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If there are any PoT fans on my friends list who haven't been dl'ing the OVA, I have to tell you - DL EP 7 RIGHT NOW. I'm so pleased they decided to include some of what always made the PoT anime so great - the pure, unadulterated crack. And ep 7 has the wrongest kind, in spades.

It's the beach volleyball chapter of the manga, made 1000 times more awesome. In a fearful way, of course, but then anything that features Ryuuzaki-sensei in a bikini (in colour and animation) was always going to send a chill into the hearts of men. But man. I think tehexile probably thought I was going to die.

The ep also features Echizen finally being rubbish at a sport, Inui's naked ass (and more o.O), a mysterious phenomenon that occurs when people try to say "tennis", and Tez looking actually very good! (How weird is it that the animation in this ep didn't seem nearly as bad as the previous ones? XD)

Most amazing thing I've seen in a very, very long time!

Note to self: create one-woman fandom re: Gakuen Heaven. So much eye-candy, so little lovin'. WHERE'S THE FLUFF, PEOPLE?

...Which reminds me, I never did get that Chinese torrent for that Angel's Feather OVA. I'm sure Aarinfantasy will be picking it up, anyway...

I'm also really looking forward to seeing the rest of Higa in the PoT OVA, because I'd forgotten how much I like them. Really hope people start producing more fic and might even feel more inspired to do my own, cos I need fandom to solidify my own ideas!.

Yay for sunshine, finally!! *fingers crossed for weekend...*

Arghsotired. x_o I don't think this is natural! At least I don't feel as bad as I did yesterday, though today was probably the worst day I've had work-wise since I started at Burngreave. Also, it was hot. I love it when it's hot, but it was raining when I set off for work, so I was wearing trousers and a jacket. And being in an office while you can see the sun shining outside is never cheering. >.o

I also attempted to bring zalia to the yellow side. :3 Work will recommence in the near future, I'm sure! There's no escape... ;)

Hope all you British people went and voted today! ;)

Still working on drabbles. Thank you for your kind comments on my D1 one! Will reply individually, uh, later. For now, I'm crawling off to bed.

Poll-meme blatantly stolen from yukimura! (I missed out Jousei because, well, it's Jousei! I ain't no ski dwarf!)

[Poll #714999]

(PLease take a moment to tell me why in comments, if you can! :)

Also, athousandwinds tagged me for a meme:

Write a little paragraph about your name, why you chose it, what it means to you, etc.

Ahh, now, gather round, children, and hear the ancient myth of How the Elyndys Got its Name! It was back in early 2001, when I was first delving into GW fandom. I'd discovered MLs, and needed a Yahoo ID so I could join them. My old nick, Glitternova, was taken (probably by me at a previous date, but I had no idea of the password) so I decided to go for something new. Now, at the time I was writing a novel. Tragically enough, it was half-inspired by DBZ, because I used to watch it at the time. (I'll defend myself by saying it didn't really bear any resemblance to it; was just inspired by it. Yes.) The hero was called Adel; the slightly morally-ambiguous one was Corolla; the evil and undoubtedly gay one was Elyndys.

So I tried the name "elyndys" in Yahoo. Unsurprisingly, for a name I'd made up, it wasn't taken, and thus, history was made. :3 (Incidentally, you pronounce it "il-in-dis"

What would you change your name to, if you were changing it?

lily_of_the_valley; star_platinum; pavo_humilde. Something shiny/flowery/in-jokey.

What is your favorite username? Why?

sublimeparadigm is a good one - I love things that rhyme!

Now, tag five other unfortunates whose usernames you would like to hear about:

kashewmoo, spinfrog, fyredra, syuria and sublimeparadigm. ^_^
(I was surprised how many I already know the origins of! Like ninjaiguana and disography ;)

My throat feels kind of yacky. >.o But I smell like bubblegum, cos I had a bath with a Lush crumbly-thing in it, so that's nice. :3

White Day bromides!

Is it just me, or is this one really quite freaky? o.O'

Ahh, so much entertainment recently! The main thing, which I spent most of Thursday afternoon enjoying, was xenium's RajiPuri translations. They're either hilarious, or completely wrong and brain-breaking. Probably, like all the best things, they're "a little of column A, and a little of column B". I ain't complaining, cos many of them brought me great joy. Especially the infamous "Saru~, gorilla, chimpanzee!" (oh, so many associations!), but I also loved anything featuring Inui. (Him scamming Renji was most entertaining.) Oh, I could go on, but go see for yourselves. (Except yukimura. Don't listen to anything that says it has Tez in it. You might cry. ^^' assyrian might also want to heed this warning.)

Then, there was Hakkai sleeping with his eyes open and laughing evilly in his sleep. o.o (In fact, going 'nfufu'. ;) It's a scary mental image, and even Sanzo is afraid. XD

There's also more batsmut, but I only know this by stalking. *cough* And I still need Gojyo/Hakkai icons, damnit! (And, for that matter, more friends who care about the pairing and can pimp/write me stuff. ^^;;)

Tenimyu partyage last night was much, much fun! :D I hope there weren't too many lingering feelings of fear, sou_chan! ^^;; Can't wait for the sequel - H0MYU PARTY tomorrow!!!!! It's giving me an ETA of an hour and a half, currently. Sweeeeet.

Earlier today, I also got to see Genius 293, too, after wondering whether I'd missed it! It was really nice, too - that lovely double-page GP montage! And some really nice shots of them too. Especially this one, despite Ooishi's terrible hat. XD Eiji looks great, though! Still don't know whether they'll win or not. x_o

I also watched ES21 ep 26 earlier, too, which seemed very short, somehow. ^^' I've really enjoyed these last few eps, actually - I like the way they don't drag things out. *cough*

The only downer is, I think I may have some kind of very mild lurgi, just in time to start work, yay. -_- My nose hurts, on the inside, just on the right hand side, and my throat is a little bit icky too. Bah! I shall infect those customers, yay.

And now I have to go to bed! ;_; For I must be up at the unheard-of 9.30, in order to be at work for 10.30. ^_~ Wish me luck! ^^'

KKM fans really should check out this post of drama CD tracks. I dl'ed the Ryan/KG ones just for crack's sake, and it's fantastic! If you've ever wanted to hear Namikawa Daisuke having a conversation with a family of bears, go dl track 4! XD That track also has the most adorable Wolfram and Conrad moment at the end. Wolfram sounds so sweet and scared, and tries to cover it in the cutest way. ♥

I have eps 54 and 55 of KKM to watch, but somehow I'm not that eager - I still love the series, but ever since it deviated from the novels I can't stop the nagging feeling of wondering what I'm missing. I *know* I've seen summaries of novels at various places, but I think they were mainly over at the ConYuu comm, which I, er, left cos of my growing distaste for the pairing. #^^# If anyone could help me out with links, at all, I'd be hugely grateful! Aside from, when I was in the Space Centre the other day, I actually saw a novel version of... something, so it kind of fills me with hope that maybe more manga-related novels will be translated in future - we can only hope! I really want to know what "actually" happens in the story. I hate being a manga (or, in this case, novel) snob, but in some cases - KKM being one - it really makes a difference. Not like PoT, where anime and manga canon can often quite happily sit alongside each other - personally I have no problem "believing" in Jr Senbatsu, or the training camp with Hyotei, and also the beach trip with Rokkaku - I think all those things can have happened, even though they don't appear in both versions of canon. (Of course, Midoriyama is where the problems *really* set in. In most cases of other, smaller differences, I choose the better version of what happened, lol - for example, I "believe" in the anime version of Fuji vs Kirihara, cos I much prefer it [if you ask me why, I'll be happy to tell you!]; but manga version of the D1 vs. GP match, cos the anime version is just a bit boring. And has golf in it. *dies*)

All of this leaves me with a difficulty when it comes to Saiyuki - do I believe in Homura? I've not seen his anime eps, so right now I'd probably have to say no. I have seen the special little manga chapter Minekura drew featuring him, and I know what he is, but I don't know much about how he's meant to fit into the world and story according to Minekura. @_@ I really want to see the Gaiden-bits of the anime, though, cos I adore Gaiden and may well cry at the end of it.

And, um, that's about as much as I have to say on the topic of adaptations of manga. ^^' Dunno how much sense it made, lol, but I'm always interested to hear what other people think about anime that have been adapted from manga. (I could have mentioned ParaKiss, but I'll save that for another day. :)

...Konomi, you just don't care anymore, do you? *regards Genius 288 with bemusement* I guess after 6 years you get sick of drawing tennis matches. Ah well, I don't really mind missing out on them if we get some cool non-tennis-y stuff. Especially with the inevitable Rikkai match coming up... we better get some bloody good Yukimura backstory! :9

Also, I love GALS! The manga's a bit different to the anime, but only in the little stories - the important ones are the same, and the ones in the anime are the same sort of thing. Yuya ♥! ;_; It's just a fluffy high school story where nothing of much really happens, but I love the characters, and het romance has never seemed so appealing! I like Rei and Aya, though it's completely not what I expected to happen. ^^' The translation's pretty good, too - they've done very well with the puns, and they've kept quite a bit of the Japanese slang intact too, which is nice to see.

...And now I'm going to stop rambling about something no-one knows anything about, lol, and say eeeee~! Get this translation of Nagisa no Invitation! *snibble* So cute! I personally can't vouch for its accuracy, and she hasn't posted the kanji, but whatever. It made my fangirl heart happy!

Ooo Densha Otoko 10 too! I don't know if I can wait for you, vanillafire... @_@

Dear pot_challenge

Please put me out of my misery. @_@

Kthnx.


Dear producers of BECK,

Episode 5 is the cheapest thing I've ever seen, and I've seen Tenimyu 2. And also, that song they sing constantly in that ep is so terribly, burningly bad, in many ways.

Here's to ep 6.


Ooo! Cluster Edge should be down! *winks at laliho* Watch this space... [Edit] Verdict on Cluster Edge: pleasingly pretty. Will be dl'ing the next ep, in a casual kinda way, if only to see the rest of the characters. I want Saiga Mitsuki and, uh, Oshitari!

On re-reading my 150 words of fic, lol, they didn't suck too hard. And I did that thing, where I went Right, close down LJ, close down Gmail, close down various fic pages, yes yes yes - leave Word till last, Oh, I'll just do a bit more... so I added an extra 300 words, which was nice. I'm quite happy with how the structure is presenting itself. *nods* Yes.

...Of course, this was all after several hours of going "I'll just read one more fic..." I think I've had smut withdrawal through being in PoT fandom (WHERE ARE THE LEMONS, PEOPLE???), so I've been stocking up by cheating on it with Saiyuki. >:9 Oh, you gotta love these four-year-old fandoms. Plenty to go at there. *grin*

I've got to go see that Kinky Boots film that's out atm. Any film that has a big black guy in drag has got to be at least worth the investment. Cf, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. I'm also sure it's based on a true story - I'm sure I randomly saw a documentary on TV about it a while back...

Rargh, bed. z_z

[Edit] Hahar, did I go to bed? Did I buggery! But I have written another 200 words. *preens*

This edit was also to add that I'm loving Crack Week over at Match Point. XD I have the fear, but it's hilarious.

Also, don't drink the pine beer. It's... indescribable. o.O;;