Sailor Moon and Matcha Latte [Daily Photo #827]

I have been blessed with surprise gifts! ありがとうございます！\(^u^)/

Tea Match [Daily Photo #619]

“White dragon”

So, because I'm silly and like challenges I decided to match each tea bag from an assortment we bought recently to one of my toys. Some were easy, some…well! =D

The colours match Mako-chan's outfit.

Hydroponic Fun [Daily Photo #527]

Yet another generation of hydroponic plants is growing.

Sailor Oink [Daily Photo #368]

Serenity: “Untuva, I'm Princess Serenity and you are a Sailor Soldier.”

Princess Serenity [Daily Photo #246]

Princess of the Silver Millennium Serenity says hi.

Inktober! Arts #7-13

#7

Kat Loving from Strange Empire

#8

My TBR pile...

Sailor V [Daily Photo #117]

I've finished reading the main Sailor Moon manga series, and now I only have one volume of Sailor V left...

My May Reading: Scars, Math and Vampires

My May reading is introduced to you by Schenok!

Books:

Suzanne van Rooyen “Scardust” [South Africa, Sweden] 

Yōko Ogawa “The Housekeeper and the Professor” (博士の愛した数式) [Japan] 

武内 直子 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』 vol. 10 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol. 10) [Japan] 

Мария Людвика Крюгер “Голубая бусинка” (Maria Krüger “Karolcia”) [Poland] 

Karoliina Korhonen “Finnish Nightmares. A Different Kind of Social Guide to Finland” [Finland]

Maria Autio “Varjopuutarha” [Finland] 

Octavia E. Butler “Fledgling” [USA] 

A short story:

N.K. Jemisin “The Brides of Heaven” [USA] 

Daily Photo #59: Lilac

Sailor Jupiter likes this lilac!

Fanart: miko and Mally

I drew miko and Mally of exist†trace as Michiru and Haruka from Sailor Moon!

(I've posted a teaser earlier.)

We clearly don't have enough books

In the end of 2015 we got a few new books. I'd like to share them with you! : )

Lovely manga souvenirs from Japan!

The final volume of the improved edition of Sailor Moon.

December Reading: Wrinkles, Nuuksio and Mantas

My final reading of 2015 is introduced to you by Cute Rodent Friend!

Burne Hogarth “Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery: Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure” [USA] 

Rachel Ballon “Breathing Life into Your Characters” [USA?] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 4” [Japan] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 5” [Japan] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 6” [Japan] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 7” [Japan] 

武内 直子 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』 vol. 9 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol. 9) [Japan] 

Sayuri Ueda “The Cage of Zeus” (ゼウスの檻) [Japan] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 8” [Japan]  

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars. Vol. 9” [Japan] 

Mauri Leivo “Maa nimeltä Nuuksio” (The land called Nuuksio) [Finland] 

G. Willow Wilson “Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed” [USA]

Short stuff:

Päärynä, Sauna Owl and Japanese Souvenirs!

We have a new friend from my mother-in-law! Kiitos! ^u^

My new exist†trace fan club card

I finally got my exist†trace fan club card! ^o^

June Reading: Pride Month

Stuff I read in June:

Banana Yoshimoto “Kitchen” [Japan]

N.K. Jemisin “The Effluent Engine” [USA]

武内 直子 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』 vol. 7 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol. 7) [Japan] 

Malinda Lo “Huntress”  [USA] 

John Chu “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” [USA] 

 

All the stories I choose had LGBTQIA characters in honour of Pride Month. Unfortunately not all of them were pleasant to read...

Happy Cosmonautics Day!

Jupiters and I are wishing you lots of beautiful stars and comets and much curiosity! ;-)

Also, are you excited about the New Horizons mission to Pluto?

☆*･゜ﾟ･*(^O^)/*･゜ﾟ･*☆

exist†trace trivia quiz!

Last February exist†trace's fan club Archangel Diamond organized a trivia contest for the fans of the coolest rock band ever, and I won something. :-) I'll show you my prize in a moment, first: the trivia quiz.

The questions were:

[Q1: Jyou] How is "Jyou" written in Japanese? 1) ジョウ  2) ヅョウ  3) ゾョウ

[Q2: miko] Which exist†trace music video ends with the band playing in a field of grass?

[Q3: Omi] Which animal does Omi want the most for a pet? 1) Cat  2) Axolotl  3) Tropical fish

[Q4: Naoto] How many piercing holes does Naoto have? 1) 19  2) 20  3) 21

[Q5: Mally] In Mally's 2014 Twitter Halloween drawing, which member completed her Jack-o-Lantern perfectly (without witchcraft)?

Questions from Jyou, miko and Omi were easy for me (fangirl power!). But Naoto's piercings? I don't think there ever was any exact information about it, at least not in English. I tried my luck and guessed incorrectly... :'-(

Mally's question was a different kind of tricky. Luckily, I had saved her drawings in a special folder, so I just had to check it quickly. ^^

Kameron Hurley Is The Best

When your favourite writers reply to your tweets or even retweet you, it's amazing. But when they send you lots of cool goodies for free because you're a fan? It's FREAKING AWESOME.

So, a few days ago my swag arrived! It got from USA to Finland pretty fast. The Blood & Brutal Women Swag Bag from Kameron Hurley included:

- 8.5” x 11” glossy colour copy of the Mirror Empire map

- signed God's War, Infidel, and Rapture book plates

- exclusive unpublished SF body horror chapbook, "The Corpse Archive"

- eternal fan happiness

New(ish) books ^^

Last December my book shelves got a few new inhabitants, but then I forgot to tell you about them. Better later than never, right? :D *forever scatter-minded* 

First, my birthday books. Cakes are good of course, but I prefer to get booooks. ^^

Codename Sailor V was a gift from Katya to Katya. :D This is the manga where the Sailor Moon world started. At first there was only Sailor Venus, but soon Naoko Takeuchi created a new manga called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon with many more Sailor Senshi, and then the anime was made, and it conquered the world, and we all still love it because it's awesome. (^o^)/

February reading: oceans, Pluto and cute baby bats

Quite a delicious list of everything I've read in February introduced to you by the Spotted Dragon!

武内 直子 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』 vol. 5 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol. 5) [Japan] 

Wu Ming-Yi “The Man with the Compound Eyes” [Taiwan] 

Issui Ogawa “The Lord of the Sands of Time” [Japan] 

Jeff VanderMeer “Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction” [USA] 

武内 直子 『美少女戦士セーラームーン』 vol. 6 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol. 6) [Japan] 

Nnedi Okorafor “Lagoon” [USA]

Wonderbook

At first I got this book from the library, but soon I bought my own copy. Wonderbook is a cool illustrated guide for the writers of speculative fiction. Really fun quirky drawings there!