Okay, so J-pop had announced they're going to reprint 'X' in Italy.
Why anyone out of Italy should care about this?
Apparently J-pop had been assured by Kadokawa and CLAMP's manager the series will be finished soon, or at least in time not to force J-pop to pause while printing it (which would mean, according to the tentative schedule given, that they need the new volumes ready for 2012... end of the world anyone? -_-).

Now, although this is a great new, I would like to know if someone can confirm J-pop's declaration about CLAMP being finally ready to end 'X'.
So, does anyone know something?

Finally my beloved pc is back!
I can't almost believe it!

(oh, and in the meantime I've gotten fully engrossed in history about the last 2 centuries...)

Okay so it's definve. My poor pc is broken. It seems there's something wrong with alimentation but that's just the pc expert's guess. He's going to undergo exams and tests now. I so miss him already! ;_;

... no, not yet. I kind of had a heart attack because my pc for some weird and only God knows reason began to act funny. As in he would shut down on his own randomly.

First thought: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! VIRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But no, no virus found.

Second thought: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hard disk damaged!

But no, that wasn't it either.

Third thought: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hard disk burning up!

But no, the baby was perfectly fresh.

So, since I've no other ideas I asked to a tecnician and got the usual:
format and reinstall everything. Of course after you saved everything.

When I finally managed to save nearly all (picture the lovely scene, please. While I was doing all the overmentioned things my pc would just randomly say 'now I'm going to shut down, bye' and have me restart all over= lifetime wasted away) he decided he would resume working properly (it spared me the formatting and reinstalling). So, I've no idea what went wrong with him but now he's behaving.

In the meantime, since me and my pc are likely mind connected I was suffering headache, general depression and 'why life hates me?' mood plus no chance to write and chance of being connected just for the fragments of times in between the moment I turned him on and the one he would self turn him off.

If you add some problem at work you get why I've kinda disappeared from the face of the Earth and had no real chance to write.

Anyway I'm kind of back (and deep into a study of Italian 'Rinascimento'... I knew I shouldn't have start reading Hetalia... -_-) unless my pc decides to act funny again.

Sorry for the long silence.

Okay, so since I was fixing some mistakes in my Tokyo Babylon Glossary I ended up fixing also the mantra section with all the info I could find about them (sanskrit versions, translations, supposed use, use in TB...). Who's interested only in it can see it here. Who can contribute with info will be loved forever... Come on, there has to be a TB fan knowing sanskrit out there!

Mantra

Originally whose mantras were in Sanskrit. CLAMP used their transliterations in Japanese. I've seen other sources using different translitterations and sometimes even CLAMP didn't use the same translitteration for the same word (sowaka/sohaka) so don't trust this ones too much. It's also hell to find explanations/translations/applications for them so this part might be filled with errors.

( Mantra )

Well, if someone had been wondering why JJ was so quiet I'll confess it was because I wasn't here.
I had to leave for mountain... -_-
So, since you all know how much I love the place, I've started a new fic to pass time.
No, the plot isn't the most original ever, you've probably already read better versions of what would happen if X was postponed of 10 years but I needed to express my feelings with a nice end of the world thing. You can try and guess how many chara won't see the end of it.
Kamui had already sent me a nice hate letters in which he explained me why working with CLAMP was better.
Anyway so far we're around 28 not formatted pages and it's only the first chap and a bit of the second, tentative titcle of the whole mess the overly original:
X/2009
How To Save A Life.
If you think the subtitle is promising you a nice fic go search for the lyrics of the homonymous song and change your mind. And no, I'm not a fan of 'Grey's Anatomy', actually I found out only today this song is connected with it.

Also I'm slowly dragging on my Sakurazukamori Subaru longfic, slowly being the keyword.

Any idea why should I start so many longfics?

*sighs* I wanna become a drabble author! ;_;

So, anyway, as you can see I'm in a nice murdering mood because soon I'll also end up holidays and it seems this year will be a working hell.

Or maybe it was the endless Seishiro essay I wrote in Italian (and which I realize it's incomplete so I should add more in it...). Anyone willing to explain me how could I come up with an essay that's 49 pages long over a secondary character and yet still isn't enough complete? (okay, so quotes helped to reach that lenght but still...)

Well, now I guess I have to devote my attention back on X. Rereading it should help smooth over X/2009. Hopefully I won't fall into temptation to write a comparative essay between manga and anime. Also I should end a certain damn video... -_-

I need more time... -_- and yes, please, feel free to ignore my bad mood. It had been a bad year, the next promises to be worse and I'm in need to vent frustration so please forgive me for this.

Title: "The Game We Play - Chap 23: And The Others Are Sleeping - Part 2"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA. It's unbetaed, it contain some Japanese words, some OOC...
Notes: Some people think that life for Subaru would have been better if he hadn’t meet Seishiro in 1990… I’m not too sure of this…
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" & "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?
Summary: 24 years old Sumeragi Subaru has various problems, among them to deal with a stubborn Sakurazukamori who wants to involve him into a game of his own creation involving a bet he made with Subaru when Subaru was merely nine...

( The Game We Play - Chap 23 - Part 2 )

Title: "The Game We Play - Chap 23: And The Others Are Sleeping – Part 1"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA. It's unbetaed, it contain some Japanese words, some OOC...
Notes: Some people think that life for Subaru would have been better if he hadn’t meet Seishiro in 1990… I’m not too sure of this…
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" & "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?
Summary: 24 years old Sumeragi Subaru has various problems, among them to deal with a stubborn Sakurazukamori who wants to involve him into a game of his own creation involving a bet he made with Subaru when Subaru was merely nine...

( The Game We Play - Chap 23 - Part 1 )

I can't believe it but it seems I've managed to end the new chap of TGWP... who's basically completely different from how I planned it I think I've replanned it DOZENS of time and rewritten too. And I had to redo the bit about the Sakurazuka's backstory no idea how many times... and I'm still not very satisfied... As of now I'm rechecking it because after all those remakes, I might have left in bits that needed to be cut or cut bits that needed to be left but the chapter finally exist as a whole! It's just 21 pages which I know it's not much but it was hell really. And for once it wasn't even Seishiro's fault even if he's the main chara...

Lenght: 21 formatted pages (as of now)
Time: 7/8 January 1999
Location: Kanazawa. Later Tokyo.
Seishiro's mood: Bad
Subaru: wonders if he lost his role as main chara... not that he minds...
Seishiro's uncle main problem: Had do you tell to a moody, young Sakurazukamori you don't agree with him without getting killed?
JJ's mood: Finished! Finished! Sort of...
Quote: It tasted oddly like nothing good, actually it tasted like nothing, as if it was nothing else but an illusion and, for a second, he allowed himself to wish for a hot cup of chocolate instead, hot, sweet chocolate, a cup full of it, a warm cup he could hold in his hands and from which he could take sips of what had once been considered the drink of the Gods of a distant, foreign place.

I'm curious, what do you think about it?
As for me...
( my two cents )

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Title: "If I Ever See You Again - Chap 36"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA. It's unbetaed, it contain some Japanese words, some OOC, a bit of sappiness...
Notes: I just wanted to try and write a Fantasy story…
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" and "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Ehy, Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?
Summary: The country is upside down, the various households are fighting among them and an old prophecy is about to come true. However nothing of this matter when you hear the only person you cared for is dead. And yet… destiny might plan for you some surprises…

( If I Ever See You Again - Chap 36 )

Somehow explorer eats my typing.
I mean, before, with Explorer 7, it had the bad habit to froze all of sudden for no reason at all while I was typing, so I would go on typing a whole long sentence and then realize nothing was written (I've the bad habit not to always keep my eyes glued to the screen when I write...).
So I was delighted when Explorer 8 came out, hoping it would fix the trouble.
Not really. It doesn't froze anymore for the time it takes to write 3/4 lines but... I guess it either froze for few seconds or swallows words from 1 to 5, sometimes just letters.
It's kind of odd and, when it's just letters sometimes I wonder if I've been mistyping.
It could happen. Even when one word is missing, if it's an article or a preposition I think 'maybe I got distracted and I forgot to type it'. But when it's around 5 words or a really long word... It looks like rather strange that they got 'forgotten'. So I think Explorer eats my typing. Anyone is having the same problem?

Title: "Careful With What You Wish - Chap 34: In The Future To Come"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA. It requires knowledge of the 'X' manga. It contains some Japanese words (the Dictionary is at the bottom), some OOC, a bit of sappiness, twisted relationships, suicide attempts, mentions of abuse, violence, general insanity and other things I might have forgotten... Deal with this fic with caution...
Notes: This is dark and twisted, dark and twisted, dark and twisted... have I mentioned it's dark and twisted? It's born to show a less nice Seishiro, how bad Fuma's idea that Wishes must be fulfilled is and how stubborn Subaru can be no matter what happened to him.
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" & "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?
Thanks:
To Ruth for betaing this! Thank you a lot!
To Moko, Tanuki-dono, Meffie, Sakanagi and Yupita for supporting me while writing this fic! Thank you a lot!
Summary: After meeting Subaru in his Maboroshi 16 years ago Seishiro chose to keep him and placed him under a spell so that he would obey him. Now, in the year of the destiny he has to face Sumeragi Hokuto who wants her brother back and Monou Fuma's obsession for fulfilling wishes...

( Careful With What You Wish - Chap 34 )

This is also available at Fanfiction.net

You can also read the demo version of this fic here.

... before one of my video will get removed...
( Read more... )
( JJ's rambling about said stats )

It seems Youtube ID program discovered that the Aoi Hana video uses a song that's sadly not mine. I've been lucky and it seems that dreamusic isn't going to ask to put my video down, and it'll simply keep it under control.
I know it's their right to do as they prefer with the vdeo since the audio isn't mine though it's sad AMV are subjected to this problem.
Sure AMV are tecnically not respecting copyright laws since both footage and song aren't of their maker but... well, as far as I'm involved Iwatch AMV for how good they're made so it's neither the footage or the song but the use that's made of them that attract me.
And those are the AMV author's work and can persuade me to buy song and footage (in X/TB case I already have them... :P).
But that's just me and I'm not law maker so I'll shut up and thanks dreamusic she didn't deem necessary to put Aoi Hana down. For now.

Title: "Because We Are... - Chap 24"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA. It contains some Japanese words, a bit of sappiness...
Notes: Okay, this is born from my obsessive love for seeing Seishiro and Subaru as teenagers interacting together.
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" and "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Ehy, Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?
Summary: What could happen if a teenager Sakurazukamori is forced to co-habit with a teenager Sumeragi no TouShu?

( Because We Are... - Chap 24 )

Title: "Learn, Live, Hope - Chap 21"
Author: J.J.
Warning: It's an AU BASED ON THE MANGA, it probably contains some OOCness, uses Japanese words and some sappiness.
Notes: This fic’s birth it’s entirely the fault of two evil girls that dropped on me a very cute, fluffy plot bunny…
Dedicated: to the two evil girls that dropped on me that plot bunny! It’s all your fault!
Disclaimer:
"Tokyo Babylon" and "X" belong to Clamp. I'm merely using their characters because I love them... especially Seishiro and Subaru...
Do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensitive heart which would surely break if you give me harsh reviews, so please be honest but nice, okay?
Summary: Because Seishiro looks like the mentor type…

( Learn, Live, Hope - Chap 21 )

Today is Friday, the 17th and, according to Italian superstiotion, it's a misfortuned day. But it seems each country has its own misfortuned day so, out of curiousity what's your country's misfortuned day?