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This isn't that interesting, but since I haven't posted anything lately, I'll write about it anyway. :)
( Under the LJ-cut, that is! :) )

Considering I'm somewhat new to Livejournal, perhaps I am approaching this with a bit of naivety, but I like this idea of a community representative - even if those elected will have zero actual power in decision making. (Most of) the candidates have respectable goals in mind, and I will gladly give my support to them. :)

And, well, whether any of those goals will be realized, whether this whole thing really has a point to it at all - I guess I might find that out a year later. :) For now:

Well, it has been a while since I posted something here, but I was kinda busy in the past month... that isn't the real reason of course, but it sure sounds nice enough. ;P

Why was I busy, you ask? I just finished chapter 1 of my latest, greatest fanfiction project! :D Not that I had too many, especially in English to begin with... Let's elaborate on that a bit, shall we...?

( LJ cut for those who'd prefer if I'd rather skip elaborating... ;) )

Sooo, after seeing the scripts there all alone at the community for who knows how long, I thought: Hey, what if the subber is still waiting for the l33t or Zero-Raws raw? Perhaps I should do it myself! In the end, it became a bit redundant, as the subs were posted shortly before I could finish (*facepalm*), but it was a really... unique experience.
Aegisub is a nice program, well usable to newbies like me, although I found some steps of inserting a line a bit annoying - copy-pasting a new line from the script into the subs gets the timeframe of 0:00-0:00 by default, and if I click on it, my playback essentially gets reset, ruining my timing... Still, I got the hang of it after a while.
But this was not what made this so interesting. I don't know how many of you worked on subtitle files before, but I don't think I'll suprise you if I say that it requires playing back small segments of scenes numerous times... play, adjust timing, replay, readjust, etc. At first I was horrified by this, thinking that after seeing everything for the umpteenth time, I will be really fed up with the whole thing by the time I finished - and that would've been sad, as I really love this episode.
However, to my amazement, something completely different has happened. Instead of becoming boring, the act of seeing the same few lines over and over again became strangely... meditative. I found myself gazing into the tinyest details of the voice actors' and the animators' performance, and it was truly mesmerising. Overall, it felt like watching the episode in slow motion, while it unfolded all of its amazing secrets. What were those...? I don't really know. XD But it was really enjoyable.
I can only recommend to everyone to try their hands at subtitles... if you are willing to spend half your day on it that is, and don't mind your brain becoming completely fried in the end... because that also happened; :) the concentration required takes a lot out of you. So, off to bed with me! I'll fix up the subs a bit along with dqbunny 's new info tomorrow! :)

I wanted to do this so much earlier for Revolution itself, but never got to it - and let's face it, different name or not, it would not have been fair to review a series only at halfway point. Then again, considering how some aspects of both halves were handled... but we should not jump into the middle of things. :) In order to make this review a real review and not some kind of a long rambling, I will attempt to look at the new Slayers series from several pre-defined viewpoints, and judge how well they fared in my opinion with each of them separately.

( Review behind the cut... )

I found this page completely by accident:
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%B6rnyh%C3%A1bor%C3%BA
The title, "Szörnyháború" (Monster War) is like that because the Hungarian dub is actually based on the English one, and so it inherits all its strange translations.
I viewed the page, thinking "Hmm, so they made a Slayers section on the Hungarian Wikipedia too? I wonder if it's so bad as the English one is...", started reading the article... and time stood still for a moment. X)
Someone actually went and translated my article from KanzakaDex to Hungarian! (Although pretty badly I must say.)  Can you believe it? :D I feel strangely... honored, to be honest. A few years ago, I wasn't sure whether people actually read the wiki, or we're just doing this for our own amusement. But nowadays, when I mention KanzakaDex, more and more people say "Oh, that site? Cool, I got most of the info for my fanfic/fanart/etc from there!" It's wonderful, and makes all the hours I put into the wiki easily worth it. :)

All people deserve at least a second chance. If you think otherwise, just remember that this applies to you as well - if you don't have a second chance, you won't be getting even the possibility to redeem yourself.
About third, fourth and umpteenth chances... that depends on the situation. As a Christian, I must keep in mind that I was told to forgive people even for the umpteenth time... but Christianity also does not advocate being stupid. We must notice if someone is just using the chances we give them to trick us even further (sadly, that can happen). In such a case, I don't think I should give them another chance unless they can prove to me that they are being sincere this time - something which I will approach with skepticism. However, there are people who are simply fallible, and may make the same mistake more than once - I know because I am one of them. These people should be given even a third or a fourth chance, as long as they are visibly trying to better themselves, and do not simply continue what they've been doing just because they know they will be forgiven. Ultimately though, I don't think there are people who are simply beyond redemption.

rebmastu , who's been going crazy this week with scanlations (Yay, SEDS is complete! :) ), just posted up the fourth chapter of the Evolution-R manga to the theslayers  commmunity.
( Spoilers and an edited image behind the cut! )

I must admit, last night's episode still sends chills down my spine just by thinking about it, and one of the main reasons is the shocking revelation of actually what has happened around the time Zelgadiss was turned into a chimera - let's just say that his hair color was not the only thing most fans (including myself) thought wrong.
( Spoilers ahead! )

Following the example ofichiban_victory anddqbunny , I finally decided to post this as the first real entry to my journal. I took a liking to this meme because some of the questions presented really help you get into the heads of the characters and find out things about them you might haven't even thought of otherwise. Of course, Lina and Xelloss not being my original characters, what I will describe below will be highly subjective, and will represent my personal view of these people, not something I would view as some kind of universal truth. Attempts at debating the points below are highly endorsed, actually. :)
Why this pairing? I'm not an exclusive X/L shipper, in fact, I support both canon pairings and even X/F to an extent, but as the above two wonderful people (plusameban ) already done the canon ones probably a lot better than I could ever do, and I don't feel like being the right person for the third option, I was stuck with this. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Actually, I am just making up excuses... ;) But enough of this, on to the meme!
(For the record, I will be using the anime continuity in this one, as such a relationship has the best chances there.)

( Ahh! Almost forgot the LJ cut! )