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Kohikari
10 June 2008 @ 10:39 pm
moar, obviously...  

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That's the first one.  There's another.  -_-;;  More tomorrow--I'm out of school, applying for a summer job, have nothing much to do.  My precious darling Hermione (yes, I named my new laptop, and no, it wasn't specifically for the Harry Potter character--awesome as Hermione Jean Granger is, there is precedent of the name in both Shakespeare and Greek history, not to mention the number of possible nicknames referencing the word "mine;" we have technological possession issues in my house) fried right in front of me not three months after buying it off eBay (curse you, eBay! *shakes fist*) and I've been sneaking onto the computer my mother uses when she's looking the other way.  Right now I'm making an effort to catch up on D.Gray-man: rereading ZONE, wtf-ing over chapter 159, going over past notes and compiling new ones.  Still trying to screw my head on straight.  *emo!sigh*

(Dayadhvam_Triad, if you have any problem with the content being displayed in a Google-unsafe zone, just comment and I'll take it off.  Also, I kind of love you.  *glomps* ♥) 

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moodswing at: liquefyinggg
stuck in my head: Blackberry Curve ad theme
 
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Kohikari
10 June 2008 @ 10:26 pm
archivesss  
I am officially dead and this is my spectre come back from the grave to...uhhh...meander around doing random shit.

So!  To business.  Around January/February/March Dayadhvam_Triad (hereafter referred to as D_T, as the whole name is far too much effort to type out--Eliot was such a drama queen) got into D.Gray-man, and I promptly hijacked her post fangirling about it.  I'm rereading it, because I'm easily distracted and because I'm still working on a couple responses to those threads.  It's too much goddamn effort to keep it all in the indenting LJ format where eventually the sentence is like

At
Lev
1,
I
don
thin
the
Aku
itse
is
quit
sen
or
part
inte
and
self
awa

and of course that's lame, so.  My original intent for this account (as I had no idea what had come into my head to make me apply for an account on yet another website I had no interest in at the time) was archiving fandom babble, and in D_T I found a comrade in the joys of geeking, so.

...I end far too many sentences with the word "so."

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Apparently I have actually breached the LJ journal entry limit.  Um, wow?...
 
(this thing has randomly indented because it obviously hates me.  YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE SUBTLER THAN THAT, YOU PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE BITCH.)

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Kohikari
18 April 2008 @ 09:51 pm
*nervous laugh*  
So.  Um.  Mucho with the not-being-on-the-intarwebs.  Um.  In my defense *suppresses Phoenix Wright joke; I don't even play video games, goddammit* I have good reasons, involving senior year and our graduation requirement as theatre majors and hospitalizations and nervous breakdowns and yada yada yada.  Am posting my Shit Needs To Get Done list (in no particular order):

- reassure MMPU that yes I am still among the living (I was about to post in the TT3, guys, I swear, but then I wound up in the hospital for like a week and...well, not so much with the posting.  I'm kinda flattered that Rascall came all the way to LJ to look for me, though -^^- )

- arrrgh ohmygod those entries I hijacked on D_T's journal have been dead for, like, TWO MONTHS   DDDDX

- *headdeskheaddeskheaddesk*  Must...finish...replying...

- renovations/updates/OCDlike edits to do on teh elljay (e.g. FIX THE GODDAMN CUTS, JUDY)

- oh yeah, social life, right...

- get Chuunin off email spam list because what with the not-caring phase with the Naruto fandom and all (sorry, Kishimoto-sensei, but I think the Itachicaust clinched it...I mean, I'll try to catch up, if only for old times' sake, but I just don't care enough anymore to want to have to deal with the 19374920.445 alerts that OMG LJ USER #XXY HAS POSTED ON CHUNNIN!!!111elevently)

- retackle tinyfail on ff.n (I think the D.Gray-fantards might reach 2K stories soon~  *suppresses fatuous squeal*  Sooo cuuute~)

- speaking of the precious tinyfandom, have I done the postingness of the statistics yet?...I might need to update that, come to think of it...

- why the fuck are those HP Harajuku Girl Whatever things in the sidebar ads for whatsername so fucking annoying?  *kills*

- --Gwen Stefani, that's it!  Why the hell was my first thought of Madonna?

- wait, that wasn't on my to-do list...

- figure out which of the 155 (count 'em...155!  Hot damn, the last time I saw that number was when I looked at my inbox on dA...hey, speaking of dA...  *heads for the hills*) ff.n alerts on my notes-to-self list I want to actually spend time catching up with

- oh, hey, homework.  Grades.  Graduation.  Riiight.

- get ass in gear on (a) burning Finnish/Suomi (specifically Savo) phonetics and transliteration dynamics into brain, then memorizing Ievan Polkka and a couple four ELT songs (FUNDAMENTAL LOVE, jump, Mata Ashita, Koibumi)

- read various hardcopy before I lose the Window of Opportunity

- catch up on D.Gray-manga, possibly Naruto manga

- bother with D.Gray-anime and Naruto anime?  Evaluate variables of caring and giving a shit


Et cetera.  So, I'm on it!  Sort of.  MMPU and um I think elljay are my first interweb priorities (right after Googling ultrarapid and ultradian cycling bipolar and hitting up WebMD for a far-fetched answer to the weird facial rashes the doctors can't seem to figure out), and above all, I'M NOT QUITE DEAD YET.

...

WOOHOO!  SPRING BREAK!  *charges off; runs into brick wall; exit stage left*
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moodswing at: still alive, dammit
stuck in my head: alternately, "Still Alive" and Loituma's remix of "Ievan Polkka"
 
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Kohikari
27 February 2008 @ 11:48 pm
*is easily distracted*  
I have an update to the last Naruto Fandom Report!  ^^

*was supposed to be doing her homework, oops*










...Okay, I'm seriously going to bed now.
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hiding under: starts with a 'b', rhymes with 'dead'
moodswing at: tired
stuck in my head: "Selenite", by Rurutia
 
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Kohikari
23 February 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Fandom Report: D.Gray-man on FF.N  
Over the 2007-08 holiday break, D.Gray-man ate my soul.

So of course I'm head over heels. ♥  And best of all, the D.Gray-fandom isn't even massive like Harry Potter and Naruto and Inuyasha--there's only a thousand or so stories on the Pit, which means I can go through them all and get an idea of what the fandom's about without missing anything.

Geh, don't have the energy to write any decent intro right now--just, here's the stats.

NEVAR DOUBT THE POWER OF JUDY'S PROCRASTINATION-NO-JUTSU.

--

(Harry Potter is currently at 344,004 stories.  Naruto is at 126,092. Inuyasha lags behind at 78,031.  But WHO CARES about those big bloated depraved fandoms, when I have the world's cutest tinyfandom RIGHT HERE?~ ♥ ♥ ♥)

D.Gray-man has grown to 1464 stories (socute) (that's 59 pages, up 10p or 248s from two months ago!~ ♥)


~Oh, look how much you've grown!~  *pinches D.Gray-fandom's cheeks, squashes to saggy bosom and leaves embarrassing fuschia lipstick marks on its face* ♥ 


Overall, the section has bloomed 22% in just two months, and if it keeps up it'll be a large healthy Pit-section in no time.  ^^  Sotiny~ Socute~ ♥

~So for the last couple months I've been powering through all 299 stories with 5000 words or more (code 5) (I'm ignoring the other 955 or so tinyfic, at least until they're big enough to warrant examination--there are far more phailfic and emo poetry than there are 1337 drabbles), and these are my observations thus far:
 
( overview )

♥ 

(Hey, maybe I should start that homework now...)

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moodswing at: blah
stuck in my head: eerily enough, silence
 
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Kohikari
16 December 2007 @ 12:09 am
Fandom Report: Naruto on FanFiction.Net  

...I need a hobby.

Um. A different one, I mean. Maybe I need multiple hobbies. I'm just a liiittle too dangerous when I'm bored/procrastinating/avoiding something.

So.  First, since I knew Harry Potter was the most popular section overall and Naruto was the most popular section in the Anime/Manga category, I decided to check out the rest of the site so I could get an idea of what the rest of ff.n is like.

Heavy Hitters Per Category (10K+ stories)

(Note on URLs:

)

So.

As of today, there are 113K stories in the Naruto section. 4056 pages of English stories.

Let's see what the character statistics are like.

Most Popular Characters (with 100 pages or more)

...See, this is why I need a hobby. A hobby that maybe doesn't involve theatre, because acting classes just make me more special.

On to the pr0n!

Most Popular Pairings (with 30 pages or more)

Tendencies of the Long-Winded Fangirl (6 stories or more)

Compound Analysis:  I have way too much fun with this.

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stuck in my head: ...would you believe me if I said the ABCs song?
 
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Kohikari
22 November 2007 @ 03:58 pm
[it was kind of misting, like walking through a cloud]  
Found: on the sidewalk in front of the Washington Street side of Bath & Body Works on the corner of Washington and Winter Street, in Downtown Boston.  Yesterday, about 6:30 PM.

* A Mount Ida College ID card issued to one Jennifer Senices, student ID 0000941, "valid thru fall 2007", marked with a large printed R.

* A dark green Mount Ida College lanyard, carrying one dorm key marked with the code "2M-27-2."

* A brand new tube of Victoria's Secret brand Beauty RUSH lip gloss, Cherry Bomb flavor.

(And here I'm going to record the ingredients, because the list of what they put in this stuff made my head spin:

LIP GLOSS/GLOSS POUR LES LÈVRES
INGREDIENTS: Polybutene, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Mineral Oil (Paraffinum Liquidum, Huile Minérale), Silica Silylate, Polyethylene, Flavor (Aroma), Petrolatum, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Polyethylene Terephthalate, Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer, Acrylates Copolymer, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Sodium Saccharin, Isononyl Isononanoate, Silica, Tin Oxide, BHT, Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite.  MAY CONTAIN (+/-): Mica, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI77491/77492/77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140), Yellow 6 Lake (CI 15985), Red 33 Lake (CI 17200), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Red 6 Lake (CI 15850), Carmine (CI 75470), Red 36 Lake (CI 12085), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360), Red 27 Lake (CI 45410:1), Red 28 Lake (CI 45410), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Red 21 Lake (CI 45380:2), Red 20 Lake (CI 16035).

I mean hell, I can't even pronounce half that shit.)

I'm assuming everything fell out of Jennifer Senices' pocket.  The ID card seems to be out of date, but dorm keys are valuable and anyone who'd pay more than five dollars for lip gloss probably cares about such things, so I'm going to try to contact Mount Ida College and return it to her.  [A Google search only told me that Jennifer was an "All-Star" for Hyde Park in the spring 2006 and spring 2007 Boston City softball seasons (according to the Boston Globe).  Oh Google, why hast thou forsaken me?]

(Lesson learned yesterday: Have headache, will pass out for 16 hours.  @_@  However, D.Gray-man is cracky enough to make up for everything.  Methinks someone got their major influences from FMA and The Nightmare Before Christmas.  ♥)
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Kohikari
23 October 2007 @ 05:44 pm
Survey Completed on Long-Winded RYFGs  

[[Don't want to slog through the knee-deep piles of crap in the archives of ff.n? Have no fear! Judy the Masochist will do it for you.]]

On September 4th I started a project to read and review (in a way) every novel-length fic in the most popular Naruto pairing on ff.n. Which means, a lot of yaoi. I suffer for my art. (Yes, OCD is my art.  Because I'm special.)

(BTW, KakaSaku has overtaken KakaIruKaka as the eighth most popular pairing; between teacher/student and random yaoi pairing, I have to say no comment.)

(Have I posted the Naruto survey on this account yet? I don't think I have. Okay, top ten pairings on ff.n are, from first to tenth: NaruSasuNaru; SasuSaku; NaruHina; NejiTen; NaruSaku; ItaSasu; SasuHina; KakaSaku; KakaIruKaka; GaaSaku.)

I went ADD for a month between September 5 and October 8, and went slowly for the rest of the month because of senior year and all, but I finally finished it today~ *feels special* On the fourth there were 37 100K+ worded fics in this section; by today, there were 44. The seven newbies are GCH, FB, MB, ED, N:TNC, and LMMB. These crazy people, they just don't stop. Anyhoo, fics are arranged in order of publishing date; debatably coherent "review" follows each description. (Asterisks mark the fics on my stalk list, a.k.a. fics I actually care about.) Like so.

Fic Title (Author)
"Summary given, word for word (i even had enouhg sefl-control ot leave hte typos aloen)."
Rating - Genre(s) - # of Chapters - # of Words - # of Reviews - Date Published--Date Updated

Comments!

And, onward.

And best of all, now I don't have any reason to ever set foot in the archives of ff.n. EVER AGAIN.

*dances*

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Kohikari
31 August 2007 @ 12:37 pm
[it smells like books]  
Found: about halfway through J.D. Robb's Seduction in Death, one 13-cm-by-10-cm Hallmark greeting card.  Opens vertically.  Front: blue border along top edge, sepia tone bordered photograph featuring two little girls in dresses walking hand-in-hand along a white picket fence.  Inscription in black cursive font reads 

"With a sister like you,
 I know I'll always
 have a friend..." 

finished inside 

"...and so will you."  

Back: the blue border fades to the white background color, overlaid by white letters in childish font reading "Out of the Blue".  The Hallmark logo is directly beneath, and in tiny letters near the bottom edge, just above the bar code, reads: 

"99BLF 103-5 
(c) HALLMARK CARDS, INC. 
KANSAS CITY, MO 64141 
TORONTO, CANADA M2J 1P6 
MADE IN U.S.A. 
www.hallmark.com"

(The bar code then reads "0 - 70000 09504 - 7 - 01035")

Inside the front cover of the card in neat blue-ballpoint-pen handwriting reads,

"Meg,
Just wanted to send you a note
to tell you how much I love
you and value you - you are
my best friend and I know
I can tell you anything
and you will never judge
me and it is the same with
you telling me anything.  We
have such a bond.  I hope
all is well and your foot and
everything is good.  I love you
so much and miss you a
ton - let me know if you need
anything or want to visit.
Take care you, love you.
Love,
Whit"

Inside the back cover of the card reads

"November 4, 2001
Megan,"

and then underneath the inscription

"Love you so much.

LOVE,
XXXXXXXX
OOOOOOOO
Whitney"

(The edges and crease of the card are slightly yellowed with age.  Creepy how something from 2001 can be old.  Also, considering the date, I'm compelled to wonder whether the writing of this card was spurred by the events surrounding 9/11.  Also, I wasn't aware that there are people capable of longer run-on comma-deprived sentences than me.)
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Kohikari
22 August 2007 @ 11:55 am
I like to paraphrase.  
Because I am an attention whore.  Otherwise known as I'm thinking of using this as an archive for fandom-related things.

Originally posted on MMPU:

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stuck in my head: HANABI, by Ikimono Gakari
 
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Kohikari
05 August 2007 @ 12:56 am
The Potter Report: Fandom  

OFFICIAL HARRY POTTER FANFICTION.NET REPORT

all numbers refer to number of pages of stories unless noted otherwise

start: 8.3.2007 3:45 PM / 310,237 stories / 10,170 English pages

Top Ten Most Written Characters:
Harry James Potter, 2973 pages
Hermione Granger, 2290 pages
Draco Malfoy, 2214 pages
Ginevra Weasley, 976 pages
Severus Snape, 932 pages
Sirius Black, 696 pages
James Potter, 679 pages
Ronald Bilius Weasley, 664 pages
Lily Potter, 648 pages
Remus Lupin, 647 pages 

Top Ten Pairings:
Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger, 772 pages
Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, 720 pages
James Potter/Lily Potter, 519 pages
Harry Potter/Hermione Granger, 474 pages
Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger, 420 pages
Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, 412 pages
Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley, 367 pages
Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, 286 pages
Severus Snape/Hermione Granger, 240 pages
Severus Snape/Harry Potter, 230 pages

100K+ fics at 77 pages total:

HP/GW fans longwinded at 7 pages
DM/HP, JP/LP, HP/HG fans not far behind at 6 pages each
SS/HP fans following at 5 pages
DM/HG fans at 4 pages
DM/GW, SS/HG fans at 3 pages each
RL/SB, RW/HG fans still strong at 2 pages each

THIS OFFICIAL HARRY POTTER FANFICTION.NET REPORT IS COMPLETE. I’M GOING TO BED NOW.

finish: 8.4.2007 5:45 AM / 310,451 stories / 10,178 English pages

(I just did this incredibly complicated OCD thing, ten times the complexity of my OFNPR projects, for essentially fourteen hours straight, stopping only for food and to convince my mother that I was going to actually get sleep. And I enjoyed it. Ye gods, something really is wrong with me.)

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