http://www.square-enix.co.jp/mobile/ff/ff4after/

The first Final Fantasy sequel that continued the storyline of a previous one was X-2, and now they're making a sequel to FF4, my favorite in the series :)

It takes place 17 years later.

Golbez's real name is Ceodore.

You play as Cecil's son, also named Ceodore.

Rydia still looks young for someone in her mid-30s.

Luca is a playable character.

Palom and Porom are adults. Here's Palom:





POW!

Tags: games

Inspired by http://www.dreamweaverbraiding.com/braids/rosestem.htm, I decided to try a rosestem. This was a bit more ambitious a porject than I expected, as I've never done a simple twist before, much less something this complicated. I got finished with the "double classic twist" part and to the bun-making part to find that I can't turn a twist into a bun AT ALL. So I settled for a classic twist combination. If you look very closely, you can see that twist on the right turns the oppoite direction as the one on the left, requiring a hidden hairtie to keep the top right from unraveling. The bottom twist has four strands, the top each have two. It's not perfect, but I am very happy with the results for my first try.

Edit: LJ cut for pictures. Two people have claimed this may not be work safe, as the back of my parnter's sports bra is visable. I think this is work-safe, as it is legal coverage and non-sexual pose, but YMMV.

Edit #2: Oooops. I forgot to mention, these are pics of Shana, my partner, not myself. I do all the fancy styling on her hair, and the more simple on my own.
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The terrible part is that games like this probably sell 10x or 100x what mine do D:

Tags: games

So, while perusing the memory section the other day, I found an instructional vid on the "sock bun".  Lo and behold, I finally found out how the ladies achieved this perfect bun.  It was way easier than I expected.  And since  wingsfromashes  likes ribbons incorporated into hairstyles, I took her advice and incorporated one! 

feeling: creative

A friend sent me a video of a commercial for the Outlaw Births documentary. It's short but here it is if anyone wants to see. :) It's still airing July 9 at 9 PM on Channel Five in the UK (not the USA)

Here you go!

I can't understand why my backyard neighbors can't be like everyone else in the hood and stand in the middle of the street to fire off their illegal fireworks. Why do they have to sit in their backyard and let the NINE year old haphazardly send a roman candle into my house with some of the sparks coming through the window? If, in the morning, there is even a mark on the house, heads will roll.

feeling: pissed off

• 13:02 Reading Eat, Pray, Love while I plop, piddle, and escape. #

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• 22:05 Why did i wear heels to see the fireworks? I regret trying to be cute. #
• 14:28 Getting popcorn to see Wall E. Gabe nearly vibrating with excitement. #

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( more pictures, some with me in them, so you know you want to click! )

Inspired by torrinpaige's pretty post in longhair, i wanted to try something similar. I tried the loops like hers, but i don't have enough length or thickness for it to not look silly. So i took the braids, and braided them. :)

 

it's not NEARLY as impressive, i know, but i figured it was cute enough to share! :) 

And now it's off to work!

feeling: pleased

I don't get Yam Gruel (by Ryunosuke Akutagawa).

The story is weird: a poor low-status samurai who everyone makes fun of (even little kids) gets to taste yam gruel once a year, at an annual festival for his lord, and only a little taste of it, a few drops. His secret goal in life, hidden to everyone including himself, is to eat his fill of yam gruel.

At one of these festivals he says to no one in particular that he wishes he could eat his fill of yam gruel. Everyone laughs at such an outrageous request from such a ridiculous figure, and the person who laughs loudest offers to invite him over to have some. It's clear the guy is just being malicious, cause he makes the poor samurai repeat that he wants it several times, and laughs each time, but the main character is innocent and naive.

The next day the two set out for the guy's house. It's a long journey, and the guy constantly lies to him about how far it is, and chuckles to himself as if he has some big practical joke planned. On the way he sees a fox and tells it to deliver a message (to wait for them with fresh horses at a particular place), and the fox does.

At the guy's house he spends the night, and the reader is totally expecting something terrible to happen to the poor samurai because everyone treats him so terribly in the story, but to the reader's surprise he is fed yam gruel and nothing bad happens to him, and the story ends.

Confusing story. Anyone able to figure it out?

Tags: fiction

• 07:30 Woopee! 4th of July! #
• 14:35 As God as my witness....... #
• 16:41 Grilled chicken and potato salad on menu for 2nite. #
• 19:12 @milliegarfield AWESOME interview. You are so with it! What a joy you are. #

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Young pianist.