It was over lunch with huahua and squealing over the guys intalking about the J-drama BOSS that I came to a startling conclusion.

( How my fandom secret would look like if I ever did one. )

The opening sequence to BOSS looks more suited for a host club/bar drama, with everyone looking so suave and handsome and dangerous that you wouldn't believe it's the intro for a cop drama.


And this is random, but Basil has such a complete hero!crush on Lancia in the novel. "He is our comrade! Gentle, kind, strong-- THE PERFECT SAMURAI! /fanboys" XD

The result of four days of doing battle with Gimp:


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( MY PRECIOUS--- )

From Sora no Otoshimono (That Which Fell from the Heavens). This series also happens to be making the news for another reason, although the general conclusion seems to be that it's yet another marketing ploy to entice viewers to buy the DVDs for the forbidden fruit, so to speak.

Personally, I think that more than one ambitious entrepreneur and a few other types would be standing in the streets armed with nets and arms wide open if those things are really fell from the sky. Although would you really want to wear them, after seeing them roost in trees and blast off into the sky trailing smoke like that? The only thing they haven't been shown doing yet is firing missiles, and I'm not so sure that they can't do that.

Source: Japan Probe

( Bump of Chicken: Hammer Song and the Tower of Pain )

Lyrics and translation source, along with a more detailed explanation of the song.
Another version of the PV and a Reborn ver.

King of Fighters set to become a movie. I'm weeping tears of blood here. WHERE ARE MAI'S MELONS?! WHERE ARE THE ASIANS?! WHERE ARE-- Aw, forget it. =_= And I hear that Tekkan and Astroboy are next.

In other matters, 59 ficlet for theprerogative, stemming from a very short discussion on jealousy, fandom people and what is left when you take away the most obvious canon part of a character.

( 59. Envy )

But I keep up the good fight not to give in and register, because I. AM. STRONK.

This pushes self-insert right to its limit. (I love the plaintive little "Nobody believes me" at the end.) The responses to this secret are pretty hilarious, but my favorite has to be the one which starts off with "I am the batman" and spawns everyone coming out and claiming their true identities, from Suzaku to Hermione to "I AM GUNDAM". Which then led me to eagerly going through every single FS post after that in the hope that someone was going to wake up someday and realize that they were Giotto or Reborn in a past life. Or possibly the personification of England. Or America. Or Singapore. Or Sentosa.

On other matters:

I find this unbearably adorable yet just a little creepy at the same time. And I cannot get this song out of my head. "That what is really good and what really matters lies in the kisses/ And that's why I want kisses/ That they wake me up every morning/ That the afternoon arrives and there are still KISSES~"

Besos y'all.

It was only when I was browsing through fandomsecrets and I came across this secret when I realized just how important fandom has become to people. I know I know, there are at least a thousand other secrets on how fandom has helped this person or other overcome suicide attempts and made life brighter in general, but that was the only secret which hit the switch for some reason. It reminded me a lot of this dialogue from the Hogfather television adaptation:


Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

That last line of Death's says it all, really. When life becomes too much, when the big pile of shit that's been hanging over your head begins to topple, when your fingers finally slip from the edge that you've been desperately hanging on to for so long, you need a place to run away to for a while, even if it isn't real, even if it only exists inside your head. How else do you go on? It's like being too sober all the time. We all need that veil, that slight haze of not!life and not!reality to make things just that bit more bearable.

Speaking of the TV adaptation, I had no idea that there was an actor inside Death's costume. I honestly thought it was a giant puppet. XD; They hired this Dutch guy to play him, and there's a button inside which he hits with his chin everytime he opens his mouth and Death's dialogue comes from speakers somewhere AND IT'S ALL SO COOL-- *_* Although I thought Death's voice should be more booming and menacing.

And while we're on the subject of fandom secrets, this secret made me go AWWWWW while this one made me want to laugh and cry at the same time because it could have been me when I first started poly nine years ago. Wait, it's been NINE YEARS?! I'M OLD. T_T

Oh, and all of you should go watch Cloudy with a chance of meatballs if you get the chance. The main character's A-DORK-ABLE! ♥ He does his own narration and sound effects! His pet monkey is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris! And there's an over-zealous policeman IN SHORTS! :DD

I laughed like a mad thing. XD



A shorter version (now with added crotch thrusting!)


And I think this may be the one which started it all.


Oh, my aching stomach. XDD I suddenly miss Mao. :O

I learned a new vulgarity on Friday. It was from an interviewer who used it on me, strangely enough. I admit it was partially my fault to begin with but you're allowed to swear at the interviewees now? Wow.

From a 100 themes meme I picked up from somewhere:

( 1. Introduction. KHR: HELLO WORLD! :DDD )

( 1. Introduction. APH: Alternative Title: Rivalry )

( 74. Are You Challenging Me? APH: The Grand Debate on who brought the most junk into the world. )

Reading this week's issue of 8 Days ("The Annoying List"), I realized that I agreed with all 43 items listed. This made me feel very annoyed, and for no reason I was going to compile my own list of pet peeves when I thought, "Aiyah, no one needs to know how annoyed you are lah. Besides it will rampage into personal territory and history and YOU THINK PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT YOU MEH. You think you L*K*Y the Queen ah?" so I didn't.

Instead I went to dig up videos of cute fluffy animals so that we can all go AWWWW together instead.




I can practically hear the poor bunny's thoughts within the first minute of the video: "YOU. SNIFFING. MY BUTT. WHY." XD

On a completely random note, why I got so many funny funny useless bookmarks in my library ah? No wonder scroll that time like never-ending one... /grumbles

Totally watching this if it ever makes it over here. :DD Now I feel like watching both movies all over again.



( There! Right there! )

Taken from daegaer: Take the first lines of your last ten stories and run each of them through Translation Party until they reach equilibrium, or until the program gives up on you. Post the results.

( Reminds me of the aftermath of anything involving large amounts of alcohol. )

( A friendly suggestion )

So, about Bruno...

That was the first time in my life I stepped out of a cinema with such an empty feeling. ._. The advanced warnings were accurate, both for the cringe-worthiness of the film and the appearance of a certain part of the male anatomy (which also happened to be the literal representation of this site.)

In short, I am now traumatized and may never quite recover again. ._.

* * *

APH drabbles! Most of which made sense at the time of writing but not so much now.

( People say that my cooking's bad, but it's done on purpose! )

( Italy sleeps over at Japan's house )

( In order of appearance: Poland, Lithuania, France, England. )

( Dating right back to the Middle Ages. )

( In my head canon )

( I have no explanation for this one. )

UP turned out to be a surprisingly sad movie. T.T The pacing of the entire show was something like "LAUGH! AWWW! CRY! LAUGH! GASP! CRY! LAUGH! AWWW! CRY!" It was a good movie, but I am weak and I don't think my feelings are up to such a roller coaster of a ride again.

Tomorrow I go to watch Bruno. I have also been warned to prepare myself for the appearance of a certain part of the human anatomy. How does one go about doing so is beyond me, but I appreciate the advance warning nonetheless.

* * *

KHR drabbles! I cannot remember the last time I wrote any of these.

( Laugh maker, 80 + 59 )

( Mother and son, 5927 )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!

44 years since the separation from Malaysia, 50 from the British. Still on speaking terms though! :D

In other news, G.I. Joe's a fun movie! People stealing things, things getting blown up, warheads and vehicles flying through the air, the Eiffel Tower being eaten by millions of nanomachines ("Les salauds!" cried France in horror, hands flying to cover his rose. "Your tourists I can put up with, but this, America, THIS is going too far!"), etc etc. The vehicles used in the movie were so cute! They looked like polished-up and shiny versions of those toy cars you could control them with a remote control!

Now, who's watching NDP and following that, Singapore Idol? :D

( PLOTTY SPOILERS + FLAILING :DDDD )

In other news, looking over the Japanese text for the 七色のヘタリア動画を酒の勢いで歌ってみた or Hetalia Douga video has uncovered the fact that the term 萌えました actually does exist. o_O

How to work it into everyday conversation is another thing altogether though: "The brutal way in which the rugby players bonded moe'ed me so badly!" XD;

/is slaughtered badly by people who actually know how to use the term

You know that your trip's off to an interesting start when this is the first thing that happens

( Within the first ten minutes of stepping into the room. )

Blame that blasted song that's been going around these days. At least, I think it has. (I'm slow, what can I do?)

'Buttchu' from an msn conversation with theprerogative. Nobody else buttchu! :D

( AKA the going home series. )

( An extra to indulge my own UKJPN pairing. )

( And finally the PV which started it all. )

Type-SK's wolf!59 and squirrel!27 as requested by theprerogative. First is in reference to my LJ header pic, second to one of Type SK's four panels. I'm so sorry that it sucks. ;_;

( First and second. )

*rolls eyes* As if we didn't know already. XD



( 4th of July may mean fireworks to most people, but I somehow end up thinking of this. )