School trips, accomplishments, and icons.
I would just like to begin this post by saying that I have BEGUN MY HOMEWORK AND IT IS NOT EVEN EIGHT O'CLOCK. Seriously. I've already done French and Latin, begun clearing out my huge notebook so that I can actually find my notes to study for exams, and practiced piano. I would just like to congratulate myself on that. Applaud, people. Applaud.
I would also like to mention that I love this icon. With all of my soul. (Credit is in my profile.)
Assateague was... INCREDIBLE. Seriously. I want to go back there SO BADLY. There were so many stars out, and you could practically see all the way across the Atlantic, and in the morning, the sunrise was beautiful, and the beach was so quiet and still, and the little islands in the marsh were so interesting, and beach volleyball with jocks is actually REALLY fun (I knew they were nice people--take that Meredith! >:D), and the campfire was great, and I even loved all of the sand that got everywhere. I want to go back... but my family doesn't camp. At all. ;_; *emoemoemo* I think I might like to go back for my senior advance. I can't imagine anything more interesting than that, really, except that I think that's mainly for people who want to study bio in college. Maybe I could translate something for senior advance. Now THAT would be nice. Just stay at home, drinking tea, eating cookies, going online, and sometimes working on something I really enjoy. :D But that's a few years from now, so whatever.
Anyway, the stuff that people are interested in, hopefully: RuroKen icons! Twenty-five of them! (What a nice number: square, it divides very nicely into a hundred.) And here we go.
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NOTES
General credits (for brushes, fonts, images) in profile. Please check these out; they are all very lovely sites. :)
#4-From "The Long Road," by Cliff Eberhardt and Richie Havens.
#6-Basically, Kenshin looked like a little lost puppy in this. ^^
#7+8- DANTE <3 (Basically, you can leave your info at that, or you can pay attention to the long nerdy explanation)
"Warm me to you" is from Purgatorio, XXI.133-136:
Or puoi la quantitate
comprender dell'amor ch'a te mi scalda
quando dismento nostra vanitate
trattando l'ombre come cosa salda.
My copy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Other Poems lists the translation as "Now you can understand the quantity of love that warms me to you, when our vanity is forgotten, treating shadows like a solid thing." (This was the epigraph for Prufrock and Other Observations, and T.S. Eliot was actually the one who led me to Dante. And it was fandom that led me to T.S. Eliot. Funny how life works out, eh? ^^) I prefer this translation to the one in my Mark Musa translation of the actual thing (though I do really like that translation in general): "Now you understand how much my love for you burns deep in me, when I forget about our emptiness and deal with shadows as with solid things." I dunno', the line "warms me to you" is just so beautiful. So I stole it, and used it in my icons. Yeah. Rock on Dante and T.S. Eliot.
#11-The title of an R.E.M. song.
#15-From "Flying Cowboys," by Rickie Lee Jones (<3), which I consider a perfect KenshinxKaoru song.
#16-Title of the Kingdom Hearts opening song by Utada Hikaru.
#19-Small pink text from "It Must Be Love," by Rickie Lee Jones (still <3), which I also consider a great KenxKao song. ^_^
#20-Title of a song by my awesome friend Meredith. ^_^
#25-Lifted from volume 17 of my manga. One of my favorite bits of dialogue in the entire thing.
Anyway, after that excess of information, I hope you enjoy them, and if you use them, a comment and credit would be lovely. ^_^
Have a nice day, people.
I would also like to mention that I love this icon. With all of my soul. (Credit is in my profile.)
Assateague was... INCREDIBLE. Seriously. I want to go back there SO BADLY. There were so many stars out, and you could practically see all the way across the Atlantic, and in the morning, the sunrise was beautiful, and the beach was so quiet and still, and the little islands in the marsh were so interesting, and beach volleyball with jocks is actually REALLY fun (I knew they were nice people--take that Meredith! >:D), and the campfire was great, and I even loved all of the sand that got everywhere. I want to go back... but my family doesn't camp. At all. ;_; *emoemoemo* I think I might like to go back for my senior advance. I can't imagine anything more interesting than that, really, except that I think that's mainly for people who want to study bio in college. Maybe I could translate something for senior advance. Now THAT would be nice. Just stay at home, drinking tea, eating cookies, going online, and sometimes working on something I really enjoy. :D But that's a few years from now, so whatever.
Anyway, the stuff that people are interested in, hopefully: RuroKen icons! Twenty-five of them! (What a nice number: square, it divides very nicely into a hundred.) And here we go.
Preview:
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NOTES
General credits (for brushes, fonts, images) in profile. Please check these out; they are all very lovely sites. :)
#4-From "The Long Road," by Cliff Eberhardt and Richie Havens.
#6-Basically, Kenshin looked like a little lost puppy in this. ^^
#7+8- DANTE <3 (Basically, you can leave your info at that, or you can pay attention to the long nerdy explanation)
"Warm me to you" is from Purgatorio, XXI.133-136:
Or puoi la quantitate
comprender dell'amor ch'a te mi scalda
quando dismento nostra vanitate
trattando l'ombre come cosa salda.
My copy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Other Poems lists the translation as "Now you can understand the quantity of love that warms me to you, when our vanity is forgotten, treating shadows like a solid thing." (This was the epigraph for Prufrock and Other Observations, and T.S. Eliot was actually the one who led me to Dante. And it was fandom that led me to T.S. Eliot. Funny how life works out, eh? ^^) I prefer this translation to the one in my Mark Musa translation of the actual thing (though I do really like that translation in general): "Now you understand how much my love for you burns deep in me, when I forget about our emptiness and deal with shadows as with solid things." I dunno', the line "warms me to you" is just so beautiful. So I stole it, and used it in my icons. Yeah. Rock on Dante and T.S. Eliot.
#11-The title of an R.E.M. song.
#15-From "Flying Cowboys," by Rickie Lee Jones (<3), which I consider a perfect KenshinxKaoru song.
#16-Title of the Kingdom Hearts opening song by Utada Hikaru.
#19-Small pink text from "It Must Be Love," by Rickie Lee Jones (still <3), which I also consider a great KenxKao song. ^_^
#20-Title of a song by my awesome friend Meredith. ^_^
#25-Lifted from volume 17 of my manga. One of my favorite bits of dialogue in the entire thing.
Anyway, after that excess of information, I hope you enjoy them, and if you use them, a comment and credit would be lovely. ^_^
Have a nice day, people.