Trabia Garden

Look, guys: this is what happens when you encourage me in my endeavours to assign Pokémon to every character ever created.




zeitheist suggested that Armstrong would have either an enormous Fighting-type Pokémon or a Clefairy. Whilst Machoke certainly looks like Armstrong, I have no doubt that he would have a Clefairy and pamper it to bits.

(IMPORTANT QUESTION: is Armstrong a vampire? He has incredible strength! He sparkles! He possesses, ahem, inhuman beauty!

Imagine what Twilight would have been like had Major Armstrong taken the place of Edward. He would have given Bella a hug, and every bone in her body would have broken.)


( And Ed and Riza receive their Pokémon under the cut. )


adraekh thinks that Roy would have a Ninetales, and, after some consideration, I have decided that she is absolutely right. However, finding a good picture into which to add his Pokémon is proving surprisingly difficult.

You're probably not actually that upset by this.

(EDIT: theoret has rectified the lack beautifully.)

HERE IS THE PROBLEM:

a) I have revision to do.
b) I cannot focus at all.

Therefore, I decided to make an entry, so I could motivate myself to revise by turning it into a way of passing the time whilst waiting for comments. And what better subject for an entry than 'Confusing Images I Have Found On My Photobucket Account'?

Perhaps these will make more sense to you than they do to me.


( Confusing Images I Have Found On My Photobucket Account. )


If you have any confusing images on your computer or wherever you keep your images online, please feel free to share the bewilderment!

SERIOUSLY, GUYS, SOMEONE WRITE/DRAW ME LIGHT/HIMSELF. PLEASE. HE IS SUCH A NARCISSIST AND THIS NEEDS TO EXIST. I have a mental image of Kira!Light pinning down non-Kira!Light's wrists and smirking at him, and it is amazing. I would love to bring it into the physical world. It is such a shame that I have no artistic ability whatsoever.


Ahem. Anyway, I have now finished watching Death Note.


( Spoilers up to and including the final episode. )


This is probably my favourite scene in the whole of Death Note. I laughed so hard. It is simply not what one expects of a terrifying god of death.


In conclusion, Death Note is essentially a murder mystery that tells you who the murderer is before he starts murdering. It is a slightly odd concept, but I think it works.

I was going to play Pokémon Crystal, you guys. It was going to be the first time I had ever played a second-generation Pokémon game. I was really excited.

And then it turned out that the cartridge was corrupted and wouldn't register saves.

I am genuinely woeful. I WAS GOING TO HAVE A CYNDAQUIL AND I WAS GOING TO NAME IT MERLIN. (And my Red-version save also appears to be corrupted, so I have to start again. Fortunately, the cartridge still registers saves. Had my beloved Red cartridge been rendered entirely useless, I would probably have wept. I got it for Christmas when I was ten. It was my first ever videogame. My first Pokémon was a Bulbasaur named Bulby, and oh how I loved him. (Oh, how I completely failed to train any of the other Pokémon on my first team.))

In order to make up for this sad, sad lack of Pokémon-playing and soothe my ten-year-old soul, I would like to request that you either share your own Pokémon-related stories (what was your first Pokémon? Which is your favourite? What do you always have on your team? What do you name your Pokémon?) or write Pokémon-related ficsnippets (crossovery or otherwise) in the comments. Pokémon-related photomanips or doodles would also be very welcome. JUST POKÉMON UP MY COMMENTS, GUYS. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

To kick things off:



"Where's Merlin?"

"I'm afraid Merlin is busy, sire," Gaius replies, rummaging through his bookshelves.

"He's not busy. What's he doing? Where is he?"

"I believe he is running an errand for Morgana."

"He's not Morgana's manservant," Arthur points out, straddling the wooden bench by Gaius' worktable. There is a creature on the table, he notices: some sort of large, dark-furred rodent. It is staring at Arthur in a most disconcerting fashion. "Do you have a rat problem?"

"Just a pet," Gaius says, glancing over. "A whim, if you like."

The stare seems almost familiar. Arthur has the unpleasant feeling that Gaius' pet thinks he is an idiot. "What sort of creature is it?"

"A species of mouse," Gaius says. "They're very common in the western regions. I wouldn't go too near if I were you; he can be quite vicious."

He can't be sure in this light, but Arthur would almost be prepared to swear that its fur is blue. He reaches out to touch it.

There is a burst of light and heat, and Arthur immediately draws his hand back to shield his face.

A moment goes by.

"Gaius," Arthur says, "your mouse is on fire."

HERE ARE SOME AMAZING THINGS:

- I have just discovered a song about Derren Brown, played on the ukulele, on YouTube. Glee!

- Here is a wonderful Sherlock Holmes fanvid, set to 'Read My Mind' by the Killers. It makes me want to sit down and watch the whole of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Oh, Jeremy Brett, you were the perfect Holmes. Look at him leaping around and waving his arms!

- x_los made an entry from which I learnt that the Fourth Doctor once, upon escaping from a yoke by thrusting it at the guards who had captured him, said, 'I suppose you could say "the yoke's on him", if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing, which fortunately I'm not.'

I have never even watched the Fourth Doctor, and this reported line alone has brought him very close to being my favourite incarnation.

- Yesterday, my brothers had a terrible pun war. Terrible jokes are some of my favourite things in the world. The theme of the day, apparently, was 'monkeys'.

Here are some of the jokes that came up:

J: Why did the monkey go out in the sun? He wanted to get an orangu-TAN.

F: What do most monkeys become when they grow up? A CHIMP-ney sweep.

J: Why did the monkey get sent to Hogwarts?
F: To learn magic?
J: Because it was a Howler.

F: What animal in the jungle do you use to get into your house?
J: A monkey.
F: What currency do they use in the jungle?
J: Monkeys?
F: ...yes.
J: Why was six afraid of the monkey?

I did warn you that they were terrible.

The younger of my brothers, F, was extremely secretive about the punchline of one of his jokes, on account of its being 'too good' and his fear that it would be stolen; he whispered it to the others at the table, but refused to tell it to me. I eventually learnt it about an hour later, and I think the resulting uncontrollable laughter was largely due to the great air of mystery about it and the amount of time I had spent musing on what the punchline could possibly be.

The question:
What is a monkey's favourite cereal?
The answer (blacked out: highlight to read; for full effect, you should probably consider it for a while before actually highlighting):
I could not stop laughing. I'm laughing again just thinking about it.

Please feel free to share your favourite terrible jokes in the comments, monkey-themed or otherwise!

House-hunting is a miserable, miserable process, especially when the temperature is below freezing. I spent all of yesterday house-hunting, I'm going to spend all of today house-hunting, and there's a fair chance I'm going to spend all of tomorrow house-hunting as well. Term starts on Monday, and if I don't have a place by then I'm in quite a lot of trouble.

I am not just posting to whine; what I am doing is proposing a cheer-up post. Write little fun snippets of fic in the comments! Attempt the ridiculous crossover you've always wanted to see! Edit Pokémon into screenshots of very serious moments! Post a link to a video that makes you laugh! Just post something fun or something that makes you happy in the comments. It will give me something to look forward to when I get home, and with any luck it will help anyone else who needs cheering-up as well.

Have fun!

DEAR EVERYONE: shoebox_project was hacked, and I clicked the links the hacker posted, because I'm stupid, and apparently these links have been known to install keyloggers on clickers' computers, and I have run a virus scan but it has not detected anything, which is actually slightly less reassuring than running a scan and having it say 'yeah, you had a problem but now we have fixed it!', so, er.

SO THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOMEBODY WILL HACK INTO MY LIVEJOURNAL AND DELETE ALL OF MY ENTRIES.

This would not be awesome. So, er, if all of my entries suddenly disappear and I post an entry with a suspicious-looking link to a site that ends with '.ru', don't click, guys.

I politely request that you all write 'sorry you're so stupid' snippets of fanfiction about Jensen and Jared in the comments. (By '"sorry you're so stupid" fanfiction' I mean fanfiction to distract me from thinking 'you're an idiot, Riona', but if you would like to write Jared/Jensen fanfiction with 'sorry you're so stupid' as a prompt, please do!)

Happy birthday to the_funmonkey, painted_blind and my beloved brother, Joseph! (He's seventeen. Only five more years before his psychic powers manifest!)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a dangerous game for a ficwriter to play. Luigi and Peach showed up as combatants when I had characters set on random, and immediately my mind was overtaken with horrible badwrong thoughts of a Luigi-Mario-Peach love triangle. I am only saved from writing a million and three crossovers by the fact that I don't know enough of the characters.

I love Peach. She is an appallingly bad fighter, but look at how cute and happy she is!

Here is a highly scientific Doctor Who poll. To be perfectly honest, I have been secretly 'shipping Mickey/Jackie since the first series.


[Poll #1220969]

(EDIT: Blast, I should have included Ricky. And Martha, and Donna, and Sarah Jane Smith. BASICALLY I AM RUBBISH AT POLLMAKING.)

It was nomelon's birthday yesterday (happy birthday! sorry it's late!), and therefore today's fanwork theme is 'TEENY TINY SAM WINCHESTER AND/OR JARED PADALECKI'. Because you can never have enough! I say 'fanwork' rather than 'photomanip' because you are not confined to merely posting photomanips in the comments (although obviously it would be great if you did); fic or fanart or, I don't know, DRAMATIC SONGS are also welcome! Nobody is going to be fussy when it comes to miniaturised Sam Winchester.





( And two more. IT'S NOT AN UNHEALTHY OBSESSION, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT )

You may miniaturise other characters instead but why would you want to?. And, er, putting them on Dean's shoulder is not compulsory, in case you were wondering. Of course, if you feel particularly compelled to put tiny characters from completely unrelated series on Dean Winchester's shoulders for some reason, you may.

IT IS GIGANTICALLY INCONGRUOUS CROSSOVER PHOTOMANIP TIME.


( Image under a cut for size and stupidity. )


YOUR TURN. CREATE RIDICULOUS CROSSOVER MANIPS AND POST THEM IN THE COMMENTS FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF ALL.

(With thanks to th_esaurus for the inspiration.)