streams / recent-release: - Canaan - Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - Hayate no Gotoku s2 - Kimi no Todoke - Kobato - Letter Bee  - Darker Than Black s2

pendings: - Gundam OO s2 - Macross Frontier - Persona - Toradora - Planetes

manga: - Liar Game - Ookiku Furikabutte - DOGS - Gintama - Skip Beat - Baku-man - Deadman Wonderland

Animax: - Keroro Gunsou year 2 - Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

(Radar often just means it's on my mind. Completed/dropped titles are removed from the list.)

Just say no. Never again.

pic courtesy of Sir Dom

Fanfiction.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5471963/1/Sakura_Spring

Livejournal:

April 20 chapter 1
April 21 chapter 2 chapter 3
April 22 chapter 4 chapter 5
April 23 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8
April 24 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11
April 25 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14
April 26 chapter 15
April 27 chapter 16
April 28 chapter 17 chapter 18
April 29 chapter 19 chapter 20

because my brain is not working right and I'm awake at 2 in the morning, not good. from makeste.

Give me a character from any fandom you know that I know and I will tell you:

a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

Not sure I'll do a good job at it, but ask away.

Also, I'm not forgetting those drabbles, but I'm really sorry they're not getting made yet. They will be. It's been ages since I did Kenshin anything (aside from channeling in original stories), I'm not sure I still know how.

EK 8 )

From Anne Rice (from iamzie)

ADVICE TO A NEW WRITER: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe inyour own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. HAVE NERVE. BE STUBBORN.

Maria Ressa's article on the Maguindanao massacre and the role of citizen journalism, as given to Christiane Amanpour here.

Also this made me weirdly happy (from keio from here):



I miss Kenshin. Almost to sobbing, that much. To those of you who read through all of Activated, is it not obvious I miss the redhead, yes, yes? He looks good having tea with Naruto.

EK 8 )

Bakuman is getting an anime next year. (Enervon-style) Happiness.!

My guess is it's one of those companies connected to FujiTV's Noitamina that has it, which should be good. Bakuman looking like Eden of the East or Ookiku Furikabutte should be nice. I don't think it will look like Death Note, as people have been guessing.

And I still have to get used to this having-some-kind-of-work thing. I've been a NEET for a bit too long, obviously. Life is slowly pulling me out of the hermit lifestyle. I guess it's all good. One good thing from this is that I'll get to read a little more than this year, since I'm away from a computer for several hours.

Congrats are in order for blissery having such an incredible writer curriculum vitae by the end of this year.

We have the foreign channels back (NHK, KBS, TVFrance) as well as ChannelNewsAsia, Biography, History (which was discussing Belphegor as one of the seven deadly sins yesterday, much to my amusement, unfortunately my mother held the remote so it didn't stay on the channel).

That is all. See you tonight.

EK 8 )

Thanks nonoji for the cookie. ^^v

I just found out that David Fickling Books accepts unsolicited emailed manuscripts of children's and YA books, but the published-books lineup they have scares me. I guess it won't hurt to fix up Activated for that, but I don't have really high hopes. The draft is quite stereotypical, I'm pretty sure.

But you're here for the tonfa boy. Not for me whining about not knowing what to do about stuff I'm happy about but don't know what to do about.

I apologize here for the writing style not being very descriptive about emotions, overall. Part of this is me losing confidence from many failed attempts at Activated, and various failed attempts at submissions of original work. Part of this is me trying to show the restricted emotions in both parties.

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Goodnight.

EK 8 )

Pic from here.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Those who were formerly of the resistance forget their roots once they hold the power. They should not be angry if another resistance rises up to remind them of what real authority should be. It is a vicious cycle. It should end.

Our generation and the generation of people before and after us have learned from the mistakes of real people and imagined people. Most of us will not agree to a dictatorship. No. Never.

Rossiu was defeated by the same resistance group he was a part of, so sense could be knocked into him. Lelouch paid for his lust for power with his life. May it not happen to some actual people.

EK 8 )

Internet is acting very weird, so I haven't seen episode 162. Summary tomorrow, hopefully.

Martial law has been declared in an area in the south. This is rather equivalent to Rossiu's overkill decisions to suddenly take over the government when he did not really have to. We're scared that this will snowball into something akin to Byakuran taking over regions one by one until he has the whole country.

Here's to hoping the media and everyone else will raise enough noise to prevent it from happening. Because...I like Singapore, but I'd go crazy if my country were run like it, or like Cuba, and so would a whole lot of people like me.

Oh, also this. whiteadelphi and several KHR writers can probably write better than Twilight is written. I can't, yet.

And, since the internet is still weird, that is all for today.

EK 8 )

I will be out on medical mission tomorrow. Here's to hoping I still remember a few things to be useful.

This means I won't be the one to update on the anime stream release. But I'll still give a full summary if it's needed when I get home in the evening.

December is fanfiction month. Let us begin by continuing to get a tonfa boy in trouble.

I've been wanting to do this for the longest time. Now is the right moment. lol.

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I'm getting used to the fact that I don't have to cut and paste to get wordcounts, hehe. Hope you like.

EK 8 )

Of all the links touyatouya just gave out...I have no idea what to do to the Activated draft.

Oh, yeah, I saw an open copy of the Maximum Ride manga-style comic adaptation. Now that was one adaptation that worked, better than the book version I read actually. They're very well drawn, very well drawn, drawn by an Asian with Japan and Korea standards, not Americans-attempting-manga standards. It helps that the way Fang was drawn was really, really, bishonen good. (Like, WOW, I'm falling for an American bishonen, something is wrong!!) If only it weren't so pricey. So if you haven't read the books, I actually recommend picking up the manga-style comics instead of the books (the book, at least the first book, is semi-clunky).

http://www.mangalife.com/reviews/MaximumRidev2.htm

EK 8 )

Um...so...it seems I have a school clinic to run now. Yeah. ^^;;

In my neck of the woods, this isn't always as boring as it sounds, because my school has hypertensive workaholic teachers, college girls who suddenly faint or start gasping for stupid reasons, and the occasional fight that leads to stitches.

No pay (for the moment, but in the future I don't know, and even then it will be minimal), but it's experience, and a chance to get rid of several of the jitters and work out my style. I'm finding myself having to browse through protocol papers, when I find them. This just means I'll be out in the afternoons, and praying I don't have to take kids or college girls to the nearby hospital.

Almost done with The Name of the Rose, and complaining: I read through the whole tome and I have to wait until the postscript to find out what the title means?! (hairpulling, hairpulling) Good stuff, yeah, but seriously, Mr. Eco, that ain't fair.

See ya around.

EK 8 )

Argh Facebook is so buggy now.

from the dears comm, Setsugetsuka (The End of Silence).

I'm no longer updated about his stuff, and I have a feeling his best work is now behind him, but definitely he can really work an orchestra and SING and make a great PV and look good doing it.



I've been to Fully Booked Rockwell a few times but I haven't seen them, but I've been told they ARE in the country, so where are the Haikasoru books placed? They're not in the SciFi/Fantasy shelves, or I couldn't find them there. I need a book or something to buy so I can really feel that I finished 50K. ^^;

EK 8 )

Nanowrimo '09: Activated

http://ekmisao.livejournal.com/tag/activated (locked posts)

http://jumpercable.wordpress.com

KHR episode 102 on Hero (you know, TYLHibari vs 100, that one) now looks legitimately theirs, it's now TV-quality. So I'm hoping this means they have at least until the end of the Melone Base seige now in their hands. I'll see tomorrow. I've followed streams starting at TYLVaria then the Arcobaleno trials, so if they have the rest of Melone Base seige that will be good. If they also have the Arcobaleno trials that will be cool (I'd like to see how they do those crazy chibis!).

I know many people don't like the anime, but I do think it does some things right. It correctly smooths out kinks in the manga storytelling, for one thing.

jote_jote, this is how my usual blog posts actually look like. ^^; You became an LJ friend at an odd time.

It's a Thursday, so I'll be out most of the afternoon and evening. Raws are already out.

EK 8 )

I have a Google Wave account already from a requested invite, just state if you want to add me or something, I'll PM or email you. Those of you who have access to me through Gmail (paging touyatouya, if you have a Wave invite), I'm using that account.

Um, Wave is Google's attempts to integrate things into one programs. It's kinda like merging the Wikipedia system with chat and making it real-time and using it to your own documents. Other uses are eventually going to appear.

One thing I immediately notice is that I'll have to get a new fast laptop to really take advantage of what Wave can do.

I also understand I have 8 invites that comes with activating the account, so ask if you want one?

Also this courtesy of nonoji: White Haired Pretty Boy tropes http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhiteHairedPrettyBoy

I eventually shall make one of my own, I suspect. In initial versions Soji was supposed to have snowy hair, but elouai-ing gave him his current sandy hair.

EK 8 )

Hiya. This is EK's dangerous interview thing. Erm, yeah.

Because she's one year crazier today, and she wants to forget that she's as old as Kenshin today. ^^;;

- Ask anything. I'll try my best to answer. Fandoms, Jumper Cable, and Activated included.
- (Just not math, and not the meaning of life.)

- Drabble requests also accepted (fandoms, Jumper Cable, Activated accepted), although give a few days.

Also this sparkly thing:

☆recommend a friend!☆

Thanks for enduring me over the last year.

EK 8 )

Because EK is going to be as old as Kenshin by Tuesday (yes, it embarrasses her), she's opening up a free-for-all question and answer portion on Tuesday.

Please submit your questions here on whatever you need answers to (including fandoms, Jumper Cable, and Activated. please not the meaning to life, please nothing with math in it.), and she will try her best to answer on a Tuesday post.

Drabble requests (within fandoms, or the two original sets she writes for) are also accepted, but give her time to formulate said drabbles.

That is all.

EK 8 )

I tried Neko Wappa!, while waiting for [Ju-Ni] to potentially upload KHR raws. It's a WSJ newbie that started with this issue, but just on the strength of the drawings and the story I could guess at from just drawings...I'm interested. ^^v It's gag, it has cats (I'm not a cat person though), and the basic premises seem both funny and interesting. I hope it gets good. I wish it well.

Oh, yeah. I'll be out of the house shortly, so please keep an eye for the KHR266 raws, [Ju-Ni] should have it out in a while. ^^v

EK 8 )

Um, so because I was procrastinating on Nano last Saturday, I typed up a little something for touyatouya's rocketkapre about the Talecraft Character Workshop.

http://rocketkapre.com/2009/talecraft-character-building-workshop-a-report/

I sincerely doubt if more than a few people know me from my Jumper Cable stories, but it seems I have a tagline now (like Budjette Tan of the Trese series, Eoin Colfer of the Artemis Fowl series, Eichiro Oda of One Piece. Ang kapal ng mukha.).

It was quite fun, seriously. GO TEAM CHOPSUEY! ^^v Team Chopsuey will probably make a hilarious light novel or comic series, with potential for long wacky story arcs, too, if I had enough mad skillz to really make it happen.

EK 8 )