HELLO EVERYONE! THIS IS CARMEN ^v^

I want to cosplay characters with glasses... but I can´t find any I would like or any that I can actually cosplay...
I found this list but... [link]

Would you like to recommend me any characters, please? Preferibly form anime or videogames, either women or men, wathever hair color, I don´t mind. Just take my look a little into consideration , I can´t cosplay a 1,90 m tall man or a really manly guy lol...

Please use these cosplay pictures of mine as reference, they may inspire you or something lol XD



I have a little break of 5 days this week, I have tons of work but since I´ll be at home I may submit some stuff!!! Like that incomplete Hetalia pic I submitted some time ago, one of the nordics, a pic of Azai Nagamasa that I really want to show you all, and I also want to draw Diego and Amon Miguel from Vandal Hearts, yay >w<

I´ll have some photoshots, too (if it doesn´t keep raining, that is...)

-Prince of Tennis photoshot (St.Rudolph, Rikkaidai and Kisarazu Twin mainly)

-I may have my first Lacus Clyne photoshot, too

-AND, this weekend, I am definitely cosplaying as a character from a very special and lovely videogame that Sega created a long time ago... a very special photoshot for a very special person that I treasure deep in my heart.


(Hopefuly I´ll finish my Da Qiao cosplay this Xmas, too. LOL.)

Thanks for reading, see you!!!

HELLO EVERYONE! THIS IS CARMEN ^v^

********SPANISH********
[ ] You say member instead of Remember.
[ ] You speak Spanish or some.
[ ] You like tacos.
[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr.
[ ] You are dark skinned.
[ ] You know what a Puta is.
[ ] You talk fast occasionally.
[ ] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[ ] You know what platanos are.


I know this is supposed to be for the fun XD but XDDD even fun need to make sense sometimes XD I mean... at the end you have the list of the other countries too... most of those descriptions are stupid and somehow offending, ´cos if they want to make fun of stereotipes, at least USE REAL STEREOTYPES. Seriously XDDD

I am Spanish ok? Well just for those who are curious about my opinion on this meme about Spanish people...

SPANISH
[ ] You say member instead of Remember.

Ok that makes no sense at all, ´cos spanish people NEVER avoid a "r" sound ´cos it´s, like, the stronger consonant you can find in spoken spanish. For us, it would be totally unnatural. Furthermore, if you are spanish and you don´t have a clue about english, you´ll pronounce EVERY GROUP OF LETTERS in a word, never cutting them, and NEVER EVER cutting the begining of the word... what´s more, we usually avoid final sounds in words (example: "PARA" turns " PA´ " in spoken spanish), just the opposite to english people (example: "BECAUSE" which turns to "´COS")... so yeah, it´s ironic to say that spanish "say member instead of Remember" ´cos we´ll actually pronounce the "RE" part a lot stronger that the other syllables XDDD


[ ] You speak Spanish or some.

I guess that´s just a little joke too... In fact, most Spanish people are bilingual, just saying. "Castilian" is what foreign people know as "spanish", but there are several OFFICIAL LANGUAGES (yeah that it´s, they are NOT dialects) in Spain, like Catalan, Basque, Galician, Aranés... oh and you know what? we HAVE to reach a B1 level in English and French/German to access university. So yeah, it´s sad that joke about spanish people not being able to speak their own language when we, actually, learnt so many languages as kids. Also, Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations for a reason, you see.

[ ] You like tacos.

I don´t know, I´ve never tasted them... mainly ´cos tacos are from latinoamerica and you can´t buy them in Spain (which is in Europe, by the way. No, no, Spain is not attached to México... it´s in Europe)


[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr.

Have you ever seen native spanish speakers write like that in DA? I haven´t...

[ ] You are dark skinned.

I am as dark as natural milk can be. So are most of my friends... wait, some of them might be german, they have blue eyes and blonde hair!!!!! No wait, I almost forgot I was talking about EUROPE and not latinoamerica.

[ ] You know what a Puta is.

Of course, just as a native English speaker knows what a Bitch is.

[ ] You talk fast occasionally.

I talk fast in English, French and Japanese too, but that just like me... it´s not because I am Spanish, is it?

[ ] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.

Never done such a thing, neither my sister or my friends... just one of my female friends and some of my classmates...

[ ] You know what platanos are.

Uhm, yes?




WELL ANYWAY. Sorry ´bout my broken english. I know all those topics are stupid and all, but I would love more people to tell me what they think about it, too. Here you have the list...


British
[] You drink a lot of tea.
[] You know what a brolly is.
[ ] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[] You use the word "bugger"or the phrase "bloody hell."
[] Fish and Chips are yummy.
[] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[] You dislike emos almost as much as you dislike chavs.
[] Its football...not soccer.


Australian
[ ] You wear flip flops all year.
[ ] You call flipflops thongs not flip flops.
[ ] You love a backyard barbie.
[ ] You know a barbie is not a doll.
[ ] You love the beach.
[] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[ ] You're a sports fanatic.
[] You are tanned.
[ ] You're a bit of a bogan.
[ ] You have an australian something


Italian
[ ] The Sopranos is a great show.
[] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[ ] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[ ] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[] You know Italian songs.
[] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[ ] You speak some Italian.
[] You are under 5'10''
[ ] You know what a Italian horn is
[] Pizza/spaghetti is the best food in the world!
[] You talk with your hands.


Spanish
[ ] You say member instead of Remember.
[] You speak Spanish or some.
[] You like tacos.
[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr.
[ ] You are dark skinned.
[] You know what a Puta is.
[] You talk fast occasionally.
[ ] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[ ] You know what platanos are.


Russian
[ ] You say villian as: Vee-lon.
[] You get short tempered.
[] You know of somebody named Natasha.
[ ]You get cold easily.
[ ] Rain is fun for you.
[ ] You get into contests all the time.
[ ] You can easily make do with the cold weather.


Irish
[ ] You think beer is the best.
[] You have a bad temper.
[ ] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murph, O', Fitz or ends with a ley, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y.
[ ] You have blue or green eyes.
[] You like the color green.
[ ] You have been to a st. pattys day party.
[ ] You have a family member from Ireland.
[ ] You have blonde hair.
[ ] You have/had freckles.
[] Your family get togethers always include drinking and singing.


African American
[ ] You say nigga/nukka casually
[ ] You have nappy hair.
[] You like rap.
[] You know how to shoot a gun. AHAHAHAHAHAHAAA YES I DO.
[ ] You think President George Walker Bush is racist.
[] You like chicken.
[] You like watermelon.
[] You can dance.
[] You can 'sing' gospel.


Asian
[ ] You have slanty/small eyes.
[] You like rice a lot.
[] You are good at math.
[] You have played the piano.
[] You have family from asia.
[] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[ ] Most people think you're chinese.
[ ] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[ ] You go to Baulko.


German
[] You like bread.
[ ] You think German Chocolate is good.
[] You Speak some German.
[] You know what Schnitzel is.
[] You hate it when stupid people call you a Nazi.
[] You went to Pre-school.
[] You're over 5'2

Canadian
[] You like/play/played hockey.
[ ] You love beer.
[ ] You say eh.
[] You know what poutine is.
[] You speak some french.
[ ] You love Tim Horton's.
[ ] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[ ] You watch/watched degrassi.


American
[ ] You hate foreigners.
[ ] You hate non - Christians.
[ ] You're lazy.
[ ] You are not cultured.
[ ] You hate abortion.
[ ] But love the death penalty.
[ ] You don't read.
[] You shop at walmart.
[] You think this survey is rather biased.

HELLO EVERYONE! THIS IS CARMEN ^v^

"Hetalia will save the World" that something I´ve heard a lot lately. I don´t know if that would happend for real, but hell, Hetalia really is helping a lot in the process... and making History class and globalization much more interesting and funny for many, I guess? XD

Anyway, I couldn´t go myself but please take a look at [link] and [link] journals for photoshots, videos and more info ^^

World Peace would be awesome, ne-?

While I am waiting for the 2nd season of Sengoku Basara the anime, for Sengoku Barasa 3 and Sengoku Musou 3, etc etc... I finally decided to take a serious look at Hetalia... and I love it XD since lots of people is asking around what this Hetalia madness is, here you have some info and links to inform yourself and have a laugh or two lol:

-Site with scanlations of the original web comic and the new official manga [link]

-Site where you can watch the anime online [link]

-Official blog of the author [link] [link] and official blog of Hetalia [link] (this is the characters listing this far, I think [link])

-Official web for the animation of Hetalia, CD, DVD and such [link] [link]

-Wikipedia lol [link] have lots of interesting links at the bottom with critics, protests, characters listing, and more

-Hetalia Wiki [link] [link] it´s actually a good wiki, tidy and informative.

-Anime Paper with amazing official images [link] I love this one of Felisk soooo much [link]

-What TV Tropes has to say about Hetalia in general [link] and about the characters in particular [link]

-AMAZING 8D [link]

If you have any other good info and links, please send them to me ^^ I am specialy interested in official artwork right now (from Hidekazu or from the anime), I don´t seem to be able to find any XDDD

I am also interested in Hetalia latino-countries characters around DA... you have one? Send me the link to your deviation if you want! I am willing to draw some of them >w<

My journal is stupidly long as always XD well see you next time!!!

HELLO EVERYONE! THIS IS CARMEN ^v^

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain
Why the early bird gets the worm
Life isn’t always fair,

And maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

He declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home without the burglar suing you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents Truth and Trust, by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers: I Know My Rights; I Want It Now; Someone Else Is To Blame; and I’m A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

(From London Time)

took from to share with you all. Future teachers like me and other people not related to education, beware you know. ´cos Common Sense left us a loooong itme ago.

HELLO EVERYONE! THIS IS CARMEN ^v^

First of all, sorry about my english. Somehow, not so long ago I watched the somehow polemic film "Distric 9". Somehow I knew that film would cause me great anxiety and unconfort in the oversensitive mood I usually are. Somehow my chest was seethes for the whole film. And somehow I was able to resist all the cruelty and sadness of the film, and I am happy ´cos, in the end, I really loved the film. My favourite characters are Christopher and his son lol

I am not going to spoil you guys if you haven´t watched it (and if I do, I´ll make a *SPOILERS* mark XD), but I am so going talk about the film for many reasons... one of them being the fact that lately lots of people is being bitches to Spanish people just because we live in Spain, and I am an educator, artist, and human being with dignity so I am really concerned about it and so this film really attracted my attetion:

-First, I loved the theme and plot of the film. It´s a beautiful analogy of how some goverments (that you and me perflectly know) act. The movie is so full of criticism: it talks about racism, about culture, about your commons and those who you don´t see as your commons... about human stupidity in general lines and in deep, about family, bussines, love, hate, selfish and not so selfish interests... of course, many other films talk about this stuff, in similar or different ways than this film does, and I particulary liked the way this all is shown in Distric 9.

-Second, what´s with all that people saying "lol this film is talking about racism and it´s racist itself what a fail" just because SOME of the bad guys in the film are nigerians. I don´t see it like that and in my honest opinion people who say that it´s obviously looking at it in a PAINFULY SIMPLIFIED WAY. They are in Johannesburgo, of course some of the bad guys are black, they are Nigerians, what the hell did you spect to see in Johannesburgo? Russian mafia? Chinese triad? Japanese Yakuza? THEY ARE IN SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Just to inform you, the Nigerian goverment proihibited the film over there ´cos "it portrays Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals" and I don´t agree at all. As I said, in my opinion people is obviously lacking the hability to get into contex at all. The gang of nigerian and black guys who are dealers/traficans/pushers and have prostitutes and eat the aliens are NOT THE TOTALITY OF THE NIGERIANS (by the way, eating aliens it´s not really cannibalism, use a dictionary...) The people of the fastfood shop were the main character stops more than once were also black and nigerians, and they are not portrayed as criminals right? The people who
look at the sky while the motherships advances are also nigerians, right? and they look as perfectly normal people. So yeah, you are telling me that the film is racist because it shows a black nigerian warlord who is the leader of a gang of dealers and who is obviously crazy enough to eat aliens ´cos he thinks that way he would become as powerful as them... so what. Again, they are talking about that gang of nigerians who live with the aliens and not about the whole rest of the nigerian people who are portrayed as normal people. So yeah, I don´t see the point, so if you find the film racist at all, please explain me your point of view. And yes, I think that the film is an analogy of the apartheid, but I don´t think it is racist because of that, more like the opposite. There is a different between being critic and being blind. I get really mad when I see epic films like Mission Impossible 2 portraying Spain so horribly and wrong, and I am truly ashamed to even play Resident Evil 4 for the same reason. But I don´t get mad if a film talks about a group of Spanish dealers, ´COS THERE ARE DEALERS OVERHERE like everywhere else, and that doesn´t mean that me and the whole rest of the Spanish people are dealers too. Seriously.

Anyway, you can inform yourselves and state your own opinion [link] [link]

-"not logic behaviour of the characters" "there is inexistent characters development" or "insuficient depth of character" another popular rant when you don´t know what else to critic lol. I don´t agree, either. The film talks about something that happened in less than 80 hours and the characters development is just right for that time and for every situation in the film... for example, at the begining, the poor main character is obviously naive about all and while he respects the aliens a lot, he also get mad at them when the aliens acts unpolite to humans... a perflectly normal and logic reaction, I must say. After what happens to him *---SPOILER after he is infected END OF SPOILER---*, he says more than one racist comment against the aliens -also perflectly normal reaction-, but when the other humans start being bitches to him, he stop being innocent and so cheerful as he used -also logic behaviour in that situation-. Then he finds himself alone, into despair, and he starts becoming violent... and the change of circunstances make him confuse again and again... I am not going to spoil more but if that is not enough and logic character development, then excuse me but you are really pretty fussy person.

There are a whole bunch of other things I would like to talk about the film, but this journal is just long enough.

And here some critics that I don´t really agree with but just in case you can have more points of view about the film (some of them are in english, some in spanish) [link] (the second one contains spoilers) [link] search for more on your own if you are interested.

Thanks for reading and see you next time ^^