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There's something satisfyingly primal about reducing a 20-foot hedge to an 8-foot hedge with a chainsaw. (That is, if the word "primal" can be used in the context of horticulture. I say it can.) Witness:the joy of a job half-done. The best part is I'm getting paid to do this. The second best part is I finally found a use for those safety goggles I stole from Lucent Labs.

Highly Scientific Ratings for the Political Ads at moveon.org )
I just wasted three hours of my life.
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So there's this "what state are you from? See if you match the stereotypes!" meme here that [livejournal.com profile] falxumbra posted. And I match New Jersey's, far too well. ><; Dammit, this is why I went out of state for college! So that I'd no longer be a victim of childhood geography!

Cut for Death Note fanfiction plus notes )
L Has a Complex Too, You Know )

And a Death Note-related question, because it's been bugging me:

What makes one name any more "real" than any other? What if the name you were given at birth, the one you are legally recognized by in the present day, and the name you think of yourself by are all different? How can any metaphysical device relying on the "true name" of the victim operate under such conditions?

What if, for example, L doesn't think of himself by the name he was born with, but as L? Like Bruce Wayne doesn't think of himself as a "Bruce" but as a "Batman"?
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Specifically, this fanart is dedicated to FMA episode 43. You can only beat a good metaphor for so long before it dies a painful death.

Stray Dog )

I'm headed back to high school for the last day of band camp tomorrow. Senior skits. And then I have to contact V or else risk being out of town for the shindig. When is it, V? Am I good or evil? Did you know F didn't know about O? Poor, poor F, so chronically out of the loop.
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So how about those Olympics, eh? I think it's unbelievably hot when a man is struggling valiantly not to cry.

Right, art. It's a little strange, if you catch my drift. AU would be putting it mildly. I colored extensively on the computer for the first time ever, though, which is the important thing. Just imagine the Naruto characters, and then imagine them really, really tiny and with a penchant for riding small animals around. Now imagine the laws of physics have taken a holiday, and you might get something like these:

Shikamonkey )
Narufish )
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aka World's Stupidest Crossover. This was a doomed project from the very beginning- for starters the basis is canonically wrong, and really it all goes downhill from there.

Death Note crossover:
Paradox )

That's right, it's a Death Note/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Crossover! To the ghost of Douglas Adams: I am so, so sorry. Commence grave-rolling. The title, "Paradox", is from what would happen ih Raito ever really tried to kill Arthur Dent, since Dent can't die (in Japan) and Raito can't fail to kill. It's like those sharpest sword/strongest shield, unbeatable force/unbreakable wall, or zero to the infinitieth power paradoxes.

Actually, no, it's like bad writing. Ugh ugh ugh. Next up: silly slash!

I, Robot is a dumb, fun, dumb, fun, dumb action movie. Hooray for the power of suggestion! And The Village had Shaylaman's second best plot twist but first best silly premise. As a movie, it's weak, and not even Wahhhkiiiim(!!) and Adrian Brody can save it.

Just Stuff

Aug. 11th, 2004 08:44 pm
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Time left before the first day of classes: three weeks from Tuesday. I'm moving in the Saturday before, which incidentally is also my brother's sixteenth birthday. He'll have to spend it unloading stuff from the car. At least sixteen is not as much of a milestone for guys (I think?). Sarah, my roommate, seems pretty cool. Mostly we've talked academics; she seems to be a serious student.

Sarah talks about her boyfriend a lot, and whenever she mentions him I have to make an effort not to act like the single grouch I am. I think I might have done the same thing with D so I try not to mind too much (if you're reading: sorry I). Because really, what else if there to talk about if not your own experiences?

Speaking of, lately there's been:
News Stuff )
Weather Stuff )
Writing Stuff )
Real-life Stuff, for V and rucken but mostly V )

20% of the United States works the midnight-to-6am shift. Are there really so many businesses that absolutely have to be open at all hours of the day? Aren't some of them overdoing it?

I want a teacher who'll give me an A with a hundred plusses hand-written after it.
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Is it? Could it be? Yes, I think it is! An introspective starring everyone's least favorite Death Note character! Slight AU, spoilers for up to chapter 29 of the manga.

Oh My God! It's a Misa! )

Written in the present tense because there's cops and cop pieces are always written in the present tense. This was supposed to fit into the part of the storyline just after Misa says she'll kill people for Raito, but by the time I'd finished it she'd already been captured! That's the problem with writing for fast-moving manga. It's like trying to build a house in the middle of a flood.
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Just a short Death Note fanfiction based in something [livejournal.com profile] keraha said. I'm really fond of this one - it's one of the very few things I've ever written in just one sitting (a four-hour sitting, but still). Warnings for large amounts of OC-ness, but hopefully it's nothing too boring.

A Week in the Life of Kira's Greatest Fan )

I go O_o at how easy it was to get into the mind of an obsessive. Um. I am not a cult fanatic. Really I'm not. I am a Raito fan, and my if it isn't a good time to be a Raito fan what with how badly things seem to be going for L lately. All the L fangirls can go into mourning when/if he gets killed off; I'll just twiddle my thumbs and grin.

If it isn't too much to ask... can anyone tell me if there's anything wrong with this fic? I think I might join death_note with it since really it can't be healthy to have so many opinions on a series and not enough people to share them with. If you leave a comment I will love you forever.

Hello Ian

Aug. 1st, 2004 06:13 pm
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I have been discovered. But! I will not let this affect my geekish obsessiveness! And, to prove it, here's some fanfiction. From Less Than Ideal. It's only the part of the fourth chapter because I swore I wouldn't end them early anymore and the second part is still in revisions. As perhaps this part should be, but I write too slowly anyway.

Less Than Ideal - Summary and Earlier Chapters here. I've just realized how awful the prologue is.
Less Than Ideal - Chapter 4 (Part A) here )


This was a good weekend. And it's not even over yet! So far there's been swimming and Meryl Strife having waaay too much fun as the villain.

Cut for Manchurian Candidate )

And Ian, if you're reading this: don't be afraid to drop me a line. You can leave comments even without a livejournal account.
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A consumer not a producer. A copy-cat, maybe. Writing is hard, datte bayo! Especially dark writing. It doesn't take long, yes, but on the other hand it isn't particularly enjoyable.


Below is a Sasuke x Hinata 478 word drabble that was supposed to be evil. And it is, but not in the way I'd originally intended.

But if, after reading this, you think, 'Hinata didn't deserve that!' then I have accomplished what I set out to do. )

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