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I'm home!

So what's the first thing one does? Read the new FMA chapter because omg!

( Spoilers! )

Damn, I love this series.

*dances* I ordered the whole of the FMA anime series on Amazon after I saw how frigging low the pound is. For some weird reason, the US gets everything in two boxsets and the UK in four. I hate those regions, but anyway. I ordered and when I get back from the US, I will be able to rewatch.

I love the new FMA hype, even if the new FMA series leaves me wanting. I'm still not convinced on the art and Hulk!Cornello last week left me 'meh'. It has made me love the art of the first anime even more, however.

Also, I can't wait for the next manga chapter. It is made of win right now and omg Roy! *coughs* So much love. This manga/anime just stays so powerful.

I live! *coughs* The last few weeks have existed of me coming home and starting to play games. Bad me. So I will now try to do an lj update as I keep putting it off! It's going to be in bullet points. Only without the html thingie as I'm lazy.

1. OMG! I have not thanked you all for the congratulations on my promotion as I didn't get to reply to everyone. So thank you all!
2. Work is being both really sucky and awesome at the same time. Sometimes it makes me want to beat things up and other times it's not all too bad. Well, it's work. I don't think I'm ever going to be the type who lives for their work.
3. I had training last week which was a nice change of pace to keep me from trying to kill someone at work. Now I have managed to find my zen back. Sort of. Sometimes it's still stupid.
4. People keep leaving our team/the company and it makes me sad. I know it's not the most glamorous job, but it's not that bad! There's a lot of pastry treating going on!
5. I'm starting to worry where Arakawa is going with FMA. The last few chapters have been just weird, but at least Roy was back and I'm a hussy and easily persuaded. Still, Arakawa get back to the awesomeness omg!
6. Naruto is actually not actively sucking at the moment.
7. I have a headache.
8. I'm going to try walking home from work in the evening as my condition is downright pathetic and omg, need to lose weight. As I refuse to diet, moving around it is. Damn my laziness and anti-sport genes.
9. I fell in love with the Toshiba Satellite laptops they had on my training program and have this insane urge to get a laptop. I'm trying to convince my brain that I really don't need one.
10. After using XP for a few years now, I've always hated the XP look. It made me think I was using a toy instead of a computer. Now I have discovered some custom themes online and I'm kind of in love. I think the Vista look has slowly moved me to the dark side.
11. I'm in the process of reading The History of Love and it's a gorgeous book, but omg it's making me all sad.
12. The lj advisory board thing is making me roll my eyes. I seem to be incapable of caring, though that the owner of InsaneJournal wants an in on it inexplicably annoys me. Though probably not so inexplicable as me just not wanting to bother to think about it.
13. In my previous poll 75% thought that we are in The Age of Self-Entitlement while 25% didn't really get what I was talking about. 0% voted that we are in TASE.

I keep trying to update and I keep failing at it. So I'm just going to kick my own ass and do it instead of being avoidy.

Work is doing good. I'm well within the code complete deadline with everything, though I'm sure I'll get some bugs to fix, but then that's pretty normal. This week they announced the positions that are open internally in the company and people get to apply for it. I glanced at it, but realised that it was all way too soon so I wasn't going to apply until the manager came tapping on my shoulder and said that I should. I was told that if he tells you to, you really have to do it because chances are you will get the position. Which... zomg, too early for me to move up from junior, but then I'm not going to argue about a promotion? Just bzuh!

I downloaded Ark of Truth yesterday so I will have to find time to look at it. So weird to have canon to watch!

Yesterday was the new FMA chapter and without really spoiling anything; I want Roy back omg! We haven't seen him in ages and it feels like Armstrong is taking over the position of main military character (if there was such a thing) and I just miss my Roy omg. Give me more Roy and Riza talking code or conspiracies or... anything! Yes, I'm obsessed.

Oh and I watched Star Wars Episode III yesterday again. Oy, Anakin is a dumbass. There's a Star Wars exhibition in Brussels for a few months which I will have to go too. Wheeee!

So I made some Roy icons for my RP account and I decided to share as you can never have too many icons. I might make more later, but I'm iconed out for the day. These are all Roy icons cause I'm obsessed.

Please make sure to credit if you take.

( Icons! )

I have a thing for the repressed OTPs. I don't think I've always had this. In fact, I'm pretty sure I used to root for the couples who hated each other with a fury, constantly were in each other's hair and then somehow it all turned out to be sexual tension. Oh hell, I'm still about those OTPs, but I think it's been bumped off in favour of the repressed OTP.

( Wherein Jara rambles and loses her point and talks about Hawkeye/Mustang )

Or you know, maybe I just have a thing for Colonels. Which I'm willing to accept.

Disclaimer: not mine.
Rating: PG
Characters: Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye
Spoilers/Set: Chapter 60 of the manga
A/N: I think me writing fic for this pairing (and this fandom) means I'm doomed. Thanks to rabid_bunny for the beta.

( Unravel )

My dream tonight featured cutting up people. I either read too much Fullmetal alchemist or shouldn't have watched two eps of Bones in one evening. Let me just say that I was chopping them up in self defense.

And while we're at it, I want to ramble a bit about ( Fullmetal alchemist ).

In conclusion. I need Hawkeye and Mustang icons.

And I know I've done this already, but it's a fun meme and my fandoms and ideas keep changing so it never gets old:

Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise