Er, not dead
I've just been... writing. ^^; It's turned into one of those periods. At the moment I'm not particularly good company either online or off, though I've been leaving comments; mostly I'm heavily engaged in talking to myself. XD There are also RL issues pulling at my attention.
I ordered some books quick-ship, since I was feeling unaccountably desperate for new reading and GetBackers 34 was already out (of course I have a pile of books I've yet to touch, in both English and Japanese, but the backlog never seems to count at these times). So I got, er, "Koi suru boukun" #1 since everyone and their aunt is reading it, and the first Yukikaze novel. XD I'm a chapter in and... it's actually really absorbing, in that military infodump jargon-a-minute SF sort of way. I'd better wrap up the fic first though or my head will explode from trying to reconcile my random extrapolations w/ the world-building.
Yukikaze is definitely a girl. XD Still the seme, but. XDDD
(I don't know if it's worth bookblogging this? There's not much overlap between the fans-of-Yukikaze-anime and readers-of-military-SF flist contigents, I think. I guess I'll pretend it's an English novel and hope no one sporks me out of frustration.)
Also, Sumomo Yumeka's "Dousaibou seibutsu". This from the CRAFT Comics imprint which I believe to be INDIE(tm) for the following reasons: 1) I have never so much as heard of any of these mangaka, 2) details of cover design and packaging - it looks rather more like a single-artist doujinshi collection than a commercial tankoubon, 3) the fact that they number their releases like an arty record label, which is of course the hook that grabs the suckers like yrs trly. "Dousaibou seibutsu" [CRAFT 015] is nuanced shoujo/light BL a bit like... you know the sort of Prince of Tennis fanfiction My Clique(tm) used to write? XD The art is quite pretty.
And of course the infamous GetBackers 34, which opens with Teshimine making a little Brokeback-style hobo campfire next to a waterfall so he can boil water for herb tea - IN THE BELTLINE. Because apparently Paul (who needs to change his battle moniker to "King of Hot Beverages") taught him how to use herb tea to counteract the Beltline's power-draining effects. And then longhaired guy in robes and bindi shows up and they both drink herb tea and talk about the mysteries of the universe.
Yup, herb tea. That's what they're calling it these days.
EDIT as I read -- the art is suddenly way better. WTF? Also, I would actually put money right now on Ban and Ginji having the same mom, just based on how the issue is broached. XD
Even when I think I have nothing to blog I can always come up with a ton of stuff. XD
I ordered some books quick-ship, since I was feeling unaccountably desperate for new reading and GetBackers 34 was already out (of course I have a pile of books I've yet to touch, in both English and Japanese, but the backlog never seems to count at these times). So I got, er, "Koi suru boukun" #1 since everyone and their aunt is reading it, and the first Yukikaze novel. XD I'm a chapter in and... it's actually really absorbing, in that military infodump jargon-a-minute SF sort of way. I'd better wrap up the fic first though or my head will explode from trying to reconcile my random extrapolations w/ the world-building.
Yukikaze is definitely a girl. XD Still the seme, but. XDDD
(I don't know if it's worth bookblogging this? There's not much overlap between the fans-of-Yukikaze-anime and readers-of-military-SF flist contigents, I think. I guess I'll pretend it's an English novel and hope no one sporks me out of frustration.)
Also, Sumomo Yumeka's "Dousaibou seibutsu". This from the CRAFT Comics imprint which I believe to be INDIE(tm) for the following reasons: 1) I have never so much as heard of any of these mangaka, 2) details of cover design and packaging - it looks rather more like a single-artist doujinshi collection than a commercial tankoubon, 3) the fact that they number their releases like an arty record label, which is of course the hook that grabs the suckers like yrs trly. "Dousaibou seibutsu" [CRAFT 015] is nuanced shoujo/light BL a bit like... you know the sort of Prince of Tennis fanfiction My Clique(tm) used to write? XD The art is quite pretty.
And of course the infamous GetBackers 34, which opens with Teshimine making a little Brokeback-style hobo campfire next to a waterfall so he can boil water for herb tea - IN THE BELTLINE. Because apparently Paul (who needs to change his battle moniker to "King of Hot Beverages") taught him how to use herb tea to counteract the Beltline's power-draining effects. And then longhaired guy in robes and bindi shows up and they both drink herb tea and talk about the mysteries of the universe.
Yup, herb tea. That's what they're calling it these days.
EDIT as I read -- the art is suddenly way better. WTF? Also, I would actually put money right now on Ban and Ginji having the same mom, just based on how the issue is broached. XD
Even when I think I have nothing to blog I can always come up with a ton of stuff. XD