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apology for random naked lady sketch from math class


Sound Online -- Survive (Ancient Temple)

Everything here is shut down due to snow weather, so this is what I was doing last night and today.


I have a scan of lyrics in the cd booklet, but couldn't find any online translation, so I'm trying to transcribe the original and romajify it, at least. Copy from the jpg, notate furigana, look up new kanji/compounds, figure out onomatopoeia words, then type in IME

Complicated but I'm learning a lot from it.


深き衣を纏った　この身は今はもう
現実と　夢現の＿間で
錆びす、光れず、触れられない我が身　それでも
眠りし闘志を込めた刃を
全て捧げよう　淡き光の元へ
決して果てない、想いこそ　今を生きるそう
（）

ひらひらと舞い＿る桜を　今＿咲かせよう
妖しく＿いた＿に　魅せられた私を

はらはらと落ち行く桜を　誰も汚さぬよう
せめてそのひ瞳開く前に、全て終わらせましょう
蒼き瞳は静かに　赤く砥ぎ澄まされ
現実は夢現と交わる
声も、上げずに、誓ったこの忠誠が為
恐れるものなど無いと微笑む
明日は　＿てよう
＿に居らるのなら

決して

ゆらゆらと羽ばたいた＿に
＿がる青空を
気高き＿色の＿にｃ



Fuwaki koromu wo matotta
kono mi wa ima wa mou
REAL to mugen no _ma de
sabizu, hirezu, furerarenai wagami
soredemo nemurishi chuusei wo kometa yaiba wo

subete sasageyou
awaki hikari no moto e
kesshite, hatenai,
omoi koso
ima wo ikiru sou
(I'M SURVIVE)

hirahira to mai _ru sakura wo
ima _ mo sakaseyou
ayashiku _ita __ ni
miserareta watashi wo

harahara to ochiyuku sakura wo
daremo __sanuyou (?)
semete sono hitomi hiraku mae ni
subete owarasemashou
aoki hitomi wa shizuka ni
akaku togisumasare

REAL wa, mugen to majiwaru
koe mo, agezu ni
chikatta kono chuusei ga tame
osorerumono nado nai to hohoemu
ashita wa, __teyou
soba n iraru no nara
kesshite...

yurayura to habataita chou ni
hirogaru aozora wo
...

Home for Kaiyodos

So, I bought this shelf at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago for $4. It's exactly the right size for Choco-Egg premiums.

My almost-complete Series 3 of Dinotales, 3 Kabayas, and a few small random dinosaurs.

It looks sweet. Oh, small pleasures in life.

Day of the Dinosaur, by John Man

Waldenbooks LOL I'm old

Goodwill find. It's likely that I read this book at some point when I was small, but I don't remember. Its chief points of interest are being old (1978) and having a lot of Neave Parker illustrations.

This is my favorite of the non-Parker illustrations. For the record, most of those are merely serviceable. There are however a lot of photos, vintage art and such, and even a profile of Franz Nopcsa, all-around total badass superhero of paleontology, espionage, and awesomeness and, if there is any justice, future subject of an epic movie (also, gay. Seriously, read about him.)

badass retro


Things were... slimier in the '60's,apparently .




What's a paleo book without a timeline...?

Unusually for a book this old (I think?) the text assumes birds to have descended from dinosaurs and has quite a bit about Archaeopteryx. At least, I don't remember this being a mainstream thing in books from that time, but I could be wrong. I was still a baby when this book was written, and don't remember the dinosaur-t0-bird descent being a given in all books of my time, either.

_______


RIP Luna, my sweet little budgie. She died of a mysterious illness that showed itself too late for the vet to do any real good and I'm so sorry. I've been pretty upset for a few days. Since Loki has never been kept alone, I was afraid of him getting lonely and stressed out, so I got a new friend. Her (?) name is Okuu (お空.)

空　or 'sora' (Chinese reading 'kuu') is the character for sky. I didn't actually have a name in mind, but it was suggested in comments. Only because she is sky blue, and not because she has anything in common with the namesake Okuu/Reiuji Utsuho, the nuclear fusion powered hell raven from Chireiden:At least two differences: she's missing the arm cannon and Chernobyl elephant's foot (not pictured here)

More Touhou vocal trance arrange, by Sound Online (Tsukasa)


Eternal Rite
Nostalgia
Cosmos Glide
,
Tsukasa contributes to East New Sound, with which I'm also obsessed.

Books by Request!

I had a request for info about these books from a commenter on my DA page. Sorry that it's taken so long to finally post these images...



Dinosaurs (Eyes On Nature), 2002, Rebecca L. Grambo








Endpapers look like the work of Jim Robins (I very much like his work, see here for some examples), but many images in this book are only credited to an agency, so I can't say for sure.
Discover Dinosaurs, 2002 Glut/Dodson


Not sure why I chose this particular page to sample, but I guess it's as representative as any other.

Nothing particularly amazing, but they're fun.

Thrift dinos of 2011

I've looked everywhere for one of those 3-tiered wire hanging baskets for fruit and stuff to use in the kitchen (I even went to WALMART because I want one so badly,) but instead I found these--

Chap Mei Amargasaurus (I think) and Oviraptor (I didn't notice it was missing its hands until just now when I was taking the picture ;_; ), 1988 Carnegie Stegosaurus, a fugly yellow theropod (I think it was an Allosaurus or something from a Zallinger painting), what looks like a mutant Pinacosaurus, and a Protoceratops.

I had wanted those 2 small Chap Mei's, shame about the Oviraptor hands as otherwise it's a cute figure really... I love the Amargasaurus though. it's so unrealistic, the colors are great.

First of 2011

Sketch of Lucina (my character from the unnamed story) As it turns out, the 2011 rabbit wasn't on purpose, it was just a random quiet forest creature that ended up there.

Lucina and art are (c) me

Songs: Antony , Current 93 , Chrono Cross OST

I hid that trembling light in my young hands

I've traveled this far, wandering the abyss of time

I continued to search for you, though I know not even your name

I wanted to hand over to you just one single feeling

Times catches deep in its arms both love and pain

And erases them, but I remember them

And always will...

It's reverberated deep in my breast for I know not how long..
.
Though it's a whisper fainter than a drop of evening dew

May the prayer I spun towards the darkness of the frozen stars

Reach all the way to your distant sky...

Heavens to Margatroid

I don't feel very well today, but wanted to post something since I've been too busy to do so for a while.

Outing again as a nerd, random sketch I did of Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project, while I was waiting on a job interview. Alice is a youkai magician who primarily uses dolls in her attacks. Her name comes from Miss Murgatroyd of Agatha Christie novels...

Alice Margatroid and Shanghai doll (c) Team Shanghai Alice :)

Yoeko Kurahashi

Let's Build Some Kaiyodos!

I recently won an ebay auction for the (apparently) complete Series 3 set of Kaiyodo/UHA Dinotales miniatures. I haven't bought on ebay for a long time, but it was too cheap to pass up and since I just got a job and happened to have paypal money... well anyway I paid $35 WITH shipping and handling from Hong Kong, for 24 figures, which is way less than $2/figure. If you bought them individually they are anywhere from $3 to 15+ depending on the figure... you do the math.

I've had a really bad few weeks due to overwork, getting sick again, and exam week on top of it, so here was an afternoon well spent.

How do they fit all those into a tiny box that fits in my mail slot? Anticipation...



Turns out they were all sealed, i wasn't actually sure whether they were loose or not. First one is Trochosaurus, a cynodont thingie. Ruler for scale.



Partially-assembled Plesiosaurus skeleton. This was probably the most delicate figure.


I really love how this one came unassembled, it's the Maiasaura hatchling and egg... look at the detailed base with leaves on it. The plastic was a bit translucent red, painted over.


Detail where it's not even strictly needed. Shown: Glyptodon, Hemicyclaspis, and a trilobite.


Apatosaurus is one of my favorite. He just looks fantastic, the paint job is beautiful, he's so lively.


Looks so real I want him swimming in my aquarium. MARKETING IDEA: Cambrian creatures for your aquarium???? Is it done yet??



All of it assembled. Got this random shelf last week from a thrift store, don't know if it's their final housing but it was lucky I had it for now since I'd have had no safe place for such tiny things.

Weirdness: in the end I had 25 figures altho it's a set of 24. Ended up with three duplicates (a happy accident as it happens) and I don't have either Acrocanthosaurus, the live or skeleton, or the skeleton Deinonychus. I'm not that bothered, I got all the ones I REALLY wanted, not that I'd turn down Acrocanthosaurus but it's not really my favorite. I don't understand though how I got 22 here on my shelf, but am missing three from the set. Was the T-rex or another a 'secret' extra figure? Regardless, even with duplicates, even if I'd gotten a couple of damaged ones, etc, it was worth the pittance. I think the only reason it went under the radar was that the seller didn't label them as Kaiyodo but just under generic 'dinosaurs' tag. Would have been worth bidding higher, really.

Conclusion: If you've ever thought about getting some Kaiyodos you shouldn't hesitate. Despite the size they are every bit as quality as reputation has it. The plastic is hard almost resin type (?) and contrary to what you'd expect, the tiny little pieces snap together easily and soundly. They are very well made, and amazingly detailed. I love and treasure them... the only off one, Hallucigenia may need some glue on the tail end, everything else fit together with no problem.

AGENDA 21!!!!

Article

Holt and other tea partiers are taking their cues from people like Henry Lamb, a WorldNetDaily columnist and founder of Sovereignty International and Freedom21, groups designed to fight Agenda 21 and its ilk. He has been arguing for decades that the UN is secretly plotting to herd humans into crowded cities so that the rest of the world can be devoted to wildlife preservation.

Huh... is it wrong to think that sounds pretty cool?

Grab bag, now with MOAR Chinasaurs!

LOLcat for scale.

JPIII Tapejara
The only real damage is small paint rubs. It still makes a noise when you press a button on the back, although it's supposed to make another when you push the neck forward to open the mouth. This is really exciting for me.





Jasman T-Rex
Minor Chinese company that, according to dinosaurcollector, made some remote-control dino's, plain models and this in the style of Jurassic Park. Apparently it would have made noise and had glowing eyes when it worked.





Polacanthus
Playskool Definitely Dinosaurs from 1987.





This Thing
A 2010 McDonald's premium from some movie (?) that looks like a mutated ankylosaur. It seems to have done something at some point, because when you push the button on its back, it opens its mouth and a red fireball looking tongue thing comes out (also pictured: a horse-thing from Avatar, which does light up. Found another, different Avatar creature but its leg was broken T_T ) The tabs on the side move but don't seem to do anything now. What is it? I just threw it in the 3-dollar bag along with a Breyer colt in nice shape.



You can never have enough plates and saucers, or old Russian language primers (2 more saucers for kitties' wet food)




Assorted Chinasaurs, a few from last time and some from yesterday. Actually a few of them aren't bad for cheap knockoffs... and I really like the Monoclonius type in front.