With friends like these...

Wicked Hetalia

Cast List:

Arthur Kirkland as Elphaba Thropp
Alfred Jones as Fiyero Tiggular
Francis Bonnefoy as Galinda Arduenna Upland
Natalia Arlovskaya as Nessarose Thropp
Matthew Williams as Boq
Rome as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Britannia as Melena Thropp
Germania as Frexspar Thropp
Madame Morrible as Herself
Doctor Dillamond as Himself

Therefore, pairings present will be:

US x UK
Fr - UK friendship
Fr -> US
Can -> Fr
Bel -> Can

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There will be seventeen chapters, named for each song on the soundtrack save for the reprise of Not That Girl, and I'll be drawing setting and dialogue from the songs as well as what I can remember from in between.

Nessarose was a hard one to cast, but I figure I can ease off on the crazy since Ivan isn't going to be around for Natalia to obsess over.

For lack of an Iceland display picture, I'm going to use Norway. It's close enough.

We went to my dad's on Thursday, to see a pantomime. I'm pretty sure that America doesn't have pantomimes, and I have to tell you that you are really missing out. It was absolutely hilarious. But I'm not here to write about the panto.

A final chapter to the laptop saga comes in here. On Thursday night I got a text off mum saying that someone had called about a Samsung product. It turned out to be Laskys. Dad called them for me in Heathrow on Friday morning, and I spoke to someone who finally got in touch with the system support team and worked out exactly what had gone wrong. I should have my refund by this Friday. Thank god for that.

( Large cut, with much rambling, and some photos. )

The flight here wasn't bad at all. Good legroom, great movies. I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was better than I thought it would be.

I'm currently sitting in the bathroom in my hotel room as it is 5am and this is the only place I can be without waking my sister. The hotel is beautiful. They have a stuffed polar bear in the foyer, I'll take a photo tomorrow, and three hot tubs outside. The food is delicious. We had a wild goose soup starter that was to die for. Even my sister liked it and she hates soup!

If you're wondering what I'm doing up at this time I can't sleep. I've had five hours or less every night for three days and it sucks.

Breakfast is in three hours, and hopefully I'll get some more sleep before then. We're going to one of the national parks to see geysers and things.
The bath is huge and has those water jet things in it. Also free wifi. In the hotel, not the bath.

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... I would have only been annoyed by it.

( Article via The Guardian )

Hmph. =-=

Title: The Storyteller, Part Three: The End
Author: blood_winged
Recipient: arakni666
Rating/Warnings: G
Characters: Arthur, Alfred, Matthew.
Summary: Prompt: One Thousand and One Nights - Alfred is the bored, lovesick prince, and Arthur is the storyteller.
Notes: I am a terrible person who can't keep to my own deadlines :1


( “There’s nothing left in me, I can’t keep on doing this for the rest of my life.” )

My dad came today with his presents for us, and my new laptop which actually works, thank heavens, and has a three year warranty which is awesome. It's been behaving the whole time dad had it, and it's behaving now. I called it Gilbert.

Now, on to daddygifts!

• Family Guy season 7, 8 & 9
• With the Light volumes 6 & 7
• Leather bound A5 notebook
• Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea
• Korean Gayageum Music by Byungki Hwang (CD)

=w= And that's my Christmas done. We got my dad a blue Star Trek dressing gown between us, which he seemed very pleased with, and I got him an Isaac Asimov book while Amy went the silly route and got him a 'grow your own festive sprouts' kit. xD

We went to my auntie Jo's where we had our usual Boxing Day buffet, I listened to my grandad rattle on about the proposed guided bus route for the millionth time and my nanna and I had a conversation about babies, and the having of them, and she was wonderfully supportive of my lack of a wish to have any, which was really nice. I did hold my cousin Lara for a while, because she is admittedly very cute and such a good baby, but to be honest I was more interested in tormenting my sixteen year old cousin Alex who I've always got along very well with (and playing with the cat). He's looking more and more like my uncle Ian all the time and he's finally taller than I am. Took him long enough :B

Last night, I went out with the family for dinner. I'm not much of a staying-out-drinking kind of person so I came home after we'd eaten (at about 6pm) and wrote the first chapter of my usxuk Secret Santa fic for arakni666 (and the fact that it was well received was also a nice gift). I'll be doing the second chapter today and the final one tomorrow. My sleeping patterns have been a bit off for the past few days so by 9pm I was feeling a bit meh and sitting in my room drinking Baileys. When the rest of the family got home, mother and Amy were rather squiffy, not to the point of being annoying but definitely to the point of everything they said being absolutely hilarious (two classic quotes from the night from my mother - 'Old people are beige' and 'Old people don't go on Facebook').

From not feeling terribly festive last night once I got home, I woke up in a rather good mood and got up once I heard movement downstairs. I've noticed as I've got older that my 'haul' of gifts has got smaller, but I've also noticed that I don't really mind. My Christmas has been staggered over two days for as long as I can remember - on Christmas Day we (my sister and I) get our gifts from my mum, stepdad, each other, and various relatives/friends of the family, and on Boxing Day we get our gifts from our dad and that side of the family, though they mostly stopped giving presents several years ago. :1

Anyway, on to the gifts. I took pictures of some of them, but not all, because I don't really need to take a picture in order to explain a pair of socks. Speaking of socks, I got two pairs of fluffy purple ones. I rather like fluffy socks since I don't leave the house that often and they're better for keeping my feet warm. I also got a scarf, and two jumper-cardigan-thickandwarm-type-things that I will now wear the heck out of until mum decides she hates them and buys me new ones next year in an effort to make me get rid of them. I also got a onesie. Ehehe. I will be taking that to Iceland. I have some bracelets and some fudge, and some nice smelling spray stuff that will probably last me forever because I don't really use it that often.

On to the things I took photos of.

From my sister, I got these two things. A mug shaped like a moose (the top comes off) and some hot chocolate, and a Union Jack hot water bottle cover (plus hot water bottle), which is just awesome 8D



From my friend Kitten, I got a Union Jack teacup and saucer set~ It was terribly unfortunate that one of the saucers managed to break while it was on its way but I don't much mind since I'm only actually using one of them, the rest are being kept nice and safe in the box.



Mother managed to do quite well with DVDs and such this year.



From my dear friend Ammy, I got these two lovely things, which I'm almost wary of actually taking anywhere for fear of losing them.



Lastly, iiluov got me a TY Beanie Baby, after I found it online. I had it when I was much younger, and I have no idea where or how I managed to lose it, but now I have another <3



I'll likely do another entry tomorrow when I have all my presents from my dad, as well as (finally) a new laptop that actually works, which dad has been taking care of for me.

Not planning on leaving LJ, but since so many people look to be pitching a fit over the new comment layout (which isn't actually affecting my journal as of yet) here is my Dreamwidth account. I don't really use it much except for backups which I suppose I'll take to doing more if several people decide to add me. :1

So, Kim Jong-Il is dead.

Ding dong.