Hey, so I find I've been friends-locking a little less than half of my entries, and I realize that I've got no convenient place for people to ask to be added if they want to be, so here is a spot to do so! :)

Lemee know how you know me and/or why I've come to interest you, and chances are I'll add you back.

Click here to get to my Voice-Acting Resume! =D

(also linked in my profile but here's a quick link)

Or just for random fun. This is actually an old meme I posted a while ago, but I felt like doing it again. =P It's for a different ep/series than last time though!

1. Choose an episode of anime or television series you have on your computer. Make sure you're certain you want that one, you cannot change or mind once you skips this step. DO NOT TELL YOUR FLIST WHAT YOU CHOSE.
2. Make note of how long the episode is here → 23:26
3. Ask your flist to choose a time between 00:00 and whatever the length of your episode is. Be specific (ie: 19:11, 21:09, 02:42).
4. Make them an icon using THAT FRAME ONLY no matter what it is. And remember, you can only use that ONE episode you chose previous, even if the person posting isn't familiar with it.

And like last time, it's actually a DVD ep and not one I've downloaded, but eh who cares, that means I'm legit, right? =P

Been a while since I've drawn fanart, but the past couple of days on a whim I managed to draw and finish coloring something! (And it has a background that's not a half-arsed gradient, omg!)


Sis puer magica! by ~TomoyoIchijouji on deviantART

You know the feeling you get when you spent hours checking a paper so that it matches all the required formatting, with margins, text size, headings, footers, page numbers ad nauseum, and you get it back, and you *still* get docked points for the one that you somehow missed?

Well, it's pretty much exactly like that with this whole free proof copy that you get if you confirm with 50,000 words at Nanowrimo -- they're actually really strict on formatting, and I was a little inconsistent with it between the cover and the title page (so, to use my alias as a proxy, on the cover it'd be "T. Ichijouji" and inside the book it says "Tomoyo Ichijouji" -- that apparently isn't acceptable =x ), and that made me need to resubmit it.

What makes this frustrating is that the deadline for using the coupon code for it is June 30 -- yeah that's right, tomorrow, or by now today technically. X_X It says "through June 30", so I still have a day, I suppose -- but, they took 24 hrs, or...*counts* well, 18 hrs for the first round. If they take that amount of time...well, it'll be back by the evening then, but I'll be over at LA for Anime Expo by then. Though I do have a smartphone now, so I could access my account with that...but will it still make it in time? *sigh*

I know it could have been avoided supposedly if I did this earlier, but I just had way too much going on in my life the past several months and so "oh, a few months would be more than enough time to finish this Nano story up!" became this situation. 9_9 I'm not gonna blame myself for that though. Because...honestly? I have a legitimate excuse. Really I do. =( Sometimes things just don't work out like you planned. Things work out anyway still, in one way or another.

So eh, oh well. I'm glad I got almost all the stuff I wanted to get done for AX. =3 Now, I need to SLEEP. D< *shoves self to bed*

Best Friending Meme Ever

Hi to the new peeps on my f-list from the above meme! ^o^ Here's my thread if you're curious to read it.

Anybody going to Anime Expo this year? dyxlisa and I have been working on cosplay stuffs the past few weeks. We're planning to reprise FF13's Vanille (me) and Fang for sure, and it's highly likely we'll have done Homura from Madoka Magica for me, and for my sis, Haru from Avatar (the...mustache version XDXD ). Since she'll have Tales of Vesperia Yuri again there, we've been trying to get together a Rita for me, and she's been trying to get a Kyoko done so we might have a pair for either series/game, but we'll see what we have time to finish 9_9

If anyone else is going to AX and is a Madoka fan, there's a Madoka gathering going on by the official Aniplex booth that I volunteered to help for at 10:30am, going on until around noon. I'm hoping they'll have swag, but it'll be fun hanging out with the other cosplayers (plus, neither my sis nor I will probably make it to the big Madoka gathering on Sunday, so I figure this is my best bet). Only thing is, the FF gathering goes on at 12, so I'll want to leave early so I have time to change. From what I hear that shouldn't be a problem though, they're expecting people to wander off later on.

As a random note, this may be the first con since I first wore it that I'm not gonna be bringing with the Mytho cosplay XD;; Part of it is, it needs a good amount of repair work before I can really wear it again, and I want to be easy on it since we have to fly down there.

Well, back to work! XD;;

I've just watched episode 8, and I'm kinda seriously infatuated with this show. *_* To say it is a subversion of the magical girl genre is an epic understatement. I'd say, if it goes on the way it has for these past 8 episodes, it is gonna revolutionize the genre entirely (/half unintentional reference)

Puella Magi Madoka Magica


( I blab about why this show is epic win -- no worries, I left out any spoilers )

Geh, it's hard to say more without major spoilers, but seriously, if you want something that gets at the heart of what 'saving the world' and sacrificing yourself for others really means, and a total deconstruction of the magical girl genre, do yourself a favor and watch this. Unless the show somehow completely messes up the rest of the episodes, I know I'm gonna be buying this DVD when it gets released here in the US as soon as it's available -- it's already right up there with Gurren Lagann and Princess Tutu as the shows that really struck my soul in a deep place. *o* (Interestingly, in some senses all three are somewhat related too...)

(crossposting above to anime blog because relevant lol)

And lastly, it feels SOOO good to have that presentation I literally pulled almost all-nighters a few days in a row to prepare for DONE. 8D *has celebrated by watching ep 8, wondering what to do next*

Urggghh. Only the first two classes of the semester and I feel pooped. Well, I guess that's just cause I switched three time zones, and it's cold and snowy here, so I'm jet-lagged and I also wasn't feeling so well...6_6

Brain....ugh. Why did the creative writing class have to do this stupid name game thing where you had to remember everyone's names, majors, year and random fact? I was only lucky I wasn't sitting on the wrong side of the room -- the farther the string went, the more you had to remember. And I was feeling so tired and off that I had to ask pretty much about 80% of the stuff that had just been said a minute ago. And I still feel uggggh now. ;alskdfja;sldkfj

Well, I've been meaning to put these up for a while, but in November I picked up a program called FL Studio, a digital composing program. I always had thought I couldn't compose, but I think looking back it was probably just cause I didn't have the right tools, namely a program that could let me test different instruments and record notes as I play with them.

An old recording of a song I composed like in 2005, so it's a LQ piano melody that I've decided to just call "Mysterious Melody":
http://www.box.net/shared/fx1p7nmu70

And next are the four songs I've composed so far on FL Studio, in order of creation and all composed sometime in December.

"Winter Lullaby"
http://www.box.net/shared/elpuecgtzi

"My Magnificent Fairy Godfather"
http://www.box.net/shared/nzq2qbbmzt

"Battle Against My Dark Childhood"
http://www.box.net/shared/jd45tc1f9v

"Purification Ceremony"
http://www.box.net/shared/77xkkpbkqa

I really, really wish this week weren't so tiring. Stupid jet lag. I can't do anything efficiently like this...I'm hoping to get my work done faster so I have time to write. 6_6