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Date: 2009-08-10 05:55 am (UTC)askfsaodfjaskfaspdfjasdjfasf
asdjfoaisjdf16000charactersholyshitiosjdfioasjfioaj!!!
how.
you don't even know it but my day was made :')
Now I cry because my tl;dr-fu will never come close to that. So, if my tl;dr will be lacking, I might as well compensate for it, yeah? Or maybe this is an attempt to put the "draw" back in "tl;dr draw anon." Well, either way, here you go man: http://i32.tinypic.com/24pxmac.jpg. . . but yeah, you know, I was just thinking about how it's a time period that isn't really explored a lot in this fandom and how awesome it would be if someone got around to writing it.
:D
consider this my mediocre cheerleading for your fic.
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html was posted on the meme today. Maybe you should try that? On kamikaze mode.
I am in a strange strange state of being in which I want to reply to this but I don't feel like typing so half of this might sound like nonsense.
My LJ's working again~! I just realized that most of what I do on the internet happens to be LJ related. From the looks of it, 4/5 tabs will always be on LJ. What would I do without this beautiful site, really.
I thought the blue screen of doom was one of those things you could never really get used to. Though maybe you can get used to everything /shrugs.
Pff, even if you could usually easily feel at home with new systems, using Vista will always be troubling. Vista is, to be blunt, a piece of shit. It made me reinstall my old tablet (which I only had for a short period of time a year ago, which explains my lack of tablet skills now) at least once a week. And for some reason it keeps on turning on the french keyboard, despite the fact that I've gone and changed it so it shouldn't about four times now.
How was 3.1 like? I don't think I've even seen one of those. I do know I've used those really really old Apple ones. My grade five classroom had a ton of them and we'd go around playing old school Oregon Trail on them :)
I love having the cover art and the little lyrics booklet and everything too. I really don't want to buy songs off of itunes or something. If something happened to your computer or ipod, the music you paid for would just disappear. And it's very damn likely that something would happen to your ipod, because those things aren't even that good of quality. I swear that they build them to die after a few years so you'd be forced to get another one. My one friend has the worst luck with ipods, he's gone through five (luckily he managed to score some of his friends' old ones for free, cause paying for five ipods would hurt). Even yesterday, I found out that my ipod is corrupted and it doesn't want to charge or play anything D:
I find that kind of funny. Maybe you give off a computer-genius kind of vibe? I used to be a whiz for my age regarding computers when I was younger, so people still have that impression of me. Except the questions people ask me are, "how do you download this file?" I tried to guide a friend through opening and extracting a .zip file. It was beyond him :(
hey man ,even if they listened to you, it doesn't mean they'd be able to help you.
I've never found airports stressful, but I usually have quite a bit of time to spare at them? I just don't like having to spend five hours at one, which I had to do once. And I don't feel as stuffy in a plane as I do a car, so. . . different strokes for different folks, eh?
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Date: 2009-08-10 05:56 am (UTC)Ahh, does that mean she puts more effort into showing she went somewhere than actually visiting that place? Or is she not that bad?
I'm not sure what exactly counts as a tourist trap. Cause I'm thinking of some wildly popular tourist spots, but I don't know if I'd call it a trap if it'd really be worth seeing. I mean, I don't know, if I went to Paris I would damn well like to check out the Eiffel Tower among all those other typical places.
There, there. /pats on back. How long have you been living in Saskatchewan anyways? Surely you'll find someone sooner or later.
When you're on top of the mountain, I don't think you feel as high as you really are. For me, anyways. BUT HEY, YOU'RE ALIVE, AREN'T YOU? (I don't know if it's just me but I'd feel worse if the other person was hurt, than myself). You should try doing it again when you're able to, it's a nice hobby. It's the only sport I enjoy, really.
It's okay, you can blame the snowboarder. It's always okay to blame the snowboarder :| I got into that kind of crash with three other people (who I knew, oi), but nothing happened. I must've not been going as fast, obviously. My dad (and my friend's dad) saw it from the chair lift and made fun of us, though.
Touche, touche. And at the very least, you can fight bears off with. . . bear spray or something. But there is no moose spray. I've also heard the stories of people fighting off bears and all, but never a moose. So I guess that the moose is nature's deadliest killer? It just had to be a goofy looking animal, didn't it.
Planning on becoming a bestselling author is just about as silly as wishing to become a rockstar or something. Having a fandom is an even stranger request because bestselling =/= fandom. Idk, I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to dream of getting that kind of success but when you write it as a goal I'm always kind of skeptical about if they're writing for the sake of writing (though some people could just be overly ambitious, but really, the typical life of a writer is hardly glamourous).
Oh man, they so totally would! I was going to try and get into Supernatural back in the day, and then I learned about the fandom. And then I stayed away, knowing that the show didn't seem thaaaat interesting to me.
So, how have the versions of vampires changed?
GOOD GOD MAN WHAT ARE YOU ON THE MAFIA IS ALWAYS THE GOOD KIND OF RIDICULOUS. Well, okay, maybe I have a soft spot for ridiculous mafias. We're allowed to have our guilty pleasures, alright?
She was the person I was thinking of, then again she's the only Finnish author I know. I would've thought that you'd be the first person to read that sucker (I don't even know how I know this, you admit too much on the meme). I should probably save a bunch of fics I should read when I'm actually in the mood for it. Usually I just try and search for some when I'm in the mood, and that doesn't usually turn out as well as I'd like to D:
I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but if you're worried about that kind of thing, then you're probably careful enough not to go and make too glaring a mistake. Those people (including myself) who are telling you to relax about all of it probably do mean it too. At some point there was this really big discussion post on the characterizations of the characters or something, and you had a bunch of people from the area taking. While it was intimidating it was a pretty good read, I'd say. You read it, right?
lucky I'd just probably post art there so I have less to worry about \o/ all i have to worry about is offending people with eyes due to my less-than-perfect on anatomy (hello, understatement).
Do you have to leave all those books behind? Couldn't you get someone to send all those books to where you are now? Then again, I don't think I'd trust the post enough. I don't trust the post at all, ich.
Well in that case, my former impression of Middle English was completely wrong. I thought it'd be more like Old English, or something, to get a special ~name~ for it.
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Date: 2009-08-10 05:56 am (UTC)When I hear the word "doughty" the last thing I'm going to think of is "man." So thanks for those translations. I'd probably have to print out a little mini dictionary if I was to read any of these.
I used to re-read things a lot, but now my main goal is just to try and read as many different books as I can. I've got a ton of really important books to read, argh. You know that meme/survey thing, and it lists a bunch of books and you bold which ones you read, which ones you hated, which ones you're planning on reading soon . . . And I just feel like I haven't read enough of them.
ajdslfoiasj;gj what the hell man that is adorable (and not surprising at all). I hope you find someone :')
Ooh, I see.
the things you say make me smarter but I have no response to them pffWas this before neopets got popular? The only dog/dog breeding thing I played was Dogz when I was like, seven but you had to download that so. . .
That's a nice little story! Please tell me you haven't lost contact with her :(
I sometimes feel like getting back in touch with people I talked with yeaaaaars ago. I actually stumbled upon the myspace of a girl I used to talk with all the time but I'm unsure if I should even just say hello. I don't know if she even remembers me or has any interest in talking to me or anything.
. . . he's a dude? Aw damnit, I hate it when I assume someone's a girl and then I realize it was a guy. I must have missed the memo or something, idk. But yes, that's who I was talking about. I haven't seen him as Iceland, maybe I should go lurkin for a picture one day.
TAGS ARE YOUR FRIEND. Seriously, about a year ago I went and tagged all the entries in my lj from it's first year, back when I didn't use it. It was surprisingly fun, let me tell you.
I thought I read your profile, but as usual, it appears I missed some things. aioejaoeijtaet you wrote more than I thought you did. One day I am going to get myself some tea and a bowl of fruit and I'll put on a robe and I'll go on a reading spree through all of your fics and it will be awesome.
Those repetitive prompts just take up space though, you know? People are requesting what they want, so I guess if they want to just have it as us/uk, then fine. It'd be nice if they could list a few pairs they might like to see the prompt with, but then it's likely that the one being filled would be, you guessed it, us/uk.
Let me guess, a lot of those Baltic fics involved Russia too. It must be tough being a Baltic fan, I can't even imagine. The things you do for the characters you love.
hey hey does this mean we get more ~sparkly~ Estonia. (I don't even know what that means, I've just heard other anons refer to him as such).
IT'S OKAY MAN. I ENJOYED IT.
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Date: 2009-08-10 11:25 am (UTC)... That picture. Oh. My. God. Congratulations, you managed to make Norway look like a man (a hot one, at that). So many people fail at making him look like a guy - it's the same problem as with Finland, really. (I see your white-text flailing, and I say, don't worry about it. Looks fine to me. I imagine getting the hang of a tablet is difficult - you seem to be doing pretty well, at any rate!)
You're right that it's a period that isn't explored in fandom a lot. Come to think of it, even when it comes to certain characters that you'd expect to have lots of stuff written with them dealing with that period, you don't see it. Take Canada fic, for example - he's a very popular character, and you'd expect a ton of stuff dealing with the War of 1812, but I haven't really run into a lot of that, nor anything that deals with the Riel Rebellion either (though that was more mid-1800s, hmm). Really, it's kind of surprising.
how awesome it would be if someone got around to writing it
Workin' on it, darlin'. I actually wrote a whole page of it today! -- Though most of it just involved Denmark being a jackass. But, er, at least I was working on it. I've had such a hard time motivating myself to write, but I think it's slowly coming back. This is good! Now, if only I could get the will to edit the two kink meme drafts and five anonmeme drabbles that have been sitting around for over a month, I'd definitely be in business.
I saw the write-or-die thing, and I love the idea, but unfortunately for me I can only write well when I'm doing it by hand. I can't write on a computer at all. I need to be able to scratch things out, and use arrows and there's something about physically seeing the pages that really helps me out. I might try the write-or-die thing for when I'm typing up fic, though. Usually I get distracted and it takes me about fifty million years to type something up (this may be an exaggeration).
I'm glad LJ is working for you again. <3 Most of the things I do online nowadays are LJ related. In previous years I had online games that I'd play as well, but not as much any more. In fact... now that I think of it, except for Wiki research and geeking out while reading medieval blogs, pretty much the entirety of what I do when I'm on the internet is LJ. I don't know where I'd be without it. Been on this site since 2002, and I really can't imagine not having it.
Now, when it comes to computers, in my defence I wasn't the one who bought this thing. If I had, it likely wouldn't have had Vista, and it likely wouldn't have been a Dell. Sigh. Though thus far I haven't really had any problems with the system not working. Mostly my issue has been not knowing how to do stuff. ...Well. Except for this whole battery thing, which I still haven't gotten around to fixing.
3.1 was... wow, that was so long ago. It's hard to remember. I recall that going back to using 3.1 (on an old computer) after using Windows 95 for a while was really jarring. The windows for various folders were always open; you didn't open them yourself, they stayed on the desktop like that. There wasn't a start-bar. If I closed the windows I didn't know how to get it back. To be honest, I've always been more comfortable with DOS than with Windows 3.1; DOS is a pain in the ass, but as long as I knew the commands to run my games, I was good. Easy-peasy.
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Date: 2009-08-10 11:26 am (UTC)I duno if I give off a computer genius vibe, but if I do, I wish I didn't. I mean, I know how to do basic stuff with a computer - and that's usually the sort of thing people ask me to do. But sometimes I get comments like, "THE INTERNET IS BROKEN" when the router isn't working right for some reason, and they expect me to magically fix it even though I don't know what's wrong in the first place. Sometimes my parents even call me and expect me to do tech-support over the phone, argh. I AM NOT QUALLIFIED FOR THIS. Sob.
Anyway. Moving on to tourism and stuff. I don't think she gets sucked in to souvenier places and tourist traps out of a desire to show that she went somewhere rather than actually visiting the place. I think she genuinely enjoys that sort of thing, ugh. She really isn't the sort to enjoy the outdoors... or historical sites... or any of the things I like, really. SIGH. Comparing it to Paris, it we went there, she'd spend hours at the Eiffel Tower, but bypass the Louvre.
I've been living in Saskatchewan for about a year now - it was around this time last year that I set up in my apartment. I sort of get along with my colleagues from the English department, but they aren't really friends per se... it's more like an odd combination of a coworker relationship and a rival relationship. So, we're not really close. I guess I'll meet someone who I'll be able to hang out with eventually, but gods, is this frustrating. It took me four years to make friends back in Nova Scotia, and then I had to leave it all behind.
Anyway. You're right about never hearing about anyone fighting off a moose. It's always bears. I think part of it is that bears are more likely to come into a city or camp, whereas moose tend to mind their own business. So, bears are more troublesome. However, you generally don't have to worry about a bear the size of a small pickup truck hurtling through your windshield at 100 km/hr. They're also dangerous outside of cars too, of course, but since they generally mind their own business it's usually just hunters that have to worry about them, I guess. They might be delicious, but man, I would never want to piss one off.
On the subject of writing, you're right - planning to be a bestselling author rarely ends well. I mean, okay, it's a nice thing to dream about, but so few people are as successful as, say, Stephen King or Neil Gaiman, and it's entirely unrealistic to expect that kind of result. It seems strange - perhaps also egotistical - to think, right before the novel is even finished, that one will have that kind of success. I just don't understand what motivates this sort of behaviour.
Since I'm not big into fandom (I normally don't care at all), the Supernatural fandom didn't really scare me away from watching the series. As far as television goes, it's pretty okay. I gave up about 1/4 of the way through the second season - not because it was bad, but because I don't have the patience to sit there and watch television episodes. It's just this 'thing' I have. Can't stand it. I can usually sit still long enough to watch a movie, but I watch them rarely - so watching episode after episode of television, even if I only watched one per evening, was just a bit much for me.
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Date: 2009-08-10 11:27 am (UTC)On the whole, it boils down to this: Modern vampires are humanized, whereas with old vampires such as Stoker's Dracula, there is absolutely no question that the vampire is a monster, and there is little effort made to portray them as a being with human emotions or human morals. There are some similarities, though; for instance, both "old-style" vampires and modern vampires are sexualized. On the other hand, the divide is very strong. Rice's vampires, as well as Twilight vampires (as example) are illustrated as persons, are given emotions and (usually) logical forms of reasoning, and moral codes that at least somewhat resemble human patterns. They are people who happen to suck blood and occasionally have somewhat animalistic tendencies. This is not present in Dracula at all; there is no question of him being a monster. The same thing goes for Nosferatu, as an example -- have you seen that movie? It's excellent.
The vampires in my mafia story were closer to the Rice variety than they were to Dracula, though I tried to avoid doing the whole whiney emo thing. In some ways, though, I'm rather glad I never finished that novel, as I started when I was about halfway through highschool and it probably was not anywhere near as good as I wanted to think it was at the time.
Now, on the subject of fic - Ahh, yes, that's the one. She isn't the only Finnish fic writer I've come across, but of the ones I've read, she's the best, and has written the most (thus far). And, saaa. I wanted to read her latest right when it was posted, but I didn't have the time... I've learned that with her writing, at least, I like to read it when I can savour it, and afterward think up something resembling an insightful comment. I'll probably get to it sometime today....
In any case, I've taken to saving up bookmarks of fics that I need to read as well, though my list is kind of scattered. Sometimes when I'm looking for something to read I head over to Fyretoppaaa's bookmarks and browse through to see if there's anything of interest.
Anyway. When it comes to the worry thing... yeah, you've probably said it before, and you're definitely right. I try not to worry, and yet... well. There it is. I do work on it, though. I can't recall reading the post that you mentioned, though. I might have to go and look for it. Maybe I did read it, but just don't remember. One of these days I'll get around to posting fic, though. Originally I wanted to go in with a bang and post the Union fic, but it'll be a really long time before that one is finished. I think the most likly candidate is 'Tea and Memories', that short Nor&Ice brotherly thing I did a little while back. Not much of a plot, but I do like it. Needs some cleaning up first though.
My books - yes. When I moved back home from Nova Scotia to Fort Mac, we were flying. I sent some packages ahead on greyhound, but I was limited in what I could send because of money, and a lot of the space in those boxes were taken up by things like winter clothes and stuff. Books were low priority. Then when flying back, of course I was limited only to things that could be taken on the plane, and there wasn't anyone who could mail my things to me, so I did have to leave them behind. But I managed to keep the few rare books that I had, so at least there is that. Epics like The Iliad are easy to replace.
Now, to Middle English. Well, when you think of it, the special name is rather fitting, isn't it? As it's a transition period between Old English, which is absolutely nothing like what we speak now, and Modern English ('modern' being Shakespeare and afterward). Now, I keep harping on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but in this case I think it's fitting to mention it again. The text for that is much unlike the ones I gave examples for previous examples. Take a look:
þen commaunded þe kyng þe kny3t for to ryse
and he ful radly vpros and ruchched hym fayre
kneled doun bifore þe kyng and cachez þat weppen
and he luflyly hit hym laft and lyfte vp his honde
and gef hym goddez blessyng and gladly hym biddes
þat his hert and his honde schulde hardi be boþe
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Date: 2009-08-10 11:28 am (UTC)Then commanded the king the knight for to rise
and he full readily uprose and readied himself well;
kneeled down before the king, who received that weapon
and he gave a sound of joy and lifted his hand
and gave him god's blessing and gladly bid him
that his heart and his hand should hardy be both.
Old English, on the other hand, is absolutely impossible for me to read or translate, because it's farther removed again from Middle English. The opening lines of Beowulf:
Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum
FFFF. I can't make any sense of that whatsoever, except that "Hwæt!" is a call to attention (like "Hark" or "Listen"), and that Scyld Scefing is the king's name (though if I didn't know the story, I wouldn't know that). ... Er.
Anyway. Yes. Middle English is interesting but sometimes very difficult. I can't actually speak it yet, but hearing it speak it properly (or, er, the way we think it was spoken) is just so awesome. Same thing with Old English. As for reading and vocabulary and so on, generally the really difficult words have translations alongside the passage, and there are generally notes at the bottom for passages that have meanings that are not immediately apparent, or parts where we don't really know wtf is meant.
Those list you mentioned - the ones with really important books - yes, I've read it, and you know... I feel that I haven't read enough of them either. It doesn't help that people are always saying to me, "Oh my god, You've never read Lord of the Flies? Or Animal Farm? Or Farenheit 451? Or Of Mice and Men? Or The Crucible?" etc, etc, repeat for many many novels generally taught in American high schools. Sigh. The world is big, and people have been writing for a long time, and I find myself thinking that I can't possibly read everything. Though sometimes I get so annoyed, as occasionally people assume you're ignorant if you haven't read those books. I think to myself... really? Really, now. Okay, I might not have read Animal Farm or The Crucible, but have you read The Aeneid? Or Chaereas and Callirhoe? What about The Song of Roland or The Revenger's Tragedy or The History of Rasselas or --- well, you understand what I mean, surely. ... Er. Sorry for rambling on that matter. It's just that I got this feeling recently, in regard to a remark someone made on the meme - someone didn't catch a reference, and someone else said, "Do you read books? Or go to school?" I guess I've just been letting my reaction stew a while. Er.
Moving on! Ahh, online pet games. No, actually, the one I'm thinking of was made after Neopets was popular, around 2003 or so. It's called "Furry Paws", and it has a pretty steady following, though it's nowhere near as well-known as Neopets or Webkinz. It's precisely the same idea as Neopets, being online and everything. Unfortunately for me, I lost contact with my Estonian friend a year or so after I got to know her. She just sort of dropped off the face of the planet - probably lost interest in the game, I guess. Sigh. I wish I could get in touch with her again, but I really have no way to do so, as that was my only way of contacting her.
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Date: 2009-08-10 11:29 am (UTC)...Anyway. OKAYFINE. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to tagging everything. SIGHHHH. ;p And yes. For writing, I'm rather prolific. Though the memory system does have its limits. My fics are also bookmarked here, complete with summaries and ratings, so it will be easier to see what each one is about without clicking around. I like the delicious system better than regular LJ tags because you can narrow it down according to several different qualifiers. I often get frustrated with, say, the main Hetalia comm because I can only go through one tag, not two at the same time....
On the subject of the kink meme, yes, I guess the repetitive stuff takes up space - especially when it's the exact same thing, almost word for word. Very frustrating. I guess I don't mind the volume of US/UK stuff as.... the fact that, as you mentioned, other stuff doesn't get filled. It bugs me. Not much, mind, but enough that it's kind of "Argh". I try my best to fill unusual things when the occasion arises, but it isn't enough. And it would be nice if I had something I could read. You're right on the money about most of the Baltic prompts involving Russia in some way. Argh. Though fortunately for me, the majority of Estonia prompts do not. The main reason I got the idea to make the index was so that I could keep track of the Estonia stuff, heh. It's too bad that stuff relating to him hardly ever gets filled, though....
~*~Sparkly~*~ Estonia, you say? Well, maybe. Mostly I intend to tone down the whole Finland thing a little, just because I've been doing a lot of that lately and I don't want there to be too much of it, as there's certainly a lot more to Eesti than his infatuation. But when people ask for the sparkles, I dunno man... In some ways, it seems what they're asking for is a slightly more flashy, more dynamic portrayal - at least compared to what I do now. While I can see where they'd get that from, I really don't know... I have difficulty seeing him being that way in such a public space (I see him as being slightly reserved in public and more open when in private - though definitely not to the same extent as, say, Norway). It's a difficult thing to untangle and I guess I'm just going to have to fiddle with it a little.
And that's all for now. <3 Cheers.
[edit] Holy shit, the page is finally stretched on my huge-ass screen. Took us long enough! ;D
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:15 pm (UTC)My page isn't stretched yet! It even looks like it could take a few more (having this wide of a screen is great when it comes to page stretching, but it's a nightmare for getting desktop wallpapers). And I only noticed my major html fail now. Why is it that I only desperately need to edit comments when I'm anon, I do not know.
I suppose it's best just not to think too hard about how much you end up going over the limit then. We'll all be saner for it, I'm sure.
can i ramble a bit on how it confuses me how girly fandom makes Norway? well, I suppose I can. You can skip over it if you don't want to read it cause this is practically a repeat of what I said with Finland (oh god, it is a total repeat)~
IT'S NORWAYYYY. I don't know, but, as far as these sorts of things, that country just strikes me as being manly. . .? Okay, you can't really measure the "manliness" of a nation, but err, before Hetalia, if I thought of a Norwegian, I would think of one of those really really intense fishermen (the kind who worked at catching fish in arctic waters, those freezing waters with huge gigantic waves crashing everywhere) who can wear shorts in the winter and whose hands are so rough and calloused you could probably rub sandpaper against the skin and they won't bleed. Also: beards. So I suppose that's probably an influence, and maybe a reason why I can't imagine him looking, well, soft? And this is without even needing to bring up lolvikings.
Hidekaz doesn't even draw him that girly, or small either. He's the third tallest Nordic, doesn't look too willowy or soft or anything. The guy draws him with an average build. So uh, I guess it's probably the hairpin that makes people assume = girly? The hairpin seems more ironic to me than girly. Maybe he's just got wild hair and it gets in the way of him doing things (who knows, maybe this Norway fellow is a practical kind of guy who doesn't want hair getting in his eyes when the wind is blowing).
I think if Norway did look girly, then he'd have to look more like one would imagine a Valkyrie to look like? Wait what am I talking about, you can't look feminine unless you look small and delicate, pardon me. And since people were already so set on pairing him with Denmark, he must become short because people with romantic interest in each other must have a height difference of at least two feet. although i kind of really like size difference despite how grating this entire thing gets
Maybe I only want to draw everyone manly because I've read too many American comic books so I expect guys to look like guys. but those guys in comic books can get a bit too manly sometimes. I know I would probably barf seeing some of those guys in real life. Hah, when I'm in the grocery store, every so often there'll be a weight lifting/body building magazine that'll succeed in making me feel absolutely nauseous. There is such a thing as too much. Oh, is there ever.
I mean, I like seeing some manry men, but there's nothing wrong with me thinking that this is a bit of an excess, eh?
okay, back to the point --- > why do i bother rambling about this when I am the only person who thinks like this orz orz orz everyone thinks he's girly and now I must learn to live with it. It's not that I want him to be GAR or anything just, yeah.
AND TO END ALL OF THIS: his jawline was totes wrong. And drawing on a tablet is hard cause it's all. . . I can't explain it. My sister can't even write her own name down properly with it. Nor can some of my friends.
The only historical event that is ever written about is the American Evolution. Or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Or the Cold War in general (though that doesn't really count, cause they don't go over events, it's more of just raaaaah i hate you hatesexhatesexhatesex. Someone go write about the space race goddamnit :|).
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:16 pm (UTC)♥♥♥! THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR.
I could use some more Denmark being a jackass in my life. I could use more Denmark in my life in general, though.
I heard that if you've got a block you should try and write every day anyways? Hurr, I wouldn't know. I'm just going to say that when you finish all those things, everything will be great and it will be beautiful and everyone will be celebrating and a blind man will learn to see.
You could just use brackets and caps and all? Haha, I dunno, I'd explain what I mean but I don't think I'm in the right frame of mind to do so (sleeeeep sounds so good right now, I just woke up and took a shower but I'm still drowsy as god knows what Okay, not anymore. It's been three hours since I started typing this, christ). No harm in using it just for typing the fic up though, I suppose.
At least it makes sense to spend a good fraction of your time on LJ, it's got practically everything on it. Not to mention it's got everyone as well. Kids try to move to their Dreamwidth, but they'll just be back (they're always back). Most people I know pretty much spend most of their internet time on Facebook but slkdfjskdfj Facebook just makes me want to punch things. Every time I go on it I just want to delete my account, but I can't cause it's the only way some people can reach me.
FIX IT. WHAT IF IT GETS WORSE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEN? YOU ARE GOING TO WALLOW IN DESPAIR.
Aw man, DOS is so hardcore. If anyone opens that up they automatically look like a computer whiz these days. wait this is pretty much the same thing as MS DOS right. For like, three days I knew how to remove viruses from my computer with just MS DOS but then, of course, I completely forgot how to do it. Such is life.
I think electronics just aren't too fond of you, buddy.
I should really start backing stuff up on CDs. It's one of those things I'm going to keep saying I'll get around to doing until BAM-- my computer kills itself. Looking at it, I don't think there's that much stuff which is all that important anyways. Lots of stuff I'd like to keep, but yeah. Of course, it's not like I'm in the middle of typing some big report right now so maybe this will change.
Haha I am a master at fixing the internet connection because we used to have problems with it every week. If you don't know, just say something's weird is going on at Telus (or whatever internet provider). Get your parents a computer how-to book for Christmas. Better yet, get yourself one. I can't imagine helping someone over the phone though, you'd have to know everything by heart. Arr.
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:17 pm (UTC)It takes me a long time to make friends too. Are you going to be staying in Saskatchewan, as far as you can see? This is totally the obvious thing to say, but maybe you can go and see if there are any clubs/groups about things you're interested in if you're feeling daring enough. And just cause it took four years there, it doesn't mean it'll be the same this way. Maybe you'll just be lucky like me and just befriend one person, and that person will just do all the trouble of introducing you to a bunch of other people (I can never meet people myself, I've got to meet them through someone it seems).
I don't even think I've seen moose meat anywhere, though I'm sure people probably eat it, somewhere. Everything is eaten.
What motivates it? I dunno, desire for recognition? Can't deny it, recognition for doing something is a pretty appealing idea.
I'm probably more desperate for recognition than I'd be willing to admit.I'm so terrible with watching television. Granted, there are a few shows I watch, but I usually watch them only when I really really feel like it, cause most of the time I'd rather not watch tv at all. just last night I was watching a few shows on HGTV with my parents. Halfway through the first show I just wanted to leave, but I stuck it out for another hour and a half for the sake of quality family time, hah. I ended up feeling pretty brain dead and maybe a bit anxious after it.
Now it's bad to have characters just be "monsters" isn't it? Haha, would it be wrong if I said that this actually probably suggests something quite good, in the way our society has changed/progressed?
I've heard of that movie, and I've probably looked at the cover at Blockbuster (speaking of Blockbuster I Have some movies that are like a week late slkdfjoasljf). Though, Wikipedia tells me there are two versions, a silent film from the 20s and then another one from '79. Which one did you watch?
Do you still have that mafia-vampire story lying around anywhere? I love how it you try and create something, even if you're somewhat pleased with it, you can go back to it after awhile, after your skills have improved, and be horrified by it. I still have old fics of mine posted up somewhere, I remember looking back at them and suddenly it was all WHOOSH NOSTALGIA.
read it yet? looks like she updated yet again, too.
I used to try and leave ~meaningful comments~ (though I could be wrong about what I think you mean by this) until I realized I really had no idea what I was talking about. A lot of the time it's enough just to have someone know that you like something. though it is extra nice having something point out specific things they like pffhaha
I usually keep stories I'm meaning to get around to reading in different tabs. Bad idea, I think even right now I've got eight tabs open for just stories.
I believe I said it when you were talking about that Poland fic you wanted to write. It was maybe 40,000 words ago so it's no wonder if you forgot a mere sentence I just said.
For Christmas, get your parents to send all your books to you~! If they'd be willing. I don't even know how much that kind of thing would cost (at all. Watch as you tell me it'd be several hundred dollars). And if you don't think they'd get lost (which is what I always assume cause the first thing I ever tried to send with them got lost, so ever since then I've been really hesitant about sending anything.)
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:18 pm (UTC)Now, in regards to Old English : what the hell.. Hurr, well, if anything at least now I see how English is a Germanic language?? (I mean, now that I see what it originated from? i would explain myself as to how it's reminding me of it but I don't know enough about language to explain myself here and I would end up looking like more of an idiot than this very long run on sentence is already making me look as this is seriously not my area of expertise orz) That æ has always thrown me off, it looks like two letters smushed together, not just one word. ð looks a bit like dynamite. Ahh I'm trivializing this, aren't I? Sorry D: Anything involving the way language works was never, ever my forte. And I'm not even talking about just learning about them.
How does it sound spoken? Accent, pronunciation and all. I mean, if you're able to explain it.
Hah, we read Animal Farm for school in grade nine, same year we learned about the Soviet Union (this was actually pretty cool). And then I read Fahrenheit 451 earlier this year it's a really short read, I don't think it's even 200 pages?) It's strange for people to look down on others for not having read those things though, when whole lot of those people wouldn't have ever read those books themselves if it wasn't for the English curriculum during their school years.
AND I THINK I KNOW WHAT COMMENT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? I remmeber someone saying that to someone who didn't know who Giles Corey (?) was, and apparently he's from this movie and I saw that and I was a bit ticked because I'm pretty sure he had to do something with America's early days. In other words, you probably would have never heard of him unless you're American. We make fun of that kind of attitude a lot on the meme, but apparently there are still some people who assume America = the world :| Okay, most of the people on the meme are from there but still.
. . .maybe you were talking about something else.
Aww, that sucks :( Maybe one day you'll find her again, you never know~ maybe she's got a devart or a domain that you'll just magically stumble upon.
alsdjflsakjf they're so adorable. Why are all foreign fans so adorable, I don't even --
buddy I'm always logged in. Like the fifth reply I gave to you on here was almost a deanon aah.
I don't think I could cosplay? I don't know, I like reading about costuming and looking at it and designing it but I'm not so into the actual dressing up (and I hate having my picture taken, I cannot emphasize this enough). Not to mention my sewing skills are pathetic, if not nonexistent (in CTS class we had to make a pair of pajama pants. Simple enough, everyone could do it but I managed to turn mine in some giant big tube. I can't even sew two pieces of cloth together right). It is really tempting though, especially when you're looking through all those photo shoots. My one friend went to one a few days ago and she wrote this huge post about it and she sounded like she had the time of her life (it was in Edmonton, so close, but so far. . .) I don't know who I'd play as though, the last look-alike thread everyone told me I'd be Hungary but arghh that's so obvious and everyone goes as her anyways. deep in my heart I would want to go as Denmark or Turkey or something.
I should add that if I wanted to cosplay I couldn't do it at the regular old comic con over here cause I'd be going with my buddy and he would shake his head in shame if he saw what my ~secret internet life~ brought me too :') That and the cosplay thing isn't so big at that one. Maybe at the anime con, here.
Is there a place you can request ideas to LJ? Cause I hate not being able to browse more than one tag at a time, too. I'm thinking about how much easier life would be if we could do that, and I now find myself in a state of pure dreamy bliss.
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Date: 2009-08-14 11:19 pm (UTC)You know, it bugs me when people, after hearing others complain about how there's not enough such and such, say "then write it yourself!" Reading a story someone else wrote is a different experience than writing something you yourself wrote.
Not to mention, some of us can't write :/
Maybeeee they're going to get a bit more popularity considering episode 29 of the anime (an episode which, honestly, I really enjoyed because it was so ridiculous. I think I actually had tears from laughing, I don't. . . I don't even know. Though maybe those tears were there because everyone else in the house was sleeping and I was trying hard not to laugh out loud.)
I think the meme is just waiting for you to come in and yell LATVIAAAAAA! once he starts getting into something fishy. Maybe you don't even have to even change the way you play him, other than giving him (regular sized) sparkly text, that could be ~*sparkly Estonia*~ enough. Maybe when he's to trying to convince someone/assure someone/show something off? Hell, just saying hi?
Ah, well, you know him better than I do. And you even know about RP'ing better than I do. But you compelled me to re-read some Estonia strips anddd
http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/1722263.html
kuhiuahtoiawt I totally forgot that he actually sparkled like that ♥ he and Edward Cullen need a face off asap. (for some reason I thought that sparkly Estonia was a fandom invention, hurm)
Someone needs to finish scanlating that strip. I'm looking at the original and the rest of it looks glorious.
if your friend is still visiting you, I say hi.
hahaha well okay then, adios ~
OH HEY I THINK I FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO YOU IN WORD COUNT :D
Cause I ranted about Norway not being girly. /headdesking forever
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:10 am (UTC)Holy shit, it seems your screen is even larger than mine. Craaazy. I do so love having a big screen, though. It might make the laptop-size a pain in the ass, and finding wallpapers is a pain (I've resorted to just making my own) but it's nice to be able to see things.
I enjoy your Norway rambling. Like many people, I like reading things I happen to agree with. ;p Anyway. I like your description of your impression of a Norwegian. Not something I'd really considered before. The image of the tough cold-water fisherman actually makes me think of a Newfoundlander, and now that I'm thinking on that subject, it seems fitting, almost coincidentally fitting - as I tend to associate Norway with Newfoundland (ff, obvious) and in my head, when writing his dialogue, I tend to imagine his accent as a Newfoundlander accent (a very clipped, townie version of it, but a Newfoundlander accent nontheless). But, er, that's all tangental. Moving on~
You do have a point that Hidekaz doesn't draw him looking all girly and stuff. Looking back through what I have saved, he seems pretty sturdy to me. Not soft. And he just looks short 'cause he's in a lineup with Denmark and Sweden, who would make almost anyone look short. But I guess people just tend to run with it. On the subject of the hairpin, I think it's partly practicality; not wanting his hair to end up sticking in all directions like Denmark's (fff) and also just a remnant of viking vanity (they were very focused on appearance, after all, and certainly had an eye for shiny things).
CLEARLY one can't be feminine without being a little damnsel, as there are no hardcore females evarrrr (gods, that hurt to type). Sigh. Y'know, sometimes I wish Nor had been a girl instead, just because it'd be totally awesome to have another totally badass chica in the series (like Hungary, only in this case an ex-viking. Yessssss). Ah, well. Wasn't meant to be. And people would probably like, run with it in an entirely different direction anyway.... Sigh.
Anyway, on the subject of style - yeah, I guess American comic influence would have something to do with expecting men to look like men. Though of course, as you mentioned, sometimes things are a little too much. I'd say even frequently. That's part of what turned me off from American comic stuff early on I guess. Though part of me thinks now that I just wasn't reading the right stuff.
I used to want a tablet, back in the day, but I realized quite shortly that I'm such a whore for real media work that surely I would never use it. Mmmmmcolouredpencils.
RARGH RARGH RARGH NOBODY EVER WRITES ABOUT HISTORY well, uh, I'm going to try soon, but that doesn't count. Er. Anyway. YES. PEOPLE NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING DIFFERENT. I'm getting bored with seeing the American Revolution over and over and over again. I mean, okay, big thing, but... fgs there's other things to write about. Sometimes I think that maybe people just haven't thought about it yet. I hope so.
MORE DENMARK BEING A JACKASS YES. I'm not a huge fan of the guy actually, but geeze is he ever fun to write. Considering most of the people I tend to write about, it isn't often that I get the opportunity to write someone being a lovable douche (or just a douche, period). But gahhh, writing. SO MANY LITTLE THINGS. And what with this past week when I couldn't take the time to write, they're just sitting. WELL I'll try to get it done now, I guess. Hack away at them until they're all done.
LJ = my one true love. Well, maybe not, but close. Gah, I could never leave. I got an account at Dreamwidth and thought about crossposting but I dunno, man. Can't be bothered. (And you know, I think 'Dreamwidth' is a ridiculous name). And I can't stand Facebook. A lot of people at my school/my previous school use it, so I have an account so they can contact me, but I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF THAT SITE. It just seems so... mindless and inane, much like Myspace.
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:11 am (UTC)Long-term plans... hmm. Well, I'm probably going to stay here for my PhD, just because it will be easier to get in here than anywhere else (dunno if they'd want to put up with me for four more years though. Hah). Unfortunately for me there isn't really anything at the school for social stuff, but maybe I'll get off my butt and see if there's anything in the town that I could get involved in. Maybe I could just get a real job... might not make me any friends, but at least it'll get me out of th house.
Meeting people is just... argh, so difficult. I am a complete awkward loser. When Sab met me at the airport, apparently she found me really intimidating (though I thought I was doing rather well, shit) and several days later, when we were finally a bit less awkward, she compared me to Sweden. Now that I think of it the comparison totally fits. ;~; I'm so... gruff and my default expression is :| and people used to say that about me when I was in high school, but I'd hoped to grow out of it, arrrrrgh. ...Anyway. Enough whining from me.
"I don't even think I've seen moose meat anywhere"
Ffff. In the city? No way. Y'can't buy that stuff, mate. 8D Have to know a hunter in order to get it, really. I'm glad my dad is into that kind of thing, else we probably wouldn't get as much as we do. And occasionally we'd receive deer saussage and such from his hunting buddies. SO GOOD. Mmmm now I want some.
But anyway, about the desire for recognition and so on - yes, you're probably right about that. A lot of the time when people do things, it's because of that... To be honest, I look for it a lot too. I wouldn't post things (writing etc) publicly if I didn't. But I try to be realistic about it, which is something I feel is not a characteristic shared by those who set out with the intention of becoming big in such-and-such (be it writing or acting or whatever). There are so many factors in it, that it's hard to determine what will work. The only factors I've taken note of are 1. visibility and 2. moderate quality, at least. So, I try to steer myself in that direction. Not doing so hot with the original stuff right now, but as far as fic goes it's working, though I'm kind of failing in the visibility department at the moment.
Television... fff. My parents watch it every night, and I just can't be bothered, but when I was living with them I'd get nagged at if I didn't come down to the living room. Generally what I'd end up doing is I'd work on embroidery or knit or something while half-watching whatever crime drama they were staring at that night. I just can't sit there with a television. I get bored, even if it's something good. SIGH.
As for Nosferatu, I was refering to the silent film from the '20s, yes. SCARY SHIT, oh my god. Well, at least, I found it frightening. I haven't seen the other one, though. But anyway, as for monsters... hmm, I don't know. I suppose the change does suggest something good. On the other hand, the shift has produced literature etc featuring villains who are rather... wishy-washy. I don't know, I suppose it's just that sometimes, I want to read about something evil - rather, good triumphing over something that is undeniably evil and monstrous. While the real world is of course rarely so clean-cut, it's so nice to read about evil when it is done well (and unfortunately this rarely happens, especially nowadays).
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:12 am (UTC)Moving on. No, alas, I wasn't able to read the new part she put up yet, because I got distracted with cleaning (and later with my guest).SIGH. But I'll get around to it soon. When I say I try my best to leave insightful comments, I mean like... something beyond keysmash and squee. I mean, that is good, but I also like to say things like, "I liked (general thing about style/progression/pacing/whatever) and especially such-and-such part because (it made me feel X/ the imagery is beautiful/ strong use of metaphor/ etc)". And sometimes I'll pick out specific sentences, if I find them particularly lovely. I think it's mostly because, it's one thing to know that someone likes it, but it's even better to know why. So when I make comments like that, it's my way of saying, "This is good, so keep doing it".
Books, ahhhhhlaksdjf. I would get my parents to send them to me, but it would be so expensive - and I wouldn't have anywhere to put them! I just got some nice new storage boxes, but even though they're rather large, it's still not enough to hold all the books I already have in my apartment and the pile keeps on growing!
Middle English... Eeeee. Sometimes it's easier to figure out, sometimes not. Anyway, the þ (or Thorn, as the letter is called) is indeed pronounced kind of like "th"; it can be pronounced two ways, as in "thick" or as in "the". As for the 3 in knight, er, that's my mistake. It's supposed to be a ȝ, called "yogh". Sometimes websites use a 3 instead of ȝ because in some places the character won't show up (as it is completely out of use everywhere; Thorn, on the other hand, is still used in Icelandic) and I didn't notice until you pointed that out. In this case, it serves as a "gh" sound; but the pronunciation of the whole word wouldn't be modern - it would be pronounced more like "kn-eeght", according to my prof.
Old English is indeed WTF and I want to learn it so badly, aslkdfj. Anyway. "Ash", or æ is its own letter, rather than two stuck together (though in many modern things it's written as two letters), and it always throws me off because it's pronounced differently in Latin (where I have more familiarity with it) than in Old English and other things. In Latin it's a long I sound, like the word "eye", whereas in Old English it's more like... a soft A with a hint of E (like in the word 'cat' I guess). And Eth (ð) always looked like a tree to me, which seems somehow fitting (it's pronounced th as in "them", btw). Gah, I find this all fascinating, but it's so hard to learn....
When the whole thing is spoken, it sounds like... very throaty and rough and sounds like a mishmash of German and Swedish and maybe Gaelic and somethin' else. That's what Old English sounds like when spoken. ;p I don't know it myself, but I had the pleasure of listening to my professor read us the introduction in the original. Aha, found some of it on youtube, here. Sometimes I can kind of pick out stuff that sounds like a sentence, but mostly it's like... wat.
Anyway. Moving on to more modern things. I do, too, think it's ridiculous for people to look down on others for not reading things when it's likely they wouldn't have read those things themselves if not for school. ARGH. So frustrating. And with the differences in curriculums and such, well, it's impossible to read everything. And the comment you refer to is precisely the one I was refering to, so we're definitely on th esame page there. Yeah, I figured it was an American thing, but argh... it just pissed me off so much. Why would I know everything that they teach/refer to down there? I'm not American. This is not America. Some people refer to it as the 51st state, but we haven't been annexed yet! ARGH. RAGE. AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD.
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:12 am (UTC)But on a more positive note. YES. ADORABLE FOREIGN FANS. I don't know what it is, but so many of the ones I've run in to on my internet wanderings just seem so nice. And cute. And willing to talk to me about where they live. And stuff. And... I'm going to stop now before I get too hand-flappy.
I dunno about cosplay - I mean, I'd love to do it, but practically speaking, I'm not sure I could! When it comes to sewing, I'm only good at hand-sewing (though I'm sure I could do machine with practice) and I don't own a machine, so... I dunno. I'd probably want to go as Poland or maybe Lithuania, but considering how awkward I am, Sweden might be a better choice. ;p Ah, but it'll be quite a while before I'm even able to go to a con, so I should probably not linger on it too much. I'll just get sulky and envious of everyone who does get to go.
Anyway, back to LJ. And tags. You know, there probably is a place for suggestions, though I can't recall at the moment. I think I might go looking later on and see if I can find it. 'cause having a multi-browsing system would be excellent. Would probably take thm a long time to put it in, but it would be so worth it.
Back to fic again. This:
Reading a story someone else wrote is a different experience than writing something you yourself wrote.
That's precisely my feeling on the matter. I mean, yes, I do like writing the things I have ideas for, and I even like re-reading my own writing (when it is good). But reading things other people have written is so much more fun. Other people will always interpret the same characters in a slightly different way, so it's nice to see a different take on it. Sometimes they come up with things I never would imagine. And sometimes the writing is better. And you know, it's just... It's nice to read something new, something that hasn't been stewing in my own head. And it's just... ARGH. I WANT TO READ SOMETHING. GODDAMNIT. *FLAIL* ffffff
I do hope that the Baltics will get a bit more popularity as a result of episode 29, but at the same time, I'm a little uncertain. Call me a pessimist, but most Balticfic is rather raperific, and I don't see that changing. However, I am holding out hope for some genfic to pop up, especially since the Baltic Way anniversary is right around the corner.
LATVIAAAAAAAAA oh, lawd. Yeah, I guess I should just get around to doing that, at least once. SIGH. I probably won't change much in the way I play. I mean, people say do this or do that, but ehhhhh. Half of it I can't be bothered. But I'm considering ways to adjust things slightly.
Anyway. Yes! He SPARKLES. At one point, someone suggested that I write an Estonia/Belgium Twilight crossover (Eduard and Bella, get it? fff) but, er, that wasn't something I was quite willing to roll with. Still, I must admit that an Estonia VS Edward sparkly faceoff sounds bloody hilarious.
I think... I think I should wrap this up. And go to bed. And I'm sorry my response was slow this time. Visitor and all. Yes.
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Date: 2009-08-21 06:57 pm (UTC)My screen didn't actually stretch until your last comment there. My screen isn't even in a size that tends to come with computers, so I've maybe only seen wallpapers that come in this size like, once. Then again it's hard to find wallpapers I like in general so the size of my screen probably doesn't matter that much. It sure makes posting pictures on the meme and everything confusing, because I'm not sure what's going to stretch most browsers.
I still don't think that a little screen stretching ever hurt anyone anyways. Maybe posting something that's 5000px in width, but little bit of scroll on the bottom is really no harm done.
That's pretty much what I used to think of Norway/Norwegians. That and fjords. Lots and lots of fjords (that has to be one of my favourite words. The "fj" makes it an absolute delight to say). Err, when you say a Newfie accent, you're just talking about the way they clip words? Or do you mean like he totally sounds like the guy here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYJ-Q-pzxE ?
cause i don't know if i can handre that
I think that if you looked short standing next to Denmark and Sweden, it's very likely you'd still be average height. In my head those two are pretty much behemoths (Sweden's second tallest after Russia, I think. Headcanon, yeahh.). Were they focused so much on, err, shiny things (well, I'd imagine that they were, everyone must have liked finding and picking up nice things. Hell, it's probably human nature to like shiny things.)? I remember reading two artciles that went on about vikings caring a lot about about their personal matienence and how Danes were made fun of for being "too clean." I'm not sure why I find the idea of the most badass people who ever lived being overly invested in smelling nice adorable and maybe a bit endearing, but there you go.
I know right. Like that Greek woman who set a plumber's dick on fire when he tried to rape her, what a pansy (that story is actually the greatest thing I have ever heard in my life and it's exactly the kind of badass thing I want to do at least once before I die. The fact that I won't die happy unless I do something that can earn me a mention in a cracked.com article is probably not a good thing) I wouldn't immediately assume that people would run it in a different direction though, this fandom treats the female characters very well. In a lot of other fandoms you'll see a lot of hate towards female characters, usually a result of them getting in the way of the gay or something ridiculous like that, but here they all seem to be loved. 's such a relief. Out of all the countries, I would've expected that France and Italy be made into girls (Hungary too, actually, but looks like she's already a girl). I am going off topic, yes.
I dunno when you would've ever even considerred them, but comics have a terrible rep when it comes to that stuff for a reason. Most of the art in the 90s was just dreadful, back in the day when EXTREMEEE was the way to go. Especially Rob Liefeld (http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html), aejihiaouethaoth. I was originally really turned off of superhero comics in general. It wasn't until I ended up reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (if you haven't read it, by all means, please do) and that got me into comics which later got me into superhero stuff and etc etc etc story of my life. I wish more people would give the non-mainstream superhero comics a chance, there is some incredible stuff there.
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Date: 2009-08-21 06:59 pm (UTC)It's crazy, man. All this time, I thought variety was a good thing. I don't know how popular those fics are, in terms of how many people are writing them. this might just be my inner whiny canadian talking but I'd love to see some more interaction with England and Canada. I mean, we still with them for a damn long time. I know it's a joke that England forgets Canada and all but come onnn.
aww man, I love Denmark. He's just. . . I don't know. Delightfully over the top in regards to everything? Or so I see him (damn you, lack of canon personality). I don't think I've told you this before, but I like the way you make him talk. That accent you give him, anyways.
Whenever I hear dreamwidth, I think of dreamweaver or whatever that website making program is called. It just doesn't sound like a journal site. I thought the point of facebook/myspace is pretty obvious, mostly for keeping in contact with people. It wouldn't be too bad if I didn't have a bunch of people I couldn't care less about on it. People whose lives I don't care about at all and it just feels weird seeing all these status updates and photo uploads and whatever for them when, really, I can't emphasize it enough, I don't give a damn about them.
You could also tell her just to plug it in and unplug it. Too many times have I tried to fix something in fancy, complex ways only to find out it was just a little bit unplugged. orz
Why wouldn't they want to put up with you? Do you bug the teachers or something? Pff. I'm sure there's some social stuff at the school. Even volunteering might be alright, if you've got time? And you should be getting a job anyways, buddy. FRIENDS ARE ALWAYS UNEXPECTED. Well, sometimes.
I'm trying to imagine you as intimidating in real life.
It's not working.
You're too. . . pleasant. Though I guess it might be a thing I'd have to experience in real life, eh? Maybe you are a total Sweden. Now, every time I meet someone intimidating, I'm going to start wondering if they're like that. But Sweden's maybe a bit more >:^| than :| but that's irrelevant (I just really like using ">:^|". And "щ(ಠ益ೃщ) " aoeijtiaoejt kids are getting damn creative with emoticons, these days).
I was totally going to bet I could find some moose meat in the city (my city dwelling heart was offending at the thought of not being able to find something in here) but then, thanks to the mighty power of google, you can't buy it legally in stores D: Maybe one of my dad's buddies can get some, I don't know. I AM SO WITH YOU ON THE DEER SAUSAGE. I don't usually like sausage even, but I don't know, the stuff that comes from a deer is so much better than the stuff that comes from a pig or whatever.
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Date: 2009-08-21 07:01 pm (UTC)Like 90% of the shows they play these days are crime dramas. I don't get it. Sometimes people post how much tv they watch on their journals, and they go and watch like 20+ seasons in a year! Okay, maybe spending all this time on a computer isn't much butter, but that's crazy.
Since my dad's got the surgery, and has been staying home, he's just been watching movies with me every other day. He's been on a history kick lately. Two days ago we watched a video about Norse America :D
I shall take your word for it, and I'll rent it if I ever see it. Hopefully it doesn't end up with me and my friends taking the piss out it, as we do with most horrors. comic books are the only place I still see that happen sometimes. Sometimes. Not often, but the good vs evil thing's still there. I'm not just talking superhero, here. In all seriousness, I've got such a soft spot for the whole good triumphs evil kind of thing. sigh.
Tell me, was that Jesus as a rock star that hangs out with a cross dressing vampire in Montreal also a product of your teenage years? Dear oh dear, you've got some crazy things going on in that head of yours. Not that I don't think it's awesome or anything, it's pretty grand, but now I want to bug you about writing cracky AU fic. I adore cracky AU fic.
back in the day after awhile the only thing i ever ended up writing was cracky au fic. the fandom was in desperate need of originality, that is my exuse.Getting distracted by cleaning? Crazy talk. I'm going to tell you what my mother tells me: fix your mess as soon as you make it and clean everything right away so you don't have to do a whole bunch of it later. (why don't you understand how hard this is, mom ;___;). Of course, maybe you already do that. I would not know, for obvious reasons.
I certainly do see the logic behind that, and sometimes I do it as well. It's just that. . . after reading a fic I think is really quite good I'm sometimes too excited and hyped up to write anything coherent. And I want to write the comment right away, or chances are that I'll forget to. Now that I think of it, I probably should ease up on the keysmashes when I write comments (or anything, really). but "asdlfjosapithpashgasgr omgomg eeeehurrdurr aoejtaipetjiaojt ♥♥♥!!! x5000" just gets so much across or not?.
Storage boxes? Dude, man up and build yourself a shelf. Or buy one. Well, how do you put them in those boxes anyways? You put them in so you can still see the spines, right?
aww yeah now I'm that much smarter 8D
the best way to learn a language is to emerge yourself in the culture, and surround yourself with it, right? So what you need is a time machine. I will build you one. Just give me a year and some $$$ and I'll be good to go.
if only.
I looked at that video (and some other ones and was really wtf-ing over the Canterbury tales too) and. . .what. what. To think that somewhere along the line that accent turned into (one of) the incredibly sexy British Accent(s) we know today. That's almost scary, to me, to think that a language can change so much give a few hundred years. Of course, maybe it's not too bad as long as we aren't speaking newspeak in the future.
Well, isn't Canada's annexation by America already approved in their constitution or whatever?
This is the burden of being located right next to a superpower, I guess. It's a shame, some people need to realize that just because a Canadian product(ion) doesn't achieve the same amount of success as an American one, it doesn't mean it's crap. People in Europe aren't so preoccupied with that, I take it? It looks like people are fine with German singers being popular in mostly just Germany and French shows being popular in mostly just France. That's the impression I've gotten, at least.
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Date: 2009-08-21 07:03 pm (UTC)At the same time, I don't really like having stuff shoved in my face just because it's Canadian. I'll like things on it's own merits. The fact that I like Kids In The Hall and Rush has nothing to do with them being Canadian. And I'm not going to start watching Degrassi and listening to Simple Plan just because said things are Canadian.
I love it when they go on about where they're from. Then they usually apologize for going on about it and I have to urge them on to tell me more cause I'm actually genuinely interested. Like, come on you guys, it's not like I've ever been there before! /HANDFLAPS FOREVER
If I could sew, I'd go as Turkey. In his intense Ottoman gear outfit. It would look so awesome, all that pretty fabric. Man, it wouldn't' even matter how I looked like because half my face would be covered anyways. Cons are still plenty of fun even without the whole cosplay thing. They're like a nerd's Las Vegas, I go visit them with the intent of becoming that much poorer.
It doesn't even matter if I don't completely agree with the way a author writes something, if it's done well it's always neat just seeing how someone else views a relationship/historical event. I love reading something and being all "oh, I never thought of that before!" It's nice to read a fic that's more of a "treat" than a "reward" (as in, something you can read but only after putting in hours of your time into it). I actually don't think there's that much fic being written for this fandom in general, considering the size of it (if you were to ignore the kinkmeme, at least). Compared to the amount of fanart, anyways.
I think the Baltic Way's gonna bring up an increase in threesomes, if you're lucky. The amount of rapefic for them is depressing, I think, and I'm not even a big fan of them. And am I going crazy or is there a lot of yandere!Latvia going around?
THERE WAS AN INVASION OF VAMPIRES AND EDWARD CULLENS ON THE MEME. WHERE WAS ESTONIA, MISTER >:^|
let's pretend that for the next ten seconds that this is a truth or dare thread and I'm daring your Estonia right now to challenge Edward Cullen to a sparkle off next time he starts a thread. okay i can't force you to do this but i can dream, can't i. If you can't write fic of it, maybe you can RP it ~
don't even worry about itttt. I replied knowing very well you probably won't going to get back for awhile. Also, with how long it takes me to reply sometimes, I'd be such a dick to expect a reply asap pff
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Date: 2009-08-29 08:03 am (UTC)When it comes to page stretching, I try to avoid doing it too much, at least in public (at the meme, I mean) just because so many people complain. Also, because surely some people are running slow, old computers, so I try to be kind and post resized images. Of course, when it comes to RP sometimes I just plain can' avoid a stretch (especially those few amazing times I've RP'd with Duplodanish, oh my god) but luckily the page has usually moved on by the time the thread gets long enough to stretch. That's one good thing about the speed of the meme nowadays - it moves quickly, so people still doing threads can be left to continue without any whining, as only those stalking them will notice things are getting long.
... On the other hand, sometimes it moves a bit too fast, and good topics die before people get the chance to respond to them, but I guess that's how it is. I do hope it will slow down by the time everyone is in school, though.
Anyway. HAH. No, no - when I say a Newfie accent, I don't mean quite like the guy in the video. That's more like how I imagine Canada would speak, fff. No, when I think of the way I try to write out Norway, it'd be more like... someone from St John's who has spent time away from the province. So, lighter accent to begin with, then lighter still. But the words are still clipped and vowels and consonants are dropped. And sometimes in fic I've had him use Newfoundlander phrases, though I try to keep that on the down-low (example, once I had him say "B'lay that" instead of "let it be". That sort of thing). But even with the accent, he still speaks more clearly than some others - it's something he does consciously.
About the height thing, you're probably right. Recently, someone on the meme posted a fanmade chart they had come across, and it had Norway at kind of medium, whereas Denmark and Sweden were quite a bit taller (though I think there should have been a few extra inches more, myself). But back to vikings - from what I remember reading about them, they did have a thing for bling. Gold this, silver that, blah blah blah. Then again, I guess most ancient peoples did, all things considered. But somehow my mind translates this into magpieish, fff. Anyway, yes, I did read those same articles you mentioned - Sab linked them to me actually (Scandinavian archaeology = her area of academic interest).
Hmm, I guess you're right on the thing about female characters doing well in this fandom. I've heard that a lot of other fandoms get a lot of female hate, and to be honest I don't understand that. I'd think that female characters would be more likely to be misinterpreted, rather than hated. Then again, I'm kind of out of the loop. The last time I was active in a fandom, it was one where for the most part the female characters didn't have a lot of screen time, and for the most part people didn't hate them, but they didn't write about them either. Eh.
So anyway, comics. The "when" is back in the mid/late 90s, and I can't remember what series it was. Probably just, you know, mainstream Marvel stuff. 's proooobably why I wasn't able to get into it, why I was turned off from it. I've heard of Gaiman's Sandman, and I've wanted to read it for a while, but it's one of those (many ) things that I just haven't gotten around to doing yet. There's far too much stuff out there, ach.
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Date: 2009-08-29 08:05 am (UTC)Photoshop is all right (though I've never actually used it for my stuff, when I did draw; I've always used Paint Shop Pro) but I really don't like colouring electronically at all. It takes much longer for me to do, and it never turns out the way I want it to, and somehow my real-life colouring always looks better. And I used to get a lot of people who, when commenting to me, would act as if Photoshop was "better" than real media, when it... really isn't. Gehhh. I don't know, I guess I'm just really biased toward the tangible. Though I guess it doesn't really matter much any more, because I don't draw any more (I actually hate drawing... no matter what I do, I never like the way it looks. I love colouring, hate drawing. I wish I could just colour other people's work forevarrrr).
Back to fic. CLEARLY variety is not a good thing! GASP what are you thinking~ But nah, you already know I agree with you. More England and Canada interacting would be a very good thing, I agree. Considering how many Canadians (and Canada-fans) there are in the fandom, you'd think there would be more stuff with Canada and England than there is. Ah, well. I do like France with Canada too, and there is a nice chunk of that, sooo... at least I have that. (Though now that I think of it, there might be more Fr&Can than Eng&Can because of all the US/UK stuff... sigh)
Denmaaaark~ Yeah, I duno how I feel about him. Sometimes I find myself loving him, sometimes I'm more "meh" toward him. It flip-flops. Evidently, I just can't decide. Maybe I need to read more fic or something. But anyway, the over-the-top part is definitely fun. I wish there was more canon, argh... Anyway, voice, no I don't think you mentioned it before. But I'm glad you liked it! I actually try to base his way of speaking on a southern Albertan accent, hah. And when I write Sweden, I aim for northern Albertan. It's easier to get a voice when I can think of something that I've actually heard before.
Now, Dreamwidth - the name makes me imagine some kind of photohosting site or something, because the "width" part makes me think of bandwidth. "Unlimited bandwidth! The host of your dreams! 8D" You're right that it doesn't really sound like a journalsite at all. Sigh. But anyway. Facebook/Myspace, I don't know. I mean, yes, the photo uploads and multi-person PMs are good sometimes but like... there's no text. The status updates people make are inane, and the messages people leave are equally inane, and -- oh, I don't know. I just plain don't like it. Maybe I'm just used to stuff with more detail/thought put into communication. I can see how a person would spend hours on LJ, but I absolutely cannot see how someone (such as my colleagues at the department) could spend hours on Facebook.
Argh. Computers. You know what my mum did today? Phoned me an expected me to play tech support, then got all pissy when I didn't know how to fix it. What the fuck, man. And this wasn't something where "unplug it then plug it in again" would apply. Maybe if I was there I could poke around and figure it out (I doubt it) but over the phone? No way. Why the hell is it that people always expect me to know what I'm doing? THIS REALLY SUCKS.
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Date: 2009-08-29 08:06 am (UTC)I'm trying to imagine you as intimidating in real life.
It's not working.
Hah, well, you'll have to try harder, I guess. ;p I find it easier to see how people would find me intimidating in real life than online. Plenty of people seem to find me scary online, and I'm not sure why, as I always try to be friendly, or at least civil. But in real life I guess it makes sense enough, because I'm very quiet and I don't smile and I always look like I'm glaring (I don't do it on purpose - maybe my face is stuck like that) and I can't hold a conversation at all. I'm getting a little better, in that I can speak when I need to, and approach people when I need to, but for the most part I guess I seem stand-offish and rather formal, and then people find that intimidating. In summary: I am Sweden. Or maybe Norway (someone said I'm a Norway). Sigh.
Television - well. I must admit, I do love crime dramas, even if they're all over the place nowadays. Some of my fondest memories are of watching Law&Order with my parents when I was very young. Most of the new stuff isn't as good as the original L&O, though (or maybe I'm just biased). I don't like how some of this new stuff seems to be less about solving the mystery + the drama of the trial and more about the shiny, flashy special-effects and technology.
Anyway, yeah, it's pretty crazy how much tv some people watch. I would argue, though, that spending a lot of time on the computer is marginally better than staring at a television all the time. It mostly depends on what you're doing on it. Most of the time when I'm on it, I'm either communicating with someone or doing something creative, and even if that creativity is just fanfiction or, er, pretending to be a country, well... at least I'm doing something.
Regarding Nosferatu: Ehhh, well, you might end up taking the piss out of it. Possibly. I think part of the reason I found it so scary is because I was watching it alone, in the dark, during a storm. Heh. But I do hope you find it interesting, at least.
...Er. Yeah, the Jesus as a rock star with his crossdressing vampire BFF in Montreal story was from my teenage years, but I didn't stop working on it until 3/4 of the way through undergrad. *facedesk* So it... technically went on longer than that. The reason I took so long to scrap it is because I loved the characters so much, and writing them was so much fun, that even though the story was ridiculous, I wanted to continue. After I finally admitted that it was silly, I considered trying to figure out a way to salvage the characters, start over, write a story that actually made sense. But I couldn't come up with anything. I might turn back to it one day, see if I can try again.
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Date: 2009-08-29 08:06 am (UTC)Anyway. YES. I GET DISTRACTED BY CLEANING. I do my best to clean up messes as soon as they are made, but it's more than just that; no matter what I do, there is always something else that needs to be cleaned. That's the most frustrating thing about living in my apartment. There's always something that needs to be washed or scrubbed or vacuumed or fixed up. Arrrrgh.
And I want to get a bookshelf, but it's not the most practical. I'll just get another box. I put them with the spine facing upward. I can fit maybe 22-ish books in there, if they are all paperback.
You gonna build me a time machine, eh? Better hop to it, bro. 8D I have some cash saved up, all ready to go! (It's for my trip to Finland but mayyyyybe I could be convinced to change my mind~) Wellll actually no. I wouldn't want to go back in time. That would just end badly, I'm sure. Pfft. Such things are only good in novels~
As for the video, yeah, it's pretty incredibly, isn't it? The Canterbury Talesone - I'm assuming you're refering to this one, right? It's pretty amazing how that - that is, Middle English - sounds similar to English, but so different. But it isn't as if the change from Old English to Middle English, then Middle English to Modern English just happened. The change from Old to Middle English happened around/after the Norman conquest, with the influence of the French langage. Then the change from Middle to Modern happened toward the end of the medieval period, and I can't quite remember what the cause was (something to do wtih the black death I think), but for some reason the pronunciation of vowels (among other things) shifted. So while it happens it isn't spontaneous.
Anyway. As far as America goes, you've hit the nail right on the head. The reason it seems like they have more good things about them is because they have more people, so they produce a greater volume of media - I was actually talking about precisely this, the other day. Sure, we produce a good amount of crap, but we turn out some awesome things too.
In my case... I admit, I'm more likely to give something a try if it's Canadian, mostly when it comes to literature. It's mostly because I find I can more readily identify/gain interest in something that's set in my own country. So if someone mentions to me "I read this book, such and such, by this Canadian author so-and-so" I'd be more likely to pick it up than if it was just another American author. But I've met a fair bit of disappointment when it comes to Canadian literature. A lot of the stuff I've had to read for school is crap (I can't stand Joseph Boyden's novels, for instance).
Moving on - Foreign fans. Oh gods, yes, I love that. When they go on about where they're from, I mean. Or when I manage to persuade them to take photos of their city, and they just go around snapping everything, and then in the entry talk about it... gahhh, I could read those entries and talk with them about it forever. And to them it's nothing, but to me it's so amazing. Some of them seem to find my reaction funny. Ahhh, well. And then there are others who say, "Come visit me! We can hang out and visit all these historical sites that are just down the road from me!" OMG. I WISH. Saving up for that, yes indeed.
I still feel as if I won't get to go anywhere. But I AM DETERMINED. Saving my pennies. And people say they want me to come see them. So it looks like it'll either be Sweden or Finland next year, woooo. I can't wait. (Sometimes having friends in far-flung places is convenient...)
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