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[20]Code Geass
[27]Kingdom Hearts
-[10]Kairi
-[09]Sora
-[03]Riku
-[02]Roxas
-[02]Namine
-[01]Riku + Sora
[11]Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle + xxxHolic
[25]X/1999
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[83]Total


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i_hope_that
For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

In the flames I thought it’d fall
The glow reached to top limbs of the trees
That surrounded each bank of the creek
I was standing at the base of them
The road that I had gone down so many times
Lay behind me, the trail dark, unnerving
The gas can that I had filled up and brought with me
Placed right by my shoes
You looked across from the opposite bank
Thought of everything we had to lose
You crossed, untouched by the flames
With a smile at the end of the crossing
I reached out my hand and you took it
I looked back at the flames
They burned brightly
The structure still stood
I hadn’t done enough to level it

Just recently started, the Anime Character Icontest is an icontest that features a different character from a manga/anime/video game each week. So please join and consider making some icons or voting in the challenges! :)

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Right before this years AUSA I started on a bunch of ornaments to sell in the Artist Alley. Since I wasn't able to get the majority of the ornaments finished I decided to finish them up and attempt to sell them online.




Prices are $8 for any of the finished ones either found above or below cut and $10 for any custom commissioned ones plus $5 shipping within the US. Any orders made before Thursday will be shipped in time for Christmas.

( More designs can be found below. )

up and down a day -
weekend - weakened -
i would sleep forever

try to hold in -
everything - alone -
postcards from whoever I am

unsent - unstamped - unwritten -
blank on either side -
lost inside because inside

i would sleep forever

She had always depended on the kindness of others to get by.
Looking back on how far she had come, and where she was now...
she didn't think she could keep going on this way.
Or if she should!

Miranda never thought of herself as someone in control, of anything!
She was never the person she wanted to be, although at times she was everything else.
A child, sister, friend, lover, wife, mother, supporter, comforter, cook, maid, chauffeur, nanny, secretary, helper, worker, martyr, and follower.
She could do anything and did everything, except what she wanted to do.
Be the person she was meant to be. And even though that was all she could think about, she couldn't remember who that person was any more!

Somehow, thru all the years of being there for others, sacrificing so others could chase their dreams, her dreams were put on hold. She always thought that her time would come and she could live her dream.
But now it seems that time has past her by...

Now she was just Miranda!
Dependable, helpful, caring, supporting, sacrificing Miranda!
And she didn't want to be that person any more!
But that's who she was. And so it seems...all she would ever be!


Miranda wasn't even her real name!
It was just a name she had given herself as a child.
A child with big hopes and dreams! A future!
But it seemed like her hopes and dreams were too big for a small child,
at least that's what everyone told her.
So she would become Miranda, someone who was smart and strong and could do anything and everything. As Miranda she could make dreams come true.
Not just her dreams, but she could help others make their dreams happen.

And so it started. She started calling herself Miranda. At first others thought it was odd, even for a child. But soon it would catch on.
First her friends, then her family and soon she had everyone calling her Miranda. After weeks and months as Miranda, no one would refer to her by her real name any more, only Miranda.

Miranda, the girl who would make dreams come true.


And so it began...
A little girl, with big dreams.
Became a woman, with big dreams.
Who could always find a way to make things happen.
And could makes dreams come true.
For anyone, and everyone....

but herself!

taste_buds
Holidays provide a built-in excuse for indulgent entertaining. This all-purpose foodie community covers everything from homemade hangover cures to dinner party menus. Need quick advice? Get five-minute snack suggestions, low-fat ingredient substitutes, and even measurement conversions. Delicious recipes garnished with humorous advice. Yum.

naturesbeauty
Always on the lookout for compelling images, we were delighted to discover this flourishing community of artists who share a love of nature. Honoring the subject with photographs, paintings, sketches, prose, poetry, and other creative works, you'll be simultaneously riveted to your monitor and inspired to run helter skelter towards the nearest wooded dale.

In case you're one of the three people who have never heard of this series:

One Piece is the story of a boy named Monkey D. Luffy who was inspired by Red-Haired Shanks, a pirate. At the start of the series, 22 years from the present timeline, 1500 AOS a pirate named Gold Roger, known as the Pirate King was executed, but before his death, he told the crowd of his treasure, "One Piece" His death sparked what would become the Golden Age of Pirates as countless pirates set out to look for his treasure. Luffy becomes one as well, desiring to be the next Pirate King and sets out to gather crewmates and begin his adventures.



Really, what can I say about this series that hasn't been said? Its characters are awesome, the story is powerful, the world is diverse and colorful, and the emotion is raw and true.

Granted, it does have some pacing issues--particularly with the current running arc--but it's still pretty much the best shonen story I've had the pleasure of experiencing. And of course, all that catching up is pretty daunting (which is why I alternated between the anime and manga), but yeah.

So anyway. A million years past my due date on this, but better late than never.

Next will be D.Gray-man.

backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're tall on adventurous spirit, but short on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about bargain hotels and hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!

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Spain

I will think of the cliff and the shape
cut out against the clarity of the sky.
I will remember rained on and slick
the pavement of the square a mirror.
I will see the ghost of the chirimiri
and the clouds that haunt the hills.
I will read again in the shaded bar
and breadcrumbs in the long afternoon.
I will in the future go back again, though then
I never thought of how now would be.