I drew something that frightens me. Why can`t I do pretty pictures like this? Or this? Or her stuff? Or how about here? (I think I`ve kissed up enough...)
Another point to whine about - why can`t the contents of my pictures be nice? Why does all inspiration desert me when I desire to pen a cute little Chopper or a grinning Luffy but later I am overtaken by a dread compulsion to create an evil Sanji? Or last night`s foray into madness... sadistic indeed. I think Gawd is telling me to stick with the written word (though if I pen it, it will make a nice little addition to my index page.)
In other news: You Know You are Freakishly Obsessed with Doujin When...
1. you get bored with the pairings you have and start buying really obscure ones. Like really really obscure ones. Like "NEVER physically possible, requires a major rewrite of canon" obscure. And maybe a clone joke or two. It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.
and
2. the correspondence with the employees at doujinbox has gone from asking mailing preferences (takuyuubin? special rate?) to discussing the upcoming Naked Man Festival in Okayama...
:: 8:37 PM
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:: Monday, January 27, 2003 ::
Anime Update:
(A peaceful wintery evening in the countryside of Japan. The snow slowly melts and drips down the bamboo stalks into the gurgling stream below. A hideous scream rends the ear - a flock of crows alight from their perches in the pine trees and fly away, cawing all the while... Across the globe, bloggers stop mid-update to listen to the heart-shattering cry of pain.)
Random Blogger: Yup. Definitely a filler ep.
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I am trapped in the same Bermuda Triangle hell that the OP crew are in - only mine is called FILLER. There's one more ep of it to go.......(whines) make it stop.....
I refuse to review the anime and turn to Shonen Jump for solace. So when we last left the little reindeer he was shaping up for a fight against Gedatsu, god of idiocy. Seriously, he's not all that bright. Since Chopper is knee-level, he misses seeing the little guy and has to be guided by one of the priests on the side in order to kill the little 'tanuki.' Chopper is spellbound momentarily by the cool Jet Dials of Gedatsu (for those that have the Chopperman strip in Blue - the same bright happy face...) Gedatsu rockets into the air and prepares Chopper for the ordeal of the (as translated by my dictionary) Bog Pool. Using the deadly Bog Pool Cloud Burger, Gedatsu hits his ally and almost kills him through suffocation. Chopper grabs the priest and performs monster Chopper CPR (ow, sternum...) and the priest switches to Chopper's side - just long enough to get blasted by Gedatsu (Reminder: Don't switch sides in front of the boss...). Chopper and Gedatsu fight - there is much shapeshifting and shouting of silly names of moves. Chopper gets seriously tagged but Gedatsu loses him in the wreckage of the battlefield.
Chopper realizes that he can change to his normal shape and sneak out of the battlefield without being stopped - but he chooses not to and stays to fight on. Gedatsu kicks him in the face, Chopper does jumping point and Gedatsu tries to follow him into the air. Problem: Chopper stole one of Gedatsu's shoes so when he went to blast off, he was thrown horribly off-balance. "Damn tanuki" he screams - "I'm a MONSTER! And I'm strong!"
Gedatsu gets a good hit in, but Chopper's finishing move - well, have you ever seen that Funniest Home Video where the guy puts on too much deer scent and gets attacked by the buck? The hunter keeps getting hit in the head with the deer's hooves and it just sounds like a bat is getting cracked against his skull over and over again. Think of it like that - Gedatsu got the rumble ball point right in the sternum. Chopper left a double hoof imprint and probably jump started the guy's heart.
GO CHOPPER!
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Social time:
Did I ever tell you how cute I thought gaki Zoro was? He reminds me of the slumpy panda that's so popular over here.
Afuji pointed out a review. It's a pretty even and fair review, though I have to disagree with a few things. First off "No viewer likes [Usopp] much." Excuse me, but Usopp rocks the most for his sheer strength of will and staying power. Yeah, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji have some awesome fights, but I was very impressed when Usopp faced off with the Mr. 4 pair. He didn't have anything but his wits and an injured Chopper going for him in that one and he came out on top. Snaps to him.
"The fights are too damn long." IMO it purely depends on the fight - and nothing is quite as long as Drag-on Ball. So there.
"Everyone knows that they're not going to die no matter how beaten up they get." Yet how often do the main characters of any series truly die off? At least the pirates don't keep getting resurrected like another series I've already mentioned.
"Nami doesn't kick nearly as much ass as she should be able." Point made. However she spends most of her time getting in shape for her Alabasta Clima Tact ass kicking by beating up on her friends. And the way Sky Island is going, Nami may be going hand to hand with Eneru (okay probably not, but I bet she's gonna play a major part in defeating his lightning powers...) Nami vs. God = Nami wins! Ka-ching!
:: 5:37 AM
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:: Saturday, January 25, 2003 ::
(waves) Hi Dev, Hi Dev - you're an official *friendly*! It's cool - like being in Rotary Club, but no dues or meetings on Tuesday nights.
See down there - the bit about 'prize technology'? I yearn for a MAC G3 with firewire, DVD-Rom, external CD-RW, and about 80GB of extra drive. I desire nothing more than bundled Adobe software. I ache for Quick Time 6 Pro and Toast 5 Titanium.
For you see, I have grand ideas - that's the 'yearn for achievement' bit.
Song-fics aren't enough. Not anymore. I need visual with music - I need OP AMVs. And I need them now. Yes, there are a few here but frankly, "Sobriety" needs to be made. Add the 'Arlong Arc' plus Jars of Clay "Fade to Grey" and we get fabuloso sappiness sure to make a person weep. Enrique's "Bailamos" to some Jango moves; an action video featuring Darude's "Sandstorm" and scenes from the Alabasta arc; any lounge music and some Sanji shots; "No volvere" and Zoro mixed with Kuina and Tashigi footage; Ani Difranco's Swan Dive dedicated to the impossible dreamers; the cast of SKU plus NINs "Closer"; RENTs "Contact" as a dedicated spam visual aid; Tori's Strange Little Girl and Vivi...
The point is we, the OP community, need a dedicated media specialist to make visual and musical aides for our anime/manga obsession. This person should not be me since something this important shouldn't be handed over to an amateur. But we do what we have to do.
So please email me if you would like to donate money to the "Help Stacey Buy the Best AMV Equipment Available on the Market at this Time" Fund. If you can't make a donation, I understand. Maybe offer me...space to host the videos if I ever get them done? Or just encouragement would be nice.
And now that I've posted the impossible dream it is my duty to make it a reality. Ganbaremasu yo.
:: 5:01 AM
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All Rationals (NTs) share the following core characteristics:
Rationals tend to be pragmatic, skeptical, self-contained, and focused on problem-solving and systems analysis.
Rationals pride themselves on being ingenious, independent, and strong willed.
Rationals make reasonable mates, individualizing parents, and strategic leaders.
Rationals are even-tempered, they trust logic, yearn for achievement, seek knowledge, prize technology, and dream of understanding how the world works.
Ah, the edit function - assuming one can move quickly enough, one can correct all idiotic posts before the public at large reads them.
But considering the spam, it's even more frightening that you were the one reading my mind... the Force is strong in this one.
:: 5:20 PM
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Oh my gawd! Or demon. Or both. She has very good taste in undead men. Though I'm partial to Ripper myself...he has glasses. ^_^
posted by hazard, who has finally admitted her addiction to men with eyewear...
:: 8:36 AM
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This update is dedicated to your honey. Padawan indeed! How did you know? Coincidence it is not.
:: 6:20 AM
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EW! I don't know why I'm 'ew'-ing, but ew. Just thinking about Eneru makes me want to take a bath. Why this overreaction? I can't explain it. Just a big fat EW.
Oh, and yesterday, while I was teaching the second graders, I was informed by one very angry boy that I was "a mean pirate like Nico Robin." He assumed I didn't know what he was talking about, he tells his homeroom teacher that as well, and she certainly doesn't have a clue. Needless to say, the gaki was a bit surprised when I calmly told him that he'd better be careful or I'd make arms come out of him and tickle him until he cried. Silly students, thinking I don't know anything about OP...
:: 4:27 AM
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:: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 ::
UPDATE!
I finally got around to watching my OP tapes. My VCR screwed up over vacation and I missed the last half of the third movie as well as the first ep of the newest arc, so there are gaps. I also watched the episodes last night after I went karaoke-ing (karaoke on a school night! I feel so naughty) and that means...well, we all remember what happened last time I watched OP after getting hammered. But here goes.
The final ep of the Goat Island Saga:
When we last left our heroes, Zeni (aka Grandfather Goat Pirate) had launched his ship that Luffy-tatchi and crew had helped build, in order to save the pirates from the evil Marines who had come to his island hunting for treasure. Zeni`s ship zoomed down the side of the mountain, building up speed and ultimately scattering the Marines who were holding Usopp hostage. Usopp escaped and the pirates got down to the dirty business of kicking evil Marine butt. Luffy would have been instrumental in this, but he tried to use a rope to get from shore to the Marine boat and ended up falling into the water. Zoro jumped into the water to save him but actually got lost while he was swimming. Then he got run over by the Going Merry Go. Poor Zoro.
In the meantime, Zeni`s boat had inconveniently landed in the water right next to the Marines so they rushed his ship but then basically got taken out by the goats. Zeni himself battled the head evil Marine and was almost overwhelmed until Nico used her powers and then Nami tied the Marine up (Nami hasn`t used her rope-binding skill in quite some time, has she?) So the Marines held off while their leader was captured and we finally got down to the question that had been plaguing Nami since they landed - where was Gramps` treasure? He wasn`t going to leave the island without it, was he?
And Zeni replied: Goats ate my treasure.
That`s right. When Zeni was stranded on Goat Island many years ago, his treasure, which happened to be convenient cash, had been devoured by the goats before he woke up. The goats were leaving with him, so technically he was not leaving his treasure behind PLUS the goats are a greater treasure than any money could ever be. Nami and I both had a similar reaction to this bit of sap. And so ends the harrowing saga of the Goats.
Didn`t see the first ep of the new filler saga, but this is what I gathered from the second.
Luffy, Zoro, Nico, and Usopp are stranded in a Bermuda Triangle type place, called the Rainbow Cloud, where time does not pass. There happen to be some kids trapped there, who had been lost in the cloud for about sixty years. An old scientist guy was friends of these kids when they were lost at sea - he happens to be on the Going Merry with the rest of the crew. In the meantime, Sanji, Chopper and Nami were buying supplies in town and ran into some pyscho pirate types. One of them has a strange suit of armor kind of like what Mr. 3 had, but his has tasers at the end. Sanji got shocked, but don`t worry. He recovered.
Frankly, the filler eps are grating on my last nerve. Jump had the new TV schedule and next month begins the Jaya/Sky Island Arc! It mentions Whitebeard in one of the titles! OH ACE! (swoon) So that`s something to look forward to.
Speaking of Jump, I haven`t read it in a month, so I`m a bit confused, but this week, Viper and Luffy stop fighting because Luffy fell into an underground catacomb. Viper mentions that he has only one strike left (I assume he is referring to his power) and he was saving it for Eneru (Eneru, the god of boding...lounging barechested and being cryptic...so the last eps of SKU...).
Chopper is found by one of the evil priests. Nico finds a huge statue, does some Tomb Raider calculations and determines that the statue is way older than she ever expected. She seems to think it may have something to do with the true history of the world. Then she is interrupted by another creepy priest who calls her a kawaii ojousan. Ew. Back on the boat, Usopp and Sanji are down?! How did this happen? The perpetrators are none other than Satori`s brothers - who dance and sing just like the priest of the Ordeal of the Sphere. It`s down to Nami and the Sky Knight. The Sky Knight wants Nami to stand back, but she whips out her bo, stands by the fallen bodies of her friends and declares - I have to protect them!
Nami-san, sutekiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! (Plus her hair is so cute right now in pigtails.) Nami, you rawk the casbah!
And finally, this weeks inappropriate glomp is -
GLOMP ON VAN!
(Stacey glomps on Van - knocking him over.)
Van: Get off!
Stacey (gets a strange look): Do you have another brother? One with the last name Monkey?
Van: No! (sarcastically) One brother - maybe you know of him? Folken, has no arm?
Stacey (gets a stranger look and begins to sit like Rodin`s Thinker, using Van as her seat): Hmm. Young boy in red vest, older mentor type person missing an arm...both want to be kings...
Van: Not "want"! I am! Now get off!
Stacey: Do you hear something?
(The word "Escaflowne" is screamed faintly in the background.)
Van: Now you`ve done it. The Escaflowne monks have found me again!
(Van finally manages to throw Stacey off and runs away from the screaming Escaflowne monks.)
Whoa. Newlayouts abound this week. And they are all so happy! Happy colors of joy. All the pink reminds me of sakura and the coming of spring and lots of other warm-ish thoughts.
(looks out the window at the snow that is falling...)
However...on a slightly less positive note, the pretty layouts are easily espied from across the room by my superviser who wonders what the hell it all has to do with English teaching. So no more viewing buddy blogs during work time. Darn.
We all seem - a) busy or b) sick or c) a bit of both. Get better reins.
By the by and by, I meant to mention that I found the Love Relationship Calculator at Going Merry. And despair not, Sylph. Try your name in as many different combos as you can (nicknames, full name, full name with middle name, give Sanji a fake last name, etc.) with the Sanjinator. One will yield high results. Some may call this "cheating." I call it "actively helping oneself."
I would like to play too, Jen. If you`re willing to let a complete newbie try RPG that is. I know a little from watching my little bro and his friends. Ha, at least there aren`t any dice in this version.
I gotbored. Obviously my half-assed quizzes are not the be all and end all of the subject. Just some mindless fluff for all to enjoy. If you enjoy mindless fluff that is.
I found something very important. And scientific as well. This is what I got for the K-ples I have below
Vivi and Kohza: 67% love match
Nico Robin and Portgas D. Ace: 17% love match (well, there goes my theory...)
Then I got bored and decided to put myself in the equation.
Stacey and Ace: 74% Too sexy! Stacey and Kohza: 71% (I beat out Vivi! Nyah!) Stacey and ... Usopp!: 61%
Stacey and ... Chopper!: 73%
Then I decided to brave the wrath of a few people...
Stacey and ... Roronoa Zoro!: 16% (Stacey is saved.)
Stacey and ... Sanji!: 29% (Stacey is still saved.)
Stacey and ... Monkey D. Luffy!: 83% (Me and LUFFY? Kaizoku ojou ni watakushi wa naru!?)
And then I just got weird...
Stacey and ...Smoker: 74% (Okay.)
Stacey and ...Kuro: 59% (I'm only 59% compatible with a complete psychopath. How wonderful.)
Stacey and ...Hawk Eye Mihawk: 96% (NANI? Maybe my subconscious is attracted to the pimpin cape?)
Stacey and ...Benn Beckman: 96% (Or an attraction to shotguns?)
But the overall most compatible One Piece persona is none other than
Red Haired Shanks at a whoppin 98%! Um...It MUST be the subconscious attration to the cape thing...well, at least he's more my age, no wait a second! He isn't! I apologize and promise you that there is absolutely nothing going on between me and the One Armed Wonder. Except that one time in Key West. But we were both plastered so it didn't really count. Well, Lucky Roo said it didn't count and I trust him.
I am going to bed, before I write something really stupid.
:: 5:30 AM
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:: Saturday, January 18, 2003 ::
Sheesh.Youpeople. I certainly will NOT write any more smut, especially if you go picking out the cheesiest lines ever and then posting them on your blog! HAZUKASHI DESU YO! (turns bright red)
In other words, I'll think about it. ;)
But how about an update at SaDIstiC? New security firm at the bar. I felt minimal this week. The site's not totally updated yet, but there is brand new Smut, Officer and Some Gentlemen, and Watermark. I'll be re-doing the links (again...) and adding to the cast of the movie shortly. Stay tuned.
Guess what I got today! Conami, Itsumi, and Chihiro Harumi - oh my! And an ah-door-ah-blay one with Vivi and Kohza...(SQUEAL!) Oh, precious doujinshi...thou art the bread and wine of my soul.
Speaking of materialistic OP acquisition, I went to Animate this week while at a conference. I picked up the Drama CD = Pirate Vivi's Big Adventure! WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! More Vivi-chan! I also snagged some clear files of Nico, Ace and Sanji as well as a Mr Prince and Vivi keitai dangly, a Shaaaaaaaaaaaankusu keitai dangly, and a Robin-chan pin (trust me, she's a cutie Robin-chan!) I played my hand at the keychain machine and lost, lost, lost! I want my Kohza keychain, darn you! Stupid machine...
~social time!~
Did everyone take the new quiz? If not, you are being lax in your OP duties...
CHOU! CHOU! CHOU! Seriously, there's a little '?' mark over there for who you like...Puh-lease give me something to work with here. (grins evilly) Or I'll just pick someone. And Shanks went dark because he gave up his hat - the only thing he ever loved.
I was blue - now I am scared. No one is safe. Mothers hide your daughters - the man has glasses and a car... Kuro has leased the Akio-mobile.
(okay so this only makes sense if you know SKU...)
:: 8:59 AM
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I am in a mood, a personal blue period - cyber deep ditch funk if you will. The only thing this post will have to do with OP is the fact that the Going Merry Go is one big boat load of friends. For one sweet year I had my own personal GMG and I didn`t even know it until it was gone.
I am not cut out to live on my own. I need people; and my house is desperately lacking `people.` This is what happens when you go from living with four of your bestest buds and then WHAM! - cold turkey on the togetherness.
And today I miss one person in particular for no reason that I can ascertain. My other roomies? I miss them too, but today I miss `Face` so much I can taste it. I miss her smooth Pam Isley to my crazy Quinzel. I miss serial killer sugar daddies and Sublime and swedish fish. I miss the years of same classes, same house, same room, same same same same - and yet totally completely different.
Now I put Over the Rhine and Stabbing Westward on repeat and listen to `All I Need` and `Save Yourself` and try to conjure up the adrenaline from past rushes with my partner in crime. Not working...
Maybe I`ll get some kind of fic out of this mess...
He dreamt of rain, an oasis named Yuba that would bloom out of the desert, more beautiful than any hothouse flower tended by gardeners. And each morning he woke in grief because he knew that it would never be. He had stared at the seams in his tent and let the sand course through his fingers. He had been driven by need to turn the sand into something else. For his country, for his land, for his people…
The flames of the campfire cast shadows that played havoc in Vivi’s hair. Her hair – it cascaded over her shoulders like a waterfall and he desired nothing more than to drink of it forever.
He turned away.
The harridans of war and violence never tire and my drive to create a garden in the sands never leaves me. It has been the only love I’ve ever known, the one thing I was willing to lay not only my life down for, but the lives of my friends and enemies. I have killed for my dream.
But no dream of rain ever tortured me more than this.
The crime: killing time
Perpetrator: me
Accessory after the fact: Jen.
5 things I love
1. family and friends (one and the same!)
2. adventure
3. movement
4. change
5. reverent whisper: kohza
5 things I don't understand
1. why South Caroline continued to re-elect Strom Thurmond
2. Diet lemon coke
3. my `elected` government officials
4. ignorance
5. the appeal of SMAP
5 thinqs I plan to do before I die
1. commute my slavery to the federal government as time served in Bosnia or Korea
2. shackle a hottie in the icy chains of matrimony
3. show them all
4. speak Farsi fluently
5. open a bar
5 bad habits I have
1. arrogance
2. absent will-power
3. coffee
4. analyzing versus feeling
5. low expectations of people (because if they`re low, you`re never disappointed.)
5 things I wish I had
1. a magic wand
2. the ability to never have to sleep unless I want to
3. a Mac with Premiere and a image cap. card
4. a horse - but not just any horse. A horse with primitive markings, just like me.
5. kohza and kuro in kages
5 scents I love
1. I lost
2. my sense
3. of smell
4. in college.
5. Truth.
5 things I'm thinking about right now
1. lalalala
2. WHHHHHHEEEEEEE!!!!!!
3. oh shite, I have to teach tonight.
4. one and half more hours until coffee break
5. smut, smut, smut and smut
5 things I've done today
1. gotten my water fixed
2. actively not worked
3. had my schedule changed three times
4. been irritated
5. daydreamed about going back to Hawaii and opening a bar that is a take off on Hooters - the waiters would all wear really tight white shorts - tentatively titled `cocks` though that name is taken by a bar in NYC.
5 drinks I regularly drink
1. Coffee
2. Water
3. Tea
4. Southern Comfort (just recently smuggled from Hawaii!)
5. Bathwater
5 things that scare me
1. my friends and family getting sick and me not being there
2. my friends and family getting hurt or dying and me not being there
3. what I would do to those who hurt my friends or family
4. ignorance flaunted daily
5. midgets in leather
5 things that I can do
1. write smut
2. beta-read (I hope...)
3. stand for long periods of time without moving
4. entertain myself with my own thoughts
5. stace-speak with others
5 things I can't do
1. pee standing up
2. HTML
3. sing (but that doesn`t stop me from trying)
4. control myself (this year - all points go into `Maintain Self-Discipline`)
5. draw worth shite (but that doesn`t stop me from trying)
5 favorite movies
1. LA Confidential (Have you a valediction, boyo?)
2. Usual Suspects (The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn`t exist.)
3. The 13th Warrior (The dog can jump!)
4. Office Space (hehe.)
5. The Goonies (I LOVE ICE CREAM!)
5 favorite actors
1. Russell Crowe
2. Collin Farrell
3. Colin Firth (OH MR. DARCY! Both times.)
4. Kevin Spacey
5. Wesley Snipes
5 things that make me cry
1. Pain.
2. That`s it.
3. And that`s alot.
4. Covers most things in fact.
5. I hate talking about this.
5 things that make me smile
1. nakama
2. smut (less a smile, more a leer)
3. accents
4. "My pants ate your ice cream."
5. Zoro`s thought bubbles turning into squiggles
Ginga, welcome to the small friendlies! Ginga is in Hawaii now, which is where I was, but unlike me, she gets to go to school there. Lucky.
:: 11:17 PM
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I hope I don't get cries of 'Ew. Gross.' out there because this is a good thing! 1) Lots of people access that page - the more people who see Nami will go, "Who is that? Must be pretty cool if it's on the Yuricon page - I should check it out." So that means more people will be infected by the OP virus! Muwahaha! 2) Through much sordidness and long stories - Yuricon was inspired by Scenes from an Elevator which also inspired the Smut Garden - without SfaE and Yuricon, there would be no Smut. That means no knockin' the creators.
(Stacey steps off her soapbox.)
:: 11:36 PM
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As an INTJ, you are Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Judging.This makes your primary focus on Introverted Thinking with an Extraverted Intution. This is defined as a NT personality, which is part of Carl Jung's Rational (Knowledge Seeking) type, and more specifically the Mastermind or Scientist.
You aren't as openly affectionate as some of you NT counterparts, and this may cause other bloggers to assume you aren't as friendly. Your ideas and actual applications for these ideas are brilliant, however, and you might be more likely to create something masterful on your journal.
Cool! I'm a mastermind! Muwahahahaha!
:: 10:54 PM
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She knows about Fries! Yes! And I am now Niigo. Thanks both for your feedback.
Today's inappropriate Glomp IS -
GLOMP ON MIROKU!
(Stacey glomps on Miroku - knocking him to the ground. Surprisingly enough he doesn't try to get up.)
Stacey: Oh NO! Did I hurt you? Do you want me to get a doctor?
Miroku: Nope. Stay right there. I like to be on the bottom. (waits for the cry of outrage and slap to the face.) You're not gonna hit me?
Stacey (leering): Not unless you like it like that.
Miroku (leering): Now you're talking.
Oh! So many things to write about! I totally forgot that I got to see Adult Swim.In fact, I spent New Year's watching Mission Hill, Space Ghost, The Brak Show, Sealab 2021 (SO FUNNY!), and finally, my personal favorite (because it makes absolutely no sense) the Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Fries is da Man. Er, the fries that is. And please don't make fun of my New Year's celebration - it's a long story that no one wants to hear.
But the other nights Adult Swim was on, it was anime nights. YEAH! Everyone who's anyone knows that they recycle English speaking VAs like aluminum cans so that meant long hours of dubbed Cowboy Bebop (nanja? Roger? Spike? Roger? Spike? I'm so confused!) and the best part of all....
DUBBED INUYASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so maybe I shouldn't get all crazy about dubbed-ness, but it was sooooooo funny. I'm used to hearing good ole Usopp...er Yamaguchi-san that is, but it was great not to have to rewind the tape and break out my dictionary to understand the jokes.
So here's my final judgement on the whole she-bang (cue Ricky Martin shaking his bon-bons in the background.)
Good things - kept the Japanese music. Thank GAWD.
Bad things - I know the class/station/time period specificness of the Japanese language is difficult to manage, but 'ye'? Ye gawds, shoot me in the head. Also the ambiguous title of 'warring states period' grated on my last nerve.
Voice Actor Judgement of DOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!:
Inuyasha: Eehh...Yamaguchi Kappei IS Inuyasha. The new guy does a decent job I guess.
Kagome: Another eehh...Whines a bit and the pronunciation of her name by the other characters is totally hit and miss. Pick one, people.
Shippu: Gohan? Huh? What?
Sesshi-kun: Treize? Nanja? You're alive! Wufei's gonna be pissed! Kidding aside, Sesshi-kun's okay, but visions of Treize's eyebrows dance in my head when I heard him.
Naraku: oh my. Sinister evil baritone... me likey.
Kikiyo: Is it possible that Michiru is voicing the priestess? My ears - do they deceive me or am I losing my voice actor identifying devil fruit powers?
The final comment - grab onto something nailed down to stabilize yourself against the the gushing...the floodgates are opening...you've been warned!
Miroku - TROWA! TROWA! VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!! (leers) oh, Miroku, I skiied on you in Japanese before but now, now, oh now... (falls over from the nose aneurysm.)
In case anyone didn't know already, the same guy does the voice of Trowa, Van, and now Miroku. I DIE for his voice. I would marry his voice if it were allowed, but I think only Nevada recognizes the legitimacy of marriage between a fangrrl and someone's voice. Heck, I would marry him - I saw his pic in a fan-zine and he's a hottie. Name? Who needs a name when I know his voice! Muwahahahahaha! I would be Mrs. Stacey Trowa/Van/Miroku's Voice Actor. I guess I could change it to Mrs. Stacey Trovamiva. YEAH!
The men in the coats are coming to take me away, so I have to leave you now. Here's something funny a friend sent me. I tried to make the OP crew, but failed miserably. Anyone else care to take a crack at it?
Hey Jen, thanks for the AcexNico sprite pair! Whoopee!
Fumbum - I finally got to see it all in Flash! That was priceless! The flying Shanks cracked me up and it was all so much better with the music going along to it.
And I have to say it again - my Kohza, what a big sword you have. (leers at Kohza)
Kohza (leers back): Hail to the king, baby.
(Vivi smacks him in the head.)
Vivi: My father is the king and don't you forget it.
Kohza: Gomen...
:: 2:45 AM
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:: Friday, January 10, 2003 ::
I did not write these. A friend sent them to me. It keeps with the OP spam theme.
spam haikus
Bluish can of steel
What promise do you hold?
Salty flesh so ripe
Twist, pull the sharp lid
Jerks and cuts me deeply but
Spam, aah, my poultice
Clad in metal, proud
No mere salt-curing for you
You are not bacon
Pink beefy temptress
I can no longer remain
Vegetarian
In the cool morning
I fry up a slab of Spam
A dog barks next door
And who dares mock Spam?
You? you? you are not worthy
Of one rich pink fleck
from
http://www.jetaasc.org/php/article.php?content=spring_98
Another post because I forgot stuff! I joined some of her cliques, but I need help! All of you who have read OPTV, which fangurl am I? I am torn between Yotko and Niigo! I have Yotko's strange doujinshi affliction, but Niigo's character likes. Plus her fashion sense is more to my taste than Yotko's "Harajuku just exploded on me!" look. Opinions? Anyone?
Hey you! Who do ya love? I need to fill in that question mark over on small friendlies! May be guy or gal OP character and it can be someone who is already taken if you so desire. I will let you mull upon this decision. Post it on your blog or email me with your ...( does Regis impression) final answer!
Finally - speaking of strange doujinshi...a highly embarrassing thing happened to me over the break. Oh so long ago, I ordered some ...how shall I say this?...interesting doujinshi and due to budget constraints had it sent to my parent's house. My mother is honourable and when I told her that she should not open it on pain of pain (her pain, not mine, and mental pain, not physical), she didn't. I think my parent's think I deal drugs or something, but they don't mind as long as I don't get caught. Anyway. I coerced my mother into bringing this envelope filled with smut to Hawaii. She gave it to me and then I dutifully put it away because I knew that to open it in just a hundred feet radius of my family begged for trouble.
And then when no one was looking I ripped it open and began to devour the yaoi naughtiness. I couldn't help myself, I have no self-control when it comes to doujinshi!
AND THEN MY BROTHER CAME IN THE ROOM! He was supposed to be at the swimming pool! It was supposed to be safe!
Well I was already red in the face out of sheer embarrassment of what I was reading...and my brother just KNEW I was doing something illicit. He calmly came over to me and asked what I was reading. I guilitily squeaked out 'doujinshi' and he took it away from me and began flipping through the pages and then called me - I think it was pervert? Yeah, something like that.
My worst nightmare had come true. Not only had a close family member discovered me flagrante delicto as it were, it was my brother. The blackmailer. I was at his mercy and I knew it. I began some lame excuse that I was just buying from the cover and how was I supposed to know the content, I barely speak Japanese let alone read it...but he knew it was bull-oney. He was disgusted - it was yaoi after all and how was I to explain the appeal of yaoi...not that yaoi appeals to me. This yaoi did but not usually....ugh. I'm digging the hole deeper and deeper aren't I? Well, my brother didn't buy it and I asked the evil question - are you gonna tell mom and dad? That was my way of saying, how much is it gonna cost me to keep you quiet?
Gods be praised, but it was a small price indeed. He decided that fair was fair and I had to go and buy him the nude Hawaiian hula girl calendar down in the hotel gift shop to appease him. Easy enough, and he was bought off...for a time at least. I think I may throw in a subscription to Playboy to appease his smuttiness. Different strokes for different folks, after all.
Shanks (snickering): You said 'stroke.'
Ben: Heh. Heh.
On a positive note, my little bro said that the drawings didn't even look like the OP characters and he still didn't see the appeal but since I'd mentioned that I might sell them one day and make some money, then he could see why I might buy them. My brother is an entrepreneur at heart and will excuse most anything if it involves money. Right little bro?
So my worst fears came true and like most worst fears, it wasn't so bad! I'm certainly not suggesting that you all break out your illicit hentai doujinshi and leave it lying on the coffee table for Great Aunt Martha to find, but believe it or not...someone may understand! Or accept at at least!
And now a new feature of PiP (PIP? Dear lord...) is the Random Inappropriate GLOMP! The glomp may be on anyone or anything for any reason I deem fit. Today's glomp is....
GLOMP ON GIMLI!
(Gimli is knocked down by Stacey's glomp, but he recovers and with his dwarven strength, easily throws her off.)
Gimli: You daft human! Don't touch me!
Stacey: But Gimli, you're SOOOOOOOO underappreciated! I thought you deserved a hug!
Gimli: Well...
Stacey: And you rawked Twin Towers. You OWNED that movie. You were the best part of it!
Gimli (puffs up with pride): I thought so myself! Got back a little of my own from that elf, didn't I?
Stacey: It was so unfair that they cut out your scene with Galadriel in FotR. Very uncool. So may I give you a hug?
Gimli (knocks her backwards): Dwarves don't hug!
:: 4:53 AM
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I'm back in Japan. (forced enthusiasm) yippee.
I'll get over it in a bit. Right now I'm all depressed as I usually am when I return from a vacation. I am not one of those people who easily get sick of travelling and want to stay in one place for an extended period of time or have a room or even a bit of space that is 'theirs.' I'm a nomad. I have lived out of a backpack for months at a time, have slept in every type of waiting terminal known to man, including a ferry terminal, have learned the art of keeping oneself warm when you have no sleeping bag (public restroom, sleeping under the hand dryer), and been mistaken for a bum because I went a week without bathing because I had no money in the currency of the country I was in. I am a traveler and I love the nomad's life.
I like traveling because it makes for great stories and inspires me to write more stories. Traveling isn't 'downtime' it's creative time for me and I get more ideas and better lines when I'm on a train, plane, bus, or boat. In any case, now I'm home and I'm already feeling the tug of wanderlust. Bad as a kender I am. It's my clan-sense. We're too antsy to stay still for a long time.
BUT this has nothing to do with OP! So on to my OP stuff. You know that nasty little weapon that Arlong has? I saw that puppy in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The Hawaiians used real shark teeth in koa wood to make that nasty piece of business. I am a collector of native weapons and managed to get the name of the man who does the restoration work on those and also makes his own - soon I will be a proud owner of the ancient shark toothed knuckle duster, used by Hawaiian assassins in their dirty work. Cool, huh? Another little instrument of death to add to my collection. [have I scared anyone? I hope not. Think of my weapons as collectible spoons - that have been filed down by prison inmates...]
That little bit of trivia reinforces the idea of Hawaii in the Arlong Arc - that and the fishmen's hideous printed shirts.
Skipping to a different subject - I can understand why Ace and Luffy and Nami and Usopp and Chopper and basically everyone hightailed it off their respective islands. My mother asked me - in the midst of the gorgeous natural beauty of Maui - if I would like to live in Hawaii and I replied firmly, "Oh hell no." Island life, while hedonistic and beautiful, is ultimately restraining. You can't GO on an island. Land is finite and the sea is a different kind of prison. But on a ship...a ship is a different story. Life on a ship is freedom and danger and excitement! Give me a ship and that tiny band of stars known as the Belt or the Southern Cross or the Dippers, Big and Small and I'd be a happy woman. But don't strand me on an island. Anything but that.
I have a blinking light beckoning me from my VCR. I have to discover if I managed to tape all those OP eps or if I was betrayed by technology and programming. Cross your fingers, minner!
:: 3:16 AM
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:: Monday, January 06, 2003 ::
It's a new year - the year of the Ram or sheep or whatever fluffy white animal with cloven hooves and hair used for sweaters is called. That means a) it's the year of the Going Merry and b) it's the year of ME!
(dryly) When isn't it about you?
I can't hear you, i can't hear you! I'll be writing up a new year's resolution entry later. I think I will resolve not to have any resolutions.
Miss Anal-Retentive sans Plans? Yeah right. You're as bad Kuro on most days.
I can't hear you, i can't hear you! Soon I will be returning to the land of the rising sun, though perhaps during the winter months it should be referred to as Icewind Dale. Los parientes and mi hermano returned to Amerika last night and left me all by my lonesome. I am drowning myself in the Internet until the plane leaves. It's either that or shopping and I don't have anymore room in my suitcase. Or money, now that I think about it.
A wonderfully amusing summary of my misadventures in Hawaii will be up on Womit (the non OP blog) in the future. Maybe. If I get around to it. Not today. Someday. Maybe.
Now to the messages!
Sylph, dahling - First off - congrats on the OP fic award and since you got the award you are now required to churn out all the lemon-y tang and nice stuff alternately on your own time nonwithstanding flamers who are silly and just want to get a rise out of you. Mention the weenie no more in your blog and block the non-replyable email address; the person is mentally unstable and needs a dosage of Xanax.
And thank you for the cliques! We need more cliques. I'll be signing up for them all once I get back to my computer.
Then you have all this excitement while I'm gone! It makes me sad that i have been incommunicado. I'm glad you straightened out the lech. What a jerk! Once again, your response was measured and sound. I applaud you for your maturity. [I could detail what I have done in those situations, but my actions tend to lead to lawsuits in this ligitation-crazy era.]
reins, dahling - Has the NIN fetish passed or is it now a part of your psyche in such a way that you will never be the same again? No condolences since you didn't want any so, um, enjoy reading your newest book. Ugh. Lame, but safe.
Fumbum, dahling - LUVED the OP 12 Days of Christmas. That was inspired genius and I know I wasn't the only one thinking SHAAAAAAAN-KUUUUU-SUUUU when the real version played. The end of the Alabasta Arc (Go!) had me in stitches. Finally, I have this to say about the last day: My, my, Leader. What a big sword you have...
Chou, dahling, I will put you up under Small Friendlies shortly. I know you didn't ask for that kind of punishment, but that's what happens when you're link-free. About ambition - I know where you're coming from. It's hard for people to understand "as yet unrealized future facts."
Jen, dahling, I love your new layout. It reminds me that I need to get TRTRW finished.
So maybe I'll blog tomorrow and maybe not. I have a few more days to go in paradise and i should spend them in the sun, ne? Or maybe I'll go write. In any case, I hope everyone is having a decent new year (we're only five days into it...) and you'll hear from me later.
:: 7:32 PM
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