Icon posts — icons I release publicly are here (Tanemura Arina) or here (Tsukino Usagi).

Anime/manga goods for sale: pencil boards here; everything else here.

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So. Comment, friend, etc.

I have made two more of them. Because I was looking at the eBay Minerals → Display Specimens auction listings, highest-price first (because those are usually the prettiest pictures.)



On the left is tanzanite, on the right is a clear (white) sapphire with a blue area inside. (Also, it looks like a bird face, to me. Or maybe it's just late.)

Selling my last Sailor Moon gashapon figure and my Tsubasa artbook. (Everything else you might have seen here, has sold. Eheh.)

It's all right here, if you're interested.

Two videos (out of 80-ish) of an amazing Japanese cat. Maru loves boxes. Maru should try out for a Studio Ghibli film. I heart Maru.

( ...and you will too! )

So if you're my age and up, you probably remember these shows. Especially Airwolf, with that awesome helicopter and that hot guy SUPER HOT GUY? Anyway, behind the cut are two seriously awesome mashups: Star Wars/Airwolf intro, and Star Wars/MacGuyver intro. (The MacGuyver one is seriously impressive; I love all the "gadget" shots!)

( In which I bring the Tube to You. )

...she has been re-themed. I like the new theme. :D Colors I like, and robots, and STARS. <333
YesIameasilyentertained.Whatofit?

Did the subject get your attention? Good. (I really have no adequate icon for this, but oh well.)

This blog post speaks of the recent death of a NASA scientist — Mel Averner — who went on the record with quite possibly the BEST QUOTE EVAR. (Emphasis mine.)

In 1990, a musical group called Digital Underground came out with an album called "Sex Packets," claiming that a NASA scientist had developed this hitherto unknown item "to satisfy astronauts' sexual appetites during space travel."

Averner -- who was in charge of life science research for NASA [and] would have known about such things -- described the "sex packets" as "absolute nonsense." Then he explained: "First, it would be impossible to satisfy the carnal urges of astronauts. Secondly, to my knowledge, unbridled lust has never interfered with a space mission."

I have been laughing at that last bit... ALL DAY.

...that today is in fact No Line Day, and you can run right out and purchase U2's No Line On The Horizon as soon as you're able. (Which, in my case, is tomorrow. C'est la vie.)

Check out the beautiful new Full Moon wo Sagashite fl, adopted by suzukaze! :D :D

I just have to pimp radiuju's gorgeous adoption of the Takuto fanlisting because it's just so so very pretty. Lookit! :D Adoptions turn out so pretty, makes me wish I were adopting out more things. XDDDD

Hoping you have a wonderful, squirrel-filled day!! <33333333

I have been shamed by my icon meme, which was approximately 53% Usagi icons, despite my best efforts, to have a little more diversity in my iconage. Presenting: The Moon, from The Four Stars by Alphonse Mucha, circa 1902. (With a couple of textures, of course.) It's not that there's anything wrong with dear Usagi-chan, and certainly doing a 100-icon challenge will result in having a lot of icons for a given subject, but I'd like to have a few other interests represented, so I'm making some efforts to do so. Also, right now I'm really leaning towards textless icons, rather than icons that say things (with a few exceptions, Animal Crossing: City Folk among them.) I may remake some things from the challenge down the line that I'd rather have textless (nothing like a challenge to force you to put words on things.)

Oh, uh, I also made this from Sakura-hime Kaden, if anyone wants to steal:


Also this, I love Sleeping Beauty:


There you go. Diversity. Or at least, more so than before. :P

Stolen from lacus and lenneth, brought to you by not finishing something I probably ought to have finished, and LJ downtime.

( Meme here. )

Here I am with my first real LJ-hosted 50bookchallenge list!

( Books below the cut! )

In addition to the 50bookchallenge, I'm happy to participate in lenneth's Patricia A. McKillip Challenge, and encourage you to do the same!

My choices are:

1. Od Magic


2. In the Forests of Serre


3. Song for the Basilisk (out of print)

About the only blog post I missed from Hoshichan was my 50bookchallenge list for this year, so here it is:

( 2008 Reading List )

Samples:


( Icons under here! )

Comment and credit if you use any! :)