Selenere

Jos olet kiinnostunut tilaamaan korujani, katso Gallery -> Jewellery, ja lähetä tilauksesi nerokkaasti kryptattuun osoitteeseen relrla.ruppralar (miukumauku) hotmrail. com . R:t pois ja yleinen sähköpostiin kuuluva merkki (miukumaukun) tilalle, ni pitäisi tulla perille.
If you're interested in ordering some jewellery, check my gallery and it's Jewellery-folder and send a message to this crypted address: relrla.ruppralar (miukumauku) hotmrail. com . Just take the r's away and substitute (miukumauku) with the usual symbol for e-mail, and I should be able to receive your order.

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Got tagged by Itsemurhapupu . I don't want to tag anybody so I won't post the rules or my own questions or anything. I'm boring like that. Feel free to answer these same questions if you want, though.

's Questions:

1. What's the best action movie you ever have seen?
2. Does any particular smell bring you vivid memories?
3. What's your favourite form of exercise?
4. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
5. When do you feel creative?
6. What is your opinion of slash fiction?
7. How about Japanese pop culture (music, live action etc.)
8. How do you feel about spicy food?
9. Are you a morning person?
10. What's your spirit animal?

Answers:
1. I don't really watch action movies... Does X-Men - First Class qualify?
2. There are so many... The smell of this one birch-shampoo reminds me of the summer of 2004 and the house in which I have currently lived for the longest and sauna and rain. I love that smell. The smell of smoke has strong attachments to it, too.
3. Swimming, martial arts and cycling.
4. Being able to communicate with plants and make them grow at will or setting anything I want on fire. Or are these considered more as magical powers?
5. When I'm reading something or when I'm just about to fall asleep.
6. None of my business.
7. As in every country, there are great things and not-so-great things. But, the weeaboo I am, I'm better aquainted with it than almost any other country's pop culture. So two of my favourite music artists are Japanese, I love many manga and am very likely to borrow a book with a Japanese author.
8. I like spicy food.
9. As long as I wake up to light I am.
10. Maybe some sort of a fish? I have the memory of a goldfish and am floaty.

Jos olet kiinnostunut tilaamaan korujani, katso Gallery -> Jewellery, ja lähetä tilauksesi nerokkaasti kryptattuun osoitteeseen relrla.ruppralar (miukumauku) hotmrail. com . R:t pois ja yleinen sähköpostiin kuuluva merkki (miukumaukun) tilalle, ni pitäisi tulla perille.
If you're interested in ordering some jewellery, check my gallery and it's Jewellery-folder and send a message to this crypted address: relrla.ruppralar (miukumauku) hotmrail. com . Just take the r's away and substitute (miukumauku) with the usual symbol for e-mail, and I should be able to receive your order.

It's not like I have anything interesting to say otherwise. School's over for now, and work starts on wednesday. Work, schoolwork, a 5-page comic due to March, I guess, the usual christmas hustle with cards and gifts and Skyward Sword. Hopefully some sleep and time with friends, too, not to mention reading and arts & crafts for fun. Oh, and did I mention Skyward Sword?

Snow would be wonderful. Merry Christmas and stuff!

Got tagged by my cousin Strawberry-Itchiko . I wonder if this is the first time I've been tagged? *takes a look* No, the third time. Oops.

Rules:
1→You must post these rules.
2→Each tagged person must post 10 things about themselves on their journal.
3→You have to choose and tag 10 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4→Go to their pages and tell them you tagged them.
5→No tag backs.
6→No crap in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you read this." You legitimately have to tag ten people.

1. I'm very rarely fully awake.
2. I sing in public places.
3. I like lame things such as bad shoujo manga, airheaded books, some emo music, ribbons and shiny things.
4. I could never wear most of the jewellery I've made, even though I like them.
5. Even though I like cute things, being associated with cutesy stuff or being described as small or cute makes me feel weird.
6. I'm constantly thinking about what other people think of me, but that rarely stops me from saying whatever I feel like saying.
7. My natural reaction to moving things (especially fishes, birds and butterflies) would be trying to catch them.
8. I'm a member of Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliitto (The Finnish nature-protection association), Suomen sarjakuvaseura (the Finnish Comic association) and Reilukerho (This is a Finnish joke. It translates as the association for fair people, but it is used to refer to people who are being unfairly sarcastic or make snide comments or are just plain evil towards others.)
9. Most of the time I dislike being touched, but I find it hard to tell it to people nowadays. I just know that they'll imagine that I've had a tragic past or that I hate people or something.
10. If I could decide, I would naturally smell like fresh laundry, ginger or birch.

I won't force-tag anybody, but let's name some people...
BirthOfDestiny Tsufe Itsemurhapupu Laineilla scalogno Niisanchan Janski-sama Kelmimyssy

Do it if you want to.

It's over.
Lukio, I mean.
I can't say finally, because it mostly ended about two months ago, and also because I really wasn't looking forward to getting out anymore. I used to, though. When I started lukio, my only thought was getting out of there as soon as possible. But then I grew to like the school, its teachers, many of the schoolmates and studying. But, unlike when comprehensive school ended, this time I'm ready and willing to move forward, without wanting to forget but  (one can hope) not clinging onto the past.

Such big words, again. Things just feel kinda surreal. I've been working full-time at the gardening section of a supermarket since school ended, and I will (hopefully) be working until whichever school it is where I get into starts. When I started there was still plenty of snow, and now it's like there were never anything else but green and fragrant and summery things . Still it feels like everything from these past three years has been rolled into one big katamari, which, when sent to the space as a planet, became something that's super hard to make heads or tails of. Like, where did I hide my youth? (Says Selenere, 19 years old) Probably its behind my ear or sitting on my table or something obvious like that.

Regarding art and stuff... Well, I've been making cards and gathering materials for new jewellery projects, which I will probably start pretty soon. I'm still trying to put together several stories, so that one day I might write or maybe even draw them.

Congratulations to all my fellow graduating friends!

This was originally a reply for evelmiina 's journal nayruchan.deviantart.com/journ… , but it became so long that I decided that it might be better to post it as a journal. So, here goes:

Lots of people in dA have been complaining about people not caring that much about current political issues such as the problems in Middle-East and North Africa, which is sorta fair and sorta unfair. The situations are so different: Political issues are man-made, and they could have been prevented (maybe), and they are so much more complex and more difficult for normal people to have access to, and, most of all, some of those situations have actually gone on for ages and seasons.  On the contrary, nobody can prevent geographical natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, which in a way make them plenty easier to understand, comment on, worry about and maybe even help, since most of the help needed is monetary. Establishing working infrastructure and solving social issues such as inequality are so much harder than rebuilding an organized country. This doesn't mean that the harder work should be left unnoticed and undone, but I do understand how it makes people feel helpless. Also, both political and natural disasters have their share of victims, and nothing can bring the dead ones back. That shouldn't make helping with material things or political problems any less valuable, though.

Japan is a rich and well-organized country, and as such it will be much easier for it to recover from natural disaster than Haiti, for example. What is actually more distressing than the quake or the tsunami for Japan is the threat of a nuclear catastrophe, since it might make large areas of the country uninhabitable, not to mention all the radiation that will inevitably spread if worst comes to worst. The tsunami and earthquakes affected plenty of other countries in Eastern Asia and the Pacific, and I'm wondering why people aren't as well-informed about them at the moment. Is it because they've suffered much less, or because they're just not that interesting for the media? I sure hope it's about the first thing.

Well, I have to admit that this is the first large-scale catastrophe that I have followed intensely, and I believe that it is so for many people. Lots of people are being criticized because of their lack of interest in the previous and also simultaneous crises in other parts of the world, but rather than calling them hypocrites and racists and whatnot, what matters more is how they react to the future crises all over the world.  Hopefully as many people as possible will be more aware of different problem situations of the world from now on.
Personally I'm somewhat at a loss about what to do to any of these disasters, especially since the situations are not over yet and most likely nobody has even begun to calculate the effects they have and have had and will have for nature. I'm still waiting for larger disaster evaluations and hoping that there will be no more catastrophes in a long while. I would love to contribute in some other way than just ranting like this. Rather than giving money away I'd like to help in some more concrete way such as providing people with clothes, but of course money can be used much more diversely, so I haven't yet decided what to do. The Red cross seems like the best option at the moment. I know that this speculating will probably take nobody anywhere, but hopefully thoughts will lead to actions at least at some point.

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It seems to me like everything is happening at once. The last matriculation examinations for me are next week, and there has been loads of other kinds of things going on recently, as well. And then there are the aforementioned and also forever-lasting, yet unsolved world-wide problems, which make my own problems feel so small, although not less significant to me personally. So I'll keep hoping for and thinking about the world while working on my personal life. And I also hope that I'll be able to work to benefit the world, too, once my own situation has calmed down.

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