"So what's new with Beboots?" You may be wondering, if you too aren't bogged down by schoolwork. Why, I shall inform ye! (Also, everyone on facebook, check out your language options - alongside English (UK) there's English (pirate). So awesome...) Anyway....
First of all, I'm writing this on the oldschool family computer. Why? Because my laptop has
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And yes, it's me. I finally decided to get a LJ account... though to be honest, I've been using it mostly to post comments on the fics I read with cute avatars on them. XD
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Also, for the purposes of mental identification... what is your real-life name? I know that I know you, but I can't put a name to a face. D:
Also, I'm rather sad because there are more things wrong with my laptop than originally thought - now it's probably a problem with the motherboard, which means I either spend several hundred dollars to replace it, or replace my whole computer for only a little bit more. D: I want to choose neither!
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If you still want my name I could tell you, but in private. I don't really want this account to get any associations with it. Security reasons, you know. ^^
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...speaking of your stories... have you written anything lately...? ;)
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Hope those papers go well. *cheers Beboots forward*
BTW, I love your icon... :)
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Must... keep... writing... D: Although, the topic for one of my papers is witchcraft in Elizabethan England, so it's not boring, at least. ;)
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Good luck on that. I have some articles about the topic, but they're from a dubious source, so they wouldn't be much help in a formal paper... Darn plagiarists. They always have to spoil it for us. :P
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So did you make that Doumeki/Bento icon too? :D It's adorable! Are their "names" underneath an umbrella...?
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Yep, it was made by me. And yes, it's an umbrella... You see, in Japan, when a lovesick person writes or carves their name together with their loved one's somewhere, they don't do it in a heart like we do. They place their names side by side under a little umbrella... since sharing an umbrella is one of the most common, and oldest, public shows of affection in emotionally-repressed Japan. That's why you will see a lot of Japanese fangirls squealing about the fact that Doumeki sort of shared his umbrella with Watanuki when the latter lent his to Kohane-chan. Can you say subtext? :)
I just thought it would be funny to do it with "Bento", since he loves eating Watanuki's food so much. XD
But because I knew most western people wouldn't get it without a little help, I added the "OTP" and the little heart. ^^U
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Yep, OTP is universal in the English fandom. ;)
... Okay, I'm going to stop slacking now and actually do my homework... I swear... D:
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But after you've done your homework!!
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But, I'm afraid I'm as clueless about the origins as you are. It's got to be a relatively old practice, because the Japanese have had umbrellas/parasols around for ages, haven't they?
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in Spanish we have this saying; "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa", which is similar to "Forewarned, forearmed", in that it implies that once the rules are outlined, it's excepted of you to find the way around them. ;)
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"Une légende, assez suspecte, prétend que le peintre Ingres état plus fier de son jeu sur le violon, jeu qui était fort ordinaire, que de sa peinture, qui l'avait rendu illustre."
(Taken from Etymologyonline.com, which is a wicked awesome website and has clarified many a word in my Tudor Regime assignments...)
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