06 July 2008 @ 07:42 pm
My unpopular opinions, let me show you them  
So.

Doctor Who.

The obligatory reaction post to Journey's End )

Eh, I'm rambling now. In a nutshell, I'm satisfied by the episode. The end of a journey for some people, and the beginning of one for others. I know that I'm looking forward to what the future of DW brings.
 
 
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06 July 2008 @ 11:32 am
 
Comment, credit and enjoy!
And don't steal them!

[10] Sailor Moon (anime/Myu/PGSM)
[14] Bleach
[05] Prince of Tennis
[04] CLAMP

ICONS THIS WAY
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 01:57 am
Icons at natural_decay  

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[27] Twilight + [1] banner
Selena Gomez
Mary-Kate + 2banners
Paramore (mostly Hayley)
Animal Stock
HSM3 Banner

(up up and awayy)

 
 
06 July 2008 @ 04:06 am
Layout Poll  
I need help and need to know your opinions.
Please take this poll It will be very useful, give me insight and point me in the right direction when making new stuff for [info]i_bend.

I hope its not too long ^_^


Take Poll


 
 
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06 July 2008 @ 04:42 am
 
- 160 TRC Sakura bases [spoilers for HOLiC and TRC]
- 125 TRC Seishirou bases

HERE
 
 
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06 July 2008 @ 02:29 am
Short Fic  
First time writing for this particular fandom, but I suppose we all get drawn in eventually. Hope you enjoy it.

Title: Preparing for the Festival
Pairing: Mai/Zuko
Rating: G
Spoilers: None - Set after 'The Beach' but before 'Nightmares and Daydreams'
Summary: Ty Lee has convinced everyone to go to the annual festival where her old circus will be performing and Mai and Zuko go out to get proper festival masks.


Follow the fake cut to the story.
 
 
05 July 2008 @ 11:55 pm
Twilight Poster Set  
Set of 4 posters, one for each book. They're kinda movie posters, I guess, but could be book covers instead. *shrugs*


Full sizes under fake cut @ [info]notthatfarapart
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:21 am
Why Death Note Wins At Life  
Some thoughts on the last episode and the series in general. Plus the secrets of the universe. You know, all that good stuff. :D

http://pervymonk.livejournal.com/50413.html

X-posted to a couple of places. Sorry!
 
 
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Current Mood: Mello :D
Current Music: Legend of Zelda theme
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 02:00 am
2nd Reminder for Challenge 4-1  
This is your final, way-late, absolute last reminder to SUBMIT to [info]animanga_lims Challenge 4-1, and the last chance to participate in this round...!!

NEED TO SUBMIT:
[info]eliminate
[info]epikstory
[info]kaeleer
[info]kanrinin
[info]pasteleyes
[info]rock_rabbit
[info]woodeneternity

WITHDRAWALS:
[info]adaneko
[info]atroquinine
[info]lufiamanaelf
[info]netbug009
[info]revanche

I realize that this weekend was Anime Expo, so that is why I am allowing any leeway with the submission deadline at all. Remember, you are disqualified from Round 4 if you do not submit to the first challenge. So... hurry!
Tags:
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 02:01 pm
Over & Over, re-uploaded!  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C58At5F0Y_M

Animé: Vampire Knight
Characters involved in theme: Kiryuu Zero, Yuuki Cross
Others involved: Kaname Kuran (very slightly)
Song Artist: Three Days Grace

[please comment, again XD]

And please don't steal just because I didn't put the credits...

I DO NOT OWN VAMPIRE KNIGHT.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 01:56 am
 
Four Times Leah Clearwater Almost Fell in Love (And One Time She Did) Sam/Leah, Paul/Leah, Jasper/Leah, Jacob/Leah, Rosalie/Leah
Twilight 591. PG-13.
Notes: I’ve been telling [info]kaiwynn about this one forever, so I guess I’ll just dedicate it to her. :P Combining my two OTPs, Blackwater and Rosaleah. (characters belong to smeyer. No copyright infringement intended).

He could have been her happily ever after, if they tried hard enough. The problem is neither of them wants to try.
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:33 am
Meme 'O Death!  
Since the last episode of Death Note has aired on Adult Swim, I thought it would be fun to do this.


Death Meme!

Least Favorite Death Scene:
Favorite Death Scene:
Most Beautifully Done Death Scene:
Most Tragic Death Scene:
Coolest Death Scene:
Most WTF Death Scene:
Best Death Scene Period:
Worst Death Scene:

Feel free to add more categories :)

Edit-- Spoiler Alert
My answers )
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:38 am
"Merits" Ch. 19  

I'm not sure if anyone here is following this, but in case you are....


 Category: Avatar: Last Airbender
Title: Merits
Chapter: 19
Chapter Title: Chapter 19
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: Fiction Rated: M
Summary: Zutara,Jetara. Modern Vampire AU - Mature Audiences. A
scholarship-student in med school, Katara's writing a paper on porphyria, the
'vampire disease', and how it related to the legends of evil spirits in her
tribe's lore. Zuko, a vampire, wants more...

Disclaimer : “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and all related rights belong to their original creators… I am not among their ranks.
AN: In response to hyperroo' s vampire/Zutara challenge, I present…

URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4016930/20/

NOTE: This is a Modern AU; there are no spoilers. ; )
NOTE #2: Yes, this is chapter 19, though the URL says 20.

 
 
06 July 2008 @ 12:42 am
The Greatest Story That Never Had A Name  
Title: The Greatest Story That Never Had A Name
Author: ntmetamorphmagi
Pairs: Edward/Bella, Alice/Jasper (mainly Edward/Bella)
Rating: PG (maybe PG-13ish)
Category: Angst/Friendship

Spoilers: None
People: All human

Summary: Bella and Edward had a one night stand, Bella ends up pregnant and she flees. What happens to her in the long run changes her and this is her story. 

Links under cut

 
 
Current Location: home
Current Music: When You Love Someone- Bethany Dillon
 
 
06 July 2008 @ 01:28 am
A simple question...  
I've not read the manga, but I have seen the anime. I've looked up some things on various places, but I've not had any luck in looking what I'm searching for.

I'll keep this short and to the point.

Is there a reason stated as to why the anime ending differs in some way from the manga ending?

And does "Death Note Rewrite" have the manga-ending as the "alternate ending" mentioned?

If you can direct me to a place that answers this or share it with me, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you.
 
 
05 July 2008 @ 09:29 pm
Week 179: Image - Close Ups Voting  
Thank you guys for so many gorgeous submissions; we have a grand total of 25 icons this week! There will be an additional category to vote on this week because of the greater number of entries (see below). Voting will run until Sunday night as usual unless stated otherwise.

Remember
• Don't vote for yourself
• Don't get your friends to vote for you
• Don't vote for the same icon twice


And here we go again )
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Affiliates | Banner Rotation | Suggestion Box
 
 
05 July 2008 @ 03:17 pm
Many many thoughts on the events as of late.  
Sigh...

I really don't like doing things that don't have a point.  I see no future in what I am doing right now, therefore there isn't a reason to be doing it, or so my mind has seemed to settle on this thought.  Before, to justify what I was doing, I explained that I was merely taking what I could from this relationship, and I was prepared to run with it, as I knew then it had no future.  But I woke up this morning thinking, what the fuck am I doing?

Seriously?

Yesterday morning surprisingly, I felt the same way.  It's funny because every morning before, typically my first thoughts were different.  Normally, loving thoughts would enter my head, pleasant thoughts.  But now these past few mornings I have been feeling a sort of emptiness.  A familiar emptiness.  A frustration, angering, saddening, hopelessness.  Gradually I become better throughout the day, but I feel like I am just ignoring the inevitable, you know?  This is going to blow up in my face very soon.  I know this, and yet I am still doing it.  That my friends, is the mark of a stupid woman.

I've become what I swore I wouldn't.

Sometimes I look at Phil, and I think, he definitely sees this in me now.  The foolish, naivete woman that I become sometimes.  Still, I get the feeling he has feelings for me.  Still, I must ignore them, and I am sure he notices by now that this cannot be a winning situation for him.  It makes me feel silly knowing that it's showing, and I can't hide it.

Really?  What should I do?  I still feeling like continuing this and stealing what I can from it.  Something to remember forever.  At the same time, I'm thinking, I need to address this immediately with him.  But I am at a loss for words when I see him.  I cannot speak the words because there is definitely a huge part of me that will suffer greatly from having decided to forget this, to move on from this.  My entire heart will suffer this.  Again.  My mind is telling me this is a necessary thing to do.  I know I have to.

He asked me a while back to wait for him.  He says every now again, someday I'll be better for you.  I told him that I don't intend to wait.  I cannot wait because what do I do until then?  He answers me, do what you want to do.  I tell him, what I wanted was you, and you told me I can't have that.  I am not the kind of person who can keep someone in the back of my mind and fuck around with others.  I am a one guy kind of girl, really.  I don't have wavering feelings once I have settled on someone.  No other male seems to have any effect at all.  If I waited, I would seriously just wait there.  By the time he was "better", I would be so fucked up, a complete basket case.  I can't just fool around emotionlessly like he can.  I hate that he can do that, I really do.  It makes me very sad.

As a side note.  Say I was different, and I could just mess around and be so called "free" as he intended when he said "do what you want to do".  Could he seriously be totally okay with that?  Just be like, okay yeah, shes got this new boyfriend now, and I am totally indifferent to it.  I really don't believe he could.

Plus?  What are we doing now?  We both know this has to end.   He is going to go to college and do all the things that hurt me, and he's going to enjoy doing it, and he is going to put me completely aside.  Of course, some would say, "well he still cares for you, isn't that enough? When he comes back, he will still want to be with you, so he really wants you in the end."  To me, that's not what that means.  To me, that means, "I am going to go fool around with other women and have a good time, I am going to put your feelings aside, and do all the things I want to do, knowing you are there waiting for me to come back.  Knowing that despite it all, you will take me still when I am ready to settle down."  This simply doesn't work for me.  Thinking of it this way, I will be such a wreck by that time.  I know if I let myself, I might just wait too.  I cannot allow this to happen to me.  I have a feeling that this is the type of thing that mind fucks personalities for a lifetime.

But all this talk about the future, that is not the only issue.  I have gaping holes in me the size of Nebraska from things that have happened in the past that I have still not come to terms with.  I am not entirely sure I have the capacity to forgive these things.  It's not as if I'm angry at him as a result, either.  It's just that some of these things are like taboo topics to me.  Torture.  I can speak of them to people who already know what happened by mentioning only, "well you know the events of last summer, ---" for one example.  But if you asked me to retell it, I couldn't do it.  I can hardly speak of it.  It brings back a pain so strong.  I'm not entirely ignoring it either, for the longest time, I've remembered and known it was there.  But I can't seem to come to terms with it.  It's like this completely infected wound still.  I'm wondering if its because I don't have answers to questions I had at that time, and now it is too late for honesty.  I really think that the time to be honest is right at the time of the issue.  The truth is warped by time.  Therefore I think that any explanation I might receive now would be hollow or false.  Honestly, I can't cope with it.  Still the only idea I have to fixing it is to get some answers. 

The other night at his house he said to me, "Am I good enough for you?"  This confirmed a belief I had recently.  I was thinking that might be what happened.  He said "Why do you think I broke up with you?" (I really hate these cliche wordings).  So it was because of this, apparently.  When I am with him, usually I am happy to be with him and so my heart takes his words seriously.  But after, my mind will analyze them.  After analyzing the words now, I think to myself--when you broke up with me, you gave no explanation and left it up to interpretation.  You agreed with my questioning that I wasn't right for you, and furthermore, you agreed that the female from last summer was your type.  When he agreed to that, it destroyed me.  I was engulfed by all the bad thoughts and assumptions I had made in the back of my mind that finally became a reality to me.  That the whole time when I felt terrible about myself, felt less than worthy, hurt daily.  I felt that way for almost an entire year, and those feelings became real.  My worst nightmare.  And then he tells me that it was he who felt unworthy.  Now, it is obvious to see that an explanation would have been a spectacular addition to that breakup, if that is really the truth.  Why would you let someone you care about feel that way when you could prevent it by telling the truth, if infact it was the truth?  That is something I doubt I can ever understand.  It just seems so entirely wrong to me.  To be honest, I do not forgive him for allowing me to think those terrible things if they were not really the truth.

It is because of situations like that, that I always feel like explaining myself 100% to people I care about even if it makes no fucking sense to them.

My mind does not want you to win, my dear.

I had this very influential dream last night.  I was trying to help him find something in this shopping complex.  We were holding hands looking.  We got into this general store and they didn't have it, but we did grab some other stuff, items that I can't recall.  So we're walking hand and hand still to the exit, only it wasn't the exit, and I said to him, hey I don't think this is the exit.  And he said Yeah, or something.  We kept walking though.  Suddenly somehow it became apparent that we needed to get out.  I recall walking down a hallway, only every room was my room, and in every single room, the window was on fire, just the window.  And we needed to get out, but all windows were burning.  So we go into one of my rooms and this shadow of a girl is there in the window (the shades are shut but the curtain is open, so its like shes outside) And she says to us, "Come on, you guys can get out this way."  And we were like Uhh, we can't the window is on fire, and I could feel the hot heat coming from it.  Then she assured us "No, really, its okay, you guys can get through, let me come and help you."  She came in, only she was just an outline, a shadow type thing, a ghost kind of thing?  This wasn't scary to me at all, I was just like eh okay.  And she's like "Okay, we have to hurry, come on, before she wakes up... she is coming back very soon."  And she looks all shifty and uncomfortable.  I was like eh..?  It was like, we need to just get out of that window before this "she" comes out.  I acknowledged it in the dream as split personalities of the outlined girl, either before or after it actually happened.  Only, it was obvious that the window was on fire, and I could see no way at all that was could get past it.  All of a sudden this "she" woke up, and it was the girls alternate personality, or this is how i acknowledged it.  She pushes me down and begins strangling me and I am not at all afraid, but I turn to my right to see if Hunter (the he in the story) can help me get away, only he has gone, and I acknowledged that he is not there anymore with me and will not save me, and so I allowed the girl to continue strangling me.  I didn't feel any sensation or die from being strangled either, oddly.  Now that I look at it, I felt like she was merging with me.  I don't know if thats how I felt in the dream or not though.

I looked up in this dream thing what certain things meant, like disappear, window, fire, strangle meant.

Disappearing could mean that I feel a loved one or important one may disappear out of my life or that I feel I cannot depend on someone.  That I may feel alone or inadequate.  To see windows is like vast possibilities, or to see shut windows could be abandonment or desertion.   I am thinking that it's some type of trial, obstacle I need to get through, something difficult.  For fire, apparently if its contained in one area, it is a metaphor of your own internal fire and inner transformation.  It also represents your drive and motivation.  Being strangled apparently denotes that I am repressing or denying a vital aspect of my "expression."  I suppose this makes sense.

I feel like that girl was actually me, perhaps this is why I wasn't afraid.  I felt like one side was the kind, thoughtful, and most of all caring, girl.  But the other side that took over was the person I was for a while back in the day.  The cold, indifferent, stoic one.  In my mind I always felt like the person I use to be a long time ago, and that has re-awoken, was chained up, repressed.  And that the stoic person in me took over to keep myself safe.  Sometimes I feel a little nervous that it will come back.  And sometimes I'm not sure I'm entirely opposed to the idea.  But if thats the case, when I noticed and accepted that he wasn't here for me, to save me, I allowed myself to be strangled.  I always thought it'd be something like that.  After all, he is the reason I woke up.  It was a fight between both sides.  To keep him in my life, I had to wake up, and it was painful, and it still is painful.

But it was just a dream.  I wonder if perhaps we can get through the obstacle, such events can be prevented.

Still dude?  Burning window?  How the fuck am I supposed to pull that off without getting my ass scorched and permanently fucked.  Probably means if we do get through the obstacle together, I'll be fucked up.  I thought as much.



Being human is exhausting.
 
 
Current Mood: Chill
Current Music: Anna Tsuchiya - Kuroi Namida
 
 
05 July 2008 @ 11:35 pm
Drawing of Edward and Bella  
Preview:


Full size: http://julie-t1.livejournal.com/21399.html#cutid1
 
 
Current Mood: giggly
 
 
05 July 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Fanart: Drawing of Edward and Bella  

Preview:


Full size: http://julie-t1.livejournal.com/21399.html#cutid1

 
 
06 July 2008 @ 01:11 am
The Summerhouse  
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Pattinson Online just posted some screencaps of Rob's new short film 'The Summerhouse.'

If you haven't seen the short clip on YouTube, it's worth checking out. Find it under the cut. Rob shows up about 1:55 minutes into the clip. What are your thoughts?

clickie )
 
 
Current Music: the motorhomes - into the night