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selidor

:: 2005 12 July :: 8.36pm
:: Mood: happy

Yay! Happy entry!

I'm going to apologize in advance for the slight fangirliness of this one. But it is an occasion to be celebrated, I feel.

DMP licensed the novel of Only The Ring Finger Knows!!! I love this company, I really do. They're very much in touch with the fans, picking out many of the titles we want to see brought over to this part of the world, and their translations are good too. They've also licensed G-Senjou No Neko, another series I like, along with some others I'm not familiar with (although I'm sure they're all great, since DMP are good at picking titles to license.) The only downer is that it'll be ages before they're actually released ^_^

Edit: Tokyopop have licensed the Loveless manga, with a February 2006 estimated release date, which is awesome to see. Hopefully the anime will get picked up as well (although I cringe to think what a dub of this would be like.) Also, they seem to have acquired the novel of Gravitation, which is also good (although I'm not sure what the novel involves.)

Anyway, onto less anime-related things... I don't think I mentioned before that I've got a job now. I'm doing work in my dad's office over the summer, and while the work is pretty tedious, I'm earning money. I work eight hours a day, twice a week right now (when you add the lunch break and two hours of traveling each day, it works out at a pretty long day, so I don't want to do more.) I get £4 an hour, which then adds up to £64 each week. Which is nice. I actually have money now (which is probably just as well, since I'm going to the Artists and Illustrators' Expo in London on the 22nd.)

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selidor

:: 2005 11 July :: 3.35pm

I'm sorry, it's another angry one... Well, not really angry, because I was more amused than anything else; maybe just mildly irritated or something.

So yeah, I think someone was trying to break into my Zetapets account. I got an email today telling me that I'd requested my password (as in I'd forgotten it or something) which I certainly hadn't because I haven't been on Zetapets for about a fortnight or so. I don't see why anyone should want to get into my account. Oh... well, I suppose I've got a fair few Zetapoints, when I think about it, and I was one of the earlier regular members (I signed up right after they did their final reset, I believe - I've had my account for eighteen months.) So when I think about it, I suppose they have got reason. But they're not having it ^_^ It's my account. And seriously? Sending a lost password request, which goes directly to my email, the address of which they don't even know. I did change my password, just to be on the safe side, though.

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wiredshut

:: 2005 8 July :: 4.09pm
:: Mood: happier than before
:: Music: in a libary- so none.

letting you know...
sorry bout that really long rambling entry and i thought that i'd just let y'all know that i can't really write many entries at the moment because my pc's mucked up, im not at school, the nearest libary is 2.5 miles away and i only do that trip when i have something else to do as well. so i speak to you when i can people.

pop tart angel. x

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wiredshut

:: 2005 8 July :: 3.20pm
:: Mood: lost
:: Music: goodbye to you

importance
i sat at home last night, well actually, i lay at home last night and i cried. boy did i need that cry! it was this song and it just set me off you know? when im alone i don't smile, i realised this when i thought about it, i smile all the day though, except when im alone. i was also thiinking about the fact that i have so many people in my life. every single person that is in my life is important to me in some way. they are all the most important people in the world. to me. then i thought that if you asked any one of these people who the most important person to them in the world is and none of them, not one, would say me. my mother would say one of my sisters if asked which of her daughters was most important, my father would proberbly say himself, my sisters, when asked which of there sisters was more important, would say each other, why wouldn't they? im not there real sister, im only half. my friends all have someone more important to them in someway, not that i blame them, im hardly anything special, its just that when your body is racked with sobs and your thinking about these kind of things then it really tears you apart you know? the one thing that i really wanted to do last night, at about midnight, after i had been crying for about 15 minutes, was to go out side, like i alsways used to as a child, and sit on the pavement out side, feel like i was the only person in the world, stare at the stars and open my soul. i couldn't do this. it was raining, while that would normally not bother me, i went outside and looked up, the stars were hidden. gone. had been taken away. so instead i went back upstairs got back into bed in my damp nighty which was later thrown out due to the feeling of suffocation, and lay there. this of course let my mind wander free and all i could think of was how alone i was. yellow was cluched to me as hard as i could grip and by the end of the night he was pretty soaked through. hes the only one that ive ever felt comfortable with. the only thing in the world that has ALWAYS been there for me. i was thinking seriously. i can't think of the past, i cant imagine the future and the present seems like tourture. i don't want do die. i do fear death but i don't want to carrie on this wat either. i want something to change. i guess that its me that does have to change. but whant into? my chiildhoods gone. im not an adult yet. i dont know how to change. i dont know what to do.

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selidor

:: 2005 3 July :: 9.35pm
:: Mood: uncomfortable
:: Music: Guns And Roses ~ Knockin' On Heaven's Door

I hate Persil! Stupid, stupid company decide to make their stupid, stupid washing powder stronger and nastier, so now I have a rash... I get red patches with white raised areas wherever clothes are close to my skin, like around the waistband and collar. It makes my skin feel like it's burning, or it itches really badly... My mum changed the brand of washing powder, but not all of my clothes have been washed in the new stuff yet, so I've still got the stupid rash. I'm going to go write something to take my mind off of it.

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selidor

:: 2005 2 July :: 5.59pm
:: Music: The Gathering ~ Nighttime Birds

Review: Trinity Blood
I watched the first episode of Trinity Blood today (fansubbed, A-E and Conclave's version, torrents from: here.)

On the whole, I was very much impressed by the anime. The art was really nice; it was elegant, and quite detailed, with interesting character designs and beautiful backgrounds. It was an odd mix of historic architecture and high-tech equipment (a heat-seeking missile being monitored from inside the Vatican being a good example,) but it worked, and although there was quite a bit of CG, it mostly fitted in well with the rest of the show.

The plot's pretty good so far: it's basically a war between mankind, led by the Vatican, against vampires, who emerged after mankind's actions triggered Armageddon. The series follows an ordained priest of the Vatican (Abel Nightroad) as the war progresses. Despite the fact that the Vatican features prominently in the series, there's not much in the way of religion, thankfully. It is, essentially, a dark, action-based series.

The characters seem interesting; the lead - Abel Nightroad - was fun to watch: a silly guy most of the time, which was a sharp contrast to the dark themes of the series and the fairly gory action scenes. The main female in the episode (whether or not she becomes a main character remains to be seen) wasn't irritating, which is a refreshing change from a lot of the anime and manga I follow. The other female, Catherina, who seemed to be an advisor to the Pope, wasn't remotely irritating, thankfully, although she was somewhat intimidating. This brings me onto the matter of the Pope in the series, probably the only major downer. He was... young, to say the least, and didn't seem like to have much in the way of willpower, let alone enough for him to lead the Vatican! Maybe they were short on candidates after the vampires emerged and took over half the planet? Still, at least there seemed to be plenty of other strong characters in the Vatican...

So, overall it looks to be a very good series, and should hopefully get an eventual DVD release in the UK and America (there are plenty of other series' involving vampires and such that were brought over, so this should be no different.)

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[This is the first time I've attempted to review an anime. Maybe I'll make a habit of it, to stop me from using this journal to babble about my regular series' (Naruto etc.)]

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selidor

:: 2005 1 July :: 9.16pm
:: Mood: tired

IFOS
Went with the family over to Portsmouth today, where we visited the International Festival of the Sea. It was pretty cool, if really tiring. We got searched on the way into the festival. All my metal chains and jewelry didn't set off the sensor, but for some unknown reason my bra strap did.

There was a mock battle held, which was difficult to see because of the crowds, but was still rather awesome. There were several helicopters (two Sea King Mark IVs, a Lynx Mark III and Mark VII, plus one of the ones with two rotors - can't remember the name of it,) lots of boats, some jets and a big explosion. We went over a Russian tall ship, HMS Warrior, a small, modern British warship, and a small ship from the Sultanate of Oman. I wanted to go over HMS Illustrious, but the queues were massively long.

[Directly copied over from my other journal because I'm too lazy to reword it or anything for this one.]

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selidor

:: 2005 1 July :: 9.08pm

This highly amused me (and will make no sense to anyone unfamiliar with Gundam Wing fandom. But might still be amusing.) Especially because it's 100% true. Sometimes (understatement) my fandoms scare me... I'm not sure whether things like this make me want to write fanfiction just to prove I'm not one of those people, or whether it makes me too scared to write fanfiction because there are so many little traps to fall into. Not that I'll be writing any GW fanfiction until I've finished watching the series anyway, but this applies to most fandoms based around slashable shounen series'.

[See... I don't talk about Naruto all the time...]

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selidor

:: 2005 30 June :: 3.14pm

OMGWTF?!
[Naruto 266 spoilers ahead. Proceed With caution...]

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Chapter 266 shocked me, to some extent. Who would have thought that Sasori would be pretty underneath all that mechanical junk? I'm not sure whether Sakura was shocked because of what he said, or what he looked like (there's no translation yet.) But he was seriously pretty. I foresee legions of Sasori fangirls, where previously he was ignored because that puppet-face he spoke through was somewhat ugly, to say the least.

Enough of the Pretty!Sasori-ramblings, anyway. There wasn't much in the way of progress this chapter, from what I gathered. A few clips of Kakashi and Naruto VS Deidara; nothing much there. Lots of talking between Chiyobaa, Sakura and Sasori. Hopefully someone will manage to translate that horrible quality raw (the Kanji were virtually illegible half the time.)

Edit: There's a scanlation out. I have to admire the dedication of some people. (No idea how they managed to actually read the raws though - they were pretty awful.) It seems Sasori has some sort of Jutsu that keeps him looking the same age (maybe a bit like Tsunade-sama's technique?) And it also seems that he murdered the Sandaime Kazekage (hopefully he hasn't done the same to Gaara...)

[Gaaah... so many series-specific words and names... my spellchecker is having a fit...]

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selidor

:: 2005 29 June :: 9.02pm
:: Mood: tired

Had my sixth form induction day today... It was somewhat scary. The atmosphere there is nice, though, and all the people were really friendly and helped me out when I didn't know where to go and stuff. I don't think I'll have much in common with any of the girls. They reminded me of my sister with all their talk of fashion, and asking me if I liked Big Brother or The OC. They were really nice, though, with little in the way of bitchiness from what I saw.

Hopefully I'll settle in relatively well in September, although I'm so shy among strangers it'll be awkward at first. I'm not entirely sure how easily I'll make proper friends. I mean, as nice as all the girls I spoke to were, as I mentioned earlier I don't have anything much in common with any of them, from what I've seen. I didn't really talk to any of the boys, so I don't know what they're like. No one there was nasty in any way, really, though, so hopefully I'll be alright in September.

For now, though, I'm just going to enjoy the holidays while they last, and try and do something constructive with them.

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selidor

:: 2005 28 June :: 9.34pm
:: Music: Blind Guardian ~ Nightfall

I almost... almost submitted my story to FictionPress today. Then I chickened out at the last moment. Heh... I'm far too worried about criticisms. I'm also kind of concerned about whether the formatting and stuff will be preserved alright.

Onto something I'm even more concerned about, now... I have my induction day at Sion tomorrow. I know... two people there... I haven't seen or spoken to either of them in years, and I can't even remember what one of them looks like! I'm going to be all nervous and shy and hide behind my hair and ignore everyone if I'm not careful. Automatic defences.

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wiredshut

:: 2005 28 June :: 5.54pm
:: Mood: amused

What a load of SHITE!!!! actually.... quite acurate but noones ever said that they admire my achievements or determination! and i am NOT self confident! another silly quiz. think i may go and do another one. (atleast they're destacting from entries from the other day. sorry bout that by the way)

The Ultimate Personality Test
The Real You: A Scientific Analysis
Victoria, you're a Millionaire!

You're very ambitious and personable, and you've got a great sense of humor. You care a lot about how you look. You're bursting with self-confidence, and people admire you for your achievements and determination.

Behind that bold exterior you sometimes worry that you're not good enough. You can also be so critical of your work that it verges on self-destructive. You aim to succeed — and you'll quickly crush anyone who stands in your way.

And that's just scratching the surface

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selidor

:: 2005 27 June :: 9.28pm
:: Mood: calm
:: Music: Yakuza ~ Chicago Typewriter

Story Ramblings and Musings
I'm thinking of 'Bloodline' as the title for my story. It suits, since there's quite a lot of emphasis on the different races and statuses of the characters. Not in a racist sort of way, it's more like one of the characters learning that there are more important things in life than status, and that sometimes it doesn't matter what sort of family you come from. That sounds terribly moral... but that's not the plot or anything, it's just to do with the personal growth of the two main characters.

I'm going to finish the second chapter before I post it onto FictionPress, just to make sure it isn't ages between updates. I could really do with a beta-reader for this, to make sure nothing sounds odd or awkward. I shall have to see if I get many reviews when I post it, and then ask if anyone will beta it.

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