Can't Hardly Wait

So, I listened to Barak Obama's speech from last night. *glees* He was awesomely classy and strong.

I can't wait to have that man in the White House.

On a completely different subject, leaving plastic water bottles in a car has been linked to breast cancer, so if you, like both me and my mother, leave water bottles in the car, it's been recommended to switch to glass. We're going to go with the hard neoprene bottles, since glass in the car seems like a not-great idea.

We Don't Have Cable, So We Have To Make Our Own Fun

I ran across some untranslated Naruto doujinshi. The art is delightful, so clear, so pretty, so expressive, and since I don't read Japanese, I have to infer what's going on.

First, we have....

Chibi Sakura and Sasuke, with Itachi being a dick. Artist draws Sasuke as the perfect combination of young, naive, and sullen.

Gaara/Sakura, with bonus Temari/Shikamaru. Sakura & Shikamaru go to Suna, where Gaara broods, and Sakura flirts him out of it.

Team 7 gets drunk under the cherry blossoms. Best part, hands down, is drunk!Sakura. First she looks supremely pissed, and then she looks so. fucking. seductive. you want to handcuff her to a bed. Also, there is a three-panel section that gave me a 'zing! redbrunja's shipping Sasuke/Sakura' moment.

Sakura/Sasuke in the snow.

KAKASHI IS SANTA CLAUS! (I am working so, so fucking hard to not make a 'he can sneak up/down my chimney any time of the year' joke). The bottom panel on the first page, when Sakura first sees Kakashi outside her window in full ANBU regalia almost make me do a spit take. And when he pushed back his mask so he's crouched on her windowsill with his ANBU tattoo? *guh* *panties combust* I don't even mind that it looks like he's giving her a necklace of her tooth, like, who do you think you are, Santa Claus!Kakashi? The tooth fairy?

Sasuke being emo. Highlight: Sakura's awesome chokehold on Naruto, and Sasuke brooding and then blowdrying his hair. (Come on, we all know that 'do takes a hell of a lot of maintenance.)

Kiba's dog almost spills the beans about his SUPER, SECRET crush on Hinata. (I was actually pretty sad that this didn't turn out to be about Hinata and her sensei bonding.)

Shikamaru breaks Ino's heart. Or at least does something to get himself slapped. Sakura and Ino do their classic 'I hate you so much we must be best friends' shtick.

COCKBLOCKING!KAKASHI! I am not even kidding. Sasuke and Sakura sort of go out on a date, but Sasuke is being himself, which leads to Sakura being sad. Luckily, Kakashi swoops in to to make her happy, like, 'look, kid, let me show you how it's done.' To which Sasuke is like, 'I hate this chick but I'm the only one who she's allowed to pay attention to, old man.' And Kakashi's like, 'I've going to have her literally eating out my hand in five minutes, brat.'

So they go out to dinner, and there's this comedic bit about trying to see what Kakashi looks like under his mask, and finagling who gets to feed who ramen. Kakashi's like, 'open your mouth, sweetheart, I promise it will taste good,' and Sasuke's like, 'WTF get your hands on my girlfriend' and Sakura's like, 'I'm not totally sure about this....'

To which Sasuke goes 'fuck this, if anyone's putting anything in Sakura, it's going to ME FIRST!'

And Kakashi's like, 'allow me to ignore you in favor of staring deep into Sakura's eyes and having hearts on the ends of all my sentences.'

Sakura: *so. much. attention*

Sasuke: 'I said I'm feeding her!' and practically shoves his spoon in her face, and from Sakura's expression, either Sasuke's ...ramen is really bitter, or Kakashi just felt her up under the table. It's a tough call.

Surprise Kakashi/Sakura glomp!

Kakashi, Sakura, hair ruffling.

Sasuke is so emo grass cuts him. And Sakura is like, 'take the bandaid, before you bleed to death.'

"...Where Someone Loved Him Best Of All."

Last night my mother referenced Where The Wild Things Are, and I went, 'wow, I really need to read that again.' My mother went and got it from the Green Room, where all my old picture books are, and I went to read it, and discovered that you can't just read that book silently: it's required that it be read out loud.

I asked my mother if she minded, and when she said no, read it to her.

And tonight, she was like, 'Okay, now I want you to know how I read it," so she read it to me.

Isn't my family adorable?

"A Boy Who Had Been Raised As A Natural Progidy From Birth Is No Fun."

*waves hands*

enderxenocide!

Kurodahan Press Translation Prize

You should totally check it out. You translate a short story, and if you do if fabulously at it (which you totally would) you get a prize.

There Is No Justice

I spent part of this morning looking on amazon.com japan for a Tramps Like Us artbook.

I have a hard time stating how annoyed I am that this doesn't exist.