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Spoilers policy applied to Vampire Knight

2008-12-26T12:14:54Z

Part of my manga-and-anime-viewing lifestyle is that I Have Not To Search For Spoilers. I like surprises; and if I have to spoil the story, I want to actually read it by downloading scans. However, my curiosity is subtly being supported by my sister who is always searching for spoilers. She told me one thing she thought I already know even thought I actually didn't, yet.

ME: ... WHAT?? You... why did you tell me this? I do not want to know!
SISTER: But you already knew this! I told you already! I'm quite sure...
ME: *unequivocal look*
SISTER: ... or not. Sorry? é_è

That was one of those huge spoilers of doom, ones that should shock you utterly and completely. That's why I don't search for spoilers - but end up at some point being inevitably spoiled. Damn.

Okay, time to forget about it and move on. That's totally possible (...maybe): meanwhile, Vampire Night vol. 6 has eventually been published in Italy! And I fell the urge to write some comments, since the next volume will be out in March and I have to wait three months.
❶ Seriously, in MARCH?! It will be my birthday in three months. Hope to get at least a wonderful volume ;_;
❷ Zero remains the characters I like the most. Apart from his gorgeous look (Matsuri Hino, oh how I love your drawing style), he is a stubborn boy who fights against what he is. I have Sturm und Drang vibes here, or something along those lines. And the girl he loves offers him friendship and blood, he has to control himself every moment, and he has a huge, cool tattoo on his neck. Who could beat that? :D At least now Yuki begins to understand that some things should not be told to Zero. It was about time! But flawless heroines would be boring, wouldn't them? She's human and sometimes too naïve, but to her Zero will always be her best friend.
❸ I liked - and still do - Shiki hairstyle. I started to spot him in his rare apparitions. And, guess what? Breaking news, his not-so-dead dad (with differently-coloured eyes and a hobby for possessing cute children) is back and searches him for what seems to be the next revolution. I guess I smelled the potential? I did the same thing with the differently-coloured eyed child which appears at the beginning of the volume and then appears again. I'd like to see what happens next! (The dad with differently-coloured eyes appeals my aesthetic sense. I could cheer on him!)
❹ Hanabusa, seriously. How - cute - can - you - be? (And am I the only one who felt his adoration could border on love anytime?) Still, I find his stubbornness in wanting to help Kaname a little... too much? But we want action, we want to know more, so that's okay! Go for it, detective Idol!
❺ Er, the first thing I thought was that Kaname was the one who murdered/had a part in the suicide of his parents. (And I feel like I see where that mystery is headed since I know that big spoiler I shouldn't know. And I found a little evidence of it, totally questionable, but it's there.) Anyway, I like Kaname a bit more now.
❻ Ichiru re-appears! Glad to see that. Oh, and I enjoyed the part where Zero is being told that usually twins of Vampire Hunters end up being cursed: it's like that's an entire world in the manga that's unknown, yet it's there, and little details like this make the story seems more realistic.
❼ Two factions lining up or that's only my impression?
❽ Loved the extra with Hanabusa's interview, Akatsuki interrupting him in time (ah ah!) and Kaname admitting his thoughts. Loved the eight-panel wordless comic at the end with Yuki and Zero.
❾ I want Seiren's hairstyle, it's fabulous! And that's probably the only reason I remember her name.

I was only two countries away (so unfair!)

2008-08-27T13:06:44Z

So things like this really happen! In June, Makoto Shinkai was in London with his amazing movie Byousoku 5 Centimeter. And he did an interview! And he signed autographs! And he made doodles while autographing!
Agh, too bad I'm Italian and didn't know of it sooner ;_; Visiting London, and seeing Byousoku 5 Centimeter on big screen would be great.

I was taking my exams at the time but, well, maybe I could-- flake off? Thought my mum would have killed me. With the help of my dad. But my wild imagination keeps me going!

How to know when you read too much CLAMP

2008-08-19T15:06:10Z

I was surfing the web and stumbled on this website, Dreamscape. Such cute graphics! And then, I noticed the avatar used within the last entry.

(by Dreamscape)

My reaction: "Oh my, is that CLAMP? I recognize the style... Could it be... Fay? Well, no, it can't be. I'm too CLAMP-aware. My CLAMP-radar is surely mistaken!"

Ten minutes later, I found out by chance that it was CLAMP. It was Fay. I had never seen that image before. (My love is one-sided, though. CLAMP, I'm still waiting for the end of X, dammit, you and your publishing issues!)

DA is the heaven of fanarts

2008-08-04T16:42:51Z

These days I keep having these thoughts. Lots of thoughts that lead to the same conclusion: fandom is crazy, therefore fandom is cruel.

I happily brows through DeviantArt pretty often and I'm enraptured by the awesomness of lots and lots of fanarts. So you can easily figure out how they lured me, winking at me and poking me to make me take a look at those manga which I haven't read yet. My mind was all "If the fanart is awesome squared*, then the manga itself should be interesting enough, shouldn't it?".
Well, I was so curious about Katekyo Hitman Reborn that I gave it a try a while ago. I stopped after the first volume because I didn't find the story that interesting; but now I keep stumbling on random awesome fanarts and I can't help asking myself: "what if the story gets really better after the first volume?" ;_; (which is totally possible; D.Gray-man is the proof of my lingering fear! It keeps getting way better!)
The other thing that pokes me to read it is, well, I might have a slight crush on Hibari. And there's this-- kind of huge chick-- or hibird, as it may be called. SO CUTE.
Nobari no Ou is another one. I feel I should give it a try, too. Those cute fanarts and icons out there...

The moral, you may want to know? Fandom is crazy, makes delirious yet wonderful fanarts, I fall in love, then check the original artwork... and I feel so betrayed. Therefore, fandom is cruel. (But I love fandom. Oh, I do, I do.)

* I humbly apologize for the out-of-context shoebox_project's quote. I fell in love with 99% of what is written there. I'm trying to recover.

And then!

2008-03-05T10:34:46Z

So, I FOUND IT.

Or should I say them? Searching by the not so famous but highly satisfactory Strategia of Pollicino (TM! XD) learned from t_jill, I now have a bunch of wonderful Sirius/Remus fics which are so worth reading I'm ashamed I didn't find them before. I discovered a couple of writers and I'll love them to death until my poor brain decides it's time to stop being so mono-thematic (even if I fear that time will never come).

I relly had the need to read some Wolfstar things. It seems like I've been neglecting this pairing too much... but now, off to Draco/Harry!

Other pairings deserve more love.

2008-01-30T22:18:27Z

What could a humble, should-definitely-study-and-not-sit-in-front-of-her-laptop, slasher girl do to find a tender (but not too tender, we want some action!) Sirius/Remus fanfiction, in order to make a surprise to one of her best friends? ;_;

I feel completely drained from searching.

Well.

2008-01-29T17:12:44Z

It's so sad when your favorite fic writer decides to leave the ficdom (just a couple of months after you discovered and fell in love with her works), and you realise that all fics and translations will be gone.

I'm becoming quite sentimental, damn me ;_;

A Wonderful Way To Begin New Year--

2008-01-02T11:02:51Z

...is going to mistful's livejournal and find out that, YAY!, she updated with chapter 23 of Quality of Mercy *_*
I was eager to read the new one since... October, perhaps?
It's so good and there are so many H/D fluffy moments, my fangirl side now is just euphoric. And I enjoyed the way Harry decides to go and save the children (oh, Harry, you crazy Gryffindor), this is totally what Harry would do. Oh, and the whole 'send him a note via Severus Piton' thing! XD Exhilarant.

(And in December she wrote Drop Dead Gorgeous chapters 6 and 7 *melts* Santa exists!)

Lol.

2007-11-18T15:19:27Z

Wednesday, my partner-in-crime Mat gently provided me an amusing image.

"...and right now I'm imagining Draco Malfoy that argues with a chessman".

OMG, I can totally picture him! XD *laughs thinking at it*

The internet is green and amazing.

2007-11-01T17:37:19Z

This post might be slightly SPOILERISH if you haven't read HP and the Deathly Hallows yet. è_é

Sooo. Once upon a time (maybe two weeks ago), I found out what JKR said about Dumbledore and I had to know more, so today I succeded to... well, remember to search the internet in order to focus my attention on her exact words.

Source: The Leaky Cauldron.

Q: In the Goblet of Fire Dumbledore said his brother was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms [JKR buries her head, to laughter] on a goat; what were the inappropriate charms he was practicing on that goat?
JKR: How old are you?
Eight.
JKR: I think that he was trying to make a goat that was easy to keep clean [laughter], curly horns. That's a joke that works on a couple of levels. I really like Aberforth and his goats. But you know Aberforth having this strange fondness for goats if you've read book seven, came in really useful to Harry, later on, because a goat, a stag, you know. If you're a stupid Death Eater, what's the difference. So, that is my answer to YOU.
[loud applause]

Well, call me dumb but I don't actually catch it yet. *sobs*

Q: Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?
JRK: My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!
[...]
Q: [Speaker thanks Jo for the Dumbledore answer.]
JKR: You needed something to keep you going for the next 10 years! Oh, my god, the fan fiction now, eh? [Applause.]

Yeah, fanfiction is love! *_* But I don't think I'll madly fall in love with the Dumbledore/Grindelwald pairing, no offence.
To tell the truth, I didn't see the love at all, while reading... my slash-detector is not working well as I thought, what a pity. This is why I was so surprised to discover this! And I was surprised to read reactions like "Well, we knew that :3".
On a more side note, I'd have loved to read "Yes! Sirius and Remus were lovers! That brotherly embrace back in third book wasn't brotherly at all!" but this would be too much. Then, D/H being officially recognized is sheer utopy, so I'm not thinking at it at all.
The little HP-reader in my brain just suggests me that we know JKR, and this could be a way to say: fandom wants gay characters? Here you are, Dumbledore is the man for you.

And, last but not least, this worderful deviation! XD

Dumbledore is not impressed by *Pojypojy on deviant ART

Because even lessons and fics are connected.

2007-10-25T12:53:22Z

It should be a truth universally acknowledged that I was going to love my Religions and Philosophy of Japan class to death. It's just too intriguing, and the professor is simply amazing. Too much love.

Today he spoke about how people deal with death, and I loved how he was able to talk with respect about it, being also able to joke on a few minor things in order to relieve the atmosphere. Actually, a lot of concepts also reminded me of the fic Dark Side of Light I read last week ;_;

I'm in desperate need of more time to read fics! uOu University life isn't good for my mental health.

Harry/Draco fics and, oh, why.

2007-10-20T09:45:06Z

I always say that I'm not going to read fanfictions which involve the death of one of the main characters (I'm talking about Draco and Harry). I can deal with the death of minor characters, but I'm absolutely not ready to see one of them survive while the other dies, because the reaction of the survivor will cause Horrible Nightmares and Sheer Agony to me.
To be serious, I'm the kind of reader which gets so involved in the story I'm reading that if it ends not well I'll be depressed for some time. Simply as that.

Yesterday, I had the proof that I can't deal with this kind of story. Definitely not. çOç

I love fanfictions written by mistful and I'm slowly reading almost all the ones she wrote. So, when I found Dark Side of Light, the summary increased my curiosity and, stupid me, I thought, well, that that may be bad for your mental health was not at all serious.
It was insanely serious.

The plot is quite simple (it is a one shot after all): Draco Malfoy is in Azkaban, after the "Light Side" won he war. Harry Potter seems to have lost all he fought for. Harry himself is not sure why he starts and continues to go and search for the company of Draco, until his nemesis points out that Harry loves him.
I just loved the fiction, to tell the truth. It's an attempt to dialogue-only, and it's marvellously written as Maya can. The way they start to talk, the way they are honest to each other, not hiding themself behind hipocrisy, still arguing sometimes, but yet understanding each other just made me giggle. The way Maya makes them interact does not stop to amaze me.
But. The end is no happy ending, the end is dark and painful like the atmosphere you can feel during the whole fic.
Draco tries to protect Harry by not telling him he loves him too, tries to make it easier for him to forget. He is Kissed, and Harry is lost.
I cried and sobbed during the whole last part, because it was... so sad. It was hopeless, painful, it spoke about anguish and loneliness you can't wash away. The key of this was despair. I just can't read things like this. I need a happy ending to be relieved. This one broke my heart instead.
And yet - how much incoherent can I be? - I'm somehow content to have read it.

Note to self: read warnings carefully.

giusto un incidente di percorso

2007-05-01T16:34:44Z

Sento l'impellente bisogno di scrivere su un blog o su qualcosa il più possibile simile. La cosa è abbastanza assurda se penso che non ho scritto su Samoshii dal 2 aprile ma, giusto quando il mio dominio spira, allora non posso fare a meno di utilizzare il suddetto blog.
Mi è morto il dominio, sì. Non è cancellato, solo sospeso, finchè non mi accettano il pagamento. Io il pagamento l'ho fatto il 27 sera, il 28 mi è morto criptico.net. E lo so che dovevo pagare prima del 25, perchè è il 25 che mi scade, poi sono tutti giorni di vita regalati al dominio nell'attesa che mi decida a pagare. Non è che non sapessi che bisognava pagare un altro anno, no; ho cominciato il 24 sera ad andare nella sezione di netrillium (il servizio di hosting) per pagare, ma mi diceva di pagare solo 8,50$, e a me pareva strano perchè dovrei pagare anche i 36$ dell'hosting plan (ovvero lo spazio su disco, la banda etc, gli 8,50$ sono solo per il nome del dominio). E allora ho pensato bene di aspettare un po' a pagare perchè mi sono autoconvinta che me li avrebbero addebitati più avanti. Ho pensato: aspetto e pago tutto assieme.
Mi sento decisamente una stupida. Perchè diavolo aspettare? Potevo pagare e farmi meno teghe. Così il dominio è scaduto, ho tutto in sospeso, il mio pagamento - dicono - non risulta ancora pagato e continuano ad arrivarmi le notifiche del sito che devo pagare, ho contattato il servizio clienti e forse si sta smuovendo qualcosa, ma diamine! Sono abbastanza frustrata, sì. Mi sembra di aver fatto un torto a qualcuno a lasciarlo scadere così. Mi rode non avere il mio sito lì, da aggiornare, anche se in realtà non lo aggiornerei mai continuamente, però sarei io a non decidere di aggiornarlo. Poi tutti i siti, le fanlistings soprattutto, che sono offline. E le email con account criptico.net che non arrivano più, ovviamente. E mi sembra davvero di dare l'immagine di una che non gliene frega niente, mentre da quando ho scoperto che il sito non è più online sono abbastanza nervosa.
Bel modo di festeggiare un anno per criptico u_u Mi ero anche messa d'impegno a preparare un'immaginetta commemorativa:

OK, mi dovevo sfogare è_é More to come - e ci spero davvero.

Detto questo, non so se qualcuno trova familiare l'immagine usata per la targhetta commemorativa, comunque viene dalla serie Bleach <3 Mi aveva incuriosito parecchio e due settimane fa ho provato a prendere il primo numero per vedere se valeva la pena. Mi ha subito preso *_* Lo amo già. La storia mi intriga tantissimo e lo stile grafico è davvero accattivante. *indossa il cappellino con la scritta messaggio promozionale* La cosa carina è che ho 12 mesi (=12 volumi) di arretrati da leggermi con tutta la calma del mondo. In realtà, sono talmente presa dalla storia e curiosa di sapere come va avanti che, fosse per me, pur di prenderli tutti andrei alla fumetteria a piedi ù_ù Maledetto paesello privo di autobus e fumetterie y_y

Cos'altro succede? Oltre a dilapidare le mie finanze in manga, dilettarmi con un gdb, guardare cartoni di dubbi contenuti, ho preparato una grafica per Kokoro (per quando sarò tutto di nuovo online) e un'altra per una fanlisting a breve nelle mie mani *_* (su quest'ultima però sto ancora lavorando per qualche problema di compatibilità con i browser) La vacanza alle 5 terre è andata benone, senza infamia nè lode, ho fatto delle splendide fotografie grazie anche al sole che spaccava le pietre e a riguardarle sembra tutto così assolato e spensierato che viene voglia di tornarci. La voglia di studiare è in calo precipitoso, ho scelto il tema per la tesina e abbiamo appena deciso le date delle interrogazioni generali, che spaziano su tutto il programma dell'anno. Il clima non aiuta, io PREGO che almeno il giorno degli scritti faccia brutto in modo da avere un po' di fresco, sennò mi presento a scuola con un ventilatore. Sembra davvero di essere in estate, e questa illusione di vacanze estive mi scombussola davvero - mica si studia durante l'estate, no? L'illusione è completa se alla sera, visto che il tempo lo permette, apriamo le finestre e si sente quel tipico rumore di sottofondo da estate che ho imparato a conoscere da qualche anno: poco distante c'è una tangenziale, e non appena si fa scuro fuori tutto tace e si sente quasi solamente il rumore rapido che pian piano svanisce delle auto in corsa. Siete liberi di credermi o no, io lo trovo tremendamente rilassante e malinconico.

Follonica

2006-10-07T10:17:25Z

Follonica
aug 26, 2006 / sept 2, 2006

Follonica by night

England-cloud :'D

three shadows = Charlie's Angels. Pretty stupid, i know XD

It was strange: on my right I had sunset, on my left I could still see light blue/pink sky

These photos were all taken at the same time, on the same beach.

View from the boat, going to Isola D'Elba.

This is one of my favourites.

Isola D'elba

Isola D'elba

Isola D'elba

Harbour of Isola D'elba

Early morning, Follonica again

To finish, take a look at what we found in the apartament we rented there:

Photojournal!

2006-10-06T21:32:23Z

I found moargh journal and saw all her wonderful photos... then I thought: why not? I was thinking to open a photolog and livejournal is just easy to use and to see.
So here you are, elwe's new photolog.
Expect new photos soon :)

First entry

2006-09-04T08:47:54Z

Just to see how it comes out.