The difference between reality and the internet

[petronia]

If you'd caught me any time last week (and probably this one) you would have gotten a rant on the state of the North American economy and/or the Chinese tainted milk scandal which I find as upsetting as anyone could who's not directly affected - for cripes' sake there's a global recall on White Rabbit candies, that's like the Chinese equivalent of Kraft dinner being tainted, it's just not right. I'd been seriously considering moving back to Shanghai to work for a while, but then the idea comes that it's nuts to leave Canada for a place where smog is normality and infant formula isn't fit to drink. That never used to be a consideration, but as I get older it sort of... is. :/

Anyway, the point was more that I don't want to talk about stuff like that on the internet. XD Instead I'll talk about LUCKY☆ STAR, which T. and I are currently watching. This series is like hanyaaaaan~~~ XD Relaxing, I guess, because of the note-perfect evocation of coasting through high school, even though I wasn't even an anime fan back then (and online gaming barely existed). BAD STUDY HABITS R 4 LIFE. Kagamin is my ideal, in practice it's a combination of Tsukasa and Konata to this day - sleep patterns especially. Meanwhile T. is procrastinating hardcore on her Ph.D. thesis, she says the table of contents alone is 18 pages and counting. We had a serious discussion re: how by some measures we're becoming less responsible, since before we used to panic and/or feel guilty about not getting stuff done or cutting daily-life corners and now it's just like, whatevs! Ecksdee ecksdee.

In other news, ladysisyphus wrote me some farfuture!Vaan and Penelo as part of a request meme, and there is some mindbogglingly awesome fanart happening at bangbangwhimper. (My stuff if anyone wants to try. XD By the evidence people want to do f/f pictures though, don't they.) I'm also thinking of standardizing SSBB's logo, but that's a design job in and of itself.

Comments

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

I was noticing how most of the fanart challenge responses have been f/f art, haha. Apparently we have all missed the point, OH WELL RESULTS ARE STILL A++++ right. XD

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

Did you say logo?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I did say logo! I haven't figured out how I'm going to do this, though - not sure I want it to be by popular vote as that's how I chose the zine's name and it's been a PITA design-wise ever since. XD Maybe I should "write a design brief" whatever that means.

Would you be interested?

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

If you wrote a design brief, yes. I would really dig a project like this.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'll do it, then - it's worthwhile to set out some guidelines for SSBB's design philosophy going forward, currently it's all in my head.

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

XDD Lucky star is on crack, but it's such good crack~

[moderntime.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, if you were to move to Shanghai there's even more organic/natural resources than there are in Beijing. The first time I tried unsweetened organic yogurt was in Shanghai, it was really good.

However, I do think that when S and I have kids we will not have them in China--too many things to worry about that could be unsafe.

And yes, White Rabbit Candies--freaking heck?!

sweets so ubiquituous

[analyse.livejournal.com]

i had no idea the problem was serious enough to require a recall of white rabbit candies. what's next, nuclear contamination of the water supply in shanghai? :(

then again, i have a friend in shanghai who says it is livable!