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02/01/2003 Entry: "^.^ Yukino-chan!"

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Well, notice anything different?

Aside from the green.

Which is currently present in excessive amounts.

Well, I have a new blog layout... it's taken me months, but I have one. Organized somewhat simpler than before, and isn't it nice? As says in the info, this is Miyazawa Yukino from Kare Kano [Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou]. It's scary, because she looks very pretty in that picture. Yukino is generally a cute character, but she's either in a psycho mood, calm mood, or sophisticated-scary-schoolgirl mode. Thus, elegant is not generally what she does, but there you go.

Layout took me a little over four hours. The colors of the scrollbar are really too dark for this page, but I was too lazy to look up the color of the background picture, which is not really one color anyway (zoom in on it and darken and you'll be able to read something). My last background was really, really pale water, so it was hard to see the swirls. I also fixed the comments and stuff, because what was the point of having two links - 'no comments' and '1 comments' if, for pity's sake, they take you to the exact same page? Idiotic. I kept the 'more' thing, though, to let people know that the entry isn't finished.

Oh, the picture. It's kinda thin (the lines of the drawing, I mean) because I took one look at the original picture [here] and screamed something incoherent (probably along the lines of "NOOOOOOOOO") because I did not want to edit all that gray fuzz. Soooo, I cheated and played aroung with brightness and contrast, and what do you know. The gray stuff all went away. But as payment, the lines aren't as strong and pretty, resulting in a somewhat shaky picture. Because of that, I probably won't keep this blog layout as long as the last one (which bothered me because the profile wasn't properly aligned with the picture), but it'll stay awhile, nonetheless. The green background, which I had because stark white tends to bother me, is not good because it makes the picture look too white. I might change the bg to white, but I doubt it.

When I was looking for a quote to put at the top, I originally went through half of my "really depressing songs" and put them in. I found one that I liked in Scarlet, the AnC opening song sung by Iwao Junko, but it was just too long. As it is, the one I got from the Sailors Stars OP is too long for people in less than my own resolution, 1280x800. ^.^; Oops.

I put a divider in with my names because I didn't want the entry to start right after the profile, if you were wondering. I would've put the picture below the profile, but that would just have been Nasty, so No.

The unwithering flower, thing, if you were wondering: 'karenai', the name of my blog, is a word that means 'unwithering'. I've never heard or seen it used in anything but the context of flowers (meaning it can't be translated as eternal' or something), so it's best used with words that fit flowers. ^.^ I really like this word. I originally heard it in the FMP! ending song. At any rate, my other screenname, for those of you who know it... the kanji [Chinese characters] that is used to write "Kikyou" is a word that stands for 'bellflower'. Hence, unwithering Kikyou = unwithering flower = undying Kikyou, which I think fits her in both a literal and metaphorical sense. So, even though my screenname seems rather Kikyou-fangirlish, it's not :) And if you don't know my screenname, don't ask, and if you post it, I will kill you.

I like to explain the karenai thing to brag every once in awhile, and I don't know why because it really isn't that creative.

I want to go to Japan on the exchange trip, but I didn't apply. Damn it.

For those of you who actually read my fanfics (I originally intended to use this as a ficblog, but that really didn't happen), I am writing fanfics. Kaitou! chapter three is almost entirely edited. I still have to write a scene where Asuka Jr. walks Meimi home, and that is looking to Be A Pain, because I still am not good with romance (I'm decent with the concept, not the interaction), and that scene has a lot of subtle stuff that sets up the ground for the second half of this story. So it could take another week, or at least this weekend, and then I'll update reiryoku and be a happy girl :) Tadaima will be finished by my birthday, I hope, since I think I've finally decided on an ending (I've had two). As for everything else, I'm waiting for Inuyasha to spin out its latest arc, which is intriguing and potentially damaging to my 'canon' storylines. :)

My original story is doing okay. I'm beginning to relate everything I do to it, which is good for the fic, but not good when I'm relating my suffering to it during class or a test, and that does happen, and then I have to smack myself, and that's always loud, and then everyone stares very obnoxiously, jerks.

"And with that, he died, and they lay, slumped together, sunk into mud made soft and wet and warm with the blood that flowed from them until it stopped, and the mud was cold."

I'm editing a fanfic right now with that line in it. I think that line sounds a little (yeah, 'little') convoluted though, so it will probably be cut somewhat. Yumi-chan, you're drawing me the picture? I refuse to post it without your fanart.

I'm looking through my fanfics right now. It's weird. I have a lot of cute ideas in here, but some that are obviously going nowhere.. case in point is my Tanabata fic, which I have continued here. It's romantic, which I do write every once in awhile, and a straight out one, not even one of my little introspects. But it still is very clean ^.^ no dramatic love scenes, because I can't and won't do those, no need to collectively heave a sigh of relief, please. It's Inuyasha, so you should know about IY to read this, and if you don't, you'll be confused, and since there's some subtle stuff that infers from the show, as do all my fics, I hope you've seen a lot of it. It's only two pages long - not even - so I can't really post it yet. I'm thinking that I'll write a Miroku-Sango segment, too, and post it in July. I can't believe I wrote this as it is, since it's really ... cheesy. And come on, it's Tanabata. ^.^ Well, this was originally supposed to serve as a fic blog, so I s'pose this is alright. :) Read at your own risk and please, do comment. I myself will be crashing now, since it's 4:15 for pity's sake. What am I doing? Kyaaaa! ^^;

Tanabata
By Kylara

I wasn’t able to find out how old the story of Tanabata is, but even though I think it must pre-date the Sengoku era, I doubt Inuyasha had heard of it, even from his human mother. I certainly doubt that his brother told him.

Standard disclaimer applies.

~

It was with a feeling of distinct horror that Kagome realized that the dirt path was no longer so very dusty. In fact, it was approaching a rather damp state, and since the sky above was also rather damp, it seemed that the ground would soon approach a rather muddy state.

She supposed she should have been comforted by the fact that the cloud would not approach a rather muddy state as well – even a rainy Tanabata could get worse if it was raining mud - but that was a bitter and stupid comfort, she decided, and very unromantic.

Looking up, she sighed, and dropped her backpack by the side of the road. “Inuyasha, it looks like it’s going to rain…” she said, unlatching the flap on the top and pulling out her pink umbrella. She sighed.

He grunted. “What, you didn’t want it to rain?”

She heaved another sigh. Gesturing at the sky, she exclaimed, “It’s Tanabata! It’s not supposed to rain on Tanabata!” She stopped at his blank – and yet somehow aggravated - face. “Inuyasha, you don’t know what Tanabata is?”

“Feh,” he replied, and scowled.

Because it was so very Inuyasha, she smiled. “I don’t know if you have it in this time, but Tanabata is the day where two lovers who are separated by the sky can meet, one time a year. The Milky Way becomes a clear path for them, so they can walk across. But if it rains, there is no path… and, well…”

She looked up at the dismal sky. “It’s raining, so they won’t meet this year. That’s a shame… and it’s not a good omen for couples on Tanabata.”

Which was another source of annoyance for her. She had expressly made sure that she was in the Sengoku Jidai for July 7th, so that she could spend the day with Inuyasha – no matter how tempting it was to stuff a hat over his ears and drag him out to a festival in her time – and here it was, raining. She thought mournfully of Sango and Miroku, the former of which had been skillfully railroaded by herself into collecting supplies from local villages with the latter. Not a good omen for them, either, and wistfully thought of white lace weddings.

He grunted, interrupting her inner sigh. “Why can’t they see each other all the time?”

Surprised, she looked up at him. He looked disgruntled, but somewhat curious. And because that, too, was so very Inuyasha, she laughed. “I said they were separated by the sky!”

He grunted again. “Why doesn’t he just jump or something?”

She raised an eyebrow as she hefted her pack back on, and then nearly fell over as Inuyasha grasped it from her, pulling her off balance. Smiling at him, she snapped the umbrella open. She never said ‘thank you’ in situations like this – to him, it was so very natural that he became more aggravated and flustered when she did, and would then reply quite arrogantly that it was to spare the human girl, with much negative emphasis on the ‘human’. To spare them both, she replied peaceably, “Well, Inuyasha, it’s a very big sky.”

He harrumphed this time. “They’re both idiots, then. Once a year… stupid humans.”

“They were gods, Inuyasha,” she said lightly.

To that, he mumbled something that Kagome couldn’t quite hear. “What was that?”

His ears flattened, and she held back a giggle. “I said that they don’t have any excuse then! Lazy idiots… I wouldn’t wait…” he muttered, and he looked straight ahead, very much away from her, as his ears twitched indignantly. She smiled.

The rain fell in a steady patter, beating on the top of Kagome’s umbrella, the one that Inuyasha refused to use, either because he was too tall for her to hold the umbrella comfortably at his height, or because it really was too small for more than one person to stay dry, and who that ‘one person’ would be was a given to Inuyasha. And though the path they walked on was narrow, accented by two deep ruts made by all the carts dragged through that she occasionally tripped in, and was soaked with mud that squished between his feet and under her shoes, it was there. And, Kagome thought cheerfully, as she tucked her free arm with Inuyasha’s, that was something.

~

The end, sorta. The Sango-Miroku part needs to be written, and I look forward to it :) I'm not good at romance, but it's fun to do, and I do love reading it ever so much.

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