There is no new Tsubasa this week, so here, have a meme instead.
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A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
B) Tag eight people to do this quiz and those who are taggedcannot are free to refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.
( My questions and answers. )
Okay, I... I altered a bunch of questions (don't kill me Ami!) because of the uncomfortableness factor. So, obviously, anybody who's tagged is also free to change, delete, and make up questions as they see fit. Speaking of which, I think it would be really neat to attempt to trace this meme all the way back to its origin, and see how the questions have changed along the way. But, meh, too lazy.
I tagearthy_dreamer, evil_authoress, hauntedreality, goldenflames, ladykleo, meiousei, miss_breeziness, and neocloud9.
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lost_angelwings:A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.
B) Tag eight people to do this quiz and those who are tagged
( My questions and answers. )
Okay, I... I altered a bunch of questions (don't kill me Ami!) because of the uncomfortableness factor. So, obviously, anybody who's tagged is also free to change, delete, and make up questions as they see fit. Speaking of which, I think it would be really neat to attempt to trace this meme all the way back to its origin, and see how the questions have changed along the way. But, meh, too lazy.
I tag
earthy_dreamer, evil_authoress, hauntedreality, goldenflames, ladykleo, meiousei, miss_breeziness, and neocloud9.Title: Moonstone
Fandom: Fate/Stay Night
Prompt: Rin, "the end of the day"
Rating: PG-13 for gruesome offscreen demise.
Dedicated tocarbonicgirl
Notes: Heaven's Feel/Hollow Ataraxia continuity. Tsutsuji means "azalea," and Yuriko means "lily."
( Moonstone )
Fandom: Fate/Stay Night
Prompt: Rin, "the end of the day"
Rating: PG-13 for gruesome offscreen demise.
Dedicated to
carbonicgirlNotes: Heaven's Feel/Hollow Ataraxia continuity. Tsutsuji means "azalea," and Yuriko means "lily."
( Moonstone )
For those of you who have been following the news:
ARGH. This whole thing reeks of that particularly vile conservative trick of co-opting feminist language in order to have a good old-fashioned freakout at the scary, scary thought of women - or anybody - having sexuality oh noes.
Ratgirl is keeping track of the news coverage in this thread.
Personally, I feel sorry for anybody who is so sexually oppressed that they think that fishnet stockings are bondage paraphernalia. Um, no. Trust me. Just no.
(BTW, Pay-It-Forward fics are still coming long, I swear.)
ARGH. This whole thing reeks of that particularly vile conservative trick of co-opting feminist language in order to have a good old-fashioned freakout at the scary, scary thought of women - or anybody - having sexuality oh noes.
Ratgirl is keeping track of the news coverage in this thread.
Personally, I feel sorry for anybody who is so sexually oppressed that they think that fishnet stockings are bondage paraphernalia. Um, no. Trust me. Just no.
(BTW, Pay-It-Forward fics are still coming long, I swear.)
The main heroic theme on your Dark Knight soundtrack should really, really not sound so eerily similar to the ending credits theme from The Da Vinci Code.
(For anybody who has both soundtracks: Final track on Dark Knight = Final track on The Da Vinci Code. I'm not kidding. They really do sound scarily similar.)
Having said that, though, excellent soundtrack overall. I can't even actually listen to "Why So Serious?" all the way through, because the music is so intense that it actually makes me physically uncomfortable. I guess, for a theme song for the Joker, that's kid of the reaction you'd want to get, right? Well played.
(For anybody who has both soundtracks: Final track on Dark Knight = Final track on The Da Vinci Code. I'm not kidding. They really do sound scarily similar.)
Having said that, though, excellent soundtrack overall. I can't even actually listen to "Why So Serious?" all the way through, because the music is so intense that it actually makes me physically uncomfortable. I guess, for a theme song for the Joker, that's kid of the reaction you'd want to get, right? Well played.
Remember how last week, I was all excited, because I thought that things might actually be happening?
( False alarm. )
Minor note of interest: This week's Shounen Magazine featured a typo in the Table of Contents that placed Tsubasa on page 273 instead of on page 377. And I spent a rather frustrating five minutes flipping around the 200's desperately looking for the Tsubasa manga, before I figured out what was going on.
Yes, that little nugget of trivial information is possibly more interesting than anything that actually happened in this week's chapter.
( False alarm. )
Minor note of interest: This week's Shounen Magazine featured a typo in the Table of Contents that placed Tsubasa on page 273 instead of on page 377. And I spent a rather frustrating five minutes flipping around the 200's desperately looking for the Tsubasa manga, before I figured out what was going on.
Yes, that little nugget of trivial information is possibly more interesting than anything that actually happened in this week's chapter.
If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. ♥
(BTW, certain pay-it-forward fics are almost done and will be posted soon.)
(BTW, certain pay-it-forward fics are almost done and will be posted soon.)
1. Stunning Catwoman doll by Takara:
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Part of the Cool Girls line.
2. Grant Morrison will be giving out an MBX Sketchbook to the lucky bastards at SDCC.
Not like I'm dying to see the character designs and his personal notes, or anything. (*dies*)
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Part of the Cool Girls line.
2. Grant Morrison will be giving out an MBX Sketchbook to the lucky bastards at SDCC.
Not like I'm dying to see the character designs and his personal notes, or anything. (*dies*)
( Double standard #45897 )
Edit: Redacted. Here's why. Although, for the record, I still don't see any substantial difference between the general tone at scans_daily versus the tone on, say, Chris or Dorian's blog. If you'd like to convince me otherwise, however, comments are still open.
In short: A bunch of notoriously snarky male comic bloggers were bitching and moaning about how much a predominantly female comic community snarks too much, and while that could be chalked up to just plain old comic blogger hypocrisy, it also happens to look exactly like an extremely common form of sexism ("when a boy snarks it's witty and funny, when a girl snarks she's a raging bitch") that even the most feminist, well-intentioned men are often guilty of. But yes, assuming that it was the latter was baseless of me, so I apologize for that much.
Nobody can bring the entertaining assholery like comics bloggers.
Edit: Redacted. Here's why. Although, for the record, I still don't see any substantial difference between the general tone at scans_daily versus the tone on, say, Chris or Dorian's blog. If you'd like to convince me otherwise, however, comments are still open.
In short: A bunch of notoriously snarky male comic bloggers were bitching and moaning about how much a predominantly female comic community snarks too much, and while that could be chalked up to just plain old comic blogger hypocrisy, it also happens to look exactly like an extremely common form of sexism ("when a boy snarks it's witty and funny, when a girl snarks she's a raging bitch") that even the most feminist, well-intentioned men are often guilty of. But yes, assuming that it was the latter was baseless of me, so I apologize for that much.
Nobody can bring the entertaining assholery like comics bloggers.
This was the assignment.
( This is my response. )
Standard disclaimer: This post is US-centric like whoa, and deliberately so.
Edited to add: "The Vitter Amendment" is not the same as the "Preservation of Marriage Amendment," although both sponsored by Vitter... It's just that one is referred to by his name and the other isn't.
Edited again:sanguinity has written an excellent post further describing what white privilege is, and sharing some of her own experiences with it.
( This is my response. )
Standard disclaimer: This post is US-centric like whoa, and deliberately so.
Edited to add: "The Vitter Amendment" is not the same as the "Preservation of Marriage Amendment," although both sponsored by Vitter... It's just that one is referred to by his name and the other isn't.
Edited again:
sanguinity has written an excellent post further describing what white privilege is, and sharing some of her own experiences with it.Still not all of my backlog. But a lot of it.
( Behind the cut: Gorgeous Ito Noizi posters, an animated flip book, and lots more. )
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( Behind the cut: Gorgeous Ito Noizi posters, an animated flip book, and lots more. )
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Second! Me blathering about comics. Anyway, here are a bunch of short comicly reviews, all from Virgin's Shakti line.
( Ramayan, India Authentic, Project: Kalki, Devi, and Kshatriya. )
Second! Me blathering about comics. Anyway, here are a bunch of short comicly reviews, all from Virgin's Shakti line.
( Ramayan, India Authentic, Project: Kalki, Devi, and Kshatriya. )
First! Part four of Kosuke Fujishima's new Mini-Goddess strip, which is being published on the spine of montly issues of Afternoon. In case you missed any of the previous panels, you can find them all linked here.
( Behind the cut: Mini-Goddess comic. )
Second! More Chara-Mel Magazine. Here's Kannagi by Kosuke Fujishima:
If I understand correctly, that's not an outfit that she wears in either the manga or the upcoming anime series. Rather, it's a magical girl outfit that Fujishima designed himself. Why? Because he can.
PS - Any similarities to the legendary Tamil folk heroine Kannagi is purely coincidental. But boy did that throw me for a loop when I first heard of the Japanese Kannagi series.
( Oh, and one more thing behind the cut. )
( Behind the cut: Mini-Goddess comic. )
Second! More Chara-Mel Magazine. Here's Kannagi by Kosuke Fujishima:
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If I understand correctly, that's not an outfit that she wears in either the manga or the upcoming anime series. Rather, it's a magical girl outfit that Fujishima designed himself. Why? Because he can.
PS - Any similarities to the legendary Tamil folk heroine Kannagi is purely coincidental. But boy did that throw me for a loop when I first heard of the Japanese Kannagi series.
( Oh, and one more thing behind the cut. )
Title: Monterey
Rating: NC-17 for LESBIANS FROM OUTER SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
Prompt: "Free-loving, pot and LSD, Monterey Pop Festival Starlights."
Dedicated, of course, to evil_authoress.
Notes: Hah, okay. This was wretchedly difficult to write. I do love music from the 1960's, but I really don't have the faintest clue about the culture - or rather, the counterculture movement - surrounding it. It was hard to research this fic, too. For example, I've seen videos and photos of the Monterey Pop Festival, but they always show the stage and never the crowd, so I really don't know what it looked or felt like on the fields around the stage. I also am unsure about LSD delivery methods, and I suspect that sugar cubes might have been passé by 1967, but I really don't know. So I'm certain that in the following fic I've gotten a LOT of important details wrong. But I'm kind of going for the Arthur Golden method here - "Screw historical accuracy, this is what I THINK it might have been like." That's my story and I'm sticking with it.
**Apologies for LJ messing up the formatting of a couple paragraphs in the middle. I have no idea how to fix that. And boy have I tried.
As promised, this chapter opens with three color pages. Yay!
Unfortunately, we were also promised a "double-length" chapter at the end of CLAMP's hiatus, and this chapter was more like half the length of a normal chapter. Oops.
Okay, so this is going to be a rush summary. I read the chapter during the five minutes that I spent eating breakfast this morning, and I'm going from memory now, so some parts are going to be not so much with the details.
But anyway, ( after a five-week wait, absolutely nothing happened. )
Unfortunately, we were also promised a "double-length" chapter at the end of CLAMP's hiatus, and this chapter was more like half the length of a normal chapter. Oops.
Okay, so this is going to be a rush summary. I read the chapter during the five minutes that I spent eating breakfast this morning, and I'm going from memory now, so some parts are going to be not so much with the details.
But anyway, ( after a five-week wait, absolutely nothing happened. )
À la imorca:
I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here on my LJ. I don’t know what that gift will be yet, but you will receive it within 365 days of this post.
The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog.
P.S. if you have already posted this meme in your blog than you have to choose the next 3 people who responded to your original post and send them a handmade gift too.
Here's the deal, though: One, I am the least crafty person on the planet. (I almost hate handicrafts.) Two, I'm actually located on a different continent than most of the people reading this journal. Three, although I love to cook and would be willing to go the homemade cookies route, alas - ALAS! - I have no oven, and no recipe for stovetop candy that would be able to survive international shipping without suffering from horrible, horrible melting.
So. Here's what I will offer instead: Homemade fanfiction. Comment with a character or pairing, desired rating, and a prompt of any level of detail that you desire. Challenge me! And I will gift the first three commenters with a fic of 1000 words or more.
If you're unsure what fandoms I could write for, this tags list basically lists all of them. I'm serious. No really.
imorca:I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here on my LJ. I don’t know what that gift will be yet, but you will receive it within 365 days of this post.
The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog.
P.S. if you have already posted this meme in your blog than you have to choose the next 3 people who responded to your original post and send them a handmade gift too.
Here's the deal, though: One, I am the least crafty person on the planet. (I almost hate handicrafts.) Two, I'm actually located on a different continent than most of the people reading this journal. Three, although I love to cook and would be willing to go the homemade cookies route, alas - ALAS! - I have no oven, and no recipe for stovetop candy that would be able to survive international shipping without suffering from horrible, horrible melting.
So. Here's what I will offer instead: Homemade fanfiction. Comment with a character or pairing, desired rating, and a prompt of any level of detail that you desire. Challenge me! And I will gift the first three commenters with a fic of 1000 words or more.
If you're unsure what fandoms I could write for, this tags list basically lists all of them. I'm serious. No really.
First, Disgaea 3 scans courtesy of Playstation volume 422.
( Moar downloadable characters! MOAR! )
Mm, you'd think that in the week that the DS game was released, there would be more magazine articles for me to scan. But no. Press coverage of the DS game has been incredibly sparse so far.
Oh well, here's something better: HARUHI DS. With adorable little sprites. OMG OMG OMG OMG.
Final Fantasy: Dissidia is looking more and more appealing. The new costumes for some of the characters - particularly Tidus - are pretty cool, too. And I do like me some fighting games. Where are all of the FF heroines, though? Ultimecia, not so much.
Ah, now THIS is more like it.
( Moar downloadable characters! MOAR! )
Mm, you'd think that in the week that the DS game was released, there would be more magazine articles for me to scan. But no. Press coverage of the DS game has been incredibly sparse so far.
Oh well, here's something better: HARUHI DS. With adorable little sprites. OMG OMG OMG OMG.
Final Fantasy: Dissidia is looking more and more appealing. The new costumes for some of the characters - particularly Tidus - are pretty cool, too. And I do like me some fighting games. Where are all of the FF heroines, though? Ultimecia, not so much.
Ah, now THIS is more like it.
Another three months, and another chapter of Eternal Song, the prequel manga for Shakugan no Shana.
( Super Sonic Something. (Warning: Image-Heavy) )
( Super Sonic Something. (Warning: Image-Heavy) )
Kalinara said:
Yes, that would be awesome. Ridiculously awesome.
And once that idea was planted in my head, naturally, being the Kingphile that I am, my brain took it and ran with it. Not so much a team in the style of the X-Men or the Avengers, mind you, but something more in line with the Exiles. To me, the idea of an Exiles-like superteam makes perfect sense in the King multiverse. After all, that was kind of the point of the Dark Tower books: A small band of unlikely heroes on an epic quest across alternative universes, trying to preserve the balance between worlds and prevent the multiverse from tearing itself apart in a chaotic storm of catastrophic paradoxes. So I can very easily imagine a scenario whereThe Timebroker The Turtle plucks various King characters out of their own worlds (thereby possibly rescuing them from the horrible fates that King's characters often meet), and conscripts them to join a team of dimension-hopping superheroes, charged with repairing the damage to various realities that the Crimson King and his crew like to inflict.
So if I could make up a superteam like that, who would I put on it?
( My picks. )
Okay, is it just me or would a comic starring Johnny Smith, Carrie White, the kid from the Shining, and Drew Barrymore's character from Firestarter as a League of Extraordinary Gentleman by way of X-Men style superteam be awesome?
Yes, that would be awesome. Ridiculously awesome.
And once that idea was planted in my head, naturally, being the Kingphile that I am, my brain took it and ran with it. Not so much a team in the style of the X-Men or the Avengers, mind you, but something more in line with the Exiles. To me, the idea of an Exiles-like superteam makes perfect sense in the King multiverse. After all, that was kind of the point of the Dark Tower books: A small band of unlikely heroes on an epic quest across alternative universes, trying to preserve the balance between worlds and prevent the multiverse from tearing itself apart in a chaotic storm of catastrophic paradoxes. So I can very easily imagine a scenario where
So if I could make up a superteam like that, who would I put on it?
( My picks. )
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