tallulahgs

"In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it! Post this on your LJ if you know someone who has or had cancer. 93% won't copy and paste this. Will you?"

*posts* Well, both my grandparents had it, as does one of my mum's friend. I didn't do the Facebook-bra-status thing because I couldn't see a point to it; at least this one actually mentions cancer.

Well, there's not much doom, but hey, who cares ^^

Questions about a character you've been tagged with:

( rushikayu13 gave me Shinji Mimura )

( sashwizzled gave me Yamagata )

09 → Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character.

lycoris with Raito Yagami.
sabethea with Sirius Black.
tannakitten with Kai.
anbyrobanby with Hiroshi Kuronaga.
likeatruck with Tetsuo Shima.

(Sweet, five fandoms represented :D)

If y'all want, of course.

This has been the week of sleepiness, due to one of my housemates waking me up at 5 a.m. on two consecutive mornings, and then me electing to go and see a later-than-intended showing of Mamma Mia and not getting to bed til 11.30. It was thus not surprising I had a migraine yesterday, but I took one of the pills the doctor gave and it seemed to work surprisingly well. (Insert Tetsuo quote here.) This is a good thing.

I enjoyed Mamma Mia, though I think it works better as a musical than a movie. It was fun and silly and most of the cast were pretty good and Colin Firth has suddenly become hot again (after me swearing for years that he wasn't because he reminded me of my dad *sweatdrop*) I didn't like Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfreid much though - one was an annoying jerk and the other was just too fluffy and cute for my liking.

Work are sending me to a sales conference in Prague, apparently, which should be... interesting ^^ I'm going with one of the girls I eat lunch with (unfortunately, it's the one who sort of annoys me sometimes, but I figure this will either improve our friendship or destroy it, so it's pretty much win-win). It sounds like I'll be spending most of my time agreeing to send people books or saying 'I don't know the answer to that, but if you give me your contact details I'll find out and get back to you! *smilesmile*' Which I can do. I did it for my entire gap year :D

( Rambling on books )

( Book meme stolen from ecchipiro )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my (incredibly hot) true love sent to me

twelve summer nights

Written for and posted to 12dayschristmas. And my LJ will now return to its normal meme-obsessed state ^^

[Title] Sidekicks
[Fandom] Battle Royale (movie)/Death Note
[Rating] PG
[Pairing] (implied) Keita Iijima/Touta Matsuda
[Notes/Summary] Matsuda and Keita meet on a shopping trip. Written for rushikayu13, who didn't ask for it, but suggested the pairing ^^

( You buying cake again? )

[Title] Happiness Where You Find It
[Fandom] Akira (manga)
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Kaori takes solace in a pleasant moment amid the destruction.

( Happiness isn't thoughts any more )

[Title] Knowledge is Power
[Fandom] Death Note
[Rating] PG-13 for general gloom
[Notes/Summary] AU. Matsuda tries to sort out what he remembers and to survive in the new world. Not written for lycoris, but encouraged by her. So it's all her fault.

( He feels like he knows nothing )

[Title] Too Darn Hot
[Fandom] Akira
[Rating] PG
[Pairing] Kai/Yamagata
[Notes/Summary] Kai considers the pros and cons of summer in Neo-Tokyo.

( Only two things make summer here bearable )

[Title] Childish Things
[Fandom] Akira
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] It's Kiyoko's first night in a new place and she can't sleep.

( She wishes it wasn't so hot )

[Title] Fight or Flight
[Fandom] Jet Set Radio
[Rating] G
[Pairing] Beat/Gum
[Notes/Summary] Beat and Gum sit and talk during their first night as GGs. disks_smilie requested a different take on this pairing. I'm not sure if this is that different, but it's not messed-up, at any rate ^^

( Sometimes it's better to run )

[Title] Theatre of Sound
[Fandom] Jet Set Radio
[Rating] PG
[Pairing] Combo/Cube
[Notes/Summary] Post-GGs, Cube and Combo are running a pirate station for American music. Because I thought it might be interesting.

( Why don't we both go naked? )

[Title] Ennui
[Fandom] Battle Royale (manga)
[Rating] G
[Pairing] (very implied) Takako Chigusa/Shogo Kawada
[Notes/Summary] Takako dislikes the summer.

( She is angry for worrying )

[Title] Insomnia
[Fandom] Battle Royale (movie)
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Satomi finds it difficult to sleep in a lighthouse.

( It's all Yukie's fault )

[Title] Shadowing
[Fandom] Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Togusa and Batou are on surveillance duty. (I don't think Togusa's wife is ever named, so I made something up.)

( This could easily be an all-nighter )

[Title] Light and Dark
[Fandom] Death Note
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Raito reflects on what memory loss can do. This may not have happened on a summer night. Because I don't know canon well enough. >_>

( I know you'll catch him )

[Title] Tokyo-to Midsummer
[Fandom] Jet Set Radio
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] The strange weather system in Tokyo-to changes once a year...

( A getting-back-to-your-roots thing )


Edit: And a short meme, because not spamming your Flist is love ^^

Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band: Garbage
Are you male or female: Androgyny Breaking Up The Girl
Describe yourself: Supervixen Stupid Girl I Think I'm Paranoid
How do some people feel about you: You Look So Fine Only Happy When It Rains
How do you feel about yourself: Fix Me Now
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: if I said 'Dumb' that would be very bitchy and not even true Not My Idea. Or actually, Why Do You Love Me could work there ^^
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: When I Grow Up
Describe where you want to be: Happy Home
Describe what you want to be: Untouchable
Describe how you live: Silence Is Golden
Describe how you love: Sex Is Not The Enemy
Share a few words of wisdom: Boys Wanna Fight

It is... four hours forty minutes till the differential geometry exam of DEATH, a.k.a the one that I could actually mess up because I've been hating the module all semester. Oh well. My subtitle on my MSN screenname is counting down the exams plus an emoticon representing my opinion of the exam just passed. Tonight, I hope to have it saying '4 down, 1 to go :D' rather than '4 down, 1 to go ;_;'

Yesterday's exam was okay. It was all really easy except for the bits that weren't (I was asked for a proof that I revised once, a month and a half ago, and then forgot was there. Oops).

(My head aches. Possibly I should get off the computer. BUT THEN WHAT WOULD I DO? :O)

Anyway. Pointless procrastination ganked from speakwrite_:

Put your audio player software on random. Post the title of the first twenty songs that come up. Append "in My Pants" to the end of each title.

1) Depeche Mode - Stripped In My Pants
2) Jet Set Radio - Late Night Sneaking In My Pants
3) ABBA - The Visitors In My Pants
4) Pink Floyd - The Wall In My Pants
5) Green Day - Longview In My Pants
6) Rammstein - Mein Teil In My Pants *screams*
7) All Saints - Black Coffee In My Pants (owch)
8) Gorillaz - Demon Days In My Pants
9) One Inch Punch - Pretty Piece of Flesh In My Pants (... ick)
10) Akira soundtrack - Tetsuo In My Pants (XD WIN)
11) ABBA - Honey Honey In My Pants
12) Miss Saigon soundtrack - What A Waste In My Pants
13) Vast Aire - Free In My Pants
14) Eliza Carthy - Fuse In My Pants (o_0)
15) Garbage - Medication In My Pants
16) Big and Rich - Deadwood Mountain In My Pants (does that sound incredibly wrong, or is it just me?)
17) Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun In My Pants (that sounds even more wrong)
18) Blondie - One Way Or Another In My Pants
19) Phantom of the Opera soundtrack - The Point Of No Return In My Pants
20) ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You In My Pants

*cough* I feel very immature now.

Comment here and I'll tell you one thing that I like about you. Then go post it in your LJ and return the sentiment.

This is... the only reason I have to make this entry.

Man.

Okay. Four and a half hours till my next exam.

( A rather silly meme pinched from speakwrite_ )

Anyway. The twelfth day of Christmas brings twelve reconciliations!

[Title] On The Way To Heaven
[Rating] PG-13 overall
[Fandom] Battle Royale, mainly manga
[Notes/Summary] The students of Class B reconcile in various ways after death. 12 ficlets all based on this premise. Slight Satomi/Chisato and Ryuhei/Izumi.

( Shuuya and Yoshitoki are standing in the stream... )

( Keita shrugs, and Shinji suddenly realises... )

( Mitsuko doesn't know how to act now... )

( Yukie turns to look at Haruka... )

( Akamatsu looks down at Mayumi and grins... )

( Yuko's head is bent, but Yuka sees her turn pale )

( Hiroshi isn't surprised to see Kazuo sitting at the clifftop... )

( Kayoko's always been scared of Takako... )

( Shogo Kawada can see Kyoichi huddled there... )

( Toshinori glances at Hirono... )

( Chisato raises her head and puts her arms around Satomi )

( Izumi's eyes are wide and furious )

( Christmas memes )

ARGH I NEED TO REVISE.

BUT I'M NOT. BECAUSE I JUST HAVE TO FINISH CHECKING MY FLIST.

I FAIL.

Okay, so... for some reason, my brother has an assignment to set up a Livejournal for Joseph K, the protagonist of Kafka's The Trial. He has asked me to tell y'all and go and comment on the LJ joseph_k101 as if the post is absolutely genuine. No knowledge of Kafka is required, he just wants comments.

And he is a very cool brother who bought me Battle Royale on DVD so he really deserves comments.

(I have no idea what's going on, but if you could leave him a comment he'd be very grateful. If you pimped this out to anyone else he'd be even more grateful. Thank you! ^_^V)

Edit: fannish5 meme!

What five characters would you want working for you if you were a supervillain plotting world domination?

( Like Torchwood, only less Welsh... kinda )

Was reading an article in The Telegraph about this guy who's making a TV drama about Myra Hindley, and he interviewed the psychologist who spoke to her a lot when she was in jail. He comments that:

The picture that emerges is of a kaleidoscopic personality, a classic 'hysteric', someone with no identifiable core who selects aspects of others' personalities and reflects them back as her own to make herself more acceptable yet simultaneously more inscrutable.

Which initially made me think of Kazuo Kiriyama, but also is kind of what I was going for with my character Kimiko Kurosaka in Akira Royale. Nice to know (well, not 'nice', more like 'interesting') that people like that do really exist and it's not all BR writers' crazy imaginations.

On another note, I'm joining the chorus of people who wish LJ would make the search function accessible when you're not logged in. Dammit, I want to be able to quickly browse fanficrants without having to spend the extra few seconds logging in! It is my right! *thumps table* Mainly because if I log in, I then feel I have to check my Friends page. And often I am only checking fanficrants to kill time before a lecture. And... yeah. *cough*

( 'fannish5 meme: What 5 fanfic cliches do you hate?' Fandoms: Akira, BR. Some snarky remarks, all my own opinions, no offence intended )