absolutely everything (well almost)
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spottoLivejournal is being so retarded lately that I am contemplating moving journals. The thing is I already have a million entries here and I've attempted the export function once which equally broke similar to Livejournal. So I have two options of either putting a feed here from a different journal (no cuts unfortunately, and since I write walls-of-text I find it rather inconvenient) or getting some third-party program to post here. The site is either slow, doesn't load at all, only occasionally fetches my external CCS, and its Rich Text editing is the worst thing in the world. If I have to type everything through HTML, YOU HAVE A BAD SERVICE. It also gets horribly buggy whenever I leave my computer on longer than an hour on the posting page on a different tab, sitting in a blank state before everything returns unlike ANY OTHER WEBSITE EVER. Since I've been posting my Sims stuff over at my Sims blog (Blogger) I've found them far more user-friendly and it just annoys the hell out of me. (Blogger's drafting system is far superior and if it ever breaks it actually tells you with a red background so you stop typing into the void, save what you have and then reload the last draft! D<)
Oh yeah I lost parts of this post too...which hasn't happened a million times already, >_> Unacceptable.
HAMSTERS. I must TALK ABOUT THEM. BECAUSE they are CUTE.
So I've had my robos for about two months (two-and-a-half?) now. I've never had these before (as I've mentioned before) and when I was only a campbell's person, I would see robo pictures all the time, and everything about their general mentality and I would see them in pet stores sometimes...
I would even see people posting that they regret getting one because of its skittish, hyper nature that leaves little room for hugs and snuggles. I actually find robos a lot fitting to my lifestyle, in that they don't necessarily have to be held (and I hold/baby them away anyway, P: ) but that they are enjoyable simply by watching them...or maybe they're just horribly cute. My tolerance of crazy adorable cuteness is quite high due to repeated exposure to these hamsters. I could be on an image site like Pixiv or Danbooru and see all these disgustingly adorable images, and although a few times I've had to exclaim out loud their utter cuteness I can generally sift through them all as if they were nothing...well not nothing, but yeah.
This post though is all about what I remember when I obtained each hamster. Yeah I can remember what it was like when I obtained them all, every single one of them (except maybe Hedgehog) and I think I've mentioned my first ones a few times already.
When I was young, only about eleven and three-quarters, the only pets I have had at this point were fish and frogs. I recall my first fish died after a day (we used a jar to hold it, which I'm sure isn't what you're supposed to do :X) which cost 50 cents. We bought it from someone selling them from the back of his van on a random parking lot. (Well not random, I believe it was outside of a Dim Sum restaurant or something) and well, 50 cents! So I asked and got the pet and then it died. I suppose you get what you pay for? :\
The frogs came from an annual fair, in a marketplace that used to have this frog-pet stand. They are no longer there and it makes me sad because I've always wanted another frog. (The frogs were very tiny, the size of a thumbnail) I don't quite remember their names besides a Frank and Fred (my names were AMAZING back then) and one of them had a golden eye. I even remember losing the mealworms we were supposed to feed them and started to bawl because they would starve to death (I was very childish) which is silly considering I could go and buy some...the next day? :X
One faithful day we visited a family friend, who owned two dogs as well as a cat. (Two german shepherds and some tabby-coloured cat, it wasn't fat though) They also had two hamsters, who lived in separate places. (A bucket and a pencil holder...eventually they bought a cage but I'm sure any sane-hamster owner at that time would have screamed) The reason? The two fought and they had to be separated. (Gee I wonder why they fought inside a dinky tiny little bucket!) Anyway they were willing to give me the fatter one because the thinner-cooler looking hamster was the son's favourite, so I got the fatter one. (I didn't realize how bad the fighting was until both hamsters were let out and somehow ran into each other. Their hamster lashed out at mine! O: I grabbed mine away)
I named my hamster, Hammy! (Actually his original name was Cyber, but I had no sense of naming back then even if Hammy is the least creative hamster name ever) And so Hammy came to live in his new home, a bucket. (I was only following what they did, none of us knew anything about hamsters) None of us even had BEDDING at this time! We just provided the poor things with some toilet paper which they proceeded to use as beds.
I however wanted two hamsters, and I have no idea why I was allowed to, but I wanted two so when we heard that the source my family friend got their hamsters with had another litter, we quickly headed over to get a playmate for Hammy. I came to know that the family we got the hamsters from were not breeders at all, and this litter was just the result of another accidental pregnancy. (I find out later they aren't particularly responsible either. A few months after I got the second hamster I was informed by my mom that all the hamsters had died. When I inquired why, she said they forgot to feed them. :\) Anyway when I picked one out and took it back to the family friend's house. We introduced the young hamster to Hammy, who was VERY interested in this hamster.
Too interested. We found out that it was female, and went to return it. (I think I have a post devoted to this female, who I named Potato or something) and then found the single male in the litter and took him. I named him Hobo (original name Hyper, again my child-self was crappy in terms of making up names...my parents wanted to name them "MAKE MONEY!" or something, lol) At this point I did have a cage (a Habitrail I believe...the space-themed one) and both hamsters lived together very peacefully. They never fought even once. Hammy was always known as lazy (but now that we know they are nocturnal/crepuscular he was probably just active at night?) and Hobo was a bit more active than he was...supposedly. My memory is quite fuzzy about it now.
Anyway after these two who I had for a good two years-and-a-half my new hamster would have to have come from a pet store. My last source of hamsters went extinct on me, and so I headed to a place called Noah's Pet Ark and saw a small tiny cage with completely hyper barely-weaned hamsters jumping all over the place. This was surprising because I'm pretty sure we came during the day (and even then the light is like always on in the mall) so it was strange that EVERY SINGLE HAMSTER was out and about being about as hyper as a crazy robo! My mom was with me at the time and picked out the hamster for me (because red is a lucky colour, so we simply MUST get red-eyed hamsters. (Hammy and Hobo were red-eyed argentes) and white was my mom's favourite colour) so we grabbed the albino who I fondly remember climbing up those bars with its tiny teeny little paws...who I was told was a boy.
Indeed, Vulcan Max, whose name is not terribly fitting for a female now, was not so a boy. Thankfully she did not come home pregnant (she was TINY at the time, man!) and I had her for a good year-and-a-half. It makes me sad I lack a proper picture of her because at this time there were no digital cameras (that we could afford anyway) and when I used our old-fashioned camera its battery died before we could get the film processed so the pictures I had saved in it disappeared :C)
I visited a different pet store for my next hamster. It was a big-chain pet store in Canada and they kept the hamsters in this tiny little tank. I think the reason I came here was because my usual store lacked the red-eyes I was restricted to, but here I was in luck! There was a single red-eyed hamster among all its black-eyed brethren sharing the tiny space in the store. For some strange reason she was full-grown while the rest of the hamsters looked young, and she was another argente similar to my first two hamsters while the rest were agoutis. Now I realize she must've either been left over from old stock and no one wanted her, or someone returned her. Toto, I called her.
And she was my only aggressive biter. It wasn't just the fingers either. She'd bite the skin of palm she would be sitting on so holding her without gloves at least, was a no-no. I previously handled Hammy, Hobo, and VM quite fine with little incident (Hammy bit me a few times) so Toto alarmed me. Sadly she didn't live very long, and I'm thinking it might have to do with her being full-grown among youngsters, her temperamental behaviour and other causes. I didn't trust big-chain pet stores anyway, so I stopped purchasing pets from that store.
I returned to Noah's Pet Ark and what luck! They had red-eyed argentes, barely weaned again, in stock. I don't remember exactly what cage or tank Hedgehog was in, but I do recall after we bought him we were waiting outside the store (we were in a mall) because my parents, or one of them at least, was browsing The Bay next door, so we sat on some couches and I recall opening the box and looking at Hedgehog. Various strangers around us commented that he was very cute, etc. Hedgehog was the only one who was complimented the moment we bought him. :)
The next hamster too came from the same store...kind of. You see I didn't know it at the time but apparently Noah's Pet Ark was closing. I wanted two hamsters however, and I actually visited a different store to purchase my next one. I went to a place called Pet Habitat in a different mall somewhat further away than Noah's Pet Ark called Pet Habitat and saw three hamsters there. A mostly white one (mottled. He had grey patches) and two completely grey ones. The white one was a male and had red-eyes, so he was a no-brainer...or I thought so. I wanted two, and apparently the grey ones were both female while the white was a male. This led to a chance of pregnancy however if I took the females so I eventually went with the white one by himself, who I named Asako.
I still wanted two though, so we travelled to Noah's Pet Ark afterwards, but I could not find their dwarf hamster display at all. I asked the clerk and they mentioned that there was one left, hidden away where he'd be hard to find for some reason, but still in the store. He was the only one left, a normal-looking Agouti who hid inside his plastic tube. I took him and called him Otter. This store closed shortly after, and Otter was likely the last dwarf hamster they sold.
I called Otter, KING OTTER, because he has been my most dominant hamster yet despite being smaller than Asako. They fought for a while, but blood was never drawn so I thought leaving them together was okay (and I did separate them temporarily). You see after Hammy and Hobo lived long, prosperous lives despite the ignorance of their owners, when I got my act together with VM, she unexpectedly died one day, which was somewhat devastating. This combined with Toto's short life and Hedgehog's (well Hedgehog lived a good life, but I still thought one-and-a-half years was far too short compared to my longer-living first hamsters, even if the lifespan of Campbells is listed as one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half) not-as-long-as-expected life, the fighting was really bothering me as a hamster owner.
Luckily they ended up tolerating each other and lived good lives, though Otter did not live quite as long unfortunately. Still a King to me!
Then came my first runt. Pet Habitat became my new store to buy from, and I went there. They had a MAGNIFICENT selection of Campbells this time, which reminded me of that time when a million tiny hyper hamsters climbed and jumped everywhere when I got VM. This time they were sleeping though, and I saw a creamy-beige coloured one (maybe mottled) that I was about the pick out. When the clerk took out the coconut hut however, I saw this tiny black creature escape from under the pile of startled hamsters and literally squealed at how cute and tiny it was. Now I got Otter despite his lack of red-eyes because I wanted two, this time I was strictly getting a black-eyed hamster...and I guess I was allowed (and probably old enough, :X) to choose for myself anyway. This hamster, a female...was eventually named Solo. (She is my only hamster in which I didn't know what to name for a bit after I got her) Solo proceeded to be the smallest campbell I've ever had.
I missed having two hamsters again though, so the next few hamsters too were bought at the same Pet Store. I saw this grey-mottled one similar to Asako expect for a lack of red eyes this time, and far more grey. He was surrounded by a bunch of younger and smaller agoutis, so I wondered if he too was the last one from the previous batch or was returned somehow. I choose him and one of the agoutis. (I noticed this grey one first because he was literally pressed up against the tank facing us, asleep while the rest of the hamsters were all together on the other side as if the grey one was a loner or something) I named him Koho and the agouti, Iggy.
Unlike both Hammy, Hobo, and Asako and Otter, Iggy and Koho, though never fought, were largely indifferent of each other. Similar to how it was like in the tank where Koho looked like a loner. They did interact, but I felt if the two were alone they could've lived on fine.
And obviously I can remember obtaining my robos the most since they are the current generation of hamsters. There were no campbells (or any other type of hamsters besides Syrians) in a different pet store that had took the spot Noah's Pet Ark previously occupied. So I went to my usual pet store and again, no Campbells (I've only seen Winter Whites like...once here. It'd be nice to get some for a change but I rarely see them for some reason) but I did see Robos.
I've seen robos on TV, in pictures, even in person when I visited pet stores on occasion, but this was my chance to actually get one! Or rather two! All the robos looked exactly the same with the same colouring (the agouti colouring) so I have no idea which hamster the clerk picked up first and put in my box. I opened my box several times during the trip home to gawk at them because they were so diminutive and horribly adorable. It took me a bit to figure out who was who too but I ended up naming them Capp and Nazzo. :D
Today if I could describe the personalities of my hamsters of before, and the ones today...I say Capp and Nazzo are my closest pair to Hammy and Hobo yet despite fighting that one time. (which I again, separated temporarily similar to Asako and Otter) So far after two incidents I appear to have a 100% success rate of re-introduction (and not one instance of an injured hamster as a result of a fight) so I must be very lucky. Nazzo is the bigger, pudgier one, who comes out more often and appears to be more active (and less skittish...yes this is the complete opposite of when I got them for some reason o_O) while Capp is somewhat more shy and reserved, but neither bite and they sleep together constantly. (This makes no sense considering who I named them after, olololol) Nazzo seems to have more stamina/is stronger because she is the most annoying on my obnoxiously loud wheel (Capp runs...stops, runs, P: ) and Nazzo appears to have "accidents" on the wheel more often, lol. (Backflip is still Capp though! :D)
Otter is my most independent hamster. (Somewhat difficult to know though, since not all of my hamsters lived in pairs and Otter and Asako came from different litters so there is a higher chance of animosity anyway but luckily it worked out :D) Or Asako was a pushover, either or. I think I've mentioned before but Hammy is my toughest hamster. He has survived two falls and a stroke (plus falling down the stairs in the ball, accidentally eating coffee candy, escaping..TWICE, and living in inadequate housing/pine bedding...it's amazing o_o) becoming my longest-living hamster. Incredible. Hobo probably wins points for being the tamest creature in existence in never biting even if I grab him out of the cage (Hammy was more cage territorial than Hobo) I also recall accidentally trapping his leg in the hamster ball-door once (D: I apologized and felt so bad afterwards, blowing at his foot which thankfully took no damage) so he probably wins in the loudest squeak department...
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So I mentioned at some point that I was drowning in ponies. After a few weeks after that small craze I can settle down and put down some honest opinions about it.
First I'd like to say that yes, it's a good show. I liked it.
But I do believe it's overhyped. Most meme-tastic things are overhyped though, so I mean. It's similar to why I'm somewhat critical of earlier Touhou incarnations (I understand why they're so popular and why people love it to bits P: ) simply because the things that MLP has...has been done before. I can forgive Touhou for this because well, the stuff in EoSD or PCB or whatever were probably fresh during their time, but as for MLP: FiM...
Let's take the character of Pinkie Pie. She's "random" and breaks the fourth wall/is potentially officially insane. I think the problem of most children's shows these days is that they have too much of the Pinkie Pie archetype. This causes the shows to have minuscule plot and animation that zooms through everything with the fastest speaking possible to fit everything in. This is especially frequent on shows with shorts. Pinkie Pie works in her little universe because she's the only character who exhibits this, but if the upcoming season they start flanderizing her or expanding her to anyone else I think the cartoon will go downhill.
Then there is Fluttershy, the pony who is as her namesake, shy, but in the finale of the first season she went mad. Now that is funny...if it happens once, the problem with usual cartoons is again the flanderization of characters so the writers will have to find other ways to make her interesting/entertaining after using up ways to express her utter shyness. These traits were showcased in episodes such as Sonic Rainboom, where she had the tiniest most insignificant cheers ever, and Green is not your Colour, where she was apparently "frustrated". I'm not sure how the writers will do in the following season to continue expressing her shyness, but if we continually see her overcoming obstacles like in Dragonshy, she'll no longer be the shy pony we see.
After all this show runs on Aesops, where people learn something (or at the very least, Twilight) at the end of each episode. That means if there's any continuation in the series at all, the ponies are becoming better ponies. Their negative flaws may begin to lighten up, and at that point certain jokes that may fit with each character could either disappear or begin being tiresome. That's why unless the writers are shown to be consistent absolute geniuses as this season appeared to be a demo of, that My Little Pony should not become a long-running series. Look at shows such as Spongebob or Fairly Odd Parents, where they had decent plots and episodes early on but became a cesspool of utter random unfunny crap rotting the brains of our children today.
I actually think the character of Rainbow Dash was done pretty well to work into the second season. I haven't seen too many plots where her less-than-nice nature is brought up and utterly whacks her in the face because of it. So she still has that flaw that can be addressed or used in various ways for the next season. And I mentioned these three ponies first because they are as far as I know the most popular ponies.
I hope we see more of slumber-party Twilight next season because that was a part of her character that didn't pop up often but when it did it was quite refreshing and perhaps gives her hidden depths (if I am actually using that term properly) and Rarity surprised me quite often throughout the show so I'm expecting more of the same from her. There are also characters they barely ever used such as Princess Luna who could bring brand new experiences in the second season, and of course plenty of minor characters the writers could introduce to spice things up. We only saw the zebra (Zecora was it? I forget) in two episodes, so maybe she'll show up again, etc.
My biggest worry is Apple Jack, who is one of the least popular and in my eyes hasn't really done too much for the series as a whole...yet. Most of her episodes seems to be shared with other characters because on her own she can't really pull one herself. The one exception was episode four which I forgot the name of, but since that apparent character flaw of her was addressed I'm not too sure what else they can expand on Apple Jack. She's kind of generic. (unfortunately)
Now if I mentioned the FANDOM of this series...one thing that could make Apple Jack more interesting is that toy truck she's in with the cardboard Twilight cut-out in the back. It has a whole potential of amusing and would make that toy somewhat more valid anyway. I can't think of a proper plot to go with it but if the writers figure something out I would love the hell out of the episode. (I say fandom because I've seen a few comics with the thing in it, hahaha)
Oh and the songs. I do like the songs too! But they arent' as catchy as the millions of fans seem to make them. I like a few of them, especially Pinkie's first song about fear and the Gala one in the last episode, also Winter Wrap Up, but not all of them are terribly catchy and certainly not something I'd put on my mp3 player. (Except maybe 8-bit Winter Wrap Up. AGH IT'S STUCK IN My heeeeadddddd winter wrap up winter wrap up! 'cause tomorrow spring is here~~~!)
But hey, great voice acting, great animation, and compared to anything else available it's a godsend. I suppose the hype makes sense. P:
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CHIREI DE IS OVER.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
This little blurb is my tribute..or sorts, to Chirei De. Truly the greatest doujin I've ever read. For six months (or in other words, my entire time within this Touhou fandom) I had been following this adorable and somewhat deep prequel to Chireiden that made my day whenever I saw that Karaagetarou had updated. The ending was not what I expected (I hoped they would include Utsuho's path to becoming mad with power) but for all that I got it was awesome, cute, heartbreaking, but most of all heartwarming. Truly a doujin to make you feel better of yourself, and to question certain facts about life (philosophically that is) that makes you think from time to time. This doujin was responsible for making me love the cast of Subterranean Animism, be it Parsee or Yuugi or Satori or Utsuho or Koishi...
But you know, of all characters this doujin has really given me lots of respect for Orin. She was always my least favourite Chireiden character (not because I disliked her or anything) but her utter loyalty throughout the entire doujin really made me smile. Those character sort things? Orin jumped up like forty spots. No character has done that. Ever. (okay maybe Nue...though for Nue I actually hated her before loving her while Orin was indifference) Also Orin has a cool name. Kaenbyou Rin! Better than Satori the satori for sure! :D
What's incredible about this doujin is that it's not one you even buy at a con and need to potentially illegally scanlate yourself like most things, and it's not a commercialized manga or a comic or anything! It was updated each day with a couple of pages on Pixiv FOR FREE and translated only mere hours after it is uploaded. The greatest doujin ever was FREE and it is still going to be sold this Comiket and people will buy it anyway because it was just that good! That's my criteria for buying albums too. Music good enough? Buy it. Manga good enough? Buy it. Game good enough? Buy it.
Just like Sims 2, which I did not pirate but bought. Negima, which I bought a few volumes of. My Little Pony even, the creators do not care about copyright (so the episodes on Youtube will never be taken off) Truly the best things in life are free. League of Legends is free! I use Malwarebytes and I actually want to buy the full version (and not pirate either) but money so I just stay content with the free version.
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NAME PRONUNCIATIONS!
Due to Touhou's nature of being doujin and therefore little opportunity to find out what so and so names are pronounced, I had been pronouncing certain names wrong for the longest of times. Eventually I've figured out and am almost completely sure these following ones are correct. And now that I know I get really annoyed when people mispronounce them, but oh well. (and perhaps it is hypocritical anyway...)
For EoSD I hope I don't have to mention how to pronounce names like Rumia or Meiling or Sakuya etc. Fairly straightforward. (This includes Japanese pronunciation. Sa-KOO-ya is dumb since it implies that the emphasis is on the KOO while makes sense in English does not for Japanese, but I don't really mind too much because it's such a widespread problem why bother. I mean if we laugh at Japanese people having an accent then they can laugh at our accent when speaking Japanese.)
Cirno = CHI-RU-NO
The certain way to pronounce this name is to figure out what ZUN means by this name. Apparently it's an Italian name so you're supposed to pronounce it the Italian way (Ser-no or something) but I've also heard that Cirno is just a really bad pun (Chill-no) and that CHI-RU-NO is just how the Japanese pronounce Chillno...which even if it's a horrible pun makes more sense than a random Italian name...but I suppose even if the Japanese themselves pronounce it wrong, I will pronounce it like ZUN and so CHI-RU-NO it is.
Patchouli = PA-CHOO-LI
That is the correct way to pronounce the name which everyone usually pronounces correctly (even the Western fandom) because it is the name of a perfume or something, or a smell...or a plant. I'd have to look that up, so the name is a fairly western-type name. I however being the person I am stupidly pronounce it PA-CHU-OH-LI because..well I dunno. I just instantly always said it that way...it'd be nice to pronounce it properly but I can't seem to get used to it.
Flandre = FLAN-DER
Or at least, that's why I heard in the first manzai. I personally pronounce it FLAN-DRAY because that's...I assume is how the French pronounce it, being a french name. I think. I don't know. Their names should be in katakana anyway so the pronunciation isn't a mystery? Yet why did the manzai pronounce Flandre like it did? I'm still very confused with her name.
PCB is amazingly straightforward. Every single name is easy to pronounce...(unless MARGATROID is hard to pronounce or something)
Then of course there's IN...
Keine = KAY....oh screw this.
Keine's name is an atrocity to pronunciation! This is by far the hardest name I have never had in terms of saying it out loud. It is not Keine as in KEEN even though I said that forever (mostly because there is a teacher in PPG named Ms. Keane) and I don't even know if it's KAY-NUH or KAY-I-NAY or KAY-NAY or whatever. And why is her last name so long WTF KEINE WHAT WROng with youabfdkjfnssgf
Tewi = TAY
As in like...TEI or something. The WI in Japanese is an archaic symbol not used in the alphabet anymore...though I don't know what makes it silent ...I imagine her name is like this to illustrate the point that she is over a thousand years old, so she was named during those ancient times.
Udongein = OOH-DONG-GEEN
I think. >_>
Eirin = AY-RIN
I pronounce this wrong. I don't pronounce it AARON or whatever like some people do, but I for some reason pronounce it EH (as in like MEH) RIN...and I have no clue (as in I completely forgot from my basic Japanese lessons of the high schools) if the E in Japanese is pronounce AY or EH anymore... (OR MAYBE I say EH because there is an I there! EI = EH while just E = AY!? I DON'T KNOW)
Mokou = MO-KO
...you're probably wondering why this is here. It's probably the easiest name to pronounce ever. Well you see I butchered the name pronounciation despite its apparently easiness. You see I pronounced it to rhyme with Utsuho's nickname, Okuu (so it sounded like Mo-kuu) which is absolutely retarded and I apologize. However the many PVs (okay like two) that expressed Keine going MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-TAN has fixed my utter retardedness and I have been Mokou-clean for four months! Hooray!
....DAMN YOU IMPERISHABLE NIGHT!
PoFV is fairly straightforward as well, similar to PCB. The only name I can think of that might look intimidating is Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, but that's moreso the spelling than pronounciation. Also a video firmly planted SHAMEIMARU! into my head so I have a good idea of how to say that properly, which leads us to MoF which only has one name I have a beef with.
sanae = SA-NA-AY
AY as in the AY in MAY or something because it has come to my attention people may pronounce AY like how Cartman does. (Like the letter I, AY! WHAT YOU DOING! or whatever). Now a million and one people do not pronounce Sanae's name right at all and I was in this category for some time. Her name is NOT pronounced SA-NAY as so many people seem to believe. You see a similar kind of name from my Negima days, Makie...I assumed it was MA-KI because that appeared to be what people pronounced it for a while until I realize that was actually her nickname, short for Makie (Maki) and that in the bad animes proceeded to show me as wrong when they pronounced her name MA-KEE-AY, which I believe applies to Sanae as well! I also cite the manzai for this despite it utterly confusing me with Flandre.
Chireiden is similar with only one, same with UFO.
Parsee = PAR-SEE
That MIGHT be straightforward but several people including myself always pronounced it PAR-SAY like a French name, but then I realized that really has no place because her last name is Mizuhashi and she is a Japanese youkai, despite the rather weird name. Also I've heard PAR-SEE in a lot of parts (Chirei De even implied it) so I believe that to be true.
Nue Houjuu = NOO-AY HOH-JEW
Nue is second after Keine for annoyingly hard to pronounce name. Most people for some reason call her "New" which is somewhat infuriating, but I'm not sure if I'm completely correct on this. What I think though is that NEW would insinuiate that her name is NUU rather than NUE, while just NU (short U) would sound more like the oo in food or something. It's the difference from saying OOOH and EEWWW is what I'm trying to say. And once I figured out her name was two syllables I then took a few more months to realize I mispronounced her last name too, thus why it is there. I for some reason pronounced the U as if her name was three syllables the entire time, so it's not HO-OOH-JOO, it's HO-JEW. (I said joo for a long while because...I don't know. Juu is obviously long U...)
And so I conclude that Keine, Nue, and Flandre have the stupidest names ever.
That is all.
HAMSTERS. I must TALK ABOUT THEM. BECAUSE they are CUTE.
So I've had my robos for about two months (two-and-a-half?) now. I've never had these before (as I've mentioned before) and when I was only a campbell's person, I would see robo pictures all the time, and everything about their general mentality and I would see them in pet stores sometimes...
I would even see people posting that they regret getting one because of its skittish, hyper nature that leaves little room for hugs and snuggles. I actually find robos a lot fitting to my lifestyle, in that they don't necessarily have to be held (and I hold/baby them away anyway, P: ) but that they are enjoyable simply by watching them...or maybe they're just horribly cute. My tolerance of crazy adorable cuteness is quite high due to repeated exposure to these hamsters. I could be on an image site like Pixiv or Danbooru and see all these disgustingly adorable images, and although a few times I've had to exclaim out loud their utter cuteness I can generally sift through them all as if they were nothing...well not nothing, but yeah.
This post though is all about what I remember when I obtained each hamster. Yeah I can remember what it was like when I obtained them all, every single one of them (except maybe Hedgehog) and I think I've mentioned my first ones a few times already.
When I was young, only about eleven and three-quarters, the only pets I have had at this point were fish and frogs. I recall my first fish died after a day (we used a jar to hold it, which I'm sure isn't what you're supposed to do :X) which cost 50 cents. We bought it from someone selling them from the back of his van on a random parking lot. (Well not random, I believe it was outside of a Dim Sum restaurant or something) and well, 50 cents! So I asked and got the pet and then it died. I suppose you get what you pay for? :\
The frogs came from an annual fair, in a marketplace that used to have this frog-pet stand. They are no longer there and it makes me sad because I've always wanted another frog. (The frogs were very tiny, the size of a thumbnail) I don't quite remember their names besides a Frank and Fred (my names were AMAZING back then) and one of them had a golden eye. I even remember losing the mealworms we were supposed to feed them and started to bawl because they would starve to death (I was very childish) which is silly considering I could go and buy some...the next day? :X
One faithful day we visited a family friend, who owned two dogs as well as a cat. (Two german shepherds and some tabby-coloured cat, it wasn't fat though) They also had two hamsters, who lived in separate places. (A bucket and a pencil holder...eventually they bought a cage but I'm sure any sane-hamster owner at that time would have screamed) The reason? The two fought and they had to be separated. (Gee I wonder why they fought inside a dinky tiny little bucket!) Anyway they were willing to give me the fatter one because the thinner-cooler looking hamster was the son's favourite, so I got the fatter one. (I didn't realize how bad the fighting was until both hamsters were let out and somehow ran into each other. Their hamster lashed out at mine! O: I grabbed mine away)
I named my hamster, Hammy! (Actually his original name was Cyber, but I had no sense of naming back then even if Hammy is the least creative hamster name ever) And so Hammy came to live in his new home, a bucket. (I was only following what they did, none of us knew anything about hamsters) None of us even had BEDDING at this time! We just provided the poor things with some toilet paper which they proceeded to use as beds.
I however wanted two hamsters, and I have no idea why I was allowed to, but I wanted two so when we heard that the source my family friend got their hamsters with had another litter, we quickly headed over to get a playmate for Hammy. I came to know that the family we got the hamsters from were not breeders at all, and this litter was just the result of another accidental pregnancy. (I find out later they aren't particularly responsible either. A few months after I got the second hamster I was informed by my mom that all the hamsters had died. When I inquired why, she said they forgot to feed them. :\) Anyway when I picked one out and took it back to the family friend's house. We introduced the young hamster to Hammy, who was VERY interested in this hamster.
Too interested. We found out that it was female, and went to return it. (I think I have a post devoted to this female, who I named Potato or something) and then found the single male in the litter and took him. I named him Hobo (original name Hyper, again my child-self was crappy in terms of making up names...my parents wanted to name them "MAKE MONEY!" or something, lol) At this point I did have a cage (a Habitrail I believe...the space-themed one) and both hamsters lived together very peacefully. They never fought even once. Hammy was always known as lazy (but now that we know they are nocturnal/crepuscular he was probably just active at night?) and Hobo was a bit more active than he was...supposedly. My memory is quite fuzzy about it now.
Anyway after these two who I had for a good two years-and-a-half my new hamster would have to have come from a pet store. My last source of hamsters went extinct on me, and so I headed to a place called Noah's Pet Ark and saw a small tiny cage with completely hyper barely-weaned hamsters jumping all over the place. This was surprising because I'm pretty sure we came during the day (and even then the light is like always on in the mall) so it was strange that EVERY SINGLE HAMSTER was out and about being about as hyper as a crazy robo! My mom was with me at the time and picked out the hamster for me (because red is a lucky colour, so we simply MUST get red-eyed hamsters. (Hammy and Hobo were red-eyed argentes) and white was my mom's favourite colour) so we grabbed the albino who I fondly remember climbing up those bars with its tiny teeny little paws...who I was told was a boy.
Indeed, Vulcan Max, whose name is not terribly fitting for a female now, was not so a boy. Thankfully she did not come home pregnant (she was TINY at the time, man!) and I had her for a good year-and-a-half. It makes me sad I lack a proper picture of her because at this time there were no digital cameras (that we could afford anyway) and when I used our old-fashioned camera its battery died before we could get the film processed so the pictures I had saved in it disappeared :C)
I visited a different pet store for my next hamster. It was a big-chain pet store in Canada and they kept the hamsters in this tiny little tank. I think the reason I came here was because my usual store lacked the red-eyes I was restricted to, but here I was in luck! There was a single red-eyed hamster among all its black-eyed brethren sharing the tiny space in the store. For some strange reason she was full-grown while the rest of the hamsters looked young, and she was another argente similar to my first two hamsters while the rest were agoutis. Now I realize she must've either been left over from old stock and no one wanted her, or someone returned her. Toto, I called her.
And she was my only aggressive biter. It wasn't just the fingers either. She'd bite the skin of palm she would be sitting on so holding her without gloves at least, was a no-no. I previously handled Hammy, Hobo, and VM quite fine with little incident (Hammy bit me a few times) so Toto alarmed me. Sadly she didn't live very long, and I'm thinking it might have to do with her being full-grown among youngsters, her temperamental behaviour and other causes. I didn't trust big-chain pet stores anyway, so I stopped purchasing pets from that store.
I returned to Noah's Pet Ark and what luck! They had red-eyed argentes, barely weaned again, in stock. I don't remember exactly what cage or tank Hedgehog was in, but I do recall after we bought him we were waiting outside the store (we were in a mall) because my parents, or one of them at least, was browsing The Bay next door, so we sat on some couches and I recall opening the box and looking at Hedgehog. Various strangers around us commented that he was very cute, etc. Hedgehog was the only one who was complimented the moment we bought him. :)
The next hamster too came from the same store...kind of. You see I didn't know it at the time but apparently Noah's Pet Ark was closing. I wanted two hamsters however, and I actually visited a different store to purchase my next one. I went to a place called Pet Habitat in a different mall somewhat further away than Noah's Pet Ark called Pet Habitat and saw three hamsters there. A mostly white one (mottled. He had grey patches) and two completely grey ones. The white one was a male and had red-eyes, so he was a no-brainer...or I thought so. I wanted two, and apparently the grey ones were both female while the white was a male. This led to a chance of pregnancy however if I took the females so I eventually went with the white one by himself, who I named Asako.
I still wanted two though, so we travelled to Noah's Pet Ark afterwards, but I could not find their dwarf hamster display at all. I asked the clerk and they mentioned that there was one left, hidden away where he'd be hard to find for some reason, but still in the store. He was the only one left, a normal-looking Agouti who hid inside his plastic tube. I took him and called him Otter. This store closed shortly after, and Otter was likely the last dwarf hamster they sold.
I called Otter, KING OTTER, because he has been my most dominant hamster yet despite being smaller than Asako. They fought for a while, but blood was never drawn so I thought leaving them together was okay (and I did separate them temporarily). You see after Hammy and Hobo lived long, prosperous lives despite the ignorance of their owners, when I got my act together with VM, she unexpectedly died one day, which was somewhat devastating. This combined with Toto's short life and Hedgehog's (well Hedgehog lived a good life, but I still thought one-and-a-half years was far too short compared to my longer-living first hamsters, even if the lifespan of Campbells is listed as one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half) not-as-long-as-expected life, the fighting was really bothering me as a hamster owner.
Luckily they ended up tolerating each other and lived good lives, though Otter did not live quite as long unfortunately. Still a King to me!
Then came my first runt. Pet Habitat became my new store to buy from, and I went there. They had a MAGNIFICENT selection of Campbells this time, which reminded me of that time when a million tiny hyper hamsters climbed and jumped everywhere when I got VM. This time they were sleeping though, and I saw a creamy-beige coloured one (maybe mottled) that I was about the pick out. When the clerk took out the coconut hut however, I saw this tiny black creature escape from under the pile of startled hamsters and literally squealed at how cute and tiny it was. Now I got Otter despite his lack of red-eyes because I wanted two, this time I was strictly getting a black-eyed hamster...and I guess I was allowed (and probably old enough, :X) to choose for myself anyway. This hamster, a female...was eventually named Solo. (She is my only hamster in which I didn't know what to name for a bit after I got her) Solo proceeded to be the smallest campbell I've ever had.
I missed having two hamsters again though, so the next few hamsters too were bought at the same Pet Store. I saw this grey-mottled one similar to Asako expect for a lack of red eyes this time, and far more grey. He was surrounded by a bunch of younger and smaller agoutis, so I wondered if he too was the last one from the previous batch or was returned somehow. I choose him and one of the agoutis. (I noticed this grey one first because he was literally pressed up against the tank facing us, asleep while the rest of the hamsters were all together on the other side as if the grey one was a loner or something) I named him Koho and the agouti, Iggy.
Unlike both Hammy, Hobo, and Asako and Otter, Iggy and Koho, though never fought, were largely indifferent of each other. Similar to how it was like in the tank where Koho looked like a loner. They did interact, but I felt if the two were alone they could've lived on fine.
And obviously I can remember obtaining my robos the most since they are the current generation of hamsters. There were no campbells (or any other type of hamsters besides Syrians) in a different pet store that had took the spot Noah's Pet Ark previously occupied. So I went to my usual pet store and again, no Campbells (I've only seen Winter Whites like...once here. It'd be nice to get some for a change but I rarely see them for some reason) but I did see Robos.
I've seen robos on TV, in pictures, even in person when I visited pet stores on occasion, but this was my chance to actually get one! Or rather two! All the robos looked exactly the same with the same colouring (the agouti colouring) so I have no idea which hamster the clerk picked up first and put in my box. I opened my box several times during the trip home to gawk at them because they were so diminutive and horribly adorable. It took me a bit to figure out who was who too but I ended up naming them Capp and Nazzo. :D
Today if I could describe the personalities of my hamsters of before, and the ones today...I say Capp and Nazzo are my closest pair to Hammy and Hobo yet despite fighting that one time. (which I again, separated temporarily similar to Asako and Otter) So far after two incidents I appear to have a 100% success rate of re-introduction (and not one instance of an injured hamster as a result of a fight) so I must be very lucky. Nazzo is the bigger, pudgier one, who comes out more often and appears to be more active (and less skittish...yes this is the complete opposite of when I got them for some reason o_O) while Capp is somewhat more shy and reserved, but neither bite and they sleep together constantly. (This makes no sense considering who I named them after, olololol) Nazzo seems to have more stamina/is stronger because she is the most annoying on my obnoxiously loud wheel (Capp runs...stops, runs, P: ) and Nazzo appears to have "accidents" on the wheel more often, lol. (Backflip is still Capp though! :D)
Otter is my most independent hamster. (Somewhat difficult to know though, since not all of my hamsters lived in pairs and Otter and Asako came from different litters so there is a higher chance of animosity anyway but luckily it worked out :D) Or Asako was a pushover, either or. I think I've mentioned before but Hammy is my toughest hamster. He has survived two falls and a stroke (plus falling down the stairs in the ball, accidentally eating coffee candy, escaping..TWICE, and living in inadequate housing/pine bedding...it's amazing o_o) becoming my longest-living hamster. Incredible. Hobo probably wins points for being the tamest creature in existence in never biting even if I grab him out of the cage (Hammy was more cage territorial than Hobo) I also recall accidentally trapping his leg in the hamster ball-door once (D: I apologized and felt so bad afterwards, blowing at his foot which thankfully took no damage) so he probably wins in the loudest squeak department...
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So I mentioned at some point that I was drowning in ponies. After a few weeks after that small craze I can settle down and put down some honest opinions about it.
First I'd like to say that yes, it's a good show. I liked it.
But I do believe it's overhyped. Most meme-tastic things are overhyped though, so I mean. It's similar to why I'm somewhat critical of earlier Touhou incarnations (I understand why they're so popular and why people love it to bits P: ) simply because the things that MLP has...has been done before. I can forgive Touhou for this because well, the stuff in EoSD or PCB or whatever were probably fresh during their time, but as for MLP: FiM...
Let's take the character of Pinkie Pie. She's "random" and breaks the fourth wall/is potentially officially insane. I think the problem of most children's shows these days is that they have too much of the Pinkie Pie archetype. This causes the shows to have minuscule plot and animation that zooms through everything with the fastest speaking possible to fit everything in. This is especially frequent on shows with shorts. Pinkie Pie works in her little universe because she's the only character who exhibits this, but if the upcoming season they start flanderizing her or expanding her to anyone else I think the cartoon will go downhill.
Then there is Fluttershy, the pony who is as her namesake, shy, but in the finale of the first season she went mad. Now that is funny...if it happens once, the problem with usual cartoons is again the flanderization of characters so the writers will have to find other ways to make her interesting/entertaining after using up ways to express her utter shyness. These traits were showcased in episodes such as Sonic Rainboom, where she had the tiniest most insignificant cheers ever, and Green is not your Colour, where she was apparently "frustrated". I'm not sure how the writers will do in the following season to continue expressing her shyness, but if we continually see her overcoming obstacles like in Dragonshy, she'll no longer be the shy pony we see.
After all this show runs on Aesops, where people learn something (or at the very least, Twilight) at the end of each episode. That means if there's any continuation in the series at all, the ponies are becoming better ponies. Their negative flaws may begin to lighten up, and at that point certain jokes that may fit with each character could either disappear or begin being tiresome. That's why unless the writers are shown to be consistent absolute geniuses as this season appeared to be a demo of, that My Little Pony should not become a long-running series. Look at shows such as Spongebob or Fairly Odd Parents, where they had decent plots and episodes early on but became a cesspool of utter random unfunny crap rotting the brains of our children today.
I actually think the character of Rainbow Dash was done pretty well to work into the second season. I haven't seen too many plots where her less-than-nice nature is brought up and utterly whacks her in the face because of it. So she still has that flaw that can be addressed or used in various ways for the next season. And I mentioned these three ponies first because they are as far as I know the most popular ponies.
I hope we see more of slumber-party Twilight next season because that was a part of her character that didn't pop up often but when it did it was quite refreshing and perhaps gives her hidden depths (if I am actually using that term properly) and Rarity surprised me quite often throughout the show so I'm expecting more of the same from her. There are also characters they barely ever used such as Princess Luna who could bring brand new experiences in the second season, and of course plenty of minor characters the writers could introduce to spice things up. We only saw the zebra (Zecora was it? I forget) in two episodes, so maybe she'll show up again, etc.
My biggest worry is Apple Jack, who is one of the least popular and in my eyes hasn't really done too much for the series as a whole...yet. Most of her episodes seems to be shared with other characters because on her own she can't really pull one herself. The one exception was episode four which I forgot the name of, but since that apparent character flaw of her was addressed I'm not too sure what else they can expand on Apple Jack. She's kind of generic. (unfortunately)
Now if I mentioned the FANDOM of this series...one thing that could make Apple Jack more interesting is that toy truck she's in with the cardboard Twilight cut-out in the back. It has a whole potential of amusing and would make that toy somewhat more valid anyway. I can't think of a proper plot to go with it but if the writers figure something out I would love the hell out of the episode. (I say fandom because I've seen a few comics with the thing in it, hahaha)
Oh and the songs. I do like the songs too! But they arent' as catchy as the millions of fans seem to make them. I like a few of them, especially Pinkie's first song about fear and the Gala one in the last episode, also Winter Wrap Up, but not all of them are terribly catchy and certainly not something I'd put on my mp3 player. (Except maybe 8-bit Winter Wrap Up. AGH IT'S STUCK IN My heeeeadddddd winter wrap up winter wrap up! 'cause tomorrow spring is here~~~!)
But hey, great voice acting, great animation, and compared to anything else available it's a godsend. I suppose the hype makes sense. P:
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CHIREI DE IS OVER.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
This little blurb is my tribute..or sorts, to Chirei De. Truly the greatest doujin I've ever read. For six months (or in other words, my entire time within this Touhou fandom) I had been following this adorable and somewhat deep prequel to Chireiden that made my day whenever I saw that Karaagetarou had updated. The ending was not what I expected (I hoped they would include Utsuho's path to becoming mad with power) but for all that I got it was awesome, cute, heartbreaking, but most of all heartwarming. Truly a doujin to make you feel better of yourself, and to question certain facts about life (philosophically that is) that makes you think from time to time. This doujin was responsible for making me love the cast of Subterranean Animism, be it Parsee or Yuugi or Satori or Utsuho or Koishi...
But you know, of all characters this doujin has really given me lots of respect for Orin. She was always my least favourite Chireiden character (not because I disliked her or anything) but her utter loyalty throughout the entire doujin really made me smile. Those character sort things? Orin jumped up like forty spots. No character has done that. Ever. (okay maybe Nue...though for Nue I actually hated her before loving her while Orin was indifference) Also Orin has a cool name. Kaenbyou Rin! Better than Satori the satori for sure! :D
What's incredible about this doujin is that it's not one you even buy at a con and need to potentially illegally scanlate yourself like most things, and it's not a commercialized manga or a comic or anything! It was updated each day with a couple of pages on Pixiv FOR FREE and translated only mere hours after it is uploaded. The greatest doujin ever was FREE and it is still going to be sold this Comiket and people will buy it anyway because it was just that good! That's my criteria for buying albums too. Music good enough? Buy it. Manga good enough? Buy it. Game good enough? Buy it.
Just like Sims 2, which I did not pirate but bought. Negima, which I bought a few volumes of. My Little Pony even, the creators do not care about copyright (so the episodes on Youtube will never be taken off) Truly the best things in life are free. League of Legends is free! I use Malwarebytes and I actually want to buy the full version (and not pirate either) but money so I just stay content with the free version.
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NAME PRONUNCIATIONS!
Due to Touhou's nature of being doujin and therefore little opportunity to find out what so and so names are pronounced, I had been pronouncing certain names wrong for the longest of times. Eventually I've figured out and am almost completely sure these following ones are correct. And now that I know I get really annoyed when people mispronounce them, but oh well. (and perhaps it is hypocritical anyway...)
For EoSD I hope I don't have to mention how to pronounce names like Rumia or Meiling or Sakuya etc. Fairly straightforward. (This includes Japanese pronunciation. Sa-KOO-ya is dumb since it implies that the emphasis is on the KOO while makes sense in English does not for Japanese, but I don't really mind too much because it's such a widespread problem why bother. I mean if we laugh at Japanese people having an accent then they can laugh at our accent when speaking Japanese.)
Cirno = CHI-RU-NO
The certain way to pronounce this name is to figure out what ZUN means by this name. Apparently it's an Italian name so you're supposed to pronounce it the Italian way (Ser-no or something) but I've also heard that Cirno is just a really bad pun (Chill-no) and that CHI-RU-NO is just how the Japanese pronounce Chillno...which even if it's a horrible pun makes more sense than a random Italian name...but I suppose even if the Japanese themselves pronounce it wrong, I will pronounce it like ZUN and so CHI-RU-NO it is.
Patchouli = PA-CHOO-LI
That is the correct way to pronounce the name which everyone usually pronounces correctly (even the Western fandom) because it is the name of a perfume or something, or a smell...or a plant. I'd have to look that up, so the name is a fairly western-type name. I however being the person I am stupidly pronounce it PA-CHU-OH-LI because..well I dunno. I just instantly always said it that way...it'd be nice to pronounce it properly but I can't seem to get used to it.
Flandre = FLAN-DER
Or at least, that's why I heard in the first manzai. I personally pronounce it FLAN-DRAY because that's...I assume is how the French pronounce it, being a french name. I think. I don't know. Their names should be in katakana anyway so the pronunciation isn't a mystery? Yet why did the manzai pronounce Flandre like it did? I'm still very confused with her name.
PCB is amazingly straightforward. Every single name is easy to pronounce...(unless MARGATROID is hard to pronounce or something)
Then of course there's IN...
Keine = KAY....oh screw this.
Keine's name is an atrocity to pronunciation! This is by far the hardest name I have never had in terms of saying it out loud. It is not Keine as in KEEN even though I said that forever (mostly because there is a teacher in PPG named Ms. Keane) and I don't even know if it's KAY-NUH or KAY-I-NAY or KAY-NAY or whatever. And why is her last name so long WTF KEINE WHAT WROng with youabfdkjfnssgf
Tewi = TAY
As in like...TEI or something. The WI in Japanese is an archaic symbol not used in the alphabet anymore...though I don't know what makes it silent ...I imagine her name is like this to illustrate the point that she is over a thousand years old, so she was named during those ancient times.
Udongein = OOH-DONG-GEEN
I think. >_>
Eirin = AY-RIN
I pronounce this wrong. I don't pronounce it AARON or whatever like some people do, but I for some reason pronounce it EH (as in like MEH) RIN...and I have no clue (as in I completely forgot from my basic Japanese lessons of the high schools) if the E in Japanese is pronounce AY or EH anymore... (OR MAYBE I say EH because there is an I there! EI = EH while just E = AY!? I DON'T KNOW)
Mokou = MO-KO
...you're probably wondering why this is here. It's probably the easiest name to pronounce ever. Well you see I butchered the name pronounciation despite its apparently easiness. You see I pronounced it to rhyme with Utsuho's nickname, Okuu (so it sounded like Mo-kuu) which is absolutely retarded and I apologize. However the many PVs (okay like two) that expressed Keine going MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-MOKO-TAN has fixed my utter retardedness and I have been Mokou-clean for four months! Hooray!
....DAMN YOU IMPERISHABLE NIGHT!
PoFV is fairly straightforward as well, similar to PCB. The only name I can think of that might look intimidating is Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, but that's moreso the spelling than pronounciation. Also a video firmly planted SHAMEIMARU! into my head so I have a good idea of how to say that properly, which leads us to MoF which only has one name I have a beef with.
sanae = SA-NA-AY
AY as in the AY in MAY or something because it has come to my attention people may pronounce AY like how Cartman does. (Like the letter I, AY! WHAT YOU DOING! or whatever). Now a million and one people do not pronounce Sanae's name right at all and I was in this category for some time. Her name is NOT pronounced SA-NAY as so many people seem to believe. You see a similar kind of name from my Negima days, Makie...I assumed it was MA-KI because that appeared to be what people pronounced it for a while until I realize that was actually her nickname, short for Makie (Maki) and that in the bad animes proceeded to show me as wrong when they pronounced her name MA-KEE-AY, which I believe applies to Sanae as well! I also cite the manzai for this despite it utterly confusing me with Flandre.
Chireiden is similar with only one, same with UFO.
Parsee = PAR-SEE
That MIGHT be straightforward but several people including myself always pronounced it PAR-SAY like a French name, but then I realized that really has no place because her last name is Mizuhashi and she is a Japanese youkai, despite the rather weird name. Also I've heard PAR-SEE in a lot of parts (Chirei De even implied it) so I believe that to be true.
Nue Houjuu = NOO-AY HOH-JEW
Nue is second after Keine for annoyingly hard to pronounce name. Most people for some reason call her "New" which is somewhat infuriating, but I'm not sure if I'm completely correct on this. What I think though is that NEW would insinuiate that her name is NUU rather than NUE, while just NU (short U) would sound more like the oo in food or something. It's the difference from saying OOOH and EEWWW is what I'm trying to say. And once I figured out her name was two syllables I then took a few more months to realize I mispronounced her last name too, thus why it is there. I for some reason pronounced the U as if her name was three syllables the entire time, so it's not HO-OOH-JOO, it's HO-JEW. (I said joo for a long while because...I don't know. Juu is obviously long U...)
And so I conclude that Keine, Nue, and Flandre have the stupidest names ever.
That is all.
