So, thanks to the kind members of this comm, I managed to download the second drama CD the other day (what I have affectionately come to call "Adventures in Mexico"). I listened through it and, naturally, I have no idea what is going on. SO my question is...

are there any attempts to translate this CD and maybe the other going on right now? 

I'm just curious because... well, there is no better recipe for shenanigans than Isaac, Miria, Firo, and Luck gallivanting around Mexico after some OTHER thieves.

Hope this is alright by the mods. If not, please delete!

I'm looking for a piece of fanart that has Kusuriuri in modern styled clothing. I remember it very clearly, but can't find it in the stuff I have saved or in my bookmarks. Any help finding this picture would be greatly appreciated!

ETA: My recollection of the picture has it as just Kusuriuri with a plain white background, and the image was either black and white or muted colours. However, any other fanart of him in modern clothing is welcome!

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For quick personal reference. I'd keep everything open in tabs, but the internet is distracting me. Anyway, there'll surely be a day in the future when I'll want to find these again. For instance, if/when I lose my bookmarks for the millionth time.

Aldokkan: Architecture: Egyptian Temples
Layouts and definitions of the different areas of the temple and their functionality. I like this one best for its concise presentation compared to some of the others.

EgyptianTemples, part IV
A little less helpful because it lacks illustrations, but still useful. Supplemental to this is the Tour Egypt page, which has an awesome photo at the top.

Actually, the Tour Egypt page might be more useful, but I haven't explored it in full yet. I got derailed by Wikipedia's pages on Hatshepsut and Senenmut. Hatshepsut is always interesting because, in addition to her awesomeness for ruling Egypt by her own power, there's also the mystery of why her monuments were defaced so long after her death (instead of sooner, I mean, when it would make the most sense), and why the job was so sloppy, blah blah. I also read some interesting speculation about Hatshepsut being connected to the Moses mystery, but that really was just speculative - in the fantastic sense of the word - the last time I checked.

Her mummy is fascinating. I'm glad I got to see the exhibit about her at the DeYoung way back, too. But anyway. In reality, this isn't a great way to do real research, but it'll get me through a first draft. I have a book on Egyptian temples - there's just no time to read it right now. I want lists and diagrams.

Sharing is Caring! for one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy

For the last day, I decided to share some songs from my phone. These were randomly picked, by the way.

The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life Try to make ends meet You're a slave to money then you die I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet yeah,	Whenever I listen to ths song, the only thing that comes to my mind is the last few scenes of Cruel Intentions wherein Reese Witherspoon PWNs Sarah Michelle Gellar and then she goes off to drive Ryan Philippe's car and wears his shades. That was a pretty cool scene. And I like that movie,sfm.
The Beatles (with Billy Preston) - Don't Let Me Down I'm in love for the first time. Don't you know it's gonna last. It's a love that lasts forever, It's a love that has no past.	There are no words to describe how much I love this song. It's a song that makes me want to be Yoko. It sounds better live, too.
Ash - Walking Barefoot Yeah we've been walking barefoot all summer It'll be sad my friend To see it come to an end Why can't we just quit	Tim Wheeler will never be of my favorite vocalists judging by voice quality. He'll always be one my favorite songwriters though.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Well I heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya? Well it goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah	Of all the Hallelujah covers in existence, I still like this one best. It's also my favorite Jeff Buckley song, too. *sigh* Talented man, died too early.
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You Here is the church and here is the steeple We sure are cute for two ugly people I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else But you	I really find this song cute and funny and romantic at the same time.
Moonpools & Caterpillar - Soon one day soon its going to happen to you and when it does it wont be pretty one day soon its going to happen to you and when it does...i wont be there	I wonder is anyone else still remembers Moonpools and Caterpillar. I thought they're going to make it big during the 90's but they just disappeared all of sudden. 0_0 .
Richard Hawley - Baby, You're My Light Next time the feeling is the same, don't have to show it A window of belief is where you own it And as life goes on you know you have to face All you find 'Cos baby, you're my light	Is it strange that I have songs from the Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist movie soundtrack but I have never seen the movie? Cool soundtrack though and I love the book sfm. I must watch the movie one of these days.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love? Can the child within my heart rise above? Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life?	I am typing words here just so there's something written in this column. XD Smashing Pumpkins <3

The empire strikes back

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Enveloped in postcards

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Hello all! ^^

I'm new to the community and I'm wondering if someone could tell me where this scan is from? I'm aware that it's from a magazine, I just don't know which one it's from. Image is here courtesy of moe.imouto.org.

Am planning to cosplay that version of C.C and it would only be proper that I know which version I'm cosplaying haha...

Thanks a lot! ^_^

So, I dunno if anyone's said this, but just so you guys know, all sixteen episodes of Baccano! (dubbed) are available on hulu. For free. If you're in the US. They'll be up until like December if I'm not mistaken (which would probably be to coincide with the release of the box set on December 29).

Here's a convenient link:
Baccano! @ hulu

The only thing is you have to register because they're rated TV-MA. Otherwise, enjoy~!

Ahaha, how cool is the dub? Huey and Chane have French accents xDD

Things have been busy in all sorts of ways! Work has actually been pretty light recently, but I've been trying to catch up with some other stuff! This weekend is the Minna no Anime Halloween party, so I've been trying to get my costume done for that. I've also been updating the master karaoke list, which is taking a lot longer than I thought it would. The collection has tripled since last year! I'm almost done with the "P" section. I hope I can finish tomorrow.

Uhhhh.... I don't think I mentioned it earlier, but a couple weeks ago I got a big Palkia plush in the mail. His name is Atlus and he's really shy. A couple days ago I got a Groudon plush I had ordered. His name is Apollo. I actually have photo stories for both of them Oh!! And also my third new Pokémon plush, Mackenzie. I have a lot of photostories to post, but they'll have to wait until at least after this weekend! I'll talk about Y-Con after this weekend! (Short version, it was AWESOME)

Sorry I haven't replied to any messages and haven't commented much on journals! It'll be a bit longer before I write back properly!

Sorry!

Sharing is Caring! for one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy

For some reason, I can take this quote off my mind ever since I read Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear. It never fails to make me smile.

“A life lived in fear is a life half lived. A life half lived is fear lived in half. A life half feared is fear half lived.”
---Mr.Hoffman, The Fourth Bear

And since I'm so into The Hunger Games right now, here's one of may favorite quotes from that series:

“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”
---Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games

(ILU, Peeta!)

A fan blog has posted about an interview that Jump SQ had with Hoshino, which TitaniumChloride has translated.

TitaniumChloride posted:
There was also an interview with Hoshino during this issue and according to a fan's blog, it mentioned that Hoshino's lower back had been hurting since autumn last year. She's still undergoing treatment even now so it's been that for every 2 hours of work, she needs 1 hour of rest. Her sickness is something like a hernia of intervertebral disk. Once, it hurt so much that she couldn't lift a finger.

There were a few other things mentioned as well and I don't really get it all but I do get that she's thinking of her readers. She ended the interview apologizing to those who've felt confusion because of the magazine change and thanks those who are reading on and that she'll keep working hard.

This could be the reason why Hoshino went on a hiatus this past year.

★ Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo → 120
★ Miscellaneous (the lion king, devil may cry, yugioh, kuroshitsuji, trinity blood, wolf's rain, loveless, hellsing) → 95

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Sharing is Caring! for one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy

This kid plays a mean guitar. <3 Yuto Miyazawa with Ozzy. (Why do I have a feeling this kid will end up doing Visual Kei 10 years from now?)

I made this AMV like forever ago for the Saboten-con AMV Competition. Didn't win, but it's still awesome. It's caused like three people I know to watch the show.

Song: Night Train
Artist: Scatman John

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Jump SQ just updated their website and uploaded a DGM wallpaper:


Credit goes to Siberia for the heads-up. ^^

On December 4th, there will be an important announcement concerning DGM and a big project. It might be about the rumor of an OAD that was previously posted, but we'll find out next month. ^^

Many thanks to
= sapphire_pyro, who did a lovely job of stitching the raws together and some cleaning; and
= Luco, who put up with my cleaning/typesetting n00bness.

Click here for the download

Please do NOT mirror anywhere else.

It's be amazing if anyone can find the full set of raws!

5814 / 50000 words. 12% done!

Gilgamesh's last moment with Saber is peculiarly touching. I think it hit me because it echoes the myth somewhat - or, rather, when he says some things are beautiful because they can't be obtained (paraphrased, sorry), it brings to mind the loss of Enkidu, and the following failure to attain immortality. Not that I recall him reforming at all by the end, but that's appropriate too, isn't it. >_> Anyway, Saber kicking him in the face is still hilarious. <3

Besides that, the moment giving me the most joy, for some reason, is when Lancer tries to attack Gil to allow Shirou and Saber to escape from the church basement, and then goes LOL SORRY MY HAND SLIPPED! :D :D :D I don't know. It's late, and I'm tired. My dice betrayed me today and made me work on a story I'm not enthused about yet. I made my word count, but still.

Soooo, anyway, it's a good thing the game lets you skip scenes, because the first two days are really boring! They're okay the first time around, but watching them twice in the space of... huh, I guess it's been a couple of weeks, but still. That's tiring. It took me a minute to realize I had to start the game over from scratch to trigger the new route, and when I realized that, I seriously thought of not doing it - with that in mind. At first I thought it'd be like a New Game+ or something obvious. The faq betrayed me and said absolutely nothing about it, and it doesn't explain something else I want to know either, so I'll present this question to you all: what's the difference between the "true end" and the "good end" for this route? Do you recommend one over the other?

I'll play different routes, but I don't have the patience to play any single route more than once. And this time it's not laziness, so much as a desire to get through my game backlog. FSN is a lot of fun, but I'm not that fanatic. XD

Sharing is Caring! for one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six : a quote
Day seven : whatever tickles your fancy

I regret that I didn't find out about this site sooner.

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