I mean, what better way to digest really dull theory than to apply it to texts you actually care for? I'm so, so sorry.

Since fandom is all about slash these days, both Are You There, God and Skeletons share the motif of emerging homosexual identities. Funny as it is (and different from a lot of conventional gay fiction, I bet), both Alexander and ( Read more... )

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New layout is new. And white. And has a picture of my favourite tragic Weimar Republic-era German boy. And in celebration of that,

( A meme about him! )

I'm pretty sure that I've never read a comic the way I read Chrono Crusade, and by that I mean the way the last five or six books went down in less than twenty-four hours. Which means that yes, it was good. Nothing particularly special in the way of action-centered manga, but the mood of it was very reminiscent of Fullmetal Alchemist (anime at ( Read more... )

So instead of whining about my lack of comprehensive thesis statement: I believe in asexual Elricest more than I believe in Ed or Al x anybody else.
That is all.

I was going to talk about how I pierced my ears (some more) and bought an MP3 player now that I finally have money in my hands, but I'm not sure anybody wants to hear about it. It should be mentioned, though, that I was annoyed with having to buy the model with radio and video support just to get 4GB space until I realized that "duh, portable AMV ( Read more... )

That's another way to say it, I supposeElse: I saw the FMA thing that summarized the entire series in one hour. Utter fanfodder, of course, but the narration was pretty interesting. It reminded me how I was convinced that Scar was Ed and Al's father back when he only showed up at the end of the OP and hadn't started to blow out the brains of random ( Read more... )

For the Digimon fen, particularly the Ken/Davis/TK ones: A jewel I thought was lost forever with the rest of the author's works.

(And the reason I went and looked for it)