niji to the bug

nooooooo I'm not going to let two months go by without updating so I'm just going to post!!!

I don't want to talk about life so let's talk about books instead. I'm currently in the middle of reading Temeraire, When Fox Is A Thousand, and Swordspoint (and a couple other books I've lost track of so I guess I'm not actually currently reading them). I haven't much time to read, so it's just a few pages here and there of whichever book is closest to me at any given time.

Who's pumped for Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen (2014)?!!! I forgot that I already owned a copy of Sabriel, so I ordered another one (the 1997 edition with the Leo and Diane Dillon cover illustration of course). And while that was still moseying on over in the mail, I forgot about it too and ordered the Old Kingdom trilogy omnibus. So now I own the entire trilogy twice plus an extra copy of book one, which I guess I'll use for lending out. This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened to me, and lending out extra copies is the usual solution. But speaking of Sabriel! my friend and housemate elfsmirk has made a Sabriel tea blend (I illustrated the label):

( tea below cut )

I'm technically in the middle of my first playthrough of Pokemon FireRed right now, but it's safe to say that that's on hiatus until this summer. This is my first ~legit Pokemon game (since my friends tell me Pokemon Stadium/Snap/Puzzle don't count...I left out Hey You Pikachu for fear they would truly judge me, but I do not regret a single moment spent playing that game IT WAS DIABETES INDUCING ♥), and it's kind of mindlessly enjoyable but also frustrating as hell sometimes haha. It's kind of like FE in the sense that your party size is limited, and it kills me because I want to have them all with me always. u___u

(Currently my team consists of a Growlithe named Chanyeol, a Gyarados named Katara, a Graveler named Galadriel, a Pidgeotto named Kris, a Pikachu named Pikachen, and a Raticate named Luhan. My Gyarados was Celebrant until I realized it was female.)

The only show I'm really keeping up with right now is Elementary, and I think I enjoy it so much because JLM's Sherlock reminds me so much of Basil (The Great Mouse Detective).

Oh an Crystal Kay retweeted my mashup of her song "Take It Outside" with Owl City's ending theme from Wreck It Ralph yesterday! That made my day. ♥

( screenshot under cut )

And I also deleted my tumblr account and made a new one first week of March but my LJ/Dwth circles don't really run with my Tumblr/Twitter circles anyway so that info is kinda irrelevant. :P

Picked up small brother person from school after an embarrassing bio lab incident in which he had an allergic reaction. Got him some ice cream. He's eating ice cream and playing tf2 (loudly) with his friends right now. He plays Scout. For lunch, I've made myself some noodle soup out of leftovers. It's funny, I really like spicy food now (even though I still can't eat really spicy).

Yesterday and the day before I spent on jury duty. The judge looked exactly like Hugo Weaving. I just thought of him as Elrond or Agent Smith the entire time. The prosecutor reminded me of every high school boy I'd ever debated against. He was so nervous, his voice kept rising higher and higher until he was pretty much squeaking towards the end. I wanted to tell him to sit down, breathe, have a glass of water. Believe in yourself, kid!

This week was spring break, but I had so much to do it didn't feel like break at all. I'm still struggling to have everything done this weekend. Miyako has next week off (everyone seems to go on break later! when I'm back at school!), and I've set aside thursday afternoon to hang out with her. We have not seen each other since sophomore year in high school; we're both juniors in college now, I think? idk how college works in japan. But anyway, it's been ~5 years. I hope we can still recognize each other. Actually, I wonder why I'm not more worried about if we'll have anything to talk about. Maybe because even back in high school we were never into the same things, per say. We just really liked to listen to each other complain. I hope I'm still really great at that, since she's driving up to Ann Arbor (I don't have a car). I'd feel bad if, for instance, I just wouldn't shut up about gintama. (I really need to shut up about gintama.)

I'm watching episode 20 of Wakfu right now. I want to finish the first season before I head back to school. It's a really nice show. I've heard friends call it "the french Avatar: The Last Airbender", but personally I find it a lot more similar in both tone and setting to Jeff Smith's Bone. With elements of Portal and Legend of Zelda. You gotta like Bone (unless you haven't heard of it). It is like the Calvin and Hobbes of fantasy comics. My favorite character in Wakfu so far is the stingy old treasure-hunter, Ruel. But really, I just love all of the Brotherhood of Tofu. Wakfu makes me wish I hadn't let my french rust away. I would love to see Wakfu get a decent English dub, if only to expose more kids to it (the target audience is ages 8-10). I downloaded the mmorpg when it was in beta but didn't really have time to play it much before the official release came out (and I had to uninstall it). tbh I think I love the cast of the tv series a lot more than I'm invested in the World of Twelve itself, and I've never been able to actually get into an mmo before, so I doubt I'm missing out on much in terms of Wakfu. Though I would really love to get my hands on the OST for the tv series; I poked around for a bit this morning and downloaded the game soundtrack. I don't think there is an official tv album?

I don't understand fiction and its romanticizing of coughing at all. =n=

Though I suppose if I looked like Ukitake, anything I did would be romantic...

But that's where I've been all week, hacking my lungs out until my back protests. Also, an old friend dropped off Path of Radiance, and as a result artemis_elric and I have been literally glued to the couch. Holy crap, that game is cruel. You can't, like, ever just save and the battles go on foreverrr. @___@

( Some collective thoughts of two FE noobs )

Oblique references that do not warrant tags: bleach, pokemon, yugioh, neopets, tales of symphonia, school

Also, Princess Elincia is a carrot.

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Oh, artemis_elric and I have been working on a duet! :3

And my heart but a helpless popcorn kernel ♥

(Attempting to describe the effect that Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth seem to have on me in a midnight gmail chat with artemis_elric.)

Oh, and this gem of an analogy sallied forth from the lips of the small brother person today: "A snail is to a slug as a euphonium is to a bari sax." (Did I miss out for not doing band in school? I think I did.)

Anyway.

I'm happy to report that this little guy

has found a home with tn. She has named him Ricky, and she loves him dearly. (If you'll recall, tn made me this darling Earth Day card last year. She is quite often associated with acorns with happy faces.)

( Pop pop pop pop )

For anyone who is still interested in following the ugly drama that is the Bleach plagiarism... Nick Simmons released an official statement on the matter and, surprise surprise, he denies the tracing.

Incarnate creator Nick Simmons responds to plagiarism allegations (Robot 6) Great comments on this article. The ever-eloquent Gourley speaks again.
Nick Simmons Releases Statement, Takes No Responsibility (Comics Worth Reading)

You know what? If the kid had owned up to his mistake, I might have been able to respect him for that. As it stands, I am bitterly disappointed and have no more to say on this matter.

Almost forgot I had this...

Well, I'm in the process of moving journal entries, translations, music, etc. from my old blogsome account. So here's some Legend of Zelda fanmusic.
"Hylian Pastoral" was composed summer of '07 as a birthday gift for SirLadySketch. It's inspired by the Ocarina of Time, hence the use of Zelda's Lullaby as an intro & counterpart...harmony...thing...

( Hylian Pastoral, duration 1:21 )

Download the mp3: link