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I’ve been sort of busy for the past days. For the past two days, I think (which is a lot of time, I know); it’s had to do with RO, but I haven’t playing as for lately. You’ll see, a friend of mine has opened his own private RO server (by private I mean, a free RO server for anyone who wants to play in it; it’s called so since it’s “owned” and maintained by a particular individual) after beta-testing it for almost a couple of months, and I was asked to help build the website.

This would make my second attempt of sorts at making a website not for my own use. And I say “of sorts” because, for this website, I’ve used a template and only had to work on the CSS a bit. Or a lot. I still need to finish the main banner for the site but it’s 2:25 in the morning and making graphics always leave with no ideas. As for my first attempt at making a website for others’ use, well, it was an original design for me that I still had to “fix up” a bit more; just for the record, I’ll tell you I wasn’t even aware that one of my creations had made it to the net.

Because that design was supposed to be my little RO fansite, but my sister “borrowed” the codes, copy-pasted them and made it into the website for a private RO server she was part of.

Ah, well, I didn’t like that design that much after all.

Anyway, if I’m updating my journal at this hour and am writing in English, that’s because I felt I had to spam my flist after being stuck with CSS and HTML codes most of the day. It relaxes me, writing in my blog. Almost as much as ranting. But you know that I usually ranting by writing in my blog, so…

I’m only writing in English because I have a meme to post today. I got it from ‘s blog some time ago…


TOP 10 SHIPPINGS OVERALL

1. Sol Badguy/Ky Kiske [Guilty Gear]
2. Seth/Atem [Yuugiou]
3. Shion Uzuki/KOS-MOS [Xenosaga]
4. Sirius Black/Remus Lupin [Harry Potter]
5. Gimli/Legolas [Lord of the Rings] (Bookverse, thanks.)
6. Hiroto Honda/Ryou Bakura [Yuugiou] (I was told I was the only author at the Spanish section of FFnet that wrote about this pairing…)
7. Cid Highwind/Vincent Valentine [Final Fantasy VII]
8. Youji Kudou/Aya Fujimiya [Weiss Kreuz] (The first fandom I ever fell for.)
9. Yuu Kanda/Lavi [D.GRAY-MAN] (I’d worship anything that had to do with Kanda, actually.)
10. Sousuke Aizen/Ulquiorra [Bleach]

Top 5 Love Triangles/Threesomes
1. I
2. don’t
3. like
4. threesomes,
5. sorry.

TOP 5 CANON PAIRINGS
1. Sol Badguy/Ky Kiske [Guilty Gear] (it’s canon! Go ask Ishiwatari about it; he’ll say it is, ok?)
2. Ryuuichi Asami/Akihito Takaba [Viewfinder no Hyouteki]
3. Yuki Eiri/Shuichi Shidou [Gravitation] (Manga version!)
4. Byakuya Kuchiki/Hisana [Bleach] (you see very little of them together in the story, but the fandom can work out wonders sometimes.)
5. Mustrum Ridcully/Esmeralda Weatherwax [Discworld] (you’ve got to love them together…)

Top 5 “Not my favorite, but they’re very nice alternate choices” Shippings
1. Edward Elric/Alphonse Heiderich [Full Metal Alchemist]
2. Vincent Valentine/Cloud Strife [Final Fantasy VII] (Oh, the angst!…)
3. Kyouhei Takano/Sunako Nakahara [Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge]
4. Sasuke Uchiha/Naruto Uzumaki [Naruto]
5. Grimmjow/Ulquiorra [Bleach]

Top 5 “wtf that makes no sense… but I LOVE it!” Shippings
1. Sousuke Aizen/Uryuu Ishida [Bleach] (It has to do with a springboard…)
2. Sousuke Aizen/Ichigo Kurosaki…? [Bleach] (I think this IS cracky…)
3. Seto Kaiba/Hiroto Honda [Yuugiou] (For some reason, everyone in this fandom keeps telling me this is the “impossible pairing” of YGO)
4. Boromir/Legolas [Lord of the Rings] (Because of some authors in the fandom who wrote pretty good B/L fics, but yeah, those two have nothing to do with each other in movie or bookverse)

Top 5 Crossover Shippings
1. I
2. don’t
3. like/read
4. crossovers
5. either.

Top 5 Pedophilic Shippings (Because we all have them…) Incestuos Shippings. Since I don’t like shota…
1. Vergil/Dante [Devil May Cry]
2. Loz/Yazoo [Final Fantasy Advent Children]
3. Ryuuken Ishida/Uryuu Ishida [Bleach]
4. Kaoru Hitachiin/Hikaru Hitachiin [Ouran Koukou Host Club]

Top 5 4 “I just don’t feel what everyone else is feelin’” Shippings
1. Edward Elric/Alphonse Elric [Full Metal Alchemist]
2. Any Ura/Omote pairing in Yuugiou
3. Ichigo Kurosaki/Uryuu Ishida [Bleach]
4. Zack/Cloud Strife [Final Fantasy VII] (It became ridiculously popular since the Compilation of FFVII…)

Top 5 “I hope these die” Shippings
1. Byakuya Kuchiki/Renji Abarai [Bleach]
2. Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger [Harry Potter]
3. Aragorn/Legolas [Lord of the Rings]
4. Seto Kaiba/Katsuya Jounouchi [Yuugiou]
5. Cloud Strife/Aerith Gainsborough [Final Fantasy VII]

That’s all I can think of, for now. I guess these lists will change as time passes, I find new manga/anime and videogames to read/watch/play, come across more fandoms, enjoy more fanfiction and doujinshi, and so forth. Anyway, I think the one and only pairing I’ve always worshipped and will alway worship is Sol Badguy x Ky Kiske from Guilty Gear. Worshipping since 1999 and still counting…

The first game of the GG saga was released in 1998, nine years ago, and despite being a “cult game” for some time, it wasn’t a true hit until the second title, Guilty Gear X: By The Side, released two years afterwards. I still remember the recurrent theme of discussion in most GG’s forums, you know, if a certain long-haired bad-ass anti-hero actually has something with a very bishounen, religion-obsessed swordsman.

It seems that after 19 games in the sage (though more of them are “versions” of the same title), nobody questions this issue in the fandom anymore. No, really. Even Daisuke Ishiwatari, the creator of the games, went to the lengths of “illustrating” a certain piece of artwork of Sol and Ky with the legend hostility is akin to love, which has become the slogan for this practically-to-be-declared-canon pairing.

Now, I’d talk about the “evidence” found in canon about this pairing (particularly, the CD dramas, oh the gayness of them! (and my English dies with that sentence), but I’m sure I’ll turn this supposedly meme-entry into a shipping manifesto. So, let’s talk about the Bleach anime instead.

As I was saying, let’s talk about the Bleach anime. Because, you know, the filler finished 3 episodes ago after going on (and on, and on, and on) for over a year. Nothing really excited about the anime past that point actually, since the animation is still that crappy (sorry but it IS!) and the storyline… It’s just there. But the Arrancar are finally to make an appearance next episode, and it’s been revelead who the seiyuu for Ulquiorra and Grimmjow will be.

You know, I’ll download those episodes only to listen to the seiyuu (there isn’t much to do with a Bleach anime ep after all).

Ulquiorra will be voiced by, whoa, Takeshi Kusao. And I’m pretty sure you can’t place one role he’s played in his very long career, can you? Though he’s played very well-known anime characters, but in comparison to Koyasus, Hoshis, Mikis and other seiyuu, he’s rather hard to “place”. Well, he was Parn in Lodoss Tou Senki, his first important role back at the beginning of the ’90s. And – Trunks from Dragon Ball Z (oh, LOL), Krad in DN Angel, Kougaiji in Gensou Maden Saiyuuki, Hanamichi Sakuragi in Slam Dunk (oh, double LOL) and… And, of course, Ky Kiske in all and every game of the Guilty Gear saga, as well as the CD dramas. The ultimate bishounen! Well, at least for me.

Hmmm, I think I can place Kusao as Ulquiorra. But, wait, do you know who will voice Grimmjow? Keiji Fujiwara, who should be known for playing Maes Hughes in Full Metal Alchemist, but mostly because of his role as Reno in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and Axel in Kingdom Hearts II.

Him, I think I can place as Grimmjow.
In this case, Bleach will be the second anime I like listening to, right after One Piece (another great example of really poor animation for a cool manga series).

Oukei….

This is a meme I read in ‘s journal, and she tagged me to do it as well. Meme time again…


I had the nerve to tell Karoru I didn’t like my bishies very young (I was talking about Tezuka from Tennis no Oujisama, while the young man who’s almost always featured in my layouts is 15 years old. I completely forgot about that. BUT – in my defense, I’d like to say that, while I do like Ichigo, he’s not featured in this meme because I don’t find him particularly attractive. In fangirlish words, I wouldn’t be drooling all over here him as I most definitely am for, let’s say, Gaignun Kukai of Xenosaga. And I’ve assumed this meme has to do with the drooling factor, right?

Hey, I was just trying to excuse myself, sorry…

Here we go.
List 10 anime/videogame characters you find attractive, then tag 5 other people.

1. Sousuke Aizen [Bleach]
2. Kazuhiko Amamiya [MPD Psycho]
3. Heine Rammsteiner [DOGS]
4. Aya Fujimiya [Weiss Kreuz]
5. Vergil [Devil May Cry]
6. Gaignun Kukai [Xenosaga]
7. Ky Kiske [Guilty Gear]
8. K’ [King of Fighters]
9. Margulis [Xenosaga]


1. Aizen is my personal sex god, as you may know if you’ve checked my profile page. Er… In his I’m-bad-and-I-like-me-that-way facet only, if you please. I never noticed him while in his nerdy charade…

2. Though I never finished reading the manga of MPD Pyscho (it features a live action tv series, I think), I find Amamiya to be quite a likable character, not to mention, well, attractive (it must have been the glasses; men with glasses have that smart aura to them). And I’d like to say he wasn’t that crazy, no; his other 6 personalities made him do it, that’s it.

3. I’ve read very little of the DOGS manga… Well, there are only 2 volumes available so far. And I like my little psychos a bit deranged, just not too much.

4. You can shoot me now, . I like the Weiss Side B Aya the best. Hmmm, period?

5. White-haired, blue-clad, katana-wielding half-demons are the sexiest! Enough said.

6. You know, smart is sexy. Especially if that particular one person is not only smart-looking but filthy rich, among others (among others includes being a genetically engineered human weapon and having a severe case of a split personality of sorts). That only serves to add to the overall sexiness, you know?

7. My favorite bishounen of all had to be included in the list. Just in case anyone asks, he’s 26 in the first game. Doesn’t matter if he looks like a 15-year-old, the important part is the info given in you ID card, not your looks (I’m not into underaged bishies…!)

8. I always liked him the most in the King of Fighters saga, but being this a SNK fighting game, he suffers from a massive what’s-character-development complex. Hmm, other than being a clone of the the second-most-cloned-character-in-videogame-history (the first is Sephiroth, of course)… But looks is what actually counts in this list, right? So here he is. Again with the white-haired, leather-clad bishies…

9. Because old is sexy. Because he isn’t half that hot without that scar. Because we can only speculate how Jin got the Y-Data disc.
“But how did you manage to obtain it, captain?”
“Thanks to my skills. It’s called, ‘seduction’.”
“…Excuse me?”
“Ahem, cough, cough… I mean, ‘infiltration’…

Ok, as you may have noticed, I only listed 9 characters. Couldn’t think of more bishies I actually liked for their charming looks, so… And now, I tag , and to do the meme as well. It’s only 3 people, but I think they’re all share this quote of fangirlismus with me (btw, that was not intended as an insult).

Fangirlismus call!

English entry coming this way – just because this update features a meme survey I stole from in the language of Billy Shakespeare.

Frikism ahead. Or was it frikismus?

General ‘Ship Meme (Het, Yaoi, and Yuri.)
Your first fandom and pairing? Weiss Kreuz // Aya and Youji or viceversa.
The fandoms in which you read? EVERYTHING. No favorites in here. But WK remains a beloved one.
The fandoms in which you write? Yuugiou, Xenosaga. I’ve got other fics (DMC for instance) waiting to be posted , somewhere.
Your favorite Het pairings? Byakuya/Hisana (Bleach), Kaiba/Isis (YGO), Jr./MOMO (Xenosaga).
Your favorite Yaoi pairings? Youji/Aya (WK), Vergil/Dante (DMC), Sol/Ky (GG).
Your favorite Yuri pairings? Yuri? I don’t think I read yuri.
Favourite genres? Drama, crack!fic, romance, parody.
Least favorite Het pairings? ANYONE/Mary Sue. Argh argh.
Least favorite Yaoi pairings? I think I can handle mostly anything I come across.
Least favorite Yuri pairings? …Anything with Anzu included (YGO)?
Least favorite genres? Fluff.
The best overall fanfic author you’ve read? Hmm… Chalcedony Cross, P.L. Nunn, Nekojita. All write WK fanfics. Way better than the original work.
Why? Manage to make good plots out of crappy canon, awesome characterizations, yaoi yaoi yaoi.
The best story you’ve ever read? Er… I couldn’t tell. I’ve read lots, many good and excellent fics. Still thinking on a favorite…
The best story you have written? …Can you pick up the good from the trash? Ok, I think it has to be my LOTR parody. Love that one.
The worst story you have written? Guess that’ll be my YGO fic. Plot? Characterization? Canon? SENSE?! And purple prose!!! Aww pu-lease.
Do you leave feedback? Yep, I always try to.
Do you get feedback? Yep, and more feedback and positive comments I ever deserve.
Do you have any specific squicks? Shoutacon! Roricon! I got over incest thanks to DMC, by the way.
Do you have any specific pairings that squick you? …Hmmm, anything between a canon character and a painfully AWFUL Mary Sue?
How much time do you spend reading/writing? Reading: all the practical time I don’t spend trying to learn web design. Writing: it depends, but I’ve spent up to 5 hours in a row.
Have you made friends via your ‘shipping? Oh yeah.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about? The one that irritates you the most to see broken up. (Het.) Jr. and MOMO from Xenosaga.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about? The one that irritates you the most to see broken up. (Yaoi.) …Don’t know. I think I’ll be able to get over it, eventually.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about? The one that irritates you the most to see broken up. (Yuri.) Don’t see/watch/read much yuri.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about negatively? The one that irritates you the most to see in any way. (Het.) See above.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about negatively? The one that irritates you the most to see in any way. (Yaoi.) Ah… Well… Can’t think of any just now… Whatever.
What pairing do you feel absolutely strongest about negatively? The one that irritates you the most to see in any way. (Yuri.) I mean, whatever.
What do you think of crossover pairings? If the crack is really good, I wouldn’t mind at all.
Has there ever been a pairing that you wish had hooked up in canon, but it didn’t occur? Er… Ryuuhou and Kazuma from Scryed? Crack! And Legolas and Gimli from LOTR. Whatever, I like that pairing.
Has there ever been a pairing that DID hook up in canon and you wished they hadn’t? Can’t think of any right now. Whatever. If it ever ocurred, I got over it. Really.
What pairing have you not written that you’d love to write? Kai/Jou. Don’t know, they shut my brain down each time I try to write a fic featuring them (together).
Do you go into a series looking for something to ‘ship or does it come naturally? As everything in this life, it comes along just naturally. It’s the way it’s meant to be.
Is ‘shipping a way of life? Of course, as long as the you’ve got the ship and not the other way round.
CREATE YOUR OWN! – or – GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Some (LOTS OF) words regarding my ships in fandoms (otherwise this would be more of a boring entry; I need to write something!).

What was the first thing I did after learning how to navigate in internet? I searched the net for fics (because the first thing everyone does, I think, is to learn how to use your email). I’ve been lurking in FFnet since 2001, more or less (it opened in 2000). I still remember the first fic I ever read: it was a Weiss Kreuz story that my sister found and handed over to me; it was well-written and despise featuring the same plot you’ve seen in this fandom 928476057205 times before, it was acceptably well-done. It was enough to make a fan of… the fandoms?

My love story with the fandoms began there and then. That’s why I still cherished the Weiss Kreuz fandom as my most beloved one, despite the crack the original work is (fics are way better than anything bearing the name of WK, suck that, Koyasu).

But time passes and people change.
I used to read only yaoi fics, even 300 or more pages a day (ah~, back when I couldn’t even dream of having internet at home). I built in my collection of 726 fics – I know because I counted them, thanks. All of them were gone when our old computer was stolen, and that cured me of my fic fever. It was 2003 and stopped reading fics mostly because… There wasn’t a computer in which reading them.

My sister read some fics in our cousin’s computer, but stopped when she was caught by the owner of the PC in the middle of a pretty NC-17 moment (he was reading over her shoulder and she didn’t notice until he, too seriously for his 10 years, asked her whether the main two characters were homosexual for being engaged in a… sex scene).

Nowadays, I read fics only by rec or anti-rec, and check my favorite authors’ archive from time to time. It really annoys me to go fic hunting in The Pit, since the 40% of all materials in there are Mary Sues, 10% are crackfics, 20% are plainly awful trash, 20% is written by 10-year-old fanbrats who can’t spell their own names properly yet, 7% is acceptable material, and the remaining 3% is all the good you need. You’d say, it doesn’t sound that bad. Yeah really, it isn’t that bad until you intend to search something good among the 230,000+ fics featured in the Harry Potter section.

Anyway, I don’t stick to one fandom. I’ll always be reading fics of that particular title but – not that I’m married to a fandom and must remain faithful to it until death do us apart. It’s the same with yaoi pairings; I like this one, I like the other one, I don’t like the last one, but one good fic can make me change my point of view radically. Just see what the Devil May Cry fandom did to me.

Ok, enough for my love story now.
The one thing I’m left to say is:

, why did we have to talk about THAT crackfic back then? (I blame the turkey.) Why did I have to promise you to write it down? The pairing – I don’t like it but I can do with it. The characters – the seme, *drools*. The uke – just like blah. I was thinking of the general outline of the story so I can begin writing it for real NOW, and I realized is going to be more of a… dramatic crackfic?!

Hope you read this.

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Hola, gente. Hice este test que encontré en la red… Me pareció interesante.

Islam

50%

Hinduism

50%

Paganism

33%

Christianity

33%

Buddhism

25%

atheism

17%

agnosticism

17%

Satanism

17%

Judaism

0%

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
created with QuizFarm.com

Según el test, mi religión sería la hinduísta. Pero debo decir que he investigado sobre el hinduísmo a causa de su mitología (la brahmánica). Y me pregunto, ¿qué tienen que ver el agnosticismo y el ateísmo allí en empate técnico con el satanismo? Jo.

Es posible que mi filosofía de vida se acerque más a lo que es el agnosticismo, porque creo en un dios, pero no en la religión como institución humana. Bueno, el agnosticismo nació como contraparte al gnosticismo (religión que se considera actualmente muerta), y habla acerca de Dios como el ser supremo – tan elevado, de hecho, que los humanos mortales nunca vamos a poder entender su naturaleza (el gnosticismo habla del encuentro con Dios a través del conocimiento.)

…Tendría que imaginarme cómo sería ser hinduísta en una familia católica con tradiciones shintoístas.

Por cierto, es la primera vez que actualizo mi blog y no estoy escuchando algo de anime o juegos de video… Encontré el tema Haunted de Evanescence en una fanmovie… Un video hecho por aficionados de Kingdom Hearts II que usaba el tema como fondo, y como me gustó la canción, terminé por buscar todo el disco del grupo. ¿Llaman a este tema gothic?…

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