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I SAW FIREWORKS ON SATURDAY NIGHT >:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Happy happy me. Half the fun was just wandering around (and spending an hour and 15 minutes in the food line behind an idiot). I blew upwards of $25 on the vendors that were there, and NONE of it was for anything good. Junk food and toys. The toys are particularly worth writing about because my choices are amusing.

$8: butterfly balloon. On the one hand, I am horrified by lepidoptera, but on the other hand, this doesn't flutter, it's construction is excellent and its colors are superior. It is a wonderful balloon.

$8: one pink and silver Sailormoon-ish wand, topped with a clear plastic star with spinning LEDs inside. It is blindingly obvious that it is bootleg/cheaply made/ROBIN ARE YOU ACTUALLY 10? (Yes) But it lights up, and when you press the switch in the other direction it plays this 5 second long clip of a catchy but COMPLETELY unintelligible song. On the one hand, I PAID $8 FOR THIS? On the other hand, I PAID $8 FOR THIS!!!!

$8: another pink and silver Sailormoon-ish wand.

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It's basically the same exact thing with a different clear plastic piece on top. You may call me stupid, but I am now a DOUBLE-BARRELED magical girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would have bought more light-up toys (need new henshin item and power crystal) but the fireworks were starting and I was spending my family's money. ._. ...but when I brought over the second wand, my parents didn't bat an eyelash. I lit it up for them and they were like, YAY!!!! They are so cool.

OH RIGHT THE FIREWORKS. They were nice, good variety, good color, could have been longer. The real sell was the grand finale, which was an overflow of fireworks for what seemed like the longest time. My father and I started laughing and cheering like lunatics. Seriously, it was like armageddeon. THE SKY WAS FALLING.

I was kind of tired and wimpy today, but I went to a tourist attraction called the bridge of flowers. It's an old trolley bridge that some people bought and planted flowers on. Pretty. Also sunny and hot. :(

EDIT: To people on my flist who were unsure about posting less-than-cheerful things in their journals:

ANYBODY WHO ACTS LIKE YOU SHOULDN'T IS BEING SILLY.

As I understand it, you are NOT the kind of people who are in a position to do something about their horrible lives, but don't. Nobody can help having a few problems they can't solve, everybody has to be sad sometimes, and WHAT THE FUCK IS A JOURNAL FOR? Do it! If you ever catch me complaining you can smack me!

EDIT: (00:14:24) Olive: WE ALL HAVE BRAIN SLUGS

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Those wands sound like all sorts of amazing. *w* And nothing beats a double barreled magical girl!

They are just the BEST. I love them.

I have noticed magical girls with a wands with two ends (Pixy Misa, Angel Lily. Ideal for spinning) but never a magical girl with two wands. I ARE THE FIRST.

I WANNA SEE THE WANDS.

...your icon elicited an LOL from me >:D

I seriously considered putting up pictures, but didn't. But now will. >:DDD

Also: I have a magical girl story plotted out where the girl buys a knockoff magical wand and discovers it actually does make her into a magical girl.

You should totally try a few transformation words and see if you turn into a magical girl. It'd be awesome if my story came to life. :p

HAW. I've always sort of, you know, thought that there was a .000001% chance of that happening when I bought wands. =_=

Oh, fuck, but then what would I do? I'm old...and I'd have to have an idiotic mascot (unless it was my baby harp seal plushie!!!!)...and there'd have to be NEW evil on Earth to fight...

What are you talking about, magical girl wands are the epitome of style. They're also useful in a pinch, in case overdramatic handsome men with unlikely hair colors invade Earth. You don't want to leave home without them!

It sounds super fun~

:)

XD Thank you. I have to have wands ~~because otherwise I might try to draw pictures of said overdramatic handsome men with unlikely hair colors having horny gay sex~~.

On the way out of the fireworks, my Dad said, "This is like Christmas for you, isn't it?" Of course it can never catch up in terms of material acquisitions, but the FUN YES part is right up there.

Isn't there some oldschool magical girl who had the ability to bring whatever she drew to life? ~~Aside from Relm, I mean. And there's Sakura's anime Create card. It's a valid option, but you'd have to censor it for TV and add lots of multicolored sparkles. Sort of like a transformation sequence.~~

...This is my brain on HTML. Geh.

It's funny, because that's just the kind of thing you'd expect from CLAMP (and so we get Touya x Yukito). =_= There was also a character in Rayearth 2, Asuka, who specialized in illusions. She made an amusing doodle of one of her subordinates attack the Magic Knights. (Oh, god, I can totally see her growing up to be like me and misusing that... ._.) It's not such an unusual idea in manga.

Speaking of magical girl shows, would it have just been TOO self-conscious if the Sailormoon TV series showed a fujoshi doujinshi artist having her heart crystal/dream mirror/star seed/energy/FUK I DON'T KNOW removed? I certainly wouldn't have gotten it years ago, but now...

They might have done something like that but it would have been more a straightforward artist, I think, and then afterwards everything she drew would be STORMY and EVIL. Or she'd throw out all her works and her boyfriend would cry. I dunno. Were there otaku references in Sailor Moon? If there were, I wonder if any would have survived the English dub.

I'm not that familiar with the arcs after Crystal Tokyo, anyway. ^^;

Incidentally it's funny how turning evil in this type of show is a) an artificially induced state instead of a series of moral choices b) causes the moron hero to dump our heroine for no reason instead of using her affection to steal her powers c) often requires a change in costume and d) is resolved with no lasting effects on the character's personality except for some extra angst that will cause the main couple to break up AGAIN

...Okay that was off-topic. XD;

They did an episode in the first season about two female animators working on Sailor V---and they were based off of Matsushita Hiromi and Tadano Kazuko, who IRL did a lot of important work on the Sailormoon series. And ANOTHER episode in the first season showed a shy female artist who had dreams about the Silver Millenium, and then drew them into beautiful paintings. But neither of them were anything but completely wholesome. :/

I do remember that in one chapter of Sailor V manga, Minako and a manga artist are squeeing over Kaitou Ace, and the manga artist says, "I secretly do Ace doujinshi, too! And they're yaoi [ACTUAL WORD SHE USED], of course! They always sell out!"

That's why there's so many Mary Sues falling in love with villains and making them into cuddlebunnies. =_=

*perks up*

...Kaitou?

Never you mind. He's Sailor V's Tuxedo Mask, so he doesn't really do anything Kaitou-ish. I could lend you the Sailor V manga and tell you where to get translations, if you like.