As I'm not feeling too particularly well (a mix of too much sleep and not enough xD), it's MEME TIEM!

( Memes, memes, they're good for your...blog? )


...I need to write moar things.
DAD'S UP, BEDTIME.

RainbowSerenity

Sorry results are a bit late this week, but a huge thank you to all the participants! We had some great icons and a great turnout! (:

( Maybe someday ~ )

Week 232 has already been posted here, so go and be sure to submit! (:

Thank to the lovely neko14 for informing about the upcoming Junjou Minimum starring NOWAKI! (^w^) <3 I've made a little fanart of 10-12 year old Nowaki! I would love to hear critiques!

Left: Nowaki's first job
Right: Nowaki's first crush

(  LOOKIE! Drawing and Artist's Notes and Comments )

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Activities
yuna_awards: Visible Text/Provided Images - icon challenge
ffxiii_awards: Upside Down - icon challenge
yesterdaylaughs: Genesis Awards accepting Final Fantasy X fics
ff_awards: Hot Stuff - icon challenge

Fanfiction
Final Fantasy VII Compilation
( Unspecified FFVII Canon )

Final Fantasy X/X-2
auronlu: Love Her and Despair (30) (Auron, Isaaru, Maroda, Rikku, Elma) (PG)

Final Fantasy XII Compilation
Original Game
ellnyx: hello again, stranger (balthier, basch, fran) (NC-17)

Icons
Final Fantasy X/X-2
auronlu: 18 icons

Final Fantasy XII Compilation
Original Game
kanorin: 2 icons

Various
zxavir: 9 icons (FFXIII:OGC, Versus XIII)

Miscellaneous
chibirisuchan: Final Fantasy VII Sackboys (FFVII:OGC)

Summer is here, and it seems the weather is finally starting to heat up, so this next theme seemed very appropriate. This week's challenge (along with a lot of text in this post) is borrowed from rusalkatrix at ff_seasonal; basically, you'll be picking a character(s) you think is "hot stuff" (puns, anyone? 8D). If you need any more ideas or inspiration, be sure to check out the original post over here! (:

Submit all icons to this screened post in the following format:

http://i41.tinypic.com/f4lgyw.png
Series: Final Fantasy X
Character: Moogle

Icons will be due to this post by Saturday, July 18th, 2009 at approximately 10pm PST.
Be sure to abide by the rules in the userinfo, and have fun!

I overslept for an hour OTL and before that, I was awake enough to SMS Kaen. Note to self: tell Kaen to call me if she doesn't receive a reply for more than 15 mins. Luckily when I woke up, she was still eating at home. I rushed to throw whatever last minute items I have in my bag. Forgot the red liner and Eyemo <_< Told Cookie to get for me and walked really really fast to the bus stop.

Turns out I was earlier lol. 159 came the moment I passed by the purple top up machine. Was in very normal wear XD Black 3/4 shirt with black pants, shoes, specs and normal hair lol. Waited a while for Kaen. She was pulling along a red luggage bag =3 Ran down the escalator and saw that the train was arriving in 2 mins. Walked rather quickly to the barrier and down the escalator. And just in time, the train arrived. It was a kinda squeezy though D8 had to stand all the way to City Hall. Changed train there. Around... the 1st 5 stops, someone freed a seat. Kaen sat first =w= (lol, I had been in worse. 1 hour on the bus = die ). After Tanah Merah someone beside her got off. Then I took that seat while we crapped a bit. Until we reached Pasir Ris. Waited for engracia and went to Whitesands (coz I wanted to eat >.< ) McD for breakfast, the awesome 8Db

By the time we reached McD, I thought breakfast time over (coz they were changing the boards). Luckily there were still a few breakfast items available =3  (Big Breakfast was surprisingly cheaper than lunch and dinner menu though ._. ) Kaen had apple pie while engracia went outside to buy bubble tea. I commented 'Of you were in full cos, and seen drinking this, I woulda thought Hell froze over" XD yukino0 arrived after that. She couldnt see us at first XD While they went off to wear their lenses I finished off my breakfast =3 Kaen eat... slow ._. And she keeps INSISTING that I'm NOT nice D< Kanda doesn't need to know that Jasdevi!!! Then someone suggested we should go DownTown East already and picked up our stuff and walked to the bus interchange. On the way, Kaen obtained a gay a purple balloon XD

Bus interchange was... a litle weird lol. We were arguing which bus goes there when this bus rolled by. And everybody was looking at 354 coz 354 is like, the only bus with the big 'DOWNTOWN EAST' painted on the sign. (eh... What bus did we take there again...? =w= ). It was only one stop, but nobody felt like walking XD Kaen alighted through the front door, when the back door obviously has more room for luggage to roll. After that I led the way coz yukino0 doesn't know the way, I walked the fastest and... yeah, that's it =3=

Went straight to BK. Saw SD, WinterSakura and moster. moster already in full cos o.O SD was only in half while Sakura haven't even started wearing yet. Kaen tied the balloon to moster's hammer while we were all giggling. Moster look at us and we all answered "nothing". Kaen came back and he was STILL eating OTL That guy is oblivious I SWEAR. Then he noticed us pointing at his hammer and saw the balloon. And asked "Since WHEN was that thing there?" That was the final snap XD After that he asked for a marker and wrote the words 'Purple Golem' on it. Then yukino0 and Kaen and engracia say that they're going to the toilet. Seeing as he haven't arrived yet, and with no one to piss me off (save for moster who likes to poke fun at my height in full cos =A= ) I took whatever stuff I needed and went toilet (didn't bring the belt thing OTL ) Wore the contacts outside the toilet then went into the toilet. Wore the jacket first, pinned the badge thingy, then wore the wig (I thought the other way round coz less mah fan). Went back to fetch my belt (coz I look kinda weird in it lol). Raided BOTH bags for my Eyemo. Couldn't find it and half shouted "FUCK!!!" SD looked at me and said "you should be saying 'oh FISH' instead". (I found it today lol. in the side pocket). Met Ayano and she was like 'Accompany me to wait for my mother". I asked her "Your real mother?". Coz she refers to holydust as 'mama' too LOL!!! ANd she gave me this look and said "Of course!!". But I can't =w= Went back to put on makeup when I realized. I HAS NO WHITE LINER!!!! I stopped putting on the foundation and called Ayano immediately. I think yukino0 and engracia were looking at me, wondering why I so panicked lol. Then Ayano said if I accompany her to wait for her mother, she'll pass me the white liner. After a while, her mother came with her blazer and she walked really really fast back to the chalet. And just walked right past the gate. I asked her '... No need to pay $1 go in meh?" SHe said "No, I do this all the time." The very scary part was, she forgot the block. But she remember the room number. WHen we went to B block, I was so scared she knock on the wrong door omg. When holydust opened the door, I was like "OMG heng sia' (holy look so... uh... unglam coz her hair look like just come out from shower and haven't come yet XD). Rush back to toilet to piang everything asap coz they rest were leaving already OTL when I got back to BK, asked SD to draw the scar for me. Since my red liner is hopelessly easy to smudge (AND bloody oily AND bloody overcoloured AND stain the wig badly), SD used her own crayon =3=  in the end, it looked fine.

Kil came in with a bunch of speech bubbles. Had some epic omake shots with them. Moster was sleeping but evil I put the bubble over his head and Kil took a shot >D While he was sleeping, I chatted a little with Justice and Yosuke. Then watched yukino0 help Kaen to draw the eyeliner and Justice's triangle tattoos too. After a while, SD put on the coat coz she claimed that 'I look weird looking so casual among al the fully dressed people' Sometime in between Sakura also got into her Lala cos =3  me and moster played a bit with the 'Purple Golem' thing while SD kept having this 'LOL' smile on her face XD moster went to buy food while I went back and attempted to pin Timcanpy to my shoulder. The tape was falling off D8 Have to replace it soon coz both sides won't stick anymore. Kil thought I wanna attempt lol. 1st 2 times, Timmy looks like it's seriously hating me, it's SOOOOOOO far back. Then 3rd time, it was emo-ing coz it's slouched to the front <_< I got it more or less fine after the 3rd try. Athensis came in and I told her where to go find Ayano and holydust. Allena arrived around 1+. She asked me if I can put makeup on for her. I didn't know how to >.< so I asked SD to do it for her. Told her to put on her wig and cos first though. Yosuke and moster were having a staring competition. Except moster was staring into space. Lol, some Lavi... Kaen looks awesome in Jasdevi *w*  and yukino0 is very... in-Lulu Bell. Then sometime ago/later Kaen wanna go find mello. Ma and Lala went along for the lack of better things to do. Saw JTC peeps there and OH. MY. GOD. SEAN!!! SEAN!!!! SEAN, THE TRAP!!! WEARING. LOLITA. DRESS!!!! 8DDDDDDDDDDDD Chatted a little to Daniel and Wanyi then went to find Kaen. Wanyi mentioned in the pasing that I look damn bishie. Please lar, the goddamn white hair barely covers my head =3= Yosuke, Justice and moster were leaving BK and it was getting boring, so I left too =3=

Brought my bags outside and left them with Yosuke (he... a bit too Krory ._. staying away from the sunlight) Justice keeps wanting to munch on my Timcanpy D8 Sometimes when I turn around I see him pretending to bite my Timmy D8 After a while of just hanging around with both of them, and playing around, the rest of the team arrived =3 they bought takeaway from BK and bya acted as luggafe keeper ._. Went about, one round around the outside, and went into the tent.

PART 2 COVERAGE IN TENT COZ I SERIOUSLY NO TIME LEFT TO POST THE REST AND IT'S GETTING BLARDY LONG XD

I'm probably going to be pretty busy next week so I wanted to get these finished. ^^;
Banners for idril_lalaith, and itcomesinlove.

( banners already?! D8 )

Because I suck, and because I was gone from 7 this morning until now (it's 10 PM) I'm extending submissions til Tomorrow (Monday, July 13th) at 12:00 PM. We have only five icons so far, so more would be totally appreciated!

SUBMIT!

Just to let those who requested I will be posting those up this week since I've spent most of last week preparing for my history class midterm.

Okay, so, a long time ago, on an akuroku day far far away, I atempted to make a preview.

This is an extension of that preview.

And a message.

I'll be at my orientation for 2 days. Prob. be back by tuesday afternoon though XD

link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdIogxFw3c
summary: I think its pretty understandable
Pairings: Axel&Roxas

Here are the winners ...

( whole entire world )

Congrats to all who entered. Incidentally, the banner maker on-call this week is etherealxlolita. Would someone be willing to cover her banner, please?

Our last theme is up and I'd really like to end things with as many icons as we can get. When the winners for Good Night are posted next Sunday, I will post an announcement with what to expect from this community in the future. Link to submit to the final theme is [HERE].

- Orca

So we went on a Sunday for the first time. It sucked.

Gah,it was so empty. I bought Loveless at a super discounted price, plus a poster, and that was about it (save for ramune and pocky exceptions)

We had to wait for TWO HOURS for the dealer room to open because my brother got the wrong time.

He got 3 wooden swords,a shirt and a poster.

So we left within an hour, which was fine since the con is free. But still it was aggravating to be there with such an empty space.

Never again.

[edit] oh, there were alot of yaoi doujins...code geass mostly. I couldn't find KH, but then, I might've missed it. They were piled on top of each other in neat stacks that had no order. Hardly able to look through everything.

Fanfiction:
Multipart:
Ungodly Fruit (Part 3?) by rowen_nana (Tyki/Allen, NC17)

Fan-art:
Fancomic by nugatory42 (Allen Walker, Lenalee, G)

Miscellaneous:
stylishpine hunts for Cross/Lenalee fanfic
lavilena asks for suggestions for a Lavi/Lenalee fanmix
arkbsales is selling DGM merchandise
hashire shares some pictures from a Kanda/Lenalee doujinshi (kanlina-locked)
solacemods pimps cityofsolace; a multifandom RP


If there are any corrections or additions to be made, please do comment ^^

So. Wake up at 6am with a full bladder. Make my way to the downstairs bathroom.

FIND A HUGE FUCKING MONSTER BUG ON THE BATHROOM WALL.

See: House Centipede

Make my brother kill it. The End.

And if you still don't get it LOOK MYAH

I fangasmed like no other...

BEAT CRUSADERS CAMEO IN MY GINTAMA?!

FUCK YES

I know technically if we wanted to, we could include Beck as really their first anime in a sense ...though we never saw them but still but laksjfdlk;ajs man I just love this combo. This song has been on repeat for like three days...I swear I am sleeping after this and tagging...urgh I am so behind in so many places...

Title: Leave Me Breathless
Day/Theme: July 10 / you were never able to keep me breathing
Series: Junjou Romantica
Character/Pairing: Egoist
Rating: NC-17
Warning: It's seriously a PWP. No joke, straight into the erotic stuff.
July 10

Title: Premonition?
Day/Theme: July 11 / destroy the dreams I ever dreamed
Series: Junjou Romantica
Character/Pairing: Terrorist
Rating: PG-13
July 11

Thank you to every member who submitted this week! We have 19 beautifully orange icons this week! Voting will run until Sunday night as usual unless stated otherwise.

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