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Final Fantasy Kiss Battle 2016!

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:48:11 GMT

FINAL FANTASY KISS BATTLE 2016

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Tax time

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:19:54 GMT

I'm alive! I hope to post fannish things again soon :(

In the meanwhile, it's tax time.

"Did you have any medical expenses in 2012"

HA

HAHA

HAHAHA

OH THAT'S A GOOD ONE, TURBO TAX

THAT'S A GOOD ONE

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Hey Con/Cosplay folk! Take this Survey for Great Justice! (aka an Otakon Panel on Sexism in Anime)

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:15:53 GMT

I realized that I even more belatedly did not signal boost this here! THE SHAME. You still have a day or two to do it =D

These surveys will help two great folks as they put together a panel on sexism in anime fandom. You can read a little more about the surveys at a post on Altair and Vega. They plan to keep the surveys running past the con, as data collection for possible future projects, but the deadline for data to be used in the Otakon 2012 panel is July 20.

Research Survey For Otakon Sexism Panel 2012: This one is for any of you who’ve attended a convention. We’re trying to get a sense of how people feel at events and how they connect to the community.

Sexism in Cosplay Survey for Otakon 2012: This one is for you cosplayers out there. If you’ve cosplayed or do so regularly, we’d love for you to take the time to fill it out.

Thanks!

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FREEDOM

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:10:04 GMT

I have finally officially put in my two weeks' notice. I am OUT of here. God, my life.

Did you know that finding health insurance out in the private market sucks? WELL IT DOES.

What I expect is two weeks of frantic closing-up-shop activity, followed by at least a week (more likely two) or absolute depressive crash, and then somewhere around my birthday I expect to start having a life again and like. Maybe having fun. Or something.

Thank you everyone for your support during this shit time. See you on the other side, I hope!

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I am going to throttle all the things and then cry on them

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:08:55 GMT

or possibly the other way around

either way there will be much throttling and tears

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the hulk meets health insurance

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:07:25 GMT

holy flippin' fuck but WHAT is with this incredible tendency of health insurance people to be SO DAMN UNWILLING to tell you WHAT their coverage would be before you actually sign up with them?

what the holy jesus is that even on about

SMASH ALL THE THINGS

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[Art] FFXII - Accidentally Vaan (G)

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:10:17 GMT

Fandom | Cast: Final Fantasy XII, Vaan.
Notes: Was having a super cranky afternoon, then saw this and decided that I needed to do that pose with a guy. I started just drawing it and it turned into Vaan. The ragedoodle looked okay, so I coloured it. The end. Took about an hour all told.

Been a while.

( FFXII - Accidentally Vaan )

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DOINK! 2012 - Signups almost done! Come Play =D

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:07:23 GMT

Just a friendly reminder, folks! Signups close in just over a day, so mosey on over! =)

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My weekend: rear-ended (AGAIN), locked out at midnight in the cold, and cat lost in crawlspace

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:18 GMT

So.

It all started with the gas being turned off.

The setup: We're moving to Pittsburgh, in stages. The place we picked is the upstairs unit in a 2-unit house. This past weekend was to be the stage where all the furniture/boxes/junk and the four pets join partner T in PA, and then I return to DC to work some more. T has a job interview Friday morning, after which he plans to head down to DC, pick me up from work, head towards my parents' place where most of our stuff lives, pick up a U-Haul truck nearby, we all load the truck, go back to MD where I and the pets live, sleep, pack up the single room we rent there, go to PA, arrive in the afternoon, and unpack with the help of awesome local friends.

Here is what happened instead.

( Adventures! )

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[Recs] Final Fantasy VII Edition (8 arts, 2 cosplays, 1 vid, 1 craft)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:17:32 GMT

And here we are with a little FFVII post to follow from the FF Tactics recs! We're starting off with a vid by the same vidder that closed out that post, so let's go!

Don't ask me how so much Aerith/Cloud ended up here; I have no idea ._.

( Final Fantasy VII: 8 arts, 2 cosplays, 1 vid, 1 craft )

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[Recs] Final Fantasy Tactics Edition (12 arts, 1 cosplay, 1 vid)

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:06:12 GMT

Wanna know something weird? There is a surprising amount of overlap between people who make FFVII stuff and people who make FFT stuff! I was trying to put together more rec posts and I realized that a lot of the people I'd pulled for one had also done something for the other. So why not! Lady Agrias led us off the Final Fantasy Ladies recs post, and here we are diving into FF Tactics by her lead. I'm rounding this post off with a great FFT vid (yes! a vid!), and the next post will open with another vid by the same vidder, but for FFVII. Which I think is super neat =D

Like the last post, this seems to run on themes, a bit. There's actually a bunch more art I want to rec but wow I ran out out time so very hard >.>

( Final Fantasy Tactics: 12 arts, 1 cosplay, 1 vid )

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FFVIII fic teaser! Celebrating renay!

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:13:18 GMT

Guess what! seventhe and I have a teaser to celebrate renay being awesome and having a birthday and GRADUATING COLLEGE! There is a SURPRISE inside the teaser!

Teaser is over here! It is over six thousand words long, whoops!

Exclamation marks!

♥ renay. We hope you like it =D

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[Recs] Final Fantasy Ladies Edition - 20 art, 6 cosplays,1 fic, 1 vid (IV, VI, VIII-X, XII, XIII, T)

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:48:44 GMT

Some recs! Because I need to feel better! I was going to post these Wednesday and then do two more rec posts Thursday and Friday, but instead I got rear-ended and my car was totaled. Whoops! That was awkward. That is pretty much 2011 for me. So I am going to rec shit because it is better than dwelling on everything. OH WELL. RECS.

Some of these are on pixiv, where you need an account to view pics full-size (let me know if you want/need any help with that!). I also translate titles if they're only a character or place name; otherwise I leave any other titles and all usernames as they are.

And apparently FFVIII is first because I want to show off that vid that much. A lot of these kind of have themes within each canon.

Recs: Final Fantasy Ladies Edition

20 arts (FFIV, FFVI, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXII, FFXIII, FFT)

6 cosplays (FFIV, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX-2, FFXII)

1 fic (FFVI)

1 vid (FFVIII)

( FFVIII - 1 vid, 3 arts, 1 cosplay )

( FFIV - 1 art, 2 cosplays )

( FFVI - 4 arts, 1 fic )

( FFIX - 1 art, 1 cosplay )

( FFX - 5 arts, 1 cosplay )

( FFXI - 1 art )

( FFXII - 2 arts, 2 cosplays )

( FFXIII - 1 art )

( FF Tactics - 1 art )

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Make Me Smile Files: Two Men Tango; A Sailor Kisses Her Girlfriend

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:01:01 GMT

Two things I ran across on tumblr in quick succession that I feel go nicely together and made a better day for me. This is not the post I wanted to make — there's important other stuff I wanted to post about — but I have been mega sick and basically I just want something feelgood.

So.

Item A: Two Men Tango; Follower in High Heels

I basically don't have words for how hot and awesome this is. I love dancing; I love ballroom dancing; I love gender fuckery and subversion; I freaking love how hot tango is. Anyone have more awesome tango videos to share?

(on tumblr, with source and talk from source)

Item B: First Sailor off the Ship Kisses Her Girlfriend

It’s a time-honored tradition at Navy homecomings — one lucky sailor is chosen to be first off the ship for the long-awaited kiss with a loved one.
Today, for the first time, the happily reunited couple was gay.

The dock landing ship Oak Hill has been gone for nearly three months, training with military allies in Central America.

As the homecoming drew near, the crew and ship’s family readiness group sold $1 raffle tickets for the first kiss. Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta bought 50 - which is actually fewer than many people buy, she said, so she was surprised Monday to find out she’d won.

Her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, was waiting when she crossed the brow.

They kissed. The crowd cheered. And with that, another vestige of the policy that forced gays to serve in secrecy vanished.

By Corinne Reilly
The Virginian-Pilot
© December 21, 2011

(on tumblr with source, etc.)

Speaking of tumblr, anyone know any themes that display things as... tiles, I guess, rather than in a long vertical column? The theme I have now ( http://justira.tumblr.com/ ) used to do that, but then got an "upgrade" so now it's all broken and only has two columns. seventhe has something close ( http://sevdrag.tumblr.com/ ), but I like how on my layout things are different dimensions and text stuff is actually there, not just a preview (or it should be; layout is borked...). Any help? =\

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[Art - Sketch] FFI - Protect (Male White Mage, Female Fighter, Thief, Black Mage)

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:03:43 GMT

Fandom | Cast: Final Fantasy I; Male White Mage, Female Fighter, Thief, Black Mage
Rating | Warnings: All clear
Feedback: Always welcome!
Notes: This is a bit of Chocobo Down for Small Fandom Appreciation Month at DOINK! ff_exchange

The prompt was: "A MALE WHITE MAGE. FOR ONCE. Seriously, I don't care who he is or what he does or whom he does it with, but for the love of Moogles can we have a single male white wizard, like the good old days?"

This is the first bit of art I've done in at least half a year due to sickness, exhaustion, or broken/packed away supplies. It felt like a good warm-up to getting back into the swing of things. This took I guess maybe 4-5 hours? I like this sketch and hope to one day colour it =)

( Protect )

x-post: Hosted on my DW justira [here],my LJ justira [here], and on AO3 [here].

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Signal boosts, a little linkspam, and all my art vanishing soon =|

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:52:26 GMT

First:

A kitty in California needs a new home (willing to drive 12 hours): Itai's new home: In which I beg for my best friend's life (another signal boost with summary )

OccupyEverywhere: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (from a faculty member concerning the use of pepper spray on students at UC Davis)

Announcement!

So. My host, dreamhost, has decided to shut down all dreamhost.com subdomains and keep all hosted stuff on dreamhosters.com subdomains instead. They haven't given out dreamhost.com subdomains in ages, so this affects a small number of people. But those people are their oldest and most loyal customers. And now, as far as I've been able to tell and their support department has been able to tell me, that's it. My long stay with them is rewarded by having all pointers to my art — of which there are in the area of a thousand spread across several sites — be dead on December 1. That's it. Not even a redirect after that date. Just gone. The files will still exist, but will only be FTP-accessible, not web accessible.

I am not best pleased. I'm trying to see if they can do anything better for me, at all. But for the foreseeable future:

All links/references to my art will break in about a week.

I'll be trying to go back and fix links as I can, or whatever other solution I come up with. But that could take a while and I am pretty low on energy just now. Some but not all of my art is available on deviantart under justira.deviantart.com — I haven't updated that in a while though. I'll be doing what I can; I the meantime, my apologies :(

(dear AO3: y u no host my art :( )

And now, because I need something nice after all of the above:

(1)

FINAL FANTASY FRIENDING MEME

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Speaking of DOINK! it's Small Fandom Appreciation Month at the Chocobo Races! Join in and create something! ( DW | LJ ) Don't forget to check out the prompt-a-thon, too! ( DW | LJ )

(3)
A poem: "The Trees" by Philip Larkin

(4)
A vid rec in the form of a chat transcript:

justira: oh my god I just watched a clark/lex vid where
justira: clark
justira: gave birth to a kitten
justira: what did I just watch
owlmoose: dot. dot. dot.
justira: it's a crack vid and
justira: I
justira: I can't
justira: what
owlmoose: i think. maybe not at work.
owlmoose: sould i look for it later?
justira: also there were kryptonite unicorns?
justira: uhhhh
justira: I
justira: I don't know how or why the unicorns come in
owlmoose: well, do you need a reason for unicorns, really
justira: I
justira: it's
justira: it's actually pretty worksafe?
justira: possibly not brainsafe
justira: what did I just watch
owlmoose: at least it sounds like it was not dull ;)
justira: no it wasn't
justira: I don't know what to do with my life anymore
justira: CATBABY

I know I'm like the last person to catch wind of these things but:

dualbunny: I Swear (Smallville - Clark/Lex)

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Cross-linking a small post related to the OTW elections - The value of constructive negativity

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:38:46 GMT

Hey folks, I've got a small post related to the OTW elections over on my other journal.

As always, please note that my other journal is not an official outlet for OTW news or announcements, and that I would appreciate if the degree of connection between this journal/identity and the other were left up to me =)

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Signal Boost: Artists Needed for megaflare_ff

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:03:19 GMT

Hey, any artists out there who want to take part in an awesome project?

Claiming for megaflare_ff is almost over, and they need more artists! Come on, look at these TOTALLY AWESOME SUMMARIES! They are so tempting ._.

Claiming ends this Sunday, October 2, so hurry over! All you need to do is create one drawing for the story you select, and it's all very low-pressure ♥

Story Selection Post

Artist Signup Form

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Protest in DC: October 2011

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:40:43 GMT

Is anyone else doing October 2011?

I plan to go. If it lasts through the weekend, it will be the first weekend I'll have had in months that wasn't spent trying to take care of my family -- minus the weekend of the hurricane, when not only was there a hurricane but the partner was sick. So... not restful. The protest won't be restful either. But it's important and I want to go.

If anyone plans to come into the DC area for this, we may be able to offer a place to crash. Email me and we'll see if something can be worked out.

*fistbump, fistpump*

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Thank you for your help

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:11:47 GMT

My mom is having a crisis day. Really, there's nothing else to say. I just... wanted to vent into the void apparently.

Everyone who has helped me with my family situation: thank you so much, and I'm sorry my contact has been so sporadic — I am really, truly grateful for your help and your well-wishes, I just do not have much energy with which to express that. You've really made a difference.

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Earthquakes and Fires-- and now Hurricanes

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:24:51 GMT

So today.

Many of you will have heard that there was a 5.8 earthquake in VA this afternoon. We got a pretty good rumble out where I was, and I say this as someone who's lived in two fault line areas (LA and Tajikistan). Incidentally the epicenter of the quake was pretty much right under my parents' lake house (you know, the 1.5-million-dollar one that is the cause of so much woe recently because MY PARENTS jeez). It's as if the world is trying to tell them something =|

Luckily the quake wasn't too bad, so I hope everyone's okay and there's not too much damage.

MEANWHILE. I get home, have a phone interview (second job that will hopefully cover my parents' bills: GO), run errands, settle in... and FIRE ALARM.

Well shit.

I live on the eighth story of a high-rise. I have a dog and three large cats. The partner isn't home.

There are a lot of dog owners in my building, and luckily one of them is my across-hall neighbour, who knows we have Ozz. I told him I had three cats, and he offered right away to take care of Ozzie, which was really great of him. That just left the three cats. They're all big and one is fat (he is just like that, we have tried all the diets and all the exercises, he is just fat) but I was just grabbing the nearest cat and stuffing it in the nearest carrier. Of course the lightest one ended up in the small carrier on his own and the fat one and the sturdy one ended up in the bigger dog carrier together.

Then I hauled all 45-50 pounds of madly fidgeting, yowling cats down 8 flights of stairs.

So that was fun. My second evacuation of the day.

It was actually really interesting while we were all out there in the back lot -- that's where all the animal owners went and there were dogs milling around everywhere (I'm sure the cats were thrilled) and even two more cats besides my three. Those guys had apparently been caught and stuffed in an extra large tupperware, with the lid propped partly open once they got outside. We had an escapee dog -- a border collie, so that was a pretty exciting escape.

On the way back in another nice neighbour from my floor carried the cats to the elevator for me (THANK GOD FOR ELEVATORS) and I took Ozzie back in. The fire turned out to be something electrical but was taken care of quickly as we live literally three blocks from a fire station. Everyone and almost everything appears to be fine.

And that was my day. Earthquakes and fires.

ETA: So while we were waiting out the fire outside, someone joked, "hurricane at 9, folks!".

Guess what.

There's a hurricane. It even has my name on it.

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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:16:27 GMT

I don't really know what to do with myself.

My mom is having a psychological collapse. My dad is part of the cause, so he's no help; my mom's girlfriend has been trying to help for two years. This pretty much leaves me, and I spent over three hours talking to her monday night, driving down to her place and trying to work out some kind of plan. My family's still half a million dollars in debt and their cash flow is still negative. My mom is terrified of declaring bankruptcy because she'd lose her security clearance and have to look for work, plus all the energy of settling into a new place if she even manages to find one. My dad's flaking out on everything from childcare to his part of the debt to helping my mom. I'm trying to find her doctors she agreed to one day and balks at the next; the lake house that's the primary money-suck has been on the market for ages without even a walk-through. Three whole adults have utterly failed at getting their life in order and now it's my turn to try, again; what am I supposed to do here?

I'm almost as depressed as I've ever been, and that was before my mom. The grave's medication is maybe making a sliver of difference -- I wouldn't know; every time I get a little space to breathe from one thing, something else awful happens. The job opportunity I was really hoping for isn't materializing and now I'm on the hunt again. The economy's collapsing again right when I'm quitting my current job -- you know, the one that made me so depressed? And the economy continues to be infuriating, I am so angry and violently saddened by the garbage coming out of DC.

I feel like I've flaked out on everything this year. I've accomplished nothing creative, I've failed so many people, I'm so far behind on org work. On the one hand, how was I supposed to know that 2011 would suck so much more than 2010 for me? When I ran for board, things were looking up. I was secure and moderately content. I didn't know my family would implode, I didn't know that I would get so sick, I didn't know I'd be quitting my job. But I somehow should have shouldered everything and soldiered on, right? I'm trying to cling to some shred of something for me -- something outside work, commuting, chores, and the sleep mandated by my sickness. But there's nothing left. I gave up all my hobbies, all things fun, months and months ago. All that's left is the org and all that does is make me feel guilty for falling further behind. But if I take a leave there, a real leave of absence, I will just feel like I had failed everything.

I don't know what to do with myself.

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Signal Boost: Awesome Books Giveaway

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:19:09 GMT

Hey, so ladybusiness is giving away some awesome books by ladies:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott
Kindred by Octavia Butler

Want free books? Go! http://dft.ba/-scifibyladiesyay

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Diagnosis: Grave's Disease

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:18:57 GMT

Well. Here we finally are I guess. I have a diagnosis and a scrip for pills and we're gonna start treatment and hopefully I will feel less like shit.

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my life

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:04:52 GMT

I've generally had at least one doctor appointment a week so far this summer, but this week takes the cake.

Day	Time	Thing	How Awesome Is It?
Tuesday	2:30am	Endocrinologist	Most unprofessional, least welcoming doctor I have ever encountered, and humiliated me pretty thoroughly! Also the only one within feasible distance who is covered by my insurance =D
Wednesday	8:20am	Dentist	Needles! In MY MOUTH! MY FAVOURITE. Phobias rock.
Thursday	12:00 noon	MRI prep	Fasting for 12 hours beforehand, yay.
Thursday	2:30pm	MRI 1	Fasting for 12 hours beforehand, yay.
Friday	1:30pm	MRI 2	Fasting for 12 hours beforehand, yay.
Saturday	9:15am	Blood draw for labwork	Even MORE needles, AND fasting for 12 hours beforehand. Party time, right.

Yep. At least one doctor/medical thing every working day this week plus Saturday. Good times.

I know I'm lucky to have any access to healthcare, but I am probably allowed to be grumpy about my health =\

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