Veth's Journal

W-why did I have to find Axis Powers Hetalia scanlations at 11 last night ;_; US/UK? Sweden/Finland? Germany/Italy? Russia/Lithuania? YES PLZ. And who knew France, Austria, Canada, America, and heck, even UK were such good-looking guys? (Poland kinda gets on my nerves though.)

Scanlations and pics and all manner of wonderful things are at the comm, hetalia. Drama CD sub is here. Trust me, you need to see this.

( And switching gears, some anime meme )

You know, I've never really held my childhood sacred. So when people do things like Rule 34 Pokémon or whatever, that doesn't bother me. But finding out that Abraham Lincoln thought blacks were inferior to whites? That's really depressing. D:

Also, I know I'm really late to the party with this like with everything else, but new fandom: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Go, watch. It's short - only three acts - and really awesome. Great music, great acting, heck, it's Joss Whedon. You really don't need any other reason to see it.

And now I'll do a meme.

(Stolen from athousandwinds, who I found... man, I don't even remember.)

List 12 characters from different fandoms first. (No cheating!) Then answer the questions under the cut.

1. Szayel Aporro Granz (Bleach)
2. The Joker (The Dark Knight)
3. Darth Maul (Star Wars)
4. Mello (Death Note)
5. Rock Lee (Naruto)
6. Lloyd Asplund (Code Geass)
7. Rick Murray (Degrassi)
8. Kirby (Kirby)
9. Desmond Hume (Lost)
10. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
11. Phoenix Wright (Phoenix Wright)
12. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich (Metal Gear Solid)

( The questions under the cut )

Be warned: I've found a community (fandom_memes) full of these things, so don't be surprised if you get spammed by them over the next while.

Okay, even if you've never seen Evangelion in your life, you must watch this video. (Compare with this one if necessary.) I don't know how they did it, but that's a masterpiece. And Man-Rei is hot. :3

What's that? You want strawberry more genderbending? Here. Have some Melancholy of Haruki Suzumiya. (more pics here, partial light novel translation)

...Have I mentioned that I love genderswap? 'Cause I don't think I have.

EDIT: Well, I didn't think I'd find a Code Geass one so quickly...

Um. So you know the Team Rocket song? Apparently it appeared in the show. On the one hand, I thought I knew the tune from somewhere. On the other...I don't remember seeing this. D: I like how they adapted it into English. I also like how James is subtly crossdressing. :D

Other observations:
- Probably the best version of the TR song that I've seen is the Italian one.
- Officer Jenny is "Officer Rocky" in German. I can't take that seriously at all.
- The Jigglypuff song is really pretty in German (though it's also quite pretty in English).
- Although for some reason Jigglypuff still says Jigglypuff, even though her name is Pummeluff. Then again, English Charizards and Onixes still say "Lizardon" and "Iwark", apparently, so.
- The German Pokérap does not change the order. So it really doesn't rhyme. Even though they could do that really easily. :\
- Is English the only language that came up with new songs?

Also, this. Watch it. You will thank me. Or possibly be really disturbed. (I can't decide whether I prefer that version or this one.)

And if anyone gets what I did with the "my music" thing, then...you're awesome. :D

Oh. My. God.

"Still Alive" (the Portal end credits song) is by Jonathan Coulton.

Pinch me.

(btw, O.A.? Here's that JiraNaru fic. :) )

Have you ever wanted to watch the funniest video ever? Well, look no further than this: Breakup Letter, Dramatic Reading. (WARNING: language.) I lol'd hard. It's like how Strong Bad would read a breakup letter if he received one. Amazing.

I'll probably maybe post something else later or not.

My one problem with being a girl is that I will never be able to perform the song "Guy Love". (And if you don't know that song, I advise you to know it, posthaste. It's from Scrubs.) Also, it surprises me that there aren't more AMVs for it. (There are, however, some fairly decent ones for Weird Al's "Jerry Springer".)

The onset of fall makes me want to play Pokemon. But I can't, because I'm stuck on that big mountain where Team Galactic is on. So I'm just going to draw some instead.

Before I go, let me leave you with my favorite joke of the next few days: The Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike. Put aside a couple minutes if you're going to read it; it's pretty long (or else I would be telling it to some of you in person :P). Also, you don't have to know anything about Warhammer to get it. I know I don't.

And, uh, don't forget Talk Like A Pirate Day is tomorrow! I'll be expectin' to be hearin' yer best pirate lingo, matey, arrgh.

Dear A Lot Of Writers:

Writing out accents and dialects. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it can give things a cultural flavor. (Case in point, Cross the Heartland, an excellent Kingdom Hearts/Disney AU fic.) A couple 'Eys and 'Eres here and there can be fine. But when your fic or RP starts looking like I've accidentally crawled into the Apostrophe Forest, I hit the back button posthaste.

Dear Jumanji:

It is in fact spelled "posthaste". With one e.

Dear A Certain RP:

Why would you have a bodyswap where the characters take on the speech patterns, vocabulary, etc. of whosever body they're in? That seems like it would defeat the purpose a little.

And on a related note, I'd like to plug hogwarts_hocus, in my opinion the best multifandom RP around. If you like to roleplay, I urge you to check it out.

O.A., Usa-chan, and I have decided that Phoenix Wright got his name the same way Fenchurch from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy did hers. Also, Mr. Kimura from Azumanga Daioh is Phoenix's dad. ...Or something. (O.A., you can make your objections here.)

Any Star Wars and/or Avenue Q fans may want to watch this video, set to "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"; it is almost the perfect-est video ever. Warnings: racism (which oughtta go without saying) and one instance of profanity. And, in the video, a very odd couple. XD

And a plea: Does anyone still have their old Pokémon "2BA Master" CD? I've discovered that mine's got a big scratch right down the end of track 3 and the beginning of track 4, so I was wondering if I could copy those off someone else's CD. Thanks. ^_^

And by "appreciate", I mean "loathe". Wake me up when it's summer.

I apologize for the fact that I haven't been updating for a while. Look at it this way: if I had been, it would have mostly been emo-style rants that would have been painful to read. So I've done you guys a favor.

And, if by some freak chance I haven't told you this yet, I got Photoshop! *squee* An older version, but who's complaining? So, as soon as I get any free time (which doesn't seem likely for the next couple weeks), I'll be up and tooling around with it. And yes, Tyma, I'll get that colorbar done. :P

P.S. Death Note fans: Go here and here. I dare you.