aphanon_meme | part 353 whalers on the moon

part 353 whalers on the moon

We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Did you say the words?

translation?

y...es-ish

The RIGHT words?

From Ring ('Ringu')

Let's talk about streams!

Airplane! (because I missed the stream :( )

I was thinking a stream of all the 'Ring' movies! Except for The Ring Virus, which I don't have... well and Sadako 3D2, which I also don't have

That sounds like a great time to hang out. I'm in!

you're welcome

now write me some

~~with italy or japan would be good~~

me toooo

yes good thank you

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Yes, the one with the illustrated cover by gingerhaze.

To be honest it gave me a lot of feelings because I could related so well to the "awkward girl reluctantly goes to college and can barely functions" angle. That being said, it's pretty apt that the book was about fanfiction and fandom, because it reads like a fanfic so many ways. Despite all of her problems, she still ends up with everything going her way to the point that she *SPOILER* wins an award for a final she half-asses basically the night before it was due despite receiving an extension of a whole semester to work on it because her teacher is so in love with her characters and writing.

Which I guess only happened because everyone around her is an asshole, at least initially. There were about 5 instances where someone insisted she do something she didn't want to do, despite her telling them "no, I don't want to do this" multiple times. To be honest it pissed me off, but in hindsight the main character did a lot of "I actually do want to do this, but I'll say I don't until this character forces me to tee-hee" moments, so I guess there wouldn't be a story without them totally disrespecting and disregarding her wishes. Maybe that's why I didn't end up with a boyfriend and an award in college; when I said "no I don't want to go to the party" I actually meant it and my roommate didn't literally drag me out of the room to it. I donno.

Despite those things the book wasn't bad. Some things, like the relationship between the main character and her mom, were well handled, and the author actually did know about fandom which I appreciate. But overall it wasn't a great book like I was hoping either. Even for fanficiton. So yeah, 5-6/10 from me.

SAILOR MOON

'sup meme

I've been away from the meme and the Hetalia fandom because Haikyuu happened, have I missed anything important?

I've no idea what haikyuu means, but not much. Since Himaruya got a new horror series he hasn't updated Hetalia. The Hetaweenmas event 2012 is still unfinished, Himaruya started a new Hetaween event in 2013 but that's also still unfinished.

Nothing, tragically. :(

Besides the occasional World Cup related jokes/art, fandom has been quiet since Himaruya has been MIA again.

I wish instead of doing these intensive events that - although lots of fun, and surprisingly actually great for filling in character personality info - he can't seem to finish, Himaruya would've stuck to just doing a few stand-alone strips each month with a quick culture/history/news joke. I think he'd be better able to balance that without burning out.

Haikyuu is a volleyball anime that just started this winter.

I picked up two tiny books to bring with me on my trip/on the beach.

First one are two version of Greek and Roman myths by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace and The Pomegranate Seeds. They were respectful of the source material, but they were obviously aimed at children (which isn't a bad thing!) and also very Puritan - well-written and enthusiastically told, with enticing imagery, but forcing a morality and a "justice" inside the stories that wasn't really there in the original. It's a fun, lighthearted read if you're both into Greco-Roman mythology and American literature of that period, which I am, but you can survive without.

second one is a short story by Miroslav Krleža, a very important Croatian author, Battle of Bistrica Lesina, about Croatian peasants who are co-opted as domobrans, soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army, during WWI, and it's sad as fuck and very crude but really really amazing. I'm finding out that I really like Balkanic literature and settings in general so I am maybe biased, but it's really some top-notch writing, and the ultimate moral message shines throught without it being in your face, which is something a lot of contemporary writers could stand to learn.

I see.

True that. I don't care much for the Hetaweenmas event tbh. But I was hoping he had updated that strip with grandpa Rome. Even if I'm not in the fandom anymore I can still enjoy the series.

Do you mean the part where Rome goes down to earth with Germania and they're in modern clothes and Rome is looking for his old house? That part did get finished, I think. It should be on hetarchive.

Aw, shame. I hoped we'd get to see grandpa Rome in his teens getting beat up by all this rivals :(

[He smiles, ears turning pink, when she touches him.]

Alright. I'll let them know it's to go.

[He also orders some drinks to go - a couple of bottles of cream soda. Their orders come up not too long after. He brings everything over to Belgium, pizza slices expertly folded in half in one hand, the other carrying the soda bottles.]

Pizza is ready.

[He hands Belgium her slice and holds out one of the bottles.]

Let's head for the park?

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/pornhub-pleads-users-to-stop-uploading-videos-of-brazil-getting-fked-by-germany-in-the-world-cup-9594287.html

This should be a Hetalia strip. If we had a Brazil. And if Himaruya wasn't gone.

ok I have been literally LOL'ing at this for a while

also Pornhub's response: "Please stop uploading the game highlights to Pornhub... Our public humiliation category is full. #BrazilvsGermany,"

my god

it doesn't help that "young Brazilians" and "German BDSM" are both rather legit-looking tags on a porn site (I know this because I...reasons)

also, for the hilarious in hindsight category:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/brazil-vs-germany-world-cup-2014-five-reasons-why-brazil-will-win-9592254.html

come on, you're a British newspaper, you should know better - I knew Brazil wasn't going to win that one and I'm dumb as hell

also-also, for all anons who were worried about the nice old man holding the cup replica and looking depressed last night
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/saddest-man-in-brazil-actually-quite-chipper-gives-german-fan-trophy-and-tells-nation-they-deserve-it-9595453.html

A real fan, this man is. Much respect.

Edited 2014-07-09 17:56 (UTC)

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