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Found the vocaloid lj community, muahaha.

So I celebrate my newcoming with a bit of fan art.
I've made 2 icons as teasers.



( Click here to view the full artwork! )

Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #110 ~ 11/2 - 11/9

Previous position = (*)
Notes on a particular song = (✓)

*fanart of the week!


年長組 by つー @ pixiv

( YouTube Linkage: )

VOCALOIDS:
初音ミク Hatsune Miku (first sound)
鏡音レン Kagamine Len (reflected sound)
鏡音リン Kagamine Rin (reflected sound)
巡音ルカ Megurine Luka (revolving sound)
MEIKO
KAITO
神威がくぽ Kamui Gakupo (Gackpoid)
megpoid/GUMI

✓OP/Pick Up: (Petit) Hatsune Miku - 最強コミュ (Saikyou Komyu - The Best Scene Ever!)

#30(new): Hatsune Miku - 冬のさくら。(Fuyu no Sakura. - Winter Cherry Blossoms.)
#29(new): Hatsune Miku - ワールドイズマイン (Waarudo izu Main - World is Mine)
#28(29): Hatsune Miku - 裏表ラバーズ (Uraomote Rabaazu - Opposite Lovers)
✓#27(15): Hatsune Miku - SILENTGEKIDO HOMECOMING
#26(11): Hatsune Miku - 雨降る街にて風船は悪魔と踊る (Amefuru Machinite Fuusen wa Akumato Odoru - A Balloon Dances in a Rainy Town)
#25(28): KAITO, MEIKO, and Hatsune Miku - 卑怯戦隊うろたんだー (Hikyou Sentai Urotandaa - The Wimpy Rangers: Urotander)
#24(new): Hatsune Miku - 1925
#23(new): Hatsune Miku - 初音ミクの消失（LONG VERSION）(Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu - The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku)
#22(08): Hatsune Miku - 脱げばいいってモンじゃない！(Nugeba Iitte Monjanai! - Don't Undress Like That!)
#21(new): Megurine Luka - ルカルカ★ナイトフィーバー (Ruka Ruka Naito Fiibaa - Luka Luka Night Fever)
#20(new): Hatsune Miku - DREAMA
✓#19(new): MEIKO - Change me
#18(18): Hatsune Miku - ナイトメア☆パーティーナイト (Naitomea Paatiinaito - Nightmare Party Night)
#17(20): Hatsune Miku - メルト (Meruto - Melt)
#16(19): Kagamine Len - パラジクロロベンゼン (Parajikurorobenzen - Paradichlorobenzene)
#15(13): Hatsune Miku - Mrs.Pumpkinの滑稽な夢 (Mrs. Pumpkin no Kokkei na Yume - Mrs. Pumpkin's Goofy Dream)
#14(27): Hatsune Miku - 結ンデ開イテ羅刹ト骸 (Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro - Hold, Release, Rakshasa, and Corpse)
#13(26): Hatsune Miku - ロミオとシンデレラ (Romio to Shinderera - Romeo and Cinderella)
#12(25): Megurine Luka - ダブルラリアット (Daburu Rariatto - Double Lariat)
✓#11(new): Hatsune Miku - Bad Sweets
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#10(21): Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka - magnet
#09(22): Hatsune Miku - Es～dirty aspiration～
#08(03): Hatsune Miku - おなかすいたうた　リメイク版 (Onakasuita Uta Rimeiku Han -The "I'm Hungry" Song Remake Edition)
#07(10): VOCALOID - ドリィムメルティックハロウィン (Dorimu Merutikku Harowin - Dream Meltic Halloween)
#06(05): GUMI - カムパネルラ (Kamupanerura - Campanella)
#05(new): Hatsune Miku - 宇宙ラジオ (Uchuu Rajio - Space Radio)
✓#04(new): Hatsune Miku - ダミーダミー (Damii Damii - Dummy Dummy)
#03(01): Hatsune Miku - 鎖の少女 (Jou no Shoujo - Chain Girl)
#02(14): Megurine Luka - Just Be Friends
✓#01(new): Hatsune Miku - キミボシ (You Star)

ED: Megurine Luka - LOVE symphony

NOTES:

OP/Pick Up: This little number is based on a famous scene from the game Idolmaster. The scene in question can be found here, onii-chan ♥
#27: This will never not be funny to me. hooomygod when Rin tells her to shut up I always die laughing.
#19: A super amazing song from the birthday girl! Definitely a must listen. The PV is totally awesome, as well.
#11: From the P that brought us all 1925 (which I'm starting to warm up to quite a bit) is Bad Sweets. GET ON MY IPOD NOW PLEASE THANK YOU
#04: Is this really a DECO*27 song? Wow. He has quite the range. You know, when he gets rid of that super sweet sound that seems to drip from most of his Miku work, DECO really gets going.
#01: 40 METERRRRRRRRRR BE MY BOYFRIEND

SUPER SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS YAY:

♪ A very happy birthday to MEIKO! I included her in the fanart this week for that very reason.
♪ weekly_vocaloid needs a new layout really, really badly. If anyone is willing to help, please say so in the comments.

Hey guys! Just your happy lurker here with Chapter two of Time Means Nothing.

Please enjoy! Comments are always greatly appreciated.
I'm still nervous about sharing my writing. Hah. But I hope you all enjoy chapter two!

If you didn't read chapter one, here it is. ;3

Chapter 1


( Time Means Nothing Chapter 2 )

♫ ELEGYCITY
w h e r e t h e m u s i c i s i n y o u r s o u l
Elegy is a community-based, panfandom roleplay
played out in a red light district setting where
two rival Houses fight for dominance and
where music influences all aspects of the city,
even giving characters strange abilities.
We have only Megurine Luka in a city made of music! Perfect setting, eh? We'd love more Vocaloid characters, and we also accept original characters including fandom-based ones!

Okay, so, somebody gave me what is possibly the world's most awkward love letter in the world today. I had to scan it, it was just too strange.



I'm honestly not quite sure what to do here, because I don't really want to call them but I also don't want to be a jerk and leave them hanging. I mean, dang. I'm not at all sure what to think of this. (That's kind of a neat fro on the lion, though.)

In less weird news: I went to half-price books the other day and blew all my money on comics. YAY COMICS. Probably my favorite random buy among them was an issue of The Atomics I picked up for the sole reason that it had Madman on the cover and then when I read through it in the store I discovered it had what was probably the most unerotic dudes kissing scene I have ever encountered in it and I decided that was reason alone to buy it. Also I got some free stuff from an art supply store that just reopened, and bought some sculpy there as well. Now I just need an excuse to use it, but with luck that won't be too hard.

Also I went to the art museum last week and at the moment they're setting up an Art Noveau jewelery show with an undecided date (apparently they're having trouble with getting the right atmospheric conditions) and right in front of the exhibit hall where it's going to be held they have these two beautiful Alphonse Mucha lithograph posters on display. I want to come back when the show opens just because there's going to be more of those. Also there was some work by an illustrator who teaches at CCAD and a show of classical Chinese scroll paintings of animals. It was all neat stuff, although it's a bit tough to get the full effect of the scrolls due to how much they've aged. It was interesting seeing how much the line qualities and detail varied from artist to artist, though.

Also I kept forgetting to feed myself all weekend, what the hell.

Also, Mondo Medicals. Enough said.

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/11/for-those-who-read-this-blog-for.html

(Serena Altschul and some author in July, sitting on the trampoline after two days of interviews. None of which, oddly enough, were done on the trampoline.)

Mr. Neil,

I DVR'd yesterday's installment of Sunday Morning and after zipping through it back and forth multiple times cannot seem to find you, though the description indicated the correct episode. Was it bumped to next week? Have you been sucked into an alternate Neil-less universe?

A concerned reader,
Mary

I'm afraid it was bumped by the Fort Hood Massacre.

I checked: The profile CBS did of me is apparently still going out, probably some time in December, although no-one seems certain when. I was told that we could help ensure that it is broadcast (and possibly make it come out sooner than December) if CBS think people would actually like to see it. Which means that if you do want to see it, you can help the process along if you write or email CBS and (politely) tell them so:

ADDRESS:
CBS News Sunday Morning
Box O (for Osgood)
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

E-MAIL: sundays@cbsnews.com

...
Dear Neil Gaiman, I ask for half-a-moment of your time (I would not presume to ask for more). This Spring 2010 I am teaching a Topics in Literature class on YOU at Winona State University (Eng 225: Neil Gaiman). Easy enough to select representative novel (American Gods), short stories (Fragile Things), children and YA (Graveyard Book), but here's the rub: I will likely only assign one Sandman graphic novel to students. I have been debating which is most representative, most worthy of inclusion, most amenable to class discussion and student scholarship. Then I thought I'd ask you. I know you suggest above that, for questions of this sort, we consider you a dead author, but I know you're not. When I came to a similar impasse about which of Ursula Le Guin's works to include in another class, she actually replied and offered her input. I extend the same offer to you: which of the Sandman volumes would you like to see on the syllabus?
Thank you for your time,
Nicholas Ozment, English Instructor
WSU

It's a hard one. I think if I were teaching I'd either go for Season of Mists or Fables and Reflections, because both of them have stuff to teach -- those nice chewy bits that people can like or dislike, argue with or discuss. I know a lot of teachers like to teach Dream Country because a) Midsummer Night's Dream won awards, and b) it's short and c) it has a script in the back. Your call. And good luck.

...

I mentioned recently that there were some beautiful new Polish and Russian book covers for my books that I'd seen at signings, which got me thinking. The International Cover gallery on this website is incredibly out of date.

It's at http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Works/Books/International_Covers.

And though I get a lot of foreign editions in, and will at some point head down to the basement and rummage around and scan some (this week's mail brought the two-volume Japanese edition of Anansi Boys, on the cover of which Fat Charlie is not only Very White, but also Very Thin, and the complex Chinese - ie. Taiwan and Hong Kong - edition of The Graveyard Book) I thought that blog readers, being, as you are, all over the world, might be a better resource for knowing where to look for foreign covers.

Was your basement finished when you purchased your home or did you have it finished for your basement library? If you finished it yourself, how difficult was it? Also, I thought I saw a dehumidifier in one of the Photosynth pictures. Do you need one because of the books?

I'm asking because we have a full unfinished basement that we would like to have finished. We are running out of room for our books also. I don't think we don't have as many as you do though. :)

Any other suggestions for such a project would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
C.

No, when we got here the basement had a clay floor that puddled when it rained. We hired some nice builders and spent a lot of money finishing it, putting in drainage tiles, underfloor heating and all. There's a dehumidifier there in the summer and a humidifier in the winter, because after the first few years I noticed that binding glue and leather book covers were both cracking and flaking. There's now the equivalent of a large house in basement rooms beneath this house, filled with books and CDs and suchlike stuff.

And finally, a few photos from the China trip, taken by Ian Ford (or in one case, on his camera). Ian's a travel guide who now lives in China who helped organise my travels, and came along with me for part of the journey.

Amanda and I in the silk clothes that my publisher had given us as a thank you for coming, and because they are terrific.

I'm holding the Galaxy Award for this year, given to the foreign author most popular with Chinese reader-voters. This was my second year of winning it, so I have retired from the competition and said that they have to find a new favourite foreign author now.

Please, could you help me to find the karaoke version of Honey Honey without Chinese back-vocal? Т_Т

Vocaloid [84]



Here @ tensai_universe

Hello, hello, pretties, everyone's favorite superior Miku variant, Zatsune Miku, is here! And what've I got for you all today, hmmm? Why, no less than the juiciest low-down on the seamy side of the Vocaloid world! Oh, sure, I might get the rap for poor impulse control, but really, I'm just honest. The rest of the crew's just as bad, if not worse, as we'll soon see on today's edition of . . .

( Vocaloid . . . SECRETS )

Well, hope you all enjoyed~ See you again soon on Vocaloid . . . SECRETS ♥

Hey,I'm new here~
And to celebrate my joining, FAN ART~

( You know you want to ;D )

Lol, I just thought this was cute:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/the-lagz/t-shirts/3790975-1-this-reminds-me-of-a-puzzle

I don't know who designed it, or if it has ever been posted here before, but if not... well enjoy it for either the first or the second or third or whatever.

*slips back into lurker mood... or at least until she becomes brave enough to post a fanfic*

This is the last of my posts for the day! =D

So, the final stop for Saturday (it was a full day!) was the Vampire cafe! Yeah... the Vampire Cafe.

Which is... exactly like it sounds! A kitchy cafe decorated to look all dracula and bloooooooood. Something a lot of people I know back home would like XD

Honestly, it was interesting, but.. well, too smoky. I would gladly go back if it was nonsmoking, but since that isn't going to happen and it was utterly miserable from the smoke of the drug-addicted girl behind us (they ARE drugs), and the chain-smoking guy next to us, I won't be going back.

However, whenever Tokyo is made smoke-free, I am so coming back! Here's to the future!!

( But some pictures Dracula himself would (not) be proud of XD )

You know how you hear about all of those random strange vending machines in Japan? Well, this one sells canned soups.

Canned ramen, oden, curry, chicken soup.... all sorts of strange things!!

( Read more... )

It's in Akihabara, by the way... Think you can find it? It's kind of hiding in plain sight ^_~

I wouldn't have even known about it myself if it wasn't for my friend Patrick, from Otaku2.com! He introduced it to us when he guest starred on Pop'n Press! I HIGHLY recommend his book, too!! The Otaku Encyclopedia!! It's full of nearly everything that an Otaku would want to know! I really loved it!! (I'll do a really good review of it eventually!)

I was volunteering in Akihabara, and we had a reservation for a place in Ginza that evening, so Adele and I decided to walk.... I took a lot of great pictures of the city!!

Sorry in advance, but I have a lot of posts to make and only tonight to make them (studio from tomorrow on), so I'm going to make a lot of posts all at once! ^^ Sometimes I don't like doing that, because it discourages people from commenting, (I love comments!!), but I've gotta post while I can! ^^

( +10 pictures of buildings and pretty sights in the city ^__________^ )

I'm starting a new tag, Conbini Life, just to post about weird things or just things that I find in japanese convenience stores (and of course, other ones when I travel!). I'd really like to post more about the "normal" (as much as my life is) parts of living in Japan... at least what I experience living in Japan, since everyone is different!!

So without further ago, a few more pictures of convenience store-ness! Guess I'd better take as many as I can right now, in case I suddenly get my break and am too famous to get away with taking pictures! (lol, well you never know! It would be nice, ne? ^___^)

( +6 conbini pictures, +5 berry cafe... )

Hi, I'm Olive. I don't date casually, I don't hook up. I don't know what I think in regards to my gender. I'm flexible, but I won't bend if you won't bend for me. I don't play games. My judgement isn't perfect, but I spend most of my free time thinking shit through. I'm a lot more talk than I am sex, sorry. I won't mess with your head, I won't mess with your heart. I'm nothing short of a downright sap. My standards are high, but that's not because I expect more of out you, it's because I expect more out of me. All it takes to assuage the anxiety is a hug and some soft words, don't be fooled. I'll make you dinner. I'll treat you right.

Try me.