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Uni is now over for the year! And I'm glad! Four papers + Nationals + world's second-worst exam timetable = stressed, exhausted me. I'm now in the process of catching up on sleep.

I'm not very good at posting, am I? Half the time I start to post and then something shiny goes by and I lose interest. Stupid ADD.

In order to prevent this post from being entirely pointless, here are some links to Melissa McEwan's steampunk wedding ring, the TV Tropes page for Walking With Dinosaurs and Syaoran and Watanuki cats

♫ leave me a comment saying "SAY IT TO MY FACE, BITCH",
♫ i'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
♫ update your journal with the answers to the questions.
♫ include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
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one; if you could inject yourself into any fandom, which one would you choose?
At the moment? Probably Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic universe. I really like the way magic works in that universe, and the fact that, unlike many other fantasy universes, there's very little discrimination based on race or gender.
two; do you think australia and new zealand should become one country?
No. I like New Zealand as its own country with its own identity. Although if they appeared in Hetalia (and weren't siblings) I would totally ship them.
three; you have superpowers but superheroes are being persecuted. a loved one is in danger and you can save them but will be exposed: do you save them?
I think so. Of course, it's always easy to say that when you're not actually in that situation, but I think I'd rather be exposed than sit and do nothing. I hate feeling helpless.
four; you discover that you will lose the use of your legs tomorrow. what do you do today?
Um. What with Irish dancing, cycling, walking, Scottish country dancing and so on, my legs are very important to me. I can't really imagine losing that. So my answer would probably be some sort of cop-out like 'invent fully functional artificial legs'...
five; would you ever bungee jump?
I'd have to be in the right frame of mind, but I think I'd give it a try. I might freak out when it came to actually jumping and end up having to be pushed, though.

Uni starts up again on Monday. I feel as if I've barely recovered from the last semester.
I got my results today, though: A- in Political Science, A in Earth Science and A+ in Geography. I am slightly bowled over.
This is quite interesting, not to mention hilarious. It's a mash-up of clips from Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, showing how some of Edward's behaviour towards Bella is pretty disturbing, despite being portrayed as romantic. The comments are also worth a read.
Note: I have never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer and don't really intend to. I understand it also has some issues; however, this clip is brilliant.

I wrote a fic. A rather cracky fic.

Title: In Which Tsuna Wishes He Could Disappear
Fandom: Reborn!
Character/pairing: Tsuna, Reborn, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Hibari, Chrome, Haru, Kyoko; lots and lots of UST
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Set a year or two after current canon; no significant spoilers though. Contains rather a lot of multishipping.

( Interpersonal relations in the Vongola base have recently become a whole lot more complicated... )

Have a meme.
Taken from 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.

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.

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... )

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.

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.

wrongworddammit 

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