And I was right! It is across the Atlantic! *does a little dance* Other than that I'm not quite sure where the hell you are. Sounds like a Slavic country, though.
NO OFFENSE MEANT IF IN FACT THAT TERM IS OFFENSIVE! I was speaking of the region. And I'm horrible in geography.
Especially if that was a joke. Latvians have no relation to Slavs whatsoever (save for an unfortunate neighbour relationship, sharing a country and a good deal of fail!marriages). We have a long-surviving grudge with Slavs - Russians, to be precise - based on historical reasons. Buuut that would require a history lesson starting from, oh, I don't know, 13th century?, and all through WW I and WW II right up until year 1991. Very boring, filled with useless, pointless bloodshed, repressions, gulags, a holocaust of sorts, lots of brainwashing during USSR, etc, etc, et.fucking.cetera.
It wasn't meant to be a joke. I'm just horrible at European history/geography. You guys have too many small countries/provinces/republics out there. And I did mean location-wise. Not necessarily comparing you to those barbarians.
EDIT: My previous comment was, in fact, a joke. But the comment I made about my comment not being offensive and not knowing if in fact my saying that was offesive, was not a joke. Bottom line: we're cool, yo. XD
But please, accept my most heartfelt apologies, and I appreciate you being so understanding towards this ignorant American.
And I thought the Holocaust never happened. <--See that? That, was a joke.
And you, USA, have one too many states. There was this one chick who was all "OMG. U so lame. U know not ur states." And Europe has other inhabitants than Slavs, you know. Scandinavians, for example. :P
Don't worry about that. Can't really expect anything else from your average American, right? ;D
See? We both have something too many. So it kinda evens out.
Italians. Those bloody Italians. And Greeks. And Romans. Gypsies. Jews. Germans. Estonians. Turks. Name, and there's a good chance we have it. The decaying root of the world that spawned Americans. Chances are, we might be related.
I'm not easily insulted myself, but Russians are kind of a touchy subject for Latvian people (again, with exceptions).
You could be a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, lost cousin! I have people from Germany, Ireland, and various other countries on my mom's side. My dad's is from Mexico...so I don't think we'd be related in that sense. ;)
And I can understand the uneasiness. Really I can. I had a friend from Turkey who didn't like for me to listen to System of a Down when I was with her because they were Armenian, and apparently there's some bad blood between those two people.
If we dig really deep? All the people are related. What with being children of Adam and Eve.
We have some radicals like that, too, but I have no problem with listening to Russian music, watching their humour shows, TV series and what-have-you, or interating with Russians. (Um, hello? 40-something percent of our country? Consists of Russians. At my current work? Everyone is/speaks Russian. Myself included (on the speaking bit).) Most of the Russian people I've met? Are really nice people. Only the Russians in politics and other positions of power are complete assholes. And I won't even touch the leaders of Russia. Can we just say "CAN OF WORMS" and be done with it?
Oooh, I think I like this myth. Again, I'm off to google! Or...at least I will as soon as I'm done over at springkink. Soooo much smut! Saiyuki and Bleach and more, oh my!
I'm not sure there is an online source for Latvian myths. Or maybe I just haven't looked because I know most of them by heart.
You're a second then. There was this one chick from Denver or wherever the hell she was from originally (same from the above 'u-sukk-cause-u-dunno-ur-states' example) who was plain pathetic with understanding it. Then again, everything that was not native to America (as-she-saw-it), she considered weird (and not the good kind) and stupid. And when I pulled my own examples of typical-American-stuff that I considered weird, she countered with 'ur rong and im rite cuz im american and ur not YAY!!!'.
Well, I'll let you know what the google search turns up. Right after I kill all of the annoying bastards here at work today. No, I will not break the rules just for you, just this once.
The hell? All you have to do is subtract 12. It's amazing what you can learn in books, eh? And I'm the complete opposite. I meet anyone that's from a different part of the world, and I'm asking a bazillion questions. I've just always been fascinated by different cultures and learning new things. I've never thought that my/the American was the the only (or right) way.
Unless you get into some middle-eastern/hindu beliefs that women are lower than dogs. And I get that it's their culture, and I'm not gonna preach at 'em. Doesn't mean I have to agree with it.
Good luck. Here, I'll quote wikipedia just so you know what you're getting yourself into: "Latvian culture, along with Lithuanian, is the oldest surviving Indo-European culture. Much of its symbology is ancient." Take that, Europe. We're ancient and we were there before you.
Weeell, that one chick was rather self-centered and snobby, so I'm glad she's out of my life for good. See, growing up in a mulitcultural environment made me look at things differently. I don't see things as right or wrong/black or white. I see them as they are.
But women are lower than dogs. They bleed. They are dirty. They are the reason the mankind fell from grace. (See, it's mankind and not 'womankind'.)Their only place is in the kitchen with children. Male children, preferably.
Oooooh. So you're in league with Lithuania, eh? I knew it! How else would you be able to control centipedes!?
And see, I grew up in the Bible belt. With southern baptists. Not cool. But apparently, Jesus saves. Or else. So I'm finding things out on my own. My own mother, though I love her, is still incredibly close-minded.
And are you attempting to start a wank in your own journal?
I get off work in 4 minutes, so if I don't comment for a while, I've gone home and passed out.
Close-minded people are everywhere. There's no saying where they'll come at you next from.
Godsforbid, no. (Then again... It would make for an interesting discussion.) Give me a set of beliefs, a theory, a thinking pattern, a few minutes and I'll be defending it like my life depended on it. I can easily relate to things. I excelled in Philosophy and could shoot down each and every one of my classmates with infallible arguments in discussions.
I see. So goodnight and sweet dreams in case we don't get to talk to each other today.
Hey, hey. Humans are SO interesting, I find. As the owner of the one and only Compaq "DeathNote" laptop I somewhat resent this comment. I'll be sending Zorc to destroy your city with his phallic imagery, and I'll be taking all your apple fields within the next forty seconds. (Possibly later if I don't learn how to spell soon...*cough*)
...Then after I destroy your city, I will rule the world as farrow, and play video games forever in the shadow realm.
After which I will dig through my inbox trying to find that insanely long LOVELY masterwork item of yours which I still have not read yet because we Shinigami types fail at life.
Ahaha. Good luck with that. Though you shouldn't hurry. There's a prognosis that within 50 years or something like that my city will be completely under water. What with the Earth plates moving and all.
That 'masterwork' is anything /but/ lovely for the duration of 75% of the plotline. Also, you have added to my statistics. All my betas disappear. This statement is now 100% true.
Oh really? Well, you can move to where I live and be about five feet above sea level total and sink beneath said swelling seas when global warming hits. <3
Ah, but I haven't yet read it (Still searching) so I can't yet say. (There's still hope.) And also, you need to make a new Stat-Stick for those of us who come back and rise up out of the ash with our red hair and eat men like air...and all that.
I think it was split up in several emails aptly titled with numbers. If all else fails, check your spam. It could be resting there. :'D I'll think about that when it actually happens. ;D
Oh yes. Then all you have to worry about is every single hurricane in the Atlantic ocean, and all the tourists. Oh, and the fact that if you're white (or of any sort of european descent for that matter) you're instantly a minority and people will automatically assume you're from Conneticut or something. *shrug* And Ninety Degree Weather for 75% of the year. (Farenheit. It's like... mid thirties Celcius I think. And typically about 60% humidity. Sub-tropics and all...)
No, I think I saw it and it was in my inbox, safely resting there, but I think I passed it because I don't toss stuff out. Ever. *epic!fail*
Heh, oh no. In fact, you won't even see a flake of snow. Last time it snowed in Miami it made headlines. One year we had frost on the grass and we were amazed. It hardly gets past forty. Of course, I should add, I'm at most, a mile from sea. When it DOES get cold, it's a damp cold... But global warming should sove that soon enough. Supposedly.
(I don't toss stuff out. Ever. Unless it's a comment I've replied to, or damn tokyopop trying to spam my inbox.)
And, hey, from what is sounds like and what I've skimmed over, you just made a "tester piece." I did the same thing before I posted my first fic. You make a piece to try out everything and work on your writing style in the meantime? I wouldn't have the bravery to show you mine. If if can be believed, it's worse than yours. (Though mine has no OCs.)
But, fortunately I'm safe because you don't know the fandom. (Never thought I'd see the day when I said that and was grateful...)
Don't know about that. When I wrote that, I was damned serious. Admittedly, it was all fun and games and chiches because that was the 'in' thing at the time, but as I went along, I started getting serious with it. Around chapter 26 or something like that, the serious writing bit begins.
Juvenile Orion? Beware. I have the manga saved on my computer for later reading.
Well so was I at first, then (because I didn't have chapters) somewhere after "they" got together I was like, "well...now what?" From there it's less "melodramatic introspective angst" and more "gee...I wonder how I can beat on them now that they're a couple..." I did mine so I could learn to write "romance" stuff. *smile* And somehow I've come out as violence-n-twistedness-loving as you. *grins*
YOU DO?! I wasn't aware they'd put up scans or anything! Well...If you want to read it, it's not the greatest thing, but it IS short since the series is five books long. And the room for expansion makes it good for fanficcing... (Not to mention I'd love to corrupt another author into the circle...) Do they have the whole thing?
See, even as I planned to get my couple together, I was thinking of how to break them up, pair them anew, put them through hell and then some and have one of them killed in the end. Even as I wrote it, I had planned to have things spiral down to hell after they married or whatever. My very first OC fic (which has not survived until these days) had the OC put through hell, ditched by Malik and nearly burnt to death in the last three chapters. In the end, Bakura used Pegasus' Eye to mess with her memories and make her forget everything.
The source I got if from is reliable, so I'd wager that yes, it is the whole thing. JO is not the only manga on standby I have in that folder. There's also Mahou Tsukai Kurohime, Ja-Dou Tenmou Yatan, Kamui, Fate Hollow Ataraxia/Zero and quite possibly some others. As it is right now, I might get around to reading it in a few years.
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:18 pm (UTC)And I was right! It is across the Atlantic! *does a little dance* Other than that I'm not quite sure where the hell you are. Sounds like a Slavic country, though.
NO OFFENSE MEANT IF IN FACT THAT TERM IS OFFENSIVE! I was speaking of the region. And I'm horrible in geography.*goes off to google "Latvia"*
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:22 pm (UTC)PLEEEEEEEEEEASE! FORGIVE ME!!!!!
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:39 pm (UTC)We have a long-surviving grudge with Slavs - Russians, to be precise - based on historical reasons. Buuut that would require a history lesson starting from, oh, I don't know, 13th century?, and all through WW I and WW II right up until year 1991. Very boring, filled with useless, pointless bloodshed, repressions, gulags, a holocaust of sorts, lots of brainwashing during USSR, etc, etc, et.fucking.cetera.
(But you are forgiven.)
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:59 pm (UTC)EDIT: My previous comment was, in fact, a joke. But the comment I made about my comment not being offensive and not knowing if in fact my saying that was offesive, was not a joke. Bottom line: we're cool, yo. XD
But please, accept my most heartfelt apologies, and I appreciate you being so understanding towards this ignorant American.
And I thought the Holocaust never happened. <--See that? That, was a joke.
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:11 pm (UTC)Don't worry about that. Can't really expect anything else from your average American, right? ;D
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:19 pm (UTC)And you do have Scandinavians. And Danes. And...Flemms? And Poles, and Frenchies, and Anglos, and Saxons, and Aglo-saxons. XD
I'm in a silly mood.
And no, you kinda can't. But you're still lucky we're friends. And that I'm not easily insulted. :)
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:25 pm (UTC)Italians. Those bloody Italians. And Greeks. And Romans. Gypsies. Jews. Germans. Estonians. Turks. Name, and there's a good chance we have it. The decaying root of the world that spawned Americans. Chances are, we might be related.
I'm not easily insulted myself, but Russians are kind of a touchy subject for Latvian people (again, with exceptions).
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:35 pm (UTC)You could be a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, lost cousin! I have people from Germany, Ireland, and various other countries on my mom's side. My dad's is from Mexico...so I don't think we'd be related in that sense. ;)
And I can understand the uneasiness. Really I can. I had a friend from Turkey who didn't like for me to listen to System of a Down when I was with her because they were Armenian, and apparently there's some bad blood between those two people.
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:46 pm (UTC)We have some radicals like that, too, but I have no problem with listening to Russian music, watching their humour shows, TV series and what-have-you, or interating with Russians. (Um, hello? 40-something percent of our country? Consists of Russians. At my current work? Everyone is/speaks Russian. Myself included (on the speaking bit).) Most of the Russian people I've met? Are really nice people. Only the Russians in politics and other positions of power are complete assholes. And I won't even touch the leaders of Russia. Can we just say "CAN OF WORMS" and be done with it?
/discussing politics
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:54 pm (UTC)Agreed. No more politics. So what time is it there, anyways? It's 5 PM here. One more hour, and I'm home free!
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:58 pm (UTC)Want it precise? 23:58. That is to say two minutes before midnight.
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:02 pm (UTC)And I can do military time. Crazy, not stupid. :)
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:11 pm (UTC)Or maybe I just haven't looked because I know most of them by heart.You're a second then. There was this one chick from Denver or wherever the hell she was from originally (same from the above 'u-sukk-cause-u-dunno-ur-states' example) who was plain pathetic with understanding it. Then again, everything that was not native to America (as-she-saw-it), she considered weird (and not the good kind) and stupid. And when I pulled my own examples of typical-American-stuff that I considered weird, she countered with 'ur rong and im rite cuz im american and ur not YAY!!!'.
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:28 pm (UTC)No, I will not break the rules just for you, just this once.The hell? All you have to do is subtract 12. It's amazing what you can learn in books, eh? And I'm the complete opposite. I meet anyone that's from a different part of the world, and I'm asking a bazillion questions. I've just always been fascinated by different cultures and learning new things. I've never thought that my/the American was the the only (or right) way.
Unless you get into some middle-eastern/hindu beliefs that women are lower than dogs. And I get that it's their culture, and I'm not gonna preach at 'em. Doesn't mean I have to agree with it.
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:39 pm (UTC)Take that, Europe. We're ancient and we were there before you.
Weeell, that one chick was rather self-centered and snobby, so I'm glad she's out of my life for good. See, growing up in a mulitcultural environment made me look at things differently. I don't see things as right or wrong/black or white. I see them as they are.
But women are lower than dogs. They bleed. They are dirty. They are the reason the mankind fell from grace. (See, it's mankind and not 'womankind'.)Their only place is in the kitchen with children. Male children, preferably.
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:56 pm (UTC)And see, I grew up in the Bible belt. With southern baptists. Not cool. But apparently, Jesus saves. Or else. So I'm finding things out on my own. My own mother, though I love her, is still incredibly close-minded.
And are you attempting to start a wank in your own journal?
I get off work in 4 minutes, so if I don't comment for a while, I've gone home and passed out.
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:04 pm (UTC)Close-minded people are everywhere. There's no saying where they'll come at you next from.
Godsforbid, no. (Then again... It would make for an interesting discussion.)
Give me a set of beliefs, a theory, a thinking pattern, a few minutes and I'll be defending it like my life depended on it. I can easily relate to things. I excelled in Philosophy and could shoot down each and every one of my classmates with infallible arguments in discussions.
I see. So goodnight and sweet dreams in case we don't get to talk to each other today.
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Date: 2008-09-16 08:32 pm (UTC)...Then after I destroy your city, I will rule the world as farrow, and play video games forever in the shadow realm.
After which I will dig through my inbox trying to find that insanely long LOVELY masterwork item of yours which I still have not read yet because we Shinigami types fail at life.
The end.
(Game over Insert coin)
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Date: 2008-09-16 08:42 pm (UTC)That 'masterwork' is anything /but/ lovely for the duration of 75% of the plotline. Also, you have added to my statistics. All my betas disappear. This statement is now 100% true.
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Date: 2008-09-16 09:36 pm (UTC)Ah, but I haven't yet read it (Still searching) so I can't yet say. (There's still hope.) And also, you need to make a new Stat-Stick for those of us who come back and rise up out of the ash with our red hair and eat men like air...and all that.
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Date: 2008-09-16 09:42 pm (UTC)I think it was split up in several emails aptly titled with numbers. If all else fails, check your spam. It could be resting there. :'D I'll think about that when it actually happens. ;D
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Date: 2008-09-16 10:00 pm (UTC)And Ninety Degree Weather for 75% of the year. (Farenheit. It's like... mid thirties Celcius I think. And typically about 60% humidity. Sub-tropics and all...)
No, I think I saw it and it was in my inbox, safely resting there, but I think I passed it because I don't toss stuff out. Ever. *epic!fail*
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Date: 2008-09-17 05:25 am (UTC)You should have tossed it out. Trust me.
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:25 pm (UTC)But global warming should sove that soon enough. Supposedly.
(I don't toss stuff out. Ever. Unless it's a comment I've replied to, or damn tokyopop trying to spam my inbox.)
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:23 pm (UTC)But, fortunately I'm safe because you don't know the fandom. (Never thought I'd see the day when I said that and was grateful...)
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Date: 2008-09-17 07:21 pm (UTC)Juvenile Orion? Beware. I have the manga saved on my computer for later reading.
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Date: 2008-09-17 08:11 pm (UTC)I did mine so I could learn to write "romance" stuff. *smile* And somehow I've come out as violence-n-twistedness-loving as you. *grins*
YOU DO?! I wasn't aware they'd put up scans or anything!
Well...If you want to read it, it's not the greatest thing, but it IS short since the series is five books long. And the room for expansion makes it good for fanficcing... (Not to mention I'd love to corrupt another author into the circle...)
Do they have the whole thing?
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Date: 2008-09-17 08:27 pm (UTC)The source I got if from is reliable, so I'd wager that yes, it is the whole thing. JO is not the only manga on standby I have in that folder. There's also Mahou Tsukai Kurohime, Ja-Dou Tenmou Yatan, Kamui, Fate Hollow Ataraxia/Zero and quite possibly some others. As it is right now, I might get around to reading it in a few years.