Haro @ Dreamwidth

Please read the below before asking to be added. If you know me from somewhere else, let me know when you comment. I might not make the connection otherwise.

And here's a little about me that you might want to know before friending me:

1. I do talk a lot about fandom. My main fandom is currently Hetalia with a side helping of Doctor Who (RTD era and Classic) and Harry Potter. You can check THIS POST HERE for my pairing/character preferences.

2. Speaking of fandom, I can understand disliking a character now and then, but I really dislike character bashing. If this is something you do often in your journal, we probably won't get along too well.

3. My posts vary from silly to serious, giddy to infuriated. I do greatly appreciate comments from time to time, but I am not demanding of them. I will always try to comment to your posts when I feel there's something I'd like to say, unless a real life issue has infringed upon my lj time (which does happen).

4. I am tolerant of the beliefs of others, but the posting of homophobic and of course racist sentiments fall under things that I will defriend you for.

5. I do love the lj-cut, so please make sure you're someone who uses it when it's needed. Some level of consideration for grammar and spelling is also very much appreciated.

If you're still interested in friending me, do comment here!

(My old friends only post was deleted by accident. Yeah, I have no idea how I did that. *laugh* Anyway, here's a new one.)

FRIENDS CUT

I feel like I've grown apart from some people, or we have nothing in common anymore, or your journal is dead. There's also the fact that my friends list has just gotten a bit too large for me to manage. If I cut you and you think it's been a mistake, or you want to give it another try, feel free to PM me!

I also tried not to cut anyone that I've just added very recently, because if that's the case, then I've hardly gotten a chance to know you yet. But if I made a mistake and cut you even though you were added within the last couple months, please let me know!

Anime Central gave us a two hour slot for our panel, despite us asking for an hour and a half. This is fine, but we decided to use some of the extra time play a few rounds of HETALIA MATCH GAME. We've played this game with much success at the Hetalia gathering last summer as well as at Naka-kon before the panel officially started. It's a lot of fun! Unfortunately though, we really, really need to increase our roster of questions.

If you're not familiar with match game, this is how it works:
-We have two contestants a round and three to five panelists.
-Questions are asked, and everyone uses a white board to give their answers, keeping them secret until it's time to 'reveal' them. The object is for the contestant to match the panelists. For each panelist you match, you get a point.
-Contestants take turns receiving questions. The first person to reach a certain amount of points wins.
-PRIZES ARE GIVEN.

People can do whatever they want with their answers. Generally, people try to be funny, but sometimes people will just state the obvious or be random. It's up to them.

WE WANT YOUR QUESTIONS!

Firstly- NO SHIP BIAS.

We don't want anyone to feel awkward about answering a question because they dislike the ship involved. We can't do anything about character bias (i.e. someone getting up there and being asked about a character they don't like), but we can prevent ship bias.

People can and will possibly have ship bias in their answers, and that's okay. But the questions should be free of bias.

You can reference things that are plainly stated (i.e. Belarus's crush on Russia), but otherwise no. A question about the fact that Sweden calls Finland his wife is fine, but a question about what they do on their wedding anniversary is not. If you're unsure on one, just go ahead and reply with it. We won't use it if it doesn't work. No harm in replying though. :)

Secondly- KEEP YOUR QUESTIONS CLEAN.

Things that 'sound wrong lol' are okay, but that's it. Nothing more openly risque than like, questions about France being naked or hitting on people. We'll be asking that the panelists keep their answers PG-13 and under. A little bit of dirty humor is okay, but nothing R-rated. It's often funnier to use euphemisms anyway.

Here's a few we have, just to give you an idea of what we're looking for:
1- When Sweden says ‘mmm,’ what he actually means is ___?
2- France is so perverted, that he even goes in the nude to ___?
3- Canada loves maple syrup so much, that he even uses it to wash his ___?
4- America is so awesome, he even has a ____ named after him?
5- England is so British, that he even drinks tea when he ___?
6- When Russia smiles, it’s so scary, that even ____ cry/cries?
7- Austria is a human musical instrument. He makes music by blowing his ___?
8- Poland loves the color pink so much, that he even has a pink ___?
9- Russia just wants to be someplace warm, Lithuania just wants ___?
10- One year, instead of giving the kiddies coal, Finland made or gave all of the bad children ___?

Even if you think your idea is dumb, please reply with it! We need as many questions as possible. The more you give, the better!

Also, this post is PUBLIC. So if you have any friends with ideas, send them over!

I mainly set this up because a friend asked us which doujinshi we were in search of for a gift, and I already had most of the list done anyway. This does not include ANY books from the upcoming comiket, just material that is already released.

Also these are not in any sort of order (they're by release date in a lot of cases, but that's it). So um, for future personal reference and I guess if we ever do trades (which we might if we get doubles or something)? Well and if there's ever another situation where it is your desire to gift us something.

Also if there's anything you see on the list that you'd be interested in selling to us, please offer!

I'll update this post anytime we want to add something or anytime we need to remove something (because we acquired it).

( USxUK Books... )

( Other Pairings... )

Last year I watched thirty movies and read thirty books (way below my goal). Let's see if I can beat that this year. I know it's not technically entertainment, but I'm also going to include the amount of words I've written this year- both original works and fanfiction. I'll have a tally for both put together and a tally for each one separately. I'm aiming for one hundred thousand words total, which actually seems pretty feasible. Last year I wrote a paltry 25,428, but I wrote all but about five thousand of that in the last two months of the year. I need write only a little over 8,000 words a month to meet this goal, so I'll be really let down with myself if I don't.

ENTERTAINMENT LIST AND WRITING PROGRESS 2009

( Books... )

This is my 2008 Entertainment Archive Post

( Books, Movies, TV 2008... )

This is a blogcrew dedicated to claiming characters from all of Rumiko Takahashi's many works. A blogcrew is a 'crew' of fans made up of livejournal users. There's no actual involvement needed outside putting the code in your userinfo/somewhere else visible. As such, it's pretty much just for fun.

RULES:
1- You may claim two characters, but they can not be from the same series. For example, while you would be free to claim Kyoko from Maison Ikkoku and Miroku from InuYasha, you would not be able to claim Kyoko and Godai, both from Maison Ikkoku. If you don't know who you want as a second character, you're more than welcome to back at a later point and claim.

2- Any character is fine, no matter how major or minor. Only one person per character.

3- Anything written by Rumiko is fair game, no matter how well known or obscure. For freedom's sake, I'll also allow anything that she had heavy involvement in like Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken.

4- Rumic Theater/World refers to her short stories. If you're not sure where yours would go if you want someone from a short, that's fine. Just give us the name of the story/character and we'll make sure it's listed in the correct place.

( Claimed characters under the cut... )

Misc:

COPY THIS CODING INTO YOUR USERINFO/BLOGCREW POST:
[[ <a href="http://haro.livejournal.com/546957.html">Rumic Blog Crew</a> {◊} YOUR CHARACTER(S) HERE

I'll reply and let you know when I've added you!

These are the various fanfic awards I've won on livejournal communities.

Fic Award Count:
First Place: Seven
Second Place: Eleven
Third Place: Five
Total: Twenty-three

( Livejournal fanfiction awards... )