Dani's Hideout

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

For the really obvious ones, I'll put an * next to it to denote second favorites. Those ones are worth two since you guys can guess either my first or second favorites, to make things more interesting~

1. +Anima* - Cooro and...? - hurricane_chris
2. Gakuen Alice - Tsubasa Andou - sleepy_syusuke
3. Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning - Hizumi Mizushiro - behold_the_void
4. Tegami Bachi* - Niche and...? - behold_the_void
5. Fruits Basket - Momiji Sohma - secretlymoe
6. .hack* (Not really second favorite, just. There's multiple) - Alkaid and Mireille - behold_the_void and sleepy_syusuke
7. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Yuki Nagato - overbringer
8. Eden of the East - Akira Takizawa - manlidere
9. Baccano!
10. Hell Girl/Jigoku Shojo - Ichimokuren - behold_the_void
11. Tales of Symphonia - Presea - behold_the_void
12. Gurren Lagann - Yoko Litner - wighty
13. Rune Factory (let's just count the first one)
14. CardCaptor Sakura - Syaoran - secretlymoe
15. Bleach - Hitsugaya - behold_the_void
16. Future Diary/Mirai Nikki
17. Double Arts* - Sui and...? - professor_prof
18. Hibiki's Magic - Ahito - wighty
19. Golden Sun - Ivan - behold_the_void
20. Harvest Moon: (More) Friends of Mineral Town

'Kay guys. Let's see how well you know me BD

DRAWME!

So I'm going to go out on a very slight limb and post something that mentions my name and school oh the humanity. This is because my band is running a magazine sale as a fundraiser and the dude told us that apparently an American household on an average gets 5 magazines and also there are spiffy prizes that I'd like to get.

*brick'd*

Anyway, I'm pretty lazy about these sorts of things to be honest, so in honor of this being my last year, I decided to put some actual effort into trying to sell these things or something. So of course I pick the laziest method possible.

So yeah. If you happen to have some extra cash laying about along with a craving for a monthly subscription to some kind-of-literature of your choice, go ahead and click this here cool link to check out what they've got. You can renew/gift subscriptions, too. I know they've got the Nintendo, Xbox, and Playstation magazines in there, along with a crapton of other stuff. Check it out if you want. If you don't want to, that's cool, too.

*Not really expecting much out of this, but HEY. I CAN SAY I TRIED NOW.*

My student at work now knows the words "were", "there", and "an". I'm so proud of her ='D Now to do these three briefs for Social Justice AUGH.

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Dancing is hard.

I'm scared of this "death drop" move we're supposed to pull.

Especially since it involves a strong grip on each other's wrist which hurts because my left wrist is still silly.

Also I have the worst trusting skills ever and am mildly afraid that Allan is going to drop me and I'll smack my head on the CONCRETE FLOOR OF THE GARAGE AHHHH. Despite the fact that, y'know, he knows more about ballroom dancing than me and knows how to brace himself for the sudden weight of me just dropping.

Geeze... I know I have like 6 months to learn all this stuff, but somehow, it doesn't seem like enough time... >_>;

So about that computer thing? Totally vanished the same day I posted about the weird sounds. So uh. Yeah. At least I know what to check for if it comes back I guess?

Getting back into iAnti-Virus for I am a weak, weak soul. Hopefully I'll be able to get Solinari _{(why yes I am a namethief but there's a totally cool IC reason for that I swear)} approved fer reals this time. Also get her voice. Which means using more formal speech patterns but still sticking in random TV Tropes/video game/geek references. OH BOY THIS SOUNDS LIKE FUN ALREADY 8D

Still miss Niche though. Sob why must it be OOC for you to return to the game.

Oh, and. Um. Any of you guys familiar with the Filipino début tradition? Because I was. Totally invited to be part of my friend's début court. Which means I get to attend a crapton of rehearsals in order to learn the fine art of ballroom dancing and where a fancy pants dress at some point in April and oh god how am I even going to sldkfj;lasdfj

Still, Allan will also be part of her court, and we'll be dance partners, which will be interesting. Especially since this gives him something to tease me back about, since he's the one who knows more about ballroom dancing whereas I know barely anything. Hmm... Maybe this will come in handy for Double Arts cosplay...

So it turns out that we're getting another English project come Thursday. Someone please shoot me now. Especially since we just finish our college apps assignment on that day. Is it really impossible for us to go, I don't know, a week without an English project anymore? D8

Does anyone know what it means when your computer starts making a really low buzzing/whirring sound upon startup, usually in mornings, can apparently be fixed by moving the tower/shaking it? Because my computer did that for the second time today and I'm worried as to whether this means explosion is imminent or what.

Please say it isn't, because that would really really suck D:

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Why yes, I have (Don't Fear) the Reaper stuck in my head. Thank you for asking.

Homecoming weekend was this past Saturday. It was in the gym, but it was actually quite nice, with fancy pants dinner included in the ticket and all. Also some really, really rich desserts that I could only manage to eat one of. Allan and I mostly just hung out in the so-called VIP lounge reserved for the seniors, which mainly consisted of a little area with black paper on the ground and fake petals spread over it, along with some white stool-y type things that we all wished had backs. Also blacklights. Lots and lots of blacklights. It was fun to just people watch, especially since everyone looks terrifying when exposed to so much blacklight. Either that or undergarments start showing through their clothes, which is more hilarious than terrifying, if not kind of really unfortunate for the person involved. _{Poor girl didn't realize it, either.}

I'm finally finished with my senior paper forever, which is nice. It's written under the name Peppy Hare, because my friend is Fox McCloud and my other friend is Falco Lombardi and it was between Peppy or Slippy and who the hell wants to be Slippy. This is apparently supposed to prevent bias on the part of the teachers...? Apparently? Whatever. Codenames are cool with me.

Roleplaying Rio at Mayfield. It's a real blast, although I really am starting to wish I had some Blade Children along just for my sanity. Playing her adorable is fun, but also a little exhausting in that there's a lot of other stuff she's doing behind the scenes that I'm just. Not really going into. Because half of me is lazy and half of me just wants to keep up the cutesy act looking as innocent as possible. But man, what I'd do for a Kousuke to bully... =X

Gonna be picking up Momiji Sohma from Fruits Basket at Memento Eden at Ayame's request. I was planning to RP him somewhere so it works out fine. Now if only people would tag him so that I could. Y'know. Get his voice down and all that 83;;

If Momiji's going to ME, I'll probably end up playing Tohru at Quo Vadis. Although on the other hand, I'm kind of wondering how I'd do with Kyo... 'cause I really kind of miss RPing an angry dude (Niiiiiiiche D:), and if I could do Niche, I could probably pull off Kyo? ...Maybe? I'unno. Still on the fence about that.

I really want the OP and ED to Tegami Bachi! I think they'd grow on me even more. I also want to know why Tegami Bachi is supposedly only 13 episodes because it just doesn't make sense considering how long the series already is and the fact that it's a freaking Shonen Jump series and therefore obligated to go on and on for at least 50, if not 100-some episodes.

NOW LET'S GET THOSE COLLEGE APPS DONE SO I CAN LAZE ABOUT AND PLAY VIDJAMAGAEMS WITH ALLAN WEDNESDAY ♥ Stupid Creative Writing and its stupid buttload of not very creative writing assignments.

I approve of the Tegami Bachi spam I got on DevArt. And by spam I mean there were two more fanarts of the series than usual. And by usual I mean no fanarts at all.

...):

But besides that, BAND RETREAT IN LIKE 2 HOURS WHOAAAAAAAAAA. This will be my last year! Assuming I don't fail! Which is really... wow. How the heck did time fly by so quickly?

I hope everything goes well. I hope I can be a cool cabin leader even though I have no idea what I'm supposed to do except for making name tags. I also really hope I don't get caught in the Senior Hunt. Oh man oh man do I hope I do not get caught. I mean, last year, pretty much the entire class got caught but that just means our year has to PULL UP THE SLACK and make it without anyone being found.

...I guess I should probably explain the whole Senior Hunt thing, actually?

Weeell.. it involves the senior class hiding around camp (because we go to a camp, durhur) in the middle of the night. We get 8~10 minutes to run from the main gathering place and either find a place to hide or just. Wander. In the darkness. The underclassmen are then let out to swarm over the camp and basically try to hunt us down, hence the name. They have around 20~30 minutes to find us.

This takes place Saturday, and I'm already nervous ='D;;

Ahhhh but all in all, I'm excited~! This will be loads of fun, even if I have a cold because I have the stupidest luck ever.

Aki-con is looking pretty bleak due to schedules being out to thwart me, so uh. Keyo? I know I told you just last night that I'd be going, but I'm starting to seriously doubt I'll be able to just because everything keeps falling apart. So yeah, feel free to share the table out with someone else or something. I'm really, really sorry about the art trade and bothering you for all of that all this time, but it just... doesn't look like it'll be happening.

Which, of course, means that those few drawings I managed to do are kind of pointless now. Derp. At least it's some experience with chibis? I need to get better at those anyway...

I'll probably keep looking for a way to get up there, but as it is, getting a ride is by far the biggest obstacle. Nobody would be able to get me up there after 3 PM Friday but at a decent enough time to make it worth the gas and time it takes to get there. Because getting to the con just in time to go back home just doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Whatever. I'm not going to let it bother me too much. There's always next year =X _{Although it'll still be a pain to get there from either Seattle or, possibly, Olympia.}

Ah well. Whatever. I'm tiiiiired. Though being able to do funtime arts again sounds awful nice... After I do that Ukitake for Fel. By the way, do you want that as a chibi, or...? :D

EDIT: DANI SO LATE TO THE BANDWAGON.

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

Last week was spirit week at school! I only really participated on Character Day because cosplay is cool. I went as Czeslaw Meyer, which nobody recognized, of course, but whatever. It was also magically super hot that day which sucked.

And then Tolo happened on Friday, which was cool when we were hanging out at Nicole's house and crappy when we actually got to the dance, because somehow the music has gotten even worse. Allan and I agree that the next time there is a tolo, there is a high likelihood of me asking him to hang out at my house and play video games instead of actually attend. Though it'd be cool if we could just latch on with our group for dinner or something.

Speaking of Allan and video games, we played ToS for a couple hours yesterday. We didn't get too far on accounts of DYING IN THE FIRE TEMPLE TWICE BEFORE WE COULD BEAT THE STUPID THING but, well. He seems to like it, so hopefully we can play more :D As it is, he plays Lloyd and controls where we go, and I played Genis and have since switched to Colette because I forgot that you have to have her in the team against the bosses of the temples, and that's probably why we kept losing. Ignoring the fact that I suck at keeping her alive...

Started playing Golden Sun again. Half the blame goes to Sheepy for lending me the second one, and the other half goes to Wighty for playing such an awesome Ivan that I totally do not stalk what are you talking about.

People I know are joining Mayfield. It's. Weird. Mostly in that "Hey I know this person from a completely different RP and now they're in the world of LJ RP. Wait what." kind of way. It's like the worlds of forum RP and LJ RP are colliding o-o

Dad's gonna take me driving later. I don't wanna gooooo DX

EDIT: Streets are scary.

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My list of actually roleplayed characters is shrinking. While this isn't exactly a bad thing per se (no use character-sitting and all), I still can't help but feel bad >_>;; Ahh, whatever. I'll probably come up with some characters to app at some cool places. Still working on Tohru and Rio, after all.

School has been really busy! Not difficult, just. Busy. We're almost ready to start on our 3rd rough drafts for our Senior Project paper (the topic of which I haven't technically done and will not be doing until after the paper is written haha). It's a little crazy, but the brunt of the work is done, and now it's just revise, revise, revise. Social Justice is... Well, I keep feeling like I'm not doing my work even if I am? I'm super worried about that class, even though I probably don't have much of a reason to...

Also French. French is hard this year, because by now pretty much everything is. Uh. In French. And I'm not getting it as much as I probably should be. I'm hoping I get better really quickly just from exposure.

Still hurts to walk because of that hike on Sunday. I can't wait until the day when I no longer have to fear going down stairs... especially since my 6th period is Science (3rd Floor) and my 7th period is Band (Basement) =| whygodwhy.

Now to write those index cards about Schindler and how awesome he is at Social Justice-ing.

I need to stop crying so easily. It's seriously getting to be ultra lame these days.

-Read more Spiral.
-Finish Rio's app once Spiral has been reread.
-Decide whether or not to app a second at Quo Vadis.
-If decision is positive, choose between Tohru or Momiji from Fruits Basket.
-If decision is negative, congratulate self on realizing that school will probably get tougher from now on and picking up more characters is likely the worst idea ever.
-Register for Aki-con.
-Draw stuff to sell at Aki-con.
-Figure out how to prioritize what the hell I want to spend my limited funds on because it seems every time I get a little money, it quickly vanishes.
-Watch more Macross I guess.
-Make cold lunches every once in a while to cut down on cost of food.
-Do homework.

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Been kinda dead as far as RP goes. I think writing my Senior Project paper is just burning me out like whoa. I'm actually really sleepy right now, and it's only like 7 PM x_x;

Hike tomorrow. I can't wait! Yeah, right. Kinda wish my parents had told me about it earlier. Then again, maybe they did and I just wasn't paying attention? I don't even know these days.

Ask any of my RP characters a question and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer. Ask anything, regardless of whether you know their canon or not. Also, feel free to ask them IC.

Character list!

Found Katayoku no Tori and VII by Akiko Shikata today. Been listening to them nonstop since. It was kind of funny to creep Allan out with the latter :D

Finally Dear Munned an OC, bunnyblaaast. She is so awesome to RP, I had no idea until I started getting comments from all of the Yuusha guys. It was a blast. I really hope I can use her again in an actual game~ E-even though she's actually not very nice of a person. Also even though she needs a puzzled and a XD and a SHOUTING expression.

Lots of homework this weekend. Hope I'll be able to get in done in time. _{Stupid people not telling me about stupid summer homework so I have to ask the stupid teachers if I can do it over the stupid weekend.}

( Blah blah blah book questions blah. )

( tl;dr Dani's probably getting a table at the Artist Alley for Aki-con )

Anyway, I know I'm probably in over my head or something but... I have no idea how to do this, so if any of you guys could give tips and stuff, that would be really awesome? Right now I'm wondering how to make cellphone straps, specifically the ones with a little laminated chibi. How to get them laminated, should I use special paper, that kind of stuff. Also, bookmarks; should I even try? Also also, prints; should I even bother?

I'm definitely going to do on the spot commissions, too. Small drawings of people and the like, for a couple dollars each or something. I don't know. I don't have time to make examples tonight, but I'll work on some for example purposes. As far as actual prints go, (assuming I do them), I'm thinking of doing pictures like this, except not so much blank space, and probably some full-body stuff because waist-ups are boring.

ALSO price suggestions would be great because I am walking blind into this thing and I don't know what to do ahhhhhh help me f-list ;-;

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*Scoots off to work on her Valor character*

Oh hey also I'm going to poof over the weekend.

Just so you guys know.

Yaaaay Harstine with a cast and a cold.

It's all done and over with... meaning I no longer have a cyst on my wrist and there's only a 15-20% chance it will come back! And if it does I'm going to take their suggestion and just live with it because spending the money and going through the hurt is so not worth it. But hopefully it won't happen and I can live happily ever after without a cyst. Also the doctor said it was pretty big, which would be why it hurt so dang much.

Random info about recovery
-I've got a cast on my arm now! The cast comes off on the 24th, and for the first 48 hours I get to keep it elevated, which is kind of annoying but hopefully it will get better faster this way.
-It might not be fully healed for 3 weeks or so.
-I might not get all movement back for 3 months. The doctor estimated that it might be about a month until I am able to play flute again as well.

That being said... I'm just going to go ahead and hiatus on RPs because typing with one hand is a pain and the painkillers keep making me feel randomly drowsy (like right now!). At least I'm apparently not one who gets a "buzz" off the stuff, leading to embarrassing comments and whatnot =/

My parents have been really nice about the whole thing, helping me with... a lot of things. I can't even unscrew my own medicine bottle, so yeah =|;; I'm planning to take it easy, and just sleep a lot, as well as stream anime when I'm actually conscious, posting whenever I feel up to it... stuff like that. I'm pretty confident that I could draw using the tablet if I really wanted to (probably after the 48 hours of keeping my arm up), so there's that, too.

Anyway, getting tired again. Time to crash for the second time today.

EDIT: Note to self: Eat food immediately prior to taking medicine. Bad Things happen if I do not.

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