You will never guess what happened today.
About two years ago (?) I lost my car keys. It was pretty amazing because if you lose your car keys, well, they have to be in your house somewhere, don't they. You can't have left them anywhere else. I searched high and low for them, looked behind drawers, checked pockets, moved furniture, but in the end I had to accept that they (and the lovely Nightmare Before Christmas keyring they were on) were gone, Never To Be Found Again, and I got a new key cut.

Today, despite Cake's eternal/week-long exhaustion and death, I went for a rollerblade - the first one in, like, two years. I was worried I would be even worse than I ever was (which was pretty bad) - I still don't know how to stop and get nervous blading over cracks in the footpath. But Cake decided to journey out to the city nevertheless, since the weather was deliciously overcast. So GUESS WHAT I FOUND IN MY ROLLERBLADING BAG?

Yeah.

I was literally speechless and in shock for about a minute before I uttered
"Oh."

Anyway, the journey was not too bad at all, no one fell over and smashed their head like an egg on the pavement (which is what I am always afraid of. Always).

And so, onwards! To the Intarwabs!

Videos


A short animated documentary on unicorns, which I stole from finding_jay. It is amazing. And, er, educational.


And THIS is why I <3 molluscs.
Octopuses are just the most amazing creatures ever. I wish I could have one as a pet.


Strange perpetual fourth wall video things.

Learnings

9 inventions that prove Leondardo da Vinci was a supervillian - mildly amusing.

Lucy Stone wiki - a feminist who did a whole bunch of stuff in, um... the early 1900's? Makes me infinitely grateful I live in the here and now, but also makes me feel lazy. Interesting to read about, since her perspective is just so different from women today. Also reminds me of a friend who gets headaches?

how to hide an aeroplane factory lmao, I can't believe this worked.

Opinion and issues

A thoughtful piece on pedophilia by Dan Savage, from his Savage Love column.
Stolen shamelessly from goldfoil
I have thought about this issue before and pretty much come to similar conclusions.
I think it's important to have at least an awareness, as these sorts of complex issues of self, equity, morals, and what is socially acceptable will only become more numerous, or at least more prominent, as time goes on. Compare it to how you or other people think about homosexuality (this is how I first started thinking about the issue). Difficult, ne?

And this, while we're at it
(also stolen from goldfoil)
The most important thing you need to remember about rape and sexual assualt - the victim is never to blame.
There is no "she totally was asking for it" or "she should have known better". There is only "she was unfortunate to happen to be in the presence of a man who made the decision to rape her". One person can't be blamed for the intentions and motives of another - and base instincts and desires can't be either. Men are people (give them some credit here, dudes), and that means they think and they act. There is no such things as not being able to help oneself, there is no such thing as accidental rape. Inexcusable actions are inexcusable.

Pope says that equality laws in UK are unjust
A clash between religion and state, once again. retweetedStolen from Josh Thomas (wow, he's gay? There goes that minor crush... but I could never tell if he actually just annoyed me? ♥ lanky geeky boys >___<).

How evil does the Pope look in that picture?? XD

Regarding the actual article (pope speaks against new UK laws to ban church groups like adoption agencies or employment from discriminating against homosexuals/trans ppl etc)...
I don't know.
I mean, if I expect that the church can't interfere with the state, maybe it's a two way street and the state shouldn't interfere with the church. It's their (stupid) belief and if they want to implement that then maybe that's their right. No one's forcing you to be part of the religion - if you picked it, then you know what you're getting into one way or another. There are plenty of catholic/christian sub-groups (eg youth churchy thingos) that are tolerant, right? I have no idea -___-;;
The problem is if the church actually still has a really large stranglehold part in society. Then the government has to step in, because maybe the church is affecting a huge load of people that don't have any other options.

It's kind of like... I strongly believe that the government should allow legal same-sex marriages - everyone has the right to have their relationship recognised in an official way, and to gain the same benefits legally. But I don't expect the church to have to allow same-sex marriage, since that's actually a sacrement that is part of a belief system that has certain values and rules and what-have-you. Whether or not those values etc are completely stupid or not is kind of beside the point, since, as a system of belief, they are allowed to have whatever beliefs fit in with their system (as long as they aren't hurting anyone or inflicting them on anyone else).

Finally, on a lighter note,

Pimpage

Callie Eats Feathers a (very) short comic by Yuko and Ananth of Johnny Wander fame (and also Applegeeks). It's pretty amazing - I love Yuko's art style =) Her more lighthearted stuff is even better, in my opinion.

Also, I was playing in photoshop, trying to cheat and simulate a vintage style or lomographic style photo. So here is Cake when she went out to Sin the other weekend.



Sweet dreams, minions.
Cake is dying now and beaching tomorrow =D

P.S. quick question
Has anyone seen There Will Be Blood? Could anyone follow it?
I stopped watching about half-way through, this evening. Got up to the kid with acoustic shock and a tumble and just went WTF is going on?
This is rare for me.
Anyone seen it? Opinions?

(I actually do that with all my sketchbooks, by the way).

Naaa~ Cake is tired ~__~ so today is pretty much just links. You don't want to hear my thoughts anyway. The other day I was thinking about how inefficient (chickens) laying eggs every day is, and today I was wondering what exactly people were going to do once they'd solved the (genetic) mysteries of aging (well, won't it just turn into a sci-fi dystopia and we all die of overpopulation due to good medicine and rich people paying for youth?).

Instead, marvel at the strawberry cupcakes I made over the weekend ☆





They were pretty delicious ♥

さ～て、

★ article on nerds of colour. Have you all considered these issues before? I've had conversations with you about it...

★ russian dogs have adapted to urban life in AMAZING ways. These dogs win the Awesome Award for Being Awesome.

★ research and statistics on what sort of profile pictures get the most hits on a dating website (OKCupid), which was actually pretty interesting.

★ A short story/article about how the human body reacts to temperature/freezing to death - it was a chilling tale *shot*. No, really, this was incredibly interesting to read - it's half article and half fictional/hypothetical story. You will need to be armed with a Fahrenheit to Celsius converter, though.

★ Scientists can determine what colour the feathers were on some dinosaurs!

The only other news Cake has to impart to you is that I has a molar growing o_0
"Congratulations, you can now call yourself a twelve-year-old" is what my orthodontist said to me.
>______<
After over a decade of orthodontic treatment, I think this is the last thing that will happen in my mouth (but I already thought that!)? Twelve-year-molar, welcome to the family dental records. You will be subject to much cake.

Will New Law Block Many Slash, Anime, Manga Sites in Australia? plus other important things.

I would say there are some issues in this article quite open to debate and scrutiny (representations of child porn/abuse and possible pro culture or desensitisation of the masses). But blocking Wincest seems pretty stupid (I don't read it btw) ---> by the same token, they could block fanfics about Ouran Highschool Host Club due to Kaoru/Hikaru slash. I was going to go into that, but I won't rant about it or explain further; I'm sure you can draw your own conclusions.

Fuck you, Australia. I am sick of your fucking government.
I'm moving.
Happy fucking Australia Day.

As I have mentioned previously, they could also block health websites, websites discussing eating disorders or voluntary euthanasia, sexual abuse support sites...
If the wrong group of people gained political influence (say if the government in charge wanted to gain votes from the conservative groups like Family First or the Christians), anything could be blocked on a whim, because we don't really have rights to, or ways of appealing.

A key point here is that sites will have to be complained about to be blacklisted, but who are we kidding? Of course there are conservative busybodies who think they know best for everyone and have too much time on their hands, who will complain. Church groups that complain about Harry Potter will most certainly complain about Simon/River fanworks. People who have enough time to write letters to the editor about how The Gays are corrupting society and shouldn't be allowed to marry, will whip up letters to the government about that LJ community dedicated to the Forbidden Love Between Fred and George. Sure, the likelihood of those sorts of people finding those sorts of things aren't so high, but the process is only one-way. Once someone has complained, there is no uncomplaining, no appeal, no revoking the decision.

Maybe the key words here are 'consenting' and 'adults'.
Or maybe just 'dictatorship'.

Australians all let us rejoice,
for we are young and free.

じゃ、みんなさん、
今ミームの時だよ～
初めしょうね。

I got tagged by alysael
A. List ten habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag ten people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

☆ I hate to play noughts and crosses.
☆ I still sleep with teddy bears (and teddy bunnies ♥)... and sometimes take them out dancing ^___~
☆ I hate scary movies - Zombieland (a comedy) is the scariest movie I can watch. I don't mind gore at all, but it bores me.
☆ I have 84 postcards (mostly free adverts) strung up around my desk.
☆ I name most of my electronic appliances (computer, external hard drive, ipod, camera, car...), but I can't bring myself to name my phone, because that would be weird and dumb.
☆ I don't feel like myself at all with 'ordinary' coloured hair. It's weird.
☆ I sometimes get stomach aches from eating bananas. At the beginning of this summer they were really bad and happened every time, but recently things have gotten okay again ^_______^
☆ I really like the combination of banana and peanut butter ♥
☆ I'm a pretty good cook - especially at making up improvised dishes from whatever's lying around, or reinventing the leftovers.
☆ I have been tempted lately to learn the ukulele.

Once again, I have shunned an event I've been planning to go to for months, because I am too lazy, and suddenly I don't really know anyone going to it.
Today's fail: Wai-con.
Eh.

What should I do today instead, though?
～bored～

So, the other day I saw this, and thought "OMGAMAZING. Also, ties in with a comic idea I had about a year ago".
Once again, I kind of wish I had RP'd at some point in my life. This game sounds like a terrific amount of fun.
(But anyway, would I ever have the time for this?)

Anyway, last night my family and I went to see a movie together (gasp! A family outing!).
We saw
Up in the Air.
I had absolutely no idea what it was about, had never even heard of it before. All my family could say was that it starred George Clooney. As the credits were rolling I was admiring them, which can't be a bad thing (lately, credits have gotten really nice, haven't they?), and then I saw Jason Reitman's name, and was immediately sold.
(Jason Reitman directed Juno. Yep.)
And
It turned out to be a really great movie :)
I liked it very much indeed.
The basic premise is that it's about a guy whose job it is to fire people. Companies hire him to do their dirty work, and he spends his life travelling around America. He loves his lifestyle, lives on aeroplanes and in the airport, loves his status, his membership to all the various loyalty programmes, loves the isolation and lack of baggage.

On the whole, I'm not one-hundred percent sure on where I stand with the way the themes were handled and how they were resolved. It was refreshing to see an older / middle-aged romance on screen (although this may be because I don't watch other films like that), especially in a film that was easily accessible to most people. They were balanced by a young lady, and it was great to see the interaction and perceptions between the two. I really liked that there was this guy who rejected all the emotional strings of relationships and a house etc, etc, and seemed genuinely happy with his lifestyle - in the end though, I don't know if the movie was condoning this, or going with the norm and arguing against it. But that's what I like about Reitman films.
Juno didn't condone or discourage teenage pregnancy or abortion - of course it had its biases and points of view, but it didn't push either message. Up in the Air seemed to take the same approach, and although most of the 'twists' were pretty easy to pick, the characters and situations weren't actually particularly cliche, and, I think, really defied some norms in a great (and subtle?) way.

So... go see it :)
You will enjoy it more than my family did.
We have such different tastes in everything, it's dumb. The hilarious thing is that my sister was just saying that I can't enjoy movies and watch them like a normal person and hate all movies, in the car on the way to the cinema. Just because I don't enjoy chick-flick/romantic comedies so much, and get a little stressed in psychological thrillers.

NB: Do not go see The Ugly Truth unless you wish to experience physical pain. This message is directed particularly at goldfoil (I know you enjoy the masochism that is wank on the intarwabs, but seriously, even I had to leave the room for a little while during this movie).
Equal rights for both genders took a giant leap backwards in that film.
It made us all marxipan_xlii and I so angry.

On a much more awesome note, (some) sea slugs are the only animals who can do photosynthesis!
SEA SLUGS BEAT US TO IT! DAMN.
I've been encouraging human evolution in the direction of photosynthesis for ages. Because, y'know, it would be pretty cool. Damn those sea slugs, now they are the cool ones. And the scientists are confused. But impressed.

Sweet Dreams

This is so amazing, I have no words (just giggles of delight).
An incredibly sweet stop-motion-animation film about a little cake that goes on an adventure.

came out today!!!～☆
Actually, it's past midnight now, so really, it came out yesterday

♪Yaaaay♪

CoincidentallyHitsuzen, I have a new journal header ^_________^
♥Teru
♥ Photobucket, which is failing so very majorly and epicly.

Goddamn I love Teru-kichi's jacket in the Ascendead Master outfits. If it weren't so insane, I would think about sewing it...

Also,
Melody Roads in Japan are amazing. They are corrugated roads that play tunes when you drive over them =D
I ♥ Japan for coming up with useless awesome things.

So, happy Jubilee release, I hope you get your copy soon if you ordered one :)

Cake's availability from now til Uni: Work weekdays 7/8am~3/4pm. Weekends free. Swingdancing Tue night from Feb2. Tafe Wed nights from feb8

皆さｎ、こんにちわ～☆
今日、上機嫌だよ～

Guess what I have?
A JOB.
LMAO, I'm working at a cafe at the same hospital as before, just in a different building >___<

There is even one of the old Red Cross staff members there, too LOL.
It's okay. More fast-paced than Red Cross because they make up their own food. I think I'll enjoy it more once I'm used to it and I get to play with the coffee machine. The lady who owns it is really nice :) But once again, she is a crazy asian lady older asian woman - which I am used to now. (This is not some sort of racial slur, it's just that different cultures have different mannerisms that can be difficult to catch on to).
Wtf, do I attract these people, or is there some secret hospital conspiracy?
So...
YAY~~~☆

So after wanting to be sick with nerves for half the morning, I finished on a lovely work-high and then went to uni and handed in basically all of my exchange forms! And pretty much planned out my enrolment for the rest of my degree (just need to verify it with the actual course coordinator). Unfortunately, basically the only thing I haven't sorted out is what I'm actually studying this semester :\
YAY~~~☆

And then
☆ I got home again to find that my Baby order has been shipped!!
(So by next week maybe, I'll have my first Baby, the Stars Shine Bright things!)
☆ And, not to spread gossip, but Neil Gaiman and Amanda Fucking Palmer are engaged! ♥
They seem so amazingly happy and productive together, so it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside ^___^
☆ AND Jubilee will be released in five days!

YAY~~~☆

So now,
interactive meme time!
Reply to this post, and I'll tell you one reason why I like you. Then put this in your own journal, and spread the love.

I can has paid account now! Thanks to finding_jay for the coupon.
So,
Now I have comment pages that don't look like bleeding eyeballs - lj-cuts similarly! Also friends pages, but I don't look at that anyway.
It still took an afternoon of fiddling with code to bring thost bits of the ol' lj up to speed, though -__-
Next: moodtheme, moar userpics, profile.

Unfortunately I can't fiddle with the original PS file for my lj-header (which I really wanted to use for my profile and some icons and a new and modified header for 2010)
because... I think a whole bunch of files on my external hard drive were corrupted :((((((((
Why?

Goddam. Were they corrupted when Herbert was dying? or on the move to Benedict? I have no idea, but it makes me a sad Cake. I think I mostly lost anime pics, though, which is okay. BUT REALLY ANNOYING WHEN YOU LOSE PHOTOSHOP FILES THAT HAD NO BACKUP.

Anyway. What has Cake been doing? Not so much.

☆Ordering parasols and sneakers from Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, finally (although I haven't received confirmation that they received my payment yet - anyone know if I'm meant to???) :DDD

☆ writing. Rather a lot. One particular original fiction story as part of a friend's Christmas present. Since I'm writing it manually on all sorts of scraps of paper, it will be ages before I've (a) finished it (b) transcribed it onto the computer (c) edited it.
It's pretty long, but I have no idea how long since it's on real paper, and those pieces of paper are all of varying and ridiculous sizes.
Yay~
Summer muses~

☆ looking forward to the release of Jubilee - 8 days to go!

☆ not walking, working or studying (um, if reading Teru's blog counts as studying)

☆ applying for jobs.
I actually got a job - in a call centre. I had one training + shift, but today ended up pulling out. It wasn't even that bad, but I just... found my sense of self was too conflicted. Maybe I was scarred after going through engineering and web design, I have absolutely no idea. It just seems to have turned out that I am a pansy and can't suck it up, but also am pretty great at maintaining ideals and being true to myself. I don't think one way is better than the other - they're both pretty good qualities to have in a person. One is much more practical than the other, however. And pulling out makes me feel like a tool.
(there were other reasons too though - the likelihood of it fitting in with uni was minimal;not flexible hours at all)

☆ reading Dinosaur comics again. Over a year's worth in the past week - I'm now up to September of 2009. I also remembered why I stopped reading at some point last year - it is addictive, and you end up talking like T-Rex (is this a bad thing??)

☆ playing piano (who would have thought that practising twice a year means that you are unable to actually play anthything after a couple of years? >___<)

☆ sorting out uni

☆ watching all the Molly Lewis (aka sweetafton23) videos on youtube ♥

☆ watching movies, like The Boat That Rocked, which is now officially one of my favourite movies EVER ♥ ♥ ♥

☆ dreaming about kittens and sand and road trips...

☆ nothing

Things of interest!

the longest poem in the world, generated from random rhyming tweets that form couplets.

naked ladies, nice photos of.


Neil Patrick Harris has shoes for you! (and all of Sesame Street).
Oh my goodness, I think I may be in love. Just a little.

(Garrrr, really want to see Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog again!)

mind blowing ancient computer discovery. A computer created 1,500 years ahead of its time, back in, like, Ancient Greece (or somewhere. This saved draft has been here for, like, a week).

pure crack spouted by a man who talks in his sleep XD

And finally, have you ever wondered what a fizzy-good tablet looks like in zero gravity?

Alkasezter in space!

And that's Cake over and out for now.
～☆

To start the year, here is a fun way to learn
10 words you need to stop misspelling
Although the people who read this journal are probably the wrong people to be linking this to. Hopefully though, this will be my tiny part to propogate correct spelling throughout the interwabs.While we're at it, I followed the link for apostrophes too.

I also did some learning on wikipedia about

Tetrachromacy, which is about animals (including rare genetic mutations in humans) that can see colours outside the basic human rainbow (eg ultraviolet) and/or distinguish more colours (compare the usual 1 million colours to 100 million colours). It's pretty interesting!

This then led me to research Mantis shrimps, which are fricking awesome.
It would be cool to be a mantis shrimp.
I don't know how long they live for (oh, apparently "Mantis shrimp are long-lived"), but they may be surpassing Sakura trees as my reincarnation being of choice. Their eyes, oh god their eyes (the most complex in the animal kingdom). Not to mention

some larger species of mantis shrimp are capable of breaking through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon

. (i.e. they can do that shockwave thing with their claws of doom).
And they are pretty.

Also, 'fluoresce' is a verb. Who knew?

The last bit of learning for today's post is about the phrase "No Homo", via youtube. I had no idea.


And now for fun things! Like Neil Gaiman's short silent film, Statuesque, which is lovely. It features Bill Nighy and Amanda Palmer, and was aired in Britain recently.
Oh drat, the link has been taken down. You'll have to youtube it and hope.
:\

In that case, today's fun will be a cute and well done song made by remixing the audio (and video) from Up!.


Oh look, a meme.
( the end-of-year meme )

...Except that it's been cloudy since last night, and still no rain.
It's so hoooot～

I'm glad it didn't rain last night over my picnic, but I wish the weather would break.
I've been feeling blargh and lame all day -____-
Actually, that's not because of the weather at all - completely irrelevant of course ~_~
I think it has to do with my sleeping pattern (Cake has almost fixed it, though) - but holy macaroni, this morning I had a dream that Yuko Ichihara (of Holic) died. If waking up to that isn't enough to put you in a bad mood, I don't know what is.
(It's disturbing～ and very sad～)
And I missed out on seeing friends today twice over ~_~

So to cheer us all up:


La Maison en petits
The House of Small Cubes
つみきのいえ


A short animated film (12mins) that won an academy award and some other stuff.
It's quite lovely.
I would say it has thematic elements very much in common with both Up and Ponyo.

Part1

Part2


Oh, that wasn't really cheerful at all, was it?
~_~

Apparently I am a heartless fiend.
Unlike Teru (from who's blog I read about this film), I did not cry. Nor did I cry at all during Up, which I watched last night.
Heartless and fiendish, I know.
I did jump and squeal a little in fear during Coraline, however TT___TT
(It's scary～)

I'm glad I've seen those films, though ^____^ I was dying to see them when they were released in cinemas, but never made it.

Oyasumi☆

Found this on my desktop.
I guess I'm springsummer cleaning everywhere today.


Awesome TED talk that I mentioned last post, not realising I hadn't actually posted it yet.
Really cool designs for a whole bunch of every-day sort of problems, including inahling the toxins from our furniture, inspiring kids to take respiratory medication and reducing noise pollution around the house.

Also,

Guy marries videogame article.
Things that make me mad: same sex couples can't marry in most countries/states INCLUDING THIS PLACE, but some guy can marry a fictional game character.

Also, recently Cake learnt that "impending doom" really is a symptom of heart attack.

ALSO:
I am going to see The Princess and the Frog on January 1st at Carousel at 4.15pm. Please come join me!
Also, most of us will be in pretty dresses ^_______^ Dress up too!
☆

*sigh* waiting for hair to dry before bed -___-
Why have I been so awake at night recently?
Not good.

サヨナラ＆おやすみんなさい～
♥

Being too lazy to post frequently means that you get these retarded epics instead TT__TT;;
This is what happens when you haven't posted in ... HOLY CRAP, IT'S BEEN A MONTH?
o_0

I guess twitter has been getting all of my love :(
So, I'll try to sort things under cuts, I guess.
And then we will never do this again.
Just like the not putting on of suncream, which lead to Cake getting burnt and then peeling over Christmas >_________<

Oh, first thing's first:
What are peoples opinions on paid accounts versus (fairly old) basic non-upgraded accounts??

I got one of those dandy $10 paid upgrade vouchers from finding_jay, but I am suspicious of something that will automatically take the payments out of my account (granted, it's only once a year, and it's only US$20, but still).
Do people see ads on my page now?
Do I need the extra userpics?
Are there any major benefits that I shouldn't be living without?
(actually, I would like to be able to set things up such that my tweets post here too, but last time I checked - a while ago - only paid users could have external things posting to their lj).

Anywho.

( things Cake has been doing in the past month / Christmas )

Speaking of The Princess and the Frog: it's released on January first, and I was wondering... is anyone interested in going to see it that afternoon?
We could dress up....
Y/N?
(Y/Y)

Next:

( awesome links to awesome things )

Today's deviant artists are:

CaptainArdi - a pretty neat artist (draws in anime style) with a nice thick painting style and some cool character designs.

Phantomorchid - An amazing fashion photographer who takes photos mostly for latex and couture models. So delicious!!

And now for the bandwidth demons:

( videos (and some fangirling) )

That's about all, for that. I think I'll start posting deviant artists again. Also, will start posting in my Ameblo from January 1.

Last and least, I wrote a letter to the government the other week about internet censorship in Australia.
And then I read this article about how pointless my letter was, and how much more effort and less ignorance I would need to actually make a difference TT____TT;;

Anyway, if anyone wants to know about my feelings on the topic, here's the letter:

( say NO to net censorship in Oz, because it's friggin' stupid )

The end!
x___x;;

Giant rice-field murals of AMAZING in Japan! so cool!

Also, guess what I haven't done in a while?
anything productive or useful a meme!

Leave me a comment saying 'rainbow'.
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better!
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

As usual, my answers were too long... -_-

From lolita_maiden:

1. What is your favourite lolita brand?

Somehow, I can't even remember how I first discovered lolita, or even when (but it must have been in the past 12 months or so, really?). But what suddenly dragged me right into the world of loli, was the movie Kamikaze Girls (or Shimotsuma Monogatari [which translates as Shimotsuma Story. WTF American redistributors??]).
So of course this movie (and book! The book is good too!) gave me a huge initial bias towards Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, which plays a significant part in the plot.
But after exploring the world of lolita via the intarwabs, I have to confess, my first love is still my first love, and I still love Baby the best :D I can't help it, I feel the are the most elegant and cutest of all! ♥
I reaaaaaaaaaaaally want some BTSSB clothing~
♥

2. Do you like anime? If so, What is/are your favourite anime(s)?

Yes, I like anime! But I am lazy and live under a rock, and so I don't actually watch that much. I used to watch a fair amount, but these days I really only see one, maybe two, series in a year.
As for favourites... that's a bit hard, but Sailormoon will always have a special place in my heart, as will Cowboy Bebop, as they were my firsts.
I also loved Full Metal Alchemist, Ouran Highschool Host Club, and Gankutsuou. And I'm sure I've forgotten many important favourites, too...

3. Do you cosplay? If so, Who do you cosplay as? (Or if not, Do you want to cosplay? And who?)

I have been meaning to cosplay for years, but once again, I always seem to be too lazy~
>_______<
I've been planning a Roxas (from Kingdom Hearts) cosplay for at least a year now -___-;; (but it's no fun without an Axel...)
Lately I've been thinking Sora might be more fun, though?

I also want to cosplay Honey! It would be easy, because we are similar.....

4. Do you own any pets? If so, Names please! :3 (And what type of pet they are XD)

No :(
I would really love to have a kitten, but it's not feasible for a uni student like me to have a pet, especially if I'm travelling and moving around a lot. But I get a bit... clucky... when I see small fluffy animals.

Years ago, I had a black dwarf bunny rabbit named Jade (which is my middle name. Was I an egotistical child or just strange?)

5. Are you going to Wai-Con? If so, What days are you going? (And I WANT TO STALK YOU SO PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS :D)

I haven't been since the first one, in 2004. Once again... LAZY~ -________-;;;;
But there seem to be a lot of people who are going this year (and who want me to go), so...
I'd like to :)
I haven't made up my mind any more than that, yet. I'd like to do a cosplay though! (but a cheap one, since I'm trying to save money to go on exchange to Japan next year).
And I'd like to go in loli style :)

YOU ARE SO CUTE! XDDDDDDDDDDDD ♥
(um... is that the natural way to react to stalking?)

Cake over and out :)

...IF YOU LIKE THE MUPPETS.


Thanks to patternsofchaos for the link :D

Also:
Avenue Q tickets for $40 - anyone want to go????
Offer is for students, I think, but not sure. Either way, I can book them as a student, so...
EDIT: looks like the offer is only valid for THURSDAY shows.
Other nights of the week are roughly $65-70, which I will not be paying.

:)
I hear it's a pretty good show.

In case you didn't know, there is stuff happening with same-sex marriage in Australia at the moment. Legislation-type stuff.

I thought this was interesting
(This article is actually even more interesting)

Something very significant happened last weekend. The Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party passed a motion calling on the Federal Government to legislate for same-sex marriage, providing further proof that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is out of touch with his rank and file. He is also out of touch with the Australian public: a Galaxy poll released this June showed that just 36 per cent of Australians believe our marriage laws should exclude same-sex couples.

Another notable development is that Melbourne's Age newspaper yesterday published an editorial in favour of same-sex marriage -- the first major Australian newspaper to do so. This is a clear sign that our efforts are starting to pay off. Together we've helped to bring the issue of marriage equality into the mainstream. No longer is it seen as part of some radical gay agenda; it's rightly considered a serious human rights issue.

But the news this week hasn't all been good. Mr Rudd hinted yesterday that he may veto the ACT's new law allowing legally recognised ceremonies for same-sex civil unions. He says it's inconsistent with Labor Party policy, which seeks national consistency in relationship recognition. But this makes little sense given that Tasmania now allows ceremonies. Is it simply that our Prime Minister is caving into pressure from conservatives? We need to show him this weekend that the Australian public clearly favours equality over bigotry.

Join us at rallies across the country this Saturday, November 28.

Melbourne – 1pm, State Library

Sydney – 1pm, Sydney Town Hall

Adelaide – 11am, Parliament House

Canberra – 1pm, Garema Place, Civic

Brisbane – 1pm, Queens Park, City

Perth – 2pm, Outside London Court



Love doesn't discriminate, and neither should the law.
Kind regards,
Tim Wright
Equal Love

Actually, I have work on that day, but if you can go, please support the right anyone who loves each other to be legally recognised as a couple!

Yay, I bought pink things at an op-shop today, for a total of EIGHT DOLLARS!
Guess which item was more expensive?


Yay~ Such a かわいい～ pinku lolita blouse!
Pity it's summer though :( Booo~

And I also went to a hippie/new-age/fairy store and got a $3 luck dip:
♥ glittery bobby pins
♥ butterfly jewel clip
♥ adorable elephant button badge
♥ ladybug
Best luck dip EVAR!

Yay~
Today was lovely and full of wondrous peach icecream and cake!!

Public service announcement:

Curtin graduate art exhibition - 6pm this Friday 27th. Come one, come all (more emphasis on the 'all').

Getting over writers' block by revealing some OC bits and bobs (with CLAMP crossovers, because that is always amazing amounts of fun to imagine).
Mostly because I am too lazy to finish my couple-thousand word fics that have been dragging on for twelve to thirty-six months.

( I can't believe I even procrastinate against things I *want* to do :\ )
Yeah, I told you I had writers' block. It's been this bad for a loooong time. By the way, that took me, like, an hour to write. Yeah.
Ha ha, and I broke so many rules, too >____<
Yay for non-subtle fashion tangents! But then again, this was the epilogue to a daydream, and the delicious fashion is important in daydreams ;) Especially when attending a ball :) You should have seen Sirius' suit, it was lovely.
At least I didn't refer to the characters by their hair colour, or height or something. Were there any split infinitives? The peppered Japanese had a purpose too, but wow, in writing it looks pretty horrid and forced, doesn't it. In reality, Sirius and Hiro speak about 60/40 Japanese/English.

Argh, when will writing be better again?
Killmenow.

こんばんわ、皆さん

お元気ですか？

After a rather crappy day yesterday, today seems to have turned out fairly well.
Perhaps that's just because Thursdays are my ONLY DAYS OFF from now until mid December.
Man, full-time type work is exhausting. And boring!
-___________________________-

But at least I have no major assessments left. Well, I have one more thing for TAFE, but I'm not stressing over it, since today's oral presentation was the bigger assessment.
Oh, and the JLPT (zomgz only a few weeks to go o_0 I haven't started studying yet!!)
Oh, and redo my resume and get a job.
Oh, and do my enrolment (why, why is getting hold of uni lecturers SO DIFFICULT?)
Oh, and get my exchange stuff together.

-__-

Anyway! Here is an interestig video about a nature photo journalist:


Sealion of love ♥
It's a pretty incredible story.
For starts who the heck goes scuba diving around Antarctica?

While we're looking at videos,

Completely unrelated video about playing balloons as musical instruments.
Um, holy fried chicken.... these guys are pretty amazing.

I was also going to write a rant about the current kerfuffle over Olympic/sports funding in Australia, but I am not as angry and wanting to kill things today as I was yesterday (read, not at all). I will just say

GET THE FUCK OVER IT

Seriously. Sports? NOT THAT IMPORTANT. Suck it up, you fucking pansies and deal with it.
Does anyone else get that sort of funding?
NO.
Do the arts get that sort of funding? NO, THEY FUCKING PAY FOR THINGS THEMSELVES.
If there is some young artistic-type hotshot with bucketloads of talent, you know what happens? Not a darn lot, for the most part.

Of course I'm all for promotion of being active and healthy and whatnot, but that's not really where this funding is going at all. The purpose, as far as I can see (from how the media is portraying things), is basically to make sure the world knows Australia is good at winning international sporting competitions. I, for one, am darn well sick to death of how much of a fuss Australian society makes over sport. I can tell you now, it really screws over your childhood if you are not of an athletic persuasion.
That's all I'm going to say on that.

On a lighter, and much more awesome note,

THIS! is a great article for people who have heard maybe the Discword audiobooks or read Good Omens! It's a couple of five minute audio inbteviews with some of the people who have narrated/voiced audiobooks by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (to celebrate the release of the audiobook for Good Omens).
Really interesting, especially if you've heard any of them read.
I really want to hear the whole of the GO audiobook~
I.... am rather tempted to buy it. Legitimately.
But more tempted to ask for it for Christmas.

Speaking of awesome things I'd like to own:
possibly the coolest clock I've ever seen. It uses words.

And to finish the night, I am spreading awareness about crazy things in the UK regarding copyright and law and the potential for ridiculousness and power abuse:
secret new something-or-other planned that basically allows a certain MP to make up ANY LAW THEY LIKE as long as it 'protects' copyright.
Not good, not good at all.

じゃね、皆♥