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I did well at the con, and have found a possible deal on hosting, so I'm inching ever-so-closer to getting a hosting plan where I can host other sites as subdomains for free as long as nobody's stupid about it. The thing that's still holding me back is the domain name of course, as it's the simplest, most unimportant thing about the whole matter. Which means it's terribly important.

In my random typing-in of vaguely fandom-related names, I found that squeenix.net isn't taken. Weird. (Squeenix being what fans call Square Enix, the FFVII company.) In past discussions, someone suggested telophaseikkou or something vaguely like that, which if shortened to teloikkou looks kinda coolly Finnish. 800mice.net has its cool points, but I'd have to get eighthundredmice.net as well and set it up to point to 800mice.net, and I'm not sure how much work it would be to set up every subdomain and have the subdomain.eighthundredmice.net point to the correct subdomain at 800mice.net.

In conclusion: bacon. ( And a poll. )

Linkblogging

Via baka_neko a maid cafe in Japan where the servers are women dressed as men.

Also ... tenpou.net is available, although not konzen.net or kenren.net...

A challenge...

...for you creative-types (fic, art, icons, interpretive dance, whatever), because I am bored interested.

Long and long ago, I found a list of 100 topics on which to draw pictures over on DeviantArt, which had been translated from Japanese. I drew 5 or 6 pictures according to the list and then forgot about it. They were good prompts, but the problem is that they pretty much all were of the emo evocative type and while that's fine sometimes, sometimes you just don't want to deal with that sort of thing. So I've made my own list. And it's much shorter, only 10. If there's an actual response to this, I may add more later.

If you choose to try the challenge, your job is to produce, at some point because there is no deadline unless you really really want one, ten (or as many as you feel like doing) works of whatever ilk - fanfic, original fic, art, icons, interpretive dance, poetry, Spam sculpture, whatever - each of which has some sort of relevance to one of the topics. Creativity in interpretation is encouraged. Feel free to mix and match: you don't need to stick to one fandom, medium, or whatever unless you want to.

And of course I can't actually take this seriously, so I made my list out of the Engrish and the comments from the Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Engrish reports.

( Telophase's VERY IMPORTANT SERIOUS list o'topics )

ETA: And if you didn't read it then, you really really need to read rushthatspeaks' report of the HK DVD set of Saiyuki. If you read it then, you really really need to read it again. Trust me.