Follow Friday and everything else

Before I forget it, two items of personal information.
1.) I'll be back in Buxte-town some time this month. Hopefully we'll also be able to do a break out to Hamburg, but nothing's planned as of yet. (You have time? You want to meet up? Email me.)
2.) bf_nightingale is a gorgeous gal. You should all feed her cookies for enduring me on Wednesday nights. She makes me talk. Discuss things. It doesn't matter in which language or if we agree. (Homeless. Associations. Fanfiction. Where the heck is the Japanese H/D???)

So now we get to the existential part of this entry. ;)
You probably know by now how it works, so let's leave out the quote and get straight down on to it.

For farbenweberin and anyone else who likes those dragons there is dragon_cave_on_dw.
Another community, this time for lir, is also about dragons: dragondome.

Now, this will get a bit random now:

bravelioness has a super cute hamster, apparently thanks to haruka. Absolutely go look at it!


lokifan has written Power Plays (Harry/Draco, slightly darkfic, vampire!Draco). She has also some other fanfiction out there that might be worth looking into. (As far as I have seen mainly Harry Potter-centered)
Also, have a little Remus by theholysea.

For those of you who are interested in the whaling issue and Japan's viewpoint, this summary and comment of two books recently published on the subject proved to be quiet interesting. (Provided by my feeds, which I think I'll postpone to an entry later today.)

Thanks to the people at the Language Learner's Forum
Bao provided the link to this absolutely endearing video:

Someone else has also passed the link to the video of Asagohan: Japanese rendition of Beethoven's fifth symphony set in a restuarant.

Another video brought to my attention by la_vie_noire's entry on the Latest Things page:

Follow Friday: The Promised Feed-Post

What, you actually thought I have said all and everything there is to say and would do the second post for real? No WAY!

ajatt_feed is simply the feed to the All Japanese All The Time blog - and if you think it serves only for Japanese learners you're wrong! Whatever language you are studying, the blog talks about diverse methods for language acquisition and how to have fun all while learning.
The BBC "Spanish Phrase Of The Day" feed aka bbcpotdspanish_feed usually provides rather words than phrases, but is nevertheless a feed that makes me smile and that I do enjoy.
Another feed which is just for fun is sinfest_feed, a Sinfest comic-strip daily. You get to know the characters quite well after a short time.
bbc_news_asia_feed has everything in its name. But of course we need another source -the New York Times- for our Asian-centred news: ihtasia_feed.

thedailyyoji_feed is as well very Japan -and Japanese- centred. Many updates are about Grammar points from the JLPT 1kyû level or on idioms and their origin.

zichi_lorentz_feed is for the "Zichi's Artosphere" blog, which deals a lot with Japan, too.

The Kanji-A-Day-feeds don't properly update at the point being, but hopefully they get fixed quickly:
kanjiadaylevel1_feed
kanjiadaylevel2_feed
kanjiadaylevel3_feed
kanjiadaylevel4_feed


I will leave the fanfiction-related communities for another post, either during the week or for next Friday. I could go on talking, but there is some work to do. Life!