Things
I'm leaving Chiba tomorrow and off to the frozen northland...sort of. Have to go through Tokyo first, but not much longer.
I'm done with job that made me hideously depressed and hopefully next job will be a turn for the better.
My apartment is mostly packed and I am just now realizing I may not have enough room in my suitcase. Whoops.
The kitties are relocated to a new home, which left me rather lonely.
Dark Knight Rises was pretty awesome and I would probably willingly have sex, no questions asked, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who I've had a nerd crush on since he was in Ten Things I Hate About You.
Now the real thing I want to talk about, which is totally irrelevant and no one cares at all, but I just kind of wanted to put it down in writing somewhere. I've been reading a hell of a lot of Avengers fanfiction lately and realized that I really don't care for AU in that fandom, but I love AU in the RK and Inuyasha fandoms. What exactly is different?
So I realized the thing that turns me on to Inuyasha and Kenshin is less the story line than the characters. When you boil it down, they're both essentially samurai adventures, though Inuyasha has the obvious touch of mysticism and demonic powers and what not. But samurai stories are a dime a dozen in Japan. They're not particularly interesting entities in and of themselves. At least not to me anyway. The characters however...when I was exposed to Kenshin, I hadn't really seen many other anime at the time, and to me, a protagonist who was insanely strong and occasionally downright scary and yet chose to refrain from killing was an incredibly interesting character. The same goes for Kaoru, who at least in theory is quite a turn from your average female shounen lead, even if that doesn't always pan out in actuality. It is the interaction of these two characters that makes me love Kenshin, not the story line. So if you interpose the characters on an entirely different storyline, but still protect their characterization, I'll probably like it. The same goes for Inuyasha (though Kagome is still boring as shit to me, which would be another reason to choose AU over canon.)
However, with Avengers, it's less that the characters themselves are interesting and more that the situation is fantastic. Take a bunch of slightly (or incredibly) sociopathic/dysfunctional/obsessive-compulsive individuals and throw them together on a team. Hope for the best and watch it either all somehow mesh fantastically or come crashing down like a meteorite. Don't get me wrong. I love Tony Stark. Cap is alright, though not all that particularly interesting to me. Likewise for Thor. Bruce Banner, I suspect, could be interesting to me if the movies did the real character justice (as a side-note, I really don't read American comics at all.) I don't know enough about Widow or Hawkeye to care either way. But when you mix these people together, plus Phil Coulson? Magic. And somehow, when you take that magic and stick it in an AU (ie. no superpowers, no aliases, no saving the world), I lose interest quickly. I mean I've read a couple of AU anyway, but they didn't particularly stand out to me the way the canon stuff did, even though they were well-written.
So that's my spiel on that.
Ja ne
~Jade
I'm done with job that made me hideously depressed and hopefully next job will be a turn for the better.
My apartment is mostly packed and I am just now realizing I may not have enough room in my suitcase. Whoops.
The kitties are relocated to a new home, which left me rather lonely.
Dark Knight Rises was pretty awesome and I would probably willingly have sex, no questions asked, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who I've had a nerd crush on since he was in Ten Things I Hate About You.
Now the real thing I want to talk about, which is totally irrelevant and no one cares at all, but I just kind of wanted to put it down in writing somewhere. I've been reading a hell of a lot of Avengers fanfiction lately and realized that I really don't care for AU in that fandom, but I love AU in the RK and Inuyasha fandoms. What exactly is different?
So I realized the thing that turns me on to Inuyasha and Kenshin is less the story line than the characters. When you boil it down, they're both essentially samurai adventures, though Inuyasha has the obvious touch of mysticism and demonic powers and what not. But samurai stories are a dime a dozen in Japan. They're not particularly interesting entities in and of themselves. At least not to me anyway. The characters however...when I was exposed to Kenshin, I hadn't really seen many other anime at the time, and to me, a protagonist who was insanely strong and occasionally downright scary and yet chose to refrain from killing was an incredibly interesting character. The same goes for Kaoru, who at least in theory is quite a turn from your average female shounen lead, even if that doesn't always pan out in actuality. It is the interaction of these two characters that makes me love Kenshin, not the story line. So if you interpose the characters on an entirely different storyline, but still protect their characterization, I'll probably like it. The same goes for Inuyasha (though Kagome is still boring as shit to me, which would be another reason to choose AU over canon.)
However, with Avengers, it's less that the characters themselves are interesting and more that the situation is fantastic. Take a bunch of slightly (or incredibly) sociopathic/dysfunctional/obsessive-compulsive individuals and throw them together on a team. Hope for the best and watch it either all somehow mesh fantastically or come crashing down like a meteorite. Don't get me wrong. I love Tony Stark. Cap is alright, though not all that particularly interesting to me. Likewise for Thor. Bruce Banner, I suspect, could be interesting to me if the movies did the real character justice (as a side-note, I really don't read American comics at all.) I don't know enough about Widow or Hawkeye to care either way. But when you mix these people together, plus Phil Coulson? Magic. And somehow, when you take that magic and stick it in an AU (ie. no superpowers, no aliases, no saving the world), I lose interest quickly. I mean I've read a couple of AU anyway, but they didn't particularly stand out to me the way the canon stuff did, even though they were well-written.
So that's my spiel on that.
Ja ne
~Jade