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Have you ever had one of those all-nighters where you think, this is so STUPID, it's only three hours of work so why am I spending all night on it? Yeah. On the plus side I did manage to finish two books during my "break" from lab-report writing. (On the minus side, they weren't very good books. ;_; C.J. Cherryh, I'm realizing, can be almost entirely desribed by the phrase "unnatural preoccupation with sentient alien lizards.")

This entry is part of my ongoing struggle to post shorter entries! I'm a natural lumper so this splitting-content thing is hard even if it is more organized. Poll!

[Poll #599957]

memlu's on an uploading roll! Her summaries are really good too. The two series she's done recently are:
1. Gokusen and
2. Hana Yori Dango

1. Gokusen
Gokusen's basically a yakuza/high school gag comic, like Giant Step or GTO or Cromartie High School. It was made into a live-action drama a few years ago. The drama's cuter than the manga, but ultimately not as funny *I* thought (although on the plus side it did have a fairly hot guy playing Shin).

I love Gokusen with all my heart, however I am sort of bummed that in the ONE case where I am all for student-teacher, the student-teacher relationship isn't canon. Or, well, it sort of is, but it is also canonically problematic and so...perhaps I take these things too seriously. Repeat to self, they aren't real yakuza, they're manga yakuza. They aren't real yakuza. Yeah.

2. Hana Yori Dango
aka that manga I had this nagging feeling of having heard of before, but didn't actually know anything about. (tarigwaemir wrote fic for it? And team7 sometimes mentions Meteor Garden, the live-action soap opera. Other than that, nothing.)

I'm up to volume 5! I'm having a really hard time. I swore in the first volume I'd never like That Jerk With the Pouffy Black Hair and, horrible track record aside, I haven't really seen anything to change my mind. It's less that Dyou-whatever is a terrible monster (this isn't Hot Gimmick) than that I can't STAND it when he succeeds in guilt-tripping Tsukkaki for something that is OBVIOUSLY not her fault.

It's a shame about HYD, actually, because how many times in shojo manga does the heroine NOT end up with the first guy she shares a panel with? In a way it's subversive.

Physics test at noon
6 hrs sleep; need caffine or
So going to fail

Forgot my wallet
You made coffee anyway
I think I love you

For most posts in a one-week period. Aha.

Rec(again): 3x3 Eyes. Re-uploaded the episodes, check the last post. Sorry, I didn't realize the links had run out!
Rec(fic): Infinity x 3 by kohl_eyed in chain_of_fics. Hands-down best Samurai Champloo fic I've ever seen. Although what I haven't seen, is the episode in question. Details.

FROM HERE ON IS A POINTLESS LIVEJOURNAL MEME POST.

1. http://livejournal.com/portal (via sesame_seed).
Super-customizable. You can add an option to view lj friends "listed often by your friends, but not by you".( Mine Are: )

2. LJ Archive (via worldserpent)
It backs up all your entries, but that's not all! No, you can also search, psychoanalyze yourself, and do frequent usage wordcounts. I'm massively amused by the fact that if you count comments and don't count common words, the most frequently used word on this journal is....xd. XD!

( Regressive Imagery Analysis )

3.

Where you play multiple-choice who-wrote-that-entry games with your friendslist. ( I got: )

EDIT i_smile, if you see this: The quiz pulled up an entry of yours that was Hikago fic contrasting Go to Naruto's demon fox and it was really good, but I didn't get to read the end. Where is it?

By everyone I mean 18/93 of my flist.

A-- go to my fics and pick out a line or two from one of my stories.
B-- I will respond with which story I think it's from.
C-- points and a drabble to anyone who stumps me.

Fics are here. Drabbles and shortfics are okay too. I haven't written enough to make this fair; on the other hand my track record with request drabbles is atrocious, so it's just as well I won't have to do one. (That's right, I'm flat-out telling you I'M NOT GOING MISS A SINGLE ONE. Whatcha gonna do about it?)

(EDIT: I take it back. I so take it back. I didn't realize I'd be so bad at this!)

Yesterday, 11pm, still 250 pages of reading[1] and who-knows-how-many hours of Math homework to do. Naturally, I panic and write fanfic.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, five AU drabbles
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, eight Democracy drabbles

The second set uses mostly orginal charcters, so they might(?) make sense even if you've never seen the series. Umm, maybe. (Dunno why I keep linking these things, everyone on my flist who cares about the Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a member at iserlohn anyway.)


ANOTHER THING. I was going through old AMVs (=Anime Music Videos), and I found two Escaflowne vids. Both of them ask the question, what if Hitomi was making it all up? But one is from the series, and one is from the (much more disturbed) movie, so they come to TOTALLY DIFFERENT conclusions. I thought that was neat, so I upped them. (They're also both REALLY REALLY good.)

Ordinary Boy (download)
To Vannessa's Carlton's "Ordinary Day." VAN/HITOMI 4EVAR (This would be the TV series).

Imaginary Escaflowne (download)
To the Evanescense song. NO WAIT DON'T GO. It's good, I swear.


[1] ( bookblogging, The Footnote* by Anthony Clifton )

* A curious history.