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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Ending

I’ve been forced into picking up book #7 of Harry Potter for my brother, because he is out of country when the release happens. I’m not a massive HP fan like I’ve seen some folks devolve to and I’m terribly irked by the end-of-the-world outlook of the hysteria known as THOU-MUST-NOT-SPOIL-THE-END. I don’t care much about book endings; it’s the journey that matters. Some of the fanfiction spoilers that I’ve read are pretty illogical and horrible from a literary perspective. Stories must follow a definite format to produce the maximum character development and drama without destroying the plot.

I’m sure that the fanaticism will die down in a week. My policy on spoilers is a simple comment; people need to know how to control themselves. It just might turn out to be pure fanfiction anyways, but an archive is always nice.

This is my comment: the end is at the end of this post.

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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Photoshoot

We didn’t look exactly like the characters, but it was a lot of fun. ^_^

GIRL!RIKU

Rough sketch.
This is was done for someone who was wondering about how to pull off a Girl!Riku cosplay from Kingdom Hearts II.

**gets shot**
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Me ED Dance Photo Shoot

I’ve always wanted to try the awesome dance featured in the ending sequence of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but I haven’t found anyone who would actually videotape me doing the whole thing, so I was stuck with setting the camera on auto and having it take a whole bunch of photos. The original photos were taken on Halloween day when I had my pseudo-Haruhi getup on, but the posing in some of them turned out to be too awkward, so I replaced a few later on while wearing my regular clothes.

Behold my The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Me ED dance! XDDD Complete with comparison screen shots. The photos have been heavily photoshopped with black bars, extreme contrast, and the Poster Edge filter.

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Cracking the SAT Subject Test in Japanese with Listening

It’s November… The days are getting colder in the northern hemisphere…and it’s the only time of the year when CollegeBoard offers the SAT Subject Test: Japanese with Listening. I took the test last year with limited success (740 out of 800).

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Halloween Photo Shoot (Part 2)

Halloween 2006 at my college ended with the stage lights whrrrrrrrrrrring to the ground for a midnight viewing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Between the beginning of the costume dance party and the start of the movie, plenty of odd people showed up for surprisingly good music and a game of limbo that almost did my back in.

The following are photos that I took of costumed people, some whom I recognized and some I never did.

Lulu from Final Fantasy.	Gypsy.	Miho from Megatokyo.	Trench coat ninja/terrorist.

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Halloween Photo Shoot (Part 1)

“Halloween! The day that connects the end of summer with the beginning of winter!” as Renge-sama would say. I’m sure that she temporarily forgot about the season known as autumn/fall that comes between summer and winter when she said that.

So yes, today is October 31st, the day of Halloween, the day when cosplayer can break out and still look cool, except for that guy down my hall who’s going as Sailor Moon. He has a chance at becoming as infamous as Sailor Bubba and nabbing the school costume contest prize, with some rivalry from that half-naked gladiator dude and resident Final Fantasy Lulu. Other characters on my floor include an angel, a gypsy, a goth, Jack Skellington, and Megatokyo Miho.

I am dressing up as someone nowhere near as recognizable. And I’m also going as God.
My costume consists of a Suzumiya Haruhi hair band, an actual school uniform, and shoes that appeared in a manga chapter of Hikaru no Go on Akira Toya.

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