Dancing with myself
1. My sordid past has come to haunt me. (Well, it would if it were sordid, anyway. I'm the hauntable kind.) I just got notification that this Inara/Kaylee drabble I wrote five years ago (has it been that long since I wrote fanfic?) was nominated in the No Rest for the Wicked Awards. It's been forever since I've been an active participant in fandom of any kind, though I still read, so I'm a little shocked. I actually had to go back and read the drabble (and now, of course, I want to edit it. GRAR.) because I couldn't remember what it was. Wacky. Signs that everything lives forever on the internet. Anybody know anything of interest about these particular awards that I should know about?
(Thanks to the nominator, by the way, if they happen to read my journal.)
2. Thesis eating brain. I hates it.
3. Been watching anime in my non-existent free time. They are fun.
Simoun posits a world where people are born female but by about 17 they enter a magic spring and become male or female (depending on choice, though sometimes they just let fate decide). As I understand it, some areas of the world don't have a magic spring but the "become male through post-birth means" is a universal. There are magic flying machines that can only be piloted by "maidens" (pre-magic spring females) and the show is about a squad of these pilots. It's kind of wacky since it means that while there are romantic relationships between some of the characters, they aren't necessarily gay relationships because there's always the option for one of them to eventually become male. Lots of wacky gender issues and implications, actually. Overall, a good show, largely because of the somewhat bittersweet ending.
Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha StrikerS is the third series in the Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha franchise (is that the right word?). I like Nanoha. Unlike many magical girl animes where the bad guys are just bad guys and the magical girl seems to be a wishy-washy character uncertain about the right thing to do (and intimidated by violence), Nanoha embraces her power in order to beat some sense into the villains (who turn out to be doing bad things for good reasons). Her usual method when running across these other characters is to declare, "Fine, we'll fight. And after I beat you, we're going to talk. Those are the stakes. *GIANT BALL OF POWER*" It's kind of fanservice-y in the transformation sequences, though, which is kind of annoying. (The lesbian subtext in StrikerS helps. But I'm like that.)
4. Ruritania the LARP is rapidly reaching a point where we're going to do large-scale character generation. If you haven't joined the Facebook group yet (or don't know about it), the group is here. The character creation google doc is here and some setting information is here. Come play!
5. I am addicted to crappy tycoon games. I don't know why.
(Thanks to the nominator, by the way, if they happen to read my journal.)
2. Thesis eating brain. I hates it.
3. Been watching anime in my non-existent free time. They are fun.
Simoun posits a world where people are born female but by about 17 they enter a magic spring and become male or female (depending on choice, though sometimes they just let fate decide). As I understand it, some areas of the world don't have a magic spring but the "become male through post-birth means" is a universal. There are magic flying machines that can only be piloted by "maidens" (pre-magic spring females) and the show is about a squad of these pilots. It's kind of wacky since it means that while there are romantic relationships between some of the characters, they aren't necessarily gay relationships because there's always the option for one of them to eventually become male. Lots of wacky gender issues and implications, actually. Overall, a good show, largely because of the somewhat bittersweet ending.
Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha StrikerS is the third series in the Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha franchise (is that the right word?). I like Nanoha. Unlike many magical girl animes where the bad guys are just bad guys and the magical girl seems to be a wishy-washy character uncertain about the right thing to do (and intimidated by violence), Nanoha embraces her power in order to beat some sense into the villains (who turn out to be doing bad things for good reasons). Her usual method when running across these other characters is to declare, "Fine, we'll fight. And after I beat you, we're going to talk. Those are the stakes. *GIANT BALL OF POWER*" It's kind of fanservice-y in the transformation sequences, though, which is kind of annoying. (The lesbian subtext in StrikerS helps. But I'm like that.)
4. Ruritania the LARP is rapidly reaching a point where we're going to do large-scale character generation. If you haven't joined the Facebook group yet (or don't know about it), the group is here. The character creation google doc is here and some setting information is here. Come play!
5. I am addicted to crappy tycoon games. I don't know why.