Wherever you are, whatever you do

Yesterday I walked from Wandsworth Town to Trafalgar Square. It was about 6 miles but with lots of stopping to take notes and photos etc, so the whole thing took 5.5 hours including lunch break. My back and my right foot did not appreciate the exercise.

This is for my own reference, in case I ever need screen beans. XD http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=screen+beans

AND. Listening to Within Temptation, and noticed one of their songs can be a very appropriate, but also the cheesiest Dave/Rush song EVER and should have a place in any fanmix. So I've uploaded both versions I have, because I like this song.

Somewhere [Feat Anneke Van Giersbergen] - Live In Eindhoven 2008
Somewhere [album version]

Within Temptation is one of the rare groups/bands who sound brilliant in live recordings. Personally I find that most other bands can sound great live, but not if live recorded.

( and lyrics here )

...I'll go away and wibble now. ;;

dualdragonfly, t0k0... video links here.

0 - Intro (the short film you see if you leave the game at the start screen for too long)
1 - Opening (Rush looking for Irina and then seeing huge battle of doom)
2 - Nagapur (near end of Disc 1, Remnant Gwayn doing its thing)
3 - Ending (when Journey's End starts to play, but not the bits before ;;)

Squished them each to just under 100MB so that I could upload them to mediafire. XD The sound's still all weird. Uh I suppose you'd see it twice since I also posted to the comm, but just in case anyone else on the friends list also wants them...

[edit] Two days before I go on leave, the world blows up and I can't sort it all out right now. After I come back next Monday, I only have 3.5 days until I fly away again, which isn't nearly enough to sort the rest of it out. On top of that, a Client is being a pain in the arse and trying to move meeting dates. My non-existent minions, oh, why are you so non-existent?

But at least I got something to wear for the wedding. Y2 can now stop saying he's never seen me in a dress. ALL FOR YOU, MAN. Otherwise I might have gone in shirt and tie and waistcoat. >E

ALSO. Unni is lovely and sent me a bunch of music. Weird enough, so far I keep listening to "Hand of Sorrow" which was a Within Temptation song I found off the internet partly because I saw a fan video made of it and partly because it's about the story of a book which I've read so I know what the woman's singing about. XD (Though, I think I need to read books 2 and 3...)

A couple of people at gyakuten_saiban have asked for the download for my Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Sims 2 set, so here it is!

( Pics, explanation and download link )

Glay - Sorry Love (mp3)

Weekend weekend weekend.

From tokyostory: Roger has become Arthur. (article here) OH HAI, ARTHUR! ♥

I wrote a 700-words snapshot in yakuza-verse last night. It's sappy and wibbly and cute. Go me. Maybe I'll post it some day. Cute yakuza for the win.

A HUGE box arrived for me at work today. I suspect it's my Abel 1:8 figure. Maybe they wrapped it huge because of all the padding. Will open at lunch time.

Someone just said on a comm "don't write the arigatou in kanji, hardly anyone can recognize it" - er, not true. So not true. It's written with kanji on plenty of signs in Japan and the average Japanese student would learn what it looks like with kanji or just figure it out.

Not that I agree with writing in Japanese in a primarily English community, in the first place. Even if translation is provided. What's the point?

[edit] if you can't see the pictures, it's because I've uploaded them to LJ Scrapbook and they're doing a maintenance, so please come back again later. 8D

This is the Musical The Prince of Tennis - Absolute King Rikkai feat. Rokkaku - Second Service report book released by Kizaki Ayano (Siegessaule) on 18 August 2007. It obviously contains spoilers to the musical, so proceed with caution.

It was too hard to separate what was her opinion and what was mine, so I didn't bother. Poke if you really need to know what she said and what I said.

I'm a bit lazy with my descriptions and had only made a report with bullet points before, which isn't worth linking to. BUT! You might find these (spoilers-ful) reports useful/interesting:

• star_in_my_soup's report


• giving_ground's 1st and 2nd semi-coherent report. (:P)


• solaas's report


• genkischuldich's report

( So, here goes! )

Last one, still Rikkai because Leah wanted Rikkai.

Water World 2 - I don't have the first book and you don't need the first book. Rikkai all, Kite, Mizuki, Atobe, Tachibana, Sengoku, Tezuka, Inui. Plus Banji, Saotome, Ojii, Yamato-buchou, Inoue, Kiraku (Midoriyama!) and Sakurafubuki (from Futari no Samurai).

Partial nudity! Crack! Kite in his uniform that says "kill"! Mizuki in the maid outfit - oh wait, that's like, canon.

Post 1 of 2, because there are 40 pages.


( Water World 2 - PG - 1/2 )

If you want to know what Kite's R ♥ G tattoo means, look at the last page in the next post~~

The last lot of WaG doujinshi! Featuring FujiZuka, OishiEiji, InuiKai, the rest of Seigaku, Yamato, Oshitari, Atobe, Hiyoshi.

I've been playing with server permissions today; let me know if you can't access the files.

Apologies for bad grammar. XDDDDD

( 7 books behind the cut )

I have quite a few WaG ones so will split them into three posts.

A word about West Across Gitenshido for those interested - The WaG style of doujinshi was: not everything was printed and bound properly. Sometimes a doujinshi was literally a bunch of low-quality printed paper stapled together, or just folded together and put into a sleeve. Sometimes the drawing wasn't complete, too - you'd find it all inked and screentoned nicely for most of the pages, but then there'd be two pages of the story that were completely sketches-only. XD Judging also by their stories, and how they tended to not stick to release schedules (there were a lot of "sudden releases") and sometimes not even naming their stories properly, they were probably a group of erratic, if not batshit insane, artists. But still, I love their stuff. I don't know why. XD

The artwork varies greatly because there are things from 2001 to 2004-ish.

Anyway, here goes. Some of these I've shared before, some not. Since there are loads of WaG to go through and I'm pushed for time, the summaries are short...

( Behind the cut - pairings featured are OshiAto and FujiZuka )

I win at using leftover foods to make new meals!

Erm, if you haven't seen it yet, Sanada + Atobe + Shishido - Oshitari = Valentine Kiss remix. Too bad Atobe's song had so much bass. Made it sound odd whenever he and Sanada switched over. Erm, yeah. Next time I'll have more experience and it'll sound better/smoother. :D At least I spent enough time working on it/listening to it to make me like the song but not long enough to make me be sick of it, if you know what I mean.

I have ZukaFuji fic in the works. Go me!

Liz bleached my hair! :D I no longer have dark roots! I can also cosplay Hirakoba from Higa. *amused*

Got asked to reupload some doujinshi. Let's not waste the links:

	Title: Kantou Megane Club Circle/Author: Satoumizu Rating/Warning: G. MEGANE. Do not eat or drink while reading. Pairing: None Download Link: SS Summary: Megane Zone. Super Saiyan Megane Tezuka. Megane. Just... megane.
	Title: Robozuka Circle/Author: Satoumizu Rating/Warning: G Pairing: FujiZuka Download Link: SS Summary: Because Tezuka left for Kyushuu, Inui decides to make robots to fill the buchou role temporarily. Knowledge of "Doraemon" will make this story even funnier.
	Title: Tezuka-kun no Rival 2 Circle/Author: Satoumizu Rating/Warning: G. CHOKING HAZARD. Pairing: ......see summary. And Fuji ♥ Tezuka Download Link: SS Summary: They've always been rivals. So why is it that all of a sudden, Sanada ♥ Atobe, Atobe ♥ Tezuka and Tezuka ♥... chocolate cones/pastry???

I commented on how Byakuya has his brows all knotted and giving_ground pointed out whoever has to stand this close to Gin would have the same worried expression.

( Scans from Bleach the Best CD+DVD Boxset. Fear the pretty. )

I don't actually ship these pairings (Bleach is a series where I like het pairs a lot more), but... ( the day Renji got caught in the act )

......*goes to get more stuff to scan*