Blog & Updates

icon23rd of June
News:
It's official, Tsubasa season 3 will not be made. Instead they will release an OVA (original video animation which means a special series extra), animated by the same people who did the TRC movie, in the form of three dvds...It's titled TOKYO REVELATIONS (official website) available only in Japan to people who purchase the volumes 21-23 of the manga. It will be animated by the same people who did The Princess Of The Birdcage Country TRC movie. This is good news because not only was the animation quality on the movie excellent but also fans will get some closure on Tsubasa Chronicle the animated series.

Personal
I've been away from the computer for the past two months, popping online for 10 minutes every now and then just to check there weren't major problems, etc... It's been busy and I've had to concentrate my energies elsewhere. ^_^;
My parents went away to a resthome for six weeks so I've been taking care of Joanna, the dogs and myself with the help of Samia who walked the dogs and left food for us at 9 am everyday (she's been a life saver). Then about 15 mins after my parents got home we had a phone call with bad news which has led to huge amounts of worry, phone calls and paperwork.

It's a case where there has been severe incompetance and probably rascism from the local authorities who are finding any possible bureaucratic loophole (even ridiculous ones) to reject our application for benefits or medical fee reimbursment. The list of errors is massive (losing case files, sending the wrong kind of doctor to evaluate our case...) but here's the latest of many which add insult to injury:
They have deemed that our doctor is not competant in what he does, that his treatment must be confirmed by an expert and they will not reimburse any medical fees until they have a new diagnosis from Professor P. This would involve travelling up to Paris at our own expense and staying in hospital for a week, redoing the dozens of tests that have already been done and that are already in our case files.
What this means is, that they won't pay for our chemotherapy by powerful anti-biotics (ie: our only hope of treatment goes byebye) unless we spend a lot of time, money and energy accomplishing something that has already been done (and even then it's not sure that they'll be satisfied) and that won't happen because prof P. is far to busy for this silly silly business. This request is so insane... You see we already KNOW this professor! He confirmed our diagnosis, he recommended our current local doctor and warrants for his abilities. When we phoned his secretary, it was made very obvious that his signed letter of recommendation means that he believes that our local doctor CAN make an informed diagnosis and that the autorities are insulting him by discrediting that letter, let alone asking him to give up a week re-testing already-diagnosed patients when he has real research to do.
UPDATE: we've managed to get a compromise: redoing just the blood tests, and from home!

Anyhow, we're fighting this but that doesn't leave me much energy for finishing web projects or replying to emails. I hope once this stupid issue has been resolved or at least has stopped causing us harm (I don't really expect justice any more) that I'll be able to pick up with YOU LOVELY PEOPLE and my websites again.

Much love to everyone! Have a good summer!
hugs from Saffy

icon13th of June
Button maker and Name Tag maker updated with cute new templates.
Portfolio updated with pixel work (just reorganized it really, nothing new)
Galleries update: manga images sorted by artbook and CCS Illustrations Artbook I high resolution scans.
Screencaptures:
[+] Episode 60. "Sakura and Her Precious Friend" (HQ)
[+] Episode 61. "Sakura, a Card, and a Present" (HQ)
[+] Episode 62. "Sakura and the Mysterious Fortune" (HQ)
[+] Episode 63. "Sakura, the Pool, and the Big Wave" (HQ)
[+] Episode 64. "Sakura at Ski school" (HQ)

Everything is on hold at the moment, I've been doing the above updates very sporadically over the last month because I've been very exhausted. I'll explain in more detail later.
Projects for when I have the time include:
- Replacing the screencaps from ep35 to 70 (dream project)
- A stylesheet repository at Webbie (75% done)
- 2 new brush sets: "Flower elements" and "Water" (these need refining)
- Archiving shadow-wings art, changing the radio blog into an mp3 rotation and possibly a contest.