Misty Moors

Forget the memories of yesterdays past
Say goodbye to the nameless days
So as to become completely changed
I'm following the road I can't turn back on.
-Hello by Jet Sets

Welcome to MistyMoors.Com, the InsaneJournal of Caithyra.

Here you'll find fan fiction, fan art, original fiction, original art, random musings and other stuff I might write about.

This post is to clarify some things as well as giving you a place to send friend requests. Though I only rarely F-lock anything.
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Spoilers for the latest Naruto Chapter below.

( In which even Lee facepalms )
So, from now on, joining the cries of "QUESAAAADA!!!" "LIEEEEFIEEELD!!!" "KUBOOO!!!" I will start with "KISHIMOTOOOO!!!".

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Random Curiosity

Once upon a time, there was a place called Hollywood. They suddenly liked comic properties and started making movies.

Then they planned to make a Justice League movie. Only problem? All white cast, so they choose John Stewart, the black Green Latern, to represent the Green Lantern Corps.

Now this is awesome because then they would have been able to ride on the popularity of two really popular cartoons. In fact, when most non-comic fans are asked about Green Lantern, they might not say John Stewart, but they sure as hell mention "black male one".

Hence, for this generation, John Stewart is the iconic Green Lantern.

But a generation or so ago, it was a white male named Hal Jordan (and sometimes, white male Guy Gardner).

Then the JL movie is scrapped in favour of a GL one.

Guess who they decided to cast?!

Way to show just how unfashionable you are. Nowadays no one knows Hal, they know John. And not only that, Hal's only fun around Green Arrow (who isn't a Green Lantern, and wont be in this movie), while John can carry several movies on his own (though it would be even better with the Flash, the Wally West one, you know, from the immensely popular cartoon?!).

And so, comics join the cartoons, games and anime in this Castingfuck Comedy.

See also Jake Gyllenhaal as a Persian prince in Prince of Persia.
Justine Chatwin as Son Goku, a Japanese character named after the Japanese name of a Chinese classic story character.
Nicola Peltz as Katara, an Inuit inspired character from Avatar: the Last Airbender.

And that's just three of the characters, just wait until you see the rest of the casts.

So lets take a swig of some Whiskey and dance the Tango Foxtrot, because if last year was the year of Dead Snipers, then this year will be known as the Year of Racist Hollywood Adaptations!

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The Castingfuck, it is strong

No, you can't justify this kind of whitewashing.

No, just because it isn't a big deal to you, doesn't mean that it isn't racist.

Yes, there are Asians in America. There's even a few who are actors. Stop saying that just because it's made in America, it means that there's no Asians to cast.

And where's that tan Rathbone said he would get as Sokka that would totally make this alright? </snark>

What does is say about the original design when Rydia from Final Fantasy IV: the After gets an almost complete redesign outside Japan?

What about how the biggest two comic companies have come out with comics for women, titled things such as Marvel Divas and Gotham City Sirens. Using two words, diva and siren, which pretty sexist by themselves.

How about how Tieria Erde, from Gundam 00, is only now, safely dead, locked in a computer as well as confirmed sexless/hermaphrodite/whatever gender s/he choose, only now starting to sound like maybe he's in love with Neil Dylandy. After said person has died, been replaced by his twin brother, Lyle, who also got a romantic relationship with an innovator (female-type, and with big boobs), who was subsequently fridged.

Why is it that when I watch the last episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender, I can only see Aang as an avatar of the creators. Even more so when he enters a relationship with Katara, which echoes very badly of middle school boys crushing on high school girls, but in the real world, those boys are turned down, but in avatar-world, they start dating. And why did it end with Deus ex Testudo?

On that note, Harry Potter isn't as cleverly written as it appeared to be in the first three-four books. Nothing should end in Deus ex Virga.

And where is Sakuno in New Prince of Tennis? Yeah, I know, she doesn't really have a place in the story, but I want her to show up! ;_;

Why couldn't they expand the X-men: Evolution universe? Is it because the female characters wear more than the average swimsuit?

And finally: How the hell did I manage to develop IBS?! Why couldn't it be Krohn's, like my mother, why a chronic stomach ailment that makes it so that if I eat anything that isn't cooked fish makes me ill?! At least mum can eat chocolate and all the stuff I like to eat. I hate fish and this brought back my suicidal thoughts! Why a disease which the most effective treatment (works for around 80% of patients) is fucking hypnotherapy?! And why do the national lists of hypnotherapists refuse to list anyone in my part (read: the largest part) of the country?!

Augh! I don't have the energy to deal with stuff like this!

http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article5398700.ab

So the record companies want to force censoring on the internet, and in the meantime sends threats to internet providers.

Why aren't they all in jail?

A quote:

Internetleverantören Black Internet har mottagit hot om att stämmas på 300 000 kronor om dagen till dess att kommunikationen till en utpekad fildelningssajt blockeras.

Translation:

The internet provider Black Internet have received threats about getting sued for 300 000 SEK (Today: $38,260.64, about an average worker's yearly wages) every day until the communication to a certain (pointed out) file-sharing site is blocked.

In other news, I have been really sick, is almost recovered.

And David Eddings (of Belgariad/Mallorean/Elenium/Tamuli fame) had died about a week ago. I'm sad because he got me into fantasy books one summer, when I borrowed all the Mallorean books from the library.

So Winx Club has a fourth season. And yes, I watch Winx Club. Or at least the Italian/Rai English version. I think my brain gives Winx Club's character designs a pass because everyone and their dog (literally) is extremely stylised, so the stylisation of the girls aren't as... extreme in context of the show as out of context.

To recap previous seasons:
Season 01 - By far the best season yet. It was coherent, self-contained, the villains lost in a good way and everyone cooperated.

Season 02 - Isn't as coherent or good as Season 01, but it passes as average. It has its plot holes and has a generic skeleton villain. The Avalon sub-plot would have bumped up the score a little bit if it wasn't ignored in the rest of the seasons.

Season 03 - Oh dear merciful FAIL. The animators couldn't decide if Aisha's Enchantix was blue or green (apparently it's supposed to be green, but started as blue, with much fanfare as it was the first Enchantix), and was rife with other animation mistakes (Aisha was at one moment topless, Flora was drawn in Enchantix form before she even got it!). The story was half-baked and stupid, and the true ending wouldn't be seen before the movie. On top of it all, the pacing was atrocious, sub plots like other fairy schools dropped, generic evil step-mum. The denouement was around ten SECONDS long! It was a shame as Valtor was possibly the best villain yet.

And now we're on fourth season. So far I like it (up to eighth episode). It reminds me about Gundam 00 2nd Season's pacing in the first part. But as we know, 00 crashed soon after the eighth episode (which was without question the best! Tieria looked so stunning in a dress, and I can't get over the voice, or black lace around his thigh with the gun, and I like how he looked up to Neil instead or Veda *pointed look at Sunrise*).

The villains seem pretty good so far, but they aren't as pretty as Valtor. ;_;

I also like that the boys are getting character.

And Roxy seems pretty nice.

I like the pets above the pixies, 'cause they're less annoying.

And I like the Arthurian influence of Fairy Era Earth. So... Artu is Roxy's dog? What about a cursed King Arthur, to live as a dog?

Since there's no way that Bloom and Sky would break up, yet Andy is introduced. Could it be possible that Andy and Roxy will start dating (since they would have known each other for as long as Andy's band has been playing at Roxy's father's bar).

Okay, so yesterday I got my package of Princess Princess stuff, which is the entire manga series, the + manga and the Premium artbook.

Oh, and also the 2009 Macross Frontier calendar.

So I decided to use the front page to ask my mum on how old she thinks Sheryl, Alto and Ranka are, based on their designs. Her answer:

Sheryl: 20-21 years old (She looked a little older and more sober than she generally was in the series.)
Alto: 13-14 years old (Justified, he looks a lot younger than in the series in that picture.)
Ranka: 8-9 years old (Looked like she did in the series, if a bit older actually.)

Er, I'll just post the picture here (taken with my digital camera on lazy settings in bad light):

When I first heard about fandom-journalling projects, I was understandably slightly cynical, having seen JournalFen in action, which was pretty much a Harry Potter clique (and canon-thumping clique).

I believed that most projects would be started, a few would maybe get coded, fewer would enter a beta stage, and even fewer would actually open.

I saw Scribblit, which I have no idea what they're doing now, because Scribblit.com doesn't load and googling only gets the LJ community. I decided that it wasn't something for me, mainly because to me, it felt like the design was all over the place (and bright, bright green).

I looked at GJ, but decided that I didn't want it, which was lucky because they crashed when LJ started to migrate. Unfortunately, this made the LJers who tried GJ a bit fly-shy.

Anyway, I ended up on IJ, not even looking at DeadJournal (I think it was because I remembered something about it when it was new).

And now I hear about Dreamwidth, and I'm very, very sceptical.

You see, when the great LJ Migration took place, not only was LJ under different management, but they had also screwed fandom royally. Hence, a mass migration to GJ and IJ. Many choose GJ because they found the design more pleasant, but got a deaf staff and returned to LJ, and the few in IJ found that they were very lonely and returned to LJ or started crossposting.

In the end, there wasn't much difference in fandom.

That was directly after LJ screwed up. Since then they have new management and, while fumbling, they haven't been the worst internet company in the news (see: Amazonfail).

Now DW wants fandom to migrate again. To them. With invite codes or by paying.

Remember LJ and the invite codes? Yeah.

Remember fandom run JF? Yeah.

DJ? Yeah.

Another GJ? Yeah.

Fandom remembers these services and will probably be cautious, if they consider moving at all.

DW might say that they are different than LJ-clone sites, that they have more fandom friendly stuff. But I don't see that much of a difference right now.

So I'll wait here at IJ, because it will probably take months or even years to see if DW will be the fandom hub it wants to be.

I've just read the first couple of chapters of the Break Blade manga, and so far it's boring, stupid and annoying.

If Lygatto had told Zesu that the reason why the country wont surrender is because their two childhood friends will be executed during Zesu's countdown, then I'm pretty sure that things would be different.

Instead we get the weak and totally stupid "We wont surrender because of the terms!" and then, from Zesu, "What terms?".

Nevermind that the terms executing the royal family was unofficial, and that the messenger warned them of the empire's true ambitions. Lygatto knows this, yet he can't shout, within five seconds, "STOP! IF WE SURRENDER HOZUL AND SHIGWEN WILL DIE!", I'm pretty sure that Zesu would be more inclined to listen to reason then.

Instead we have Lygatto running away and be at the site where one of Zesu's team commits suicide rather than become a prisoner of war, making Zesu go "If I hadn't let him get away, she would still be alive!!!!1!!One!!".

It's like a stale, badly watered down version of Gundam Seed. Except that Kira and Athrun had reasons to be on opposite sides of the war (if Kira switched, his Natural friends would suffer, and Athrun is extremely indoctrinated in ZAFT and wouldn't be liked outside of the colonies).

There's literally no reason for Zesu and Lygatto to be fighting, just because the main character can't spit out the terms already.

Sorry, but I wont read the rest. I don't like wanting to smack, gut and kill the main character because he so stupidly asinine and inactive.

Manga: Goraihou Gakuen e Youkoso! by Kakizaki Muku
Stupidly powerful student council? Check. Teens hunting supernatural beings? Check. Very generic characters? Check. Yet it caught me when it did the flower-thing (you'll know when you read it), because it took me completely by surprise (possible being to everything else conforming to norm).

Manwha: Id by Kim Daewoo and Kenny A.t.
It's actually many months since I last read this one, so I can't answer for the later chapters. I just liked it back then. It's about a man who looks an awful lot like a woman getting stuck in a world, not knowing anything. From what I remember one might want to stop halfway through, as I think there was a lot of damsel in distress stuff later on.

Manhua: 1/2 Prince by Yu Wo and Choi Hong Chong
Now this one is the true rec! Girl has an argument with her brother about how girls have it easy in MMORPGs because guys always give them stuff. She tells him that she'll be able to beat him without those guys and creates the first transvestite character in "Second Life" an MMORPG with 99% reality rating (this being the year 2100, that's a lot). This is normally not allowed by the game system, as it makes you either as you are, or 30% more or less attractive, as well as choosing a fantasy race. But she does it in the devilishly beautiful elf, alias Prince. And then the adventures begin, just add an extremely beautiful gay bard, a thief/hidden mod named LoliDragon, a wolfman priest, a magical girl necromancer and a yamato nadeshiko/tsundere magician, and you have the guild known as Odd Guild.

Chris/Feldt fanart.

( Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet. )

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On a side note, it doesn't affect me as they refused to take my card months ago, so it's not like I can support them.

Still...

AMAZONFAIL!

Nowadays, searching "homosexuality" brings up:
A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
You Don't have to be Gay
Can Homosexuality Be Healed?

What is this shit?!

So I decided to show you the weather today (snow blindness extreme) and found some shots that I forgot I took before. Enjoy.

( Look what I found on the camera's memory card )

Yeah. I have nothing to blog so I blog about the weather. It's like cyber-fika-talk on a slow day.

Well, I've read the first three chapters of New Prince of Tennis (or Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama, like Shin Pet Shop of Horrors or something).

First; the uniforms featured are the same as in the filler international tournament (red, white and black, you know, with Kevin's team). So I guess that Konomi is somehow going to do a story like that.

Anyway, everyone's still in middle school and are sent to camp for an international tournament (probably like the filler tournament). Usually only high schoolers are selected but because of the insane middle school moves on the court, they are picked as well.

All our favourites (including Akutsu, for no reason given) show up (like the filler tournament). Thing is, this bloated the student body so much that they'll slim it down, and drops a bunch of balls from a plane and tells everyone that if you don't have a ball, you don't get to stay.

*Cue hoarding by the middle schoolers.*

Anyway, we learn of the ranking system, and one of the higher of the high school students glares at Kirihara, scaring Kirihara and establishing that the most powerful people in camp is a bunch of monsters (like Rikkai Dai).

Anyway, I wonder if we'll get nice Kirihara out of this (like filler tournament) since these new guys obviously excel over him at being a monster, and he would therefore need to look to his other talents (if he has any) to beat them.

Oh, and I want Ryuzaki-sensei, Sakuno and An to show up. Because camps always gets more fun when they are involved (like burglars dressing up as bears being beaten up by tennis serves, or, you know, Kamio, Ibu, Atobe, Sanada, Sengoku and the others forming a band).

I wonder if Inui Juices will be making a comeback (and after the Finals, every middle school team knows everything about them... intimately).

All in all: Same old, same old.

For all you Final Fantasy IV fans:

blue_planet - General Asylum
red_moon - Fan Fiction Asylum
white_moon - Fan Artwork Asylum

THAT'S the ending?!

( In which Lyle injures his right eye, isn't he unique? )

For those who doesn't take a look at cartoons now and then, that's the makeover of Dora the Explorer and Strawberry Shortcake.

Both a cartoons aimed at younger girls, and both, coincidently, had baby fat because, you know, they're young girls. Their adventures also didn't call for long and silky hair or slender, long limbs.

Dora, for example, is supposed to be in the jungle with her animal friends, exploring and adventuring. What about a pink, flowy top says adventurer?

People might call me a hypocrite because I watch Winx Club, but, the difference is that Winx Club didn't take previously average to slightly chubby weight girls, practically and comfortably dressed, and turned them into thin waifs.

Oh, and there's rumours that makeover Dora will move to the city and discuss nail polish with her girlfriends. And no words about her monkey sidekick (probably kicked out).

Looked around a bit on Gundam 00 and found some Lyle defense, all telling me that I have no right to hate him because he's ~*Totally Different!!!!*~ than Neil.

( Yeah, he's REAAAAAL different )

( But that's not my biggest beef with him... )

( Being sick and making icons are not a good combination )