Soo, I finished watching Eureka Seven.
It's good stuff, all in all. The music is good, the scenario's good too - and on a concept design basis, everything works and looks like it can work (although it may seems contradictory, I often saw things which shouldn't have worked regardless of whatever laws of physics they used - and it didn't happen here ; so now I'm hoping one will invent Ref boards and that we will all go surfing the air waves).
The characters are interesting (it's not often that we have really tri-dimensionnal characters), with backstories and all, the world created works... Bones (that's the studio which did the serie) is really a guarantee of extremely good work.

Now that I said the good stuff, let's pass on the bad.
This was another serie who goes the way of the lollipop in the end. No, it ends only half pear-shaped, unlike some other series which began extremely pleasently and leave you wondering why it ended because you didn't understood the last episodes (cough Ergo Proxy and Yukikaze cough).
The two last episodes were weird - Dewey last fight especially... The Corellians were weird too, it looked as if it had already been done, and multicolored monsters are, well, multicolored monsters. It seemed to me as if they skipped up over stuff while keeping us busy (and sometimes bored) with Renton and Eureka's antics (that's the heroes).
 I would have wanted to see and know how and why the people part of the Gekko-State became part of this group. I would have wanted to know what happend to the rest of the Gekko-State during the epilogue, and not just stay focused of the kids. But they made a video game which apparently pick up after the end of the show, so I guess people who play the game know...(and this is annoying too, what's with this habit now of making series you have to follow on every format...)

That put aside, it's really good, and really worth watching (and I'm totally not saying that because of Holland who's a pretty intense character)

First in the short serie of thingies written, forgotten and found back for your reading pleasure

Fandom: Supernatural and a vastly AU takes on Naruto
Rating: R
Lenght: 4582 words
Parts of this story takes place during episode 3 of season 2 of Supernatural. The rest is a remix of Naruto and ninja's organizations.

*Went on a hike with my buddies, it was fun - lots of sun, still pretty snowy, good compagny we all got sunburns but me who managed to get 2nd degree burns

*This is the last time we ever agree to go see a movie recommended by both Eurieus and Marc (can't see why we even listen to their recommendations anymore...): if you want to see a horror movie, don't see 'REC' (a spannish movie, a bit 'Blair witch project' like but better) - I'll admit it was pretty well done but, man,... everything happened when you expected it to happen, and you could hear more laughs than screams in the theater - we were busy trying to see whether the effects were make-up or digital too...

*I began writing the first part of this Twilight/HP crossover bunny that ran with my brain - plot line is written and complete, just have to, well, write and make them talk.

*One month left and school's out. Can you believe this? The thing I can't believe is rather the amount of work I will not have the time to finish and give before the end.

Not feeling very hopeful about the future there.
Happens from time to time - just stop five seconds and realize how damn lucky I am and how privileged my family (and me) is.
Price of petrol makes me cry. No really, it does. I'm two fingers away from asking a loan each time I have to put gas in my car - and I can't do without my car 'cause my school is an half-hour drive away from home, in the nearest city, and there's no, absolutely no public transportation to go from my village to the city (... on a lighter note, I doubt I would fit into public transportation since I carry a mountain of stuff everyday...).
I really really wish they would move their collectives asses and produce affordable autonomous cars. We need it anyway, regardless of the cost of petrol.
Also, it's the end of the month. My mum went to buy food and stuff - nearly half of the supermarket was half-priced (we got this system in some regions of France: when food is going to be thrown away the next day, they put it at half the price so there's less stuff thrown away). That means people stopped buying food, and they stopped buying food 'cause they couldn't afford it.
Makes me pretty nervous about moving out when/in the eventuality I'll get a job.

sorry about this. I try not to think about all that too often - when it comes back, it's with a vengeance.




next time the Bad Box's open I'll talk about the time I was part of a filming crew at a psychiatric hospital....

Just finished watching 'Ghost Hound' (all 22 episodes). I'm going to miss it, it's so good - interesting, with a good plot and great characters, going on a radically different approch about supernatural, and then it's set in a really believable 'this is today's Japan'.
I could keep going on for a while but it's best to see it.

Found my cartoon! It's Meme iro iro yume no tabi (french title was 'Ordy et les grandes découvertes' and english one was 'The many dream journeys of Meme' or 'Mimu the traveller of many dreams', though I've found both)

I wanna sleep - it'll teach me to come back at 2 in the morning.  But I don't really care since  I spend at very good evening at my friends' - between their kids, playmobils, snow-white and various cartoons songs; and the later three got on the discussion once the kiddies asleep.

And we spend at least a good hour trying to find back the title of this cartoon whose name had eluded me for a few years now - everyone knows it once I draw the main character : it's a female-like form who got her hands at the end of her hair and she's all pink. I can't remember if it was a japanese animation or not, but I remember one episode  about robots and another about tuberculosis or maybe germs...
It's not a recent cartoon at all, more one which showed in the 80's- early 90's.
Anyone seeing what I'm talking about?

A shinobi is a high school student like another

"What if ... What if Konoha and her world existed nowadays, wars and clans and hidden villages a part of her rich past? What if the ninja traditions slipped in the shadows to survive? What if said ninja still existed?

My name's Hatake Kakashi. Or you can say Kakashi Hatake, European-like. I live on my own, I go to school, I have friends... and I'm a Konoha ninja. That alone shoud be enough. But war is brewing in the dark streets, gangs and cartels are moving one against the others to attract the attention of the new underground lord - and the people I held dear are starck in the middle of things."

This fic is an AU using Naruto from Mashashi Kishimoto, transposing people and events in an urban setting. It contains references to drugs, alcohol, couples of both sexs, violence, language, death, various issues - so please read responsibly.

all chapters have been re-read and edited - this version can be found only here.

Part 1    Part 2   Part 3  Part 4   Part 5   Part 6  Part 7  Part 8   Part 9  Part 10  Part 11  Part 12  Part 13   Part 14   Part 15   Part 16  Part 17  Part 18   Part 19   Part 20  Part 21  Part 22   Part 23   Part 24   Part 25   Part 26   Part 27


related art: for part 21  for part 22   for part 23

related ficlets and drabbles: A Shinobi: Sidelines part 1 part 2

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I've been told that it could be read even without having read Naruto. Enjoy.

As the title says, here's the main playlist and themes for 'A Shinobi is a highschool student like another'

1. The Servant Cells (Instrumental) - main title
2. Sigur Ros Hùn Jör> - end title
3.Yoko Kanno Undivided - HQ's theme
4. Björk Sweet sweet intuition - Rin's theme
5. Emilianna Torrini Dead things - Haku's theme
6. Alter Bridge In loving memory - Obito's absence
7.Eels I need some sleep - Kakashi's theme (1)
8. Counting Crows Colorblind - Kakashi's theme (2)
9. Archive Again - main theme

10. Foo fighters The pretender
11. Foo fighters Baker street
12. Venus Beautiful days
13.Thursday Into the blinding light
14. Six Feet Under OST Let's go out tonight
15. Björk Undo
16. Janus Isaak
17. Muse Sunburn
18. White Zombie More human than human
19. Johnette Napolitano & Danny Lohner The Scientist
20. Yoko Kanno There is no
21. Radiohead Talk show host

I think this place looks a bit better now - it's been quite a while since I've left the 'cyber' mindset the previous layout hinted toward. I'm trying things were I can, since I'm incredibly frustrated with this ability I have in real life to stay in one place and stick to it no matter what and no matter how it hurts.
This is why I hate holidays - it leaves me with too much time, even when I'll have work to give back once school starts again. And I do nothing. I want to do things, have a look at expositions, see people, just walk in the nearest city's streets and sketch what I see but no. As soon as I formule the idea in my head, I see time wasted, the price of oil, the work I should be doing... A friend of mine called and invited me to have lunch at his house with his wife and kids and I'm not sure how to answer even if I know it'll be very nice and that I'll be happy to see them.
It annoys me to very high levels, I'm conscious of it, and yet I don't feel like I'm doing anything about it. 

(not to mention that doing my work will just end up in more time to do nothing at school -not that I feel like I'm doing much already- since my promotion is made of bloody wankers who never finish anything on time and hold back the rest who try to do their thing - dear classmates, I wish you luck for obtening the diplom next year and a job afterward!)



I should draw something just for myself.