Still Singing

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Ahem.

In case you didn't notice, this journal isn't really updated anymore. I toyed with the idea of continuing with it, but it's been too long and I suppose that I felt a fresh start was in order.

I haven't been around for a very long time, and I know that. But if any of you have any interest left at all in me, my new little home on the internet can be found at lellbug. I hope to see you there almost as much as I hope that I can persevere with my new LJ.

Rurouni Kenshin:
6 x Misao
2 x Megumi
1 x Aoshi
2 x Aoshi/Misao

Tsubasa RC:
1 x Kurogane/Mokona

Naruto:
1 x Tenten
1 x Neji
3 x Shikamaru
2 x Neji/Hinata

Tsubasa RC and Kenshin bases made by papermoon_icons

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

( Here be Dragons )

[Me]: you know I WILL be taking advantage of your Borders discount?
[Me]: And, incidentally, your car - you picking me up from school tomorrow or not? I have too many books on a Thursday.
[Orli]: What am i, your porter?
[Me]: Quite possibly.
[Orli]: >_>
[Me]: Though the positions of bag carrier and PA are still open if you're dissatisfied with your current post.
[Orli]: I always knew you were more trouble than you were worth.
[Me]: You flatter me, dahling~
[Orli]: brat.
[Me]: o__0 It sounds like there's something at my window.
[Orli]: ?
[Orli]: 'Be not afeared, the isle is full of noises'
[Me]: ...
[Me]: Did you just quote SHAKESPEARE at me?
[Me]: *Gobsmacked*
[Orli]: I'll have you know that I'm an intellectual man
[Orli]: With class and distinction
[Orli]: And a perfectly functioning brain
[Me]: Aye, and your aspirations for the future include becoming Angelina Jolie's toyboy.
[Orli]: IT COULD SO HAPPEN IF I WISH HARD ENOUGH
[Me]: *pats*
[Orli]: I get no respect...
[Me]: Hush, porter.

In other news, I'm a freak and watched 'The History Boys' twice in a row. For an adaptation of a play I love dearly, I was surprised by how much I adored the film version. I command you all to watch it (one of the actors looks and sounds like a younger version of Sean Bean *Melts*)

I was so out of it this morning that I went to school with odd shoes. And they weren't even similar - red and grey with blue and white.

How embarassing. ^^; Methinks my insomnia is starting to affect me more than I would like.

I absolutely adore turning up for my babysitting gig and finding out that the two kids I usually babysit (sweet, well-behaved, nice) have turned into four kids.

Three were great. One was hellish. I've earned fifty pounds. I'm really not sure whether it was worth it.

I am going to kill something.

Rawr.

I finally managed to get the pictures of the House of Bernarda Alba performance from the librarian~

( Kiran in a mantilla (plus a hump.) )

For anyone interested in the play, a synposis can be found here.

Happy nine months, Adrien. Here's to the next anniversary where we'll actually be able to be in the same country for it.

yueniwench has once more excelled herself. Please to note my new journal layout. ♥ This originally started out as a purely Tori layout, but evolved into this one which is purely yueni-designed and highly based on my default icon 'Summer Girl'. I even get a new Friends Only banner out of it~

She deserves every ounce of worshipful adoration that she gets.

Her generosity is copious because I received her package (the one she forgot I wasn't supposed to know about and let it slip anyway) and inside was a huge Serenity movie poster with River and Mal on it. As soon as I've flattened it, it's going on my ceiling and I'll take pictures! My first Christmas gift so far and I'm in love with it. Why, yes, I did go running to my Ma to show her, all excited like. ^^;

yueni rocks. It's official now.

Thank you~

I have a favour to ask of you all. For literary reasons, I'm looking for a copy of Vienna Teng's 'Passage'. While we're at it, anything by Loreena McKennitt would be wonderful if produced. This would be of great help to me in finishing a piece that I'm working on.

~~

To make sure that this entry isn't completely composed of shameless begging, I was tagged by several people for this meme, yueni being the one who did so first, I believe.

Six things you may or not know about me~

• If I dislike you, you probably won't know it. Ever. Short of me losing my temper (which I do so rarely these days) I am capable of smiling and nodding and completely fooling you. I'm loathe to say that it's me trying to be false - more that I am just far too unwilling to either upset you (no one likes to be disliked) or to cause trouble. It's no hassle to be polite and nice to everyone since it's what most people deserve.

• My biggest insecurity? In a purely physical sense, it'd be my bad skin or my thighs. Shallow, yes, but they're valid points. However, the point I worry about the most would probably be my intelligence. It's the thing I constantly toned down when I was younger, but I'm sure it's a plight most smart people share at school.

• For the happy person I usually am in general, I cry an awful lot. Anything will set me off. I'm a sucker for sad movies, sad books (the 'Little Women' series was the first tear-jerker I read alone), even a song that conjures up a certain...state of mind. It doesn't need to be any lyrics in particular, just the melody beneath it. I cry when I laugh, I cry when I'm angry, I cry when I'm ill...I shed a lot of tears, more than a lot of people. Because I do it so much, I've been taught that my tears mean less than those of others. I'm not bothered when I cry; I'm bothered when the emotion behind the crying is a painful one.

• I adore buying gifts for people. And sending cards. Letters. Anything. I find great pleasure into putting thought into those little things, of surprising people with a thoughtful gesture or an unexpected gift. Christmas is always lovely for me because I have large numbers of people to buy gifts for. I never buy the same gift twice - everyone gets something unique that has been bought with a thought process especially for them. I hate shopping in general, but as soon as it's for someone else, I can shop until I drop finding that perfect present. It's a shame that I can't afford to buy gifts for my online friends as of this moment because, if anything, I'm more in tune with what you'd like than my family or my in life friends. I want to give you something material from me so that I can prove I exist.

• I...um....have a collection of toy seals. I was never a fan of the classic teddy bears, so if anyone's ever looking for a plushie for me, anything seal/sea lion shaped would be much appreciated. Oddly enough, they're all called Seal and are of no specific gender. The 'Seal' must be capitalised and it's extremely important that they aren't male or female. No, I don't know why. The only exception to this is the very first seal (sea lion really) that I was given the day after I was born by Sara. That one started the whole craze and is known as 'Sealie' and is a male. Again, I don't know why. It was important at the time and has stayed with me.

• I very, very rarely dislike something at first sight. I pride myself on being open-minded, on going into every situation thinking 'I hope I like this.' An example would be manga. I'm very easy to please and while there are characters that I will adore and hold in esteem, it's extremely rare for me to actively dislike someone. I prefer to dole out my liking to deserving characters, or things in other circumstances, rather than choosing to dislike something else. In basic terms, I work in 'thumbs up.' A character I adore will gain innumerable numbers of thumbs up, while a character who doesn't please me as much will gain less. I prefer things to have a low level of thumbs up rather than a thumbs down. I suppose that contributes to me being a typically chipper person - I think that disliking things would make me unhappy. (I hope that made sense - I don't have the capabilities tonight to explain it further...)

While I'm sure this will help my Santa-nin a wee bit, this was more spawned from my growing exasperation with the writers and readers of the Naruto-verse. I'm not even sure where this post is going to take me, so I'll try and divide it up as best I can.

( Tenten )

Um...santa nin? I'm sorry this turned out so long and only covered one character. I'll try and post on actual pairing likes and dislikes at some point, but this has been boiling inside for a while. I'll get onto my Team Gai likes and Sound Four preferences at some point.

I love not being able to sleep. I love being ill. I love not being able to breathe. I am clearly brimming with love right now. ♥

My chest's acting up again. By that I don't mean that my breasts are putting on a two man (woman?) show of Macbeth, but that the onset of colder weather's bringing the usual ailments with it. How odd that my winter illness is showing when we had a heatwave today...

My inability to sleep may be due to the fact that I can't lie down flat, but it's probably my overactive mind right now.

This will come as bad news to many people on my friends list, but I've held it to myself for a while now, unsure of how to phrase it. I've been trying to contact Carly for a while, but she wouldn't return my calls, my e-mails, nothing. I finally got in touch with Dean about two weeks ago, worried out of my mind, and he sounds worse than I do. Carly's slowly been sinking into depression since she lost the baby, but it was a gradual thing, a natural response to such a loss. The past month or so, she's reached rock bottom. She's quit her job and doesn't leave the house, she doesn't want to talk to anyone or see anyone at all.

This is Carly we're talking about, the person I learned to be sunny from. It's a shock. I call her my cousin, but really she's so far away from me that we barely share a family name and that's only through a distant marriage. It doesn't matter. She's my girl, my role model in so many things. To know that she's as broken as this is...terrible.

Dean doesn't feel comfortable leaving her alone anymore, that's how bad it's gotten. He doesn't trust her not to do something to herself.

I've agreed to leave them be. This is something for husband and wife to sort out.

But still...I worry. So much. I mother everyone, but this is a situation where I can be of no help.

It's not a sensation or a situation that sits well with me.

I'm in a horrible rut at the moment, that terrible stage where I'm halfway through several pieces, but have lost the will to survive carry on, so maybe some request drabbles will aid me here...

The first 10 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble (real drabble: 100 words exactly) from you. In return, they have to post this in their journal and write a drabble for you. Post all fandoms you're willing to write for.

Your friends can pick a relationship, a story arc, a missing scene, or pretty much anything they want, unless the author has previously mentioned that they will not write it. They comment with what they want, and you write drabbles and post it in your LiveJournal.

Y'all know my fandoms - Naruto and Yugioh are probably the best ones. I'm fairly familiar with FMA, Furuba, Prince of Tennis (Seishun only), Tsubasa RC, X/1999 and Saiyuki.

So, ask away - I'm off to catch up on no_air like the lazy ass person I am.

PS: VIX IS HERE! That is all.

These are things that have been floating around in my mind for a while, but haven't made it into my posts yet because there was never a suitable slot. So, this will be a hodge-podge of an update...probably not that much different from my normal ones, eh?

First off, perhaps one of my Favourite jokes in Questionable Content for a while.

"What's the best way to piss off an Indie Rock snob?"

"Actually enjoy music" ^_^ It made me very happy. It also made me think of deyus who I miss terribly. Hope to see you soon, hun.

Next, Ani lyrics from anotherstraycat that make me happy somehow, probably because they sum up how I feel a lot of them time (being an old, jaded soul of course XD)

"She's nineteen, but she's going on thirty. Or maybe she's really thirty now, its hard to keep up at times" Random, but this seemed to be the place to put them.

Finally, a beautiful meme stolen from Ysabet despite my F-list trying to erase her from my world completely. The point seems to be writing a list of the traits a character you commonly write about has in your own view or universe. Her version was lovely and I'll probably do this for a fair few characters. For now, however, I'll stick to my Team Gai love!Tenten and my version of Tayuya from no_air.

( Tenten - of sticks and stones and breaking bones )

( Tayuya: Foulmouthed, but sekritly fluffy )

I'll probably do the rest of Team Gai at a later date, but if anyone has any requests for this of characters they know I write (I know my YuGiOh ones have endless lists of idiosyncracies) just let me know. ^^ Peace out.

Nicked from malignantera

A.

Comment with any ship from a fandom that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about. I will ramble for 100 words about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.


B.

Please,

1. Give me a pairing, and a line or a word.

2. Give me a pairing, and a place or an object.

3. Give me a pairing, a line (or word) and a place (or object).

Theme: 5 - lovebites
Fandom/Pairing: Naruto, NejiTentenLee
Title: Seeking Solace
Author: lellian
Rating: PG-13 – merely for the odd bit of iffy language
Disclaimer: ;_; I didn’t get ownership of Naruto for Christmas…

Summary: It’s all very well saying you don’t love someone in the cold light of day, but faced with moonshine and them, could you be so strong?

X-posted to literary_lell, ten_squared and thirtyforthree

(Had he been foolish enough to think that they'd be friends forever?)

Hee ^^ literary_lell is my new writing journal which is finally finished - all stories will be posted there from now on.

Written for naruto100

Title: It Takes Two to Lie
Author: lellian
Challenge: Proving Something
Bonuses: Tea, Closed door
Characters: Neji, TenTen
Word Count: 200

(It takes two people to lie - one to tell and one to believe)

This one's for abby_sarajane ^^;; Never written the pairing before so it took aaaages for an idea to come to me.

( Mother Tongue )

Written for thirtyforthree

Theme: 12 - Alone
Fandom/Pairing: Naruto - Neji/TenTen/Lee
Title: The Silence Stretches
Author: lellian
Rating: PG
Disclaimer:...how gullible are you? 'Cause I'd be happy to convince you that I own Naruto *Cheesy grin*

Notes: And so I sink further into the feeble attempts at language experimentation and hollow angst. This one wrote itself, really...feh.

X posted to ten_squared and thirtyforthree

(The Silence Stretches)

This one's for ariadnebassarid

( She seems to want to have the best of both worlds )