On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Hello! I found P-S long after scans were being regularly released and have joined the community so that I can say THANK YOU! for all the work which has been done. The projects chosen are *wonderful* and I look forward to several of them continuing, be it here or elsewhere. I was excited to find P-S and continue to mine the lj links for treasures.

I would also like to wish all members, present and past, the very best in the future. Life does continue on and make it hard to continue this tedious and financially-thankless endeavor. Thank you again for giving us the scans you have and Congratulations! for what you have achieved elsewhere in life. :)

The recent posts here seem lacking in encouragement or thanks. This makes me sad.
If you love the manga P-S has given you, please leave a comment on this post!

(Here's a duh!warning: The linked community is filled with sexual references and is meant for a mature audience. Do not click the link if you are underage or afraid of anything related to the 3 letter word that starts with "s" and ends with "x")


weepingcock has got to be one of the funniest LJ communities out there!  I actually laughed until I started crying!  Basically the community is dedicated to the horrible yet hilarious literary crimes that sometimes occur when people try to write about sex.

I quite possibly joined the fandom solely for the sake of using this icon.


Lies, lies. I only found the icon this morning. BUT THAT IN NO WAY LESSENS ITS GLORY.

Title: Notice for Alfred F. Jones in reference to recent behavior at World Summit meetings.
Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia
Characters/Pairings: America(Alfred), mentions of other nations
Words: 361
Rating: G
Warnings: a few very mild dirty jokes
Summary: jumping on the bandwagon for this kink request: 101 things Alfred F. Jones is no longer allowed to do at UN meetings.
Author's Notes: I couldn't resist...the list isn't long now (because I should be asleep instead of doing this) but I'll probably add more as I come up with them

1. Chris Hansen from "To Catch a Predator" is not allowed to hold investigations at world meetings.
2. "Searching for weapons of mass destruction" is not an excuse to put your hands down someone's pants.
3. Do not ask anyone else to search for your "weapon of mass destruction."
4. Staying at Holiday Inn Express will not actually make you more intelligent and does not give you the qualifications to perform surgery, legal counsel, human experimentation, electronic repairs, etc.
5. "Engrish" is not a language and should not be spoken around the Asian countries.
6. Do not discuss border security with Mexico just to piss him off.
7. Do not taunt Mexico by holding your glasses above your head and telling him to try to get Texas back.
8. Do not instigate arguments by asking who really discovered America.
9. It is not a good idea to use a red pen on England's notes to add correct American spelling.
10. Being called a "melting pot" does not give you the right to claim that a state is the "love child" of you and another nation.
11. -It also does not give you the right to demand child support.
12. It is not appropriate to tell Spain that you finally found the Fountain of Youth.
13. Using American films featuring foreigners speaking English is not evidence that everyone actually speaks English.
14. It is not a good idea to feed Japan or China the "American version" of Japanese or Chinese food.
15. Beginning a meeting with, "In the previous episode of The World Summit," is completely inappropriate.
16. Ending a meeting with a melodramatic recap and asking an invisible audience to, "Tune in next time to find out the fate of the world," is also inappropriate.
17. Convincing one of the female nations to pluck England's eyebrows qualifies as "cruel and unusual punishment" and should never be attempted again.
18. Do not ask France if he has resumed his relationship with "Mademoiselle Guillotine."
19. Do not shout, "Freedom!" every time Scotland begins to speak.
20. New Zealand will not respond to "hobbit" or "Frodo."
21. There are no hobbits in New Zealand.

Not very many for now, but I just had to post them while they were in my head.

Link to the many ToH fics I wrote recently.



Title: Alternation
Rating: T
Warnings: Spoilers for the entire game, mentions of sex
Prompt: Tales of Hearts, Beryl/Innes: stolen kisses - us girls have to stick together
Word count: 1109
Summary: Slices of life during the years following the destruction of Gardenia, in the eyes of Beryl.
A/N: Deserves more editing, but I had to post it in a hurry. So one theory in particular is kinda hanging in the air and you might catch it if you pay attention. I'll probably write a fic about it.

Also this is my take on post-game canon, so you'll see references to the evolution of Max Empire, Kohak/Shing/Hisui, Beryl achieving her dream because I think she's persistent and enough of a worker to do it, and hints of Lapis not coming back from her previous state totally unchanged.

Alternation


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Title: And from this light everything shattered.
Rating: T
Warnings: Spoilers for the entire game, mentions of sex
Prompt:Tales of Hearts, Hisui/Shing: denial - the more he thinks about it the angrier he gets
Word count: 1174
Summary: Anger turned to fear, and would never let him go
A/N: This could have been longer, but I kept it short and vague on purpose. Might do a longer version someday.

And from this light everything shattered

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Title: This love you thrust into my chest - This hate you drained out of my heart
Rating: M (for Messed Up)
Warnings: Spoilers for the entire game, mindf*ck
Prompt:Tales of Hearts, Creed/Shing: shared bonds - the heart is deceitful above all things
Word count: 1092
Summary: "Well tell me, Meteoryte. What is your reason now?"
A/N: Seriously messed up. Also, you choose if you want to take Creed seriously or not.

This love you thrust into my chest - This hate you drained out of my heart


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Title: Predictable
Rating: T
Warnings: Spoilers for the entire game, though much less than the three previous ones. Also, the pairing, but this is springkink, so...
Prompt: Tales of Hearts, Hisui/Kohak/Shing: sharing -it made perfect sense, especially with his sister complex.
Word count: 711
Summary: Living with the two of them was easy, maybe even too easy
A/N: My canon beta is unreachable right now, so if there are any canon mistakes, they are my own
Also there is a second fic being written for this prompt. With sex.
I am hopeless T.T

Predictable

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1249
Yes, this happens to me. I hate not having my articles printed T.T

More music from 2009 fall anime, enjoy!


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And yet, still not dead.

A more cohesive report on my current crawl among the mortal (on-line) coil will surface eventually, but until then here are some facts and rumors:

~am still employed.
~am in the process of moving.
~am debiliatingly and shamelessly addicted to BBC's Merlin. And slightly less ardently hooked on Veronica Mars. (I can hear you laughing, rashaka. Do stop.)
~am writing about teenage werewolves.

Wasn't that interesting! No? All right, then. ( Have some commentary pilfered from work. )

Hey! Furoku for sale~ 

Ships internationally, PayPal only! Serious buyers only!!! I'm in need of money so I had offers for items but they couldn't buy them! 

( Code Geass Furoku 3-piece set )

( Nakayoshi furoku sets )

( Others (Lucky Star, Natsume Yuujin-cho) )

Interested in anything? Just leave comments here!

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this community. I rewatched Nodame Cantabile (first season) and was so attached to Elgar's Violin Sonata which was played by Nodame and Chiaki when they went to visit his uncle in Episode 15.

Does anyone have this piece?

Would appreciate your help. Thank you in advance.

GUESS WHO IS PLAYING BATEN KAITOS ORIGINS

THE WORDS. THERE ARE NONE.

As for your belated Shakespeare fangirling...
( Cut for mixed bits of R&J, and As You Like It )

So...
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MEME
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