The song is called "Accio Deathly Hallows", but it was written a few days before HP7 came out so it is totally spoiler-free! Unfortunately I didn't find it until yesterday. I already finished the book a few days ago, but the song is fun anyway!
and when I logged on to livejournal half an hour ago, the first thing that jumped into my sight was lifeafterharry. Maybe I'll have a look in their after this post :)
I will miss the "waiting for the next book", but at least I can look forward to two more movies.
My LJ MindMap is ready! I totally forgot that I ordered one ^^ And now that I have one... what should I do with it? Well, post it, I guess. So here it is. My little MindMap. Not exactly overcrowded ^^
Auron: A young man of a unknown race (who obviously has some bad memories of his childhood?). He has just returned to Cibarra City after taking a five year absence, and it seems that he has missed a few things and now has to make up lost time�
Amber: A reptile mount that has been Auron's mount since she was able to carry him and his friend since she was hatched. She's free to go wherever she wants whenever she wants, but prefers to stick close by him in case he needs her. She often likes to act like she ignores him (much like a cat does) and seams to be contrary to his instructions at times. But when it comes down to it, she's as loyal as they come.
Riana: An 18-year-old human girl who was just having a day out with her best friend Jenna and her little brother Tom at the race track when she lost track of Tom and ran into someone else.
Tom: Riana's little brother. Just as many 11-year-old boys he's quite curious. When he and his sister went out for a day at the race track, he spots a red sprinter which is rare to see and goes off on his own.
Jenna: A non-human friend of Riana who seems to dislike Rianas tardiness.
My humble opinion: Actually this comic is quite new to me and it has only 18 pages up to now, but I like the art and the way the story is told so far.
I just browsed through some wikipedia articles when I stumpled over the following sentence in an article about the voice actor Kali Troy
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada when she studied journalism at Clark Atlanta University.
At first I thought I could have read something wrong. But when I read it twice it was the same. Reading it again makes no difference. When I translate this sentence to my language, it means that this girl already had been studying journalism at Clark Atlanta University when she was born?!
Now my question to native speakers who might or might not read my journal: Do I just lack experience with the Englisch language and it means something completely different? ^^
Story: Chelsea Reid is a college student on summer break who had no idea what she was getting herself into when she opened the door and let her cat in on a stormy night so many days ago. What came in was a cat, her cat and not. What followed was even more bizarre and truly alien. A blue skinned alien named Lexx broke in attempting to reclaim his game piece, the cat. Reluctant to take the cat by force, he made a deal in which Chel agreed to loan him the cat if she could come along to see the space ship. Thus began Chel's introduction to the elaborate game known as "Alien Dice". It’s a game more complex than it initially appears. Animals are bonded to dice and uplifted with unnatural intelligence and abilities to fight and capture others of their kind or merely to entertain their masters. Or at least that was how the game was described to Chel...
Main characters: Chelsea, usually referred to as simply Chel, is your average girl next door. She's never been popular, just the girl that's always there to help out when it's needed. Opinionated and a bit quick to jump to conclusions with passionate effort, she's wound up in the game through her cat Mittens, which was turned into a dice by Lexx on his first day to the planet.
Lexx, as he prefers to be called is the alien in question who's playing the game. What is Alien Dice? He knows all too well. It's a serious game to him in which his life is in the balance. If he loses, he either becomes a slave to whomever beats him in battle or dies. He would prefer to die. So far, he's almost completed the game,... but no-one has completed it before and the forces against him are rising.
Zeta, one of the living dice of the game, the Fire Dice is Lexx's starting Dice. Unlike Lexx's other dice, when Lexx started a new set he rolled him on the ship so he's never merged with any creature other than his original.
Stealth is Lexx's Strategy Die, bond to Chel's cat Mittens. She is one to hide to have the advantage in a situation. Silence and concealment is her specialty in combat. When not having to fight other dice Stealth goes about her favorite hobby of trying to find out about everything and anything. This makes her valued as a great source of information. She is the only one of Lexx's Dice to know all the rules of the game.
There are still a lot of other characters that I won't introduce here. Go to Shivaewiki to read more.
...and many more.
My humble opinion: One reason for me to like this comoic is my soft spot for angsty characters. Another reason is the wonderfull creatures Syke creates for the various dice. But there's one thing to say... If you want to completely understand the first pages, I recommend to read the text below. It tells the same story but often gives a bit more background information.
Most of the texts above are taken from Shivae's Shivaewiki.
Story: After 1000 years of war between the Haeloar and the Lemiroar, two of six different races of the world, there's little hope that it will ever end. That's when Nesshin and Shinwa, a pair with mysterious pasts, collect people in various ways to build a group of six with initially unknown purpose. But when they discover an easy solution, should they use it? Contains bishies, light humor, and a hint of shounen-ai.
Main characters: Hanayaka: Hana, though she is sometimes overshadowed by a few of the other characters, is the main character. She's a Haeloar and very prejudiced against the Lemiroar, but she's got her reasons. Hana's got a lot of pent up aggression. She hates being used more than anything, and possesses her share of internal turmoil. No one really expects her to think twice about killing, and maybe they're right.
Nesshin: Nesshin, quite opposite to Hana, is good-natured, open-minded, and usually doesn't hold a grudge for longer than ten minutes. He perhaps is a little too nice for his own good, and can be rather naive. Although considered by many as one of the most powerful mages alive, he still has serious issues with controlling and limiting his power, and the results are usually explosive. He prefers to keep to himself about his past, and will go out of his way to avoid discussing it. He's romantically related to Shinwa.
Shinwa: Shin is an incredibly secretive person. No one really knows much about him at all, and he'd like to keep it that way. He has the outward appearance of your average nonchalant, charismatic, carefree bard. But as Hana's starting to figure out, he's not exactly who he's claiming he is. He's not someone you want to mess with, and he makes this point very clear. He's fiercely loyal to whatever cause he devotes himself to. Few know him well, and he doesn't like staying in one place for too long. He keeps his past, his true emotions, his purpose, and his identity hidden from all but a few.
Kawaru: Kawaru's highly devoted to her religion and refuses to hear second opinions on the subject. Stubborn, strong-willed, and perhaps a little haughty at times, she has a strong sense of duty. Taking in Tanoshii is a perfect example. She felt obligated to take care of her since, obviously, no one else would and would've felt guilty had she just left her alone. She's one of the Lemiroar and not exactly fond of Hanayaka being in the group.
Tanoshii: Tanoshii comes off as being really stupid, that she can't make her own descisions, and that she can't remember the simplest things. She's just got a really bad memory, and no one gives her the chance to prove herself. She's a really sweet girl though, if not outwardly confused by what's going on around her. Even with a keen sense of intuition, she's easily convinced about a lot of things since she doesn't know otherwise, so those around her need to be careful what they say and do around her.
Kiyami: Mysterious, dark and always smiling, a charmer and seducer, Kiyami is somone I don't want to spoiler about.
My humble opinion: Despite some difficulties to follow the plot at times, I still find Skyfall captivating. A focal point of my interest is the background history of Nesshin and Shinwa. The quality of the drawing has improved to a point where Skyfall in my opinion is on equal grounds with several mangas published in print.
Well... Maybe I shouldn't have written I would give more Details later? Details of what? I didn't have a party yesterday. (Except you count a parent child afternoon with cookies and handicrafts in eileenw's kindergarten as a birthday party.) I'm really looking forward to playing my new Sims expansions. Just sent back the one I got twice. Unfortunately the computer I'm playing on isn't good enough for The Sims 2 Pets :( The walls are flashing red and there are a lot of users in forums complaining about the same problem but the only solution seems to be a better graphics card :( Maybe I have to endure the flashing. Eragon wasn't as good as I hoped. I knew they would shorten the stuff of the book in order to fit it into 105 minutes of movie, but there are a lot of things missing that I considered as very important. And I miss a bit of character developing. In the book Eragon had to learn fast... in the movie he has to learn faster or even just has to know intuitively because I didn't have the impression that a lot of time passed in the movie and Brom didn't get a lot of opportunities to actually teach something. But I shouldn't spoil to much... I'll stop complaining now. I liked the evening anyway :-)
Got this meme from indigoskynet. Please make your own list before you read my answers ;) German: Bitte macht erst eure eigene Liste, bevor ihr meine Antworten lest.
List six of your favorite TV shows and answer the following questions: German: Liste sechs deiner liebsten Fernsehserien und beantworte die folgenden Fragen:
1. Full Metal Alchemist 2. Avatar: The Last Airbender 3. Inuyasha 4. Bleach 5. Read Or Die (TV) 6. Stargate Atlantis
Story: Hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of trillions of eons ago, the Essence that created life and the whole univers also created Crysthel, the Crystal Dragon of All Knowledge, the Last of the Old Ones and the most beloved of the Essence's Children, as a final task befor he retreated, back into the Darkness, to fall into a slumber that would last until the End of Times. Crysthel, now alone, was left to wander her new world, and began to spread her wisdom and aid. But the gods, instead of treating this creature with respect and awe, became jealous and afraid... And so all the gods came together and created an artifact of unspeakable, ancient power. And within this circlet... they trapped Crysthel, but in doing so, they enchanted it in such a way that her Knowledge would not be lost... For whoever wore the band, either god or mortal, they would be transported to Her prison to be granted her Knowledge and Wisdom. But to protect their own authority, the gods created for Crysthel but one law: Each creature was granted ONE QUESTION, and ONE QUESTION only. The memory of Crysthel and her Creator faded completely from the minds of all, so that her original purpose, to help remind those of where they had really come from, was never fulfilled. But still, Crysthel exists and waits somewhere out there in the world... waiting until perhaps you yourself lay your hands upon her Circlet... and even then, all she will ask you is: What is your Question? ...And now a strange-looking young thief will find himself asking that very question.
Some main characters:
Cheeko (right): She's not actually a character of the comic... she's its author. A long eared humanoid dragon with blue skin and purple, indestructable and variously flavored hair. :)
Crysthel (left): Crysthel is the last of the "Old Ones," or rather, the last Guardian created by the Great Essence. She possesses infinite knowledge, meaning that she quite literally knows everything.
Ranu (left): Ranu first appeared in Silverport two years prior to when the story begins. From what people can gather, he is looking for a long lost friend of his named Keijina. He doesn't like telling anyone what led to their separation or even of his past and where he came from. He also becomes very bitter when speaking of his mother, who he has never forgiven for abandoning him.
Keijina (right): Keijina's current whereabouts are unknown. She is Ranu's best and only friend. In the orphanage where they grew up Ranu was treated as an outcast and bullied by all the other children, except one. This child was callled Keijina, and for some reason she took an intense liking to Ranu, and they became best friends.
Narini (right): Narini came to Nawiern one year ago simply because she was passing through on her journey. However, she was immediately seized and thrown into jail for unknown reasons by General Orson himself, who received the orders anonymously.
Orson (left): Orson was the General of the King's army during the 80 Years War, and when it ended he was very distraught, felt restless and became very irritable. He is highly distrustful of magic, and when he became suspicious of the Court Magician, Mask, he found himself carried to jail by his own troops and without the King's knowledge. Turns out Mask really was up to something, but now it's too late to let anyone know about it. Now he's stuck in a small cell with a very strange inhabitant...
Shroom (right): A fresh runaway on the streets of Silverport. He simply couldn't stand his mother replaying his dead father with a new husband. When he joins a gang of young thieves he here's about a mysterious thieve called Redeye that he idolizes.
Dart (left): The leader of the gang of young thieves that Shroom joins. He has lived in Silverport for his entire life. No one is really sure where he came from or where his parents are; they are assumed to be dead.
(most of the text above has been copied and altered from the webside)
My humble opinion: I really like the character developement of this webcomic. I have a weekness for strange-looking characters with a mysterious, sad past. And another brownie point is the amount of action and dynamic on the pages. After two complete chapters on 100 pages the story's still just at the beginning so there's still much to tell I suppose. And I'm looking forward to it. :)
Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.
The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.
Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.
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Auron: A young man of a unknown race (who obviously has some bad memories of his childhood?). He has just returned to Cibarra City after taking a five year absence, and it seems that he has missed a few things and now has to make up lost time�
Amber: A reptile mount that has been Auron's mount since she was able to carry him and his friend since she was hatched. She's free to go wherever she wants whenever she wants, but prefers to stick close by him in case he needs her. She often likes to act like she ignores him (much like a cat does) and seams to be contrary to his instructions at times. But when it comes down to it, she's as loyal as they come.
Riana: An 18-year-old human girl who was just having a day out with her best friend Jenna and her little brother Tom at the race track when she lost track of Tom and ran into someone else.
Tom: Riana's little brother. Just as many 11-year-old boys he's quite curious. When he and his sister went out for a day at the race track, he spots a red sprinter which is rare to see and goes off on his own.
Jenna: A non-human friend of Riana who seems to dislike Rianas tardiness.
okay
Chelsea
Lexx
Zeta
Stealth
Hanayaka: Hana, though she is sometimes overshadowed by a few of the other characters, is the main character. She's a Haeloar and very prejudiced against the Lemiroar, but she's got her reasons. Hana's got a lot of pent up aggression. She hates being used more than anything, and possesses her share of internal turmoil. No one really expects her to think twice about killing, and maybe they're right.
Nesshin: Nesshin, quite opposite to Hana, is good-natured, open-minded, and usually doesn't hold a grudge for longer than ten minutes. He perhaps is a little too nice for his own good, and can be rather naive. Although considered by many as one of the most powerful mages alive, he still has serious issues with controlling and limiting his power, and the results are usually explosive. He prefers to keep to himself about his past, and will go out of his way to avoid discussing it.
Shinwa: Shin is an incredibly secretive person. No one really knows much about him at all, and he'd like to keep it that way. He has the outward appearance of your average nonchalant, charismatic, carefree bard. But as Hana's starting to figure out, he's not exactly who he's claiming he is. He's not someone you want to mess with, and he makes this point very clear. He's fiercely loyal to whatever cause he devotes himself to. Few know him well, and he doesn't like staying in one place for too long. He keeps his past, his true emotions, his purpose, and his identity hidden from all but a few.
Kawaru: Kawaru's highly devoted to her religion and refuses to hear second opinions on the subject. Stubborn, strong-willed, and perhaps a little haughty at times, she has a strong sense of duty. Taking in Tanoshii is a perfect example. She felt obligated to take care of her since, obviously, no one else would and would've felt guilty had she just left her alone. She's one of the Lemiroar and not exactly fond of Hanayaka being in the group.
Tanoshii: Tanoshii comes off as being really stupid, that she can't make her own descisions, and that she can't remember the simplest things. She's just got a really bad memory, and no one gives her the chance to prove herself. She's a really sweet girl though, if not outwardly confused by what's going on around her. Even with a keen sense of intuition, she's easily convinced about a lot of things since she doesn't know otherwise, so those around her need to be careful what they say and do around her.
Kiyami: Mysterious, dark and always smiling, a charmer and seducer, Kiyami is somone I don't want to spoiler about.
tired
geeky
worried
Cheeko (right): She's not actually a character of the comic... she's its author. A long eared humanoid dragon with blue skin and purple, indestructable and variously flavored hair. :)
Ranu (left): Ranu first appeared in Silverport two years prior to when the story begins. From what people can gather, he is looking for a long lost friend of his named Keijina. He doesn't like telling anyone what led to their separation or even of his past and where he came from. He also becomes very bitter when speaking of his mother, who he has never forgiven for abandoning him.
Narini (right): Narini came to Nawiern one year ago simply because she was passing through on her journey. However, she was immediately seized and thrown into jail for unknown reasons by General Orson himself, who received the orders anonymously.
Shroom (right): A fresh runaway on the streets of Silverport. He simply couldn't stand his mother replaying his dead father with a new husband. When he joins a gang of young thieves he here's about a mysterious thieve called Redeye that he idolizes.
still sleepy