Current mood:	contemplative
Current music:	Hydrangea (Kaya)
Entry tags:	cosplay, hika's awesome life, school, the hard life of a ficwriter

Hika's lazy~~
It has already been a long time since I last updated, hasn't it? Honestly, I hadn't really noticed till I glanced at the lovely LJ homepage with a decent amount of concentration and read that I had last posted something here, like, two weeks ago. Yay me.
Everyday I tell myself I want to write and rant over something I just read/watched/thought, but little brother-san, here, won't let me. He's like--like a leech, when it comes to the net. But--Let's not talk about this. It only makes my head ache, so~

Uhm. Yeah. I don't know how much do you people get to know about Italian politics, but the point is, Berlusconi won, and that's a very, very, very (...) sad thing. Being eighteen and all, this was also the first time my classmates and I could vote, and some said it was a bit of a delusion to see that our contribute still changed nothing. Honestly, I didn't think the results would be these, but neither did I believe the party I'd voted for would vote--actually, I had decided not to vote at all, but then, speaking with my Philosophy teacher made me change my mind: it's always better to make a choice, even if it only means picking up the lesser between two (or more) evils, than to stay passive and let others decide for you - isn't it so?
Especially in schools like mine, politics are strongly and often discussed - may it be between teachers, or students, or teachers and students. Personally, I'm not that interested, because I'm not an idealist and I don't care enough to fight to change the world (although, I do really, really admire those who do), but I think it's truly important to discuss these things--to understand the world you live in, and how it works. To develop your own sense of criticism and become able to decide for yourself while being full conscious of what exactly are you doing, or saying. That's why I can't believe there are schools here, and even countries where studying Philosophy is not compulsory--because it's not about learning who was Kant or Hegel or Marx and memorize whatever they said. It's about learning to understand those who think differently, to reason and be rational and choose for the best, without ever letting others manipulate you.
Once I was discussing school with a dear, dear friend of mine who lives in the U.S., and I told her that, in my school, most students are active in politics, organize parades and such to protest and fight for a better society, and that they are all inclined towards ideals which are heavily influenced by Marxism and such--you know, no-globals, etc, etc. She was... well, to say perplexed is to minimize it, perhaps. And I swear I still can't understand what shocked her exactly--I expected things to be different, okay, I know that our scholastic systems are pretty different and all, but... I can't understand, really.
Ahh, as much as I hate my teacher and many, many things about Italy's concept of school, I'm still glad I'm able to study certain things in a certain context.

That said, the best thing about elections was probably that we had a five days break from school, since public schools are used as places where people go vote. I voted in my elementary school! It was a bit weird since I haven't been in there for years, and the school is, like, right in front of the apartment where I live now (my family and I moved here only a couple years ago or so~) - and right next to it there's my old middle school too! XD
Anyhow, I've used those five days to work on my cosplay accessories--Lau-chan sewed the ties and I painted the clocks on them, we also got our contacs (which actually make our eyes look really green! *cries with joy*) and our wigs cut (they're so soft~ and look so~ real! except that, when it was in the bag, my wig looked like a dead black rat, to me, and this morning too, my mother spotted the bag on the floor and got scared because she thought there was a rat inside XDDD;), and Lau-chan is now sewing the drapes we'll attach to the clocks, which we are also preparing through the almighty Art Attack method™ (wonder if anyone knows what I'm talking about)... Awww, I'm ti~red.
The outfits are almost ready, and they shall get home in six days. <333 We'll wear them for the last day of Comicon, with the contest and all, while we'll go dressed up in decora/oshare fashion for the first three days. Actually, Lau says she'd like to try something more doll-like too, and although I love lolita and such (and I'm dying to wear wa-loli clothes *ç*), after almost five years of wearing goth and elegant gothic lolita clothes (yes, I did that, and sometimes people at cons thought I was cosplaying while I wasn't), I'd love to try out something more colourful. ^^;;;

While speaking of colourful. My current (it has been exactly a year since the change occurred, now that I come to think of it O__O) style is a mix of stripes, skulls, and cute/scary things, lots of bright pink and other happy colours, tons of hairclips, ties, hoodies, skirts over trousers and shoes with pink penguins printed on. I often make accessories for myself with the wonderful clay that is fimo. So, during the elections break, I made myself a Tamagotchi-mascot earring and two necklaces. One is baby blue and soft pink, with a colourful pastry - yes - in the middle, while the other is made of glitterly black beads alternated to dices of four different colours (I shall post pictures of these soon, so that maybe you won't be scared anymore ^^;;; *knows the description sounds scary*). Yesterday, while I walked to the comic store with Lau-chan, a stupid guy walked past me and suddenly grabbed it--I whipped my head around to tell the idiot to stop, but he wouldn't. He kept pulling, and I couldn't believe it, and I even slapped his hand hard, but he still continued. Then Lau-chan did something to his elbow and he suddenly let go and ran away, and I was like: O____O;;; at the stupidity of the whole thing, but Lau was actually very upset, and so I laughed for a bit, trying to calm her down, but she was so angry...
I mean, she was right when she said no one has the right to do such a thing--there was even this friend of ours who had died some bangs violet, and suddenly got pulled by her hair by someone who was riding on a motorbike; she fell rather badly and was hurt and, damn, she was pregnant. And Lau kept saying, what if the baby got hurt back then, or I got seriously hurt by that guy? I know, I agree, but... is it really worth it to get so worked up over such stupid individuals?
Luckily, the old part of the city - where my school is and I spend most of my time when going out - is full of people who are rather okay with alternative fashions and there are so many punks, emos, etc... And I myself I don't feel strange at all when I go out--I never feel ashamed or embarrassed for my clothes or my hairstyle or anything. But it seems stupids are everywhere. *sweatdrop*

Getting to happier things, yesterday I wrote a couple ficlets for the challenge at au100, but I'm really unsure 'bout them, 'cause I've thought about many different settings, and I'm going to have more than one episode happen in each, and I'm worried that no one would understand each fic separately andandandaaaaaaaaaaannnnnd. Maybe I just need to post it here, so that my wonderful f-list will help me? *shows puppy eyes*
I've also realized that I've still got to complete the last part of Forget Me Not *facepalms*, and I've been working on a fic/entry to the Spring contest over at the KuroFay comm--never posted there, and I'm not a huge fan of the pairing, either, but I've got this idea and as long as I can write about Seishirou and Subaru... *smiles sweetly*
Moreover, I've got this scary stack of sketches which needs to be inked/coloured... GAAAH. T__________________________T I want to finish that doujin I was working on, and yet I've still got to so much to do...
And I must work on my part of the SubaruxKamui fic I'm writing with my friend! *has just remembered&thus facepalms again*

That said, folks, I must go and write something. I hope I won't forget updating again. ^___^

P.S. If you have never did it, go and listen to Placebo's A song to say goodbye--I love Placebo and I meant to say this for a very long time, but... go and listen to it!! It's like, Seishirou saying goodbye to Subaru... T________T Must write something with that song, someday, although I hate song-fics, usually...