HI. Um, yeah, I'm terribly busy with my internship and attempting to graduate this summer and all those shenanigans, but I did get my two weeks in Japan with anei_no_tsuki figured out!

So Dears that are reading this, I will be at these lives:

6/28 @ FUKUOKA
6/29 @ FUKUOKA
7/4 @ YOKOHAMA
7/6 @ YOKOHAMA
7/7 @ YOKOHAMA

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Hi there, I'm enjoying my much needed winter break by pulling allnighters like a boss. So here I am, LJ. XD

My efforts of the past months have been off as I have found myself an internship, just in time! The company is a consulting and translating agency (among a lot of other things) dealing with the UK and other international costumers and consists of only two female employees. According to them I'm just what I was looking for (even though my specialisation is in Asian communiation) and I very much like the fact that it's going to be only the three of us working, meaning I'd be fully immersed in what's going on and learn a lot. I wouldn't want to be shut away in a cubicle at some large office with some random tasks. We're going to be working towards organising a big congress in the months I'm working there, so I'm looking forward to it! The only thing that's left before I'm set is getting the green light from school, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Me and anei_no_tsuki also got tickets to G's BEST OF BEST tour, we're going to be in Nagoya, Fukuoka and Yokohama (birthday live and final!) and man if that isn't a good reason to not show up at my graduation ceremony (which is on July 4) I don't know what is.

So long story short, good things ahead in 2013 and it should make up for the mess that was 2012.

While I was so busy I often found refuge in drawing. I've done it more in the past few months than I did in the last 2 years or so. I found that when I get back into it and do a lot, I really develop new techniques and start trying new things.


SUPERGIRL


THE BIRDS OF PREY
(Batgirl / Huntress / Black Canary)


NIGHTWING


STARGIRL


RAVEN


ROBIN! (Ame-comi version)


RANDOM PRETTY (with bat-cleavage)




I hope you are all well, by the way!

You know that feeling when you work on something for quite a while, and you end up not even thinking it looks good anymore because you've seen it too much by the time it's done?

Or perhaps I just suck, lol.

So yeah I drew Wonder Woman cuz she's flawless and all sorts of booyah. :D



School hasn't even started yet and it's already giving me headaches. I somehow have to fit together my current 4th year timetable with the classes that I missed last year due to my going to Japan for my internship in September 2011, and the timetables for the third year students aren't even up yet while classes start this Monday. So yeah, I'm bound to have missed a few already by the time I get everything sorted out.

I can't mention enough how I hate it when I want to be assertive but things are just out of my hands.

Sorry guys I just.. now I really need to vent. Because I'm reaching my limit with this shit.

I've kept quiet about this way too long so let me get this straight now.

I'm getting fucking FED UP with people complaining about people complaining.

No hard personal feelings here, but when I (or anyone else) can't devote a few tweets or whatever to expressing dissapointment that YFCz will be doing the soundtrack to Moon Saga without condescending reactions along the lines of "OH, this FANDOM........" popping up everywhere, then something is definitely wrong.

I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but don't make it sound like people's frustrations are what's eating away at "this fandom".

What's eating away at it is the childish INTOLERANCE of another's opinion or emotions that is rampant and shows in the way people are pointing fingers and whiteknighting all over the place, sometimes with people really getting hurt.

We've had to deal with less-fun comments from people outside the fandom through the years, but here we're dealing with a fandom that has been quite divided on the inside about something for quite some time. I understand it's hard reading things about beloved artists that you'd rather not read (whether it's about YFC, Gackt's hair, Gackt's sexist slander on Twitter or whatever), and feeling the need to defend them. We need to accept that as long as Gackt's attention is divided, we as a fandom are going to be divided.

But just because Gackt has feels about things like every one does, that doesn't mean I'm not entitled to mine. It doesn't make me a lesser fan, a troll, a YFC hater (which I am not, I'm just done with them), or someone who deliberately spreads negativity.

To be frank, the way Gackt feels about YFC matters little to me. If I told that to him he would probably shrug and carry on. If I told him that I want him to spend a bit less time channeling a messiah which is making him pressed as hell right now and contribute to the soundtrack as Gáckt, he would shrug and carry on. Doesn't matter, that's what he should do because apparently that's what he wants to do.

But that doesn't make my wants and feels any less relevant and true to mé. Gackt isn't making me very happy lately, excuse me for lamenting that and wanting to go back to times when he did.

With this atmosphere of "the way of LOVE EVERYTHING or the highway/stfu" I feel limited in my freedom of expression, and that does hurt, because you are all dear to me.

Monday was the day I went to stay at my new place in Maastricht for the first time. My dear friend scarlet_penta joined me for a few days of fun! (and spending way too much on supplies, ugh I hate this part)

→WE BAKED THAT GODDAMN CAKE.



A lifetime first for me. (baking anything, that is)

It's a vanilla cake with whipped cream & white chocolate flake (Dutch people eat chocolate flakes on bread for breakfast, haha) topping. It's VERY good! Half of it is still sitting in the fridge but thankfully I'm at my parents' place again so it won't be me eating all of it.



This is basically the bedroom.. besides this, there's a dining room which I made part lounge room by dropping my couch there, and a fully equipped kitchen. (hence the baking)
I spent all my saved-up money on a new tv and some storage furniture, leading to me being broke again now. XD

I'm the only student in the 4 story building, so it's very quiet which I like. And I've already done more walking the past 3 days than I did in like the past 3 weeks, because the city center is literally around the corner. I love skipping the bus and walking straight to my apartment when I leave the trainstation, and the direct vicinity has zounds of bakeries, grocery shops, restaurants, a fucking nightshop (which is the extremely rare Dutch equivalent of a convenience store that only opens at night) and even a post office/book shop complete with ATM-hidden-in-what-used-to-be-window-and-is-too-high-up-for-me.

I'm trying my best to keep my head with running projects at school, but with Gackt being a boring turd lately (July 4th and Moon Saga can't come soon enough) it didn't take long for me to find new distractions, such as my old (as in, childhood-old) obsession with The Goddamn Batman (new tag introduction). Ok that basically happened when I rewatched Batman Beyond on lonely nights in Tokyo, but I'm not complaining since it's a refreshing creative outlet. Other people must be thinking I'm turning into a nerd or something though. (care = 0%, have to do SOMETHING when the rest of the world is occupied with the Avengers) (And yes, I did end up seeing the Avengers somewhere along the way even though I can't stand 3D. It was amusing, better than the solo movies that led up to it (I only saw Iron Man 1&2 and Thor though) but no Oscar material, just riding the same wave of "never-before-done-movies" just like the other 2 movies in the top 3 box office hits (Titanic and Avatar) Pretty much a clusterfuck of slashable Ham To Ham Combat))

Something else that's made me happy lately is my favorite kitty returning to her old self after a much needed visit to the dentist. She's cute&cuddlier than ever!



The obsession with sleeping on bags and blocking subs on good movies isn't gone either~