lace_agate: (to be precise)
I have new userpics!  And I must post to celebrate this!
All my lectures are finished for this semester and my exams are in a couple of weeks.  Meaning I now have to study.  Fun.
And I recommend Gunnerkrigg Court.  So does Neil Gaiman.
lace_agate: (quack)
Have a meme.
Taken from [profile] slb_addicted 
Name one of my fandoms, and I'll answer the questions.

1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like:
7. The character I'd slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom.
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom.
13. Who are my five favorite characters.
14. Who are my five least favorite characters.
15. What are my five favorite pairings.
16. What are my five least favorite pairings.
17. Which character are you most like.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret.


lace_agate: (umm what)
I had two essays due this week and I've got another one due next week.  I have been busy, but I'm taking a break at the moment.  The weather here is foul - cold and windy, mainly, which normally I wouldn't mind except it's really cold and really really windy.  It's been like this for a few days and is expected to stay like this until sometime next week.
I've also got a cold.  It was worst on Thursday, which was also when I had to write the bulk of my Earth Science essay.  I did manage to get it finished and I handed it in yesterday morning.  I'm feeling better today.
I also have a new fandom. [livejournal.com profile] shadowsinfire finally convinced me to read Katekyo Hitman Reborn!  And, well once I got past the first 50 chapters or so (which are basically filler), I started to really enjoy it.

Possibly spoilery for Reborn!; discussion of shipping and what people read for )
Also, I got a book in the university bookshop sale about urban legends, UFO sightings and the (allegedly) paranormal in New Zealand.  Written by the head of the NZ Skeptics' Society.  I haven't read much of it yet, bud did you know that meteorites and shooting stars were considered myths by the scientific establishment until the beginning of the nineteenth century? 
Also: obligatory aliens in Palmerston North tag.
lace_agate: (accio brain)
To all my NZ friends of voting age:  you might want to have a look at this.
I still haven't even decided if I'll vote in the referendum.

ETA: apparently today is Talk Like Shakespeare Day.

lace_agate: (scythes)
I have just read City of Glass, the third book in Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments trilogy.  Sure, it's definitely not great literature - it's somewhat overwritten and under-edited - but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Spoilers under the cut )
Anyway, I recommend it to CLAMP fans (angst, messed-up relationships, love dodecahedron, urban fantasy, subtext etc.) and to urban fantasy fans and generally to most of my friends.

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Title: Somewhere beyond
Day/Theme: March 25 - come the morning and the day winding like dreams
Fandom: Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Characters/pairing: C!Syaoran/C!Sakura
Rating: PG
Warnings: This is a very strange fic.  It could be very depressing or reassuring and uplifting, depending on your interpretation.  And it has misuse of certain key astrophysical theories.  Oh, and spoilers up to chapter 211.

Somewhere beyond the end of all worlds... )

Read this.

Mar. 18th, 2009 04:13 pm
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The pro-choice/pro-life debate has always interested me (I'm on the pro-choice side), but I never even thought about this aspect of it (some of the comments are worth reading too).  It really upsets me that there can be all this stuff about the negative psychological effects of abortion but absolutely nothing on the negative effects for the birth mother in cases of adoption.
Just go and read it.

it lives!

Mar. 16th, 2009 03:15 pm
lace_agate: (accio brain)
Well, I've survived my first two weeks at uni and I'm starting to feel slightly less overwhelmed by it all.  It's surprising how few familiar faces there are around the place.  I mean, there are quite a few people I know, but I don't see much of them, even the ones I share lectures with.  And then straight after the lecture everyone's rushing off in different directions and you don't get much chance to talk to people unless your two-hour gap between lectures happens to overlap with theirs.
In terms of content I'm enjoying all my courses (I'm taking Political Science, Earth Science and Geography and I'll be picking up International Relations next semester).  It's a pain having to catch the bus at 7:30 am for a 9 o'clock lecture, though.  If I ever get an 8 o'clock lecture I'm moving into town.
The highlight so far has been the letters page of the weekly student magazine.  They publish anything and everything.  Currently there's a debate going on between three gamers as to which of them is the most 1337, people sending in random poetry, trolls, complaints about first years being n00bs, first years complaining about being called n00bs, letters all in lowercase with multiple!!!! exclamation!!!! marks!!!!, lolcat-speak, in-jokes and more.
I'm going to get really fit walking up the hill every day.  I decided I'd only take the cable car if the weather was foul, so that I can save money and get fit all at once.  The only downside is that I turn up for my nine o'clock lecture out of breath and with very sore calf muscles, but that will improve.
Mood-wise, I'm all over the place.  I guess that's understandable, but it's pretty tiring.  I'm OK, though, mostly.
lace_agate: (scythes)
spoilers for recent chapters of Bleach, Naruto, Tsubasa and Holic )
Also, I highly recommend the manga Someday's Dreamers.  It's only two volumes long, but it's lovely.  The central concept is kind of like xxxHolic or Kobato (somewhere in between) and the tone of the store is more like the later volumes of Fruits Basket.

Meme

Feb. 18th, 2009 03:35 pm
lace_agate: (umm what)
Taken from [livejournal.com profile] rhap_chan 
Describe pairings in fifteen words or less, and have your flist guess their identities.

1.  Cute ditzy girl meets gruff grumpy boy: one day she might heal his heart.
2.  Platonic or otherwise, they share a bond of absolute trust.
3.  Students, chefs, guardians of their country: in every world, they're together.
4.  He left because of his crush on her, but she tracked him down.
5.  She's convinced she's a burden; he becomes stronger for her sake.
6.  It'd be nice to sit and chat without kidnapping, flight and war to distract them.
7.  She seeks death; he teaches her that there is joy in life.
8.  He gave him a name, a home, and another chance at life.
9.  The princess and her knight in shining glasses.
10.  "Would you kill me if you had to?"  "Yes."  "Promise?"
11.  They met in the slums of London and were reunited in a palace.
12.  The colour of Life is just one of the things their species disagree on.
13.  He defeats her, she saves his life and teaches him some valuable life lessons.
14.  That's one hell of an age gap.
15.  She'll always be there to guard his back.

I'll leave this for a couple of days before updating with answers.

lace_agate: (scythes)
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks"
Pretty much what it says on the tin.

Cake Wrecks

When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.

Shakesville

Primarily a feminist blog, but many things besides.  You may not agree with everything that gets posted here (for example: some of them are quite cynical about Barack Obama, although they still voted for him).  Somewhat NSFW due to frequent and creative swearing and some sexual content.

BioBlog

The blog of Waikato University lecturer Alison Campbell (who was a close friend of my mum's).  Mainly about evolution; quite fascinating.

Timeline of Internet Memes
Also what it says on the tin.

[livejournal.com profile] wrongworddammit 

wordsmith.org
Home of the Internet Anagram Server, among other things.

...

Feb. 14th, 2009 12:54 pm
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Unpopular Women Appreciation Post

An appreciation post for unpopular and unfairly bashed female characters.

Meme

Jan. 14th, 2009 02:15 pm
lace_agate: (Default)
Taken from [livejournal.com profile] cindybin, with some alterations by me.

Pick from any of my fandoms and ask me to answer the following:

Favourite character:
Least favourite character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely screw:
Character I'd make lunch:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I'd most want to cosplay as:
Favourite het pairing:
Favourite yaoi pairing:
Favourite yuri pairing:
lace_agate: (dance)
So I've just graduated from high school, but today I received a copy of the last school newsletter of the year.  Amid the usual end-of year stuff there was a report on the last school camp, where we played soccer football and I missed the ball and ended up accidentally kicking a girl in the knee and dislocating her kneecap.  (She was very nice about it, didn't blame me, which was good).  It seems, though, that someone thought that this story was worthy of a place in the school newsletter, complete with a reference to my "Irish dance trained ninja toe[s]".

I think I need to make an icon of that.

lace_agate: (quack)
This.

Basically, appaling working conditions for amazon.com and amazon.co.uk staff.

lace_agate: (Suu)
Originally written for [livejournal.com profile] rekallthegreat  for Round 4 at [livejournal.com profile] dimension_shop 

Title
: Worth
Fandom: xxxHolic
Character/pairing: Himawari, Yuuko, Watanuki, Doumeki; implied Watanuki/Doumeki/Himawari and Clow/Yuuko; guest appearance by Kobato and Fujimoto
Rating: PG
Notes: Set around current manga chapters (165-170) but no spoilers past volume 11 or so.

I need to think of better titles... )

lace_agate: (isane)
So, first, congratulations to all the Americans on my flist on the election of Barack Obama as president.
Second, WHY is it that New Zealand's answer to the mood for change or whatever it is that's sweeping the world at the moment is to elect a National Party government and to bring back Roger Douglas?  I'm also sad that the Green Party vote didn't live up to what the polls predicted.  Even so, eight seats in parliament is an improvement on six.

On a totally unrelated note, I LOVE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST SO MUCH RIGHT NOW.  Chapter 89 features the ruturn of Denny Brosh, Maria Ross, Havoc (now with a goatee that doesn't really suit him) and Riza's friend Rebecca, who hijacked an icecream truck to carry supplies to Roy and his allies.  IT WAS AN EPIC CHAPTER.

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