Trabia Garden

Well, it turns out that, when I'm trying not to update my journal, I just resort to miserably playing Solitaire to procrastinate, which achieves even less and makes me unhappy. Whilst I tear out my hair over whether to analyse every sentence or every independent clause or every clause, dependent or not, in these book blurbs (RIONA, STOP PANICKING SO MUCH. Yes, you have quite a lot to write, but you have a third of a year in which to write it. Even if you average only two hundred words a day you will be fine. Now work on your Austen essay until you have a chance to talk to your supervisor about this), have some tiny ficsnippets I wrote a little while ago for an 'alphabetically pair up the characters in your icons' meme I failed to finish.


( Fandoms represented: Ōkami, Merlin, Top Gear, Supernatural, Derren Brown, Doctor Who, Final Fantasy XII, Life on Mars, House, Harry Potter, Pokémon, Jak II, Scrubs, Kingdom Hearts, Death Note, The Mentalist, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy VIII, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Final Fantasy X and, er, Final Fantasy Versus XIII. )


I sort of want to see the kids from Homestuck as the Doctor's companions. Is that wrong of me?

It is very important that you watch this. It is one of the weirdest videogame moments I have ever come across, from the third Ratchet and Clank game. It is a robotic version of Britney Spears singing about the robot revolution. It contains the lyrics 'Don't stop until we dominate; won't you feel great/When we exterminate all organic life?' It is also ridiculously catchy.


Also, here is a trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, a game that - I think this is right - is to be set in the same world as Final Fantasy XIII but otherwise unconnected. I don't know about you, but I think it looks freaking awesome. A little short on women, perhaps, but it looks as if XIII itself may be largely dominated by female characters, so perhaps they'll balance each other.

(I feel like the most ridiculous person ever for getting an icon of a game that hasn't even been released in Japan yet. YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED IT, RIONA. YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN LIKE THE CHARACTER. But it's so pretty!

...I suppose I no longer have the right to mock people who write fanfiction before a game exists in playable form anywhere, then. Although I still don't understand how that works. 'The girl with pink hair caught sight of that red-haired girl with pigtails. She said, "Hey, [insert Pigtail Girl's name here]!", assuming that she knew Pigtail Girl's name and it was appropriate to her character to greet Pigtail Girl in such a way. Pigtail Girl acknowledged her in a character-appropriate manner, unless she was more likely to ignore her, in which case I suppose she ignored her.')


The night before last, I dreamt that reipan was Gretchen from Prison Break. She shot me four times. YOU'RE A RUBBISH FRIEND, reipan.

Do you ever upload a new icon and use it for the first time and find yourself completely bowled over by how right it feels? That's the effect I've got from this Dean icon by iconseeyou. Yes, all right, I know that Dean is hotter, but it still feels like me.

Question time! What is your fanfiction guilty pleasure? Personally, no matter how ridiculous a cliché it may be, I'm always rather partial to a 'the characters discover fanfiction about themselves' fic or two. And tell me with an icon that seems inexplicably right for you.

Today, I asked my brother whether he would be interested in going on a roadtrip to fight demons. He suggested going on a roadtrip to commit crime instead. We're probably never going to be the heroes.

( Cut for more writer's angst. Basic summary: THE SUPERNATURAL FANDOM IS TOO GOOD AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY. )

Right! As an apology for inflicting that upon you, because this journal is supposed to be a happy place, I bring you some icons you never even knew you needed. Use, edit, et cetera as you will. (You may also take the plain-black-border version of the first that I am using.)







I have to say, I always suspected that my first venture into icon-making would be like this. The concept is, admittedly, better than the execution. Although I am quite pleased with the way the Dean/Haunter icons came out. TRUE LOVE FOR EVER.

(In the interest of getting more people to put Pokémon where they do not belong and also because they ask very nicely to be credited if their images are used, PokéBeach is a good website for Pokémon pictures.)