See this post for all relevant details, as well as for Gintama, Mushishi & Oofuri doujinshi! First come, first served - except the Soul Eater & Samurai Champloo doujinshi, that I'm keeping for anglepoiselamp until I know which ones she might want to claim. (Dibs are dibs!) I'll edit the post as soon as I hear from her.

Don't be shy - I have another doujinshi event to go to, and I need to unload these to make a little extra cash to buy other doujinshi for. Depending on the circumstances, I might be willing to discuss the prices...!

( One Piece (15 normal, 1 anthology) )

( Samurai Champloo (1) )

( Soul Eater (5) )

Hi guys! I need to redistribute some of my loot to be able to afford more loot! Help me out, and get shiny, shiny doujinshi for roughly what I paid for them myself!

All prices are in yen. See here for a good conversion site. Right now 1000 yen = 10.86 USD, 11.27 CAD, 7.57 EUR, 11.88 AUD & 77.30 SEK.

Explanation of sizes (approximately): B5 - 7.2 in x 10.3 in (18 cm x 25.7 cm), A5 - 5.8 in x 8.2 in (14.5 cm x 20.5 cm)

( Gintama (3 collections, 2 normal) )

( Mushishi (1) )

( Ookiku Furikabutte (4) )


Transaction details: PayPal, with the buyer paying for shipping & handling. Handling shouldn't be more than a couple of hundred yen (packaging + PayPal cost), and shipping will be decided by the Post of Japan. Their prices depend on a lot of different variables, as the following example - sending 300g as a "small package" to the US - demonstrates:

Express Mail Service: 1,200yen, 2 days
Surface: 430 yen, 2-3 months
Airmail: 600 yen, 6-10 days
Economy Airmail （SAL）: 380 yen, about 2 weeks

Prices are different to different parts of the world. EMS is the most expensive form of shipping, but see EMS rates for an idea of what the zones are.

Basically, it depends on the weight of the parcel, and the speed at which you want it delivered. I am willing to be very flexible, and I will mail things out without delay! How to buy: let me know in in the comments if anything sounds interesting, and we'll figure out details and such by PM/mail. More doujinshi: One Piece, Samurai Champloo & Soul Eater

I've been to Korea!

( Korea is cold )

Back to school tomorrow! Wow, what a holiday it has been. ^^;

I thought I'd post my booklist for 2009. It's far from impressive though. It's actually worse than last year's 35 books, because this year I read only 31 :P Most of it manga, as usual. Damn. Ah well, I better read more this year or I won't meet my 101/1001 goal of reading 150 books ;) Speaking of that, I'll give you my updated 101/1001 list in a post soon. But first.. books! :)

( Books read in 2009 )

Jag har nämnt innan att jag ska iväg på en vinterturné. Nu har den gått så långt att den fått sin egna bild och sitt första klotter. Hah!

( Lite klotterserier och runt min vistelse i Halland )

Det var det, och imorgon går turnén över på sin tredje och sista del. Jag drar till Malmö. Vill folk ses? Ni har mitt nummer ;)



Stockholm 17 - 28 Dec 2009
* Besökte Jenny Hannula
* Julafton med familjen
* Juldagsöl med Yvette Gustafsson och Martina Bergsjö
* Fika med Li Österberg
Halland 29 Dec 2009 - 5 Jan 2010
Observera att jag här inte bokar in någon. Dude.
En fröjd med att åka till Halland är att koppla av i ett
hus i skogen och möta K och hans släkt.
Malmö 6 Jan - 10 Jan 2010
Boendet kommer gå såhär :D
Onsdag: Diana Davidsson
Torsdag: Karin Rindewall
Fredag: Tomas Lif & Lisa Sjöblom
(kvällen blir klubb och häng, Sara Hansson?)
Lördag: Robin Ragnarsson
Söndag: SJs nattåg till Stockholm

Fredag kl tio kommer jag besöka Serieskolans traditionella fredagsfika. :)
Och till helgen blir det även forte reunion!! Jag och Lisa Medin gör stan osäker!

Idag var jag förbi Apoteket en sväng. Passade på att köpa 2 av Olivas Lip Care (with shine) då jag hade en rabattkupong värd 25 kr. Har en tub redan, men den kommer snart ta slut, då jag upptäckt att jag inte kan leva utan detta magnifika cerat. Det har en svag, härligt blommig doft, gör läpparna mysigt mjuka samtidigt som de får en lätt ton av ett rosa skimmer. Jag känner mig alltid lika bortskämd och söt vid varje applicering. Och jag blir lika upprörd varje gång jag har glömt kvar min tub på jobbet eller hemma. Visst, jag har andra cerat, men det är något väldigt speciellt med Oliva. Jag köpte det första gången på impuls, och sedan dess har jag varit hooked. :) Helt klart en favorit i vintermörkret.

I've had a couple of thinky thoughts since the beginning of the new year, and I don't think they're all fever hallucinations... However, my brain is still going ~woo~, so I'll stick to a very small thinky thought:

I miss playing games.

A long, long time ago, I played console games. I've always played board games - first with my family, and then with my little group of close friends. I grew into roleplaying games, and I still love that kind of exercise of the imagination.

Last year, I didn't play a single game. And that feels a little sad. I still have many, many creative and entertaining (and childish!) things to do, but - no games!

Obviously, there's no chance of finding a gaming group where I am right now. I also don't even have a TV, and investing in that and a console is right out. My laptop is new, but most emphatically not a gaming machine.

Which leaves me with those little - portable game machines. (Shut up, I am ancient - the last one I had (shared with my bro) was something called a Game Boy - and, no, none of these fancy color displays!)

That is to say that, err. I have no idea where I could even start. I don't even know what I like anymore, because I am rather lagging behind the whole game development curve. I know there are DS Lights and. Other small games. And that seems good, right? ...

How is the gaming experience on those? Would I get bored/get eyestrain from playing nothing like that? Would I totally give up on gaming again?

Um. I like RPGs, I think, and also puzzle-type games - those are very relaxing.

Would it be better to get a newish, more expensive machine, or look for something a little older and cheaper? Again, I am living in Japan - it's not going to be too difficult to find something. The question is just where the fun gaming experiences are - am I way off base in thinking the hand held games can be used for more than a diversion between work/school and your awesome home game center? (The one I don't have, and can't get.)

ETA: The Nintendo DS Lite is getting a lot of votes! And it's affordable enough that I'm tempted to look into it on my next Osaka trip already~! Thank you for all the help! ♥

☆　I am feeling better! This rest & relaxation thing definitely has stuff going for it, I have to say. I even had two meals of real food today, and it was wonderful. (One of the meals was sushi. ♥ I love that my closest food place is a rotating sushi restaurant.)

☆　shayera mailed my cellphone (I noticed 12 hours after the fact orz), saying she'd gotten over a third of my ticket money back for me! So I'm not in Korea, but I'm not losing quite as lot as I thought I would be! \o/ Let's just consider it money well spent to be at home with my computer, getting sleep and food and taking care of my health.

☆　The Sherlock Holmes movie almost everyone on my f'list has been going crazy about is coming out in Japan in just ten weeks! (Shut up. March 12 is a short wait for Japan - remember, Up came out just a month ago.) So I can go with shayera, and whoever else is interested!

☆　My doujinshi are wonderful and beautiful, and I show off the Comiket 77 shininess in a locked post - anyone interested who is not seeing it, please let me know.

Now if I could just get rid of this ow-ow-it-hurts-make-it-stop ache that I've got going in my back, I'd be all set to face the new work year on Thursday...!

I know I've got a bunch of fellow bi/multilingual people on my f'list, so I wanted to ask something I've been curious about for a long time - do you guys get into some kind of fixed language pattern with other multilinguals?

For example:

I always (always, always) speak French with my mom (Swiss) and dad (Swedish). It's to the point where I feel extremely weird writing them in Swedish (which I do because my written French is atrocious) - it's like I'm addressing someone totally different if I'm using the "wrong" language. This despite the fact that I am not as fluent in French as I am in Swedish, and that my dad, too, is a native Swedish-speaker.

I also always, always speak Swedish with my little brother - though he, too, always speaks French with our parents.

Oh, and if we didn't don't know a word in French, we usually just toss in a Swedish one. Our friends are always quite amused by the flow of conversation between the four of us. XD (Especially those who speak Swedish, but no French, and will hear blah blah blah screwdriver blah blah crafts blah.)

( More musings on language settings )

So now I'm wondering if it's just me, and my brain, or if this is something other multilingual people do, too, just to keep the various languages straight...

Sorachi you bastard. Making me sob and sob and sob...! (Gin-chan, sometimes you are the best mommy ever. ♥)

Next episode: finally at the cat arc! Which amused me greatly when I flipped past it in the manga. If the cat arc makes me cry, I will find you and kick you, Sorachi, I swear...!

Some thoughts on the Tenth Doctor and the latest episode:

( Spoilers for The End of Time, part 2 )

I'm in a Doctor Who mood now. I wish I could continue my interrupted viewing of Old Who (I had watched half-way through the Second Doctor), but all of that is back in Sweden...

I'm trying not to get too depressed over what getting sick is making me miss, but today I added "trip to Seoul" to the list, and. Well. Korea. Which I won't be going to. It's not a happy thing; it is a necessary thing.

Not only am I still sick (though doing better! \o/), but - we were going to leave the day after tomorrow.

( Still - siiiigh )

So, to distract myself from woes, I am reading Metafilter and TV Tropes (not linked because I am good and do not enable my friends!) and one thing lead to another and. Uh. Now I appear to be watching Hetalia?

If I should be watching anything else - anything appropriate for a rather squishy, non-thinky brain - please let me know. Links to sources and such would be awesome, and can always be sent by mail if they should be. Uh. Secret sources. naye@livejournal.com works fine.

...I am watching Hetalia. I don't know about the show yet, but just - having been nonplussed about the whole phenomenon for so long I am massively amused by the fact that this is what my brain decides to do when my body is sick. (Not dissing Hetalia or anything - it just never seemed like my cup of tea!)

So, yeah. I'm not really bored, but - drifting from one thing to the next, all out of FMA anime (all caught up!), not quite focused enough to read anything long, definitely not focused enough to read anything in Japanese... This is a very good time to introduce me to your favorite shinies that I have been missing out on! ♥ Randomly, I AM a bit curious about Reborn and Fairy Tail...

Jag har blivit ganska introvert. Det finns så mycket jag vill skriva om, berätta om. Så många känslor. Men jag kan inte förmå mig att börja skriva om det. Så därför är det tacksamt att besvara frågor om det gångna året istället för att försöka beskriva det i essäform.

Snodd från Tanja, en riktig gammal klassiker. Memen, inte Tanja. Tanja är framtiden.

( 2009 )

Mindfuck. When you see it you'll shit bricks.

Det var sista gången jag var i Malmö. Jag hade redan flyttat alla mina saker veckan innan, men jag hade ett sista ärende i stan. Allting kändes konstigt. Ungefär som efter katastrofen eller något. Det var samma gator, men ändå inte. Jag kände mig lite som i serien Rahxephon när de efter ett tag återvänder till Tokyo, och hur märkligt allt måste kännas. Nånting kändes annorlunda.
Eftersom det var sista helgen jag var i Malmö bestämde jag mig för att besöka min vän. Pygmetröglorin. En Pyggmetröglori är ett väldigt skyggt djur, och jag hade bara sett den ihopkurad till en liten boll innan. Och nu som genom magi förstod Tröglorin att jag aldrig mer skulle komma att besöka den, så den smög sakta sakta fram till glasrutan och hälsade på mig. Det var verkligen storslaget hur den visade upp sig. Den rörde sig så sakta, som om den smög sig fram. Och den hade så vackra stora ögon. Verkligen världens bästa djur! Och åtminstone dubbelt så gullig som en katt. Sen efter en halvtimme med tassa runt bland ormbunkarna kilade den raskt upp i ett träd och kröp ihop till en liten boll och gömde sig. Farväl Tröglorin, nu syns vi kanske aldrig mer! Jag kommer sakna dig!

A few days back (last year, lol), the first season boxset of the anime Kodomo no Omocha – or Kodocha, as it was so wisely renamed for the English release – reached by doorsteps. I figured that this time, I wouldn’t skip straight to the dub, and actually go through the whole thing in Japanese like I always used to, but it only took me an episode to conclude that the dub was a better option after all.

Why? Not because the japanese voice acting or was bad – quite the opposite – but the subtitles. The subtitles. I don’t mind the “-chan-kun-san” in a sub when it’s in this kind of Japanese setting, but Funimation, in their infinite wisdom, always puts them in italics. I’ve always had the impression that italics are generally used to put extra emphasis on the word, but they use it only to distinguish the suffixes – or any other Japanese words left in – from the English words. So not only are we stuck with suffixes, they’re rubbing them in our faces (“Good morning, Sana-chan”). And to top it off, they are so determined to keep the suffixes that they go out on their way to keep every mention of the name that goes with them, and as we all know, the Japanese call each other by name way more than English natives. It all makes for a translation that's way literal; I even think I saw a mistranslation once.

It seems Funimation is so focused satisfying both dub-fans and purists, they can’t seem to find a healthy balance. You either get a dub that’s more liberal than some would deem necessary, or a subtitle track that isn’t liberal at all; never just a decent translation overall. There are exceptions – Fullmetal Panic: Second Raid being one – but generally they don’t seem to put much love into their subtitles. By all means, prove me wrong! I’d love to see more releases from companies like The Ocean Group – whose subtitles, from my experience, are almost always on the spot – but alas, since Funimation is now the overlord of the anime world, those of us who prefer it in Japanese may be doomed to feast on fansub-esque translations for retail DVD’s. Maybe I’m the only one who cares, I’ve put off series before in lack of good subtitles, so this approach worries me.


On the upside, Kodocha in itself isn’t bad at all. It’s crazy, fun and serious all at once – like most japanese comedies – and the dub isn’t half bad either. Frankly, it’s the best anime I’ve watched in a long time.

I swear - whatever's gotten into my body is getting to my head, too. Am feeling quite rambly (and possibly very much alone). Being totally housebound doesn't help, either.

State of health: fever is almost gone! (It was up to 40C yesterday, so I was a little worried...) I managed to get more sleep. My stomach is nasty, and I worry a little about dehydration. But I have water, and Aquarius (sports drink), and all the tea I can drink. Food intake so far today: one mikan, one small bowl of rice, half an apple, and a piece of cheese. This seems to be less than optimal, but I don't really know what to do about it, when I can't stand up for long without getting very dizzy...

If it wasn't for computer-Brook, I would also be out of my mind with boredom. Yesterday I was too feverish to do much more than nap, look a bit at an anime, and nap some more. Today my brain is working better, but my body still hates me.

I wish I had insightful and inspiring things to say to mark the passing of the 00's and look forward to the - tens? But, alas, brain isn't working that well.

So, I'll just start the year off with three recommendations!

( Fullmetal Alchemist (not spoilery) )

( Terry Pratchett's Nation (also not spoilery) )

( Having a flu kit )