( Still badly translated and badly edited! )

Also I made more icons that I will now clutter up your flist with:


That last one is totally going to end up as my default Shino cosplay icon.

Maybe it's a testament to how obsessed I currently am that I actually changed my default userpic here. Sorry, William, I've ruined our Lucky Star gang we unintentionally had going.

( More jokes that don't work in English. )

Ali totally let me know if you're not too pooped to have fun translating shit with me tonight. I'll cry if you can't do it. I really want to share some of these that I haven't fully translated but are super hilarious, like Kite becoming Canard's guild leader and shit.

Gonna be late to work as ever... It's a good thing I don't care anymore. But it will take all I've got to leave the 4koma book at home.

( Oh yeah. )

The new greatest strip in here has Kite taking Aura out with a Chim-Chim... Man, Kite. What is wrong with you.

Look, I also made some dumb icons:

( Atoli is crazy and so is Kite. )


What the hell kind of noise is "ogyaa"?

( These make no real sense either )

These are awful fun to do even if mostsome of them I just don't get.

Will probably be posting random translated .hack//4koma strips for a while... would be nicer if I had some .hack fans on my FL but whatev. Maybe when I have more I'll post on one of the .hack comms.

( The first one I picked makes no sense in English, whoops. )

I love the .hack//4komas SO MUCH it's ridiculous. Even though they have way too much text and I'll have to kill my poor little book to scan it better... I'll probably be mostly doing the G.U. exclusive ones first because 4koma Kite is a psychotic sociopath. I know no one cares except maybe Ali. That is okay. You can read them and wonder WTF or you can just ignore me over here.

I must really like being late to work, huh. I wonder where I'll have to park.

When .hack first started, with SIGN back when I was in high school... I watched SIGN but had no interest in doing anything else with the series. When Udeden started I watched some of it, and quickly got tired of it (though I ended up reading the manga, because it was cute). When Roots started I didn't even give a crap. When the G.U. games came out I didn't even know about it until Ali started ranting about them nonstop. She finally pulled me in when they made Trilogy, as I was like "Ah, I can find out what the hell she's going on about without having to play the games!"

Apparently not. Now I'm on the third game, and am pretty seriously obsessed. I've been reading the novels, the manga, and while I have really no intention of watching Udeden one of these days I will actually finish Roots. I want to play the original four games after I finish G.U.

G.U. is a really great game. It's kind of sad how much time I spend floating around the .hack wiki looking up stuff. I seriously want to read the Epitaph of Twilight, the epic poem that The World is based off of... if only it really existed. XD I'm so obsessed that I just the other day ordered several of the as-yet unlicensed novels because I want to read them (even though I fail at Japanese).

I think what's really pulled me in is the mythology (besides G.U. just being a damn lot of fun... I love all the characters and I love the gameplay... I wish The World R2 was an actual online game I could actually play because I would never do anything else ever again XDDD). I like going to the Lost Grounds and just kind of staring at them, pondering The World's backstory and wishing I could read more of it.

I am such a sucker for a well-built world. Really, that's what always gets me when I read, when I watch movies, when I watch anime or anything. My favorites all have this common trait, and that is why they are my favorites. I mean, great characters are one thing, and of course are important (a well-built world is nothing if you can't populate it with interesting people), but it's the worlds that suck me in more than anything.

Which I also think is kind of why I suck at writing so much? Or rather why I suck at finishing anything. I develop the world and then I lose interest, because my work is done here or whatever. XDD Though really it's more my habit of playing things out in my head, and then having trouble actually conveying what I want to happen in words...

Okay, now I have like ten minutes to put my contacts in, shower, get dressed, and grab something to eat. :D; After work today I'm off to Target to see if I can't find this turtleneck there, and also some black leggings. When I get home, I shall finally put the waistband on Dad's kilt and then I will play .hack for the rest of the night.