HOLY ALSKDJFLASIDJFLSIDJFLAISJDF YOUNG JUSTICE CARTOON OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/02/02/new-dc-animated-series-young-justice-league/

Possibly featuring Dick instead of Tim (what a terrible mistake! They could have at least called Tim Red Robin if they didn't want another Robin), but it'll have IMPULSE oh my God AMAZING. I know this is probably not going to be amazing (and what the hell are Miss Martian and Aqualad doing there homg) but but... BART...! Like, this could only make me happier if they retconned all of the new Teen Titans series and just went back to Young Justice with Tim and Kon-El and Bart forever.

*BREATHE*

So ANYWAY, I haven't LJ'd much recently because I'm really loving the whole microblogging thing and I'm kind of using my Twitter more. I'm aware that this makes me a loser, but I'm having fun so =D

Hmm.... one of my otaku friends is trying to get a girlfriend =D I've often found my friends telling me about their romantic lives and I'm generally kind of like "Dude, why are you telling/asking me this? You know I don't date," but honestly, I like listening to it and giving advice. It's fun ^_^ even though I'm not sure anyone should believe what I say at all.

alonenut82: hey
Fiammata Candore: hey
Fiammata Candore: who's this?
alonenut82: i'm one of the admins on deviantart
Fiammata Candore: okay
alonenut82: can you please delete your page? your art is shit and is wasting our server space
Fiammata Candore: got it
alonenut82: also kill your family then yourself, thanks
Fiammata Candore: what about my friends?
alonenut82: kill everyone you know
Fiammata Candore: okay
alonenut82: and any black people too
alonenut82: damn niggers
Fiammata Candore: see, you should specify this kind of stuff first

=/

IAP's been in session for a week and a half, and I feel really unaccomplished, probably because all the time I could spend in my externship I could be putting to better use, like, looking for an internship. I have a lot of things I want to get accomplished (making a clock, cosplay, reading more books) but haven't started any of them...

I went to New England Comics today, though, and found the most awesome figure ever:



Normally, I'm kind of meh about the DC Ame-Comi Heroine line-- they get American artists to reinterpret American superheroes into Japanese manga style?! But this Cassandra Cain Batgirl one is gorgeous. I have to have it. I need to find a way to save some money to afford her... maybe skip some meals or something guh.

Apparently they're also coming out with a sexy female Robin http://www.tisinc99.com/ame723030.html Do want.

So yeah, if you happen to be a mysterious millionaire looking for a great way to get rid of your money, consider buying me this figure.

2009 was pretty decent. Not many great anime, but a few choice gems were really outstanding.

Wait, I'm doing a 2009 in review entry and it's just about the anime I've been watching?! Well, I guess that's not unexpected...

Last year, I found out that my friend who's always saying that she's too busy to watch anime (specifically, the anime I tell her to watch hehe) had seen more titles than me in the last year. That's just unacceptable. Still haven't asked her, but I think I did well this year. Watched a lot of movies since anime club's got this weekly movie thing going on; that's really good because there were a lot of classic movies that I hadn't watched before and I feel like I leveled up as an otaku-- or rather, I'm a little closer to be deserving of the label.

Numbers following a title are the date that I finished the show or film. Some are missing from dates I forgot. I'm not an anime blogger by any means, but I included a note next to things-- just for my own reference.
( My 2009 List )

This term's been pretty crazy. Had a lot of personal things that I don't really feel like sharing with strangers over the internet, but let's just say it's been rough. :<

Got my first C at MIT =( Not actually my first-ever report card C (curse you, middle school PE). When I try to explain it, I say that it's because I had 4 presentations and 3 papers due the week and a half before exams, but I think it was just as much me not being motivated and throwing myself into club stuff to escape.

Speaking of club stuff, we did a survey recently of people on the anime club mailing list to try to figure out why no one comes to our showings and events and the result was kind of funny but to be expected:



Sigh. In my next life, I'm going to apply to RIT or Wellesley or something; I doubt their club people are quite as cool as ours, but at least their student bodies aren't as depressingly hosed.

In other news, I'm thinking about getting a Twitter again. "jennifu" is taken though. Maybe "jennifuu"?

NOT A NEW CODE GEASS

PLEASE

ANYTHING BUT THAT

I'M SURROUNDED BY LOLICON! D:

Also, SankakuComplex makes me angry sometimes. The articles are great ("I don't read SanCom for the porn, I read it for the articles!" Yeah, suuuuuure you do. But it's actually true...), but the comments largely suck. I'm all for 2D girls and Love Plus and stuff, but a lot of people's justification for 2D and their hate on women are just sex-deprived excuses and sour grapes for the fact that they're too loserly and unattractive to get real girlfriends.

2D may be better, but if you can get 3D, it isn't THAT bad.

Not that I can talk...

Oh man, I haven't updated with an actual substantial post in FOREVER.

The reason is pretty much because the two posts I had planned, I can't do yet-- I still haven't gotten some pics I need from a friend, and my room is messy and my camera is broken. Graaaah maybe I should just give up on those ._.;

Aaaaanyway.

But yeah! I've pimped this everywhere, and I'm going to do it again (and probably even more elsewhere): The MIT Anime Club set up a fresh new blog <3 It's called "miteiru!" for "looking." We've been working really hard this term to make this a reality, and we're all really excited to see it actually established. It's a general anime/otaku blog with a focus on MIT and the club's many activities, so the flavor is a bit unique; one of our authors is, like, a Interweb celebrity too (haha), so that's pretty darn cool >w<. There isn't much on it yet, but check it out at http://anime.scripts.mit.edu/miteiru. And leave comments and suggestions! (Yeah, I'm being whore-y, but that's because we've put in quite a bit of effort and it'll be awesome and it'd be great if it'd last~)



In other news, my off-again-on-again relationship with DC Comics is now... on again again. Maybe. Like, two of my favorite characters-- Kon and Bart-- came back to life after dying stupidly, which is pretty much DC saying "YEAH THAT WAS A BAD IDEA, WE SCREWED UP," and Stephanie Brown is now Batgirl, and I'm just like WHAT THE HECK IS THIS but it's kind of awesome <3 My very favorite character in DCU is getting a monthly again next year <3 But I know that in like 6 months time, I'll make an entry complaining about how they inevitably screwed up royally and how I hate American comics or something.

Also, obligatory "zomg hahaha Zac Efron sort-of-maybe-although-he-says-it's-not-sure-at-all playing Light/Luke in the Death Note movie" XD;;; It's probably not fair to his movie career to say it, but Death Note as a musical would be hysterical. I'm going to watch Me and Orson Welles before deciding whether he can pull off acting this or not though, but regardless, it'd be pretty freaking funny if he gets it. It's also funny that this guys who's on all these squealing little girls' lunch boxes says that he loves Death Note.

When you're in an argument on the Internet and members of the opposing party suddenly go "STOP TALKING ABOUT [subject at hand]; THIS THREAD IS OFFICIALLY ABOUT [completely unrelated topic]!" that is a sure sign that you have won.

Perhaps you have no life, but you are still the victor.

OMG someone please stop me from watching Code Geass R2. It's gotten so bad.

I'm so lost in 6.041 but I can't read my textbook because I'm watching Code Geass R2. Even when I force myself away from the computer, I can't concentrate because I'm thinking about Code Geass R2.

I didn't even bother separating my whites from my colors when I was doing laundry today because I wanted to hurry back and watch Code Geass R2.

darkr_dragon, I HATE YOUUUUU.

Oh Code Geass. The grandest coalescence of spectacle, melodrama, and inanity; a performance both soap and opera; the supremest work of war, politics, and philosophy ever conceived by a group of people who know nothing of any of these things. It kicks reason to the curb more than any testosterone-fueled GAINAX mecha show ever could, and it demonstrates once and forevermore that awful and awesome are not mutually exclusive.

Aisaka Taiga from Toradora! won Saimoe 2009, beating out the bimbos from Saki and even K-On!'s Hirasawa Yui in the final round.

Tsundere > moeblob. Toradora is reality!

This makes me happy~

(I swear I'll have a real entry soon. I already know what it's going to be about, I'm just too lazy to clean my room for it...)

(BTW CAA peeps, I dropped one of my morning classes and another one is off for the next week; anyone up for Skype chat? =D)

If you've wondered where I've disappeared (I still owe this LJ my maid cafe report from July orz), anime club has pretty much taken over my life now. Seriously, like, I don't even have time to watch anime because of it OH THE IRONY...

Good thing there's this 3 day weekend coming up, right? OH WAIT we're doing 24 Hour Comics Day so I'll be doing stuff for club for a whole day's worth on top of like the 15-20 hours a week already *cry* I need a vacation...

Tonight, I will watch episode 2 of Code Geass R2 while doing my 6.041 p-set. Because I'm not already lost enough in 6.041 cursesssssss. But yeah, flamboyant costumes and cancer hands whooooo!

Also, it's my little brother's birthday today. He's 16 already whoaaaaaaaaaa what??

I will make a post about something for reals... later.

Today, I got lost at school even though I'm already a junior. Ahaha.

And now I'm exhausted. Anime Club has seriously become my life, it's so scary, hahaha. ALSO WE MIGHT BE PROGRESSING ON CERTAIN ENDEAVORS THAT I DON'T THINK I SHOULD TALK ABOUT UNTIL THEY'RE ACCOMPLISHED, BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERY SINGLE MIT STUDENT WHO'S COME TO OUR SHOWINGS HAS COMMENTED ON THIS ONE PARTICULAR THING AND WE MIGHT FINALLY FIX IT HINT HINT.

In other news, apparently I'm not a schizoid.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid Personality Disorder:	High
Schizoid Personality Disorder:	Low
Schizotypal Personality Disorder:	High
Antisocial Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Borderline Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Histrionic Personality Disorder:	Very High
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:	High
Avoidant Personality Disorder:	Very High
Dependent Personality Disorder:	High
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:	High
-- Take the Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Info --

So, Fancy Frontier is the local bi-annual (I think?) comicket in Taiwan, held at National Taiwan University. Although there was that one major mishap (orz), the con itself was great fun-- it's quite different from cons in the US! Sort of like the artists' alley expanded into the size of the dealer room; it is nice that people care so much about fanart and doujinshi; if only the same extreme adulation existed in the West...

( Admission is only 200NT/$6! *gasp* )
Overall, getting pickpocketed sucks, but I would so go again, it was a wonderful experience! Although getting shoved by sweaty people kind of sucks, the cosplay and the great products and cheap prices are hugely enviable.

Back from a 4-day trip to Singapore! to visit my team from GAMBIT last year. It's so weird, I've been to S'pore and Taiwan twice in this last year. That NEVER happens, heh. Actually, the timing kind of sucked because one of my friends still had school projects and another had a game deadline...... but it was still loads of fun~ Food there is soooo delicious, it's a bit more savoury than Chinese food. I just can't pronounce most of the dishes heh.

My friend Joanne basically set up a 3 day itinerary:
Wednesday: Food, mall-wandering on Orchard Road + watching Public Enemies, hawker centre (open area dining that's like a mix between a nightmarket and a food court)
Thursday: Food, Singapore Flyer, more mall-wandering near City Hall, hawker centre, chocolate bar
Friday: hawker centre, Sentosa (beach), more mall-wandering new Sentosa, food, Settler's Cafe (a localboard game cafe)

Pics and report behind cut~ I take WAY TOO MANY PICTURES all the time orz
( Why you so fah away la? )

Taiwan picspams to come!

I'm in the airport in Taiwan now, waiting for my flight to Singapore. Just noting here that I owe this LJ these reports:

* shopping for otaku goods in Taipei City Mall and Ximending
* visiting maid cafes
* Fancy Frontier (+ how I got my wallet pickpocketed)
* Singapore

Was hoping to post consistently, but camera trouble + laziness have hindered me. Expect a chain of ridiculously long posts and lots of pics.

So, I was really excited to do my con report of Fancy Frontier, a Taiwanese two-day comiket that I attended this weekend...

...until I got my wallet stolen there today, losing about the equivalent of $200 USD, credit cards, my driver's license, my MIT ID, insurance cards and a coupon to Haagen-Dazs.

You'll forgive me if I'm a little less than excited right now.

(I'll do a report later, but it's not quite the first thing on my mind right now.)

So I'm in Taiwan for about 8 weeks for an internship. (This would explain the irregularity of my AIM/Skype hours.) I've actually never been there (or anywhere outside the US) for quite so long; I'm kind of excited at the chance to explore, but having to go there for work slightly sucks =( It's a bit dull, and we have 7 weeks to do a 2 week job, and it's kind of lonely because no one's online at some points of the day, but it'll pass.

I haven't really done a picspam in a while (ever?), but I thought it was worth it since this is a bit special, so spamming from the first 2 weeks~

( Taiwan will touch your heart-- and then envelop it in 90 degree heat and high humidity )

Next time: shopping in Taipei's own otaku paradise~

Things that should never go together:

Long tour bus rides

and

bad KTV.

That is all.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE ANN IS RUNNING RXJ FULL SITE ADS ok im done.

In Japan now, waiting for my flight to Taipei. Argh, Im nervous about going back because Ive never been without my parents, and I just know know know that Im going to get confused about all my relatives titles and end up calling my second uncle on my moms side my seventh aunt on my dads side or some shit ahahahhaa.

I hope I can make friends at orientation and work .___. and by friends I mean other otaku with no lives like me.

So yeah anyway me being in Narita Aiport also explains my bad typing now orz @ Japanese keyboards. Apostrophe above the 7 key = whyyyyy.

After abandoning one of my comic plunnies for being too emo and realizing that my Death Note doujin would end up being like 12 volumes long, I no longer have any plunnies to comic off of.

O_____________O

Gaaah I really need to write something, I'm so out of practiceeeeeeeee!!! I haven't drawn comics in like a year and a half (Heroica doesn't count), this is RIDICULOUS.

I guess one of the problems is that if I write an original comic, not many people will see it anyway, so it's not worth the 10-15 hours per page that I put into it. Like, I guess I can just comic for myself, but that seems kind of silly...