| Ah, oatmeal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner of Champions.
There was something else I was going to write. What was it. Oh well.
Oh! Did I take any pictures at ACen 2006? Really maybe just two photos? That would seem sort of out of character for me, but also sort of fitting with where I was at at the time. I dunno.
I love it when a new major point release of Firefox breaks all of the Add-ons that I use the most. >_>; Revert! Revert! | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment   |
| I will probably keep editing this post for an hour or so, like some sort of bloated, misshapen clump of twitter-tweets. (I was just going to say "twitters" even though that's not the word for it, because "tweets" sounds somewhat more generic. Then I said "twitter-tweets" to myself, in my head, and it sounded as wonderfully misshapen as this LJ entry might end up being.)
o/" Sandwiches, sandwiches, on my arms from you, sandwiches sandwiches sandwiches o/"
This gets stuck in my head all the time. It's sooo not even funny, except that it's hilarious. XD
And on a "randomness found in my mp3 directory" note, I would like to, uh, note that due to my eclectic and self-imposed, somewhat isolationist musical upbringing, this Cocteau Twins track sounds like Raspberry Jam. XD Now I want to go listen to that album. o/" I scream Easter is for me / and my plank-eyed soul o/"
Ok, maybe I won't keep editing this, as I seem to be twittered out, not to mention in dire need of sleep. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Some days I think that I might finally be developing enough common sense that I have a chance to make it somewhere in the world. Some days I think that it'll never be enough. Some days I think both of these things simultaneously. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| There are so many things in this world to see and hear and do! I want to be a sparrow with a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, a thousand wings, and a thousand brains. Though that would leave me a rather large, misshapen lump, and ill-suited to doing anything. Perhaps I would rather be a networked collective of five hundred sparrows. And if you think that I won't need those five hundred extra brains, well, you're so wrong that you don't even know how wrong you are.
Chirp! | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Only on page nine, but still. Such tasty words!!
I think I might be able to write descriptions like these, but I would probably have to sit and ponder each for an hour or more, and probably with some greater wisdom than I have currently.
Oh for the day when I have that kind of leisure.
No, seriously. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Spammy links:
Sandra and Woo, a webcomic about a girl and her pet raccoon. Current comic (4/20) isn't the best one to walk in on, though. Some of the archive's highlights include Grammar Nazi, Tweety meets his match (this comic and following), zippers and space stations, eating Satan... and so forth...
They do some interesting serious comics, as well.
The art style is pretty neat. Clean line art, and very expressive. Style's not exactly European, not exactly Asian. The writer is German, which makes for occasionally interesting English, though I count that as a plus too.
Sigh. I really don't need another webcomic to follow. XD
Other links!
On the problems of anthropologists and comic artists: Cow tools and Coon tools...
Give a tiny motor a smiley face and a mission and you get Tweenbots. Adorable.
My local comic shop has a link to this page on their site, and it creeps me the frick out. O_o | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| That is a person; that is not a pair of legs and a flapping skirt. That is a person; that is not a pair of legs and a flapping skirt. That is a person; that is not a pair of legs and a flapping skirt. That is a person; that is not a pair of legs and a flapping skirt. That is a person; that is not a pair of legs and a flapping skirt.
Contemptible male gaze. I continue my half-hearted meditations upon it's demise. Despite this, Munto is, all considered, a pretty good show. More on that later. (The thing that unnerves me about Natsu no Arashi, despite the promise of its concept, art, and the first episode's clever handling of short-distance time travel, is just how well its camera angles reproduce the male gaze.)
There was a lot of stuff that I was thinking about on the drive home. Let's see if I can remember any of it.
So I watched the last episode of Spice and Wolf last night. It's nice to see the occasional example of Lawrence being a smart businessman, because the show spends enough time on him recovering from his poorer decisions that it's easy to forget that he can also be pretty competent.
It's really refreshing to see an anime that deals so deftly with daily life--and such a different daily life than our own! There's a sprinkling of gods and whatnot, enough to help keep it interesting, but not so much that it disrupts a basic feeling of... humanity. Sure, super power stories have their own sort of craft and skill, but there's a certain... particular and fascinating cleverness that one needs in order to write a good story about normal humans. Because they're such /limited/ creatures. In chess, even though the game as a whole is a complex web of interrelationships, any particular piece may have only one or two moves available to them. And say you abolish the teams, make each piece out for itself, or perhaps partnered with one or two others. And then you abolish turns, so that it's more like a real-time strategy game. The pieces would need that same special sort of cleverness to maximize the use of each of their limited moves--or even to survive.
In keeping with that theme but on a slightly smaller scale, the interactions between Horo and Lawrence are also very compelling (and more strongly so than the economics, I feel). They bicker playfully, talk seriously, flirt openly, get on each others' nerves, feint and jab, intricately mixing jest and honest expressions of emotion... And the negotiation! Everything is negotiation between them. I know that on some level that's the case with every relationship ever, be it friends, business partners, lovers, or what have you, but it's really played it in the foreground here. Given Horo and Lwarence's natures this should, of course, come as no surprise.
Horo is so wonderfully proud. Not in an obnoxious way, either, though she can also verge on haughty. She twists and dances between kind and teasing, soft and sharp without ever becoming enough of a tsundere to feel fetishized or pandering. Hers is a very... wolfish pride. I can't think how to put it any better, though she compares favorably to Shinku better aspects. Willful, determined, dedicated to those close to her. Some of the most interesting conversations happen when her ideas of honor and personal integrity clash with Lawrence's occasional willingness to go out of his way for other people at the expense of himself. Even (or especially) when it's Horo he's sacrificing of himself for! (Or perhaps in some of those cases she's just upset that he's being mistreated. There's at least a component of that, I'm sure, but it doesn't overshadow the former.)
_Quinn, with your sensibilities, I can see why you in particular find Horo compelling. XD Perhaps even more than Tan. I remember this one particular short story of yours...
The art is beautiful, but in places surprisingly undetailed. Like they were trying to evoke masterful landscape paintings but could only afford to get 80 or 90% of the way there. I do not think that Mr. Funk would've been consistently happy with the quality of their clouds. But it was still very pretty. The animation, considering this is not a very action-oriented show, is a little rough in places, but does exactly what it needs to.
*Waits impatiently for the DVDs, and/or light novels* Yeah yeah, fansubs, whatever. Somebody deserves some money for this.
Strangely, though it's such an awesome show, there's not a lot of Spice And Wolf that feels easily accessible to my writer's sensibilities. This may say something condemning about my social intuition, or it may just mean that I need to think more carefully about the show and watch it again. Probably both of those are the same thing.
I... yeesh. I've been brewing this whole huge meditation on relationships and my own... currently detached relationship to the idea of relationships. But in the process of writing a Spice and Wolf review, I seem to have forgotten how I was going to transition between the two.
Oh, right! Horo, Shinku, Alita... N, A, A, Æ... Ha ha ha. The fact that I find willful women compelling, and how it will one day be the death of me. XD XD XD Well, that is perhaps exaggeration.
But for now I need to feed the dog, go climb around on the roof, get ready for anime, attempt a kidnapping, and... go to anime! Dun dun dun. Oh! And buy the latest volume of Alita. XD | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| So it's the kind of thing to keep you wondering if maybe everything's the same
It keeps you coming back for more.
So it's the kind of thing to keep you wondering if maybe everything's the same
And it's happening again. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So, I originally thought of this line in conjunction with Megatokyo #1175. It's been sitting in a sticky note on my desktop forever, waiting for me to figure out where to put it, and I'm getting sick of it being there. So, here you are:
"I am programmed to never break your heart. But maybe your kneecaps, if necessary."
Wheeeee, short and silly post. >_>; | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Dear Internets,
That is not just one submarine sandwich in my pockets. That is two.
But I'm still happy to see you.
-- Jon | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| Here is a meme that I caught from George. This part, quoted verbatim, goes:
The first seven people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year. (Might be a bit.)
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost!
I usually soften the requirements with a "reposting is optional" sort of thing. But this meme, it feels like the... exchange, the community is important. It's trying to not be cheap and quick. At least that's my reading. I'm probably taking it too seriously. XD
But! If you have already posted this, sometime in the last... say... three months, here is a coupon that reads "No, you don't have to re-post. Ask away."
(...only... mine will probably be poetry, and it probably will not be as extremely strange as I'd ideally like it to be. But it's a long year. I might surprise you.) | | comments: 21 comments or Leave a comment |
| "my wisdom for the day: If a plot doesn't have holes, it'd just fill up with water and the characters would drown." -- Fred Gallagher
...following Fred's twitter is sometimes more interesting than reading Megatokyo waiting for Megatokyo to update. XD Random snark and lots of interesting pictures. ;;;^>
LiveJournal is still my Twitter. Sorry, friends. XD | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Sheesh. Count on major-version upgrades from second-tier software vendors to /always/ break shit that already works. At least it works again. Finally.
Wait. Crap. No it doesn't. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have decided, and thus decreed, that 23:37 shall be the International Minute of the Sparrow.
Why?
Well.
It's Two-eet o'clock. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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