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Okay, so technically Over The Top Games were the developers, but I thought it would be a good subject line. /shot
So, on WiiWare, there is apparently a game coming out called NyxQuest coming out. All well and good, except the heroine is a random winged being called Nyx, is searching for her friend Icarus (who apparently did not get into trouble/die a horrible death through his own stupidity) and trying to defeat the "evil sun god Helios."
Makes me dizzy just thinking about it, and right after I used up my handwaving power on dismissing the logic of Ice Age 3 as being a completely lot cause, too.
Why do I have to become aware of these things right after completely overdosing on stories from greek mythology, arghhhh?
Or maybe it's not as bad as I thought, and there's a reveal later on in the game or somesuch...
Ehh, it just bothers me a little, because the plot/use of characters seems to make very little sense to me. If you're wondering what in the world I'm rabbiting on about, 'tis here.

Seriously, from what I've seen from The Fool's P3 playthrough, even that's got a far better grasp of greek mythology. Can't comment on anything aside from my compendium progress in P4, since I haven't the foggiest clue about Japanese mythology/Shinto/etc at all.
Hopefully the Encyclopedia of Mythology I got will rectify that.
Also Thomas Bulfinch's Age of Fable is a great resource, which I have in paperback, whoo. ♥

m_a_foxfire tagged me with Kurogane.

( On with the show! )

...AND I MUST POSSESS IT.
Surprisingly, the title has nearly nothing whatsoever to do with this post. Fandom, life and GENERAL UPDATE coming your way for great, if not lawyerly, justice.

HEY! You! Yes, you! Member of mah f-list! I'm a bit late with this, but please go here, find out about Smoke's great plan for world domination way of annoying her friend/bringing some lulz/pimping his anime review blog, ja?
These kind of things are fun anyway, mmhm~
You know you want to~

I AM NOW OFFICIALLY SICK OF THE MARRIAGE-PARTY THAT IS MAMMA MIA.
Firstly, it's a rubbish movie, in my opinion, secondly I would have preferred to do something better for half of my school show, and lastly I had to dress up in summer clothes and a fwoofy white skirt (...) to go dance and sing to tracks from the thing on a float in my local parade. Because apparently my mam thought it would be fun? And a good family activity?

Either way I am reminded that Abba songs thrown together in a blender do not make a good storyline, and that I hate wearing skirts with a fiery loathing more burning than a bonfire. S-so impractical, cold, uncomfortable, really... So, yeah, give me trousers or give me a worse mood than normal. XD Cosplay is alright, though, I can make exceptions.

I am very close to getting as many pictures of the Figumate Otacon!girlyfig as I can, some clay, paint and wires. So I can make my own - it would be shoddier, sure, but cheaper and MY GOD MAN do I really need to get a piece of plastic shipped from Japan? I think not. But yes, that girlyfig is some kind of trap, meiner Meinung nach. (In my opinion.)

Oh! Oh! I want to draw some Art Nouveau style Tsubasa fanart, one piece each of Sakura, Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane and the white Mokona. I might even do a xxxHolic group one and Kurogane/Fai battle couple picture (you get what I mean, I'm sure) if I actually get it going ( like a snowball, my enthusiasm will only increase once it's started rolling.) So, any suggestions for relevant symboloism? We all know Clamp do love them some symbolism, and Art Nouveau is practically rife with it as a rule. I think I'll include the Kudan, at least, and everyone's starting outfits.

Somehow I ended up (don't ask, I'm not sure how myself) reading some rather odd harem fanservice manga. With a battle tournament. Mysterious beings. And (apparently) a random sort-of hermaphrodite. (Who was a man but is now partially a woman? CONFUSING.) And the power of love. Random cliches strewn around everywhere. And severe clothing damage in practically every fight, crossed with hilariously un-natural looking boobage. :/ I am laughing, and still enjoying it, even with the fanservice annoying me. Not sure how I've managed that. Ehh, it's hardly a secret that I'm a bit of a covert pervert but all of the elements seem like a formula for a manga that is no good whatsoever! At all! I'm still not even sure if it does work! Curses, cursesssssss!

In other news, getting a work experience placement now feels like an unattainable goal, and it's next week.

So, I finished a particular drawing/design of a Phoenix last week, and I've just now got around to doing all that uploading business on dA.
I'd love to know what people think; I'm really glad I have it finished, and without any major mess-ups! So, here it is - go on, click, take a look at it in full view.


Firebird by ~LadyGyrfalcon on deviantART

Other than that, I've had the flu for the last few days, so I've been out of school, sneezing, warmer than normal and basically floating through the day in a haze of tiredness and dizzy feelings.
Oh, and I picked up some more Tsubasa icons (surprise, surprise) from caffeine_buzz. The one used for this post, a shocked one and a sadface. Since I needed more of a range - I still need an angry one! So little space. XD

Since apparently I stumble across the strangest quizzes and can't help but want to find out what my results are... It's a seduction styles quiz result?






Hehe?

I finished Metal Gear Solid:the Twin Snakes (the remake, yeah...) on Monday! I took down my stats, fffff.

Game level: Very Easy (Since I'm lame like that. I'll work my way up, though! I'll definately re-play the game a couple of times 'til I get better.)
Play time: 15:28:27
Continue: 07 times
Alert mode: 22 times
Enemies: 94 killed (It would have been much higher, but I tried to use the M9 as much as possible.)
Rations: 39 used

Code name: Cat (Ehe...)
Ahh, I'm so bad at it, I only got two dog tags. Liquid's and Vulcan Raven's ones. It's very fun, though. Moreso than I thought it would be. The gameplay is irritatingly addictive; I don't usually like stealth games or sneaking around, but I could help find it interesting. Unlike the sneaking sections in the Legend of Zelda games, man, those are annoying. XD
Oh! I got the "good ending", too! Meryl survived! Hooray!

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 4.47, Libertarian: 3.62

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My Foreign Policy Views
Score: -3.76

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My Culture War Stance
Score: -6.84

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So, as I may or may not have mentioned, my class are doing a project about HIV/AIDS in Ireland and around the world for our YSI (Young Social Innovators) project. The title is "Hope Is Vital/Adolescents In Desperate Situations." Which is pretty snappy, I must say.
I'm in the sub-group working on an education back about HIV and AIDS. We hope to use it in our school firstly, then the surrounding area, the county and maybe even all over Ireland. (We're hoping we can get sponsorship for it. YSI in itself is a school-year long project and a contest, but everyone wants to try and make a lasting difference. Not just in and around the community, but also wherever we can have some positive effect with what we're doing.)
The topic I'm working on for the education pack, which I really ought to get back to right now, is "Stigma and Discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS." Although I got roped into making an eight-page powerpoint presentation by myself for World AIDS Day back on December 1st!
I've added one of these banners to my profile page, to show my support for The Red Tape, a kind of art-based money raising campaign for the international AIDS charity AVERT which has rather comprehensive information about the topic, aside from just their campaigns.
Or, well, this banner sums it up quickly, and better than I could:

...Because, apparently, I can never be on time with these things. No seriously.
It's actually an unwritten law. (Much like taking the blue Lady Gyrfalcon.)

Aaaaanyway. Happy New Year! Eat, drink, be merry, make resolutions, break resolutions and all that jazz.

My probably-easy-to-keep (but you never know for sure!) resolution is to join Amnesty International's Irish section. Since it's all very well caring about some idea, but you have to get out there and try to act on it! I have to do the best I can, so I don't nearly break into tears over doing nothing whenever anyone or anything mentions the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! Also I still have the Amnesty t-shirt from the time I did the Women's Mini Marathon to fundraise and that kind of reminds me every time I look in the wardrobe.
Pfffft, it's been on the backburner for ages, so I really have to just get to it.

My other probably-easy-to-keep resolution is to be on top of my work and homework all the time. I don't really want to slack off on that, and I'll be cooler than a refrigerated cucumber if keep that resolution strong.

And my ongoing unwritten one is to be more active on lj. Update more often. Comment more often. Do something other than compulsively lurking dressingroom roleplays.
Because you guys are awesome and I don't show you enough love/comment enough/just hang around and have great times, b'aaaaaaaaw.
(B'aaaaaaaaw is for the lulz, unwritten resolution is for the serious.)

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the Lady Gyrfalcon.

We can't stop here. This is Lady Gyrfalcon country.

Nobody puts Lady Gyrfalcon in a corner.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the Lady Gyrfalcon Room!

That's no moon. It's a Lady Gyrfalcon.

Fffffff.

...Also, have you seen the All Your Base parody livejournal 404 page?

I'm still living off purple cold-induced brain fluff, hahahaha, it only got worse today because I was comparing product prices from 4 supermarkets, hehe.
But now I'm happy because I get to write nonsense, which is ttly made of awesome sauce and all.

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.

DO EET. Pls?

Tsubasa is moving into a further segment of HIGH DRAMA. (Paghaghaghagh.) I really want to replace some of the dialogue, since it's so serious, with random gags. The trouble is... I'm useless at thinking of things that are actually funny sometimes. Semi-snarky humerous comments, I've got them conquered, but give me an empty speech-bubble to humour up and it's the kind of mental block you get from an empty google box. XDD
Like... What should I type, oh no!

Also, I should have the "CLAMP is devil, help me please" Lolanuki icon. (Watanuki + Lulz = Lolanuki. The Fool decided so. Either that or Lolnuki, since she says it's like "Lol, nuking.")
Since the way even Altomare believes how confirmation of an "official couple" is given through some sort of blathering statement of people having a "deep connection" or similar.
I hate it, hate, hate, since it's got wadged in my mind, and that's all I think when I hear the phrase, romantic implications. Stupid. D:<
I'm sliding and skating around my actual point, which is that for the hell of it, my parents, the Fool and I decided to go to the Eight Annual Worldwide Ghost Convention in the old city jail on Hallowe'en night. I have a program, and the speakers were interesting. (As well as... Occasionally hard to not snigger at, when talking about resonating rocks. Especially when sitting next to another certain individual who is trying equally hard not to trigger a lynching from the 96 other angry, serious business attendees! )
At the end of it, my Mam wanted to ask one of the speekers, (who, should you so wish to visualise her, was like any benevolant old psychic lady you might imgine) about a deceased friend. Words of comforting confirmation imparted, she proceeded to ask if the Fool and I were both my Mam's daughters, to which the answer, quite logically, was along the lines of "lolwhut, no, she's my daughter's friend, that one."
And to my point of why I started mentally flailing, the following comment was something like "Oh, I thought that because they have a strong connection."
O____________O
And that was inner flail, flail, flail, flail, ohgodswhydidshehavetosaythat, no really I don't have some kind of awkward sekret intellectual attraction type whotsit for the Fool. Which must have been evident somehow because that was amended after several moments to "Even as friends. They'll go on to do very well in their studies, etc, blah, blah, more stuff not important to this journal entry."
Shitfuck, I hate having the rules of Clamp pairing indicators written into my mind, seriously. O____O

Whoooooooo, I have a horrible sorethroatcold againnnn. But it will be gone by tommorow, no doubt, no dout. I have epic work experience in a local newspaper lined up! I'll be all healthy for it, again!
Also I was at the London MCM expo, haha, I cosplayed as Lana Skye on the Saturday it was awesome. I bumped into some other 1-5 cosplayers, including two Ema Skye ones! And the Angel Starr had a fake bento with REAL LIVE CARAMEL SQUARES hidden inside under the lid. There was a Diego and a Mia at another point. :3 I got lots and manga and Pokemon cards. Also, xxxHolic volumes 11 & 12, awesome sauce! My dad went as Agent Smith from the Matrix, and he was quite cool. PROTIP - walky talkies are so unbelievably handy in a con, oh my. No need to waste money on the mobile. And anyway ours go all screwy when abroad so the walky talkies were lifesavers, literally. The tube line we were on stopped because of a database malfunction, so my dad hopped off for some crazy reason. And then I was whisked off to the next stop! No time to draw breath! I waited there for twenty minutes unitl the one my dad got finally pulled in and we were re-united. It was mildly alarming.

It should be noted that idiots shouldn't have anything to do with stuff about games they remember from watching their older brother and friend's older brother playing them for hours on end when younger. Therefore ingraining a hithero unrecognised (well, until now) BURNING NEED to play as many of the Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid games as humanly possible. >O ( Much the same mental conditioning surrounds the Starfox games. The N64 and Lylat Wars cartridge are still around, and I occasionally play them and fail horribly when it comes to beating Wolf. )
Need to play almost nostalgia inducing epic video game series, graaah.

They should not take a gander at the capslock comm for no reason other than they naturally gravitate towards the things.
Also, capslock comms and brainbreak are a perfect combination -
I think my mind just... Shut down.
Attempt to reboot in 1, 2, 3... There. I should be fine so long as I don't try and make any sense of that webpage ever again.
Loli genderswitched MGS character figurines. O.O Uhm. *And there she goes again.*
I have no idea... Also, I need to be smacked for wanting the Otacon one. OH GOD WHAT. D: WHAT.

I have Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Yessssssss! And the promo keyring. Musn't forget about that. XDD
The Fool and I are working our way through subspace emissary. It's more fun that way, even if I yell in that particular way whenever either of us mess up. (You know... The kind of shouting you get from gamers or football supporters. XDD )
And a Wii. :O Since I did so well in my (serious business) exams (honours everything, 8 A's, 3 B's ) my parents were, apparently, discussing getting one for me even before I mentioned it. (I didn't think I was so obvious in wanting one, and Brawl. O.o But it seems I was. )

Still chipping away at getting all the badges mastered in TWEWY and the ship parts in Phantom Hourglass, I am. XDD

I really do have some properly thought out posts to get around to, but it's Sunday, life has been detaining me recently and I have school again.
Plus, I like video games, and usually don't bother talking about them; I go to an all girls school, which means any conversations about them are doomed to fail, or mysteriously end up being about the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, I have one close friend who is really into video games, who doesn't go to my school (The Fool, obviously), and don't get to blather at the employees of Other Realms half as much as I would like. *Shrugs.*

Also, overdue video games tag, muchly? :D

Haha, I finally caved to my own bad fangirl nature and got two hetalia icons! I only have space for one more left. D: I may have to get rid of the icon with Fay going "Just as planned!" Which I do not want to do, but it makes sense to get rid of the ones I don't use and don't feel somehow attached to (like the Frandrian one, haha, but I wouldn't get rid of that unless I really needed to) so I can get new ones, ja?
(Okay, so I could have just typed "yeah" but in my head it was actually pointless use of "ja" so that's what I went with. Reminds me of the time all I could think of to describe lots of things was Menge instead of lots/a pile. x.x Urk, why do I get confused so easily? Don't get me started about trying to think of a word in Irish, that's a peculiar torture all of it's own. I have to memorise phrases to use more often than not, or just repeatedly attempt to lodge the word in my mind by reading over it. )
So, my ridiculously illogical OTP, Sweden/Finland, yes. It's ridiculously illogical, and I'm sure the department of redundancy department are filling some sort of complaint against me, now.

Surprisingly, this isn't actually bad. Despite being freeverse, and written for an English assignment (see also: English teachers thinking it's a great idea to get the top class to enter competitions, and so proceeding to force them to write) in which the theme should be losely based around a poem studied for class. (In this strange case, that would be an almost combination of An Irish Airman Forsees His Death and The Road Less Travelled, augmented by, well, what was going on in my head at that moment. )
No prizes for guessing what it's actually about, though. XDD And lol, no, it's not emo teen poetry, which does horrible things to my brain and is so superbly pointless it probably wins awards in Hell, no less.

( Freeverse Poetry: May or May Not be some sort of Horrible Punishment handed down to Mankind. )
This is only being posted because I have access to the files on the computer after a few pathetic months. :D

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If you read this, you're tagged. :D Spread it~~!

Being, as I am, prone to randomly wandering off on a tangent... I ended up scrapping some of my old icons, and I picked up four new ones! Hooray. Although I can't help but think maybe the Clamp ones and Ace Attourney ones are kind of vying for space, at this point, because I have an equal amount of each. But there seem to be so many ones for all kinds of stuff! Really!

So, cleaning up the picture post thread is SRS BSNSS. Honestly, though, I never though I'd be having to edit and delete some of our wonderful, fabulous Guild Captain's posts. XDD
Piles of broken links, 3 or 4 images in violation of the guild ToS (allow me to list - nipple sucking, implied sex, possible implied grinding in the shower. )
It just amuses me somehow. Once cleaning is done, I'll count them. :3 Doing these things makes me happy; it's a joy to get to keep the guild nice for the members.

( Berlin! )

Aside from the average sight-seeing activities, I prowled the bookstores for manga. You wouldn't believe how much most of them seem to have. Even the transtation bookstore in Potsdam had three of those spinny stand whotsits. Also, for some inexplainable reason, it was very easy to find BL manga; the manga preview booklet I picked up even had, aside from genres such as romance, fantasy, adventure and the like, a section on BL manga.
I was able to pick up Loveless volume six and Only the Ring Finger Knows. (
For some reason, I broke down laughing at several points reading it, especially the REALLY DRAMATIC parts. It was just... Hilarious for some reason. I've put it down to slight cheesiness. ) They were in German, of course, so I sat trying to read them, with some small success, in the hotel room at the end of the day. It still drove me slightly daffy, though, and could also account for the hilarity that was Only the Ring Finger Knows.
I hunted down the branch of Grober-Unfug in Mitte (my mother's pronouciation of German, especially that word, killed me - I feel a bit mean for laughing at it so much) and, my god, if you are a manga fan of any standing with some comprehension of German or even none, you MUST visit that shop. I kind of flailed around the shop with happiness. They had an insane selection of artbooks - including the Tactics one, X/1999, Clamp Southside (?) and the Gyakuten Saiban artbook. ( I didn't buy it though, and I'm not that bothered, strangely. But court records and exhibit A have all of it, anyway. :3 ) Oh, and if Miss Sushii is reading this they had several copies of the Gothic and Lolita Bible just so you know.
What I did buy, however, were the first Loveless artbook and the Okami artbook. O-O BEST SPLURGE ON MERCH EVER! It was better than a con, my god. Even though they didn't have any of the misc knick-knackery you find at cons. Just artbooks, insane amounts of manga and anime in German and soundtrack CDs.
Okami has the most fantastic art~~!
Also, Yun Kouga has more of a claim on my soul than Clamp~~! Even if the "homigod Soubi is rather creepy at times and seems to have some sort of Shotacon" terrifies me.

We also went on a mildly surreal search for a jacket that could be modified for my Lana Skye cosplay. (Military style, you know?) Ended up journeying to a shop on Motzstrasse (on of the streets of the "gay triangle" in Berlin) which sold old military clothes and finding an almost perfect one, as well as a belt and buttons.

Being able to kind of understand the German was so fun. I'm going back to Berlin someday. Also, the weather is mild enough that I can kick ass and take names with my dress sense wear normal clothes instead of bad touristy short and t-shirts. :D JOY. Oh, maybe I should have got the t-shirt with the iPod ad style grim reaper on it and the caption "iTod." ( iDeath ) XDD
Anywho, yay. <3

Spontaneous dancing!
Buxom wenches!
Anachronistic instrument use!

It's the video for Cops and Robbers!
(I was actually waiting for this to come out. XD Which it did a while back. )