See my icon? It's Yuuko, the Witch of Time and Space from xxxHolic, she has a shop that grants you wishes if you pay with something of yours that is of equal worth. Change and Fairness is a big theme in xxxHolic, that if you take something you must pay for it ( Read more... )

Eek eek eek, I wish I could quit CLAMP, but they are just so GOOD. xxxHOLiC is just, so very lovely, and it really shows that CLAMP has developed much more than when they wrote Tokyo Babylon back in the 80s, the longer format helps too, in laying down Chehov's Gun that just have you clapping in hindsight ( Read more... )

It's so easy to write death scenes and character destruction scenes, and make it poetic...but by contrast, what's happier, when I write it at least, the quality is just sloppy. Could be because when I thin fix it, I think more along what should have been done if Torchwood make sense, and over the characterization, the fatal flaws the characters ( Read more... )

When I was younger, one more reason I didn't like TNG, compared to TOS, was the gods. What? I thought the humanity on trial plot device was a lot of pretentious humbug, and it still is. Captain Kirk's crew was always on trial, by the hardship of the universe and the conflict within themselves. Must they make it so literal ( Read more... )

Tokyo Babylon was the first CLAMP manga I have actually read, it was something they made through out the 80s and published in graphic book format in the 90s, and it feels that way. My heart is nostalgic for the 90s ( Read more... )

Eventually, eventually, eventually;
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( Thirteen Fears )