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12:49 am
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Regarding scanlations
You are by all means welcome to friend this journal but if you are here for the scanlations, I would recommend you to watch ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) manga_luve and yshare instead (note that in the latter all posts are moderated and therefore will take longer to appear).
All my scanlation releases will be announced in these two communities, probably even sooner than in this journal. Please note that both communities require membership in order to view posts.
Current Mood:  chipper
Tags: scanlations
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10:14 pm
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Weeee, snowflakes!
Thank you, lovely people, for those pretty, pretty snowflakes! They are a very nice and welcome addition to the cold, yet snowless weather in St.Petersburg :)
Current Mood:  high
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09:17 pm
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Old song... new performance
I never knew The Beatles could sound like that. I suspect even The Beatles had not known they could sound like that. It is an ear-curling eye-opening experience that is not to be missed! (the wonderful link comes from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) exler)
Current Mood:  mischievous
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09:38 pm
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[Sharing] Nemureru Mori by Ebihara Yuri (english, fully scanlated)
Author: EBIHARA Yuri 海老原由里
Publisher: Shinkousha
Date: 2006
Scanlation status: complete
Summary: Aikawa Masumi whose impending wedding is close at hand, coincidently encounters the spirited up-and-coming florist Ryouke Takahisa whom he came to ask to buy a wedding bouquet from. However, he was attacked at his office after having a meeting with the guy. He was violently taken with what seemed like extreme hatred that was held for him. “Only you, I will not forgive. Never.” What in the world is the meaning of that guy’s words…?!
Download:
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Megaupload
Aaaand... it's DONE! My deepest gratitude goes to Sherry and the Translator Who'd Prefer Not to Be Named. The project would never have been completed without them and I really, really wanted this manga to be scanlated.
Next on the agenda is Ai ga Kami wo Korosu Toki by Akira Honma (A Love That Conquers Gods according to Amazon). Wish us luck :)
Update: an empty bubble on page 180 in the chapter 5 has just been pointed out to me, alas. I reuploaded the chapter, so you can find the new version now both at Mediafire and Megaupload. Otherwise, please just download the corrected page here. Sorry about the inconvenience!
Current Mood:  accomplished
Tags: scanlations, sharing
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11:33 am
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Natural Harvest
From moonythestrals:
a recipe book you would NOT want to open before cooking or eating
Sorry for doing this to you, guys, but I just had to share. Why should I suffer alone when I have ways to spread this around, after all?
Current Mood:  nauseated
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01:24 am
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The song that broke my brain
These guys won the first place in Eurovision back in 1978. Go figure *scratches head*
Current Mood:  indescribable
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12:46 am
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[Sharing] Loving Consent, a oneshot from Uchi ni Oideyo
author: EBIHARA Yuri 海老原由里
publisher: BIBLOS
date: 2003
scanlators: sherryillk & d_moonchild
status: oneshot
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Current Mood: accomplished
Tags: scanlations
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08:30 pm
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[FIC] Six Strokes of Luck (TDS, Jon/Stephen)
Title: Six Strokes of Luck
Pairing: Jon Stewart/ Stephen Colbert
Rating: R
Wordcount: 1,400
Disclaimer: All television shows, movies, books, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work, and the characters, settings, and events thereof, are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for-profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context, and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
Warnings: RPS. Or should I put "my first attempt at RPS" as a warning?
( Jon does not believe he is a lucky person. )
Current Mood: accomplished
Tags: fic
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03:12 pm
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Look, look!
This is what photoash got for me:
Yes, an actual autographed Yamato Nase doujinshi, featuring talking penises!! And it arrived just in time for my birthday too! *does a happy dance*
My mother, of course, only paid attention to the ad inside, for Yamato Nase's new manga. Seeing three people in the picture clinging to each other in a most tender fashion, she asked hopefully, "These are... two boys and a girl?"
"Err... no, all three are boys."
"Oh."
I should have explained to her that real threeway relationships are fairly rare in yaoi manga, that generally these covers display the uke and his two love interests, and he will probably end up with just one of them. But I had a feeling it would not make much of a difference to her.
I am looking forward to Monday when I will have a chance to wish people happy birthday and hear "thanks, you too!" in return. Less than 15 people in our office and three of them have birthday on the same day, how unlikely is that, huh?
Current Mood: ecstatic
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09:53 am
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Oh.My.God
There is actually a Putin mobile.
I couldn't find a Medvedev version... Hmm. How unpatriotic of them.
Current Mood:  giggly
Tags: random observations
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09:18 am
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Question to all the sophisticated LJ users
Is there any way to find all posts made by a particular user in a community? I swear I have no nefarious agenda, just a desire to catch up with all fiction posted by the author. Sadly, the entries had not been tagged.
I tried LJFind but apparently it cannot search as far back as, say, 2005.
Worst case scenario, I'll just have to go through the entire comm but I am not looking forward to that, as the community is quite post-prolific and has been around for several years. So, any ideas?
Current Mood: hopeful
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12:34 pm
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A few words about Tritorella
There once was a person in the fandom known as Tritorella. There were also people who did not like her. A lot. And they were active and vocal about it. Here is a post telling exactly how active they were: http://evildrem.livejournal.com/49163.html
"All this happened a long, long time ago, so why dig this up now?" you are going to ask me. And I will tell you that my post is simply a reaction to this: http://jacquez.livejournal.com/616333.html Interesting how accusations based on what one believes/ suspects/ hears somewhere suddenly become facts, don't you think?
But apparently there are facts too: http://jacquez.livejournal.com/616333.html?thread=2773901#t2773901 aukestrel has already deleted the comment but it said "If you'd care to contact me privately I'd be happy to supply you with any evidence you care to look at concerning "that person.". What I received was:
- a retelling of events by the author of the above comment, with very vague references to past conflicts and offences
- IP addresses of various people (including, as I understand, their actual names and emails) requesting password to access the website where the author in question stored fiction. Addresses indicated that those people used services of the internet providers of the same country Tritorella lived in. Since Tritorella was forbidden from reading that fiction or reccing it (WTF, seriously?), those people were automatically suspected of being Tritorella's sockpuppets and outed to me, a complete stranger, probably among other people
- text extracts allegedly from Tritorella's emails
- list of nicks and emails Tritorella used in the fandom, including her real (!) name. Apparently outing someone is all right, as long as you suspect that person of doing the same years ago.
I don't think it is possible to draw a conclusion on a conversation when you only see one side of it, and incomplete at that. There are many ways to tell events and alter the meaning of words by tearing them out of context. It can even be done unintentionally, especially if the person taking that action already considers oneself the hurt party and feels strong resentment. A story told by one participant of events is not evidence for me either, especially when the teller is far from being an unbiased witness.
The most serious (at least fandom-wise) crime Tritorella was accused of, was outing of a slash author to the author's former employer. The author in question said there was a telephone call from that employer in which it was mentioned that Tritorella emailed someone of the company's IT staff with information of the victim's fandom activities. To this, I replied:
"Is there any proof regarding Tritorella emailing one of your colleagues? Did you ever find out which IT guy reported this info to your boss (nice colleagues you had back then, by the way!) and talk to this person? Are you sure this IT guy did not simply come across some post that indirectly outed you, while browsing the web or looking through websites you accessed in the office? My own boss who is not even a "conservative Catholic stockbroker", is not all that internet savvy, and I would not rely on his retelling of facts related to internet communication. I can easily imagine how, having already been upset with Tritorella, you could have assumed the worst from that phone call."
There was no reaction to my reply. Not that I am surprised: I don't know if it is humanly possible to convince anyone to reconsider their position after they maintained it for eight years.
But if there is anyone on my flist who heard of Tritorella and accusations against her before and already made up their mind, I am kindly asking you to take another look at the "evidence" and draw a line between hard facts and hearsay.
Current Mood:  aggravated
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12:10 am
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[FIC] If the Devil Has His Way (Reaper, Devil/Sam)
Title: If the Devil Has His Way Author: Moonchild Fandom: Reaper Pairing: Devil/Sam Rating: PG-13 Summary: Devil's talking, Sam's trying to listen
A/N: Watching the last episodes of Reaper, I fell in love with the show. And after I finish watching, I want to read. Imagine my horror and disappointment when I realized that the Reaper fanfiction is practically non-existent. The ficlet below is to be blamed entirely on all those authors who could have written something awesome for this fandom and didn't. Just remember, people, you could have prevented that!
Current Mood:  artistic
Tags: fic
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09:40 pm
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Story recommendation: ...and now there's a sequel!
In continuation of my previous post, I absolutely must inform you that Ann Somerville just posted a sequel to Interstitial. You can find the sequel, Synchronised, here.
Note that the sequel is available for free but will not make much sense without reading the original story. Synchronised is not a stand alone story, it is more of a resolution/ development for Interstitial (quite a satisfying one, I'd say). IMO, it's a pretty good additional incentive to try Interstitial :)
Current Mood: accomplished
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07:56 pm
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Story recommendation: Interstitial by Ann Somerville
Interstitial is a sci-fi novella recently released by Samhain. The story falls into the "gay fiction" category as you probably already assumed if you are familiar with Ann Somerville's writing and my reading preferences :)
Samhain sums up the plot as "Love triangles. Alien monsters. Planetary war. Just another day in space", and as a reader I can confirm that you will find all of the above in Interstitial, and a lot more.
This is where I should put a clever review that would convince you that this story is a must read but, lacking the ability to produce one myself, I am pointing you to this post instead.
From myself, I can only add that I enjoyed reading it immensely and I think you'll also have a good time with it.
Current Mood: accomplished
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01:17 am
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Because some things need to be recorded in history
Pre-history: the internet connection in our office broke down. On 25th April. Mind, the ISP assured me that the problem was on our side and that we should call the telephone company to fix it. Which we did. On Tuesday, when I called our ISP again, they admitted that the problem was on their side and would be fixed "in the nearest future". My attempts to get a definition of "the nearest future" failed completely. Repeated calls produced exactly the same result. On 4th May it became evident that "the nearest future" is a very, very loose concept. Current Mood:  bitchy
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09:59 pm
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Self-discovery (and a request)
I've been cautiously poking at Buffy and discovered something amazing about myself: apparently I can read het fanfiction! Me, a senior slasher. Who would've thought? Not me, that's for sure.
But Angel/Buffy strongly reminds me of my old passion for Cole/Phoebe in Charmed (just as appealing and just as doomed canon-wise) and I want fanfics, I really do. The experience of browsing FF.net was too traumatizing to describe (seriously, I don't think even the Harry Potter section there was quite that bad).
So, for the sake of my already damaged mental health, help me, people! if by some unlikely chance you had ever been into this pairing, give me ideas where to look for readable Angel/Buffy fiction: names, links, mailing lists, LJ comms? An ideal story would of course be something long, well-written and with a happy ending, but I am prepared for compromises.
Current Mood: hopeful
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08:32 pm
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Not exactly my idea of optimization
So here's the deal: I have 512 Mb RAM. Not much by today standards, especially when using Windows XP, but I'm getting by. Then I see this program for memory optimization, MemTurbo, and decide, "Hey, this is exactly what I need." I install it and it looks neat, sitting in my system tray, telling me how much free RAM I got left and optimizing something.
But what I noticed is that if I have a Word document open, work in Adobe Photoshop, Windows Media Player plays music and Azureus downloads something in the background (what? If I can multitask, so should my computer), 512 Mb RAM is enough. Usually. With MemTurbo running, my poor Media Player keeps hiccuping and doing a rather convincing impersonation of a broken record player.
Which brings me to the question: what exactly is the point of an optimizing program that hogs resources and generally worsens the computer performance? I guess MemTurbo makers and I have different opinions on what optimization is all about.
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Tags: rambling
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02:06 am
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Sharing a few tracks
Just thought I'd share some of my favorite music. I've been searching high and low for a couple of these tracks for years. No kidding. I realize most of you will raise your eyebrows at the thought that somebody could be deliberately looking for this stuff, but whatever. Go ahead, download and laugh at my crappy taste.
Bon Jovi - I Talk to Jesus
Inferno - Ave Cleopatra
Kabat - Mala Dama
Liliane Saint-Pierre - Lucifer
London Boys - My Prayer
Mr. Zhivago - Little Russian
Now, if only I could get my grabby paws on Flash Girls' Prince Charming Comes... *sigh*
Upd as of 3rd December: reuploaded a couple of tracks, as requested. And also...
Flash Girls - Prince Charming Comes!!! Yes, sometimes the dreams come true :)
Current Mood: high
Current Music: all of the above :)
Tags: sharing
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01:58 pm
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How true men (and women) fight
An awesome collection of fighting scenes from Indian movies. This will be an unforgettable experience, I promise :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJYagxgx5U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxBdG4TZT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_7208QRX6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InxPME85eM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngt8OdXWSo
(Links borrowed from exler)
Current Mood: giggly
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