Stolen from starseeking, and I'd say it's pretty accurate:

Colorgenics Quiz:

At this time in your life you feel like 'giving up'. For every time you have tried to build up your hopes and dreams something has come along to burst the balloon. You may feel that, at this particular moment in your life, there seems to be no chance of fulfilling these dreams but you are so wrong. You are the sort of person that can influence any situation, that is - If you don't give up. So consciously make the effort... You have that inherent power to succeed.

You are working extremely hard trying to improve your image. You need for those people in positions that matter to recognise your potential and to acknowledge you.

Everything seems to have gone wrong and the situation at this time is such that you are not quite sure which way to turn. So it would appear that you are 'holding back', re-consolidating your position and relinquishing all fun and games for the time being.

You refuse to relax or to give in and you are endeavouring to keep exhaustion and depression at bay by keeping active. You are experiencing a relationship or a situation which is not satisfactory but you feel powerless to change it. You have that 'need to be needed' but you do little to achieve the sense of belonging that you need. You try to disguise your feelings of insecurity and so you continue to resist this state of affairs - and as a consequence you are experiencing tension and stress. Your depression makes you irritable and impatient. You have that urge to get away from the situation, either actually or mentally. You are finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate.

Circumstances are such that you have been exposed to considerable stress and tension, perhaps due to unfulfilled emotional needs. You would like nothing better than to escape from it all by retiring to some 'fantasy land' where you are permitted to RELAX and get back your strength.

here it's this week's fan art...
Seras Victoria
Enjoy
http://vtalucard.deviantart.com/art/seras-victoria-art-145414347

'Tis the season for breakups

It's not just turkeys that get nervous this time of year. Chances are high that a failing relationship will also meet its end during the holidays. That's because it's not just turkey season — it's turkey drop season.

"The turkey drop is that holiday breakup season where all the college students return home for their first major vacation, and everyone breaks up," Washington University junior Carly MacLeod tells guest host Robert Smith. She writes the romance column for the student newspaper.

So that's what happened to me, I got Turkey Dropped.

I should be in bed right now, but I had a thought. Those are quite annoying when it comes to wanting to sleep, but oh well.

I follow a comic where one particular character has gained a fairly large fanbase and a large amount of sympathy, but the creator did not intend for this and has made this abundantly clear. He says that the character lost all of her redeeming traits over time and that she wasn't supposed to be sympathetic, and he calls out the people who treat her sympathetically. Recently he updated the first chapter she appears in and made her negative traits come out much more obviously, and to me it just affirmed what I thought of the character from the start, mainly that she's an immature, whiny bitch who pushed away anyone who might have helped her and pretty much got what was coming to her.

But here's the thing: The people who like the character are angry that he did this, and seem to think that he doesn't know his own character and what she's "really" like. This strikes me as very odd and very entitled because he created the damn character and just because what he writes doesn't match up with someone's personal version of who she is doesn't mean that he's wrong.

I've been thinking about my own antagonist, and if people do sympathize with them I will be horrified because it will honestly be missing the point of who this person is and why they do what they do, so I can understand why this author reacted the way he did to people taking his character and casting her in a light he didn't intend. I know back when Harry Potter was being published there was (and still is) a large subset of people who idolize characters like Draco Malfoy who, let's be honest, are pricks or worse, and JK Rowling had pretty much the same reaction of "WTF is wrong with you people?!"

So my question is this: What "rights" does a creator have over their character, and on the flipside, what do the fans have, if anything, and do they have the right to say that the author's interpretation is less valid than their own? That's not to say that you can't tell someone that they did not write a character well or consistently, it's more whether the fans have the right to say that they know the "real" version as opposed to the person who created them.

Well, my copy of Windows 7 arrived in the mail today and I just got it up and running on this computer. Nothing has gone wrong so far and the computer seems to be zipping along even more than before, which is impressive considering how fast it was. I think this Penny Arcade strip sums up most people's experience with it so far.

So no complaints, but then again I seem to be one of the few people who didn't have a major beef with Vista in the first place. I'll play around with it and figure out what they've done with it, but so far no complaints.

And yes, the fact that I did not have to pay for this (it came free with the new computer) does increase the enjoyment.

So my friend Krys called me up today and asked how I was doing. I was glad to hear from him, and then he reminded me of why I was helping him clean his kitchen last week.

He asked me what I knew about treating food poisoning. My next question was of course who he managed to poison, and his answer was himself. By eating half a gallon of ice cream that he didn't know was spoiled.

My first reaction of course was that he should take himself to a hospital, but he said he's out of danger and just dealing with very bad indigestion, so I recommended something mild and root beer or ginger ale.

I shouldn't have, but I laughed as he was telling this story, if only because this is the same guy who had something that used to be a sandwich growing in his sink last week and appears to have mold on the inside of his oven. I sprayed enough disinfectant on his entire kitchen to kill pretty much everything, but I didn't get the inside of his freezer, obviously. He also apparently had a spoiled gallon of milk on his counter for over a week that was causing a stink.

Holy crap, we need to get that boy a serious education or a maid before he kills himself or someone else.

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Hello!

I've posted in the past for some help with my rusty Romanian skills, and want to say again, thank you for all your help!

This time, I'm writing a Christmas letter to my old host mother and her grandaughter in Moldova and need some help with a few statements that I really want to get right. Any help you can provide would be wonderful, thank you!

- I'm sorry to hear about you're having to have those operations, and I'm hoping you are doing well.

- I think it's perfect for you to be studying art, I always thought you were a talented artist.

- My job is to work with people who are mentally ill.

- It's amazing how much time has past, you're all grown up!

- I have many wonderful memories of the times spend with both of you.


Once again, thank you all for you help in translating the above. It's been a long time since I've tried to write to them, and I want to make sure that my sentiments are understandable to them.

Yo peeps,

I guess it seems kind of lame as a request or something, but has anyone made icons out of the Moogles or Bangaa from ff12? I've only really found this one so far.

I just love their design. :D

Managed to get back to Boston in one piece despite not really wanting to leave (there I said it) but already feeling a bit better. I'm a tad embarrassed because I thought I was doing okay, but then today rolled around and I suddenly felt very sullen.

I will say it's a good thing I got reserved seating for the bus back, because the station was a madhouse. For some stupid reason Peter Pan changed its schedule at the last minute and the only bus they had leaving from Amherst was at 8pm, meaning I'd get back here around 11, and I just wasn't going to do that, so Dad drove my car down to Springfield and dropped me off. I guess everyone had that problem since the line was enormous, but I managed to get one thanks to the reserved seating and we didn't hit any significant snags on the way. I also took a cab back and only had to pay $15 (I was expecting more like $25).

I also got take out from a local Chinese place because I was craving it and was too tired to cook. And I managed to finish a paper I have to do for tomorrow (I did part of it on the bus and just needed to fine tune it). So now it's back to the grind for a few weeks before Christmas break.

Does anyone here know anything about control totems or other items that are used to control another person, especially their emotions and/or sense of self?

I have a friend who I think might have this problem and so I am looking for whatever information I can find.

Sexy, no?

I think I got my dad addicted to Firefly. Also, Gina Torres (Zoe) is damn hot.

Been a mostly quiet stay out in the Western part of the state, the cats have mostly been behaving but the weather has gone between rainy and very windy. Jesse has pretty much taken over my bed, and Stella, though still not sitting on me, is being her usual self.

Thanksgiving was the usual mixture of weird family dynamics, though it was more civil than in years past. It was pretty strange when pretty much everyone took out their cell phones and were playing with them, but other than that it was the usual.

While I was here I had to watch Gattaca for my Science and Religion class. Interesting movie, though it's about as subtle as a bomb in your pants. Good fodder for the class, though.

And tomorrow I have to go back to Boston and a three hour bus ride. Bleh. But I'll be back in a few weeks for the holiday break.

here it's my latest seras victoria fan art based on the ova 7 trailer
Enjoy!

http://vtalucard.deviantart.com/art/Seras-victoria-fan-art-144962937

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Friday November 27th 2009
That's right my Good friends, it is Done, and in the can!
Head to our site to get your hands on it! It's in our new "Multimedia" section under "Fansub Releases", along with our Old OVA V softsub file! (Click Here to get to the Main Site)

We worked very hard on it, and we're glad to be able to finally tell you, our fine friends at the Hellsing LJ, that our Hellsing OVA VI Fansubs are DONE!!

We also would love feedback on it. What did you like? What didn't you like?
We really tried to rework the dialog to be both accurate, AND flow naturally like human speech should, so thusly we ad-libbed in some slang in there (most of which is British slang like "Arse" and "Bloody Hell"... Hey, don't look at us like that, the series takes place in England!) and we made the rough and raunchy Mercenaries known as the Wild Geese talk like... well, rough and raunchy Mercenaries! Tell us how it all came out, we would LOVE to hear feedback.

Also, we want to let everyone know that The process of working on OVA VI came at a rather awkward time for us as we had a LOT going on in our real-lives at the time, as well as having to move ourselves to a completely new site and forum, which would account for the major delay in this release. We're very happy to say that with the new site up and running entirely, and our lives pretty much balanced out, the same kind of delay will NOT befall OVA VII, which we most assuredly plan to do as well. So expect an OVA VII release VERY shortly after the actual episode is released.

PS: Remember folks, Call to Arms used to be Demon Rin Fansubs, we changed our name, but it's the same people doing the work.


EDIT: IT's been brought to our attention that the Subs aren't in sync with every version of the DVD Rip Raws out there.
It will only sync up to your Raw if it includes the Dolby Digital Ad at the beginning of the episode. We're working on a 2nd version that will work with Raws that have had the Dolby segment Removed.
Sorry for the Situation.

EDIT 2: The Episode has been re-uploaded. The situation with the Dolby ad at the beginning of the Episode has been Fixed. If you had a sync problem, get the fixed version on our site now in the same way you got the old one.
The release now contains two versions of the file. If the Raw you're using Starts with an Ad For Dolby Digital, use the "Dolby Ver" file. If your Raw does not Start with a Dolby Digital Ad, and begins the episode immediately, use the "Non-Dolby Ver".
Again, sorry this happened.

50,000!!!

NaNoWriMo, I just PWNED your ass.

(And yes, the sparkletext was absolutely necessary)

I had an inconsistency in my checkbook register that was puzzling me, so I finally sat down and redid all the calculations to figure out where $20 had gone missing.

Turns out I did a few calculations wrong and did subtraction wrong (I only took off five instead of fifteen for instance) so it was entirely my fault. Duh. I must have recorded those late at night or something and not seen the glaring error.

It won't do any harm in the long run, I just feel stupid for messing it up like that. I try to keep track of everything I pay for on my debit card, but it seems I'm not above making very stupid math errors once in a while.

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Hay you guys. ♥ I wanted to share with you this awesome fic my friend rexy_jade recently posted. Highly recommended for fans of Alucard/Rip Van Winkle.

Hunters' Chorus

Set in the manga continuity. Slight blood/gore warning, but nothing too extreme.