Adding this to the big blog so that I won’t forget it later - I wrote up a summary post about the Eric Skys ordeal in my main blog. It’s over here. I won’t lie, I’m posting it here so that I can get it the little bit more attention that this domain brings, but it’s for a good cause.
I haven’t officially announced it until now, but my posts will officially be located at The Mersenne Nineball for now. Please add it to your feeds for continued updates. ^^ Thanks.
- Sarah Lambert
I posed this in my LiveJournal too, but things there have a tendency of getting lost in the shuffle. So, I’m posting it here too so that *I* don’t lose it. Shirow and I (mostly Shirow) worked to get the first episode of Zettai Karen Children (Absolutely Lovely Children) up on YouTube for sharing since not everyone’s computer can watch the original MKV but almost anyone can watch YouTube.
It’s the new Aya Hirano anime for 2008, though that’s not really saying much since she’s also in Clannad and two shows yet to come. However, the thing that gets me about this is that it’s VERY reminiscent of Kiddy Grade, the show she began her career with when she was 14. Even after how famous she’s become, she can still come back and be in something humble. Funny, though - now she’s playing Eclair’s role instead of the obvious Lumiere ripoff. ;x
And also, did anyone else notice that her character (the brown-haired girl) looks like Kobayashi from Puni Puni Poemi? O_O; Man.
Enjoy.
I’ve wanted to post some sort of “gift” today for my friends, preferably some small writing/art/programming piece, or something unique I found somewhere that I want to share. Well, I ran across something just today that fits the bill. ^^; I know, this is old and I’m slow, I need to lurk moar, but considering that most of my friends don’t lurk at all, this should be new to most of you. ^^;
It’s like, this.. mega anime tribute thingy. o.o It’s this guy who sings anime music at concerts and it has really well done AMV-style footage and a “megamix” of him singing. There have been awesome anime tributes in the past (AMV Hell..), but they’ve always been for ancient (1999) anime, and it’s nice to see one that actually covers 2006-2007 stuff. ^^;
That being said, it’s aimed at Japanese tastes, so Haruhi and Lucky Star have something like three separate appearances, as well as appearances by stuff like AIR and Nursery Rhyme, and Naruto/FMA/Bleach/etc are completely missing. I didn’t mind, though, since I usually latch onto the sort of stuff that never gets licensed and have no idea what’s going on in compilations made by Americans. XD
Noteworthy inclusions (these were either really well done or completely unexpected, or both): Dear You (Higurashi), Rockman (!), IOSYS, Madlax, Idolm@ster, Digimon Adventure (too short! ;_;), God Knows (Haruhi), Final Fantasy (and how they combine it with Dragon Quest), and various Mario games.
(SIGH. I want Idolmaster! D: It’s almost worth buying a Japanese X360 so that I can play it. Just like it’s almost worth getting a PS3 to play Disgaea 3. ^^; Ah well, can’t have everything..)
Anyway! Watching this makes me really. indescribably. happy. I hope it does the same for you! It really, really tends to inspire people, and it seems to be a fad for Internet friends to band together over voice chat or a mixing program and perform their own versions, some with so many people that it sounds like THE BORG ARE ABOUT TO ASSIMILATE YOU. It’s cool! :D
Enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas!
“Etna’s outfit would look pretty good on a fully grown woman… But only on a fully grown woman.” (link - yeah, it’s old)
I’m sorry, but I have to step out here and complain. I’m really, really sick of the fact that wherever I go, I run into people who have serious issues with lolis. :P I mean, I can see people having problems with the guys over at 12chan, because it’s too much (nsfw) even for me these days, but what’s with the paranoia over even admitting to something as innocent as age-play, or a love of the whole “loli” meme?
Oh, yeah. Invariably, everyone who thinks that way is a depraved sicko who needs their balls chopped off. If you’re a girl, that’s even worse, though I’m not sure why. I guess because you’re a potential mother, or maybe because women seem to be more trusted by society to be “good” than guys are.
Honestly. Where do these rules even *come* from? Is it some human instinct to draw a straight line from admitting that someone under 18 is cute to being a child rapist who needs to be shot? I’m seriously asking — did I miss being given this instinct at the same time that I apparently missed other instincts that make people “normal”, like not staying awake at night?
Am I irrational, even though I think I’m the only rational one out there? I’m not beyond questioning myself, after all.
Anyway, I admit that I’m biased. I think that.. um… *digs through her hard drive and finds a work-safe image*.. well, for example, this girl. I think that she’s cute, adorable, and even beautiful and attractive. I think that the image itself is touching, and if it wouldn’t look horrible scaled up to 1,920×1,200 (sadly, it would), it would probably be my wallpaper at the moment.
I’m ignorant of why that’s bad. If anyone knows why that’s bad, and it’s a real answer, I’d love to hear it. The only ones I’ve ever got are statements like “Because you’re perverted,” which saves the person who stated it from ever having to explain themselves. It’s not just laypeople who say things like that - I’ve seen court cases where such language was used as the sole explanation for a guilty verdict.
Again, am I simply ignorant of some great universal truth that everyone else knows? Either I’m among a select few idiots who are just that stupid, or a select few enlightened who are rightfully confused. Either way, from where I stand, the world seems pretty screwed up.
This post is pointless. It doesn’t have a point. Of course, one wonders if any post has a point. After all, posts are digital things with no physical bodies. Well, blog posts anyway. Thusly, they do not have “points” on any part of their bodies, nor do they have hands or feet or anything else.
*crickets chirp* Okay, bad joke.
I just feel like it’s a little pointless to go about writing these every other month or so. I am again sick, and I wish to make note of it. Well, I never fully recovered from the last spell of sickness, so I suppose sick-er would be proper.
This is special, though. This is only the second time in my life that I am experiencing these symptoms. The last time I experienced them was when I abruptly stopped taking several thousand daily milligrams of combined psychiatric medications simultaneously.
This time also involves going off psychiatric medications, but don’t worry; I’m being well monitored and I’m ramping off of things slowly instead of suddenly. The reason for this is simple: my liver can’t take it. I process a shitload of drugs per day under normal circumstances, for all my various illnesses, and my liver, which must process and filter all of this trash, is on a path to eventual organ failure if I don’t cool it. Many important medications have had to go.
The symptoms of the physical and mental withdrawal phase this causes: nausea in response to sound and light, extreme chills, seizures, vomiting, hallucinations, memory loss, inability to speak, asthma and allergy symptoms without environmental cause, and other things I’m forgetting.
*crickets chirp more* Bad joke again. You know, “things I’m forgetting” in a sentence mentioning memory loss.
*hears a groan* Hey, I said it was bad.
Anyway, as is the case when I’m like this, I’m out of commission in a way that I’m not used to - I’m out of commission completely. It’s been a tremendous effort to write this, in fact. Instead of simply feeling bad and mucking through it, the effect of that symptom list attacking me all at once causes me to be unable to eat, sleep, think, read, watch television, go out somewhere nice to help me feel better, and so on.
*excuses herself to vomit*
…Sorry, back.
As I was saying, basically I sit all day staring at a wall, shaking, shuddering, and occasionally crying in desperation when I have enough energy to. And this is the best that it gets - everything is being done in the most healthy and humane way attainable by modern medicine.
Simply put, don’t expect to see me. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone, either - it isn’t an exact science.
And yes I’m fucking depressed.
I’ve GOT it! I’ve got the winning idea for the next sci-fi “save the planet” movie. You know the type, right? Asteroid flicks, tsunami flicks, movies where the planet is being taken over by THE VAST ARMIES OF GLOOOOBAL WAAAAARMINGGG, and so on.
The idea for this one is simple: Dragons are real. Not just any dragons, though. Sure, there are dragons that are dinosaur-sized and smaller, but there are also what we dragon-philes like to know as “space dragons” (OOoooOOooo!)
So yeah. Giant space dragon flapping through the solar system, and finds our planet and then eats it. XD And the kyuuuute little humans have to figure out how to escape! - before the planet dies off from lack of the gravity fields and light and soforth that is necessary for survival!
…Don’t tell me I’m nuts. I KNOW I’m nuts.
Thinking about my vampirism bit. I’m really not sure what to say, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot. As the story goes, I’ve always been a blood-feeder, either on (willing! happy to donate and never without consent!) humans or animals (not as much consent with the animals though, seeing as they’re dead and in the butcher shop).
It’s never really been a fetish, it’s more like something I feel a drive - a need - to do now and then. I actually start feeling unwell if I don’t have any for a long time, as if it affects my health or something. I’m a member of the VCMB and Sangi’s buncha goons and the first thing they did was give me a good grounding in reality, telling me to get tested for blood deficiencies (make sure it’s not a detectable health problem) and also reminded me to be healthy and use sterilization when drawing blood from people who donate (which, of course, I was doing to begin with.)
Still, while I have friends in the community, I have a lot of self-hatred pent up. Most of my friends (not all!) think I’m some disgusting abomination for this need for blood, that I’m either really sick and perverted or I’m DYING to cry out for attention, or both. It really sucks. I can’t talk about it with them and I get really depressed. So, I’ve been thinking about getting into the community more than before and even finding a group of like minded people here in New England to join up with. It’s just that with the self-hatred and all, I’m reluctant to do anything that promotes my “practices” so to speak.
So yeah. Not sure what to do with myself. *siiigh* I could go online right now and talk to someone, but I’m so afraid to even do that.
AAAAGH! I can’t get Granity Infinity out of my head. -_-; WANT MP3. WANT.
In other news, I think I figured out what I think of Spaces for Leopard. Basically, it’s like Expose but better. I know, I know, having multiple desktops is nothing new, but for OSes that don’t include it by default (Windows, Pre-Leopard OS X..) the third-party implementations tend to cause glitches in the operating system. This is smooth, clean, and everything works well.
Adding an application to show on all desktops is Mac-simple, and I just plain love it. It also supports my multiple monitors very well, leaving me having to make almost no effort - hardly a mouse click - to get every app on every screen on every desktop exactly where I want it.
Before, Expose was the only thing I had. I was required to hide windows, minimize them (gasp!), and use Expose to shrink my windows to an entire screen of dozens of little boxes with program names attached to them in order to sort out my windows.
Now, I can categorize different desktop numbers to switch amongst, one for each type of program I use (all the art stuff on one desktop, all the web stuff on another..) and Expose is simply used to “look underneath” windows on top to see what’s below them.
In other words, “Spaces divides the window-management work between itself and Expose, leaving Expose to do far less and taking on the rest of the burden very well.”
It’s simply how it should have been from the beginning.
Well, here it is. Making a new place to journal at since the old one sucked. Let’s hope things go well, eh?
Oi. I had a million different things I wanted to write about, but none of them are coming to mind right now… X_x;;
Anyway, I officially will note that this site will never, EVER be nice and professional. Promise. So anyone who wants it to be? Uhh.. sorry. ^^;;
I think that’s all for now. ^^
