Raichu

uh, hi!

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:08:29 GMT

Welp, work is super slow this morning. I guess I might as well make a journal entry? even if I'm not super feeling it.

I think I'll make a public post because I haven't in...months, at least. Hi guys! *waves* I'm alive. I use my Dreamwidth account almost exclusively for Fandom Secrets now. I also use it for private journaling. I don't spend much time doing blog-style journaling anymore. (Not that I was very good at that to begin with.) RL is keeping me busy, and time spent online is more likely to be spent gaming, or browing/commenting on other blogs, forums, or articles.

This is a bit rambly. I mostly want to make a public entry for the sake of doing it, so don't worry about reading under the cuts! Basically, I'm here and I'm doing really well :)

( work )
( hobbies, apartment life, boyfriend )

( Christmas )
( church )
Well, it still looks like there's not much work to do. I guess I'll read Fandom Secrets since I didn't get a chance last night.

Hope everyone on my flist is doing well!

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fandom master list and shipping wall

Tue, 27 May 2014 00:42:15 GMT

Will be updated periodically (if I can remember to do it).

I ship in most, but not all, of my fandoms. All fandoms listed anyway because that's part of the purpose of this list. Fandoms listed in alphabetical order by canon name under category. An asterisk * denotes canons I'm not caught up on.

Characters in ships listed in alphabetical order.

Not every ship is an OTP or even a ship I'm really invested in. I really ought to make another post just for OTPs. I multiship some characters/fandoms and love to read fic of almost any ship if it's written well.

Quadrant symbols refer to any relationship perceived as part of a quadrant, which is pretty much all relationships that involve at least one troll. Auspistices are listed with the mediator first and the two rivals in brackets.

( the list )

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LOOK LOOK LOOKIT AHHHHHH

Wed, 07 May 2014 14:53:17 GMT

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR WAY TOO LONG AND THE COVER ART IS EPIC THIS JUST MADE BASICALLY MY ENTIRE WEEK OKAY

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>:/

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:51:45 GMT

Everything my roommate does is loud. I hate it.

I can't complain about it on Facebook because she's on Facebook.

(also hi. It's been a while. I am alive)

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2013 YGO banlist

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 01:36:13 GMT

Just in case anyone here plays YGO, because I really want to talk to people about it and I'm not active on any major forums (more's the pity):

DAT BANLIST

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED

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baby, there you go again, there you go again, making me love you

Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:27:13 GMT

I haven't made a post in a long time so I figured I'd make a post today, because I've been thinking about making a post, and also it has been an AWESOME DAY AND ALSO SO MANY AWESOME THINGS ARE HAPPENING SOON

(WARNING post is image-heavy)

( I know I've said it a million times... )

.....

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Got to get you into my life, into my life...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:22:33 GMT

Listening to this song again, I'm not here. I'm in Chicago, with J on Navy Pier, eating an elephant ear on a bench by the water listening to this song on the speakers, watching the bustle of the crowd around me and feeling him sitting at my side, seeing him, hearing his voice. After we eat we go ride the Ferris wheel, then run back to our bus together, holding hands, in the warm summer air.

This shouldn't make me feel so sharply sad. I didn't really realize how long it had been since I listened to this song. It's a good song, but maybe this was why I left it off my Spotify playlist when I first put it together a year ago...

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POKÉMON X AND Y NEWS

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:21:58 GMT

HOLY SHIT

Disclaimer: I guess these aren't confirmed because they're not official announcements; they came from some pretty reliable sources, but take with a grain of salt until official announcements

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:DDDDDDDD

Fri, 31 May 2013 13:50:09 GMT

My city is getting its own Comic Con next year!

I grinned and squealed while reading this. This is so awesome! I am so there!!!!!!!!

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Sorry for not posting in forever. MASS EFFECT IS EATING UP MY LIFE.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:41:57 GMT

( greater things are still to be done in this city )

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Now you're just somebody that I used to know~

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:44:00 GMT

The past few days have been cray. I haven't looked at fandom!secrets for at least three days, and I'm not going to catch up with my reading list...I want to continue to be consistent at DW, and that means occasionally missing some stuff because spending two hours catching up with everything after a particularly busy bout of Real Life just really burns me out and makes me not like online journaling. SO, with that in mind...sorry if I missed any of your recent posts, flisters! You can always drop me a comment or a PM :)

School just started again from spring break and I have much to tell, but I'm low on sleep and need to get to bed! Short list of things that happened recently: I went home for break, we had visits from an exchange student from Okinawa and my aunt and her dog, my dog and her dog were adorable together, I had Japanese food, I didn't get to play Mass Effect at ALL because my computer was broken and that sucked, I spent Sunday with my bestie from high school and we played LoZ: TP together and played Boggle with our dads, I got my computer fixed, I drove around a lot, I've been keeping up with Homestuck (Gamzee what are you even doing) and LBD (FEELS + can't wait for Darcy to come back!!!), my counseling sessions have been going really well, I'm actually starting to get my computer desktop cleaned up, I'm tired and didn't get enough sleep last night, and...I really don't want this semester to end because then Elcie and Zenjiro will be leaving and I'm just really going to miss them ugh

Also I'm a lazy fart

But I'm kind of getting better at keeping on top of things (kind of)

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well good morning

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:07:45 GMT

...just saw an article via Facebook about a woman who was fired by a Christian college because she was pregnant. Way harsh, imo, and not at all demonstrating Christian love and mercy or pro-life values...and then I read that they also hired the baby's father afterwards. (After the two of them got married. That wasn't good enough for the woman, eh? Reputation tarnished forever?) BLARGHHHHASJDFLH.

Fuck double standards. I'm so tired of seeing then in the church. It's embarrassing and it makes me angry.

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quick update on a couple things

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:37:56 GMT

( SPOILERS for today's LBD and for Mass Effect 1 )

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Nimona

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:23:01 GMT

A few days ago at fandom!secrets I discovered a webcomic called Nimona. I'm pretty excited about it - I love the art style, characters, and dialogue quite a lot. It's pretty short so far (very easy to catch up on) and updates twice weekly.

I love the relationship between Nimona and Ballister. I think I ship it. Ballister and Goldenloin have some interesting chemistry too - not sure how I see their relationship yet.

Also, SHAPESHIFTING. One of my absolute favorite things in fiction.

Anyone else reading this? (If you haven't, you should!)

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OTP questions meme

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:59:52 GMT

Nabbed from making_excuses.

Pick five of your OTPs without looking at the questions.

My five:

1. Joey x Mai from Yu-Gi-Oh! DM
2. John x Vriska from Homestuck
3. Doctor x Rose from Doctor Who
4. Link x Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
5. Arcee x Jack from Transformers: Prime

( the questions and my answers )

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Bonds Beyond Time

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:41:43 GMT

lol, I finally - just now - got around to watching Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time. I'm so glad they brought back Yami for that and you should have heard the fangirl noises I was making when he appeared alksdfjhlkjh. It's bad.

The movie might have been cheesy and basic but it was still really fun to watch it. :') It was neat to see all three of them working together - especially Yami and Yusei. Yusei is also my favorite. ♥

I just really have a weird thing about YGO idk. It's not the greatest series ever but it's always going to be really special to me.

(Maybe later tonight I'll watch the Abridged version of the movie. It's supposed to be hilarious.)

~~I just realized I can't call it BBT because that also stands for Big Bang Theory~~

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people got me got me questioning, where is the love?

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:26:04 GMT

( we only got one world, one world... )

How have y'all been doing?

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New Eeveelution

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:04:32 GMT

New Eeveelution has been introduced.

( spoilers for Pokemon Gen VI under the cut )

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Lent

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:27:51 GMT

I think I'm going to give up online dueling for Lent.

I'm making an exception for use of my practice deck (so yes blackbutterfly I can still teach you to play ^^) and for getting on to look at card lists and reconstruct decks.

It kind of sucks because the new banlist is coming out in a few days, but actually neither of the two decks I mainly use - Harpies or Spellbooks - are going to be hit this format. And it sucks because I love dueling but I've been spending a LOT of time doing that recently so I think this is something I really need to do.

The old youth ministers from my church are holding weekly Lent devotionals on Sundays. I'm really looking forward to spending time with them and learning from them again. The community just hasn't been the same since they left.

In other news...I'm sitting in class and I'm not sure exactly what we're supposed to be doing? I walked in a few minutes late and almost nobody is doing anything. My prof's not here and people are just sitting around with their phones out. Why am I here, again?

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couldn't know it would hurt his hard to hear you close that door

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:35:50 GMT

For anyone who actually cares about this (probably nobody or almost nobody) but mainly for me, because I need to get this out of my system:

( so punch a hole in my paper heart 'cause I don't need it anymore )

Sorry guys just wanted to get that written down. It's been bugging me for a long time. Both programs have things about them that are awesome and things that suck. I just wish someone would combine all the awesome into one place!

Also, if anyone here duels? I'm raichu100 on DN and cyanraichu on YGOPRO :3

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When I die and they lay me to rest | I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:36:40 GMT

Today's episode of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries gave me major sads. (Did I mention I'm watching that? Well, I am, and it's awesome.) My heart breaks for Lydia and I was tearing up. It was literally the hardest episode to watch, even counting all of Lydia's previous videos. Also, fuck George Wickham sideways with a pitchfork.

Last night I watched the third episode of Tennant's first season of DW. It was a pretty good ep, not really outsanding or anything, but I have to say I loved the Queen as a character. Also I like that it had a wolf, but honestly I'm really getting tired of wolves always being evil in stories =/

I also watched Saturday's episode of MLP. It's weird because I still have to watch the Discord ep and one other one (not sure which one) to be caught up. Yesterday's was good but not fantastic. I did love the Mane Six and it was great seeing Cadance and Shining Armor again, especially since they're both awesome and it wasn't a high-stress "omg Cadance is dying/possessed" situation like in the other two episodes we've seen her in. I did think the ending was kind of dumb, though.

Today's gonna be fun, bluh. Laundry, cleaning my room, gotta shower too, and work on a paper that's due tomorrow, along with other random studying. I slept in and missed my class this morning which is just stupid. I'm having a lot of trouble with getting up in the mornings and it just feels like such a dumb problem to have. I'm 22 and I never used to have such issues with that when I was a teen...

And of course I have to go clean out Minerva. In fact I need to contact the tow lot and call Elcie and make sure she'll be able to get me there on time.

Something to be really excited about - I'm running an informal Facebook group of Homestucks who go to my school. I'm working on planning a couple meetups soon! Yay for irl fandom! ^^

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I feel I've been riding up the wrong path

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:34:19 GMT

Trying to get in the habit of posting more often. Hmm.

( But I'm gonna make sure I get the last laugh )

That's all for now. Hopefully I will, like, actually write again soon xD;;

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I want to get away

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:58:16 GMT

Well...happy new year!

( I wanna fly away... )

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waves Yes, yes, I know...it's been a while.

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:35:52 GMT

WELL HELLO THAR.

So, uh...I haven't updated in...half a year? And I keep meaning to get to that, but, well, this semester has been hell and then I just felt bad for dropping off the face of the earth to both of my flists and kind of put it off for a little while...plus I always have so much to do. But I figured, since I have the time, and I'm in the mood to journal, why not share a little bit now?

I've decided pretty much that I'm just going to put everything on DW. It all gets crossposted to LJ and people can comment on either journal, but LJ itself is just a big clusterfuck and I have like 600-some messages there and it's going to be a while before I can get to them and...well. I don't mean to neglect any of my online friends, but it's going to take some major catching up. I love all y'all, promise!

I got a new email that has no connection to my real name, so it's safe for anyone to use; if you want to get in contact with me just to catch up or say hi, feel free! I check my email at least once a day (usually more when school is in session). It is cyanraichu@gmail.com.

I still haven't gotten to reading through my friend's page completely. I'd like to ultimately be in a routine where I can do that most nights and keep more or less caught up with everyone, but for a while LJ/DW was sucking a lot of time out of my day and I don't really want to spend hours per day on it anymore. It might take some time for me to find that middle ground (assuming I'm able to keep up with it when the semester starts, which I hope I will but I'm not yet certain).

For those of you on my DW flist who don't know anything about me beyond fandom and haven't seen any personal updates, I promise I'm not going to be offended if you just ignore the personal ones. ^^; It's as much for my own benefit as anyone else's, anyway. As for this entry, I'll make it more personal and then make another quick fandom-related entry (no way will I ever be able to share everything I want to there, but I'll do my best...).

( a bit about me )

Have a pre-emptive Merry Christmas and/or whatever holiday(s) you are going to celebrate or have celebrated. ♥

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various things...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:19:38 GMT

These next, like, four weeks of my life are going to be incredibly busy because here's why.

1. I work five nights a week, 5:00-close. This is tiring. I used to get day shifts, but my boss realized he could stick me on night and I wouldn't complain (after all, I only have a few weeks left, and I don't want to get on his bad side, since he's a prick) so.
2. Last night, one of the nights I had off, I went to see a concert. This Saturday will be my other night off, and I plan on spending it at the state fair with a friend. Next Sunday I have another concert* I'm going to, so that will be one of my two nights off last week. Thankfully, that will about wrap up my summer job.
3. Between now and the 13th, I have a FUCKTON of cleaning and packing and paperwork-y shit to do. Like, a lot. Potentially overwhelmingly a lot.
4. My last day of work is Monday, August 13. On the 14th, I have an all-fucking-afternoon workshop for my on-campus job. I also will hopefully have a morning interview for the off-campus job I'd rather have this fall. If I'm lucky enough to get that job, I can skip the workshop, but then I'll be putzing around collegeville all day with nothing to do because my apartment won't let me move in that day. I need to go mattress shopping, though, so I do hope I'll have time to do that. Oh, and I have to find a place to stay that night.
5. Wednesday the 15th is my official move-in date. I will be spending all day moving shit from my minivan into my apartment and putting it away. My roommate will physically not even be in the state until later that week, so she won't be able to help me. Oh, and her ex-roommate is being a douche, so I have to go to her apartment and retrieve a bunch of furniture for her. And go mattress shopping, if I don't have time to do this on Tuesday.
6. Thursday the 16th is fucking GEN CON. And I already bought my four-day badge so like hell am I skipping any of that, by golly. (Also I have to get my cosplays completely ready between now and then, OTL) Four days of crowd-packed action. Which I can handle. It's just I'll be exhausted by then, and even extroverted-and-easily-bored me will be burnt out after that given everything I'm doing before it.
7. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! On Sunday, the last day of Gen Con, I have to drive back up to school again! Because classes start that Monday! In the morning! At 10:00 with a really hard class! (Gog am I glad it's not 8:00 or 9:00, though. 10:00 I can handle.) And then I have a church event that night and will have at least one if not two more that week. Plus I will be tying up loose ends from packing. And likely have at least one club meeting.

I think that first weekend, the 26th and 27th, I will seriously just crash - lay around and do nothing, maybe just watch anime and play video games because I will be burnt the fuck out.

Onto today - I have to leave in a few minutes, but: I found this amazing blog, Unfuck Your Habitat, via capslock_dreamwidth. It's a Tumblr blog and I don't really Tumbl a lot, but I will be using this blog a lot as a resource and inspiration. I really need to clean and already this is making me enthusiastic and hopeful. Unfucking goes in sessions called 20/10s, where you work for 20 minutes and take a 10 minute break. I hope to do three or four tomorrow, and after each one make a little post (on LJ) about it. I'll take some before and after pics but those will be broader in scope than just 20-minute unfuckings, probably.

Also, I have a list of things I want to write about.

Personal things (LJ only):
+my birthday and birthday celebration =3
+stuff that's been going on with my brother/sister (I will try to keep this brief)
+more on preparing for school, including classes (I almost completely finished signing up guys!)
+my job
+one or two private entries

Fandom things (both DW and LJ):
+birthday! because my parents and sister are AMAZING and nearly all the wonderful gifts I was lucky to receive are fandom-related. Pics will be included.
+Brave - I've seen it twice now and I have feelings
+a few crossovers that I'm either writing down ideas for or just turning over in my head - the planning bug has bitten, not so much the writing but, but why not plan while I can?
+flash games. because I love them and play them too much to never talk about them at all
+recap of all the books I read this summer (I am now finished; don't have any more time for that...)
+work on my two cosplays (Vriska Serket and Rainbow Dash)
+HOMESTUCK OMG
+The video games I'm playing rn, namely Skyward Sword and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescuers

*BARENAKED LADIES. I AM GOING TO SEE BARENAKED LADIES GUYS, HOLY FUCK AM I EXCITED FOR THIS AHHH

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