Veth's Journal

So it's been a long time since I posted. I'm not going to count exactly how long right now since that will just make me depressed, but I know it's been over a month. I kept having these things I wanted to talk about, and there kept being more building up and then I just... didn't. You know how it is, I think. :( Haven't been commenting much either, though I've been a little better about that. So yes, I am not dead. I do not think anyone was worried that I was but you never know.

What I have been doing during this time is being in California for eight days, the Berkshires for six and Florida for five (not all of these were at once). Just got back from the last today. It was a lot of fun except for when I got sick a few days ago. I am still sick now, so, that is not great. But I had a lot of fun seeing my extended family and everything. Just hope I didn't give them my cold.

Haven't been doing much else apart from that. Playing Sims 3, mostly. I have a decent legacy going and everything. I may picspam you guys with it later. :B I did not get the latest job I applied for, surprising no one, and I think it is too late to learn to drive, so my chances of accomplishing anything this summer are pretty well down there. I did, however, have an idea for what I can do next summer, jobwise, that I thought was a pretty good one: I can learn stenography. I bet I would be pretty good at picking it up, and if I can do that and bring up my typing speed 5 more wpm or so, I might be able to break into the closed-captioning field. And if I get good enough at that, I might be able to eventually get a job subbing things. :D Fansubbing would also be a good place to start with that one. But, um, let's give my Japanese another couple years, shall we.

More miscellany:
- Saw the perfect production of As You Like It over at Shakespeare and Company, and a few days later, entirely by chance, wound up with front-row seats to the opening night of the Williamstown Theater Festival's production of She Stoops To Conquer. I had not read the latter, but it was very funny and had a great cast. I suspect it would come across as pretty dry if you just read the play, so if you can, you should see a good production of it like that one. :D
- Some bitterness toward the recent Homestuck updates, but this post is long enough as is so I guess I'll discuss that later.
- ( Click for the rest, as this got long. You should read them as there are recs and cool things and stuff! )

Maybe if I take the Digimon meme a couple answers at a time I can finish in the next three weeks. At least these two are fun ones. :D

( Day 17: Best dressed character. )

( Day 18: Worst dressed character. )

Oh my god those got rambly. I'm so sorry.

Now, since I've been somehow inspired again, I'm off to try and write some of that ridiculous Ladd/Claire I've had banging around in my head for a couple months. Wish me luck~

( Otakon report! (WARNING: LONG) )

So all in all, Otakon was pretty awesome. ^_^

( Loot! )

( A meme! (LESS LONG) )

I think this entry has set the record for most tags in a post on my LJ.

Tryin' my hand at one of those write-as-you-watch posts.

I gotta say, Roger Workman is really starting to grow on me. He's getting to be sympathetic, and his crush on Kate is sort of really adorable.

Also, apparently this episode is called "Some Like It Hoth". Not sure why yet, but Star Wars references are always a win in my book. :D

( The Losting continues if you feel like reading. )

Bottom line: best episode.

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.

You know how in Backstroke of the West Obi-Wan at one point says "The front is a lemon avenue flying straightly"? I think I figured out where that comes from. See, the actual line is "Landing strip straight ahead", but it kind of sounds like "Lemon street straight ahead". So if you translate that into Chinese and back, you'd probably get something like the BotW line. I feel smart. :D

I've been doing pretty badly on some school stuff recently. You don't want to hear me emoing all over the place, so I'll just leave it at that.

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing). (stolen from muhsilisk)

Chihiro/Darth Vader
...o_O Okay. Wow. That's just...I don't even want to think about that one. And I like messed-up pairings.
Haku/Himeno
This one I can see making some sense. He's nicer than Hayate, and though he'd probably weird her out at first I think they would be cute together. ^_^
Jack Sparrow/Narrator
I'm sure Jack would have no problem with it. Unfortunately, the Narrator has eyes only for his beloved Raven.
Raven/Vira
This one I can actually see. They're both dark and creepy...people...type things.

(stolen from musachan)
Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along. Just tell me if you want me to question your interests.

animutations - Weird Flash animations that often contain mondegreens and Colin Mochrie. Invented by the ever-irrepressible Neil Cicierega.
bob - is the best name ever. Think about it - it's so all-purpose. Bob is also the deity of Bobism, which akasunano_usagi and I made up.
darth maul - A Sith Lord from Star Wars, whose first and only appearance was in The Phantom Menace. He has red and black tattoos all over. He wields a double-ended lightsaber. He's pretty sick.
genderswap - Something that occasionally occurs in fanfiction. Actually, there are two kinds: when characters suddenly change gender or when it's an AU where they've been the opposite gender for their whole life. In the first, I like to see how they react to suddely being the opposite gender. (I like when weird-type stuff happens to characters. :\) The second type can be great if the author plans it out well. Unfortunately, I have yet to read such a one.
host club - This comes from Ouran High School Host Club, an anime. (I would have put "ouran high school host club" as an interest, but it has five words. D: ) The Host Club is a group of attractive boys the sole purpose of which is to charm girls. I.e., fangirl heaven.
sock puppets - Not the kind you use when you troll, but actual puppets made from socks. This is a long-running inside joke between myself and akasunano_usagi. When I found out that Sasori from Naruto was a puppet, I asked if he was a sock puppet. She claimed that he was a marionette. Now we constantly argue over which is better.
your mom - I say it a lot, generally in nonsensical contexts. It's probably a bad habit. tymaporer has picked up on this habit, and now it's a bit of a running joke between us as well. Same with "your face".

In other news, HOMEWORK HOMEWORK AARGH.

yay.

(stoled from HG)
Summarize ten of your fandoms in one sentence. See who on your friends list can guess them. (some are really obvious lolz)

1. Devils and black sheep and really...hot guys.
2. Long pants long pants everybody everybody. hoyvinglavin64
3. Does anyone ever have a good feeling about this? birdboy2000
4. Humor in four countries and three languages. muhsilisk
5. Kinda like Piers Anthony, but, y'know, actually funny.
6. Everyone ends up either killed, married, or eaten by a bear. birdboy2000
7. Snark, snark, Sherlock Holmes parallels, and more snark. birdboy2000
8. How can something with no plot to speak of be so awesome?
9. So much canon gay, and yet people still slash it. hoyvinglavin64
10. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!!!

Vacation detailses to follow.

Jar Jar/Tonks OTP. Clumsy people unite!

PS THIS IS THE BEST WIKI EVER. Did you know Lando was the name of a pope? Between Pope-3PO, Papaltine, and Pope Lando, I'm starting to think there's some kind of conspiracy going on here. :P