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July 19th, 2008
 | 03:18 pm - fyi: i love strawberries
Who would've thought, that after three weeks with a basic account on Livejournal, it's the tracking that I miss? Right, right, I can track with Basic account too, but only 25 events, of which 6 are mandatory (LJ's new announcements, comments notifications, friending...) and 6 for mod posts in various communities (which I don't watch but am a member of) and 3 for my fics that are posted by someone else (like in fests).
So basically that's only 10 left for free use D: AND FOR A STALKER LIKE ME THAT'S CLEARLY NOT ENOUGH. D:
And speaking of stalking.
flawedamythyst posted a Narnia fic, Back-Dated, which is Peter/Edmund with a side of Peter/Caspian, movie-verse, and it's so amazing, god, I have read it like six times by now and it continues to be amazing, and I squeed and squeed. And angsted! Because it's angst! And I think it's good that Amy probably doesn't realize how much I love that fic, or she would be regretting ever giving me her address, because ENGLAND IS NOT THAT FAR, you know! and I might show up at her doorstep begging for autographs.
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The other I stuck up most of the cards I've received, and now my door looks gorgeous. I was also thinking about mail and stuff yesterday, and decided that again, I'd love to send some mail. Anyone wanting to receive some? :D I don't know yet if they'll be cards or letters or what... If you want surprise!mail from me, please feel free to e-mail your address to sivulinen@gmail.com! I skipped Christmas cards last year, after all. And of course it will take me time to send them because:
On Sunday, I'm going camping, and will be gone pretty much for two weeks. Not that many of you will notice :D
And after that I'm tutoring foreign students! Whee!
(crossposted to my LJ)
Current Location: parents'
Current Music: Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu: Reikäinen taivas
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March 22nd, 2008
 | 10:33 am - Oofuri flailing ♥ And a confession of failing.
As for what I did yesterday, instead of being on LiveJournal*: I browsed IJ. It continues to give me a fuzzy feeling.
And I watched Oofuri.
And.
ASJDHKFD! I wish I could squee to Muse about Oofuri, because she is a Golden Pair shipper and would understand. But I never see her these days.
What's so wonderful to me, in Oofuri, at this point (ep 4), is the relationship between Abe and Mihashi. It goes with Abe seeing the potential in Mihashi, Mihashi wanting to impress Abe but being massively insecure about his pitching and not believing Abe believes in him; and now, Abe has also realized that he has to make Mihashi see that he needs Abe and that they'll make the most fantastic pair as pitcher/catcher who work together and asfgklk. It's like seeing the Golden Pair get together, not just watching them be married. And I've always been one to go for get-together fics, not established relationship ;)
One another thing I've been wondering, when watching this, if I'm too hasty to write off some things as cliches. Because I haven't watched too much sports anime, I haven't gotten used to certain things and so, when I see them occur in two or three animes I think "oh this is a cliche for this genre". I think if I had watched more, I'd just think "oh this is normal". I wonder if it's really easier to pick cliches from something you are not used to, than from something you have seen hundreds of versions of? Because by then it'll be the norm? Or because at first you think that if there's the same thing in two shows it must be in a dozen more, too, because how else would you have come across such thing twice?
I noticed the same when I gave k-dramas a shot; when the same thing occurred in Full House and then in Coffee Prince, I decided it was a cliche for kdramas, not that, uh, I would somehow pick shows with similar characteristics...
*AT TWELVE OH EIGHT I ACCIDENTALLY BROKE MY LJ BOYCOYTT (but not the strike). But see, I have an explanation :(
I was on Facebook, and saw on my feed that one of my best friends had changed her website to be her travelling blog (she's going on student exchange to Germany). So of course I wanted to see what it was like and I clicked and read the first entry and then I started to bookmark it when I realized that IT'S ON LIVEJOURNAL OH MY GOD I WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO GO THERE TODAY. So I just bookmarked it and exited, without commenting - so see, I still honoured the strike!
I'm having lots of friends coming over to New Home today :) First two of my high-school friends, then one of sister K's friends who is kind of mine too. And a fourth one should visit during Easter Holiday too! Yay.
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March 19th, 2008
 | 04:16 pm - YouTube videos, but first some blathering
I've realized that I can't use HTML editing in the first few sentences of my posts because that will break the RSS feed to LiveJournal. Pfft. I'm going to participate in the one day strike (No posts. No comments. No content.), not because I think it will necessarily work, but because I love fandom activism and in general think that doing something is better than doing nothing (even if some idiotic guy then thinks it's blackmailing and oh, that would make me want to leave LJ if I hadn't wanted to already!)
And because of that, I really hope that many people do the "meta friday" on IJ, so that there will be lots of stuff to do instead ^^
But anyway, this post was really to bring to you two awesome YouTube videos!
A Kate Ryan song with alternative Swedish lyrics instead. It won't probably be funny unless you understand at least the basics of Swedish (or actually you can guess. There are pictures.)
And! A Japanese video, combining gymnastics and language studies.
In other news: I have watched the two first episodes of Oofuri, and it is love.
As is Easter holiday ♥ ♥
Current Location: homehome. Home doesn't have Internet yet.
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March 15th, 2008
 | 02:43 pm
Now I created an RSS feed of my IJ to LJ (sivullinen_ij). I hope at least some of my LJ friends will friend that ♥
LJ is not going to get any better. After Strikethrough, I was thinking that maybe they'll learn their lesson. Obviously they haven't, but continue to do even more sucky things. The most recent one that I found out about is that they don't show a truthful "popular interests" list - they have removed things such as fanfiction from there. What a way to show that you don't really want fandom on LJ, guys.
The popular interests list is here. Can you find the one that, like ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) stewardess says, "has always had a lower number than either [fanfiction or porn] —an interest that would not be showing up if the disappearance of porn and fanfiction was due to natural causes" of those things not being as interesting anymore? ^__^ YOU WILL KNOW WHEN YOU SEE IT.
So. Anyway. Let's go find out what exciting things IJ has!
Current Location: home-home
Current Mood: sad
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March 14th, 2008
 | 01:33 pm
I truly, really want to start using my IJ more. I can't say I have any trust for LJ left, and the only reason to stay there is the comms and the people. I don't know what would be the best way to make the move. I can't just close all my LJ tabs (currently: 13 open omg i need help) and tell myself that it's okay. I'm debating defriending all my Harry Potter communities (because there are so many active in IJ, that I would still get my daily dose) and all my RSS feeds (because I could probably get them here too; I could beg someone with a Paid Account to create something if it doesn't exist already, I suppose).
I always promise myself I'll start posting more to IJ, but then I forget. I hate crossposting, because I don't like Semagic and it's more effort to crosspost. I'll try again? Maybe I should create a feed to LJ for my IJ, and then my friends could watch that?
*sigh*
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