Title: Cartagra
Circle: Yagibe
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Genre: Gen, bittersweet
Rating: PG-ish
Characters: Jade-centric, heavy on Nebilim and Peony. Saphir|Dist, young Nephry, Luke.
Notes: This is the first time I scan a full doujinshi, my scanner is not so good, and I'm bad at cleaning scans. I'm sorry if it looks crappy around the edges.

download (10.8 MB)

(x-posted: @ abyss_doujin)

Posted the Natsume Yuujinchou screencaps here. It took a lot of work to upload them, but if this means people making good icons then I'll be satisfied.

I think I should screencap more stuff since it's so easy with the batch function. I might do Mushishi and/or Kino since I have the DVDs. What do you guys think?

I hope FMA is out early this month. The anime hype and seeing Hughes is strongly reminding me of the epicness to come in this issue. Asgdfghafdhg.

I'm also really pumped for Tsuioku no Jade, which will be out around the 24th. I swear, if nobody is scanning the magazine raw, I'll cry. I want to see this so bad.

...So basically, it all comes down to Colonel Badass fest. In both fandoms.

And now for that "pick 5 icons and I'll explain them meme".

( I'm having déjà-vu; didn't I do a couple of these more than once already? )

Thanks to sha_chan, I finally collected the whole series of cutesy Chinese fox goodness.

Tea House

In this zip file (4.28 MB), there are the 26 images for both the Tea House theme on iGoogle and the one on Gmail. It includes both Easter eggs at 3:14 am. Oh, and they're no screencaps, but ripped, full background graphics.

Examples:

Okay, so it's be 2008 here. I feel I've been neglecting people on the Internet, and I've been posting about crap so obscure nobody really knows what to say about it. I can't complain for feeling lonely because I'm not helping to my situation here. So, my new year purpose will be nicer to you guys, comment in more posts, try to be funnier, share more stuff that ISN'T about Okami, talk more about old fandoms, and try to fix my desktop after February because I miss making icons and graphics so much. Oh, and retake Out of the Ordinary because this is silly.

By the way, if any of you feel like defriending me, since it's the season, go ahead. I won't be mad, promise! I know I'm lame and depressing right now so it's okay.

I promised telrunya to re-upload the NDS emulator. It's here.

( This question meme I saw around )

Let me tell you, I hate preparing the math lessons for my brothers. Giving classes to them is tiresome, and this year's textbook is in fucking Galician. asdhasgdhg.

So, the next installment of His Wife? A Wolf! Okami is here! Bonjour!

» Today's batch «



( A doggone quest )

Something weird happened with Mediafire and I thought they had deleted my account and the Okami videos. And after uploading all of today on Savefile, I recheck and it's all back to normal O__o So while I'm uploading them to the usual server, you can get them temporarily on SF. Nevermind.

Most of the videos are playing in a dungeon/temple (those familiar with Zelda videogames would know what I'm meaning). So just the first two videos and the last one have actual plot, while the others are running around these ruins with extra vegetation.

Also no, the game isn't that easy to play. I mean, it is, but on the first play you're unable to kill enemies with two strikes. This guy just uses strong weapons he got on previous replays. Sadly you don't get to see Waka's whole battle strategy because he's pwned too quickly this way.



( The gift of the gods ISU HIA~ Bonjour! )

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Let's continue where we left off. And man, Hana Valley got chopped off horribly. Thankfully youtube will save the day. Oh, and remember to let me know if you're downloading it, so I can be assured someone other than me actually cares XP



( Shinshu field, Hana Valley, Kamiki village again )

And that's it for today! Join us next time when we'll go to Agata forest and drool over Waka. Oops, sorry. When -you'll- go to Agata forest and -I- drool over Waka. Better?

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First canon pimping. Here's the 1/4 part of CCS. Pretty accurate to do it today, April 1st, day in which the main character was born.

Cardcaptor Sakura

This is the story of a pretty magician called Clow Reed, who had an unusual heritage for his time, a weird way to do things, a medium-sized reason to angst in the CLAMP scale of doom, and too much free time in his hands. He had made two cute creatures and a deck of magic cards and two Mokonas, but that was another canon, and he lived as happy as he could with them.

...Okay fine, the story is set decades after his death, and told from his heiress' point of view, but he's still guilty of everything.

So yeah, follow the adventures of 4th grader Sakura Kinomoto, who's forced to gather temperamental cards-spells with the help of a mascot who looks like a toy, a best friend who has a fetishist crush on her, and a foreign grumpy boy who knows kung-fu. The genre is magical girls. Not as epic as Sailor Moon, not as smart as Princess Tutu, but it's still cute and funny to read and it doesn't drag as much as the anime version, as there are less cards to gather. And the guys are pretty to look at, which is cool.

And there's the canon pairings. If the childish premise doesn't convince you, the not-so-politically-correct couples should. You want normal het? You got it. You want gay/bisexual teenagers? You got it. You want lesbians? You got it. You want male/asexual or alive people/ghosts? You got it. You want teachers proposing to their students? You fucking got it. And so on. This shit is bananas. Not as much as X and RG Veda, but you know, for the genre itself it's pretty WTF.

By the way, it's not gory as Tsubasa, and I promise you the main characters in CCS are pretty much different from their TRC versions. RLY.

Volume one

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Volume two

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Volume three

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The next volumes in a couple of days.

Personally, and I hope you don't take it the wrong way, Kurosawa's samurai/feudal movies make me sleepy. Still, I remembered these days there was this movie of him I watched late at night years ago, in the middle of an insomnia attack. And it was really pretty and weird and paranoid. Time passed and I discovered by accident it was a Kurosawa movie, and all the different parts were telling of actual dreams the director had had (supposedly).

I'm uploading the first two dreams. Incidentally, they're the least paranoid of the lot (although the windmill village is really pretty and all, but it has this social preach tone going on). They're quite supernatural, probably because they're a child's dreams/nightmares. I don't know, I feel like this could actually happen on XXXHOLiC.



Dream 1: Sunshine through the Rain
The mother tells the boy not to go out in the rain, because that's the weather in which the kitsune celebrate their weddings. The boy doesn't listen to her and runs to the woods, where he peeks at a kitsune wedding procession. When he's busted, he goes back home as fast as he can. However, the mother scorns at him and lets him know a kitsune had come to the house and wants the boy to kill himself with a knife as a punishment. The mother, however, tells him to ask them for their forgiveness. Then the boy walks to the end of the rainbow, looking for the kitsune.
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Dream 2: Peach Orchard
The boy's sister is preparing the doll festival with her friends, but he's sure he had counted five girls instead of four. The fifth girl was a spirit who leads him to the orchard. In it, he finds the spirits of the peach trees, who had taken the forms of a giant set of traditional dolls. They explain him they can't go to his house because his family had cut down all the peach trees from the orchad. But since the boy did love the peach blossoms, they make a dance for him. In the end, after they're gone, the girl comes back. But when he catches her, she turns out to be a lonely, small peach tree in bloom.
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How the subtitles work: I think you can make them work just with BSPlayer, or maybe it's a codec thing. Dunno, just google it because I'm not sure. What I DO know is the subs file must be in the same folder than the avi.