piratejewel | (no subject)

allegory posting in

piratejewel

I've got a gigantic update today. Also be sure you check out the new layout here at

karmacoded. ♥ It features my favorite three shrines at the top~

First off a new domain layout, finally! That Persona 4 one lasted quite a while, didn't it? ...Actually, there are two new domain layouts. There's a larger, more graphics-intensive one featuring my characters from

vastlands, first off. It's very wide, so your screen is going to have to be more than 1100px wide if you want to avoid the sidescroll. But it's got lots of stuff to read through, I guess, and it's definitely more ... shiny? XD

The second layout is a one-page, simple layout featuring my beloved Kyoya Ootori. It's teeny, so any resolution should be fine. There's a bit of exclusive info on that layout, too, though, so you really should check out both if you want the full Fated.nu experience. ;DD

I also have a slew of new affiliates, so do be sure you check 'em all out, though a number of them are sadly on hiatus. ):

NEW SHRINES:
Most of my friends know about these already but I wanted to wait until the domain layout was up before plugging these, that's why I'm only now updating this journal about these. Both new shrines are pretty text-intensive and have no media. ;x

- A Crow Left of Murder: my new shrine to Rei Kashino of the psychological shoujo manga, MARS. It's very heavy and the organization is a little different than people may be used to, but I thought this would be more effective considering the character, so there you have it.

- Bones: my new shrine to Luke fon Fabre from the game (and now anime) Tales of the Abyss. Very very heavy in the essay department. I figured it was about time Luke had a proper tribute because pretty much every other Abyss character has one. ;__; I've been working on this for months, but finally finished a couple days ago.

OTHER SITE UPDATES:
- Furtivus got a huge update. I elaborated on a great number of the Queen of Vanity pages to clarify certain things or add on where I thought things weren't explained well. There was a little added to the real Arima and the Asaba and Tsubasa pages were also heavily edited because I felt that I hadn't gone into enough detail there. Upcoming: I'll be analyzing his relationship with his mother a bit more, as well as the song "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden, which is kind of important to understanding Arima and I overlooked it. D:

- Prince is going to be on an extended hiatus. :| Yuu Watase recently decided to put the series off until spring of 2010. Since there's nothing I can update the shrine with until then, well. The site will be (involuntarily) 100% static until then, unfortunately. There may be a fanbook released this summer that I can buy/scan, but we'll have to see.

- Munich was featured at

arainymonday! I added a link and the little button to the front page, accordingly. I've been in the midst of a rather large revamp for this shrine. Most of the textual content will remain unchanged except for some elaborations or revisions where necessary, but there will be a new layout and a gallery with 44 scans from the "Animation Fanbook" that came out a while back (yay for eBay). I tore my book up in order to scan it, so the scans came out really nicely. Look forward to the new and improved Munich soon! It'll be moving back to Ootori.org, where it was back in 2007-ish, so yay. :D

UPCOMING:
- I've scrapped my Naoto (Persona 4) shrine in favor of a Kanji shrine, which will be up after I complete my second playthrough of the game.

- I'll be shrining Basch from Final Fantasy XII in the very near future. Possibly Balthier as well, but let's not get too ambitious here.

- I will also be shrining Arren from the Studio Ghibli movie Tales from Earthsea. SPECIFICALLY THE MOVIE VERSION OF THE CHARACTER RIGHT NOW. I have not read the books, so I can't say whether or not I'll be using the book canon on the shrine, as well, or not. We'll see.

- I am planning a shrine to Johan Liebert from MONSTER (no thanks to Ren 8|) but it will likely not be done until the summer because it's so ... intense, haha. There's a lot of things to analyze and consider. But look forawrd to it!