Zune It

[foolish_m0rtal]

I got a Zune for Black Friday. Even though I am not a pro-Microsoft person, I'm teaming up with the enemy to get back at Apple's iPod. (never owned one and proud of it!)

And I mean, come on! 30 GB for $70? You would have to be crazy not to go for that!
*looks down at hands* I feel so filthy right now...*struggle* but all my music finally fits on my mp3 player! Despair! Anguish! Horror! Gods, that you would torment me this way!!

Zune: ^_^ *dance*


You know, NF named her laptop Potato-kun, and all Zune's apparently have to have a name. I was going to go with the Latin word for brick, but I finally named it Dea. (Short and pretty. If I ever start up techie company, I'm going to name it Dea)

But in my head, I call my Zune The Soapdish. Cause I swear, it looks like one. I wasn't going to be cruel and name it something mean because it's a brown Zune. It's been made fun of enough as it is. Besides, it looks very trendy with the background I set up. (Japanese kimono print with blue background and white fish with blood dripping from their mouths. It's so pretty!!)

Comments

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

*cakcle* My 1 Gb MP3 thing jsut died (not sure if I told you) so I'm in the market, as it were...but...I was considering a Creative, personally.
Or whatever's cheap. (I have 5 GB of music on Potato-kun and all, but, really, I'm not going to get much more, being me.)

Yay! naming anti-apple appliances! ^__^

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

A Creative is not bad, actually. A lot of my friends have those and they work pretty well.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Mm, yes. Herny used to swear by the things. (Though he swore more about Apple products and bad flash animations stealing his prize money...)

How goes the Jophiel email? You still getting through the crap I sent you? Will it work, or should I look for another person? (Or are you still not done? *cough*)

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I'm done. I'm in the process of writing my comments. I really liked when Lafayel beat the crap out of the kedoshim. If I understand your book reference with the bells on Azrael correctly, you're amazing. Way to incorporate!

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

ooh! Comments? YAY!

Book reference? O_O Uh oh. did I inadvertently do something? His literally-silver tongue is semi-stolen from something, but not his bells if I remember correctly. Perhaps I'm wrong. (I DO read a lot of books...)

I like when Lafayel beats the crap out of stuff too. He's lots of fun to write and read (yes, both) in his earlier scenes when he gets to act all snooty and servile all at once. Thoguh Araiel kind of throws a cog in his works by his whole "I will befriend! *rainbows*" kind of thing...(Araiel is firmly determined to treat him like everyone else. This generally makes Lafayel think he was dropped on his wings as a baby and went a little funny in the head. He likes him better when he gets to beat the crap out of him when they start to spar, though... Come to think of it, I think Lafayel likes it best when he gets to beat the crap out of stuff. he doesnt' get to very often. Can we say "repressed rage issues?")

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

yeah, I think we can say Lafayel has some "get a membership at the YMCA" issues...
It would do him a world of good.

OH. Okay, well Azrael IS the angel of death in Islamic religion. Also, the Abhorsen in Garth Nix's Sabriel books controls death. Like a necromancer, except the opposite. Necromancers bring the dead to life. The Abhorsen lays them to rest.
The Abhorsen has a bandolier with seven pockets, each of which holds a certain bell of varying size that gives him/her control over certain aspects of the dead. One gives the dead a voice to speak, one binds the soul to the body, one casts the Abhorsen far into the gates of death, one makes the dead walk like puppets, etc.
So I thought that bit with Azrael and the bells was spectacularly clever.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

HA! you clearly havne't been paying attention to me arguing how much Mogget's like Bakura in my journal. I know Abhorsen, though I'm not done witht he third book yet, so careful. I actually didn't connect the bells to it at all. Azrael's bells have a different reason behind them. he actually hates his job (not that you can tell) and he keeps bells to remember the time he spent on earth. (Michael was talking to a human killed by Harut and Marut, and generally hanging out, so Azrael tagged along)
Azrael basically spent his time hanigng out in the leper colonies. lepers had bells to warn people they were coming, back in those times. Azrael can change his form to wahtever he wants, so...he spent his time with the lepers.
He's rather self-conscious about his form, Azrael is...so he flet at home with the lepers in some sick way.
He took bells with him after that while Michael was angsting over the human guy dying...
Azrael keeps himself veiled because he hates showing his face. He can make it as beautiful as he likes, but he still knows what he is. He can take the form of whatever a person wants to see the most, to take the soul from the body. He does it with a kiss, though, so...it's kinda weird.

Didn't think of the Abhorsen necromancer bells... Though I did think a little snidely to myself "Huh, bell book and candle, eh?" (those are the things you use to exorcise an evil spirit, supposedly. Ghost, or otherwise...)

azrael has lots of symbolism, I just didn't pay attention to the books...though if you read "keys to the kingdom: Mister Monday" also by Garth Nix, Monday's dawn, noon, and dusk have different tongues...and you can ee a bit of a similarity between the three of them and the princes (including Rayyu.)
But only if you squint. *snicker*

Interesting call though.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Er, I mean, I'm finished with the snippet of DOOM you sent me with Lafayel and Israfel and Arael. (It's GOOD. Your OC's are so much cooler than mine)
I'm half-way through the Jophiel one.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Heh. Oh.
Araiel's the mega OC of doom. He's the first one. (He showed up "first" in Control 10, which--fancy that--still isn't out.) He's changed soooo much it's scary... Now he's kind of oblivious and overconfident and ranty all at once while still being a rulebreaker by virtue of his hanging out with Issy and not being able to talk his way out of things. Punishments among the Higher angels mean he's on crappy foods alot. Literally. (eew.) So he's big on nephil food. lafyael invites him over sometime, and he's all fainty from the smell of soup while Lafayel's all "What the heck is wrong with you, seraph?"

Er...


half way through Jophiel's not bad... Sorry I sent you so much! I hate to make it sound like I'm pressuring you or anything *nervous laugh* I'm just worried he won't be...what you're looking for...
I hate to disappoint you. Does it look like...he'd work so far?

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

ewwww!!! Poor Araiel! And I complain about MY school food!

Well...I don't know, frankly. It might confuse readers to see Jophiel as a man..oid thing in one story and a womanoid in the other. That and Gabriel meeting his lady friend and talking to her is supposed to make Kuro kind of-
Kuro: I'm not frigging jealous! He can talk to whomever he damn well wants!

...yeah.
In my story, Gabriel's lady friend is supposed to be a bit...(how shall I say this?) secure than Jophiel. I really wish I could use Jophiel because he's AMAZING, but there's this one part where Gabriel's like "Damn it, I think I like Kuro."
and his friend is like, "Your human friend? Oh, my poor Gabriel. Don't do this to yourself."
And they get into this discussion about how Gabriel likes Kuro because Kuro's really nice to him. Gabriel understands that it doesn't MEAN anything- Kuro's nice to everybody. That's just how he is. And Gabriel's just feeling this way because he's lonely and it's been a long time since someone paid attention to him, so it's quite natural that he might develop feelings for the first person who's completely wonderful to him.
But he's still angsting. And his friend is being very practical and trying to comfort him, yet agreeing that it might not be a good idea to make advances towards your nice oblivious human friend and drive him off.
You think Jophiel could pull that off? He does show surprising resiliency, sometimes. He's not a nervous wreck all the time. Yet...you think Jophiel could do it?

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

*laughs at poor Araiel's plight* He probably doesn't care anymore, but it really grosses out Lafayel when he mentions it. He's all like "I can't beleive you're not dying in front of me as we speak."

I think Jophiel could pull it off. Especially the freaking out "don't do this to yourself!" (Some erasers have interbred with humans in my fic, so it wouldn't be unheard of...it's just he'd probably recognize the whole "humans aren't big on apparent male/male" thing as a danger.) He can be very concerned when eh wants to be. You coudl keep him nervous looing even when he's trying to be comforting, and there you go. He's not INCAPABLE, he's just nervous. And you could keep him a girl for that. My eraser-gender thing is going to be screwed up enough with Araiel as it is. (Araiel's a girl too. HA!)