Appa's Thoughts

YOU:
1. Name: (or nickname)
2. Date of birth:
3. Where you live:
4. What makes you happy:
5. Currently listening/the last thing you listened to:
6. Do you read my journal?:
7. If yes, what makes it especially good or bad?:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. What do you love at the moment?:
10. Favorite place to spend time:
11. Favorite lyric:
12. The best time of the year:

RECOMMEND:
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song, or album:
4. An anime:

PLUS:
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Look at my friends-list and tell what you like about one of our mutual friends:
4. Put this in your journal so that I can tell you what I like about you.

Name one of my fandoms and I'll tell you:
• One true pairing ship
• Canon ship
• "If this happens/would have happened I'd stab my eyes out with a spork" ship
• "You are one sick puppy" ship
• "I am one sick puppy" ship
• "I dabble a little" ship
• "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" ship
• "Makes no canon sense but why the hell not" ship
• "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" ship



*hoping for some older fandoms, from which she has more shipping opinions*

(Yes, we've been calling each other that for the last six years.)


Dear Oneechan,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but our romance is over. I think I realized it that night you picked your nose outside of your office and I saw you sit on my boyfriend. I'm sure you're shamed enough to understand I'm allergic to your earlobes. I'm returning your toe ring to you, but I'll keep my virginity as a memory. You should also know that I told in my confession today about the moose poaching and you ruined my attempts at another world war..

Go milk a cow,
Tohru

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Dear Tohru,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but our romance is over. I think I realized it when your dwarf bit me in your apartment and I saw you sit on the elephant in the corner. I'm sure you're frostbitten enough to understand that your driving sucks. I'm returning your toe ring to you, but I'll keep your glass eye as a memory. You should also know that I told in my confession today about the moose poaching and you should stop picking your nose.

Go drown yourself,
Oneechan

( What is all this about!? )

Boldface TV shows you've seen at least three episodes of. Italicize ones where you're certain you've seen every episode.

( TV meme... this will be sad. )

*scratches head* I used to watch a lot of TV in elementary school, but...

I was about to submit this when my sister came by and started going through the list. "Three episodes... all of it... all of it... three episodes... three episodes... all of it... no... no... all of it... all of it... three episodes... three episodes... three episodes... no... all of it..."

Meh. I'd rather go read more Sketchbook to let my mind melt.

The Haruka translation is aaaaalmost done. Today I found myself flipping back through volume 9 and I realized that I've been to the place where the Nishi no Fuda was kept! If I had remembered a little detail like that when I stumbled on and looked around Matsuotaisha, I would have been totally excited at the time. :D

mippa's drabble request from this drabble meme (SPOTS STILL OPEN UNTIL JUNE).

Title: Messages
Series: Please Save My Earth
Characters: Issei, Sakura
Prompt: none
Rating: G
Word count: 590

( It disturbed her how undisturbed he was. )

Finished the initial Haruka translation this morning. Meant to type it up. Things were crazy instead. But at least I have a drabble!

six_crazy_guys's drabble request from this drabble meme (SPOTS STILL OPEN).

Title: Hiding Spot
Series: Digimon Adventure 02
Characters: Iori, Armadimon, Mrs. Hida
Prompt: closet
Rating: G
Word count: 537

( I should just be glad you’re not evolving any more inside my bedroom )

This was my first time writing anything from MKR... or anything CLAMP, for that matter! It was surprisingly fun, though I can't even remember the series well enough to remember if there were any characters in Cephiro who had eyeglasses.

banditscribe's drabble request from this drabble meme (SPOTS STILL OPEN).

Title: Senses
Series: Magic Knights Rayearth
Characters: Ferio, Fuu
Prompt: eyeglasses
Rating: G
Word count: 577

( Some kind of magical device )

Today, I translated 27 pages almost nothing but Eisen, Eisen, Eisen... only 16 pages to go! To celebrate today's accomplishment, I'm posting btamamura's drabble request from this drabble meme (SPOTS STILL OPEN).

Title: Sleeper
Series: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 1
Characters: Yasuaki, Eisen
Prompt: sleep
Rating: G
Word count: 548

( Four days )

Three drabble requests still open on this entry: http://appaku.livejournal.com/132927.html

1. Finally watched Yojimbo last night with three of my brothers. Kurosawa has such an effective use of pauses and drawing some things out. I liked Sanjuro (the sequel) better, but I still enjoyed it.

1.5 Speaking of samurai, I noticed a big plastic sword at a party supply store with Japanese writing on the blade. If my friend does hold her party this year and I need to complete my pink samurai costume, I'll have to go back and get it. It said: Please drink your milk.

2. Hmmm... I'm really wanting to see the new Night at the Museum movie. I liked the first one, and the Smithsonian is a cool, cool museum. I've only seen bits and pieces of it (the natural history portion being most noteworthy) because my time in D.C. was limited, but it was huge! My advice to anyone who might go on a D.C. trip: there is a little branch of the museum dedicated to American art which is about a block away from the White House. They don't get as many visitors as the larger buildings, so the security gaurds all seemed happy to see me and my friends wander in.

3. I got ten pages of translation done today, but at a much slower pace than I had a few months ago. It's like it's all a big Eisen character study so far. That's all well and good, but it was nice to see Yorihisa and Tenma come in a bit so there would be some conversation. x_x The next scene is only eight pages, yay. But for tonight, I'm starting on drabbles!

1. Finally watched episode 1 of Kare Kano again. JOY. It was really nice to see again. I did so love the early Kare Kano. I find I don't like Arima as much as I did when I was 13, but the early Yukino is still awesome.

2. I watched a Japanese movie called The Returner. It was pretty good. The alien plot was less than stellar, but I do have a big weakness for time-travel plots. Milly was cute and cool, I liked Miyamoto more than I thought I would, and Mizoguchi made a totally rad villian. If anything, it's worth watching just to see how Mizoguchi is played.

2.5 I also tried out a bit of Sukiyaki Western Django, which was a Japanese spaghetti Western in which all of the Japanese actors (and one American guest star) all spoke English. It was like... Heike and Genji clans fighting over gold or something. I didn't watch very much, but I enjoyed the clips I saw here and there.

3. I have a linguist internship for this summer! I start June 1st, which means I better hurry up and finish that Haruka translation. >.< I probably can't get it done before then, but I can finish this meme before then:

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Ganked from banditscribe

The first SEVEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me, along with a prompt. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead. Last bit ain't mandatory.

Please chose fandoms you know I know~~! We probably have at least a few favorites in common. Give me your one-word prompts!

1. For mippa: Issei and Sakura from Please Save My Earth, prompt: none. Read it here!

2. For banditscribe: Ferio and Fuu from Magic Knights Rayearth, prompt: eyeglasses. Read it here!

3. For btamamura: Yasuaki and Eisen from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 1, prompt: sleep. Read it here!

4. For six_crazy_guys: Armadimon and Iori from Digimon 02, prompt: closet. Read it here!

5. For siskinsplace: Hotohori and Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi, prompt: secret. Read it here!

6. OPEN!

7. OPEN!

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Got these from kirarakim

( I got these. )

Wow, evidently my sister and I used to watch almost everything together. It almost came as a shock to us when she got into Naruto and I got into Angelique and we noticed, "hey, we have really different tastes."

The Stolen Meme: Write down 20 things that your f-list (probably) doesn't know about you.

1. I feel odd wearing skirts, but I love doing pretty things with my hair and keeping long nails.

2. If no one is watching, I dance while sitting at my computer. Not that anyone would want to see my poor dancing skills even while standing up.

3. A friend got mad about me two months ago and called me an anime elitist. I'm not as much of one as I used to think I was, but she made me feel so bad that I still feel guilty for maybe having sounded mean towards anyone.

4. I can sing along to songs I have not heard since I was 13 or 14.

5. I still daydream almost every day of going to Japan to write manga under a Japanese pen name. I debate between whether it should be "Takada Ruri" or "Taka Ruri".

6. My first Japanese pen pal was an artist who I looked up to on Oekaki Central. We have lost contact, but it's thanks to her that I got interested in Please Save My Earth.

7. I've talked with a driving instructor about Please Save My Earth, which surprised us both.

8. I can identify a lot of flowers in both English and Japanese because of Please Save My Earth.

9. I used to auction my art off for Pocky.

10. I love dark chocolate with pretzels, orange flavoring, mint flavoring, lime flavoring, green tea flavoring, white chocolate bark, strawberries, certain cereals, fancy cookies, other candies, almonds...

11. My older sister still calls me "Tohru" years after it's lost its Fruits Basket ties for us.

12. I've had an EEG scan, an MRI scan, an EKG, blood tests, and biofeedback therapy to try to help me with my migraines. I quit with the treatment four years ago when a neurologist tried to give Botox injections. Crazy man.

13. I used to get teased for my poor sense of direction. That made me so embarrassed that I decided to have a better sense of direction. It worked.

14. My mom didn't let me watch Sailor Moon when I was kid.

15. I have better vision than 20/20, but on a recent test I took, I had surprisingly poor depth perception.

16. When I was a baby, I learned to walk by clinging to the family dog. She was a patient dog.

17. I love sitting in trees!

18. I currently work as a telemarketer. Well, that's only half true. A true telemarketer would try to sell you something and then get your money. I only do half of that.

19. I used to work as a secretary. I hated that job and only found out several months later that a coworker actually had been sabotaging some of the things that went wrong.

20. I can swim, but I dislike swimming because I dislike being wet.

*procrastinating on a couple theses, even though the samurai one is almost done~~~*
*is going to make a night of rewatching Arjuna for the first time in five years instead~~~*
*is very happy about that~~~!!*

I chose to do this meme all in fun, first because I would not consider shagging people in real life (or pushing them off cliffs), and second because I sadly spend most of my Easter weekend writing the first 17 pages of a very dense research paper. x__x Oh China, and I thought visiting you for this paper was fun. No no, this meme is fun instead.

The Rules:
The game is Marry, Shag or Cliff. You comment and I give you three characters; you decide which character you'd marry, which one you'd shag, and which one you'd throw off a cliff.

I got a nice interesting three from crsg: Tamaki (Ouran High School Host Club), Kamui (X/1999), and Yuki (Fruits Basket)

( And I chose... )

Stolen from kirarakim

Animation Meme:
X what you saw
O what you haven't finished/saw sizable portions
Bold what you loved
Strike for what you disliked/hated
Leave unchanged if neutral


( I am not an anime-purist. )

A character meme, comment and I'll give you a character I know that you know well. I got this one from btamamura.
( Minamoto no Yorihisa )

Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

I got this list from kirarakim

( Surprise! It's not all anime for me! )

Now to go do Chinese homework! >__< Looks like I'm not doing any Haruka translation tonight.

A meme, stolen from a couple people:

Pick from any of my fandoms and ask me to answer the following:

Favorite character:
Least Favorite Character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely screw:
Character I'd make lunch:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I'd most want to cosplay as:
Favorite Pairing:
Favorite Yaoi pairing:
Favorite Yuri pairing:

I shall even be daring and actually answer the last two questions, despite not being a yaoi/yuri fan. I'm feeling dangerous. Hmm, some of those earlier questions aren't very like me either, but I shall answer them anyway.

SIX PAIRINGS I LIKE:
1. Shuurei/Ryuuki (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
2. Youko/Rakushun (Juuni Kokki)
3. Hinoto/Daisuke (X)
4. Mokuren/Shion (Please Save My Earth)
5. Yang Gor/Xiaolongnu (Condor Hero)
6. Zelgadis/Amelia (Slayers)

THREE SHIPS I'VE ABANDONED:
7. Takeru/Hikari (Digimon 02)
8. Yuki/Tohru (Fruits Basket)
9. Risa/Asaba (Kare Kano)

THREE SHIPS I'VE NEVER LIKED:
10. Yamato/Sora (Digimon/02)
11. Takuto/Mitsuki (Full Moon o Sagashite)
12. Light/L (Death Note)

TWO SHIPS THAT HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST:
13. Takamichi/Shirin (Harukanaru Toki no Naka de)
14. Amiboshi/Shi Fang (Fushigi Yuugi)

( And questions to go with them! )

In Japanese class today we discussed a reading about otaku. Grrrrr. I hate that they give the entire anime fandom such a bad rap sometimes. I was surprised at how unfamiliar most of my classmates were with everything mentioned in the article, and wound up having to help explain a lot of things, like fan work, just for simple clarification. I'm very sensitive about bad things being said about fan work... seeing as I produce so much of it. BUT I AM NOT AN OTAKU!! I have a life! And it's not that cosplayers don't have lives either... can't convention goers (who aren't obsessive with it) be allowed a little escapism?

Speaking of having a life (though you wouldn't guess that given this is my fandom journal)...
The directions are simple. Boldface the ones you've done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept overnight on a train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the homeland of your ancestors.
35. Visited an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cooking
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit - several, actually. XD
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

I had explanations with a lot of those, but deleted a lot because some are more interesting with out explanations. Or complete explanations, anyway. I'll leave you wondering, hahaha.

I finished translating my speech~~~!

To reward myself for a job well done and still having some time before class...

( Countdown! )

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And some other memes floating around:

1:
1. Reply to this post with a character I remind you of.
2. I will reply with a character you remind me of.
3. Repost this on your own journal.


2:
Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me. It can only be one word. No more. Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.


3:
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.

It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.