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Good.

Wall-E = Best Pixar Movie ever.

Wall-E kinda reminds me of Ian, except with a fascination for lighters instead of Capri Sun and having things fall on top of him instead of running into them.

I hereby recommend the anime Dennou Coil to the masses.  It gets really awesome and creepy from episode 15 on, though not so much creepy as pure fun through the first 13 episodes. (11-13 are filler, but filler worth watching.)  Unlike Baccano! I have no warnings to dispense to anyone who wants to try this. Doubt it would be rated higher than PG in the States.

By the way, for the people who have watched and enjoyed Baccano!, did you know there are an extra three episodes that came with the DVDs?  They're subbed and out if you want to watch them, and you haven't.

he Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte I can do without the dysfunctional relationships, thanks.
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling Read through Book 4, hated Book 5 with the burning firey passion of one thousand suns and will never, ever subject myself to this series again.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Quite disliked this book.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -Started, never finished.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare. -- Most, but not all.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I've started about six times, never finished.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen - Reading as we speak.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - a couple
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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This was inspired by a comment in Hanako's journal that required it be an Original Pokemon Trainer and a certain foodstuff. I thought "Oh, I could so do that." So I did. And... wrote like mad.

So yeah, enjoy this one-shot, (or don't) of which I did not take seriously for even a minute. Under the cut. It's a... parody of sorts? Warnings of the PG-13 kind, because it just turned out to be that way. Sike helped greatly with the title. And provided some of it!

( The Poké Adventure Starts Here )

Miss you.

I like Bleach.

I think the world's ending.

I'm now caught up with the manga. I don't suppose I'll go and watch the anime all the way through, but perhaps I'll watch the episodes I'd like to see animated from the source material.

I can't believe I like it. But it's very good.

*blinks and stares or a long time*

Hey, guys. Do me a favor? Click on my dragons!






The Scroll



Feel free to click on them, but I'd like to ask you *not* click on the green dragons. They're kinda... sick, shall we say. Clicking on them would increase the wrong ratio.

These kinds of articles are the kinds of stories that just make me angry--cue spark of righteous indignation. Just a news flash for you all, if anybody, I don't care who, hit and killed/injured one of my pets and then sued for damages, I would be very, very angry.  It's like suing somebody for damages to your car because you hit their five year old kid.   All this shows that you are greedy for money.  It's been almost two years since my cat was hit, and I don't think anyone wants that to ever happen to one of their animals.  You can replace car parts, not a pet. 

I have finally completed judging the Requiem one-shots!  It's such a huge relief to me to have them done. Now, all I have to do is edit the suckers and I can send them to MWB and get the whole thing over with. 

So, Fire Emblem. Incredibly fun game.  I had it for awhile, along with The Sacred Stones, but haven't really had time to play it (I didn't even get passed Lyn's tutorial the first time). But now that I do have time, I've started the game over, and decided the game pretty much rocks. If only people didn't die when they are killed, then I wouldn't be pressing the reset (NO, YOU CAN'T HAVE ERK, DANG IT!)  I also laugh when I can leave Oswin up in the top Island if the Dread Isle place where I am currently at, and watch him take on a bunch of puny axe-weilders that do 0 damage each time... and believe me, I've watched him do that a lot. The final boss kills you dead. XD

Apparently, Brazil is getting "The Boiling Rock" (Avatar episode) tomorrow.  What the heck, Nick?  

Holy yes!  They're actually going to air this spectacularly awesome Fantasy show that pretty much blows away everything else, on Cartoon Network. So that means I'll get to watch it, and it's finally coming to the States. 

I have finally decided upon and created a non-horizontal rule divider that FF.Net actually agrees with. I'd like to call it 'The Pokéball":

-(o)-

Dear FF.net

So, what was so wrong with our dividers? I used &&&. There something morally wrong about &&&? Since you took my favored **** away, what else was I to use? Why are you so against dividers that aren't a horizontal rule (which is kind of ugly, dontchuthink?) and why take it out on the stories that are already posted? You're screwing up the formatting, and you suck.  Do you guys not use your heads, or are you just a bunch of morons?  Seriously, what did any of these dividing marks ever do to you?

You make me very unhappy, angry, and urrrrgh.  You do not brighten up my day, and I don't look forward to reformatting stories. No, I do not.

I am very sad that Terry Prachett has alzheimer's.  I've been really enjoying his Discworld books so far (thanks for the recs!). He's only 59, for heaven's sake.   Alzheimer's is one of the cruelest diseases I can think of, and is the disease that I would not want to die from--I'd rather have cancer, and have my mind intact.

:D I got it!

Friend Code: 1719-2907-4461

Pokémon Trainer, Ike, Pit, and Pikachu (my all-time favorite I've been using since the original) are awesome.

I've been writing a lot lately, to the point where I feel kinda "writed out". In any case, this was written for sciathan_file 's Writer's Group Challenge, where we more or less had to basically write a something focusing on a certain emotion without saying what it was.  I had this finished Sunday Night more or less, the day it was due, but it was still in rough draft form, and I didn't have enough time to edit it until tonight.  Late though it is, I still believe I should post it. I worked hard on it, and thus, it needs to be used for its deserved purpose.


Now for the all-purpose stuff.

Challenge #2: Words,Words, Words
Author: Saffire_Persian
Word Count: 1585.
Fandom: Byousoku 5 Centimeter AKA 5 Centimeters Per Second. It's a wonderful, beautiful, utterly heartfelt movie that can be readily found on youtube though the quality sucks and does not do the movie justice.  It lasts only 60 minutes. In any case, you don't really need to be familiar with the fandom or the characters to read this story and get it. If you have seen the movie, you'll just have the nice plus of actually knowing what went on through the POVs of the other characters in the movie that aren't really touched upon here.

Warnings: Uhh.. can't think of any. I'd say this is a solid PG at most, but I really doubt it really deserves that rating. Oh, and if you didn't know, Sakura = Cherry Blossoms. I just have a fancy for its original name.

Comments are awesome stuff. As are everything else that comes with them.

On Nick's shows set to premiere this month:

"H2O centers on Emma, Rikki and Cleo, three 16-year-old girls who stumble upon an ancient cavern under a volcano and undergo a transformation that changes their lives forever. The heroines are ordinary teens on land but extraordinary teen mermaids with magical powers under the sea. With the ability to freeze, boil and manipulate water at any time, these mermaids discover that the world is truly their oyster. Shot on location in the Gold Coast Region of Queensland, Australia, the series will air regularly Sundays at 7:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon.
Regular premiere timeslot will be Sundays at 7:30pm"

My thoughts: "LOL, just start showing Avatar episodes instead, you twits."

I hate... no, I loathe group projects.  Unless you actually are put in a group with people who actually put in their share of the load and,  you know, do work, the whole point of a group project is relatively useless.  I've been trying to get hold of my group members for the past four days, because we have a 5 min. presentation due Monday.  Only today did I get a reply back from one of my two fellow group members via e-mail.  They weren't in class on Friday.  The email said:

"Oh, no I didn't know we had that dialect report on Monday.  I hope you've started on it. Feel free to tell me what you want to do and how we're splitting everything up. :)"

*headdesk*