taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Raine / Geeking over obscure things)
1. FMA CHAPTER IS OUT, YAY! just two lines )

2. I FOUND MY GAMECUBE MEMORY CARD. TALES OF SYMPHONIA, HERE I COME... when I get back home, that is.

3. Not quite "good" news, but two of the language courses I wanted to take collide in schedule. In the end I'm only inscribing English and German. God help me.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Edward and Alphonse / so zen)
1. So new FMA anime on the works

On one hand, I'm not bitter enough to say it's going to suck enormously regardless of how they do it. On the other, I've been brokenhearted enough by anime of my favorite things (incidentally, it wasn't Hagaren itself but XXXHOLiC what kicked me in the nuts the most) not to going to be jumping for joy if/when they say it's based on manga. It could bring good things and funny scenes, perhaps, but BONES does have a history of putting cactus juice in their screenwriters' drinking water. So, I can't be sure they're not going to screw it up, but I'm not grinch enough to be sure so soon it will be screwed up. Benefit of the doubt and all.

(And I'll be sort of pissed if they do an almost flawless adaptation of the manga but it doesn't become as liked as the first series (or more). Or people don't watch it because they've already seen one FMA anime, or try to boycott it because it's not Edward And Alphonse's Most Excellent Gypsy Adventures In Nazi Germany. Urgh.)

2. So new Slayers anime gets C&D'd

I guess this means no relying on LJ to know when clandestine subs will come out, right? GodDAMMIT, I hate it enough when we foreign fans are screwed up by American licenses. But it's even more annoying if it's not even licensed yet to begin with! The levels of paranoia are just so high. I don't know about you guys, but I'll pretty much check illegal torrent sites once or twice a week in hopes to see a sub or resort to slow-as-hell Spanish fansub groups if it doesn't work. I'm not bothering with raws and text translations. I'm multitask, but not that desperate.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Edward and Alphonse / so zen)
And now that I'm slowly rereading my FMA volumes. I guess some of you might remember those icons for [livejournal.com profile] tarot_challenge I made years ago. (If you weren't here or are curious, here they are.) It's kind of funny because for some reason I remembered them and went to check them out. And well, they're so simple but I still like them. But what's interesting is reading the reasons and the meaning of the cards, and finding that volumes later they still make sense story-wise or in my logic.

If I were to make them today, I would've made one extra of either Chariot or Strength for Olivier Armstrong (yeah, well, Strength fits her better than her brother), one extra of Hermit for Hohenheim, and one extra of Judgment for Marcoh. Oh, and a Hanged Man version with the other Greed. No, you know what's funny? Some cards that made no sense back then other than "oh, I want to do one with this character/scene" are making more sense in-story NOW. Particularly this one, and Mei's, and even Ling's whose meaning I thought to be lost after chapter 58. I'd also use a pre- or during-Ishval image for Lovers better, to make it more symbolic.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Fujitaka / Read more)
I've been trying to post this for an hour now. Stupid modem.

And of course, as soon as the computer problems end...

...THE BACK/NECK PROBLEMS RISE AGAIN LIKE A ZOMBIE. A PAINFULLY SHARP-TEETH ZOMBIE.

So I'll be MIA for some time. I'm taking a break from the computer. Like, I only popped in to tell you not to expect RP replies from me today (damn, and I really wanted to go on with the epic Tamaki cross-examination).

But really, it's a good thing the pending manga chapters were out today. I already talked about FMA 83 ♥

But I have to add something in regards of TRC 190: this time not that wanky )
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ling Yao & Lan Fan / behind your back)
We can has spoilerz thread )

And why am I posting now instead of waiting for the chapter? Because I miss reading spoilers of something without frothing at the mouth. And Arakawa delivers.

Also, in case my sarcasm wasn't clear, I'm not reading reactions other than my flist's this month. That kind of fans fapping to a certain something will spoil my fun.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ema / she blinded me with science)
1. During Cognitive Science class, the professor was talking about how we tend to associate and relate information with other things or words, to the point what we remember is altered by these relations and it's not trustworthy anymore.

So he gives as an example how eyewitnesses in legal trials sometimes give unintentional wrong testimonies in court, because they "remember" things that never really happened just by associations. They could see broken crystals in a car crash if they think the smash was strong enough, even though no windshields or mirrors were even broken in fact.

And I'm mentally all "DUUUUR! Suddenly Phoenix Wright games make more sense!"

Did you know that in the early 40's the judges and prosecutors took the eyewitnesses' testimonies as reliable facts, and thought that human memory worked like a recording tape? It wasn't until psychological experiments kicked in and proved otherwise that the legal system in the US and other countries didn't change to reflect this.

GOOD THING. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WOULD BE SO SCREWED.

2. The bus' radio rickrolled me today O_o I'm not sure, however, if it was

a) The 70's-80's-90's station, and if it's that then it was just regular schedule
b) A really mean DJ who has been in the English-speaking side of the Internet and did it for the lulz
c) A really mean listener who has been in the English-speaking side of the Internet and requested Rick Astley for the lulz (not that people here know what that is)

It was probably option a, but still.

3. I'M EVEN MORE IN AWE FOR CHAPTER 82. Man, Arakawa, you reminded me why I loved that kid so much ♥ ♥ Now that I know what he told him, it makes so much sense and it's so much more awesome. asdgasghagsfhg
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ling / citrical ownage)
FMA CHAPTER 82

asfghaga asgfasjf asfjhsd fsdjfhsdbf sdfjhsdbfsd fkjs

Will say something more coherent and less keyboard-smashing when I can read the dialogs instead of gaping in awe.

GODDAMMIT ahdgagdgadahsjk.

ETA: IT'S BEEN OVER 15 MINUTES AND I'M STILL GRINNING. This weekend I had such good karma. Homework progresses, icons are made, wishlisters are get, and now THIS. Even my neck ache is almost gone by awesome.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Soel / Leave this world with style)
Creo que ya entiendo porqué me negaba un poco a listar personajes favoritos en el friending meme de Mansión, aparte del hecho de tener cerebro de pollo para recordar tantos. Es porque siento que la mitad resultaría completamente desconocidos XDDD ("Ushi-quién?!")

Anyway, that fanon meme. Sorry some of these will shorter. I guess that means I don't have so many suppositions and think of them as canon says they are?

Mokona Modoki )

Ling Yao (contains spoilers for FMA manga) )
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Yuuko / ♥)
Greatest way to wake up the first day of vacations: My package finally arrived! So now I'm the proud (?) owner of the first FMA manga artbook and a Slayers one~~

I'll make a list of the artbooks I own for the heck of it:

  • CLAMP - X Zero
  • CLAMP - X Infinity
  • CLAMP - Hiten Muma (RG Veda)
  • CLAMP - North Side
  • CLAMP - Cardcaptor Sakura Art Book 2
  • CLAMP - Soel to Larg: Mokona Modoki no Bouken (...it's half artbook?)
  • Arakawa Hiromu - Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Araizumi Rui - Slayers Dra-mata


As you see, I don't have a lot of artbooks, but they're still a lot. North Side and the CCS one are the Spanish edition, which are smaller than my Japanese ones but the notes are translated.

On a sidenote, I can't recognize even half of the background people at the Dra-mata XD It makes me wonder which ones I'll remember with a TV series marathon, which ones I'd understand if I watched the movies/OVAs or read the manga series, and which ones would remain an enigma because they're from the Special novels. Confession time: I do have some movie/OVA on CD. I've just never gave a rat's ass for the Naga part of the canon, because I'm too used to Lina having cute, (usually) caring friends, and I fear her past with Naga as associate wouldn't feel like Slayers to me. So I'm not sure I want to poke that canon with a ten-foot pole... does that make me a bad fan?

The Hagaren one is just shiny familiar stuff ♥
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Sokka / enemy birds!)
YES, I'M DONE WITH YULETIDE.

Avatar 3x12: I'm not going to spoil it, but it was soooo dorky XD Very LOL to Zuko's fail expenses. And Toph is awesome.

FMA 78: Mmmm hobo Hoho )

And you know, I have a pet peeve. Seeing someone saying "oh, even though [main character's name] didn't appear, it was a pretty good chapter!" boils my blood as much as someone bashing it because of the lack (or existence) of him/her/it. It just sounds condescending. The fact people may think -even subconsciously- less of a chapter, episode, or arc if it lacks the protagonist is appalling. I mean, I've loved main characters in many series, but secondary and minor characters can (and will, depending of the fandom) manage to make things very interesting by themselves! I can understand finding it boring if you dislike the focus character, because it's happened to me a lot, but looking down on everything all the time if your hero(ine) is MIA? Graaah.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Team Aang / group hug)
No, really, it seems like almost every fucking fandom I love competed for attention and shook new canon at me. And mind you, I LOVED it. I had such an unproductive day, between this and [livejournal.com profile] anime_lj_tcg silliness.

Avatar 3x10 & 3x11 on Leak-elodeon )

New HOLiC... )

New FMA... )

By the way, I finally bought the manga I was pending:
- Eye gourmet nom nom Tsubasa #16
- Fullmetal Alchemist #09

Incidentally, this is what Editorial Norma chose: Lan Fan and Hu. Hurray! My OTP's names are written in my volumes as I write it! And I like Hu better than Who, LOL.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ling / citrical ownage)
1. In which I talk about weird programming shit:

I haven't fixed teh interwebz the network card driver on Ubuntu yet, so I'm still screwed on that part, but I could install (manually, and downloading them prior on the desktop) the rest of the packages the C compiler needed. So I could finish this week's part on the OS2 practice.

Of course, I had a fright when the chmod() command wasn't working correctly -the exercise was writing a program to change one or more files' permission modes, so it was kinda the whole point- and only the owner user mode would change. Then I noticed there was nothing wrong with my program: it was that I was testing it on my USB key files. When testing it in the home directory, everything worked like a charm <3

2. Oh snap, I DO have manga to buy urgently!

I'll probably go this afternoon after class to get one single volume of something that came out last week and I totally didn't notice. Now, this is awful because I'm saving for Phantom Hourglass and this fucks it up, but you see: Fullmetal Alchemist #8. Sorry, Link. I MUST buy it. Why?

XING CHARACTERS, BABY. XING. XING. XING. SHEEEEEEEEEEEEN.

I'm not sure if I should dread or look forward to Norma's romanizations.

Also, CAN I HAS NU HAGAREN CHAPTER SOON PLZ?

3. You'd think roleplaying him would shut his voice up in my head:

Please, guys. Tell me it's a bad idea to claim Ushiwaka from Okami in one of those themed fic comms. Tell me I never finish my claims -sometimes I never start them!- and I have too many in hiatus/block now. Tell me I should stop thinking about that jerk and return to the Eriol-tachi to update my CCS WIP. Tell me nobody's going to read them. Mind you, I may write Okami fic for myself and to amuse me, but let's face it: the lack of feedback still depresses me a lot and makes me wonder if I suck.

The thing is I'm only getting plotbunnies for him T____T And I want them out of my head like you wouldn't believe.

***

Going to lunch now.
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Edward and Alphonse / so zen)
Spoilers for FMA 75 )

By the way, there's this dude on Mangahelpers.com working on a text translation.

Lazy days

Aug. 13th, 2007 09:08 pm
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Edward and Alphonse / so zen)
The wait for this FMA chapter was AWFUL. I was up last night until 5:00 am and it came out today in the afternoon. SPOILERS )

During the wait, which wasn't just for the chapter but for several things, I read a lot and played videogames. I'm still with The Count of Montecristo, and fighting for not imagining the characters like they were in Gankutsuoh O_o I also started Basara, which I'm enjoying. More about them when I'm done. I'm almost finished with the last case of Phoenix Wright 1.

Random thought: If Watanuki in Himawari's mind is a hysterical kitty, I propose Doumeki's image, instead of a mouse, to be Droopy.

**********

EPILOGUE MEME. Nothing lasts forever. When your time on LJ is said and done, what will people think of you? What will you think about everyone else? What kind of legacy will you leave behind? What will be your lasting perception of your friends?

My thread :D
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Winry / eye for mechanic details)
Chapter #72 of FMA~ It had action, and shipping, and people confronting Scar. So it's great stuff! Good plan at the end! And Winry rocked, from what little I could understand.

Also, I just discovered there's this female panda at the Smithsonian National Zoo at Washington D.C. called... Mei Xiang.

I kid you not. It amused me so, and made me wonder if Arakawa took the name from her...

And for the rest of the people who don't care about FMA, you can always see the cute panda family photos on the link above? :3
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Dead parrot)
Okay, in the end I decided, regarding the birthday presents, to choose both XDDDDD Atta Gemini, girl. Well, actually, I was going to go with the books, but I found a cheap console on eBay for 100€ (the retail price here is, always, 150€ so even with the shipping expenses I'm saving 40 bucks). Did I mention it's BLACK? Because you wouldn't believe the complications I'm going through because I'm refusing to buy it white or pink. And the seller is including a protection bag/slip/case/something so it's cool.

So it'll end up being:
- the Nintendo DS, BLACK (110) <- will send money on Monday
- Monty Python's Flying Circus DVD boxset (40) <- bought it yesterday~
- probably one of the cheapest DS videogames (>= 30)
And the rest I'm saving it so I can buy on July:
- the bloody Harry Potter book (knowing El Corte Inglés, around 25 or more)
- the Okami artbook (SQUEEEEE!) (19£ which is about 27)
- since I'm getting something in Amazon anyway, the first two Slayers novels (I'm guessing around 9-10£ for the two of them; can't remember right now)

I think it's balanced ^_^

An old meme about icons )

ETA: [..] Fullmetal Alchemist, serie que a partir de ahora se editará con periodicidad mensual

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES T______T COÑO, NORMA!!
taotrooper: It's a polar bear dancing the hula; your argument is invalid (Ling & Lan / Through the window)
Ya know, I've been checking FMA raw scans for layout purposes, and I'll tell you something:

I MISS LING SO MUCH WHILE READING ;_____;

I kind of felt guilty for not missing him for the last months, because the plot is just getting so interesting up north. Maybe my other fandoms and my love for not-so-recurrent characters conditioned me for that. I don't really suffer for the lack of my favorite characters if the story is pretty good; now, if things do get boring, then I resort to remember the good times I had, and that makes me nostalgic/wanky about the character(s) I love who won't show up. But FMA is so awesome and I like the main players so much, I seldom miss the minor guys (although I'm so glad when they reappear, it's pretty cool). This is why I never understood why so many fans whine because Ed/Roy/Havoc/Envy/Mobuta/whoever isn't in that month's chapter to bring sexy back, therefore the chapter sucks ass. Pleeeeeeease.

This is why it came as a surprise to feel Ling's absence so strong by rereading. I had almost forgotten why I loved him and the Ling-tachi so much. Sigh.

Icon meme because I feel like it )

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