Procrastinating is bad

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

Well, as many of you would've known already, procrastination is bad. Really bad. It usually happens when you're on hiatus, and it can makes your writer's block worsen.

But that's not what I'm going to discuss about. More like, I'm trying to rant about mangaka and their tendency to make their characters background to be a confusing one. Our main subject today is Virgo Shaka, a character from ye olde anime Saint Seiya.

For this same reason Shaka refuses to go clubbing with the rest of the Gold Saints.

Virgo Shaka is a Gold Saint, known to be a prodigy since early age because he received the status when he was 7 years old. Some also called him "Man Closest to God", acknowledging his supreme strength. It was assumed that he was the reincarnation of Gautama Buddha due to that power and his birthplace (India). He was introduced to be a faithful Buddhist (but strangely works for a Greek Goddess...) and loves to preach people with his immense knowledge about the religion's teachings. Many assumed that he's a good friend of Mu, due to their image as "good, untainted with negativity of modern world" boys.

There, your quick summary about Shaka. Now let me tell you the main question:

"What school/tradition does Shaka follows?"

Well, many fans might not care so much about it, but I do. Mainly because I'm trying to make Shaka a proper Buddhist, much more than depicted in the series, and in order to do that I need to know what school he's in.

As you would've known (or probably you don't), Buddhist has many branches or schools/traditions. To name a few, there are Mahayana, Vajrayana, Theravada, Pali, Hinayana, Tibetan, and Chinese. Then you'll probably wonder if I'm going to read articles on each schools from Wikipedia, one by one, then later decide which school to put him in. But, nay, I won't. It was too much work. There are easier ways to decide.

First, let's find something that'll make people, who never watched Saint Seiya or know who Shaka is, think that he is a faithful Buddhist. There are: 1) his meditating pose, and 2) his rosary beads. His meditating pose can't be used to identify what school he's in because it's a very typical pose of a Buddhist monk / priest / whatever. That leaves the rosary beads.

Now, if you search for rosary beads in Google Search, you'll eventually stumble upon an article about Buddhist prayer beads. Yes, that's what it's supposed to be called. Now, opening that article, your eyes will or will not immediately caught sight of '108 beads' written in said article. Remember, Shaka's rosary beads also have 108 beads.

Moving on. You'll read that there are two schools who used 108 beads when chanting mantra. One is Tibetan Buddhism and the other is Theravada Buddhism. How to decide which one is Shaka's school, then? Simple. The article said that the 108 beads, seik badi (or badi for short) is used in Theravada Buddhism in Burma. We've learned that Shaka hails from India, so he can't possible learn about seik badi. Then the result is obvious: he follows Tibetan Buddhism.

You might be thinking that Tibetan Buddhism is a school only for those Buddhist followers in Tibet. But you're wrong. People from a few regions close to Himalayas, such as Nepal, Buthan, and India also followed Tibetan teachings.

This revelation allows more headcanons to be made. Like, the reason Mu is on good terms with Shaka maybe because they, when intending to go back to their homelands, often travel together. Tibet is, after all, located north-east of Himalayas, and Himalayas itself is bordering with northern India. (Also, the reason Shion and Dohko are close? Not only because they're about the same age, become apprentice at around the same time, and lived through 18th century Holy War, but it can be assumed that they visit each other's hometown often. China and Tibet are practically next to each other, after all.)

You'll say, why did he train close to the Ganges river, which is technically located at the west part of India, if he came from norther India? The answer is headcanon: perhaps his power is recognized at young age, and thus he was sent to that place to polish his skill. Who knows? I certainly don't.

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Conclusion? It takes thorough researches a lot of your procrastinating time to explain the background of a character. Especially if the mangaka doesn't put a lot of effort to do so themselves.

I mean... LOOK AT HOW MANY PARAGRAPHS I WROTE UP THERE JUST TO REACH A PLAUSIBLE CONCLUSION THAT HE FOLLOWS TIBETAN BUDDHISM. And it took some hours to gather the info and not to mention connecting them to each other so normal logic can accept it.

Seriously, sometimes it irritates me if the background of a character isn't explained clearly and clash with reality. Sure, fictional stuffs doesn't have to match real life facts because that's why they're called fictional. But, hey. Don't they think that it'll be far more interesting if there are cultural reasons or something that influences their characters to behave like so and so? Instead they tend to make their characters immerses with the cultures from their homelands.

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I told you this is a rant. And if you do read all my previous rants, you would've know that my rants tend not to make any sense.

idek

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

So, after a loooooooooong procrastination, I finally fulfilled Rose's request on making a talk topic between Hibari and Mukuro. And now that I get my hand on Altor's expression renders, I can make moving pictures a.k.a. turn those talk topics into visual novel style!

\o/

Anyway, try checking them out and, if you want, comment on it!

[MUKURO/HIBARI] WHICH ONE IS BETTER?

Buna no Mori de

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

I downloaded chapter 17 of No. 6 manga today. There was a part where Nezumi sing a song! I tried to google it because I wanted to hear him singing it, and well... I'm not dissatisfied. Nezumi's seiyuu indeed have pretty voice >///w///<

Anyway! Because it seems there are no online lyric available, let me put it here. The kanji is from here, the romaji is from Google Translate's phonetic reading and my hearing, and the translation is taken from the manga, although slightly altered to my taste.

Please credit the video uploader and September Scanlations if you're using, thank you!

Buna no Mori de
ブナの森で
In the Beech Forest

- [Nezumi] [ネズミ] | [Hosoya Yoshimasa] [細谷 佳正]

Tooku no yama no itadaki de yuki ga toke
遠くの山の頂で　雪が溶け
At the summit of a distant mountain, the snow thaws
Nagare tonari
流れとなり
Into a flow
Buna no mori de midori ni somaru
ブナの森で　緑に染まる
The beech forest is dyed green


Sato wa ima hana ni umore
郷は今　花に埋もれ
The countryside is now buried in flowers
Hanayori utsukushii otome ga
花より美しい乙女が
A girl more beautiful than blossoms
Buna no mori de ai wo chikau
ブナの森で　愛を誓う
Pledges her love within the beech forest


Wakamono yo
若者よ
Young man
Midori no mizu ni ashi wo nurashi
緑の水に足を濡らし
Dip your feet in the green waters
Shika no you ni dake tte oi de
鹿のように　猛っておいで
Then sprint fleetly like a deer
Hana ga chiru mae ni
花が散る前に
Before the flowers drop away
Otome no kami ni kuchidzuke wo shite
乙女の髪に　口付けを　して
To lay a kiss on the maiden's hair

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

Entah kenapa saya berhasrat ngejelasin status AU Byakuran dkk di Tredici lol Cekidot!


Tredici

► Kikyou Putera dari keluarga kaya yang berprofesi sebagai ahli ikebana. Meskipun sering bergaya seperti seorang rocker, Kikyou sebenarnya anak yang patuh pada aturan keluarga dan memiliki talenta dalam ikebana. Dalam lingkaran pertemanan, bisa dikatakan dia adalah figur seorang ibu bagi teman-temannya yang rata-rata memang kekanak-kanakan. Ia tidak keberatan jika mereka bergantung padanya dan selalu tabah menghadapi keluhan maupun rengekan dari kawan-kawannya.

► Zakuro Orang tuanya mengelola sebuah restauran dan sejak kecil ia sudah menghapal berbagai macam jenis bumbu dan masakan, sehingga banyak tak jarang ia memasak untuk kawan-kawannya. Biasanya ia menjadi partner bertengkar Bluebell. Anehnya, meskipun ia sama-sama kekanakan seperti kawan-kawannya yang lain, Byakuran mengatakan bahwa ia seperti seorang ayah.

► Bluebell Yang termuda di kelompok pertemanan mereka. Bluebell adalah perenang handal. Banyak yang menyebutnya sebagai jelmaan putri duyung karena talentanya tersebut. Ia dulu memiliki seorang kakak, namun sang kakak meninggal karena sebuah kecelakaan. Setelahnya, saat ia bertemu dan ditolong Byakuran, ia mulai menganggap Byakuran sebagai pengganti sang kakak.

► Daisy Keluarganya memiliki butik yang khusus menjual busana bertema gothic, dan busana-busana tersebut dirancang sendiri oleh orang tuanya. Daisy sendiri juga ikut membuat desain namun desainnya dinilai belum pantas untuk dipajang. Ia memiliki fashion taste yang bagus, dan sering menjadi stylist kawan-kawannya saat mereka hendak pergi ke pesta bersama-sama.

► Ghost Sepupu Byakuran. Keduanya sudah akrab dari kecil dan sering disangka kembar beda sel telur karena wajah mereka yang luar biasa mirip. Karena sering bersama itulah Ghost menjadi salah satu dari segelintir orang yang tahu cara membuat Byakuran merasa lebih baik, sampai-sampai sering diminta oleh orang tua Byakuran untuk datang kalau anak mereka tersebut ngambek tanpa sebab yang jelas.

Credited to pastries @ dreamwidth

General, fun knowledge

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

Welp, been awhile since I wrote something for this blog! And I'll bore you with a fact that I'm sure most people already know but I find it funny so I'll share it anyway.

It's about the relationship between cloud and fog.

I found it in by cram school's text book:

Various types of fog are essentially clouds that form at the earth's surface, produced by temperature differences and moisture in the air. As warm, moisture-laden air cools, it's relative humidity (the amount of moisture that air can contain, which depends on the temperature) increases. Warm air can hold more water vapor than cold air. So if their is cooled sufficiently it will reach saturation, or the dew point, at which point the moisture begins to condense out of the air and form water droplets, creating fog.

What's so funny about the text, you ask?

Well, by now you might've learned that Amano Akira defies Physics Law by creating impossible stuffs in KHR. But, hey! She includes a little bit physics that actually make sense here!

What makes sense? I'm referring to how Hibari, when he grows older, can use Mist flames as well. He used it to camouflage the entrance to his underground hideout, remember? So, I'm saying that it makes sense that Hibari (and maybe other Cloud flame users too) can use Mist flames.

As for how he figured it out how to do that, who knows? Some might believe that Chrome or Mukuro taught him, but there are the possibilities that he learned it by himself (my headcanon is that he's actually pretty smart, academically) or Gokudera pointed it out (that guy can use Cloud flames too! Maybe Hibari hears him complaining about how he can use Cloud flames but can't use Mist flames and gets the idea? LOL).

Something else to note is that the passage says that 'fog are clouds that form at the earth's surface'. Out of all 7 Flames of Sky, the element closest to earth is the Mist. It suits the illusionists, no? They're so focused on materialistic world, and they're the most... impure! It's strange how most illusionists are so obsessed or involved strongly with the Sky element, though.

I'll stop rambling now! By the time you read this entry, I hope you'll notice that I've changed the blog's layout. See you~

About incest

You will realize that everything is technically incest and that deities such as I do not give a fuck

So even if I wanted to avoid that kind of relationship with basically anyone, it would be impossible

Why is incest even a thing with you dying ones

from: askthanatos @ tumblr

Well, my good sir, this is technically correct.

Even though in reality we're not born from Moira, everything is technically incest as well. Depending on which theory of the first human that you believed in, of course.

For example, me as a Moslem believes that the first human is Adam. He got a wife named Eve. Then they have a lot of children. Those children marry each other to continue their lineage. Well, isn't that incest? And if the children of those children were to marry each other or their cousins, wouldn't that still count as incest?

But it seems the term incest no longer follows that logic, so I'll stop here.

Promoting

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

Heigh-ho!

I made a new blog. It's called 'Ar tonereborn: Melody of Mist'. Yep, as you can guess from the title, it is a blog about the fiction. It mainly contains the talk topic that occurs between the characters featured in the fanfiction, though.

Feel free to make a request of what kind of talk topics that you wanted to see! Remember that I still haven't completed making the face set for all of them, so yeah...

Anyway, that's all for now. Jya~

I need to get this thing out of my mind

Moshi-moshi, minna-tachi!

So, after finishing up to the latest chapter of Renai Idenshi XX, I got this urge to create a RP forum of a similar setting /)_-)

Well, basically, the setting that I had in mind is like its 'spin-off', Renai Idenshi XY, where "the last woman of the society died" and "ever since disease spreads out, no more females can be born". Stuffs like that. Oh, and no, it won't be a city or anything. Rather, the RP is around the elite school. Yeah, just like the canon.

And like RIXY, the society is divided into two part: the Seme and the Uke. The Seme is controlling the government and military, while the Uke stays at home and raises the children.

How to get the children? Well, the government created this special potion that allows the Uke to get temporary womanly organs, so that they can bear children. This special potion is injected only when a Seme and a Uke married each other, although several underages might be able to get their hands to those things (like, the children of those who are involved in the potion productions).

Back to the system.

So it'll revolve around the school. Members will get to choose whether they want their character to be a Seme or an Uke. NO SEKE. Then the characters will study, socialize with each other. Oh, and of course Semes and Ukes aren't put in the same class. They have separated school buildings. Like, maybe the Semes are in the West Buildings while the Ukes are in the East Buildings. They will live in dorms. They're not allowed to meet each other except during special events, called 'Ball Duel', which is held once a month. And for special students, they can meet students from the other side once a week, during General Meeting.

How to choose these special students? Well, I'm still considering whether I should follow the real system, which is: Seme side's special students are students who got the top 5 positions in each exams, while Uke side's special students are students who got the top 5 positions in a popularity contest; or with an original system, such as the amount of IC posts or maybe activeness.

Now, of course a school had rules. And these rules, when violated, can makes you earn simple punishments or immediately expelled from the school. Some of the rules are: prohibition from fighting against each other (fellow Semes or fellow Ukes), school's properties breaking, love between same sex (as in, Seme and Seme, or Uke and Uke), etc. A Seme also not allowed to harm an Uke, because Seme is supposed to protect an Uke.

The dorms and classrooms are divided into several classes. There are one for the commoner / low-rates, one for mid-rates, and lastly, one for high-classes. The school facility consists of pretty much everything that the students might need, and so does the dorms.

Oh, I should mention that I want a system where the students are required to do assignments. That is, if I'm really going to use the exam system for deciding the special students.

Another thing... this might be difficult, but I want the members to not only use a character visualization, but actually using that whole character to enroll in the school. For example, if I use Hibari Kyouya, then that character will be the real Hibari Kyouya. The personality, the name, the abilities, stuffs like that. But of course, the background can be altered. Like he's the son of a wealthy family. Though this background must not be improvised, such as giving Hibari trauma or other things.

I was thinking of that because I don't want the members to create unbelievable original characters. Putting the border of Mary Sue might be a bit harder. Plus, it gives convenience to the members, because they don't have to think too much about how to fill the character sheet. Also, so far, I see many original characters have personalities similar to their visualization. Seriously, what's so different about using that character for RP? Though, sure, this means that members mustn't make their characters OOC...

So, to conclude things:

• The forum will have school-like system, plus things that are adapted from RIXX and its spin-off.
• I want the members to use a canon character. Not some originals.
• Depends on which systems I will have to decide the special students, the activeness of members might be required.
• It is possible to make your characters get pregnant <3 *shot*
• This will be YAOI. Lots of it.

Though... what's with final terms exam and national exams coming closer and closer, I don't have the time to make the forum! Hopefully I will get it done after those shits, though!

Anyway, that being said... ciao!

MPreg Heredity

Note: This post include fictional characters of a well-known series, Katekyo Hitman Reborn! It contains fan theory, thus it must not be taken too seriously.

So, I was reading my friend Tori's old journal entries and found a link where her Gokudera discusses about how the genotypes of the attribute of flames get inherited, specifically about how my D18's children (Kei and Kaede) inherited their parents' flame. This is what he comes up with:

............Xs............ Y
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Xc ...... ..XcXs..........XcY
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Xc .........XcXs..........XcY

The original is here.

The father (Dino) is Xs Y, while the mother (Kyouya) is Xc Xc. Hence, using the punnett square, it should be something like that. The ratio supposed to be:

XcXs: female Sky (Kei)
XcY: male Cloud (Kaede)

However, this theory is slightly wrong, because Kyouya is NOT a female, although he is the one who gave birth to both children. His chromosome genotypes are supposed to be symbolized with Xc Y. And, believe it or don't, even if we are using this genotype, we can still get the desired result.

This is what I came up with:

............Xs............ Y
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Xc ........XcXs..........XcY
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Y  .........XsY.......... YY

With this, we can still get a female Sky (Xc Xs) and a male Cloud (Xc Y). In addition, it is possible for Dino and Kyouya to get a son with the flame of Sky (Xs Y), thus Kazumichi (one of Yami Dragoness of Dark's OC and also D18's son) existence is legal.

We shall ignore the YY one because I'm not sure whether to label that as a lethal (meaning a child born with that chromosome is impossible / die in the mother's womb) or a flameless.

The conclusion? Xs allele is dominant while Xc is recessive.

Now, doesn't it makes you thinking which ones is the most dominant or the most recessive among the seven flames of Sky?

Let's pick another example, this time to see which one is more dominant between Mist and Cloud. I shall borrow Luise Meyrink's OCs, Rokudou Ren and Renna. The father is Mukuro (Xm Y) and the mother is Kyouya (Xc Y). Using the same method, we will get something like this:

............Xm............ Y
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Xc .........XcXm..........XcY
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Y ..........XmY........... YY

From that, we get XcXm (female Cloud = Renna), XmY (male Mist = Renna), XcY (male Cloud), and YY (lethal / flameless). In conclusion, Xc is more dominant than Xm.

So far, I am only able to find out the most dominant is s (the allele of Sky flames) after trying Sawada Nana (Yami Dragoness of Dark's OC, a child of R27) and the most recessive is m (the allele of Mist flames) after trying Hibari Kyouko (runesque's OC, a child of 1896). There's a possibility that Storm flame is more dominant than Rain too.

But I could be wrong.

This is the end of my simple, quick research. Corrections and criticisms are appreciated.

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In A World of Money

The world is a place ruled by money. If you have all the money in the world, you have all that belongs in the world. Houses, technology, golds and jewels. You name it, you got it. Money runs the world. Even people. You can pay for maids, butlers, gardeners, and though people always deny it, emotions. Maybe you can't, so to speak, buy happiness, but you can buy things to make you happy. Maybe you can't, so to speak, buy love, but you can buy people to love you and people for you to love. It doesn't matter what people say, because there is virtually nothing in the world that cannot be bought.

Paragraf pembuka dari fanfiksi berjudul In a World of Money karya Henzie-sama.

Nggak, saya ga akan ngereview fic selfcest satu itu.

Hanya saja... paragraf itu merupakan penjelasan yang pas untuk menggambarkan dunia ini. Well, setidaknya dunia menurut sudut pandang saya.

Tumben, ya, saya ngebahas yang kayak ginian? Kalian bertanya ada angin apa? Yah... katakanlah sesuatu terjadi tadi dan saya jadi dongkol dan saya dapat ide untuk menuangkannya dalam bentuk tulisan. Di sini. Di blog yang seharusnya isinya non-RL. Tapi tetep saya masukkin ke sini karena semoga aja ada ahli hukum yang lihat terus tersadar buat ngeberantas ketidakadilan ini *cailah*

Ahem, jadi, kita mulai dari penyebab saya nulis beginian.

Jadi, di sekolah tadi saya baru menyadari bahwa uang itu berpengaruh banget. You can get whatever you want with money. Whatever di sini dalam bentuk material dan duniawi, ya. Yang akhirat udah pasti ga mungkin. Dan kesadaran ini muncul karena seorang teman curhat pada saya soal nilai temannya yang lebih tinggi padahal it is clearly shown that person is more stupid than that friend of mine.

Saya juga udah ngerasa dari dulu, 'sih. Kok bisa-bisanya itu orang jelas-jelas bego luar dalem naik kelas sampai kelas 3. Dan saya tau jawabannya: karena uang. Kalaupun bukan karena uang, pasti karena kekuasaan bapaknya yang memang orang berpengaruh di sini.

Wajar dong kalau saya berpikiran begitu kalau bukti-buktinya jelas ada. Cukup amati orang itu selama beberapa jam, dan kau bisa langsung tahu bahwa orang itu orang rusak. Ga jarang saya mencium bau rokok kalau orang itu lewat. Ga jarang dia bolos kelas. Dia ga takut terlambat setiap hari. Nothing fears him, because he knows that everyone else fears his father's authority. Yaiyalah, wong kalau kita macam-macam bisa-bisa bokapnya nyuruh orang buat ngebantai kita.

... ini makin lama arahnya makin curhat.

Ahem.

Intinya begitu. Uang berkuasa banget. Yang kaya bebas berbuat sesuka hati, yang miskin cuma bisa makan hati.

Mau gimana lagi? Moral bangsa juga udah rusak. Koruptor bebas berkeliaran pastinya karena mereka nyuap pihak penegak keadilan. Atau pihak penegak keadilannya yang emang ga konsisten. Atau koruptornya lahir karena pendidiknya ga bener.

Indonesia jatuh. Jatuh sedalam-dalamnya.

... dan gw makin galau. *berhenti pake bahasa formal*

Pindahkan gw ke negara lain, please. Gw udah muak.