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...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? Well, that's currently how I feel, which is rather troublesome as it is making it ungodly difficult to come up with a blog topic for today.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to ramble on about the first thing I lay my eyes on which just happens to be...
Alice of Heart.
Alright, so I have lots of manga at my parent's house. Since I haven't really stayed here for more than a week or two at a time for about a year and a half, I can't exactly call it "my" house anymore. Anyway, my mom is a bit of a Japanophile and a huge manga collector. Admittedly, it's one of our mother-daughter bonding things, much like my cosplay.
A while ago my mom started purchasing a series called Alice in the Country of Hearts, though I prefer to just call it Alice of Hearts. It is most definitely a take-off of Alice in Wonderland, but with an interesting twist. First of all, everyone from Wonderland has clockwork hearts. When their hearts stop, they are simply repaired and they exist again. Thus, no one really appreciate their lives and tend to be rather reckless. Alice, being from "our" world, has a heart and everyone and their dog seems to fall in love with her, which causes a lot of conflict and chaos! Also, the one person who looks like her love in the "real" world has a completely different personality and is rude, cruel, etc, instead of kind, caring and polite.
The manga isn't exceptional in terms of story, but the art is absolutely amazing and I find myself rather fond of the character design. I've always been an Alice fan (as one can probably tell from my playing of McGee's Alice and my cherished cheshire cat mug), so I found the series particularly appealing.
Here's some pictures of the characters:
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Ah, yes, and I also threw together a Cheshire cat costume for Halloween once. Admittedly, it's a fairly stylized version, but I still adored it. Yes, I know my room was messy back then, but I roomed with a guy, so I blame him. ;p
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I have a feeling that I'll get some flack for posting a manga-related blog, but... eh, I really don't give a damn right now. In fact, I think I'll curl up with a nice earl grey with cream and sugar and read some shojo until I feel better. So HA!
  
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Braavos36402 Posts
On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat?
this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago
damn that was a badass scene
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On June 08 2011 08:23 Hot_Bid wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago damn that was a badass scene
Epic trolling is epic holy crap lolol. Gave me a good minute of laughs right there rofl.
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On June 08 2011 08:23 Hot_Bid wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago damn that was a badass scene
you rushing for 30k ha? 
(unless the 29998 is fixed... :S)
great trolling nevertheless 
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On June 08 2011 08:23 Hot_Bid wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago damn that was a badass scene
Saw your interview earlier today. It really cracked me up, so thanks for that!
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I was really confused as to how the whole diaphragm contraction thing was involved with the anime... I thought I'd missed some sort of link.
Neat blog though! Not sure how convinced i am about that anime's story. Seems very gimmicky. Oh well, I've never been a fan of anime.
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I get that weird feeling in my chest sometimes.
Though I also wonder if it's just because I eat too much crap :p
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United States4796 Posts
On June 08 2011 08:23 Hot_Bid wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago damn that was a badass scene
Hot_Bid laying down the law.
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On June 08 2011 08:46 Lexpar wrote:
I was really confused as to how the whole diaphragm contraction thing was involved with the anime... I thought I'd missed some sort of link.
Neat blog though! Not sure how convinced i am about that anime's story. Seems very gimmicky. Oh well, I've never been a fan of anime.
It's a manga. :D
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United States24806 Posts
If it is ungodly difficult to blog I don't blog. Why do you?
I am a bit jealous that your parent can relate to your interest in japanese media... mine don't. My dad knows the names of a few characters from anime my sister and I used to watch though... I'll give him credit for that.
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Ever get that feeling...
That perhaps Riku writes blogs, just to write blogs...
Well I think this "Well, that's currently how I feel, which is rather troublesome as it is making it ungodly difficult to come up with a blog topic for today." just confirmed your suspicions.
Sorry Riku but you seriously blog a lot!
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On June 08 2011 08:23 Hot_Bid wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 08:12 Riku wrote:
...where it seems like someone has punched you in the chest so hard that your diaphragm contracts and your heart forgets to beat? this happened in game of thrones episode 8 a few days ago damn that was a badass scene
Which scene? There were multiple scenes in 8 (as well as 7) that made me feel that way 
congrats on 29,999. Now that I think about it, I don't expect a reply to my question for a while here
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i enjoyed it, even if just for the cheshire cat
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Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog.
User was temp banned for this post.
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On June 08 2011 11:52 WormBeard wrote:
Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog.
I don't really understand this comment. First off, I'm going to assume that you're a long-time lurker, who just made an account, because otherwise your comment about SC2 is silly, considering your post count and join date. So, working off that assumption, you should be able to show me precedent for someone getting banned or warned for making too many blogs. There's lots of silly blogs out there, many with much less "content" than this one, so I'm also going to assume that in the sea of bad blogs, you take offense because of the frequency Riku posts blogs at. So again, I'm going to ask for a precedent, because I haven't been around here long enough to see one, and beyond that, if there's an explicit rule against excessive blogging, because I can't find one.
Then, your comments about "understanding Riku has a vagina", are silly too. I don't understand what you're trying to get across here. It seems as though you think she's overplaying her sexuality, but I really don't see that, in these blogs at all, especially as half of them have nothing to do with her personally. I think this just has to do that she's not hiding that she's a girl, and so it looks the way you see it just due to the fact that it's unusual compared to the normal assumption that all posters are male.
I'm not trying to defend Riku per se, I'm just legitimately curious if there's a history of people being banned for blogging activity purely, and not other factors such as content or length in addition. There always seems to be a lot of hate in the comments to these blogs, and most of it seems unfounded. So I posted, because I'm starting to get annoyed by always seeing those kinds of comments only here, as opposed anywhere else, like John Smith's daily 9-line blog on how many ladder points he gained and how he hates cheese. Why the special treatment?
EDIT: Oh wow, ninja'd by Hot_Bid. =/
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On June 08 2011 13:14 Mr. Wiggles wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On June 08 2011 11:52 WormBeard wrote:
Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog. I don't really understand this comment. First off, I'm going to assume that you're a long-time lurker, who just made an account, because otherwise your comment about SC2 is silly, considering your post count and join date. So, working off that assumption, you should be able to show me precedent for someone getting banned or warned for making too many blogs. There's lots of silly blogs out there, many with much less "content" than this one, so I'm also going to assume that in the sea of bad blogs, you take offense because of the frequency Riku posts blogs at. So again, I'm going to ask for a precedent, because I haven't been around here long enough to see one, and beyond that, if there's an explicit rule against excessive blogging, because I can't find one. Then, your comments about "understanding Riku has a vagina", are silly too. I don't understand what you're trying to get across here. It seems as though you think she's overplaying her sexuality, but I really don't see that, in these blogs at all, especially as half of them have nothing to do with her personally. I think this just has to do that she's not hiding that she's a girl, and so it looks the way you see it just due to the fact that it's unusual compared to the normal assumption that all posters are male. I'm not trying to defend Riku per se, I'm just legitimately curious if there's a history of people being banned for blogging activity purely, and not other factors such as content or length in addition. There always seems to be a lot of hate in the comments to these blogs, and most of it seems unfounded. So I posted, because I'm starting to get annoyed by always seeing those kinds of comments only here, as opposed anywhere else, like John Smith's daily 9-line blog on how many ladder points he gained and how he hates cheese. Why the special treatment? EDIT: Oh wow, ninja'd by Hot_Bid. =/
Don't you hate it when that happens. You write this thorough in depth critique of a thoughtless post and then get ninja'd by the master. If it means anything I liked your post.
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On June 08 2011 13:21 Probulous wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 13:14 Mr. Wiggles wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On June 08 2011 11:52 WormBeard wrote:
Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog. I don't really understand this comment. First off, I'm going to assume that you're a long-time lurker, who just made an account, because otherwise your comment about SC2 is silly, considering your post count and join date. So, working off that assumption, you should be able to show me precedent for someone getting banned or warned for making too many blogs. There's lots of silly blogs out there, many with much less "content" than this one, so I'm also going to assume that in the sea of bad blogs, you take offense because of the frequency Riku posts blogs at. So again, I'm going to ask for a precedent, because I haven't been around here long enough to see one, and beyond that, if there's an explicit rule against excessive blogging, because I can't find one. Then, your comments about "understanding Riku has a vagina", are silly too. I don't understand what you're trying to get across here. It seems as though you think she's overplaying her sexuality, but I really don't see that, in these blogs at all, especially as half of them have nothing to do with her personally. I think this just has to do that she's not hiding that she's a girl, and so it looks the way you see it just due to the fact that it's unusual compared to the normal assumption that all posters are male. I'm not trying to defend Riku per se, I'm just legitimately curious if there's a history of people being banned for blogging activity purely, and not other factors such as content or length in addition. There always seems to be a lot of hate in the comments to these blogs, and most of it seems unfounded. So I posted, because I'm starting to get annoyed by always seeing those kinds of comments only here, as opposed anywhere else, like John Smith's daily 9-line blog on how many ladder points he gained and how he hates cheese. Why the special treatment? EDIT: Oh wow, ninja'd by Hot_Bid. =/ Don't you hate it when that happens. You write this thorough in depth critique of a thoughtless post and then get ninja'd by the master. If it means anything I liked your post.
Haha, thanks. :p
It just annoyed me, so I decided to say something about it.
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I save this button for when Hot_bid ninjabans my thoughts on a poster
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
I get the chest pains mainly because of a medical condition, but it doesn't distract me anymore. Used to be pretty bad when it first started but it's just another day in the life at this point.
My parents at least don't think it's weird when I watch brood war anymore. I'll be at my Dad's place for the night and I'll be downstairs getting a glass of water or something and he'll be like... "what the hell are you watching" or "What's that noise coming from upstairs?"
I'll sit, listen for a second, and say, "Sounds like...late game ZvT Mech being thwarted by dark swarm"
What I really say though, is "That's the Korean gaming thing I'm watching" and over time he's just learned to accept that he'll always hear Korean coming from my room at night on the weekends I'm over. Haha. He's slowly becoming more BW / Korean accepting now.
He doesn't think it's strange that people play for a living anymore! \o/ A step in the right direction :p
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On June 08 2011 11:52 WormBeard wrote:
Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog.
User was temp banned for this post.
i'd have to agree, riku has godlike status, lol
platorepublic was even commented like this, and his blogs were a bit more interesting.
and what girl compares a punch in the chest to anxiety; really rare comparison.
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On June 08 2011 16:53 Revolt wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 11:52 WormBeard wrote:
Seriously, please stop making so many silly blogs. What is happening to TL? SC2 has attracted garbage. I understand you have a Vagina. We all do. We get it. If a dude was doing this he would be warned or banned. Sorry for the brutal truth and expressing my feelings in your blog.
User was temp banned for this post. i'd have to agree, riku has godlike status, lol platorepublic was even commented like this, and his blogs were a bit more interesting. and what girl compares a punch in the chest to anxiety; really rare comparison.
One that's been studying martial arts for the last 16 years.
Edit: removed a statement that could have been seen as a threat
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