTER OF BARAJOU, LAWLZ. Speaking of which, volume 2 will be released at the end of this month, and it will include chapter ten... WHICH WAS JUST RELEASED LAST MONTH. XD So probably by the end of next month, TURTLE PARADISE WILL BE TOTALLY CURRENT WITH IT! Isn't that great? XD

Oh man, why do I keep talking about Barajou. It's either Barajou or Slayers.... Oh, speaking of which, I need to finish translating the first chapter of the TsuBun novels/start making summaries for volume 2. Woop, wooop. Gosh, so busy. xD (I like translating more than editing, though. If I could join a scanlation group, I'd just want to translate and that's it... Wait, I'm already in a scanlation group! WHY WON'T MORE PEOPLE JOOIN, I DON'T WANNA EDIT ANYMORE. ><)

OH, and I'm finally getting around to watching ToraDora! I've heard all sorts of great things about it, and I'm hoping for a series that'll make me cry. I watched the first episode for the fourth time last night - that opening dialogue is the greatest EVER. The whole episode just never gets old for me, for some reason. It's addictive.

Also on my list:
Ryuusei no Kizuna (I watched the first episode for the second time last night, LETTERS FROM CANADA, LAWWWL)
Love Shuffle (IT'S GOT THAT HOT GUY FROM MOP GIRL ON IT, OH GOD DO I LOVE HIM UNNNFFFFF His voice is so DEEP in my headphones, too. Unnnfff.)

PIMP TIME

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:02 GMT

Hokay, for all of you cool-cat friendslisters who happen to dig Barajou no Kiss, I made up a community for it, since the only other semi-relevant one was some dude's personal scan dumping ground, which is so not cool.

♥JOIN barajou♥

Lol, those hearts are SO stupid.... Anywho, I might change the name or layout pretty soon here, since I'm not happy with EITHER of them, but in the meantime, join, join, jooooin! ....Please? =3

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Sun, 03 May 2009 22:50:18 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRADUATION, CRISUCCHI (crisuskeer)!!!!

That is all! ♥ (So many hearts! X3)

Chuck Norris has NOTHING on my cat

Fri, 01 May 2009 13:38:40 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SKILLETS, sykoryoko AND mangabother

...Bitches! (OH OH OH WHUT NOW)

It's only, like, nine-freaking-thirty and we've already had a pretty farked-up day. Background info: Melly and I are sleeping in the front room, 'cause OUR BASEMENT FLOODED YET A-FREAKING-GAIN so our room's, like, wet and stuff. GOOD THING OUR STUFF'S STILL OKAY, LAWLZERBOTS.

Anywho, Mommy's all like, "Bye bye girls, I loooove you X3 ♥" and we're all like, "We love you too, momm-alkds;faksjds ZZZZZZZZ" and we go back to bed (or lack thereof HAWHAWHAW) and we hear Mom open the garage door and shit, when she suddenly stops and we hear her jump out of the Jeep screaming "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GAAAAWWWWWD" and I'm thinking "Yaaaay, we won the lottery! =D" Hay. Screw off, I was half a-freaking-sleep. So then we hear "MRRRAWWWWRRRR, BITCHES THAT FUCKING HURTS MRRAWWWWWRRR" and I'm like "Awwww, I wanted to go on a vacation. D="

Anyway, at this point we run outside and Mom told us that apparently Sleepy (OUR SUPER FREAKING ANCIENT KITTY KITTY OH, SHE'S SO CUTE X3) was hanging out on top of Mom's Jeep and she blasted the horn to get her off of the roof. Mom started leaving, 'cause she heard the cat jump off real fast and she RAISED THE GARAGE DOOR, I THINK YOU ALL KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING FEEL FREE TO SQUEAL IN SYMPATHETIC PAIN and found out that the kitty-kitty had jumped onto the GARAGE DOOR and got pinched up at the top. So Mommy's all like "Kittyyyyy~ D=" and we're all like, "Kittyyyyyy~ D=" and kitty's all like, "Jesus Christ you guys chill the fuck out." and she runs downstairs into our room. Anywho, looks like she isn't majorly damaged, just a bit sore, which is FREAKING AMAZING. We'll be taking her to the vet if it doesn't look like she'll be getting any better by later today, but things look good for her. SO YAY.

In the meantime, I'm hanging out with Melly at school, 'cause she totally got three hours of sleep last night (WOOOO FINALS AHAHAHAH) and I don't trust her to drive with a full night's rest, so I'll be farked if I'll let her drive on so little. SO YAH. HI GUYS.

And now... BACK TO EDITING BARAJOU. NARF, NARF, NARF.
I feel like translating some more of the Slayers novels. I'M SUCH A FREAKING GEEK.

HAY GUYS, I NEED SOME HELP

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:04:58 GMT

Alright, sooooo, Turtle Paradise is currently recruiting applicants for, like, ALL positions, so I've been making up tests for the past couple of days. Making up mock typesetting and editing tests was easy enough, but I'm SUPER stuck on the quality control (proofreading) test. @_@ I mean, it's one thing to write something inherently craptasticular, but doing it ON CUE is proving far more difficult than I originally thought it'd be!

And with that said, gentle friends-listers, I come with a request! Under the cut I have included a fully-translated excerpt from Volume 1, chapter 1 of the TsuBun Slayers novels, and I would appreciate it massively IF YOU COULD ALL ~~RIP ITS GRAMMAR TO SHREEEEDS~~ DESTROY IT GRAMATICALLY. In other words, I need this passage to read as crappily as possible, with spelling errors, grammatical errors, etc. I've done one or two things myself, but it's not enough! IT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH! AAAAAAAHHHH------ I'm looking to add misspelled words, improper use of grammar(it's, its, their, there, they're, etc. Passive sentence structures, things like that.), AND BASICALLY ANYTHING THAT MAKES IT SOUND BAD, LAWL.

Slayers (Tsubasa Bunko) Volume 1
Lina and the Magic Chimera Swordsman

Chapter 1
"The gifted beautiful sorceress. Her name: Lina Inverse."

"Fireball!"
KA-BOOM!

The flame spell I released from my fingers hurdled towards the bandits standing before me and exploded, blasting the villains sky-high. Deep in the mountains, situated among ancient boulders that looked to be several centuries old, I had tracked down a rogue band of thieves at the behest of the mayor of a nearby village which had recently fallen prey to their pillaging. Even finding the lair would be a matter of sheer impossibility for any ordinary person... So it's a good thing I'M not a normal person, and the word "impossible" doesn't exist in my vocabulary!

After all, MY name just so happens to be Lina. Lina Inverse. I'm sure you've heard of me somewhere, since I'm a pretty famous sorceress, if I do say so myself - I'm a genius in my own right, and cute to boot! Anyway, saying that finding the bandit's lair was a "walk in the park" would be giving it way more credit than it really deserved.

"Oh~hohohoho!"
KA-BLAM!
"Hah! Bandit scum! You have some nerve trying to defy the almighty Naga, the White Serpent!"
Crackle!
"You're 8 quadrillion years ahead of your time!"

Incidentally, the black-haired girl standing at my side and hurling blasts of attack magic every which-way was Naga, the White Serpent. If you took one glance at her pitch-black mantle and dark clothes, not to mention the skull pendant hanging around her neck, you'd be hard-pressed not to see her as anything other than an evil sorceress... But in actuality, she's the sort of person who enjoys making enemies of the people around her, and bringing despair upon her allies. In short, she's nothing more than an exceptional idiot.

Now, as for why a gifted sorceress such as myself has joined forces to fight alongside such an explosion-loving blockhead.... Uuuh, to be honest, I just went with the flow of things, and this is how it turned out. After all, no matter where my travels take me, Naga is always hell-bent and determined to chase right after me! Seriously, how am I supposed to help that?

"How rude! I'm not chasing after you at all! The only reason I'm spending all of my time traveling with YOU is so I can strike at your weak spot when you're least expecting it, and when that time comes, I, the almighty Naga, the White Serpent, shall assume the throne of the world's most beautiful, gifted sorceress! Oh~ ho ho ho ho ho!" Naga cut me off in mid-thought, almost as though she could read my mind, and laughed loudly.
......Wait, wait, she's totally convinced herself to do it, too! Oh, wow, that's just low.

But in any case, that's all beside the point. Back to the present, the lair we had infiltrated originally hid about 100 bandits, but thanks to my and Naga's sneak attack, we rendered the vast majority of them unconscious in one blow. Doing a quick head-count over the fallen bandits' surviving comrades, I figured all we had to take care of now was about sixteen or seventeen stragglers, give or take.

Turning to Naga, I yelled, "Let's finish off the rest of these guys already and claim their treasure!" Uh, but before we go any further, I'd like to state for the record that we didn't accept this job JUST because we were after the bandits hidden treasure, or anything like that, but there's nothing wrong with giving ourselves a teeeeny-tiny reward for doing a good deed, right? Right.

"I hear you!" Naga called out her affirmative, and we both began to incant spells powerful enough to wipe out the rest of the bandits in one fell swoop - Naga preparing a "Freeze Arrow" spell, and I began to cast a "Mega Brand," when suddenly....

"Hold it right there!"

A tall, blond man, the source of the cry, I thought, appeared out of nowhere and leapt between us and the bandits. By the looks of him, I figured he was a wandering swordsman, maybe somewhere around 18 years old? He probably thought we were being assaulted by bandit thugs and decided to come to our "rescue."

"That's as far as you go," the blond swordsman proclaimed as he strode to stand before Naga and me, facing the bandits as he drew his sword. "Now tuck your tails between your legs and run home, you dirty thieves, and I'll spare your lives!"

....Uh.

Sorry, pal, but you totally just wasted a bad-ass entrance.

Pleeease? I would love you forever. =D Just comment with some things you think I should change, AND WE'LL TOTALLY GO FROM THERE. ♥

(Also, new icon: ASAHI'S LINA IS SO BADASS. HOMG.) In the meantime, I must purchase syrup. Yah, syrup. IT'S PANCAKE TIME, BIATCHES.

The promised Evolution spoilers!

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:47:05 GMT

Under a cut, 'cause I'm a VERY CONSIDERATE HO'.

Of course, the chapter starts with Lina, Gourry, Pocota and Duclis!Zanaffar (clarification: the previous chapter seemed to imply Duclis had lost his sense of "self" - this chapter proves, in many cases, that this is not the case.) arriving at Taforasia. Rezo, as in the anime, requests of Pocota to give him his body so that he may be able to use his magic, because Pocota's is the only body that has the capacity to hold Rezo and his magic. All goes well, and Rezo, in Pocota's body, greets Ozel and praises her for her work thus far, ~~and the doll begins to break, having fulfilled her purpose. (She is pleased by this!)~~ but when he touches the doll, she begins to shatter, much to both of their surprise. (Ozel is still an active participant in the upcoming fight.)

At this point, Rezo realizes that something is horribly wrong.... his eyes begins to glow red, and he freaks right the hell out - "Lina Inverse!" he cries out, "Destroy me, hurry!" and at this point, we discover why Rezo had been seeking Lina out - so that in the case that his soul still contained a piece of Shabranigdo, as he feared, she would be available to dispose of him. But even as he cries out, it's already too late. Shabranigdo has fully controlled him... as much as this "Shabranigdo" is able to. Ruby eye (eh, it's shorter.) begins blowing all sorts of shit up, and Xelloss shows up out of nowhere and immediately begins pelting the bad-boy with cones and all sorts of crap. Lina's all like, "WTF ARE YOU DOING, HE'S YOUR DADDY" and Xelloss is like, "NUH UH, THAT'S NOT MY DADDY NO MORE!" Uh, anyway. Xelloss explains that the Ruby Eye they're up against is nothing more than a bat-shit crazy, reasonless doll which happens to possess the full extent of Shabranigdo's power, as when Lina was sucked into Rezo's jar and Shabranigdo attempted to (and succeeded, for a moment) possess her, he came into contact with a "fragment of immense power" within Lina (the "footprints" LoN had left on Lina's soul), which eroded a large chunk of the Demon Lord's soul/piece, WTF ever you feel like calling it, until all that was left were his power levels (WHICH WERE OVER N-N-N-N-NINE THOUSAND). Something like that, Xelloss explained, would not be able to grant the Mazoku the destruction they desired, and so he had set out to destroy it. (As, I believe, one of his missions. IDK, I kinda forgot, and I don't have the magazine with me right now, hurr hurr.)

ANYWAY, THIS IS GETTING REALLY LONG AND WHILE I ENJOY RAMBLING AND SPOILING EVERYONE, I MAY BE TAKING THIS A LITTLE FAR, LAWL.
So now, OUTLINE MODE!

-EVERYONE BRAWLS
-Lina refuses to use the Giga Slave, as the risk involved just isn't worth it to her. (YAY LINA)
-Pocota attempts a Dragon Slave against Ruby Eye, Lina's all like WTF, but this gives the kid an idea.
-Ozel, at Pocota's request, busts the urn containing Pocota's soul, and he enters his body along with Rezo. The two of them work together and physically hold back Shabranigdo's influence, weakening him.
-Lina, meanwhile, isn't able to use any offensive spells against Shabby because of the protective barrier of Miasma surrounding him.
-Gourry rides Zanaffar (whom Zanaffar dubs the "Swordsman of Light." It's pretty freaking epic, I'll tell you what.) to launch a direct attack on Shabby. However, Gourry isn't able to strike Shabby himself (because of the miasma, I think it was) so Duclis matches HIS miasma against Shabby's and orders the "Swordsman of Light" (heehheeheheh) to pierce through his body to strike Shabby himself. Gourry, being the bad-ass mother that he is, doesn't even hesitate (UNNNFFFF, GOD I LOVE HYOUJU'S GOURRY) and attacks the both of them. The tactic works, and Shabby is severely weakened.
-Duclis is thrown against that huge tree that Taforasia's built around, and, with his dying breath, orders it - A FREAKING FLAGOON, IT TURNS OUT - to absorb his miasma and be awakened. The tree bursts into leaf, and absorbs Zanaffar along with Shabby's miasma barrier. As he lies there, Duclis' wife appears before his eyes and smiles at him. "Welcome home," she says, softly. Duclis closes his eyes and answers, "I'm home," and dies.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH I BAWWED LIKE SUCH A LITTLE BITCH. ;_; OH HELL, I'M BAWWING AGAIN. 'SCUSE ME WHILE I GO COMPOSE MYSELF. *sniffle* On that note, Duclis is hands-down my favorite character in Revolution/Evolution. Manga only, of course. He sucked in the anime. HARD.

-Pocota and Rezo (who, together, have managed to restrain Shabby enough so that they're able to control Pocota's body to some extent) cry out to Lina to use the Dragon Slave and kill the both of them, while they still have the capacity to wish for their "deaths". (Very much akin to Luke's predicament, BTW.)
-Shabby, at this point, launches an attack at Lina as she begins to cast her spell, and she can only react in pretty much abject terror because, hi, how do you defend against that shit? When Xelloss and Gourry sandwich her inbetween them (=D) and defend her. (Xelloss raises his staff above her head and blocks half of the attack, while Gourry is in front defending with the Sword of Light. SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY A COOL FREAKING SHOT) And then we hear a double RA TILT (YEAH, MOTHERFUCKERS) and Zel and Amelia (they're all like, "hay guys! we made it =D") flank Lina from the sides. (HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS, THIS WAS SERIOUSLY THE COOLEST THING IN THE WOOOOORLD)
-Lina activates her talismans and casts the super-powered Dragon Slave at Shabranigdo. The coolest part is at the end, where Lina fiddles with the incantation a bit (well, not really. It probably doesn't count, since she tacked it on to the end of the spell) and after the "hitoshiku horobi wo ataen koto wo" bit says, "Rezo wo horobi[...]"
-Rezo accepts the attack, but just before both he and Pocota succumb to their D00M, he touches Pocota on the forehead and activates... something. (MORE ON THIS LATER)
-Rezo looks back at Zelgadis with a sad smile. God, I wish I could remember this line exactly, because it was just amazing.
To the best I can remember, this is what he says to Zelgadis (in his head):
"I'm sure that I would only make you angry if you were to hear me say this...
But in truth, I am envious of you.
The first light to reach these eyes of mine was not the burning red of twilight....
No, it was the light of you and your friends."
And on that note, Hyouju draws an amazing Rezo. (And Xelloss, for that matter. They both looked spectacular in this chapter.)
-Shabby is completely destroyed, and Rezo along with him.

-Later, as Rezo's sleeping spell has been broken due to his complete death, Amelia directs medicine into Taforasia, courtesy of Seyruun, facilitating the restoration of the people.
-As earlier implied in the manga, the king of Taforasia indeed passed away earlier due to the disease, and leading the people in his stead is.... DUCLIS!?
-When Rezo touched Pocota's forehead while they were... doing their thing, wherever the hell you want to say they were, he transferred Pocota's soul into Duclis's body (At this point, Lina recalls how shocked they all were to see Duclis burst from the rubble of Castle Taforasia, cursing all the while), as well as a portion of Rezo's own knowledge. Kind of an inheritance thingie.
-Lina asks if Pocota intends to live his life as "Duclis" from now on, which PoClis (yeah, let's call him that XD) confirms. The prince, as far as PoClis has told anyone, is studying abroad, and he'll be leading the people in his stead. D=
-PoClis apologizes to Zel for not being to provide him with a way to cure his body, despite having Rezo's knowledge, but promises to help him look for it as much as he can. "So you'd better come back here, got it!?" (XD PoClis. So cute.)
-On that note, seeing a smack-talking Duclis is hot. Just... HOT. GOD, I love Hyouju's Duclis!
-Everyone goes their separate ways, Lina and Gourry going back to continue their search for a new sword (Lina tells PoClis not to carry too much of a burden on his own - He snarkily replies that she's one to talk. x3), and Zel and Amelia return to Seyruun, together. (Yeah, yeah, they didn't split up. Dorks.)
-At the very end, PoClis (really sad that everyone's splitting up, DAWWW) asks Lina how much longer her journey will last.... her reply?
"It will never end!" (Owari ha shinai!)

THE END, YAAAAAY

Good LORD, I LOVE EVOLUTION. REVOLUTION CAN KISS MY ASS, BUT GOOD LAWD, EVOLUTION MADE UP FOR IT. Uh, let's see, other information. OH YAH, at the end of the chapter, unless I'm completely mis-reading it, it was announced that there will be a special epilogue (or after-story, at the very least) to the manga included in the volume of Evolution set to be released on June, uh, sixth, I think it was. Oh, BTW, I'm pretty sure I got most of that summary out of order. Eh, it's almost three in the morning, and I'm PRETTY FREAKING TIRED. But whatever.

Chapter one of Falces is pretty much done at this point, like I said, but I can't release it until Melly QCs it... and unfortunately, Melly will be busy with finals this week and the next, and won't be able to read it over. To tide you over, HAVE SOME FALCES. WUT!? Yeah, I translated the short gag comics included on the cover of the book, soooo... Have fun. They're ridiculous. Eheh. AND HUGE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Hourglass of Falces: "Why are you wearing a skirt if you don't want anyone to see your panties?"

Hourglass of Falces: "Return of the Colorful Hero Saga"

And now I'm off to bed. GOOD NIGHT!

Blaaarg.

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:29:27 GMT

My subjects never make a lick of sense! But maybe that's just because of the way I am, huh?

I've been reading some of my old translations for the past few days, and I can't help but notice that something seems off with every single one of them. It's not like they're inaccurately translated, or at least most of them aren't, but when I look at them again, it just seems like they bubbles are all disjointed and difficult to read straight through. At this point, I'm wondering if it's my writing ability that's affecting my translations, and not the translations themselves? It's difficult to put into words (as everything is for me nowadays, so it seems), but I feel like I've turned into a terrible writer - which is ironic, since I used to win awards for my writing skillz back in high school all the time, and I even freelanced for a magazine for a while, er, even though it was only one article, and an ad at that.... Maybe I've just gotten lax? Maybe it would help if I started reading more, but I haven't had much time for that lately.

Hahaha, a Japanese translator with terrible English. I feel like such a hack.

I think I'll start writing more to try and brush up that aspect of myself. Hell, I could always try going back to writing fiction.... But I get so embarrassed going back and reading anything I've done. Actually, the same applies to things I've translated. I just can't read them a second time without feeling a little embarrassed, and I have absolutely no idea why! It's a little infuriating.

Agh, my sentences are getting shorter again. A sure sign of the deterioration of my abilities! NOOOOOO!

tl;dr version: Yeah. I'm gonna be writing here a lot more, SO PREPARE FOR SPAAAM.

(Incidentally, perhaps actually doing a straight translation of the Pocket Lina novels straight through would make for some decent practice? Ehhh.... I'd probably just get confused halfway through.)

BTW, PREPARE FOR SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL CHAPTER OF EVOLUTION. XD I need to finish making up tests for TP's recruitment page before that, though.

Derp, derp, derp.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:57:36 GMT

So, finally finished typesetting ch. 1 of Falces.... Pretty sweet shit, right there. Gotta re-read it and brush up the DISSONANCE first, though! Oh, oh! New word, new word! FFFFF YEAH. I wanna get that bad boy out just so I can see the inevitable shit-storm that will follow. "Amelia looks like such a slut!" "OMG, BOOBIES!" "I'm a prude, I'm a pruuuuuude!" Naaahahahaha. Speaking of which, I love Amelia in this manga. I mean, seriously, most of the time she's been a pretty "meh" character to me, but Asahi really took her and turned her into a BRAWLER more than anything WHICH MAKES THIS A HAPPY CIDDER-DIDDER. And that short skirt is freaking adorable, what the hell are you guys talking about.

Wait, wait, wait, I didn't post just to say THAT, did I?! Good lawd, all I've talked about recently is SLAYERS. Well, I'll be happy to finish the Slayers Projects that TP has going on right now... 'Cause to be quite frank, I wanna do some other stuff. LIKE BARAJOU, AND SLH, AND AWAI NO MORI, AND OMAMORI NO KAMI-SAMA, AND THE SLEEPY RESIDENTS OF *snip*

GOD. Me and my caps-lock. WTF, MAYTE.

BTW, work sucks. No particular reason than it just does. AHAHAHA. Gawwwd.

Dropped my subscriptions to Asuka, Comp Ace, Dengeki Daioh, Kero Kero Ace (officially worthless to me about five months ago when I decided to do Light Magic on a volume-only basis and - OH SHIT, I FORGOT ABOUT LIGHT MAGIC AAAAAAGGGGHHHH), Dragon Age (the issue with the final chapter of Evolution should be showing up either today or tomorrow AND HOLY CRAP I SPOILED MYSELF FOR IT AND HOLY SHIT IT IS FIFTY THOUSAND TIMES MORE EPIC THAN THE ANIME AND AND AND AND OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN. I'm TOTALLY posting a spoiler entry for the new chapter when I get it, 'cause it's THAT FREAKING AWESOME, HOLY SHIT. Nothing like the anime version, that's for damn sure. WAIT, I DIGRESSED. BTW, Lina FLAT-OUT refused to use the Giga Slave, so yeah. Much more in-character for her anyway, SO WUT WUT)

Also, ass-load of new icons.

YEAH, I'M SICK OF TYPING. BUH BYE.

Oh hai guize

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:51:13 GMT

I has a meme to do! BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MELZ0RZ-BOT, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S NOT QUITE IT WTF AM I EVEN SAYING ANYMORE. HNRRRGH.

Tagged by melfra, or as I like to call her, Cocks.

1. Reply to this post specifically asking, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee

FUCK-A-DUCK, YOU HAD TO PICK THIS ONE FIRST. I HATE YOU.
Anyway, I was bored one day at work and decided to make a new Slayers icon. Yaaaaaaaay. Of course I didn't have much to work with, BUT I DID HAVE SLAYERS VS ORPHEN, SO AWWWWRIGHT. Anywho. I thought the picture was cute, blah, blah, blah....But really, I love Zelgadiss and Amelia as individual characters, but together they're just GOOOLD. Contrary to popular belief, I hate the pairing with a burning passion (It feels like something derived largely from fanon, meh), but I think they're BESTEST FRIENDS IN THE WHOLE GODDAMN WORLD. And I mean this totally seriously.

WHIP IT
WHIP IT GOOD
Eh, Devo-fy your icon day over at 4chan. Fuck yeah, I participated, and fuck yeah I got a devo-nyan. And I got a Devo-Pocket-Lina, but I don't use that one. Narf.

MMMM, DELICIOUSLY OBSCURE
I made this one while I was trying to put off working on chapter 16 of Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku. I heart Shamshel like mad woah, so I grabbed her picture and went to town with it... But I hate the icon and will probably never use it. Narf. Looks more like a black blob than anyway. In any case, the totally crushed look she got on her face when Zeruel told her none of them would ever been friends was pretty sad. But Shamshel hearts Zeruel. =(

BEST OTP EVER, YOU CANNOT FUCKING DENY IT.
You could almost call their relationship Friends with Benefits, but there's really no benefit-dishing involved.
THAT WE KNOW OF.
OH, OH.
I was trying to find LinaxGourry (YOU KNOW LINA TOPS, DAMMIT. THERE'S A REASON IT'S SHOWN THAT WAY IN ALL OF THE VAGUELY SUGGESTIVE OFFICIAL ART) pr0n, but it doesn't exist.
Fuck.
Give me my POOORN.
Maybe I'll go buy some from Ebay.
Meh.
Anyway.
Bestest friends have the bestest sex. Fuck yeah. HAH.
WAIT, HOW DID I GET ON THAT TOPIC. GODDAMMIT.
Moving on, I found this in a volume of Slayers Smash over at Shansito's site (HOOYEAH SWEET POTATO), and while I don't know the context, I felt megas-compelled to color it. 'Cause. It's PERFECT for them. Yeeahhh! Looking at it now, though, I feel like it needs something to tie it together. Meh. Who cares.

FUCK YEAH TONBERRY
COME CLOSER SO I CAN KILL YOU
OH OH OH
YOU GOT STABBED BIATCH WHAT NOW
OHHHHH.

NOW WASN'T THAT FUN!? Now comment so I can pick out your icons too, ho's. I DON'T CARE IF YOU BARELY KNOW ME, OR IF I DON'T EVEN HAVE YOU FRIENDED. THIS COULD BE THE PERFECT GATEWAY TO A BEAUTIFUL NEW FRIENDSHIP!

In other news, I am a quarter of the way through Falces Hourglass. AWWWW HELL YEAH. And don't be hating on Amelia's new outfit - IT'S HELLA CUTE! Yeah! She needs frillier panties, though. FRILLIER PANTIES, AMELIA, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE A GODDAMNED PRINCESS.

A night on the town

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:02:20 GMT

Saw the DBZ movie with Melly, Steve, and Galindo tonight.

HEH.

Stupid subjects! I don't know what the subject is!

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:28:46 GMT

I've developed this really odd habit of scratching my head when I'm in thought, especially during translation.... I don't know at this point if my head really itches or if it's just THAT much of a habit. xD Well, I do have dry skin, so meh.

Speaking of dry skin, I've been taking in a SHIT-LOAD of vitamin E to try to improve its quality! *pumps fist* I'm sick of dry, greasy skin! I need to start taking my health seriously! YEAH!

And on that note, I've started walking every day at work! 'Cause, uh, we're dead anyway. In any case, it's to get more exercise! 'Cause I need it! Yeah! And, of course, there's still DDR, but I'm thinking about investing in a new metal pad, since the plastic pad that came with the game likes to stick to my feet. ._.; And metal pads are amazing.

Aaaah, I need to sign up for spring and summer classes! (And Fall, while I'm at it.) I went to see my counselor the other day, and she told me that I've basically filled all of the transfer requirements, but now I need to pad out my GPA a bit, 'cause it sucks. I wanted to take another language, but maybe that's not such a good idea for shorter semesters like spring and summer. Narf.

And that is all! I kinda felt like posting something meaningless for once. x3

BTW, thanks for helping me with that STUPID 14.029 problem earlier in the week, guys. xD I think I've got it now. Yay! Yayay! (Ryoko, I hearts you for srs)

I'M TOTALLY DONE SPAMMINATING NOW, FOR SRS.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:58:16 GMT

I don't know which surprises me more - the fact that I now have a BRAND-SPANKING NEW LAYOUT, or that Firefox didn't read "Spamminating" as a typographical error.

Oh, wait, there it goes. Ah, well, some things just weren't meant to last, I guess....

BUT THAT SURE IS A PERDY LAYOUT, RIGHT GUYS? FFFFFF- YEAH, BARAJOU!

And now, I am off to bed. (THAT 14.029 THING IS STILL REALLY BUGGING THE CRAP OUT OF ME, YOU GUYS, SO SERIOUS.)