Note: This essay is a revision of an essay I wrote for death_note a while back. (Okay, like, 3 years ago. What.) It is a commentary on the manga, anime, and both films of Death Note, and contains major spoilers for all of them.

Death Note is one of those iconic, apocryphal stories that it feels like everyone's read or at least heard of by now and ( Read more... )

My real life relationships, all of them, romantic or semi-platonic or the fuzzy area in between, have ended in unequivocal, unmitigated disaster of one kind of another. They don't just end, they end, more or less, in ruin. As a result, rather than subject myself to yet another instance of failing to love another human being half as well as I ( Read more... )

This rant has been developing for about a year. Specifically, I said I would talk after the holidays about why I stopped watching House and why I don't really feel like watching Merlin. This rant is why.

I just saw Sherlock Holmes for the third time, and holy cow, it was even more intentionally deliberately shamelessly homoerotic the third ( Read more... )

So Sunday I finally caught up on Season Four of Bones.

( I love Bones. Spoilers from 401 through 406. )

This was supposed to be a short post and it just took off and turned into a post about why i slash, what i slash, and how i slash it. It started out with a simple, okay, seriously. Shindou and Touya are so in love why is this fandom not churning out a MILLION FICS A DAY. They arguably are the biggest canon ship that ever sashayed its way into a ( Read more... )

So, before I gave my heart to Prince of Tennis, I gave it to House, M.D. Sometime last February I read Maryland and was halfway in love with the show before I ever saw it. I remember making an lj post going, god help me, I have a new fandom, within a matter of weeks ( Read more... )

Hello, livejournal. Look at what I found awaiting me on my return to the land of IM ( Read more... )