Hello insomnia. Welcome back old friend.  I will now attempt to survive the day whilst completely braindead.  I owe people email/lj replies, have been rather occupied all weekend, but will attempt to reply to a few during random bouts of lucidity throughout the day.

For now, image heavy post since it requires minimal brainpower.


I normally don't do this, but I just had to take a pic of this particular stack of doujinshi. Henceforth to be remembered as the package where the Philippine Post Office TAXED ME WAY TOO MUCH for some porn. I've never been taxed for my manga or doujinshi before, so I was pretty much DDD: at them when I picked this up.

Most of it is Initial D doujinshi (Ryousuke/Keisuke ).  I reallyreally wanted to splurge on Gintama and Reborn djs at the time, but there was a reason I got the IniD ones instead. D:  I got the Acchicchi (Kanegae Shouko) collection mostly because I had never heard of the circle before and was curious to see if it would be worth getting her individual djs in the future. I probably won't because she mostly does Reborn/Lambo, but the anthology was a pleasant surprise and had me laughing a lot while flipping through it.  There were a lot of completely random CPs which alone made it well worth it.  I would not mind buying another anthology of her stuff if she ever releases another one.

Anyway, wanted to share a few of the more random gag stuff in the anthology.  Subpar pics behind the cut.  My scanner is currently still in its box, so I just took pics of a few random scenes.  Will get around to scanning some of the more amusing stories once I hook the scanner up. Still waiting for Em to read Reborn so I can force make slavedrive ask her to translate these.

( some non-worksafe pics behind the cut )

Boredom begets memes. Otherwise known as Arc's perfectly good excuse to not work on her 1859 fic.  Ganked from gekidasa.

First, write down the names of 12 characters (it's best when they're all from the same fandom). Then read and answer the questions.You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.

1 Gokudera
2 Tsuna
3 Reborn
4 Yamamoto
5. Colonello
6. Hibari
7. Mukuro
8. Byakuran
9. Lal
10. Ryohei
11. Irie
12. Lambo


( ... )

I belatedly realized I had not written any of the Varia members down, which makes me sad. But I made the list by putting in the first names that came to mind. D:

I have nobody to fangirl ES21 with on IM (damned friends), so I have to spam my LJ instead.
DL: Eyeshield 21 ch.259 / Reborn ch.171 [raw]

( Sena may not be my favorite, but there are reasons I love the kid. )

Have I ever mentioned just how much I love this series? More people on my flist need to read this. Q_Q


And because raws came out while I was procrastinating on this post. Reborn Target 171.

( Wherein I randomly fangirl over everyone. )

Sharing this, because I had to grit my teeth from giggling like a crushing schoolgirl when Iida Toshinobu introduced himself (complete with Mukuro laugh) and then promptly spazzed out of embarassment. ♥ Haha. Such a short segment though. D:

Reborn Net Radio #10 - 11.12.07 [download]
Hosts: Ichinose Hidekazu (Gokudera), Inoue Suguru (Yamamoto)
Assistant: Ishibashi Rika
Guest: Kokubun Yukari (Tsuna)

Reborn Net Radio #11 - 11.19.07 [download]
Hosts: Ichinose Hidekazu (Gokudera), Inoue Suguru (Yamamoto)
Assistant: Ishibashi Rika
Guests: Kataoka Yoshiro (producer), Iida Toshinobu (Mukuro)

I had to download the asf stream for #11 thrice before it finally downloaded the complete radio show. Not sure what was wrong with it. I ended up listening to the show online while waiting for the download to finish, so if there's any glitches on the mp3 file do let me know.

Randomly, I am totally for Varia character singles, if only because I would love to hear Takahashi Hiroki singing in Squalo's voice. Chichi wo moge! ♥

Because I refuse to write smut (and it is the only fic in my head that wants to be written), I opened up a Reborn fic request thread over at the fic journal. I figure I should be able to do most of the requests, since not a lot of people on the flist seem to be following it.

I find that I find writing fic more enjoyable when I do it with someone else's fic prompt. I am weird that way. Because I can do something ridiculously unforgiveable and blame it on someone else! ;D

And as an aside... WHERE IS MY BYAKURAN/MUKURO SMUTTAGE DEAR FANDOM. Q_Q woewoe. It is like the battle of the semes. Of course it would be fun!