chicken scratch 28====ALKALOID


	sigel phoenix, a.k.a. dora, is a nineteen year-old fangirl currently attending the uw. a writer, a romantic, a neurotic, a dreamer. contact her through email at kotori [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu, or visit her website. currently she's in her second year of college, pursuing a degree in english. a member of the writing, anime, and swing clubs, she is working on-campus to fuel her bubble tea habit. the only books she reads nowadays are for class, but occasionally she gets some fun stuff in (mostly in comic-form, specifically ultimate x-men). can be found watching (and gaming!) fullmetal alchemist and listening to sakamoto maaya. version 28 was inspired by alkaloid, from sakamoto maaya's lucy album. drawing done on paper, graphics done in photoshop, code done in notepad. fonts are from dafont. the whole thing is best viewed in 800x600 or higher res, using a recent version of msie. neechan neko-chan sam merry spider-man batman meg bean angemon beldaran liddokun chibi-ginn furubachan jen ann lilisin teresa shaolien nightmajik tomo tin ayuru vinita clara meimi kielle/redpanda erin harleyquin tsaiko mina lightstar cygnus istoria abortion debate anime fanfiction fandom wank fanfic rants ficcated mary sue report metablog slap to the head archives pitas		Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Yikes, I've been sort of ignoring this thing. Um, blame GreatestJournal and the damned addictiveness of icons? ^_^;; Anyway, most of my social blogging is/will be going on over there, leaving this page for ... pretty layouts, I guess. (Plus the occasional earth-shatteringly important commentary on current events, of course. :P) At the moment, though, not much of anything is going on -- I'm at home for Spring Break, and quite thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to do a whole lot of nothing. Or perhaps I should amend that to say, nothing required. Like ... reading for fun! Imagine that. XD The next couple of days look lonely, as I'm heading back up to Seattle tomorrow -- when most of my friends up there will still be at their respective homes, and my friends down here will be ... well, here. >_< My social planning skills are just that good, it seems. But I'll be keeping myself busy at work, as well as working on the redesign of the ADP website. My first priority will be learning how to do nifty little things like rollovers and imagemaps -- it's a little surprising how much I don't know how to do, but I suppose that's what happens when you spend your time coding blog layouts and little else. XD;; Then comes the fun part, where I decide on which anime I'm going to use as the theme for each subpage. AzuDai and RuroKen are givens right now, but I'll probably be doing Fruits Basket, maybe Fumoffu and Guu ... XD XD XD Another thing I've done while down here is finally sit down and watch the entirety of KareKano, which I absolutely loved until the very ending. Or rather, I loved the twenty-six episodes, then raged at the ridiculous NON-ENDING presented to me. I could forgive the highly stylized execution of the final episodes (even if neechan can't forgive the fact that Sasaki Nozomu has no speaking role in 26 XD;;) and accept the fact that Anno Hideaki has a chronic tendency to squander the entirety of his budget on the first twenty episodes of a series. I was actually happy with everything else. The bunka-sai provided a nice little plot for the final arc, and the resolution Yukino came to offered closure without necessarily a conclusion, if that makes sense. Finally, the Tsubaki-Tonami sub-story worked as a beautiful bookend to the series that brought the story full circle. But ... but!! Arima's spontaneous emotional atrophy, which inexplicably comes right after the revelation in Yukino's dream, by which he ostensibly comes to terms with his childhood? UM?? Did this make sense to anyone else? Were the show to continue, as the manga is, I would accept it fine. But, the series is over. There needs to be an ending. Not a perfect one; Arima Souichirou can continue being the mind-bendingly self-tortured angst-puppy he's always been. But ... something. A revelation. A resolution. Something imitating forward movement. ARGH. I think what bothers me so much is that I love this show, and even the ending was beautifully done; it's simply that, once it's over and I have time to reflect, there's this glaring abnormality. There. Done angsting about KareKano. I still love the series, and recommend it to everyone. XD koi wa tsukanoma kimagurena uinku ... 05:52 p.m. Monday, March 1, 2004 Yikes, lots of catching up to do. Including several weeks' backlog of blogging, because I've been busy and out of touch for a while. ^_^; This means, of course, I've been missing out on some fun links, like this top 20 list of female video game characters. Look carefully. And yes, even though it's in Finnish, it purportedly does say "female." XD Also, Tin has been writing FMA fic, specifically Roy/Hawkeye genfic. Which I find strangely appealing, because I love the idea of Hawkeye as a platonic seme. XD Last Friday before the showing, there was an officers' meeting of the ADP, and among other things we decided to do a rehaul of the website. This is a good thing, because I've been meaning to make a new design since I became internet officer, but didn't really have much time or impetus. (Actually, I still don't know when I'll really have time, but this is something at least. ^_^;) We're looking for something brighter, a little more light-hearted and more accessible, especially since we're emphasizing more interaction with the community. This is probably not very interesting to anyone else. ^_^; But the upshot is this: the subpages will be themed with various anime, like Guu and Fruits Basket. And the officers will be Azumanga characters. XD (And, no, I will not be making our president Kimura-sensei. How little faith you have in me. >_>) And speaking of Fruits Basket -- last Friday's showing was my first viewing of the Momiji episode. (Yeah, I know.) Luckily, neechan told me his backstory beforehand, so it didn't quite rip my heart out and stomp it onto the ground; it only stuck the knife in and twisted some. :P You know, the episodes that make me cry in this series do so even upon multiple re-viewings, and I think it will also be the case with this one. And I think all of that is because of the effect of Tohru's sheer emotional honesty -- she's so heartfelt and caring, but not in any contrived or manipulative way, and that works really well. So does the theme of the series, which is why I can never get tired of "For Fruits Basket." ��Ƃ��΋ꂵ��Ƃ��Ă� ��ȑz��o�ɂȂ� �S��Ƃ��ׂĂȂ��Ȃ� koi wa tsukanoma kimagurena uinku ... 04:41 p.m.