All Yami no Matsuei people probably already heard about this, but what do you know. Hell actually froze over.

After 8 years, they're finally going to collect those chapters published in Hana to Yume into a volume, and Yami no Matsuei vol 12 will hit the stores in January 2010. Apparently there will be "massive changes" to the content, and the response to the new volume will more or less decide whether the series will be continued (makes much sense, this whole hiatus was ridiculous).

I must say, of all my fandoms this is the last one I would have expected to surprise me so.

Current Mood: shocked

In other news, I finally got to watch Ponyo today~ Emphasizing the word "finally" as I meant to go watch it for the first time last August when I was in Japan but in the end had no time, now after waiting for it to first come to cinemas in Finland and then for them to get the original Japanese dub to Oulu, I has seen it~

All elitist interpreting aside, I liked it. :D Ponyo's daddy was awesome, will maybe have to draw some fanart of him (as soon as I've finished a certain art trade which probably means like, next year XD), though I really didn't care for the ending as it seemed a bit... simple or something, dunno, didn't really like how Ponyo's mama got so much screentime and came to explain the situation (because no one paid any attention to Fujimoto flailing and screaming "THE MOON! IT'S COMING!"). She seemed like such an omnipotent fairy godmother it would have been nice if the less powerful characters could have handled it by themselves, godlike characters like that coming onto stage make it too obvious we're soon having the text "and they all lived happily ever after" in front of us. I also found the whole "true love will save the world~" too easy, but the movie was loosely based on Little Mermaid so I guess it fit the picture.

What else, of course Ponyo's little siblings were cute, the old people were awesome as always, and Sousuke's relationship with his parents (?) confused me mightily as he for some reason called them by their first names. In the beginning I assumed they were his guardians but probably a big sister and her boyfriend/fiance/husband, but he introduced them later as his mom and dad. So really don't know.

Uh, guess that was all I had to say. Good movie and Fujimoto was awesome. :D Let's end the entry with a cosplay photo I took at Comiket last year!

Current Mood: cheerful

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I got an e-mail from Finnair.

Lentotarjoukset: Tokio
Menopaluu alkaen: 559 €

I'm quite sure they're doing this just to mess with me.

The offer stands for a week and can only be used for trips between January 1 and March 31, but that I wouldn't mind. The only question mark is my bigass Swedish exam which is somewhere between those dates too but I'm a little bit confused about the exact date. You Finnish people want to try giving your thoughts about it?

Here are the dates. Imma take keskipitkä ruotsi. The listening comprehension date is clear, but mom and I had differing opinions about which date for the written exam I must take. Is it the esseekoe or tekstitaidonkoe or "toinen kotimainen kieli, pitkä ja keskipitkä oppimäärä"? Because if I could somehow squeeze a Japan trip in there... Uh. I'm sorry, but I don't know if I can quite resist that price for direct flights. D:

[Edit] Damn, where's that site with all future doujin events marked down?

Current Mood: decisions, decisions...

Okay guys, I would need to send a Japanese fanartist on Pixiv a message asking if she'd give me a permission to use her fanart for a fanlisting's layout (don't want to use it without permission), but even though the message doesn't need to be long or complicated my Japanese isn't quite enough for it. As you can't really trust the Japanese on Pixiv to know too much English I should probably get someone/something to translate the message, but I'm quite lost at this point... I know there are translation programs, but they tend to give very... incomprehensible results. There are probably people/sites on the net where I could get a proper translation, but I can't really think of any.

So, if anyone knows who I should turn to with this (or actually knows enough Japanese to help me himself) I'd appreciate it. o/

[Edit] Got it translated! \o/

Current Mood: geeky

O|￣|＿

Okay world, I get your hint, I'm not attending Winter Comiket this year. I had already once given up on that thought as this time Winter Comiket is in Dec 29 to 31 and I'd have to skip my normal Christmas and New Year traditions to attend it, but yesterday some airline company sent me an ad with such good prices I figured it would be worth it and was looking for hotels and flights the whole night. Found a nice hotel and everything, but in the end the time of year just isn't good for traveling, not least because the affordable flights there would take 26 hours... But as the Comiket flame burns so strong inside me I don't think I can't avoid it for long: I shall wait 10 months and go there for next Summer Comiket then. Really don't think I could not do that if both my school and money situation allows it.

(I'm kinda glad I didn't get to go there yet though, I know I'm such a spoiled brat to be able to go to Japan again after already being there twice in the near past, I was already pretty embarrassed of having to tell my friends I'd be going there again... Don't hate me because I'm such a little princess, okay? >_<;)

Oh, but right now I'm settling to be a geek at home: Miku Hatsune's new PV is quite addictive.

Current Mood: determined

Jackpot! \o/

Thank you library for getting awesome books lately, now got a book about Moomins ("Muumien Kiehtova Maailma" / "The Fascinating World of the Moomins", has lots of snippets from the books, picture books and comics and lots of high quality art by Tove Jansson). A Moomin maniac like me danced with joy as I got to the last page and saw lists of the most important Moomin characters with their name translation in Finnish, Swedish, English, German, Italian, French, Polish and Japanese. 8D

I scanned it for myself and thought to share here in case it interests anyone else:

( Moomin names )

I also broke my mom's brain by telling her that the Moomins own an inflatable Hemulen. (It's true, it's mentioned in one of the books.)

I also enjoyed opening the book at a random part and starting to read a snippet from some Moomin book:

- Hyvänen aika, Muumipeikko sanoi hämmästyneenä. - Sehän oli vain leikkiä! Minä olen hurjan iloinen siitä, että te pidätte minusta.
- Emme me pidä sinusta, Nipsu huusi kimakasti. - Rökittäkää hänet!

As the final random bit from the book, have Moomintroll's X-ray photograph.

( 'No, don't look inside me!' )

Current Mood: amused

Lol, random as all hell (which could be the title of my whole livejournal) but cabaththeboy and paranoid_cookie, remember the time before the last when we were in Turku and watched some Disney movies? Well, I got a CD full of Disney music from the library and while listening to a song from Aladdin suddenly remembered how Vilina then wondered if Disney would allow such lyrics anymore in their movies at this day and age.

Well lol and behold, I now found out that some of the lyrics have indeed been changed in the new release, and whereas the lyrics originally go

Saavun kaukaa ja käyn yli aavikoiden
karavaanien maailman
korvat pois leikataan
aina muukalaisten
se luo kotoisen tunnelman

in the new release it's

Saavun kaukaa ja käyn yli aavikoiden
karavaanien maailman
horisontti ei näy
hiki kainaloon käy
se luo kotoisen tunnelman

If I'm not mistaken the later lyrics "miekkaa kaulaan, ruoskaa selkään" have still been kept though.

...And apparently according to Wikipedia the lyrics were altered following protests from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). All of a sudden it all makes sense. :D

Current Mood: geeky

This is a random thinking entry, but I just dug up my old ElfQuests and wanted to try drawing some fanart, and once again I'm quite amazed by how the style just seems to have been sleeping somewhere deep inside me even when I haven't drawn any ElfQuest art for so very long, when I lay my pencil down on the paper it just knows all the lines and it's all so very familiar. I wasn't that good at drawing ElfQuest art back when I drew it a lot, but I guess ElfQuest is still the thing that really inspired me to draw so much and has influenced my drawings the most (I guess I can't say it's influenced my style as I don't have one). The only thing that weirds me out is just how much better my ElfQuest drawings look now when I've improved as an artist, adding to that the fact that the style is so easy now too I guess I've subconsciously been working to reach my old dream to become an artist good enough to work for WaRP aka help them draw more ElfQuest. Obviously not going to do that though, I'm much too lazy an artist to ever take drawing as anything more than a random hobby.

...Which reminded me of my old ElfQuest fanart which reminded me of my OC elf fanart which reminded me of our OC roleplaying holt Brittle Cascades which reminded me that it should be gone now with other websites hosted on Geocities as they were supposed to delete everything on October 1 but, well, it's still there. o_o Did Geocities postpone the date or change their mind or what?

Current Mood: nostalgic

Okay Finnish people, what the hell is this? I checked Finnkino's website thinking I'd pick a day to go see Ponyo, but judging from the choices it gives me the original Japanese dub is only available in Turku, Tampere and Helsinki whereas the Finnish dub is available everywhere. I know at least some of you Oulu peeps have seen the movie, did you watch it somewhere else or just watch it in Finnish or what? D: Ponyo~

Current Mood: tired

muha went and tagged me. That crazy hippie.

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

1. I still can't put my shoes on unless I sit down on the floor.
2. I have two bravuras: that the moles in my arms form Big Dipper when I put them next to each other, and that I can make a waterproof glass out of paper.
3. When I sleep, I always put Byakko either on my head, face or neck depending on the position I sleep in.
4. My mom has dozens of photos of me making this one random expression when I've known she's taking a photo of me, so I can only assume that this is my cool face.
5. I'm terrified of having to speak English in front of people who know I'm good at writing it as they might expect me to actually have some kind of a clue as to how to speak it.
6. My jaw clicks when I chew something and sometimes goes randomly out of place. It's only been doing it for about five years without ever being a problem before but as my mom's jaw clicks too I guess it's just my genes finally attacking me.
7. My ideal amount of sleep is 12+ hours. Obviously it's not always easy to get, so I tend to be Sleepy McSleepison quite often.

I suck at this tagging business. I TAG YOU ALL!

Alsoalso, neynaoe linked this a while back. King of Thorn anime, dude~ 8D Could even cosplay it when it comes out as people might then actually recognize it, the series has been sadly overlooked up til now.

I'm back from Turku~ And more or less alive~ Will catch up with stuff soon~ Whenever I don't feel so tired~ Don't know why I feel so exhausted~ Anyway, had fun~ Watched tons of movies~ The songs they played on repeat the whole week didn't even follow me to Oulu~ In your face ahahaha~

Current Mood: tired

"What sample? I killed it with my motherf-ing shoe!"
If you don't know what this is about, see this.

A tiny RL update, short as my mind's somewhere far away (I'm in that fandom mode when it's hard to concentrate on RL stuff) and as my RL really barely interests even me so I can only guess how much it interests you. x3

1. The über difficult Swedish exam was and went, and I can safely say I bombed failed it. :D That was to be expected too, but I had a look at the old exams of my own level from past years as those are collected on the net and I'm pretty sure I would have survived them, so I'm feeling confident for the time I can take the exam again on my own level. (That will only be sometime next spring though so I have plenty of time to forget everything I've learned, but even a bit of confidence is a nice feeling after that retarded mistake I made with the application.)

2. Will disappear for a bit as I'll go visit a certain dorky friend in Turku this Thursday ♥ Don't know when I will come back, will decide that there whenever I feel like coming back home. Will probably get to steal her laptop to check my e-mail once in a while, but probably won't be doing much else.

Is that all? Hmm yes, that's all. :3

Current Mood: geeky

Hoo, nine (9) sneezes in a row, must be my personal record.

So if three sneezes in a row means money, what does nine mean? (Other than the obvious "you are sick lol").

Also, I'll never get home at this rate, I'm catsitting at my sister's place but sneezing without pause makes it pretty impossible to ride a bike back home. If you don't hear from me in the future, I've starved here.

Current Mood: sick?

I had the first part of the Swedish matriculation exam aka listening comprehension today. You can say it went pretty bad when my whole graduation was postponed by half a year for it. 8D

Long story short, there's been a major screw up and I was marked to take the exam for long Swedish, aka one level higher than what I've been studying. I admit I was pretty damn relieved to realize this after the exam when I was discussing it with a friend as I didn't have the slightest clue as to how to answer even one single question and still don't even know what the four "stories" we listened to and the questions were based on were even about, listening comprehensions have always been my weakness so I was expecting to do pretty bad but I was quite stunned to notice just how much anyone can suck at it, so it was quite a relief to find out it wasn't my skills that were at fault after all.

What comes to the screw up itself it kinda totally sucks that I have no one else but myself to blame it on, we had a look at the application I left last spring for the exam and I had made a retarded mistake at one part which led to this "being an advanced level Swedish student" thing. I talked to the person in charge of the examination and the result is pretty much what I guessed: I can't be moved to my own level of examination anymore, so I can go finish the advanced level Swedish literary test if I want (if I don't go, it will be marked as failed, but if I do there's still a high chance that it comes back failed) and next spring I can go take the test again, officially as a make up exam, but on the level I'm supposed to.

All in all it kinda sucks but I guess it can't be helped. It's not like I had any plans about what to do after graduation, but I've already let high school drag on several years longer than is usual in Finland so it would be a time for me to move on already. I think I'll go take the literary exam to have something to do this Autumn too, I have studied after all (even if it doesn't help me pass it). Now I'll go do something fun to relieve the stress from today.

Current Mood: drained

FINALLY I find the Moomin TV series soundtrack somewhere. ;__; Seriously, I've been looking for something like this for years, now just to submit all the links to "youtube to mp3" converters and drown in nostalgia. ♥

...Oh who am I kidding trying to be all calm, GDIGHFSAFDSDFA Moomin music~~

[Edit] The winter music. ;_; Gets me every time.

Current Mood: touched

Aw fu~ck, a little part of my eyetooth fell off and that means a much-dreaded visit to the dentist. :'( It doesn't hurt at all even if I keep poking at it, but as it's in the middle of the tooth it's very visible so need to get it fixed.

So much for avoiding dentist visits, the last time I went there was before the Japan trip when I decided to get my teeth fixed enough not to have them start hurting in Japan and went through 1-4 drillings every week. :'( Some of those were root canal therapy too, so really wanted not to have to go through any tooth fixing pain again any time soon. My dentist was really good though, but now she's on holiday so couldn't get a time from her.

Current Mood: The tragedy!

I keep wanting to make polls as I have that option with a paid account but can't come up with an excuse to make one, so screw that, let's just have a random poll. (Topic thanks to my dream from last night where my house was full of adopted cats and I was such a happy little critter. ♥)

Poll #1438582
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

The old-fashioned cat people vs. dog people fight! So, which group would you put yourself in?

RAWR.

[Edit the next day] Woah people, are we all gonna be crazy cat ladies or what.

Current Mood: awake

Conan O'Brien dubs anime, Ghost in the Shell to be precise.

LOLOLOL.

Current Mood: amused

I'm not feeling overly verbal right now, so I'll keep this simple.

1. After Animecon and those hectic two weeks preparing for it I've been mainly relaxing at the cottage, so I'm gloriously behind on everything. Will try to catch up on stuff now that I have a chance, but it may be kinda slow so sorry about that. >_<

2. Was surfing on some figure sites and found out that they're making Death Note Mini Nendoroid figures. Now this shouldn't come as a huge surprise to anyone, Death Note is quite a cash cow for them or at least they're making more merchandise of it than anyone really needs, but.

The set has a Mini Nendoroid Watari. 8D

It's like they made that just for me, so guess what I'll have to get to my collection at some point. ♥

(3. I only have one sociability pill left (should eat them daily) and when I called the doctor a month ago to schedule a meeting to renew the prescription the earliest he could meet me was August 5. >_>;; In other words I have interesting times ahead, usually if I don't eat them as I should the withdrawal symptoms hit and make me nauseous and throw up. Not only that but I've come to notice that they really do affect my moods and my overall survival with social situations as I haven't had anxiety attacks at the mention of social situations ever since I started eating them (though do still sometimes get the bitter taste in the back of my mouth and throat), so I hope there's nothing that would require me eating them before that. Let's hope for the best, and eat anti-nausea drugs while at it.)

Current Mood: awake

Homan, Capi posted some photos from Animecon and now I'm drowning in nostalgia looking at them. :'3 Darn it, it really was such a fun weekend.

That aside, I'm slowly trying to get back to normal day routines and thought to answer the memes I got tagged to do a while back, namely the "I'll give you five words that remind me of you and you tell about them" that I also answered a while back. It's a good way to kill time.

muha gave me: Russia (Ivan), sauna, cosplay, Japan, military uniforms.
suometar gave me: drawing, chibi, cap, Russia, tiny.

( Answers. )

Current Mood: sleepy