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Journal Entry: Tue May 20, 2008, 12:50 PM
  • Mood: Mesmerized
  • Listening to: Nightwish
  • Reading: Ripley's Belive it or Not!
  • Playing: Yoshi's Story (WiiWare)
Holy crap, I actually got out of the state! Seriously, it had been about four years since I'd vacationed outside of Colorado. Lemme tell ya: You can only go up to the mountains so many times before they all start looking the same and you get sick of nothing but pine trees in every direction. So off I went with my boyfriend on a romantic adventure! :w00t: With my mom. Well, maybe not as romantic, but hey, she paid for everything. :shrug: So, where did we finally escape to?

Wyoming!

...:|

...Okay, so it's only one state away, but you'd be surprised at how much of a difference that can make. I went to Yellowstone, the obligatory Everyone Must Go There Once National Park. People come from all over the world to see things like...

Overexposed Pool

This! Uh, yeah... This mysterious glowing pool of overexposure... Actually, this was just the first "thermal feature" we came across, so I decided to take a picture of it. This is probably a bit more accurate:

Yellowstone pics

Ah, boiling water getting violently spewed out of the earth! That's more like it! Of course, there's lot's of just plain pretty stuff too, like these blue pools:

Yellowstone pics

It was so cold that day that it was really hard to even see some of the other pools; there was just so much steam obscuring everything. It's easy to see why every year a few people and animals get killed by these things. They're just so warm and pretty and nice... :drool: I forget exactly which it is, but supposedly one of the pools has a bunch of bones at the bottom of it. :o Still, you'd have to be pretty stupid to accidentally fall into one of these things, as they boardwalk and rail the crap out of anything remotely dangerous. :roll: But hey, they probably just don't want lawsuits over their heads from the morons who want to jump in a geyser. Stupid stupid people and their stupidity! :shakefist:

Here's a view of the area:

Yellowstone pics

Huh, I guess I can see why some people think it might randomly explode someday, what with all the cracks and steam and seeping, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.

Here's a view of the lodge we stayed at for the night (because it was way too expensive for us to stay there any longer than that):

Yellowstone pics

I believe it is actually the largest log cabin on earth. I wouldn't doubt it, because it really is stinkin' huge when you're in it. Ah, nothing shows mankind's dominance over nature better than a five story building featuring hundreds of logs in every possible direction. Awesome! :w00t: (Oh, it's not like I just loooove wanton forest destruction, quite the opposite, but seriously, if you're going to level an entire forest, then you might as well do something really cool with it.)

Yellowstone pics

Here's looking waaaaay up high with my dingy camera. These aren't really 'floors', but counting the beams and stairs, they would make it five stories high, I believe. According to the little sign posted on the stairs, that alcove way up top is called the Crow's Nest, and was part of the building's designer's childhood dream. Back in the day, there would be an orchestra in the upper parts, and people would dance on the hardwood floor below. This of course means that they haven't let anyone up there in the last fifty years, as the structure has become unstable and is now unable to support all the fat American asses that might try to climb it. :headslap:

There was plenty of wildlife to see as well, and no shortage of ugly-but-delicious buffalo as well, who know perfectly well that they can meander down the roads and the puny humans will rush to the sides of the road to let them through while they ooh and aah and take pictures:

Yellowstone pics

Well, there were a couple baby buffalo in the pack, that might help. Daww! They're vaguely cute in that not-as-ugly-as-the-adults kind of way!

Yellowstone pics

Lot's of elk out too, but oddly enough, we only saw females:

Yellowstone pics

But being the bird-obsessed freak that I am, my favorite of the animals I snapped was the Mountain Bluebird that flew and perched really close to us, all amidst the steaming pools and geysers:



Random bird fact! :dance: Bluebirds and Bluejays don't actually have any blue pigment in their feathers whatsoever. The blue color comes from light reflecting off the unique particles on their feathers, which look plain-old brown if back-lit.

I kind of feel sorry for the park rangers sometimes. All they're trying to do is move people away from the Grizzly Bear that's wandered over, but all the tourists do (ourselves included) is go, "What? Bear? Where?? I wanna see a bear! Where's the bear!?" We were shooed off, but we did get to see it from far off. I have photographic, brutally zoomed in and enlarged evidence!



Beeeeeaaaaaar!! :sprint:

Well, I've probably bored you enough by now, so in conclusion, I present the obligatory photo of Old Faithful and us, cleverly positioned to hide the hoards of other people. :giggle:



(Oh, and you can only see our backs because I think it would be tacky to be smiling stupidly into the camera when a giant geyser is erupting behind us. That, and I don't like randomly pictures of myself on my own web page, or anywhere, really. If for some reason you MUST see beyond the internet barrier and satisfy your curiosity, you may go here.)

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Sites I love:
:bulletred:Anime Lyrics - Find out what they're singing about in all those weird anime songs.
:bulletgreen:Cosplay.com The pictures here range from amazing to absolutely terrifying. But there's lots of great costume ideas and inspiration.
:bulletblue:The Institute of Official Cheer - I have no idea how to explain this site, only that it's one of the most hilarious places I've ever been on the web, but in a very sophisticated way. James Likeks' humor isn't for everyone, but for those it matches... Hours of entertainment.
:bulletpurple:Court Records - The best site for Phoenix Wright fans. You know who you are.
:bulletred:Behind the Name - Find out quite possibly more than you wanted to know about almost any first name out there. Great for making good names for original characters.
:bulletgreen:I Can Has Cheezburger? - I can't explain. Just go.

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 19
  • Current Residence: Colorado (the SQUARE state!)
  • Interests: Writing, drawing, video games, birding
  • Favourite movie: Anime: The Slayers, Lost Universe
  • Favourite band or musician: Weiss Kreuz, Seki Toshihiko, Hayashibara Megumi, Music from Cirque du Soleil
  • Favourite genre of music: J-pop, J-rock, Techno, Anime soundtracks and BGMs
  • Favourite artist: CLAMP, Youko Matsushita, Kaori Yuki
  • Favourite poet or writer: James Lileks, Hajime Kanzaka
  • Favourite photographer: Anyone who can take good wild bird pictures.
  • Favourite style of art: Anime/Manga
  • Operating System: Mac OS X Version 10.4 XP means Xtra Puky!
  • MP3 player of choice: 1st-gen iPod. It's my BrickPod!
  • Shell of choice: Hermit crabs in little plastic football helmets
  • Wallpaper of choice: I prefer paint, myself
  • Skin of choice: Feathers
  • Favourite game: Zelda, Soul Calibur, Katamari, Phoenix Wright
  • Favourite gaming platform: Anything that's not an Xbox
  • Favourite cartoon character: Link (LoZ), Aya (WK), Watari (YnM), and my own.
  • Personal Quote: “Apparently someone ate the whole box of stupid and licked the bag, too.” - JL
  • Tools of the Trade: Wacom tablet, Manga Studio, Photoshop 7.0

Devious Comments

~Celsa:iconCelsa: May 10, 2008, 8:54:17 AM
Thank you very much for the fav :D
~heathinv:iconheathinv: Feb 21, 2008, 11:10:56 PM
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Have we met before, perchance?
You seem so familiar, yet distant. :?
~Celsa:iconCelsa: Feb 19, 2008, 10:20:29 AM
Thanks a lot for the :+fav:s :D
~riz1997:iconriz1997: Dec 16, 2007, 6:16:06 PM Mood: Joy
i love your webcam it is funny my mom and dad and 2 sisters love it and thay say that is is halareas and it is fuuny and thay love it all of it
~Celsa:iconCelsa: Dec 10, 2007, 11:06:50 AM
Thank you very much for the favs :D
~FellyChan:iconFellyChan: Dec 1, 2007, 10:04:25 PM
Bet you'll be getting quite a few of these

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK!!
Send this to at least 15 people you think are pretty sweet, including me if you care for me!

And if you get at least 10 back, you will receive good news within 15 minutes!
~Let's see how many hearts you get! =]
All the best. Please continue sending you're own love to those you care for.


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I always looked to yesterday, to the castles in the sky. When will I be able to follow them? The Song Of Truth will be my guide.
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*Dii-chan:iconDii-chan: Nov 2, 2007, 3:00:39 PM
:omfg: Wow, thank you! Heck, I even forgot this thing was here. Well, I guess if it's gonna be displayed on my page, I better have some valid points huh? :slow:

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:dance: I has a bucket! :dance:

Female hater of yaoi seeking male hater of yuri. One must exist somewhere!! :tears:
~FellyChan:iconFellyChan: Oct 16, 2007, 10:47:36 PM
:clap: You handled that very well Dii-Chan! You also brought out some very VERY valid points.

For one, it was neat how you defended what you thought and believed without trying to offend the individual asking the question, and that's always neat to see. Extremists are not all my thing either, and I found myself nodding at a lot of the things you were saying. I wouldn't mind it myself if there were, you know, those little "DA Explicit content content" block outs where they were SUPPOSE to be, but because people use yaoi and yuri as a way to get their art highly recognized, they tend not to. ^^|| It IS really annoying to be surfing the web and be slapped with that...

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I always looked to yesterday, to the castles in the sky. When will I be able to follow them? The Song Of Truth will be my guide.
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~kathysgirl589:iconkathysgirl589: Oct 11, 2007, 5:01:23 AM Mood: Love
Happy Birthday

were finally 19 how does it feel???

Does it feel like when you turned 18 or diferent
guess i'll find out next week

sorry i didn't call i was going to but i didn't get home until late so i didn't have time

Happy Birthday
(a day late)

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=ShinigamiGtc:iconShinigamiGtc: Sep 28, 2007, 8:15:18 PM
thanks for the fav:D

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*Ichigo-raven:iconIchigo-raven: Sep 18, 2007, 4:12:02 PM
Dii-channnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Yeah just thought i'd say :P

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~DreamIllusion:iconDreamIllusion: Aug 20, 2007, 2:08:22 AM
Ah, I see. Thank you for sharing.

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"That's my main issue with a lot of anti sites and rabid het fans, that they tend to act like the yaoi fans are at the gates and will soon break them down, ransack their home, carry off their women, and force them to watch Gravitation at gunpoint."
*Dii-chan:iconDii-chan: Aug 19, 2007, 4:49:19 PM
2)O.o I've never actually run across super anti-yaoi clubs like that, but I'm sure they exist. I wouldn't want to join one, though. I don't like joining clubs in general, and I wouldn't want my reputation to judged soley on the types of clubs I join. I think "anti" clubs are stupid to begin with, anyway.

3) Hell, even if I could, I wouldn't. The interent is always going to have weird nasty crap, far worse than yaoi on it, and people are free to go and revel in it if they want to. What bugs me is seeing it in places it doesn't belong. Isn't there a website called Y!Gallary thats specifically for yaoi art? That way people who want to see yaoi can easily find it and people who don't want to see yaoi can easily avoid it. But when it jumps out at me unexpectedly, it's like, "Holy crap, get that thing away from me! :fear:"

Oh, and I think anyone who puts up sexually explicit artwork should have it removed (and banned if they keep it up), no matter what gender it concerns. That's not what this website is about.

4) Sorry, I should have been clearer. What I was reffering to was the site itself, not the whole world or anything. ^^; Shounen/Shoujo-ai I can't do anything about, because it doesn't violate any DA rules. But yaoi/yuri does, which is why I'd like this site to be rid of it. I think what bugs me about yaoi/yuri so much isn't the fact that it exists, but the fact that it's so popular. Of there's going to be fetishes and stuff around, but when I can't search for anime art without half of it being slash, that really iritates me. Specifically, people taking characters that were STRAIGHT in the original story and making them gay for their own fangirl amusment. Hell, if people would just put a WARNING on their pics (which some do and I'm grateful for), it might not bother me as much. It's just getting slapped in the face with yet another picture of Sora making out with Riku makes me kind of cranky. ><

Blah... Sorry for the essay, I just don't want to send the wrong message. ^^;

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:dance: I has a bucket! :dance:

Female hater of yaoi seeking male hater of yuri. One must exist somewhere!! :tears:
~Celsa:iconCelsa: Aug 19, 2007, 10:17:45 AM
Thank you very much for the fav :D
~DreamIllusion:iconDreamIllusion: Aug 19, 2007, 9:09:46 AM
"2) Certainly nothing that extreme. ^^; I've met some fans of yaoi who are totally fine, including some friends of mine. In other words, they keep it to themselves and don't shove their fetish in other people's faces. On the other hand, I've ment plenty of yaoi fans who go out of their way to make sure and let me know what an awful, evil person I am for thinking yaoi/yuri is stupid. But one must keep in mind that the most extreme are always the loudest."

Well, I'm a (straight) shounen-ai fan, and I'm not the extremist looney that seems to have become a stereotype for BL fans.

I don't hate anti-yaoists, but I must admit that I am a bit scared of them. After all, they can easily form a cohesive, tight-knit revolutionary cabal dedicated to the destruction of yaoi/yuri (as exhibited by the "True Fans" in the conflicts in the Danny Phantom fandom[after all, yaoi is a fandom too]).

"3) A whole planet of nothing but yaoi and yuri doujinshi exploding? Sure!"

Actually, what I meant to say by "Exterminatus" is the systematic purging of all yaoi, yuri, shonen-ai and shojo-ai from the Internet, as well as its suppression under pain of getting b& (banned).

"4) Since yaoi by nature is supposted to be sexually explicit and pornographic, then yeah, I'd like to be rid of it. Keep the nasty yaoi confined to your heads, folks! Pretty please?"

Then you'd actively participate in a radical, perhaps extremist, movement to destroy yaoi/yuri/etc.? Or would you organize one yourself?

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Please respond. I want to hear your opinion on this.

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"That's my main issue with a lot of anti sites and rabid het fans, that they tend to act like the yaoi fans are at the gates and will soon break them down, ransack their home, carry off their women, and force them to watch Gravitation at gunpoint."
*Dii-chan:iconDii-chan: Aug 18, 2007, 3:35:50 PM
Heh heh, alright, here goes:

1) Shounen/shoujo-ai = not a threat. Not pleasent either, but I can deal with it.
Yaoi/yuri = threat. That stuff isn't supposed to be on dA anyway, nothing containing sexually suggestive material is.

2) Certainly nothing that extreme. ^^; I've met some fans of yaoi who are totally fine, including some friends of mine. In other words, they keep it to themselves and don't shove their fetish in other people's faces. On the other hand, I've ment plenty of yaoi fans who go out of their way to make sure and let me know what an awful, evil person I am for thinking yaoi/yuri is stupid. But one must keep in mind that the most extreme are always the loudest.

3) A whole planet of nothing but yaoi and yuri doujinshi exploding? Sure!

4) Since yaoi by nature is supposted to be sexually explicit and pornographic, then yeah, I'd like to be rid of it. Keep the nasty yaoi confined to your heads, folks! Pretty please?

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:dance: I has a bucket! :dance:

Female hater of yaoi seeking male hater of yuri. One must exist somewhere!! :tears:
~DreamIllusion:iconDreamIllusion: Aug 11, 2007, 8:10:51 AM
1.) Do you consider yaoi and yuri as threats to DA/foul heresies that should be wiped out?

2.) Do you consider yaoi/yuri lovers foul heretics worthy of a bloody death?

3.) Do you think that the fate of yaoi/yuri should be this: [link]

4.) Would you help in the destruction of yaoi if there was ever a campaign for it?

Yes, this questionnaire seems a bit odd. But hey, I'm only a curious guy, so....meh.

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"That's my main issue with a lot of anti sites and rabid het fans, that they tend to act like the yaoi fans are at the gates and will soon break them down, ransack their home, carry off their women, and force them to watch Gravitation at gunpoint."
~erynotyuki:iconerynotyuki: Jul 3, 2007, 2:16:16 PM
hi there! thanks for the :+fav:!!

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I'm part of the 2% of anime fangirls NOT into yaoi.
Go me :sarcasticclap:
*UDeeN:iconUDeeN: Jul 1, 2007, 5:18:38 PM
lovely gallery ^^

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~Caffeine-Master:iconCaffeine-Master: Jun 24, 2007, 6:42:41 PM
O___O Whoa...another girl who can't stand slash/yaoi/yuri/sex-pairings of fictitious characters in general...?

That is totally rare, but awesome.

*Is crazy over works of fiction, but only pretty much in their original, non-pervy forms...*

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~Cosmic-Gate:iconCosmic-Gate: Jun 22, 2007, 11:59:57 AM
Thanks for the fav :) will try to get some more bird pics Lol once i get the hang of my camera :D
~Celsa:iconCelsa: Jun 19, 2007, 10:49:32 AM
Thank you very much for the fav :D
*Wolf98456:iconWolf98456: Jun 14, 2007, 12:59:35 PM
Dislike, hate, same thing. The stuff does get tiring which is why I watch hentai in monthly increments.

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*Dii-chan:iconDii-chan: Jun 14, 2007, 12:42:54 PM
Well, perhaps 'dislike' would be a better word, then? :D Yaoi/yuri/hentai in general gets tiring... X_X

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:dance: I has a bucket! :dance:

Female hater of yaoi seeking male hater of yuri. One must exist somewhere!! :tears:
*Wolf98456:iconWolf98456: Jun 12, 2007, 6:13:01 PM
You're welcome. :D
Nice signature, I don't hate yuri, but I can get damn sick of it.

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Do you want me to be honest or do you want me to lie?

"You creatures ain't shit compared to what I've dealt with!" Lee

"Don't make me rip something out." Darkness