Burimyu in its current incarnation is over.

Tacchan came out one final time after everyone else had ducked behind the curtain and thanked everyone for an amazing five years, for truly making his youth matter—because he'd just been on the cusp of adulthood when he started this journey, and here it was at an end for him. And for us.

08 · Othello by Hasumi Toui
32 · Slide (Prince of Tennis doujinshi) by Hojo Akira

plus:
03 · Slide wallpapers
03 · Slide banners



This is the first of 2 Slide posts. Considering the first one took me 3 years to post, don't get your hopes up.

( I finally made an icon post, wut. )

Please credit! <3

1.
Yana: 8am class roulette again
Yana: every once in a while, I pull the trigger and end up going to class
Yana: but usually they're blanks

2.
Yana: my computer is slowly coming back to life -- today it turned on, but the display went haywire after a couple minutes, so I turned it off
Ivy: it's like a zombie
Yana: but hopefully it'll be like a jewish zombie and resurrect itself

3.
Attended the AMS presidential debate today, run by the Ubyssey and the UBC Insiders. Here are some choice Pak Ho Leung quotes (paraphrased as best I could manage):

On the issues: "As a normal student I can't really say I care."

On the UBC–AMS relationship: "No trouble—trouble is bad."

On slates and having fun: "We can consolidate all the political parties and have more parties."

On discrimination and the proposed disability Council seat: "Why are there not more Chinese people in the AMS?" He goes on to say if all Chinese students vote for him, he would win.

On finances: "A deficit is definitely not 'sustainable'—that's a word people keep throwing around."

On why he was running: "[Unlike the other candidates] I need this for my resume. So vote for me."

This issue is exactly why sexual assault allegations are disbelieved and trivialized. Anyone who is accused of molesting a child, harassing an assistant or raping a woman has a whole network of loved ones who don't want to believe he did it -- and if the evidence is irrefutable, it's easier for them to create some illogical excuse than turn their backs on him. I do believe it often affects public reaction to other allegations, because those same people get hostile and say "crazy feminists" or "lying bitch" since it hits so close to home. I'm sure it's incredibly hard to believe that someone you love could do something so monstrous. But it's the individual support of rapists that reinforces the denial that makes rape culture so difficult to combat.

- Pantra, in a comment here

So now that I've finished my emailing and presentation editing and activity writing for the day, my friend decides to link me to a paper on how popular languages are more simple. I'm oversimplifying somewhat; she's written a summary here. The fact that she's put a summary will not stop me from reading the actual paper - damn you, LING 319 Historical Linguistics! (Funnily enough, I met Yana via LING 319.)

This post is partly the result of the course Yana's co-running, Interdisciplinary Applications of Evolutionary Theory. Everything she links me to just makes me want to take the class more and more :/ (I was looking into evolutionary algorithms over winter break.)

If you're interested in crazy stuff like that, do check out the course blog.

A while back Aurora Publishing (which also owns Deux Press and LuvLuv) had this grab-bag special. I put in an order, but the person I was emailing left the company and they've run out of grab bag things. Hence, I now have two free books of my choice.

Future Lovers is my favourite out of the lot. In fact, my journal is named after it. It's also a tidy two volumes. But I've already read it. No Miyamoto Kano, as I am sick and tired of rentboy stories, no matter how much I like her stuff. (I might change my mind though, I really do like her stuff.) I like Yumeka Sumono's art but I know quite well she doesn't do plot. And that leaves Kano Shiuko, who I usually like but the manga in question is three volumes. Which means I know I will be shelling out for the third one.

Perhaps I should really be considering "which I would be least embarrassed to be caught with".

(My mom was watching this streaming right beside me, so I ended up watching it too.)

It seems like everyone is coached by Joanna McLeod¹ and choreographed by David Wilson² >_>

Jeremy Ten: Since I missed his program, I'm just going to include this quote from his Twitter:

Of all the places to eat in London, Ontario my parents chose Ming's Chinese Buffet for lunch. Why am I not suprised? •

Kevin Reynolds: two quads. Two quads. And a really nice triple axel combination too. It's too bad he won't go to the Olympics, but once he gets his artistic marks up, he's going to be amazing. ♪ Led Zeppelin medley.

Shawn Sawyer: his footwork sequences and spins are really good, but the rest of it is kind of bland. ♪ Amadeus soundtrack (i.e. Mozart).

Vaughn Chipeur: Jazzy program; nice change from all the classical music and Clint Mansell. You can tell he's getting excited when he stops controlling his jumps and ends up barely holding on to them and spinning out of the landing, haha.

Patrick Chan: His choreography. Is. Amazing. There's a lot of skaters, where, at a dramatic urgent moment in the music, they perform brutally slow footwork. Patrick does a bunch of twizzles and spins and just. Guh. (Lori Nichol³ can do no wrong, pretty much.) But his jumps are mind-wracking for the viewer - he's leaning so much in the air, gah.

1. Used to coach Emanuel Sandhu.
2. Choreographed for Jeff Buttle. Surprisingly young.
3. Most famously, Michelle Kwan's long-time choreographer.


For some reason, I don't really like CBC's new announcer PJ Kwong. Possibly because (a) surprisingly, she's not Asian, (b) her internet presence is quite annoying - "check out this new thing I posted!" And she doesn't use proper capitalization either.

Also, CBC, please to stop advertising Doctor Who on Bold. I don't have Bold; I don't want to know about this.


And courtesy of toffeepaff: Be Good Johnny Weir. My response is pretty much, (a) why am I not surprised at all, (b) USFSA is going to kill him - again, (c) Evan Lysacek is probably facepalming. Right now.

Fell off the stage in six inch heels today shooting my commercial for my series. :) Also vamped it up in a giant Faberge egg. Happy day! •

This is from an interview with Gareth David-Lloyd (a.k.a. Ianto) that I stumbled upon today.

AE: [...] One thing we found really interesting is that there are a lot of female fans who are really into the idea of two men being together romantically. Do you have a lot of female fans that are pushing for a relationship between Jack and Ianto?

GDL: Oh, definitely. I try to stay clear away from the Internet, but you find yourself reading fan fiction and it takes up a lot of time. Yeah, absolutely. That’s definitely one of the biggest questions for fans as far as Janto. Everyone’s for Jack and Ianto to get together.

(source)

I. CANNOT. STOP. LAUGHING.

P.S. This is what happens when you watch Never Mind The Buzzcocks Doctor Who edition. It's like TVTropes. BARROWMAN! *shakes fist*

Lego Harry Potter trailer.

I have been holding off very hard on the end of year posts, but I can't resist any more. So here is the first of a series (of one post) of what I am looking forward to next year!

Answer: the Sega + tri-Ace game End of Eternity, known outside Japan as Resonance of Fate (curse you Asimov!). EoE looks deliciously steampunk and only has two fanbait characters. (Click on pictures to enlarge.)

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