SleepDebtFairy wrote:

I also have a pair of jeans (that fit me! YAY!) that my friend gave me and they have cute small pockets on the front so I'm planning on doing a simple little matching design on each one.. I just haven't decided yet. Hearts? Skulls? Cupcakes? Flowers? Butterflies? Some kind of symbol? I can't decide.. so many possibilities.

Cupcakes! That sounds adorable.


Me, I'm editing and organizing my poetry portfolio, from a pile of files strewn about my computer to a centralized location, backed up at least twice. I'm also going to type up my favorites on my typewriter and file these hard copies somewhere.

I'm using this to put together the main characters from an old Sailormoon fic I never wrote up on the net for all to see.

The concept was that the power of the planets would incarnate themselves-some less less occasionally than others. Parts of it were definitely fan fix stuff, but it was the first time I'd seriously worked on a fanfiction. I was in Middle School when I came up with most of it. I'm surprised I remember anything at all. The thought was that agents of Chaos had come and killed most of them framing Earth, hoping that their disappearance would cause a fracture in relations between the heavily populated Earth and the other planets. It did.

Each are senshi named after the castles and not all were born at the same time. Sailorcharon was forced to name Pluto as the guardian of the Door of Time and Space and quickly took action, bringing Deimos, one of only three survivors, due to her being only being a newborn. Phobos was separated due to a civil war going on Mars and was turned, though her Star Seed was left intact. Phobos ends up the main villain, ala Queen Beryl.

Traveling to the future, she finds the Amazon Trio reborn and gives Deimos to them to raise. They end up forming a circus, where Deimos grows up to be a circus performer. She also manipulates time and gets Chibi-Usa's daughter to fully purify Tin Nyanko, leaving a construct to die in her place, as not to disturb the time stream. Tin Nyanko becomes The Atoner (who is somewhat bipolar) who watches Deimos grow up until Phobos gets to Earth. She fills Luna/Artemis's role, though she has limits placed on her for her actions under Galaxia.

The big thing is that the moon was destroyed, killing Chibi-Usa, her daughter and all but two senshi. Two shards remain, though a lot of people were killed in the ensuing chaos, lasting five hundred years. It had been foretold that it would happen when a princess was born with an "amethyst moon seal"-Chibi-Usa's granddaughter. The queen had adopted another girl-both girls were brought to the future with Deimos and Tin Nyanko, though they grew up largely on the run.

The other big thing is the huge age differences between the senshi, two being old women (Miranda/Uranus and Triton/Neptune), a third being four years old (Magellan/Venus).

Quite well thought out for being a pre-adolescent, I'd think.

things i NEED to work on but i never get to it is sign up for a photography class, learn how to drive and finally save my money up instead of spending it. i must admit im a shopaholic.

Im too lazy to even try, heheh.  But i need to because i want a car of my own.

Alithea wrote:

I have decided to pick up an abandoned story concept from 2006 and see if i can finish it. It's a rather daunting task, but it's original inception was based on a challenge.

Basically a multi-chapter fic about Shiori and Wakaba getting together.

This is a tricky one, but I've been mulling over old notes and inspirations and I think it might be doable.

Into the fire I go.

Godspeed, Alithea.

My current main project is to actually get somewhere on studying Lao and Chinese before the summer is over and I start the grad program in linguistics.  I've really been kind of failing at that, despite having the books.

Lao isn't actually going terribly badly; I just need to be more diligent so the characters stick in my head better.  But the script is starting to make sense, the tones are pretty much the same as Hmong (which I'm able to at least say a few things in) and so are the sounds for the most part.

But Mandarin's sounds are crazy and there are clearly more radicals than I know what to do with.  And pinyin sucks.  I've given up on trying to do anything but try to learn what pinyin sequences tie to what in IPA; the pinyin clearly doesn't sound like it looks, which makes me wonder what the fucking point of having the romanization system is.