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Cakuni

Crazy Mashou fangirl.
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My fansite Soul of the Seasons turns 18 years old today. I try to imagine back to the beginning when I was in college and first started the website, under a different name, on Geocities. I think it moved to a different Geocities 'area' before moving to Roninweb, then my first domain cakuni.com and finally it's own domain name.

My first ever image from the series was made possible by a digital camera. This was mid 90s so they were bulky back then and expensive. I remember the square memory card you had to use. And you had to put that in a card reader on your PC or connect a cord from the camera to the PC to access the pictures. So yup I froze screenshots on my VHS tape and then used the camera to get a digital copy to upload. Mostly if I wanted images back then, it had to be artwork that I scanned up on one of the few scanners my college had. (In a special small computer lab no less.)

I kind of miss the days back then. I would chat on IRC with other fans. I would print out fanficiton to read. (Because I got eye strain from reading from the monitor for too long.) Once I got real lucky and met a Ronin Warriors fan in person who was also at the time running a fansite for the series. These days, alas, the fandom has shrunk drastically and it's left me feeling very lonely. I miss all the online friends I had to chat with back then. I wish I knew what to do to engage what fans are left, to try to return some of that old spark I miss so much. Heck it would be nice just to have more people to chat with even on a weekly basis.

But I best not dwell too long down that road or I'll get depressed. And this is a day to celebrate, to be nostalgic, and remember all the years fondly.

And I decided to wear gray and black today as a subtle nod to the Dark Warlords/Mashou. (That's the colors of their armor symbols.)

-Christine

P.S. Does this mean at year 20 I finally get a shakujo? (Please don't say I have to wait for my 25th year. :/)

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My fansite Soul of the Seasons is moving to a new URL. I finally got it its own domain name. I think I'm pretty much there in getting stuff up and moved. I just need to double-check each page at this point. I'll be making official announcements elsewhere soon. After that I'll be removing the stuff from the old URL and forwarding people over. (Basically both sites are taking up the same hosting server space, so I'm running out of room with the duplication going on right now.)

The new URL is www.souloftheseasons.com.

Basically what made this all happen was switching from using Dreamweaver to Wordpress to edit my fansite. It seemed easier to manage this if I spun off my fansite onto it's own url. cakuni.com will remain for my personal 'stuff'. And that too will eventually switch to Wordpress.

So yup that's what I've been working on and why I've been quiet as of late. Thought I'd let my watchers on DA know first about the big news. :)

-Christine

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Question: Should Kayura be added to Soul of the Seasons?

First off to simplify things, I’ll be using the English dub names and terms.

Now before I get to the issue, I wanted to provide people a history of my website. It started off just dedicated to Cale, Dais, and Sekhmet. At the time the information about them wasn’t a lot and was often incorrect. (I remember one saying Cale had black hair and brown eyes..) Anubis at the time had quite the following so for the moment I left him out. Well eventually as you can see I added Anubis and completed the Warlord team.

At the time I left Kayura out because:

  • She was already very popular.
  • She vehemently stressed in the TV series that she wasn’t one of the Warlords, and thus not part of the team my site was dedicated to.
  • I wasn’t a huge fan of her at the time and it would take years for her to grow on me.
Now my thoughts are going back over all of this. Kayura did get Anubis’ armor in the end, so she does technically become part of the ‘team’ so to speak. She is thus a seasonal armor bearer at the end.

Some people may like Kayura being included and some people may not. This is where you come in.

What do you think? Should I add Kayura to Soul of the Seasons?

I guess I’m wondering if people are actively seeking out info and images of Kayura online. The Ronin Warrior fan base has significantly shrunk so there may be a need for it. I personally don’t know if things have reached that point yet.

I already went ahead and made sure I could find enough information about Kayura to make an info page. The rest I need to fill out will be from re-watching her episodes to describe all her abilities, weaknesses, etc. The major work will be in finding, scanning, and adding images of her. Also eventually I’d need wallpapers of Kayura. So this would be a huge project for me.

Some people may say, “It’s your website, do what you want” and I respect that. But I honestly want to know what people think. Feel free to comment on this post, or send me a note if you want to keep it private.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and many thanks to all who comment. I will take all of your thoughts into consideration as I mull this over.

-Christine

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I hit some sort of inspirational roll yesterday. Wallpapers section was worked on and now 1920 x 1080 sized wallpapers are available. I also added 3 new ones. I've made a mental note to look around for Rajura/Dais images that would be great to make into a wallpaper. Some updates to the info pages. Found 2 additional voice actors for Cale, and 1 for Dais. Rearranged info just a tad.

I made a tumblr for Soul of the Seasons. I kinda went on a roll with that as well recently. Basically I was looking for images on my old hard drives and found some I could post there.

Right now I'm feeling a little spent by all that pep.

I've been dealing with inflamed ear drums, so I may rest and try to take care of that today. (I'm on antibiotics. Bleh. So of course I'm take probiotics in between doses. Sighs.)

Hope everyone enjoys the updates!

-Christine

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I am getting all four wisdom teeth removed tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:20 am eastern time.

I had to start the antibiotic this morning and so far my body is not liking it. (I'm sure nerves aren't helping either.) It's making me tired, among other things.

I may blog during this time. I haven't decided yet. Depends on how I feel. (I added the link to it below.) I don't even remember if I have comments switched to approval before posting. I'd have to try to undo that as I will be too out of it to deal with that. :P

So wish me luck both during the procedure and on Friday when the dentist's pain killers kick out and I start taking Lortab. I've heard it will be hell that day. I also have to sleep in a 'reclined' position to reduce swelling. Ugh.


Update (9:51pm):

So I was told it went well.

My first adversary to face was the feeling of nausea that began on the car ride home and was at a level 10 by the time I walked in the door. That plagued me at least half of the day. See when they med me up, one of them left this awful taste I didn't like in my mouth. I had to mouth breathe for a bit because it was so bad. Well it came back and made me nauseous. Blegh.

The first thing I tried to drink was water, which in hindsight was a good idea. I still had blood in my mouth :/ Even by 1pm it was hard to swallow due to all the numbness. Anything I drank entailed holding a bowl under my chin to catch what I couldn't get down. Later I improved to a paper towel.

It was truly an odd feeling. I was dealing with the conflicting feelings of hunger and nausea for several hours after the surgery. I knew I had to get calories into me as the day dragged on. Unfortunately most of the non-dairy stuff either didn't taste too good, or was low calorie itself. (The all natural chicken broth seemed to make my nausea worse. Next I went for the miso soup I bought at Whole Foods a couple of weeks back. I was so hoping that it would be wonderful. It wasn't. Blargh.)

I didn't get anything dairy in me till between 3 & 3:20 pm. (The nausea finally subsided. I couldn't get off non-dairy until that happened.) Things started getting better, but the pain came with it. It really struck home around 6ish. I had to finally take the Lortab then, and at 8 I took two more ibuprofen. (Lortab doesn't completely do the job alone.) I was told to definitely take the Lortab by 8pm so you see how my pain came back early.

My cheeks are definitely tender to the slightest touch. (Found that out by chance. I'm not going to seek these spots out) I've never iced something so much in my life. I'm not being religious about it, timing 20 mins on and 20 off and all that. Still it's been a lot of icing down the cheeks. My husband says they look puffy and I have that foretold chipmunk look. I'm just hoping to keep the bruising down.

So anyway that's my fairly quickie update to say I'm okay.

-Christine



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