Welp, it's December now. Let's do this like every year.

1. Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

2. Surf around your f-list (or friends of friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it. You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call. There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Falalalala lalalala )

「 the RPG class meme 」

This year I MUST accomplish things. I really must. 2009 was a lethargic, depressing period, and I have many goals to fulfill this time. So here are my new year resolutions.

Shit must be done

Academical/laboring


1. Study hard and pass Object-Oriented Programming.
2. Do your end-of-degree project and present it. GRADUATE ALREADY.
3. After α and β, get a fucking job.
4. Learn more programming languages. PHP, at least.
5. Buy reference books for δ.

Internet and fandom


6. Be a better LJ friend/citizen. Stop being so shy and lurky; comment more, post more. It's not fun to be always a tsundere.
7. Revamp and rebuild mercury retro. Make it sassy.
8. Build at least one fansite or shrine.
9. Do icons.
10. Scan the rest of your Keterburgers doujinshi.
11. Post about things you read/watch/play. Be funny again. Even if you must follow crazy ideas, such as youtube thursdays, or mythology wednesdays, or the return of monthly random polls.
12. Regain your writing muse and make her sing.
13. Buy a pen tablet and learn how to doodle. Hey, I never said I want to get good at drawing.

I found this nifty gaming website called The Backloggery, and I made myself an account there. So my list of games I'm currently playing is here. I still need to add more games and rate everything, but most of the stuff for the consoles I own is there. At least the currents and the wishlist are up to date, and now I know what I'm playing right now.

And yay, I didn't know there was a third part of the Zelda parody The Real Legend! I loved this shit.

Happy Year of the Earth Ox! No wonder the weather is nuts, if Itegami is around...

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TELL YOU....

( Mi lista para 25mangas )

...Oh now I get it! My titles looked weird because LJ programmers changed it for links. So, people with Flexible Squares, it's really easy to solve: just find (or create) .subject a and all variations of the a tag, and paste what you have for .subject in it. There's also a fix for Smooth Sailing, but I don't know the div names right now.

Anyway.

STEP ONE
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you. [Note: Your home address is not required!]

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( I doubt someone will read this )

There you go ^_^ Not listing the material wishlist because I already did. I'm making a post later today with a list of current favorite characters and couples, or at least things I'd like to find gifts/recs about.

ETA: Adding some suggestions. ( Oh, the shinies )

So I got a call from the computer technician. Good news: he would be able to recover data from the hard drive. Bad news: it's all +100GB of music and video and ROMs and scans; none of it is the important files from the pre-laptop-reformat I had lost way before the disk died (university stuff, important txt's, Photoshop goodies, things like bookmarks or Windows fonts). Worst news: it's for 50 euros.

Okay so. I'm not paying 50 fucking bucks for cat macros and fandom stuff I downloaded for free, and especially not near Christmas. I mean, God, sure, I can't recall everything I had lost, in particular the manga and the galleries. And I bet most torrents I got my stuff from must be dead already, so maybe I'm dooming myself, but... que será, será.

Let this be a lesson for all: just because your HDD is huge, doesn't mean you mustn't burn your multimedia shit on CD/DVD frequently.

At least the episodes and the music are more or less easy to save because I was quick. Before my attempts to recover my important data, I wrote down a list of my music/video folders. The CDs one was mostly a screencap of the first tree folders, instead of a list of albums. So I'm writing down the artists I didn't have a backup of so I can hunt for them and redownload them.

( Curious? A list of my perhaps bad music taste )

I'm not letting you know every anime/TV show I'm missing since I have guilty pleasures in there, but I can list the movies I had downloaded and didn't make backups of:

( It's all animation )

ETA: Um. Guys, you know. I made the list so I could strike-through stuff as I'm getting them, and to make it easier for me. It's not a plead for you to upload me anything ^^U Especially movies, since Megaupload hates me with stuff over 300MB. I mean, it's really awesome of you to offer or tell me what you've got ♥ But, um. I don't know, I feel kinda like I'm abusing and that I should hunt for these things on my own. *is too awkward about this sort of things*

Ded from cleaning.

( For my reference, manga collections I'm following )

Last update: February 09

Things to do after Monday (included):
- Send the application for the XXXHOLiC fanlisting
- Pay Estefanía her 8 bucks
- Whatever we're planning for Kaho's birthday at ccs_halfmagic
- Make level badgers for Trading Academy
- Reply to the following: crossover meme, questions meme
- Start to write information and analysis sections for Prophecies for lunacy
- Add content to any of my websites, for God's sake
- If I get the desktop fixed or a new CPU tower, make icons
- Write my Touya/Yukito claim at 30vicios
- Write Okami fanfiction for the heck of it, including THAT crossover
- Share music with my flist :3 Comment more on stuff
- Marathon of Princess Tutu: I've felt like rewatching it these days
- Hunt for graphic resources because I lost half of them and the ones I have are a bit old D:
- Play more videogames. Okami, KH2, We Love Katamari
- Read more books and manga



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Sometimes I mourn the fact I'm not suited for drawing and painting, that I didn't inherit that ability from mom. There are days in which I have ideas for characters that I could only express correctly in fanart. Some things, some frames, some concepts just can't be reproduced with words, because they're not thoughts or stories or dialogs. It's too visual to be described verbally, and usually there's no point to invent a tale to include it as a scene -most times it isn't one.

I'm not sure whether I'm envious of good (fan)artists or not. I want those images out of my system, but even if I were good at it I'm too lazy to do that. I do feel jealous at people who have fanartist friends and can convince them to draw the ideas for them. It's petty, but my stuff is usually too minor or subjective to see it in fanart as I want to, so unless a Japanese fanartist for it exists I'll rarely see my characters or pairings come to art unless they're popular.

iconzicons' Choose Your Own Adventure cover icons are hilarious XD In the end I chose this one because as you all know, I think aliens are LOL (when they're not predating my childhood traumas of abduction). So, GIP!

Speaking of LOLaliens, you know, the Tokyopop translation of Duklyon is still less gayer than the Norma one. I guess the Spanish translators were considerably more stoned/drunk when they did that manga.

Also, I watched The Girl Who Leaped Time. That movie is quite awesome. I love how the consequences to time traveling kept piling on, bringing new issues whenever she tried to fix her mistakes. Makoto was a very real teenager, cute and awkward. It's a pity about Chiaki/Makoto D:

The other day I watched Enchanted and it was fine, but I was more amused at the lampshading on the Disney clichés than the story itself. I almost peed myself at this part XDDD

Ah, I forgot to post a holidays wishlist D: And I was too shy to post at posts on my flist for presents. So I guess I'll only have my Yuletide piece this year because it's so late. Anyway, if you have posted a wishlist, pass me the link ^^ Maybe I can do something for you before new year's.

( Wishlists are GO! )

Seeing my last year's list is hilarious, because I got several of that stuff but during the year instead. I did get the Zelda game for Christmas. The translations were actually done. I did get a NDS for my birthday. My FMA artbook is on the way. I bought a new mp3 player a while ago.