Me, myself -and my angst, o'course~
001. Dad asked me to go with him to a tattoo fair in March. When I told him I've been thinking about having my second tat, he got very excited and promised to help find a guy to make it at the fair. I'm going to get a "Kiyoharu star" on my neck. (Yeah, that doesn't show the tattoo too well. I simply love that shot too much *lol* here's a good close-up~) The problem is, I'm very afraid of the pain. It will hurt; even one tattooist I know shed a few tears when she took a small tat on the neck. I've been giving this a lot of thought and I'm sure I want it, so I most likely go for it.
001b. Why a Kiyo star?
Now, you know how deep my admiration for that musician is? You might think I'm doing this out of silly fangirlism. However, that's not the case. See, when I'm taking a tattoo, I'm not thinking about whether I will like it or not after 10, 30 or 60 years. I don't care if it looks ridiculous on an ol' grandma Rii. I don't care if I don't like the tat after a few years. Heck it, I don't even care if my love for Kiyo ceases and I end up stuck with a tat reminding me of him. I discussed this with my dad and turned out his philosophy on getting tattoos is exactly the same: we want to store memories under our skins. It's like... I want to have these "scars" of life on me -marks that remind me of the things I've been and done and seen and enjoyed. The James Blunt monkey is like that, eventhough it also includes my "greater" view on world. This little star I'm about to have is just like that -it will show how Miss Rii was when she was battling with an identity crisis at the time of getting closer to her 20th birthday. So, my RL friends, no need to bitch I'm crazy. I've never felt this serene.
002. ESSZ IS MOVING IN WITH ME! STARTING THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, I WILL HAVE A ROOMIE!! and split rent LOL We're so going to throw a party in her honor~<3
003. I never thought I'd turn into an icon maker like this but BCL FLIST, WHAT THE HELL? Why go all the trouble of friending a journal if you're not interested in going by the set rules? I don't want to be a comment nazi -people comment when they see something they like and sometimes you're in a hurry or simply forgot, but.. there's now been like three or four icon entries to which I've gotten from 3 to 6 replies. I just added the new 80+ viewers back. There're like 10 people there who comment regularly, and a whole bunch of those whose user names say shit to me. Gnargh. Because I've seen my work being used by those ano people. That hard to say thankies? :(
Has my stuff changed that much since the days most of my flist joined? Sure, I've been going through different experiment phases lately, but... it can't be all that. It's a tad bit annoying not to receive any sort of replies. At first I instantly feel a bit disappointed. Like, "Hey c'mon, these are real nice and I believed I had surpassed myself and now you're implying they're total crap?". That sort of feelings. And trust me, I know what I like and what I'm capable of, so I know they're good. Fashionable styles BITE ME.
The less I get comments, the more I appreciate them, though ♥ Because they're the ones who sincerely like what I make and want to root for me. It feels nice.
003b. What is more, I realised the other day so many people are fandom blind. No matter what the icon's really like, as long it has Gazette in it, everything's good. (Like, if it's all purple and blinkey blinkey with some ass-misspelled Engrish written with Comic SANS, it gets more comments than some truly fascinating, beautifull composed pieces featuring other PSC artists. Tsk)
004. Today our fanfic writing group had its very first gathering at my place ♥ ♥ We've been writing stories for half a year or so now, reading and commenting them via email, and now, when we're about to get our LJ community kicking, we decided to continue sharing feedback face to face. At first this was a side project created by me to my theatre group, but now, seeing how wonderfully talented my girls are, I'm willing to share a good piece of my time to really excite them to focus on writing. Fanfiction is the easiest way to do it, I think -you don't need to worry that much about the settings, or if the story sounds realistic or not. Also, you already have some sort of character "sketches", so it's surprisingly easy to play along. I'll let you know when we get our first texts posted^^b
Anyway, it was awesome to eat chocolate pudding and jabber on the drabbles and chaptered stories they had brought with them. Lots of Gazette, some Ayabie and alice nine... yey ♥ And I was positively surprised how serious they are about this -the girls really went deep in search of explanations for the actions of the characters and stuff. Me proud ♥
005. Currently watching: NODAME CANTABILE SP ♥ ♥ ♥, 1 Litre of Tears, Tokkyu Tanaka San Go, Hana Yori Dango s1
Recently finished: Kimi wa Petto, Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Stand Up!!
Wanting to attack: Sapuri, Goong, Imai Ai ni Yukimasu, Attention Please!, Orange Days, Swan no Baka (no subs out yet)
on "hiatus": Hanayome wa Yakudoshi, Nurse Aoi
I really liked HwY at first, but then, compared to other comedies, I saw it was a bit dry. I love the male lead though, the rural accent is super ♥ Keiichi is sweet, of course, but his role is supportive, so he doesn't really have the chance to hold up the show. I'm going to finish this at some point, I'm not too many eps away from the finale.
From the description in DramaWiki I thought Nurse Aoi would be a little crack, like HanaKimi, in some way. I mean, the concept is great -wacky doctors, wackier patients... and the series turned out to be drama. With some funny content. And the setting should be SHINIER (omg blame JE~)
001b. Why a Kiyo star?
Now, you know how deep my admiration for that musician is? You might think I'm doing this out of silly fangirlism. However, that's not the case. See, when I'm taking a tattoo, I'm not thinking about whether I will like it or not after 10, 30 or 60 years. I don't care if it looks ridiculous on an ol' grandma Rii. I don't care if I don't like the tat after a few years. Heck it, I don't even care if my love for Kiyo ceases and I end up stuck with a tat reminding me of him. I discussed this with my dad and turned out his philosophy on getting tattoos is exactly the same: we want to store memories under our skins. It's like... I want to have these "scars" of life on me -marks that remind me of the things I've been and done and seen and enjoyed. The James Blunt monkey is like that, eventhough it also includes my "greater" view on world. This little star I'm about to have is just like that -it will show how Miss Rii was when she was battling with an identity crisis at the time of getting closer to her 20th birthday. So, my RL friends, no need to bitch I'm crazy. I've never felt this serene.
002. ESSZ IS MOVING IN WITH ME! STARTING THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, I WILL HAVE A ROOMIE!! and split rent LOL We're so going to throw a party in her honor~<3
003. I never thought I'd turn into an icon maker like this but BCL FLIST, WHAT THE HELL? Why go all the trouble of friending a journal if you're not interested in going by the set rules? I don't want to be a comment nazi -people comment when they see something they like and sometimes you're in a hurry or simply forgot, but.. there's now been like three or four icon entries to which I've gotten from 3 to 6 replies. I just added the new 80+ viewers back. There're like 10 people there who comment regularly, and a whole bunch of those whose user names say shit to me. Gnargh. Because I've seen my work being used by those ano people. That hard to say thankies? :(
Has my stuff changed that much since the days most of my flist joined? Sure, I've been going through different experiment phases lately, but... it can't be all that. It's a tad bit annoying not to receive any sort of replies. At first I instantly feel a bit disappointed. Like, "Hey c'mon, these are real nice and I believed I had surpassed myself and now you're implying they're total crap?". That sort of feelings. And trust me, I know what I like and what I'm capable of, so I know they're good. Fashionable styles BITE ME.
The less I get comments, the more I appreciate them, though ♥ Because they're the ones who sincerely like what I make and want to root for me. It feels nice.
003b. What is more, I realised the other day so many people are fandom blind. No matter what the icon's really like, as long it has Gazette in it, everything's good. (Like, if it's all purple and blinkey blinkey with some ass-misspelled Engrish written with Comic SANS, it gets more comments than some truly fascinating, beautifull composed pieces featuring other PSC artists. Tsk)
004. Today our fanfic writing group had its very first gathering at my place ♥ ♥ We've been writing stories for half a year or so now, reading and commenting them via email, and now, when we're about to get our LJ community kicking, we decided to continue sharing feedback face to face. At first this was a side project created by me to my theatre group, but now, seeing how wonderfully talented my girls are, I'm willing to share a good piece of my time to really excite them to focus on writing. Fanfiction is the easiest way to do it, I think -you don't need to worry that much about the settings, or if the story sounds realistic or not. Also, you already have some sort of character "sketches", so it's surprisingly easy to play along. I'll let you know when we get our first texts posted^^b
Anyway, it was awesome to eat chocolate pudding and jabber on the drabbles and chaptered stories they had brought with them. Lots of Gazette, some Ayabie and alice nine... yey ♥ And I was positively surprised how serious they are about this -the girls really went deep in search of explanations for the actions of the characters and stuff. Me proud ♥
005. Currently watching: NODAME CANTABILE SP ♥ ♥ ♥, 1 Litre of Tears, Tokkyu Tanaka San Go, Hana Yori Dango s1
Recently finished: Kimi wa Petto, Kisarazu Cat's Eye, Stand Up!!
Wanting to attack: Sapuri, Goong, Imai Ai ni Yukimasu, Attention Please!, Orange Days, Swan no Baka (no subs out yet)
on "hiatus": Hanayome wa Yakudoshi, Nurse Aoi
I really liked HwY at first, but then, compared to other comedies, I saw it was a bit dry. I love the male lead though, the rural accent is super ♥ Keiichi is sweet, of course, but his role is supportive, so he doesn't really have the chance to hold up the show. I'm going to finish this at some point, I'm not too many eps away from the finale.
From the description in DramaWiki I thought Nurse Aoi would be a little crack, like HanaKimi, in some way. I mean, the concept is great -wacky doctors, wackier patients... and the series turned out to be drama. With some funny content. And the setting should be SHINIER (omg blame JE~)