Interludium

Ignore the subject. I just happen to be at that part on my current Fatal Frame 3 game. The line stuck.

1. Look at what I found. I was following a link for Eyeshield 21 plushies and then I saw that Alvis figure on the shops' front page instead. *_* It is different from the Al figure that was included on the limited edition boxset. But what is really making me want to cry is their Digital Devil Saga 6 figure set. Look at how nice they look. And of the demons! ♥ *covets* I would love to get it, except I really can't afford to spend on figures right now so I woe.

2. More Hero Heel on the December 2005 BexBoy issue. This makes me ridiculously happy, as of the very few BL titles I've liked enough to follow as of late, my BL sentai raburabu is right there on top with male pregnancy crack BL aka Sex Pistols. Oh, and everyone should go and buy all 26 volumes of Komatta Toki niwa Hoshi ni Kike! by Abe Miyuki. (I will now make it a point to say this every time I mention BL manga on my lj, as I have been meaning for over a year now to pimp this to my flist but I am always too lazy to write up a proper post.)

3. GIP my killer bunny icon, because once upon a time, Silent Hill was my favorite survival horror series. And SH3 (difficult puzzle mode) is still my favorite when it comes to game puzzles that will hurt your brain. Seriously, what other game requires you to be familiar with Shakespeare's plays?

Aaand brief gamepost. :P

Fatal Frame 3: Finished my first playthrough, currently on my second at the moment to fully power up the cameras and to familiarize myself even more with the game so I can breeze through nightmare mode (I have to play through hard mode anyway before nightmare unlocks). I can appreciate it more now that I can understand it. XD I can be very obsessive about unlocking new features and costumes for the Fatal Frame games, so I suspect I'll continue to play this well into the new year.

I can also officially say that it's much more fun to play these things with friends the first time around. First time playing of Fatal Frame 2 was still the best one yet. I end up being more relaxed when I'm playing on my own, so FF3 didn't hold as much of a scare factor for me, as compared to being really tense when I'm playing it along with friends. I'm weird like that.

Rhapsodia: Loving it very much. I've not played an SRPG in a while and Suikoden Tactics' battle system is simple enough that it's an easy reintroduction to the genre. As much as I like Kyril, its winning point for me is definitely the returning characters from SuikoIV. As disappointed as I was with some aspects of the game, I did like a lot of the characters in it, so it's great to see some of them return in Rhapsodia. Also, HeroIV (who I shall start referring to with the 'unofficial' official name for him as Lazlo) gains a much needed personality. I only wish I didn't have to dig for treasure so much though. I hate missing items, so I end up treasure hunting through the entire map 75% of the time.

Magna Carta: Well it's eyecandy I'll give it that, but the biggest thing it has going for it (for me at least) is its evil evil battle system. I'm in love already. With the battle system, not the game. <3 It is being ignored currently however while I play both Rhapsodia and Fatal Frame 3. Strangely enough, it will have the longest section written for it here, because I wrote impressions on it as a reply to someone on the forums so I'm copy/pasting.

( Spoiler-free. Mostly talk about the battle system. )

Link:
Fatal Frame 1 & 2 played in nightmare mode, finished within an hour and a half with an S/SS ranking. This was fun to watch. XD

幻想水滸伝IV 通常版. But the [limited edition] has an artbook and a keychain along with it, and it is of course, a Japan only limited release. Konami I love you, but you are evil. Do you not realize how much money you're going to make if you make that available outside of Japan?!?! I'd love to own all those [rune keychains] too.


More bday piccies! *luffles you all!*

+ Naruto fanart from tongari. The Sand siblings no less, and Shikamaru! ♥ Also see her Rikkai fanart gift for luminata. [link]

+ Nobody does Stick Figure Theater like refracting. Bow down to her Greatness and Talent. She is Teh Cool. >3 Beware Atobe's wandering mole. [link]

+ I get another SanaAku fanart! <3 This time from daeas. Also, her bday gif vid for luminata is the bomb. And so much Gakuto in this post, how can I resist? XDD [link]

Much love to everyone! ^_^ Must pimp all the pretty art friends drew for me.

Niou/Marui from lyntek

Sanada/Akutsu from caillen

Gakuto from daeas

Yes, I have weird crack pairing preferences... as if you didn't know that already. ;D

Also, TeniMyu 2 bored the shit out of me. -_- Although Shinji actor was right on. Loved him. And I love the scene where Momo goes over to shake Shinji's hand (and Shinji refuses of course). Anime!Shinji meets TeniMyu!Shinji. I am easily amused. I didn't finish it actually. I'll try to finish it one of these days.

I don't have a date listed on my LJ, so no worries, only RL friends (and Tor, because we share the same birthday) knew it was my birthday. ^^v

ravinred.net is up and working with barely anything on it because I am lazy and I've taken down nearly every single site I've done in the past couple of years. But well... it's my new domain, so go there and wibble at my current poster boy.

Fanlistings. You know, I still think FLs are rather pointless, but they're fun to make if you're a layout whore, as it requires such minimal updates. And it's a great way of showing your love with only a one time effort. ^_^

Redux - The Inui Sadaharu and Yanagi Renji fanlisting

Thermodynamics - The Yanagi Renji fanlisting.

If you have caillen friended sorry about the double plugs on the FLs.

The list just grows longer and longer, doesn't it?

First there was the [Crimson Room], and then there was the [Mysteries of Time and Space].

Now you can all grit your teeth at [Chasm], because I assure you, you will want to smack Joe around so bad while playing this game. Watching him bump his head around once you get through the pipes is a small bit of satisfaction though. As for the bird that keeps laughing at you? Don't worry, you get to have your revenge. >D

The game is short, but it is frustrating. The controls can be rather annoying. You really have to lead this watchamacallit around. Link courtesy of meigahime.

Everyone has a kink, especially in their fiction. I have a lot. One of them just happens to be a bit of bloodsport in with the sex. Tor was writing a Niou/Yagyuu fic before and I kept nagging her to include more biting and scratching and well... more blood. ;P She ended up writing an entirely different fic to make me shut up about it. XD She hates it though 'because it's bad cliche vampire fic' and swore she'd delete it the moment I read it. I didn't actually get around to reading it until today and then:

refracting: Maybe I'll keep it up and label it "BAD VAMP FIC THAT'S ALL ARC'S FAULT" in big, neon letters... XD
mithas: XP *doesn't care!*
mithas: then you're not deleting? ^___^
refracting: .........
refracting: I'm not sure. -_-
mithas: I can do the same thing. Have a link to it on my userinfo saying, "READ CLICHED VAMP FIC THAT TOR WROTE FOR MY BLOODSPORT KINK!!"
refracting: ....
refracting: OMFG XD If you do that I might just keep it up. MAKE ME A BANNER FOR IT XD

(and then she went to bed.)

I HATE YOU SO MUCH YOU'D BETTER BE HAVING BAD VAMP FIC NIGHTMARES RIGHT NOW WENCH!

Because I'm an idiot and made you your banner.

I am getting the Yanagi/Marui and Marui/Gakuto vibes damnit! This is all rasuberry_pie and wetheril's fault. I hate them both. ;_;

Will link to the Rikkai pic once Kat finishes with it, but in the meantime, my supposedly very cute, fluffy, very gen Marui and Gakuto pic from wetheril (who I really love but who I hate right now for giving me another crack pairing) that is still very cute and fluffy but no longer very gen can be found [here].

Also, ph34r my newest, coolest Ryoma icon that was made by daeas. She is teh cool and she feeds me a different kind of crack. *love* You can find the full edited pic [here]. Ph34r her mad on-crack editing skillz.

P.S. Did I mention she only took about 20 minutes to draw two characters she's not familiar with? (Had to send her pics of Gakuto and Marui.) Wetheril is the bomb. ^_^v And Kat took like an hour to sketch out the Rikkai pic (or around that, as I only gave a vague idea of what I wanted and I don't know exactly when she started on it) which is just too uber cool I'm dying to link it.

P.S. #2 Rij! May BB5 na tayo.

[Edit] See wetheril's [entire art thread] because even her rough sketches are so worth seeing. ^_^ And she's drawn some Envy/Ed which is oh, my FMA OTP. ;P

More important things first. XD daeas and lyntek are my art slaves love me and drew me Gakuto and an Oshitari & Gakuto pic respectively. And you must all go see because you must nag them to draw more! ^_^ *gets killed*

Tchan's Gakuto pic can be found on [this post] wherein she somehow manages to make Gakuto's hairstyle look good. *snuggles Gakuto*

Lyn's Oshitari and Gakuto pic have three versions: [ b&w sketch | colored | captioned ] The captioned pic is exactly like the colored version, except she included a caption for Oshitari's thoughts. The caption is in Tagalog though, but roughly translates to: "If you fall from there, I'll not even bother to help you. I'll just step on you." (Although that would more accurately translate to: "If you fall from there, I'm not helping you anymore. I'll even step on you.")

I like the way they both draw Gakuto's eyes. Oi Rij, buhay ka pa? Go look at them, you of the Gakuto eye obsession.

As for the PSA:

I switched AIM SNs, because I was getting tired of having my name (even if it's not my real name :P) as my SN. You can now reach me at 'clearly vexed' (and because I like giving you guys useless trivia), which I got previously while I was still playing Kyou in the Toxic RPG. I'm not in it anymore, so the SN wasn't being used. I was getting rather annoyed because I'd tried about a dozen SNs for Kyou which I wanted to get, but they were all taken. So I was pretty vexed by the time, hence the SN. Get it? Yea, anyway, I figure I could have always made a new SN, but I wasn't about to go through AIM's signup again. Besides, I like it. ;D

Alright, I'm not even that big of an Atobe fan, but hell, I don't care!

http://www.trans-usa.com/sakata/works/g_21000.html
*molestmolesthumpshislegmolestgrope*

Nice Trip <-- main site

Hokay. Atobe fangirling over. *goes back to what she was doing*

OMG ruaki! You jinxed me, didn't you?! ;_; You remember that mythical Atobe in a thong pic you spent all night trying to find again? Well, I just found it. >.< Main site here.

The trauma. >.>

Edit: And just to negate the trauma that may induce (although I suspect some of you would absolutely love it), here's the page from Genius 198 of Yukimura, for those who were curious as to how he looked like.

She made me an OshiGaku icon! Because pretty pictures shouldn't go to waste and should be made into pretty icons. XD

And she wrote me wonderful Shinji and Kamio drabble over here. Their friendship is so pure. XD

You know, I keep meaning to make an art rec post, since I haven't done that in ages, but I never get around to doing so. This is sort of one, but I'm only linking to one site.

Wosamu Goods Special - Gorgeous art. Go and look even if you don't like any of the series' she draws for, because they're just beautiful. Mostly Fire Emblem, Harry Potter and Detective Conan. With one or two from Hikaru no Go and ManKin (and a pretty Legolas one). This particular Detective Conan picture however absolutely did me in. It had me squeeing my head off silly over characters i didn't know. And then I had a moment of arguing with self whether the person reading the book was a girl or a guy. It's an incredibly sweet pic eitherway. The cats! I like this one too. I've only seen a few episodes of Detective Conan, and maybe it's in the manga and not in the anime, but isn't there like... just one main male character? The Fire Emblem pics are also worthy of note. Remember to check out the Trash gallery. If I could come out with fanart half as good as the ones she's got in there I'd be waving them in your face. ;_; She has this lovely one dumped in the 'trash can' of Harry and the Weasley twins and an old piece she did back in 2001 of Jowy and Shu and the Hero.

All right. Somebody give me a Detective Conan crash course quick. Who be those four guys and why are they there and why is it I've never seen them in oh... all four episodes of DC that I've seen?

Edit: Since I don't want to give direct links to pictures as much as possible (and because if I did I'd be giving a lot), when you go to the Trash section and go to either the Conan or Fire Emblem section, you'll find a link leading to the 'under' area, which basically contains the m/m fanart. Check out the Fire Emblem art, because she has must see ShinZha pics. They're just gorgeous. <3

Edit 2: Just needed to link to this. You've got to see her sketch of the Weasley siblings. I love her Charlie. And her Bill. And her Percy and eeee! ^____^

I was planning to do a fanart sites rec, since I haven't done that since the time I originally got into Naruto, and I've been surfing through way too many TeniPuri art sites. Except I found these sprites and now I just have to post, because Atobe/Jirou is Hyotei's OTP! I must go look for Rokkaku and Rikkaidai sites next. Anybody have any recs I could start off with?

<-- Because Jirou is Atobe's bitch.
<-- So married.
<-- So in love, but don't know it.

Get your sprites here. They've got a Kirihara one too. XD

By and by, I have changed my Seigaku OTP from TezuRyo to InuiKai. (Well no, I really haven't, but more people should get into InuiKai!) Although I personally think Inui would make a great uke, because he has these incredibly long legs and well... you know. XD I lust after Inui's legs, yea. I am very jealous of Kaidou at the moment.

Although really, if it isn't InuiKai then it's definitely FujiTaka. Granted Taka's probably as clueless as a bell, but Fuji is very patient and I'm sure he'll manage to make Taka come around. :P

Look look at what Tia found! Half-nekkid Jirou on top of Atobe! *rejoices with Tor*

Being on a two person fandom is hard. =/ Everyone must join the Diva Trouble Support Group. For those who want to fic Atobe, but are hard pressed to actually have him cooperate.

Deuce by jennifier_d

The Second Time by Enryo [in progress]

Now that's my boy whore Ryoma. Yes he is.

Because nothing is as right as Ryoma in Tezuka's lap. :P

Everyone must share the TezuRyo love.

This is for the oushi. Because cows will inherit the world.

Alright, I may not be a big fan of FFX or FFX-2 (can't really say since I haven't played either), but if someone can tell me who cosplayed Paine I will worship you. I will also worship her, because that's a pretty damned good Paine. <3 (For those who don't know who Paine is, she's the one in black.) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

Zell so cuuuuuuuute! | 2 | 3 | 4 | Must find Squall to keep Zell baby company. Well caillen found a Seifer for him. XD

Pretty Aerith and Yuna and another Aerith | 2 |

Mana-lookalike in Wolf's Rain whose name I've shamelessly forgotten!

Black Vash. *loves*

Hermione I think she's supposed to be. Does anyone else think she's the same cosplayer who did Paine? She looks it.

Help me identify the characters of the following. ^___^
01 - I should know who she's plaaaaaying! I know that outfit. *twitchtwitch*
02 - That's a ... really UGLY wig. -_-
03 - More concerned on the one on the left with uhm... all the junk. ^^
04 - Is the coat really supposed to be that short? o_O
05 - prettiness
06 - something about those itty bitty wings bother me.
07 - pink hair. -_-

PS: Nevermind 01, figured out who she is. That swordsman in GS3 I don't know the name of because I haven't played the game yet. I had a blog layout with him in it. -_-

Edit: caillen tells me that 01 is Yuber. Duuude, I don't remember him being so pretty in GS1 or 2.

temps_mort is a new community for fanfiction improvs. You know, those time constrained writing challenges which are just so fun to write. XD It's a (yet another) sister community to contrelamontre, but this time for anime/manga/videogame fandoms. So go now and join, and write for it. *cracks whip*

Also, bucketsfull of thanks to selfaro for helping me with the community name.

Edit: caillen even beat me to pimping this community out. *wuvvles her*

Edit 2: I'm also very lousy at pimping communities out. So spread the word around, pretty please? ^_^

Alright, I finally got around to replying to everyone (email and LJ comments alike). So in case you've emailed me recently or posted a comment that requires a reply and I haven't, it means I don't have it on my inbox and have no way of replying to it. I know I lost a few emails that needed replying with the reformat, so if I haven't replied to you by now, it means I've lost it so could you please email me again?

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I know a handful of people on my friends list like Banana Fish, so for those of you who might be interested, ash_lynx is a new community for series discussion.


Koyasu Takehito will be voicing the main character for Cinderella Boy. I've no idea what the series will be about, but the main character looks wacky, so I'm looking forward to hearing Koyasu voice him. XD