Sometimes I think I'm too casual about things, not serious enough.
I see that with my mom a lot, when there's something she's really angry about, and I can't help but think she's overreacting. There's few things I can be angry about. I couldn't name a single one on top of my head.
There's stuff that annoys me, but rarely more than a little.
Let's call it a lack of passion for negative things. I can be extremely passionate brodering hyper about positive things, just not bad stuff.
Now I fear that people might feel I'm not taking them seriously or that I don't care about things that are clearly important to them.
But wouldn't it be far easier to just ignore the bad stuff and concentrate on the good things? I'd go mad if I kept thinking about all the ways my life sucked.

So there's SUCK in your life and it's dragging you down? Here's what I'd do: grab a good book or a nice DVD (or whatever you got handy) that makes you happy. Something funny, or just distracting. Get yourself away (mentally) from that negative issue. Only get back to the bad stuff once you have enough distance. If you can't get to that point, leave it be. Most of the time, things'll sort themselves out.
Trust me. =)

My mom keeps saying that she misses having me around since I moved out because our household now lacks a source of constant optimism. ^^;;

Tags: real life

Reply to this with the line “For you, sir, always,” (with an English accent, please) and I'll give you five questions that you can then answer in your Journal. To infinity and beyond. XD
Taken from pandir, though I changed the line to an Iron Man movie quote. Because I can.

( Questions under the cut )

Tags: bakura, batman, comics, dc, meme, nightwing, robin, yu-gi-oh

I really kinda do miss apples.
A few years back I started being allergic to them, or their acid or whatever. I can eat them just fine in a cake - cooked, boiled, roasted - but not fresh.
Now I never thought much about apples, they're probably the most common fruit I could think of. But now I think I'd rather like a fresh apple. I tried one from out own garden a while back and regreted it instantly. Oh, it was delicious, the way chemistry-free fruit (or vegetables) usually are, but my lips swell and ached, and my mouth went all itchy and I coughed more than I usually do. =(

I want apples back.

Tags: apples, real life

The Rules:

* Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!".
* I will then give you five words that remind me of you.
* Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

karnimolly picked these words for me:
- BDSM
- conventions
- YGOTAS
- super heroes
- Black Leather Gloves

( text heavy meme )

Incidentally, pandir would have chosen these words for me:
- D/s (covered under BDSM)
- Furry/Pokémon
- 5D's (Rex/Yusei/Jack/Rudger)
- Bakura
- Musicals

( just a few words )

Tags: meme

I'm doing a kemonomimi picture series and I need some inspiration.
(If you don't know what "kemonomimi" is, think catgirl, but with pretty much any animal.)
So far I did a rabbit and a tiger-and-lamb pic is almost finished.

I'd like the third (and last) pic to be based on a story or song or whatever as well. The bunny originates from the Asian saying that there is a bunny in the moon (there's also a Japanese fairy tale about that, quite sad actually), the second one combines two poems by William Blake (that I posted here).

So, how can you help me?
Give me a song, a fable, a fairy tale, a story, a novel, a legend - anything - that has to do with animals in some way. If I like it, I might use it. =)

So far I got:
* The scorpion tale from a Star Trek: Voyager episode of the same name.
* A German children's song about a fox that stole a goose.

Tags: art

The only thing I need, as far a sliving space is concerned, is a place for my desk with a computer and internet access, and a bed. Space for clothing, a bathroom and a place to "cook". And lots - LOTS - of shelves for books.

Aside from that... I don't move around much.

I would like a cat or two though, some day. They'd need space.

/random


In unrelated news, my mom's coming to visit.

Tags: random, real life

Title: Leather Gloves
Pairings: Divine/Aki, Yusei/Aki
Rating: PG-13... or so? WTF!?
Disclaimer: So not mine.
Summary: Aki says, you haven't lived till Divine does that to you. But don't ever try, she'll sick her dragon on you. You'd die happy, but dead is dead. (Still worth it.)
Author's comment: For karnimolly. Because her Divine cosplay completely redifines awesome.

A quote for Divine: “And it will remind you, no matter how pleasant I seem, really, I have teeth.”
From: “They Fly at Ciron” by Samual Delany

( Before - and now. )

Tags: aki, divine, fic, yu-gi-oh 5d's, yusei

This time karnimolly tagged me.
Then she had me read hers out loud. XD

( More meme goodness! )

Tags: meme, yu-gi-oh! 5d's

I think pandir noticed how much I love memes. And oh do I ever!

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

Edit: Bonus points if you guess my OTP, of which there may be several. ^^;;;;
Note: "Everything with character totally counts!
So here they are, in no particular order:

1. Beyblade - Kai (himmelrot)
2. Dragon Ball Z - Vegeta (pandir)
3. Fullmetal Alchemist - Roy (pandir)
4. Rurouni Kenshin - Saito (the_earthsick)
5. Hikaru no Go - Ogata Seiji
6. One Piece - Zoro (pandir)
7. Yu-Gi-Oh! DM - Bakura, Seto, Jou (pandir)
8. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's - Yusei, Jack, too many to list (pandir)
9. Prince of Tennis - Atobe, Tezuka, Ryoma
10. Ouran High School Host Club - Tamaki (himmelrot)
11. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - Edward (himmelrot)
12. Shaman King - Hao (the_earthsick)
13. DC Comics - Batman, any Robin, (pandir), Deathstroke
14. Marvel Comics - Iron Man (pandir)
15. Digimon - Yamato (himmelrot)
16. Pokémon - Gary (pandir)
17. The Lion King (1+2, books) - Kovu, Kopa
18. Harry Potter - Snape, James (pandir)
19. Doctor Who/Torchwood - Jack, 9th (himmelrot)
20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Spike (himmelrot)

Detective Conan (Heiji) and Death Note (Kira) didn't make it due to the 20 items limitation.
And I plain forgot Gundam Wing (Treize, Trowa, Heero) and Gundam Seed (Asuran, Kira), what is wrong with me? XD

Tags: fandom, meme

Current goal in life: do my dishes before midnight.

Success rate: 0

It's past midnight and I still have to do the dishes. Again.
I mean, yes, no one stops me from leaving them for tomorrow, but I don't wnat to.

I just hope that I manage to be in bed before 4am tonight. That would be awesome.

Tags: real life

karnimolly made a few very interesting points on the topic of bullying that you can read here if you speak German. If not, I took the liberty of translating the whole thing. If you want to comment, please do so - in English or German - at the original post in her journal.
Also: I SUCK at translating and my English is far from perfect. I don't mind corrections though, grammar or spelling wise, which you can post here, thank you. =)
@ Molly: I'll remove this at your command, just say the word!

( Click here. )

Note: I really, really hate translating. Molly knows more colloquial expressions for twerp/midget than any dictionary, or maybe she makes them up on the spot. I don't think I could catch her rage properly, but I tried. ^^;;

Tags: bullying, real life, translation

I found this in pandir's DA journal and felt the sudden need to do it, too.

( Pokémon... stuff. )

Tagging? Whoever wants it. ^^;;

Tags: meme, pokémon

I admit I have a soft spot for poetry. I love poems with a nice rhythm and beautiful words. XD
I'm going to post two poems by William Blake because they just might inspire a picture. There's this Kemonomimi project at KaKAO-Karten.de that i just couldn't miss.

The Tyger
The Lamb

( Poems and - gasp - German translations under the cut. )

Given that I can make it so it does these poems justice, I want to show the contrast of innocence and childhood (the lamb) and experience/corruption and adulthood (the tiger).
In related news, I just ordered Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience", it was real cheap. ^^;;

Tags: poetry, quotes, translation, william blake

Short conversation between Sa (himmelrot) and me...

jea: "I don't have money for LARP, not with the two cosplays coming up."
sa: "Two...?"
jea: "Well yeah... the Blaziken I wanna do with Danny (dragondaniela) and the one I'm planning with Melanie."
sa: "What's the latter?"
jea: "Erm... I'm not telling you."
sa: "Okay, what shows does Melanie like..."
jea: "It's not really a 'show'."
sa: "...it's not a maid, is it?"
jea: "Er... uhm... yes it is."
sa: "That's... not much like you."

And it isn't. I don't know why I wanna do it. I just do. And wigs aren't that expensive. A friend says she'll help me with cat ears.

This is my fall from grace. Watch my principles fly out the window.

Tags: cosplay

pandir has all the best memes. Like this YGO fanart meme! Erm, you can pic your fav fandom of course, but I think I'll stick with Yu-Gi-Oh!. It accompanied me all the way through what you might call High School (last three or four years of school) and recently came back to me in the form of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. There's no way I'm not doing this meme.
One thing though... I've never really actively searched for YGO fanart. Not past a google image search. That was plenty to me. I only discovered things like doujinshi circles very~ recently...

( Careful, image heavy post under the cut! )

Tags: art, meme, yaoi, yu-gi-oh

Stealing a meme from pandir, because I can!
It's probably not very interesting to the rest of you, but feel free to steal it for oyur own amusement. =)

( Me me me under the cut! )

Tags: meme

Almost entirely pandir's fault. I couldn't quite (but wanted to) get into the pairing and she helped out. And made me write a ficlet. Drabble. Thing.

Pairing: Yusei and his daddy
Rating: completely harmless, honest!

( Yusei was almost asleep when... )

Tags: fic, fudo hakase, yaoi, yu-gi-oh, yu-gi-oh 5d's, yusei

It's that time of the year where my friends go out of their way to prove how god damn awesome they are.

On Saturday was our local Anime fan meeting thing in Cologne where I finally met a bunch of people I hadn't seen since before I left for Japan, almost one year ago. We were having a great time and then midnight came around. himmelrothad made 24 muffins, each holding a candle. They'd ushered everyone outside and the whol ething looked so pretty. Then there was fireworks! ♥ The cakes I'd made were devoured almost completely, especially the chocolate cake (the smallest and also most complicated to make, naturally).
There was an おみやげ (omiyage) contest kinda thing, where I had everyone play rock paper scizzor against me to win stuff from Japan. A good time was had by all, I think.
Later into the night we watched some anime (Ponyo) and took a walk by the near river Rhine (we were hyper like children), followed by several fierce matches of Twister (YEAH!). Lacking Cranium (fun game) we settled for The Game of Knowledge (*), an edition from 1980 or something. Makes a lot of questions interesting. ^^x

It was around 8am when I finally decided to catch some sleep, only to be awaken roughly two and a half hours later because they were closing up the facilities. XD
I've had a lot of fun, everyone should have birthdays like this. =)

THX EVERYONE! ♥


(*)
Repeated quote: "Think OLD!"

Question: "In what does one write daily about one's life?"
"Diary!"
"Blog!"
"Twitter!"

Tags: birthday, kat, real life

Three more images I forgot the first time around.
Include Jack and two beautiful images with Rudger and Dr. Fudo! ♥

( click for images )

Tags: doujinshi, fudo hakase, jack atlas, rudger, yu-gi-oh, yu-gi-oh 5d's

This one doujinshi is special in two ways. a) it's all in color and b) it was so easy that I could (somewhat) translate it.
Please keep in mind that English is not my mother tongue so I'm basically workingw ith three languages here...

Pairing: Kiryu/Crow, Yusei/Jack, but too cute to be explicit. XD

( Kitakaze to taiyou )

Tags: crow, doujinsji, jack atlas, kiryu, yu-gi-oh, yu-gi-oh 5d's, yusei