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azuriteBaba says I'm supposed to have a "five-check day" (meaning the best day the horoscope doles out) today, and be inspired. The school horoscope told me to watch my finances and consider more education. The horoscope.com horoscope told me that I'll get a romantic proposition that I just can turn down.
I think I'm placing too much stock in horoscopes. I love them to death, but yeesh! Is it bad when I wake up in the morning feeling like I'm going to be busy, stressed, and generally batty, and my horoscopes are BETTER than what I'm expecting?
This isn't exactly FFR material here, but I have this to say about a certain someone I know. Cool guy, very original. Highly artistic. One problem- he's created this fabulous character who could be considered an OC in the Yu-Gi-Oh universe. Yet he's "not that into anime and manga." He plays the TCG, judges tournaments, all that razz- but I don't think he's ever seen the anime or the manga.
Now, from what I remember about the character he created, he's ass-kicking, a snappy talker, a smart dresser... all that. (Sound the warning alarms! Gary Stu, Gary Stu!) I didn't think that the character was an outright avatar or "Mr. Perfect" at first, until the creator told me that said guy wiped the floor with Kaiba.
...I realize Kaiba has canonically lost duels before, but ONLY against Yugi. (I'm 100% NOT counting the tag-team duel against Dartz, because as much as I love Dartz, the guy was a cheating, lying whore.) And why?
(1) Luck of the draw. Seriously, in the most dramatic matches, that's the ONLY thing that saves Yugi's hide.
(2) Mysterious new cards. Yugi might only be allowed to carry 40 some-odd cards on him, but when it comes to tough duels, he always seems to pull a new card with superpowers that no one's ever seen before-- right in time to defeat his opponent and save the day.
(3) Monologues. He distracts his opponent with big words. And leather pants.
Anyway, Kaiba would not lose a duel so easily. It's true that if Kaiba were around 'today,' with all these new cards out there, he'd have a run for his money. But like any decent duelist, he'd restructure. He'd add cards, get rid of old ones. He STILL uses cards that, for TCG duelists, are powerful, rare, and quick to summon. There's no problem with that, and therefore, there's no reason why he'd just WHAM BAM! lose a duel to a newbie in town with a near-to-close fashion sense to him, who just ALSO happens to be rich, friendly with everyone, or whatever.
The icing on the cake is that the creator -who is not that into anime and manga, remember?- plans on going to anime cons and COSPLAYING as his creator. And he only bothered "getting into anime and manga" (the little that he IS "into" it) for his character's "style" dammit! Oh, and to wipe the floor of canonical butt-kicking characters.
GRR! I love the guy's artistry, but his ego needs some serious shrinkage, here.
The whole FFX universe still confuses me. When I first joined![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanthropology, I posted what I thought was the history of the FFX universe. It didn't really belong there, but Fanthropology is a mixed-bag sort of fan community. In any case, no one really corrected me on much, and now I find out new things all the time. new_spira was advertising today, and I went to their journal and the Wikipedia entry on Yevon, and I was like... wha? I think I need to replay FFX (well, actually, BEAT it. I never did, even though I know what happens at the end) and finish FFX-2 again.
I feel kind of stupid for thinking that Yevon was affiliated with Bevelle originally, not Zanarkand. But I'm pretty sure I'm right in that Bevelle and Zanarkand didn't have their final standoff in the Calm Lands; that was Sin and the Summoners.
Other stuff. Why is it that I can feel tired, tell myself "I'll go to bed soon" and then five minutes turn into two hours, and I'm still awake at 2am? It's bad, bad, bad I say! I never did watch my new purchase (the Indiana Jones trilogy) yesterday; I spent most of the night finishing up my translations of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles new songs, "IT'S" by Kinya, and "Kazemachi Jet" by Maaya Sakamoto. I transliterated AND translated the lyrics, listened to the songs OVER AND OVER to pull the kanji pronunciations from the lyrics... and I finally got it done. They're up for review at AnimeLyrics.com, and will hopefully be used by #yugioh! for their subs of the series.
People are visiting-- actually Dan (uncle) visited yesterday, and my aunt Joyce is here with her husband today; hopefully they're going to settle the ongoing dispute with their insurance company re: the San Diego fires that destroyed their home a few years back. I don't mind Joyce and her husband so much; I don't even mind the annoyance that is their dog, Mokie. But Dan kind of got on my nerves when he insisted that Grandpa didn't need a laptop, that he WOULDN'T carry it around from room to room, and that
a) laptops break more often (not true)
b) they're more expensive (true)
c) there isn't really a necessity for it (not true... necessarily)
Regardless of what, I'm planning on getting a laptop before I leave for Japan. Grandpa can get the computer I'm on refurbished with a new monitor or whatever, or he can get a new computer altogether. Whatever he wants. All I know is, I need enough time to clear my stuff off, because I refuse to be away from my email/fanfics/websites for 6 months. :P
Ooh, and guess what? I came up with a new name for my multi-fandom archive. I can start working on it tomorrow (or tonight, if we miraculously get out early and I don't haul myself to bed early like I should). The name... pure irony, right there.
Epiphany. Hee!
I think I'm placing too much stock in horoscopes. I love them to death, but yeesh! Is it bad when I wake up in the morning feeling like I'm going to be busy, stressed, and generally batty, and my horoscopes are BETTER than what I'm expecting?
This isn't exactly FFR material here, but I have this to say about a certain someone I know. Cool guy, very original. Highly artistic. One problem- he's created this fabulous character who could be considered an OC in the Yu-Gi-Oh universe. Yet he's "not that into anime and manga." He plays the TCG, judges tournaments, all that razz- but I don't think he's ever seen the anime or the manga.
Now, from what I remember about the character he created, he's ass-kicking, a snappy talker, a smart dresser... all that. (Sound the warning alarms! Gary Stu, Gary Stu!) I didn't think that the character was an outright avatar or "Mr. Perfect" at first, until the creator told me that said guy wiped the floor with Kaiba.
...I realize Kaiba has canonically lost duels before, but ONLY against Yugi. (I'm 100% NOT counting the tag-team duel against Dartz, because as much as I love Dartz, the guy was a cheating, lying whore.) And why?
(1) Luck of the draw. Seriously, in the most dramatic matches, that's the ONLY thing that saves Yugi's hide.
(2) Mysterious new cards. Yugi might only be allowed to carry 40 some-odd cards on him, but when it comes to tough duels, he always seems to pull a new card with superpowers that no one's ever seen before-- right in time to defeat his opponent and save the day.
(3) Monologues. He distracts his opponent with big words. And leather pants.
Anyway, Kaiba would not lose a duel so easily. It's true that if Kaiba were around 'today,' with all these new cards out there, he'd have a run for his money. But like any decent duelist, he'd restructure. He'd add cards, get rid of old ones. He STILL uses cards that, for TCG duelists, are powerful, rare, and quick to summon. There's no problem with that, and therefore, there's no reason why he'd just WHAM BAM! lose a duel to a newbie in town with a near-to-close fashion sense to him, who just ALSO happens to be rich, friendly with everyone, or whatever.
The icing on the cake is that the creator -who is not that into anime and manga, remember?- plans on going to anime cons and COSPLAYING as his creator. And he only bothered "getting into anime and manga" (the little that he IS "into" it) for his character's "style" dammit! Oh, and to wipe the floor of canonical butt-kicking characters.
GRR! I love the guy's artistry, but his ego needs some serious shrinkage, here.
The whole FFX universe still confuses me. When I first joined
fanthropology, I posted what I thought was the history of the FFX universe. It didn't really belong there, but Fanthropology is a mixed-bag sort of fan community. In any case, no one really corrected me on much, and now I find out new things all the time. new_spira was advertising today, and I went to their journal and the Wikipedia entry on Yevon, and I was like... wha? I think I need to replay FFX (well, actually, BEAT it. I never did, even though I know what happens at the end) and finish FFX-2 again.I feel kind of stupid for thinking that Yevon was affiliated with Bevelle originally, not Zanarkand. But I'm pretty sure I'm right in that Bevelle and Zanarkand didn't have their final standoff in the Calm Lands; that was Sin and the Summoners.
Other stuff. Why is it that I can feel tired, tell myself "I'll go to bed soon" and then five minutes turn into two hours, and I'm still awake at 2am? It's bad, bad, bad I say! I never did watch my new purchase (the Indiana Jones trilogy) yesterday; I spent most of the night finishing up my translations of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles new songs, "IT'S" by Kinya, and "Kazemachi Jet" by Maaya Sakamoto. I transliterated AND translated the lyrics, listened to the songs OVER AND OVER to pull the kanji pronunciations from the lyrics... and I finally got it done. They're up for review at AnimeLyrics.com, and will hopefully be used by #yugioh! for their subs of the series.
People are visiting-- actually Dan (uncle) visited yesterday, and my aunt Joyce is here with her husband today; hopefully they're going to settle the ongoing dispute with their insurance company re: the San Diego fires that destroyed their home a few years back. I don't mind Joyce and her husband so much; I don't even mind the annoyance that is their dog, Mokie. But Dan kind of got on my nerves when he insisted that Grandpa didn't need a laptop, that he WOULDN'T carry it around from room to room, and that
a) laptops break more often (not true)
b) they're more expensive (true)
c) there isn't really a necessity for it (not true... necessarily)
Regardless of what, I'm planning on getting a laptop before I leave for Japan. Grandpa can get the computer I'm on refurbished with a new monitor or whatever, or he can get a new computer altogether. Whatever he wants. All I know is, I need enough time to clear my stuff off, because I refuse to be away from my email/fanfics/websites for 6 months. :P
Ooh, and guess what? I came up with a new name for my multi-fandom archive. I can start working on it tomorrow (or tonight, if we miraculously get out early and I don't haul myself to bed early like I should). The name... pure irony, right there.
Epiphany. Hee!
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