<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- If you are running a bot please visit this policy page outlining rules you must respect. http://www.livejournal.com/bots/ -->
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:lj="http://www.livejournal.com">
  <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu</id>
  <title>I'll be gone</title>
  <subtitle>In a day or two... !</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Des</name>
  </author>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/"/>
  <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom"/>
  <updated>2009-11-26T06:59:58Z</updated>
  <lj:journal userid="4052866" username="deathdesu" type="personal"/>
  <link rel="service.feed" type="application/x.atom+xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom" title="I'll be gone"/>
  <link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:76595</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/76595.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=76595"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2009-11-25T22:59:00</title>
    <published>2009-11-26T06:59:58Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-26T06:59:58Z</updated>
    <content type="html">So, hello to everyone who friended me at &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_mayfield_rpg' lj:user='mayfield_rpg' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://community.livejournal.com/mayfield_rpg/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif' alt='[info]' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://community.livejournal.com/mayfield_rpg/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;mayfield_rpg&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; !  All... two of you, I think. Hahah |D &amp;hearts; But I think this is the thing to do anyway, making an intro. And hey, maybe some people on my FList will learn new things anyway. Sorry it's so late. orz &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm Des! I'm 22 years old, live in San Diego, currently my major is undecided although it used to be theater. Still, I could get my associate's now if I wanted to, but I'm not going to yet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I am currently unemployed, I waste all of my free time contributing to fandom - mainly RPing but sometimes I deviate into fan art and other things. However my most well-known contribution to any fandom was the &lt;a href="http://haopants.tripod.com/"&gt;shrine to Hao's pants&lt;/a&gt; I made when I was like 15 or something. ... I keep telling myself I should finish it someday, but then I wonder what the point would be in updating after 7 years. If I'm going to do that, I should wait 3 more years and make it a 10-year-anniversary kind of thing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... So as you can see, I also like to ramble and get off on tangents. My AIM is&lt;strong&gt; Macrocosm Says&lt;/strong&gt; if you want to get off on tangents together! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I guess that's it.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:76421</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/76421.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=76421"/>
    <title>Writer's Block: Yes, offense taken</title>
    <published>2009-10-26T01:24:28Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-26T01:25:35Z</updated>
    <category term="writer&amp;apos;s block"/>
    <category term="confront"/>
    <category term="racist"/>
    <category term="homophobic"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_7'&gt;
&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1113'" /&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1113"&gt;View 1577 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;definitely confront them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But being that way cost me a relationship that I&amp;nbsp;really cared about.&amp;nbsp; Supposedly we made up, but she still hasn't spoken to me.&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;don't get people. Why does this keep happening?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:75817</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/75817.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=75817"/>
    <title>Writer's Block: Old friends</title>
    <published>2009-10-11T03:43:16Z</published>
    <updated>2009-10-11T03:43:16Z</updated>
    <category term="writer&amp;apos;s block"/>
    <category term="keep in touch"/>
    <category term="back in touch"/>
    <category term="old friends"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_8'&gt;
&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever reconnected with long-lost friends over the Internet? Overall, have the relationships you've rekindled been more meaningful or superficial? Are there any people you wish you hadn't run into again online?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 0.8em;'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=1099'" /&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=1099"&gt;View 416 Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- end .appwidget-qotd --&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;I've reconnected with several online friends. I&amp;nbsp;don't think any of my rekindled online relationships have been superficial... well maybe one or two. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Zilon and I, the connection wasn't ever really lost &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much. We were just going separate paths - she was absorbed in an MMO, and I&amp;nbsp;wasn't, so we didn't talk to each other for a few years. But now that we've reconnected to work on our project, our bonds have deepened a lot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the case of Suka and PR, it was really a huge relief. We don't talk as much, but it means a lot to me that we were able to be friends again, on any level. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:75271</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/75271.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=75271"/>
    <title>God, I suck at updating.</title>
    <published>2009-07-10T04:41:19Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-10T04:42:35Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;i&gt;Comment with the name of a character, pairing, etc., in one of my fandoms/fandom we share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll post you an "instant" mini-fanmix: a cover and 3-5 songs that remind me of that character/pairing/show/etc. I'll upload the songs and everything!&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This might take me a while but I've never tried anything like it before so what the hell, could be interesting.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:74696</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/74696.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=74696"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2009-04-30T12:17:00</title>
    <published>2009-04-30T19:27:28Z</published>
    <updated>2009-04-30T19:29:21Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Name a series and I'll pick characters from it whom I would: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Bake cupcakes for: &lt;br /&gt;2. Trust with the keys to my car: &lt;br /&gt;3. Put thumbtacks on the chair therof: &lt;br /&gt;4. Have a crush on: &lt;br /&gt;5. Pack up and leave if they moved next door: &lt;br /&gt;6. Vote for President: &lt;br /&gt;7. Pick as my partner in a buddy movie: &lt;br /&gt;8. Pair up: &lt;br /&gt;9. Vote off the island and into the volcano: &lt;br /&gt;10. Wheedle into fixing my MP3 player: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o1. Grab the nearest book. &lt;br /&gt;o2. Open the book to page 23. &lt;br /&gt;o3. Find the fifth sentence. &lt;br /&gt;o4. Post the text of the next five sentences in your journal along with these instructions: &lt;br /&gt;--Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. &lt;br /&gt;--Tag five other people to do the same. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;So now that I have a seer on my side, you can look into the future and find the tea!&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Actually, to predict the future, I have to look at the remains in the bottom of a teacup, and do readings on the shapes that they make. So you see...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;You need tea to find the tea, huh?&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;But we're in luck - amongst the people in the party, I read someone's mind and they were thinking about how to smuggle tea...lots of tea.&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The closest book was my personal notebook. '-' So I guess I'll explain... in this story, one of my characters, Magnus, was in a high school class had to write about where he saw himself in 20 years, or something like that. And so he starts writing this farcical James Bond-like story about himself on a mission for the Prime Minister of Britishland to catch a villain who stole all the tea in the world. The character is pretty hyper and ADD so the script is fast-paced, stupid fun. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tagging whoever wants to do it.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:74491</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/74491.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=74491"/>
    <title>Meme from Kim!</title>
    <published>2009-04-17T18:59:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-04-17T19:04:26Z</updated>
    <content type="html">1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.&lt;br /&gt;2) Post this meme with your answers.&lt;br /&gt;3) Provide pictures and the names of 3 people.&lt;br /&gt;4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Zachary Quinto - Married&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://media.movieweb.com/news/07.2007/zach.jpg" /&gt; &lt;img alt="" src="http://pics.livejournal.com/lay_of_luthien/pic/0053pbs1" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I love Sylar. But besides that, he seems to be really soft-spoken and laid-back, but, without being unconfident or a sissy. I also think he has a good sense of humor, but the kind that wouldn't get annoying. I think he has the right balance of seriousness, and probably has the most in common with me out of the three. ... And my dad would likely be thrilled if I married him, cause he's &lt;a href="http://www.bubblefrog.net/dotclear/images/Movies/startrek_promo2.jpg"&gt;Spock.&lt;/a&gt; And I really like his eyes and I think he has the best choice in clothing... cause he's sort of into fashion, I hear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lee Pace - c...cliffed oh my god I'msosorry. 8D; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.thepiemaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/lee_parade_3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aiiigh. Lee is so humble and so nice, he seems like such a softie. I don't think he would survive being married to me, and as for a quick shag... I dunno, he doesn't seem like a one-night stand kind of guy, he looks so shy. So I'd either be misleading or taking advantage of him somehow, and I'd feel so guilty. I feel really guilty about cliffing him too though... cause. &lt;a href="http://www.watchingpushingdaisies.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/67un4zuaned___01.jpg"&gt;HOW CAN YOU SERIOUSLY CLIFF THAT!?&lt;/a&gt; But uh. I'm going to say that it's a small cliff overlooking a big deep lake and it was done playfully. 8Dv &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Josh Holloway - Shagged&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://bestof.provocateuse.com/images/photos/josh_holloway_99.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Josh is the funniest person out of the three, and laughter's an aphrodisiac. I think he'd be really charming, despite the fact that I'm not huge on his looks or accent, but neither of those is a deal breaker since I like his personality a lot. But he seems less artsy and geeky than Zach, so I'd probably have less in common with him. He'd probably get less fun over time, so, I'll just hit that. I think he'd be cool with it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:74053</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/74053.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=74053"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-12-31T23:26:00</title>
    <published>2009-01-01T07:31:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-01T07:31:43Z</updated>
    <content type="html">  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;ohay it's 2009.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; psh, for you&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; I still have an hour XD&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; How is it in the past?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; I hear you're still using rocks for wheels&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; Actually Chi says I have to save the future since I'm in the past. :|&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;You need to go back to the future to make sure your mom falls in love with your dad so you don't time paradox yourself out of existance.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; But my parents are divorced. 8|&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;Do you want to be time paradox'd!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; I DUNNO D:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;I GUESS NOT&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; INTO THE DELORIAN&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; **gets in the Delorian** &amp;gt;:|&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; I can't drive, does that matter? 8D&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;GREAT SCOTT&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;we need to get you a license before you fade out of existance&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;8D;;;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;Doc...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;I think we're gonna need a montage.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The hours approaching, just give it your best &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You've got to reach your prime. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s when you need to put yourself to the test, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And show us a passage of time!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We're gonna need a montage (montage) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oh it takes a montage (montage) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In anything if you want to go&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;From just a beginner to a pro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You need a montage!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Even Rocky had a montage!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(montaaage!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always fade out in a montage, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you fade out, it seem like more time &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Has passed in a montage, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: smaller;"&gt;Montage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;montage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;montaaaage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; ALL RIGHT! I'M READY TO GET IN THAT DELORIAN AND GO BACK TO THE FUTURE! &amp;gt;O&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;without running anyone over!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; GET TO IT MAR- OH HEY I MEAN DES&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;**DOES THAT SHIT.**&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; ANTICLIMATIC&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;WELL IF YOU MUST KNOW THE FULL STORY, MY PARENTS MET AT AN &amp;quot;UNDERCOVER&amp;quot; CONCERT AND STUFF.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des:&lt;/strong&gt; so I totally got to do that guitar playing bit anyway, despite the fact that I didn't know how to do that, I guess it got covered in the montage too&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Des: &lt;/strong&gt;montages are great&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zilon:&lt;/strong&gt; They really are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WELL&amp;nbsp;WHAT&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;MEAN&amp;nbsp;TO&amp;nbsp;SAY&amp;nbsp;IS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY&amp;nbsp;NEW&amp;nbsp;YEAR, GUYS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make it a good one!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:73236</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/73236.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=73236"/>
    <title>Yoinked from Akito~</title>
    <published>2008-07-28T18:46:53Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-28T19:08:45Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Name a series and I'll tell you the character(s) I would:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Bake cupcakes for:&lt;br /&gt;2. Trust with the keys to my car:&lt;br /&gt;3. Put thumbtacks on the chair therof:&lt;br /&gt;4. Have a crush on:&lt;br /&gt;5. Pack up and leave if they moved next door:&lt;br /&gt;6. Vote for President:&lt;br /&gt;7. Pick as my partner in a buddy movie:&lt;br /&gt;8. Pair up:&lt;br /&gt;9. Vote off the island and into the volcano:&lt;br /&gt;10. Wheedle into fixing my MP3 player:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and next up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o1. Grab the nearest book.&lt;br /&gt;o2. Open the book to page 23.&lt;br /&gt;o3. Find the fifth sentence.&lt;br /&gt;o4. Post the text of the next five sentences in your journal along with these instructions:&lt;br /&gt;--Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.&lt;br /&gt;--Tag five other people to do the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aheh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of my books are on a book shelf an equal distance away from the door.... and textbooks so don't count. So. Here is a clip from the closest book, that was not manga, a dictionary, or for school.&amp;nbsp; (But if manga counts, the quote is &lt;i&gt;"GAG WIND!"&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At eleven o'clock the phone rang, and still the figure did not respond, any more than it had responded when the phone had rung at twenty-five to seven in the morning, again at twenty to seven, again at ten to seven, and again for ten minutes continuously starting at five to seven, after which it had settled into a long and significant silence, disturbed only by the braying of police sirens in a nearby street at around nine o'clock, the delivery of a large eighteenth-century dual manual harpsichord at around nine fifteen, and the collection of same by bailiffs at a little after ten."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dear god, that was the longest sentence ever. what the hell, Adams. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, the quote WAS from my favorite book, "The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am tagging Courtney, Chi, Cruzle, Keii, and Kal. &lt;/blockquote&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:73052</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/73052.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=73052"/>
    <title>actually, the world ends with your ducks</title>
    <published>2008-07-14T07:12:37Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-14T07:13:49Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Des: I found more blinking ducks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: .-. ANGEL AND DEVIL BLINKING DUCKS, CHI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: ..........AWESOME.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: **b-bought them**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: If they start making more variations of blinking duck, I may end up with a collection. **deadpan**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: ...that'd be hilarious to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: like, every anime expo, I go as Near, and my blinking duck collection has grown in size&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: Yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: "Des, HOW MANY BLINKING DUCKS DO YOU HAVE"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: "THEY KEEP MAKING MORE"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: Eventually it gets to the point that we start stealing one each year. |D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: haha yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: You habitually take home last year's duckie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: Yes. XDDD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: because clearly, I am a duckie fashionista and cannot be seen with last year's duckie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: Yes. Because it's just soooooooooooooooo last year and sooooooooooooooooo not faboo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: XDDD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: IT'S ZETTA UNFASHIONABLE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: **takes her blinking ducks to Shibuya**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: **affects trends**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: .....what brand are they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: maybe they are in all different brands&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: or perhaps they are a category of their own! &amp;gt;O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: A new brand? :O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: Indeed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: Forget all the other brands! I wear the flashing duck brand! Pioneer of fashion! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: although since all it is is flashing ducks, you kind of do have to wear the other brands too unless you're staying in the tub for the rest of your life. :/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: that's what true fanatics of the flashing duck brand do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: they live in their bathtub. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: shunning clothes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: Shun the clothes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: Flashing duck brand - sweeping nudist colonies everywhere!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: Breaking into Shibuya culture!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: our pins are more badass!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des: why? BECAUSE THEY ALSO BLINK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chi: ...that'd be AWESOME</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:72804</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/72804.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=72804"/>
    <title>Con report deux</title>
    <published>2008-07-07T04:47:06Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-07T04:47:06Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, the Boba place was never open in the mornings, and the rest of the con, we stayed out much too late to want to bother to update, so I didn't get to update every night like I'd originally thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Friday&lt;/b&gt; was just me and Chi because Kal went to Universal Studios with her dad. The day was mostly spent shopping and wandering around. We went to artist alley and I picked up some cute Kingdom Hearts stationary paper. Actually, most of my purchases for this day were KH-related. I have a heartless shirt and hat and a nobody shirt too. The highlight of Friday took place from 11PM - 3PM, which was the Ultimate Karaoke Fighting Challenge!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was basically a singing tournament, where they made you sing random songs that you may or may not know while your opponent tried to distract you and they threw any number of silly tasks in that you also had to do. Chi was thwarted because they made her do Wii Fit while singing, so even Hare Hare Yukai could not rescue her and she dropped out in the first round. I, however, smoked my opponent &lt;strike&gt;Juan&lt;/strike&gt; Ivan because my category was video game music. I rocked FFX's "Otherworld", he had to sing some thing from Katamari Damacy that he didn't know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The Distraction challenge round was not something me or Chi participated in, but it was possibly the most epically funny thing I have ever seen. Imagine a man calling himself Steven Segall and trying to sing "Ride on Shooting Star" while one of the judges ties his shoelaces together and chases him around the stage while his opponent, a chesty blonde girl, bumps and grinds against him and someone else keeps unscrewing his microphone so he has to keep grabbing new ones and actually manages to rock the song. I REALLY wish I had a camcorder for this entire competition. We were dying all throughout it. 8D Steven got bumped out by the girl who beat Chi, but I'm glad for that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, a  few rounds later, I was making paper wings to sing Catch You Catch Me, and then throwing flashing ducks at a Fate/Stay Night cosplayer to screw up her Cruel Angel's Thesis. Yeah, Saber was quite good and a fan favorite, but I beat her, so I'm proud of that. In the end, I got second place, so I won some obscure DVDs and manga. Gave Chi the manga so she could read it on the plane - we'll see how I like "Shadow Star Narutaru."  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Saturday&lt;/b&gt;, I cosplayed as Near and Kal was Mikami. We had another air hockey battle - I won this time! And... well, we got it filmed, buuuut I lost that camera at the Nakagawa Shoko concert. (;_; Please find my camera, Con Ops.) Shokotan was awesome though. She cosplayed a bunch of different characters while singing - she was Yoko while singing Sorairo Days and Happily Ever After, of course, and pimped Gurren Lagann a whole lot. I got to hear what the English VAs sound like - not bad, really. Kamina's voice is a lot higher than I'm used to, but I think he can deliver the lines. He was also the MC for the Masquerade! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei skit group, who I thought was the best of the night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; "I'M IN DESPAIR! ANIME EXPO BEING HELD IN DOWNTOWN LA HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Oh, look! A purse snatcher! D:"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"That's not a purse snatcher! :D He's just holding her stuff so she can pose for pictures! Isn't that considerate?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Agh, it's a shooting!! D8" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"No, no! That's not a shooting! He just saw how hot her costume was, so he wanted to provide some ventilation! :D"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that, Kal and I made B coffee and drank it together, then took the remaining sugar cubes to find L cosplayers to give them to. I also gave out huge chocolate bars to Mello cosplayers, because I was an utter retard and forgot to bring all 10 of them when I was dressed as him. TT; Needless to say, we got a lot of hugs and lovin' and pictures of cosplayers posing with snack food. We are keeping this as a picture-getting strategy in the future. Free sugar makes everyone a lot friendlier! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was also an L orgy that had to get broken up by security - "This is a public venue! D8" Death Note cast pisses off security all week. Fuahahaha. We ended the day with DN as well, as the three of us watched the finale together in Kal's hotel room and then said our goodbyes to each other. So it really was a finale for our time together.... T^T orz D: D: D: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sunday&lt;/b&gt;, Chi and I packed, played Okage: Shadow King in our hotel for a while, I went on a last-minute shopping spree, and then we watched &lt;u&gt;Whose Line Is It Anime.&lt;/u&gt; Pretty funny, but nothing terrifically quotable that I remember, at least nothing that you'd get if you weren't there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, that's it! It was a blast and I can't wait until next year.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:72612</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/72612.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=72612"/>
    <title>CON REPORT. &amp;gt;D</title>
    <published>2008-07-04T07:00:47Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-04T07:00:47Z</updated>
    <content type="html">This whole day was awesome. From sharing the hotel room with Chi to walking around the con with her and Kal, I can't believe it's only the first day! This shit is going to go on all week?! Eeeeee *_*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, today Kal and I were Wammies - I was younger Mello and she was ... well, Near doesn't dress any different when he's younger, but. We are incredibly awesome cosplayers. Spent a great deal of time hating on each other, I failed at walling her because she was wearing a backpack,  and then we pissed off some security guards by roughhousing too much.  IC Near vs Mello air hockey was epic. Weird machine though, it ended our game when the score was tied! Maybe it was on a time limit. I suppose it was fitting though. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't make it to the AX Idol finals, but I'm happy with the job that I did. Considering I hadn't practiced at all. None of the judges had any critique for me, so I was good, but just not the BEST. There's always next year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After AX Idol we split up with Chi, and me and Kal made a precarious tower out of Death Note figurines ("Death Note Jenga!" as a passerby named it) while waiting for the showing of "L Change the WorLd." Definitely a movie made for the L fans - I wasn't really fangasming as much as the rest of the audience, but it had a decent story and plenty of funny moments, so I have no complaints. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got lost a LOT. Chi and I started the day off by getting lost, and we ended the day getting lost looking for some ice cream vending machine which we never found. Vic Micnogna is staying in Kal's hotel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Purchases were goggles and half of the Death Note figures. Will probably wear the goggles tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Boba place across from our hotel has free internet, so we plan on coming back here to upload our con pictures and make AX posts. We'll keep you posted! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;also, if you ever go to an anime con, yell "Believe it!!" once in a while. The reactions you get are hilarious.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:72404</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/72404.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=72404"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-07-02T08:53:00</title>
    <published>2008-07-02T15:55:20Z</published>
    <updated>2008-07-02T15:55:41Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Huhuhu! Me and Chi and Kal are going to Anime Expo! See you in a week! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so exciteeeed</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:71969</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/71969.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=71969"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-06-11T09:37:00</title>
    <published>2008-06-11T16:44:00Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-11T16:45:29Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;table width="350" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;;font-size:12px;background-image:url(&amp;#39;http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_bg.jpg&amp;#39;);background-repeat:no-repeat;"&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.espin.com/index.php?trip=833" title="eSpin the Bottle"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_ext_title.gif" alt="Behold... My Future" title="Behold... My Future" width="350" height="150" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="100" align="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_crush.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="193" style="padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px;"&gt;I will marry &lt;b&gt;Beyond Birthday&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="100" align="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_live_city.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_live_house.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="193" style="padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px;"&gt;After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in &lt;b&gt;Darfur&lt;/b&gt; in our fabulous &lt;b&gt;House&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="100" align="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_kids.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="193" style="padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px;"&gt;We will have &lt;b&gt;15 kid(s)&lt;/b&gt; together.&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="100" align="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_car.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_color.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="193" style="padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px;"&gt;Our family will zoom around in a &lt;b&gt;Gold Weeniemobile&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="100" align="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_money.gif" width="50" height="50" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="193" style="padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px;"&gt;I will spend my days as a &lt;b&gt;Cult Leader&lt;/b&gt;, and live happily ever after.&lt;/td&gt;
		&lt;td width="25"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
	&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.espin.com/mash-game.php?trip=833" title="whats your future"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.espin.com/images/mash/mash_what_yours.gif" alt="whats your future" width="163" height="33" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
	&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;				&lt;img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border="0" width="0" height="0" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/bT*xJmx*PTEyMTMyMDIyNDgxNDAmcHQ9MTIxMzIwMjI1MjA*NiZwPTExMDk5MSZkPU1hc2grR2FtZSZuPSZnPTE=.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... It's only fun if you put in duds, they said. XP &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I'm sure my serial killer husband and our 15 children will contribute to my cult. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh god, my name would be "Destini April Birthday" .... and my birthday is in April.... and my mom wanted me to be born in April. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**facepalm**</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:71706</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/71706.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=71706"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-06-07T19:54:00</title>
    <published>2008-06-08T03:04:55Z</published>
    <updated>2008-06-08T03:18:30Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Dear Tim Burton: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paxie and I have decided that you really ought to make a stop-motion movie out of Yu-Gi-Oh! We're sure it would be a major hit with your fan base. '_' After perusing your Wikipedia page and seeing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton#Recurring_Cast_members"&gt;what actors you like to use&lt;/a&gt;, here is our suggestion of a possible cast and our reasons as to why. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yugi &lt;/b&gt;should be played by &lt;b&gt;Deep Roy&lt;/b&gt;, because Deep Roy is a midget.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Seto&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Michael Gough&lt;/b&gt;, because he was in Doctor Who and Seto is a nerd. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tea&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Jan Hooks&lt;/b&gt;, because just look at her &lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Jan_Hooks.jpg/220px-Jan_Hooks.jpg"&gt;Wikipedia picture.&lt;/a&gt; I can feel the friendship speech!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joey&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Paul Reubens&lt;/b&gt;, because it doesn't get much funnier than that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tristan&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Michael Keaton&lt;/b&gt;, just because.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bakura&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Christopher Lee&lt;/b&gt;, because Christopher Lee is British and evil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mai Valentine&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Winona Ryder&lt;/b&gt;, because she has a nicer rack than Helena we think. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mokuba &lt;/b&gt;should be played by &lt;b&gt;Helena Bonham Carter&lt;/b&gt;, because Helena should be in the movie even if Winona's rack is nicer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, &lt;b&gt;Pegasus&lt;/b&gt; should be played by &lt;b&gt;Johnny Depp,&lt;/b&gt; because somehow nobody else was interesting or purple enough. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.....Anyway. Please make this movie, Tim. :) The world would be a better place.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:71512</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/71512.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=71512"/>
    <title>Anyone for an ARRRR-P?</title>
    <published>2008-05-15T05:05:45Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-15T05:16:36Z</updated>
    <content type="html">So hey, I know plenty of people on my F-List like Death Note, so I'm gonna give this a shot. '-'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm thinking of starting a DN RP on LJ. It would be AUcrack. With PIRATES. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried it once on Gaia and it didn't work out so well, 'cause, well... Gaia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the Age of Exploration for the Island Nations of Mu. There are two nations present in Mu; The Luken Kingdom and the Nura Kingdom. Sailors from all walks of life take to the seas, for thrills, fortune, and glory. But there is one fortune that could change the course of the world:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Death God’s Treasure. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Many a yarn has been told about the Death God’s Treasure. They say the treasure is so large, that it’s not hidden on an island – it IS the island. It is an &lt;i&gt;island-sized treasure trove&lt;/i&gt;. They also say that he who holds the treasure is blessed – and cursed – with the powers of Death.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So what happens when a small pirate crew comes across a map to this place? &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 51);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Captain Mihael Keehl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has just made such a discovery. Determined to find the Death God’s Treasure, he and his first mate, &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 51);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;M. Jeevas&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;set a course for adventure. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; But they’re not the only ones.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Captain Nate River, Keehl’s eternal rival at sea, has recently obtained a Letter of Marque and become a Privateer – gaining power and ships from the King of Nura, and becoming &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 204);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Commodore River&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Having gotten wind of Keehl’s current ambition, they too are heading for the treasure.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; There’s also &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 51, 51);"&gt;Commodore Mikami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, the head of the Luken Imperial Navy who has been pursuing the both of them for several years, and&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 51);"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;His Royal Highness&lt;/i&gt; Light Yagami&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the Prince of Luken who swiftly enlisted into the Navy to avoid an arranged marriage to&lt;b&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 204);"&gt;Lady Misa Amane&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Wanting only the attention of her betrothed, Amane also fled to the sea, becoming a lady pirate in the hopes that Yagami would pursue her.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Last but not least are the wild cards, the feared GHOST Pirates, lead by&lt;b&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Captain Lawliet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;(and his FIRST MATE, MR. WAMMY! there are you happy Akito) &lt;/b&gt;Nobody knows what they’re after because they’re damn mysterious, but it can be assumed that they have an interest in the Death God’s Treasure and in making trouble for pirate and navy alike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But yeah! Would anyone want to do this with me? '-' Comment please if you're interested or if you just want to tell me I'm nuts. :P If there's some interest, we can talk about starting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the plot can stand for some re-doing if there are better ideas out there to add and whatnot.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:71355</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/71355.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=71355"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-05-14T11:53:00</title>
    <published>2008-05-14T18:57:40Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-14T18:59:56Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Hokai! I've gotten 3/5 of my presents for &lt;a href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/70463.html"&gt;this meme&lt;/a&gt; prepared, two have already been shipped and recieved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**POINT**&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_duckmole86' lj:user='duckmole86' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://duckmole86.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://duckmole86.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;duckmole86&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your fandoms? What are your interests? What kind of little stuff do you like? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT IS YOUR NAME?! &lt;/font&gt;8D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, disclose.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:71118</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/71118.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=71118"/>
    <title>Stole another one from Akito!</title>
    <published>2008-05-10T22:01:28Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-11T04:03:13Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;Below are the top 106 books tagged “unread” in Librarything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rules:&lt;br /&gt;Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your TBR list.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Strange &amp;amp; M. Norrell&lt;br /&gt;Anna Karenina&lt;br /&gt;Crime and Punishment&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;Catch-22&lt;br /&gt;One Hundred Years of Solitude&lt;br /&gt;Wuthering Heights &lt;br /&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life of Pi: A Novel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Name of the Rose&lt;br /&gt;Don Quixote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Moby Dick&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ulysses &lt;br /&gt;Madame Bovary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Odyssey&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pride and Prejudice&lt;br /&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;br /&gt;A Tale of Two Cities&lt;br /&gt;The Brothers Karamazov&lt;br /&gt;Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies&lt;br /&gt;War and Peace &lt;br /&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;br /&gt;The Time Traveler’s Wife&lt;br /&gt;The Iliad&lt;br /&gt;Emma&lt;br /&gt;The Blind Assassin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Kite Runner&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs. Dalloway&lt;br /&gt;Great Expectations&lt;br /&gt;American Gods&lt;br /&gt;A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius&lt;br /&gt;Atlas Shrugged&lt;br /&gt;Reading Lolita in Tehran&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Memoirs of a Geisha&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middlesex&lt;br /&gt;Quicksilver&lt;br style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;The Canterbury tales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Historian&lt;br /&gt;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man &lt;br /&gt;Love in the Time of Cholera&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Brave New World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fountainhead&lt;br /&gt;Foucault’s Pendulum&lt;br /&gt;Middlemarch&lt;br style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Count of Monte Cristo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Dracula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anansi Boys&lt;br /&gt;The Once and Future King&lt;br /&gt;The Grapes of Wrath&lt;br /&gt;The Poisonwood Bible&lt;br /&gt;1984 &lt;br /&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;br /&gt;The Inferno&lt;br /&gt;The Satanic Verses&lt;br /&gt;Sense and Sensibility&lt;br /&gt;The Picture of Dorian Gray&lt;br /&gt;Mansfield Park&lt;br style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the Lighthouse&lt;br /&gt;Tess of the D’Urbervilles&lt;br /&gt;Oliver Twist&lt;br /&gt;Gulliver’s Travels&lt;br /&gt;Les Misérables&lt;br /&gt;The Corrections&lt;br /&gt;The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay&lt;br /&gt;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time&lt;br /&gt;Dune&lt;br /&gt;The Prince&lt;br /&gt;The Sound and the Fury&lt;br /&gt;Angela’s Ashes&lt;br /&gt;The God of Small Things&lt;br /&gt;A People’s History of the United States : 1492-Present&lt;br /&gt;Cryptonomicon&lt;br /&gt;Neverwhere&lt;br /&gt;A Confederacy of Dunces&lt;br /&gt;A Short History of Nearly Everything&lt;br /&gt;Dubliners &lt;br /&gt;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&lt;br /&gt;Beloved&lt;br /&gt;Slaughterhouse-Five&lt;br /&gt;The Scarlet Letter&lt;br /&gt;Eats, Shoots &amp;amp; Leaves&lt;br /&gt;The Mists of Avalon&lt;br /&gt;Oryx and Crake : a Novel&lt;br /&gt;Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed&lt;br /&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;br /&gt;The Confusion&lt;br /&gt;Lolita&lt;br /&gt;Persuasion&lt;br /&gt;Northanger Abbey&lt;br /&gt;The Catcher in the Rye&lt;br /&gt;On the Road&lt;br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Hunchback of Notre Dame &lt;/span&gt;This is bold and italicized because, well, I did finish it, but technically I didn't read the whole thing, considering I skipped over all of the boring chapters describing the architecture. &lt;br /&gt;Freakonomics&lt;br /&gt;Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance&lt;br /&gt;The Aeneid&lt;br /&gt;Watership Down&lt;br /&gt;Gravity’s Rainbow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Cold Blood&lt;br /&gt;White Teeth&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Treasure Island *&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Copperfield&lt;br style="font-weight: bold;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Three Musketeers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And feel free to recommend any of these that you have read! o/</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:70721</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/70721.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=70721"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-05-04T14:50:00</title>
    <published>2008-05-04T21:52:53Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-04T21:52:53Z</updated>
    <content type="html">I have a paid account!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I impulse-bought a year of it. And with that, comes an icons makeover. Save for the one that I recently made that just amuses me, all of my icons are now of Des. BECAUSE I WAS NARCISSIST ENOUGH TO HAVE A WHOLE FOLDER SAVED OF THEM. (there are actually 106 icons in it, I really had to narrow them down. 8D) COME BUG ME SO I CAN PLAY WITH THEM. '___' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, yeah! I guess maybe now I'll look for an actual layout or something. But that would require me to be less lazy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Akazukin Chacha is fucking adorable.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:70463</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/70463.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=70463"/>
    <title>I can has Despresent?</title>
    <published>2008-04-23T17:49:37Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:02:32Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;font size="+1" face="Arial,Helvetica"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_' lj:user='' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user='&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user='&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;From &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_cheese_cookies' lj:user='cheese_cookies' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://cheese-cookies.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://cheese-cookies.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;cheese_cookies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first five (5) people who reply to this post, and who re-post this challenge on their own journal I will send you a gift. It might be something I've made, or something I have on hand biding it's time among my stash for the perfect person to be shipped off/given to.It could be anything: a collection of songs, a postcard, handmade jewelry, a book, or something else entirely. Whatever it is, I promise I will get it to you in 365 days of your posted comment or less(ideally less).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;It sounds fun, and 365 days is a whole year, so it's reasonable too. Let's all spread the love, guys~ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ETA &lt;/b&gt;Right! Comments are screened on this entry, so send addresses too. But I'd like it if you made two comments, one with an address and one without, so that I can unscreen one of em' so other people can see who/how many people I've got. :D</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:70249</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/70249.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=70249"/>
    <title>Woooooooooo.</title>
    <published>2008-04-17T13:40:59Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:01:07Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Well, that was an experience, certainly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back from my party after being passed out for god knows how long, but although it would be perfectly reasonable, Des does not have a hangover. My head's still spinning just a tiny bit, but otherwise I'm completely fine. I had at least three shots each of Grand Marnier, Peppermint Schnapps and Apple Pucker, plus however much of that other freaking thing. It was my first time getting hammered, happened a lot faster than people seemed to expect, but I'm not really surprised at all. It was pretty funny for me because I was totally aware of how much I was slurring my words together. There's a point where I don't remember at all what happened, but judging by the pictures I'm pretty glad that I don't, it was basically a lot of me throwing up and being a zombie.&amp;nbsp; I only remember the good stuff, therefore I would say it was a success! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must've been a pretty boring drunk for my friends though. Sorry guys. But you still have my pie that we didn't get around to eating, so give it back. D:&amp;lt; (I think we just forgot about it.) We'll watch that movie some other time. Or never. Whichever works!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, after that I don't really plan on getting seriously drunk again, but I can say that I've done it now, and light drinks from now on will be nice. I still have maybe a third of the Marnier left, but who knows when I'll finish it off. All in all, it was pretty satisfying. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presents list: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Death Note magnets&lt;br /&gt;Invader Zim figurine and throw blanket (curling up in it while typing this.)&lt;br /&gt;chocolate&lt;br /&gt;4 lbs of red licorice&lt;br /&gt;new mp3 player (though mom is replacing it because she realized it had less GB than my old one) &lt;br /&gt;$61, total&lt;br /&gt;gift certificate to some nail place (I want to get a manicure so I can learn to put in contacts without fear of stabbing my eye out with my ridiculously long and jagged fingernails, hopefully my blink reflex will be more easy to control)&lt;br /&gt;MYSTERY PACKAGE that my aunt in Maryland told me she mailed today. (procrastinator!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also bought a Gurren Lagann action figure for myself, still waiting for that to come in the mail, as well as Death Note: How to Read and Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Case, which I finished in one night. Mello's narration, especially the intro, was the&lt;i&gt; secks&lt;/i&gt;. I never call anything 'the secks', but THAT? Yes. Naomi Misora, you are made of epic win and I will never call you minor again. Beyond Birthday, your name is stupid and you're a crazy fucker, but I somehow love you anyway. Against my will. Definitely recommend this novel for Death Note fans (though as a murder mystery, it was pretty lame.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's the jist of it. I'm going to go take a shower, as I'm fairly certain I stink of the night's events. Maybe I'll go back to bed, but maybe not. I'm actually pretty peppy for fuckin' 6 in the morning.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:69964</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/69964.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=69964"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-04-16T15:48:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-16T22:50:53Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:01:49Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Weeeeewt! Des is 21! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're missing me online, it's because I'm PARTYING. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And shut the fuck up, Jer.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:69791</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/69791.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=69791"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-04-13T18:00:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-14T01:07:06Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:02:15Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Des has a baby bird! 8D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found it on the pavement and took it home so people would not kick it. Its name is Hidan so it won't die. But also because it won't shut up. I am going to find some wildlife protection guys to take it to safety, but for now it is annoying my family members. We jacked an abandoned nest from above the stepdad's door so it can have a bed. Once it hops out of it, I'll take pictures. It blends in too well with it for now. :/&amp;nbsp; I'm making sure it gets lots of water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But does anyone have further suggestions for what I should do with it? I think it's hungry but I have no idea how or what to feed it. &amp;gt;o&amp;gt; I hear it's too hard to do for someone who doesn't know how, but if anyone knows how...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ETA &lt;/b&gt;Never mind! Apparently Hidan can fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Godspeed, little bird.</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:69595</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/69595.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=69595"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-04-06T16:06:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-06T23:09:10Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:03:25Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nick: And now I need to think up a name  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Thanks D:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Well, only if you think he'd have a mad urge to tell it after that XDD &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: No, but he'd be the kinda person to say, "no my name is *insert cool name here* Clyde's a gay name.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: "&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: For the lulz, it could be something even more outrageous than Edge&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Yeah, but I don't have any ideas&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: and I'm still "writing a paper"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: I'm trying to think of one XD&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Seventh Sanctum says&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: "MY NAME IS DRAKE THUNDERSTEEL."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: "NO IT ISN'T."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Yeah, but that sounds like we're in a bad fantasy&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: And I posted&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: But it IS outrageous&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Who the hell would name their Kid thundersteel?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Drake is a cool name though&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Well thundersteel was a last name&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: It was a heroic name generator XDD&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: I;m a vampire, not a hero&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Yeah, but I figured it would come up with the kind of over-the-top name I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: And I would love to meet someone whose first name was Thundersteel, that'd be awesome&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Especially if they were a little kid that hadn't grown into it yet&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: What'd their nickname be though?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: "Stop eating legos, thundersteel!"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: THud?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Thundy. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: That's way to close to undy&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: they'd get mugged&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Yeah true&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Maybe the kid just wouldn't have a nickname&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: You'd never get mugged if your name was Thundersteel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Or maybe with a name like thundersteel he'd be the one doing the mugging&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: exactly&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: Great minds think alike&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: Indeed. XD&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Des: It's like you name them that in hopes that they'll grow up to be a massive jerk. XDD&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nick: what twisted parents&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;....I wish I'd had this conversation when I was coming up with a pseudonym for my Child Development report. D:</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:69032</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/69032.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=69032"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-04-01T11:55:00</title>
    <published>2008-04-01T18:55:59Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:03:48Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;lj-embed id="1" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ETA&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a name="cutid2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" style=""&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;       &lt;h2 style="margin: 0pt 0pt 5px; width: 560px; float: right;"&gt;The Wild Rose&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;h3 style="margin: 0pt; width: 560px; float: right; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Random Brutal Love Dreamer (&lt;span style="shmolor: red;"&gt;RBLD&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;img border="1" src="http://panther.is0.okcupid.com/graphics/persons/RBLDf.gif" alt="The Wild Rose" style="float: left;"&gt;    &lt;div style="display: block; width: 560px; float: right;"&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt;"&gt; shmolorful, but unpicked. You are &lt;strong&gt;The Wild Rose&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt;"&gt; Prone to bouts of cynicism, sarcasm, and thorns, you excite a certain kind of man. Hoping to gather you up, he flirts and winks and asks you out, ultimately professing his love. Then you make him bleed. Why? Because you're the rare, independent, self-sufficient kind of woman who does want love, but not from a weakling. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt;"&gt; You don't seem to take yourself too seriously, and that's refreshing. You aren't uptight; you don't over-plan. Romance-wise, sex isn't a top priority--a true relationship would be preferable. For your age, you haven't had a lot of bonafide love experience, though, and this kind of gets to core of the issue. You're very selective. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt;"&gt; The problem is them, not you, right? You have lofty standards that few measure up to. You're out there all right, but not to be picked up by just anyone. &lt;/p&gt;       &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0pt 30px 0pt 0pt; background: rgb(238, 238, 238) none repeat scroll 0%; float: right; width: 220px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 90%;"&gt;    &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt 0pt; width: 220px;"&gt;Your exact female opposite:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="width: 220px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dirty Little Secret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;img border="1" src="http://panther.is0.okcupid.com/graphics/persons/DGSMf_thumb.gif" alt="The Dirty Little Secret" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 3px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;    &lt;p style="margin: 10px 0pt; width: 220px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deliberate Gentle Sex Master&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;      &lt;p style="margin: 25px 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-transform: uppercase; shmolor: red;"&gt; Always avoid: &lt;/span&gt; The Bachelor (DGSM)&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 25px 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-transform: uppercase; shmolor: blue;"&gt; Consider: &lt;/span&gt; The Vapor Trail (RBLM)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Link:  &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/online.dating.persona.test"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Online Dating Persona Test&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;OkCupid&lt;/b&gt; -  free online dating &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;Dating&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:deathdesu:68811</id>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/68811.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="http://deathdesu.livejournal.com/data/atom/?itemid=68811"/>
    <title>deathdesu @ 2008-03-30T07:17:00</title>
    <published>2008-03-30T14:18:31Z</published>
    <updated>2008-05-05T00:04:22Z</updated>
    <content type="html">Dear Kal.&lt;br /&gt;I don't really know how to tell you this, but I’ll join the monastery. I think I realized it when I tripped on some sesame seeds,  under the bus, and I saw you carve your initials into Bill Clinton. &lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you're High enough to understand that I did a sex change. &lt;br /&gt;I'm returning  your old lottery coupons to you, but I'll keep the oil stocks as a memory.&lt;br /&gt;You should also know that I will never forget  the incarnation as an eskimo. &lt;br /&gt;Good luck on your short-term leave from jail,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Des&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do it like this:&lt;br /&gt;Dear (the person who last texted/smsed you).&lt;br /&gt;I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___. I think I realized it ___2___ ___3___&lt;br /&gt;and I saw you ___4___ ___5___.&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___.&lt;br /&gt;I'm returning ___8___ to you, but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory.&lt;br /&gt;You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___.&lt;br /&gt;___12___,&lt;br /&gt;-Your name-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. What's the color of your shirt?&lt;br /&gt;Blue - Our romance is over&lt;br /&gt;Red - Our affair is over&lt;br /&gt;White - I'll join the monastery&lt;br /&gt;Black - I dislike you&lt;br /&gt;Green - Our horoscope doesn't match&lt;br /&gt;Grey - You're a pervert&lt;br /&gt;Yellow - I'm selling myself&lt;br /&gt;Pink - Your nostrils are insulting&lt;br /&gt;Brown - The mafia wants you&lt;br /&gt;No shirt - You're a loser&lt;br /&gt;Other - I'm inlove with your sister&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Which is your birth month?&lt;br /&gt;January - That night&lt;br /&gt;February - Last year&lt;br /&gt;March - When your dwarf bit me&lt;br /&gt;April - When I tripped on sesame seeds&lt;br /&gt;May - First of May&lt;br /&gt;June - When you put cuffs on me&lt;br /&gt;July - When I threw up&lt;br /&gt;August - When I saw the shrunken head&lt;br /&gt;September - When we skinny dipped&lt;br /&gt;October - When I quoted Santa&lt;br /&gt;November - When your dog ran amok&lt;br /&gt;December - When I changed tennis shoes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Which food do you prefer?&lt;br /&gt;Tacos - In your apartment&lt;br /&gt;Pizza - In your camping car&lt;br /&gt;Pasta - Outside of Chicago&lt;br /&gt;Hamburgers - Under the bus&lt;br /&gt;Salad - As you ate enchilada&lt;br /&gt;Chicken - In your closet&lt;br /&gt;Kebab - With Paris Hilton&lt;br /&gt;Fish - In women's clothing&lt;br /&gt;Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation&lt;br /&gt;Lasagna - At the mental hospital&lt;br /&gt;Hot dog - Under a state of trance&lt;br /&gt;Annat; With George Bush and his wife&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. What's the color of your socks?&lt;br /&gt;Yellow - Hit on&lt;br /&gt;Red - Insult&lt;br /&gt;Black - Ignore&lt;br /&gt;Blue - Knock out&lt;br /&gt;Purple - Pour syrup on&lt;br /&gt;White - Carve your initials into&lt;br /&gt;Grey - Pull the clothes off&lt;br /&gt;Brown - Put leeches on&lt;br /&gt;Orange - Castrate&lt;br /&gt;Pink - Pull the toupee off&lt;br /&gt;Barefoot - Sit at&lt;br /&gt;Other - Drive out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. What's the color of your underwear?&lt;br /&gt;Black - My best friend&lt;br /&gt;White - My father&lt;br /&gt;Grey - Bill Clinton&lt;br /&gt;Brown - My fart balloon&lt;br /&gt;Purple - My mustard soufflé&lt;br /&gt;Red - Donald Duck&lt;br /&gt;Blue - My avocado plant&lt;br /&gt;Yellow - My penpal in Ghana&lt;br /&gt;Orange - My Kid Rock-collection&lt;br /&gt;Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper&lt;br /&gt;None - My John F. Kennedy-statue&lt;br /&gt;Other - The crazy monk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?&lt;br /&gt;Scrubs; Man&lt;br /&gt;O.C.; Emotional&lt;br /&gt;One Tree Hill; Open&lt;br /&gt;Heroes; Frostbitten&lt;br /&gt;Lost; High&lt;br /&gt;House; Scarred&lt;br /&gt;Simpsons; Cowardly&lt;br /&gt;The news; Mongolic&lt;br /&gt;Idol; Masochistic&lt;br /&gt;Family Guy; Senile&lt;br /&gt;Top Model; Middle-class&lt;br /&gt;Annat; Ashamed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Your mood right now?&lt;br /&gt;Happy - How awful I've felt&lt;br /&gt;Sad - How boring you are&lt;br /&gt;Bored - That Santa doesn't exist&lt;br /&gt;Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage&lt;br /&gt;Depressed - That we're cousins&lt;br /&gt;Excited - That there is no solution to this.&lt;br /&gt;Nervous - The middle-east&lt;br /&gt;Worried - That your Honda sucks&lt;br /&gt;Apathetic - That I did a sex-change&lt;br /&gt;Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster&lt;br /&gt;Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men&lt;br /&gt;Overjoyous - That I'm open&lt;br /&gt;Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?&lt;br /&gt;White - Your ring&lt;br /&gt;Yellow - Your love letters&lt;br /&gt;Red - Your Darth Vader-poster&lt;br /&gt;Black - Your tame stone&lt;br /&gt;Blue - The couch cushions&lt;br /&gt;Green - The pictures from LA&lt;br /&gt;Orange - Your false teeth&lt;br /&gt;Brown - Your contact book&lt;br /&gt;Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs&lt;br /&gt;Purple - Your old lottery coupons&lt;br /&gt;Pink - The cut toenails&lt;br /&gt;Other - Your memories from the military service&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. The first letter of your first name?&lt;br /&gt;A/B - Your photo&lt;br /&gt;C/D - The oil stocks&lt;br /&gt;E/F - Your neighbour Martin&lt;br /&gt;G/H - My virginity&lt;br /&gt;I/J - The results of blood-sample&lt;br /&gt;K/L - Your left ear&lt;br /&gt;M/N - Your suicide note&lt;br /&gt;O/P - My common sense&lt;br /&gt;Q/R - Your mom&lt;br /&gt;S/T - Your collection of butterflies&lt;br /&gt;U/V - Your criminal record&lt;br /&gt;W/X - David's tricot outfits&lt;br /&gt;Y/Z - Your grades from college&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. The last letter in your last name?&lt;br /&gt;A/B - Always will remember&lt;br /&gt;C/D - Never will forget&lt;br /&gt;E/F - Always wanted to break&lt;br /&gt;G/H - Never openly mocked&lt;br /&gt;I/J - Always have felt dirty before&lt;br /&gt;K/L - Will tell the authorities about&lt;br /&gt;M/N - Told in my confession today about&lt;br /&gt;O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about&lt;br /&gt;Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about&lt;br /&gt;S/T - Get sick when I think of&lt;br /&gt;U/V - Always will try to forget&lt;br /&gt;W/X - Am better off without&lt;br /&gt;Y/Z - Never liked&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. What do you prefer to drink?&lt;br /&gt;Water- Our friendship&lt;br /&gt;Beer - Senility&lt;br /&gt;Soft drink - A new life as a clone&lt;br /&gt;Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo&lt;br /&gt;Milk - The apartment building&lt;br /&gt;Wine - Cocaine abuse&lt;br /&gt;Cider - A passionate interest for mice&lt;br /&gt;Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations&lt;br /&gt;Mineral water - Embarrassing rash&lt;br /&gt;Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism&lt;br /&gt;Whisky - To ruin the second world war&lt;br /&gt;Other - To hate the Boston Celtics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?&lt;br /&gt;Thailand - Warm regards&lt;br /&gt;USA - Best regards&lt;br /&gt;England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail&lt;br /&gt;Spain - Go and drown yourself&lt;br /&gt;China - Disgusting regards&lt;br /&gt;Germany - With ease&lt;br /&gt;Japan - Go burn&lt;br /&gt;Greece - Your everlasting enemy&lt;br /&gt;Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard&lt;br /&gt;Egypt - Fuck off now&lt;br /&gt;France - In pain&lt;br /&gt;Other - Greetings to your freaky family&lt;br /&gt;</content>
  </entry>
</feed>
