I'd gotten a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday. Knowing it was rash, I just spent the cards and a chunk of my own hard-earned cash on the whole remastered Utena set. Squee ( Read more... )

1. Tailchaser's Song has been optioned as an anime movie

I slogged through the entirety of Otherland a few years back, and never noticed that it was the same author as Tailchaser's Song, which I'd read a few years before that. How did I manage that feat?

2. Anyway, Badlands Rumble was cute, this afternoon. So was the Hollywood Theater; I'd never ( Read more... )

Moving time means admitting what should go in the "I've played this once, I'm unlikely to do so again" pile. Plus a bit of the "oh yeah, we've got two copies of this" pile and the "well, this is streaming legally now, and I'd probably just watch it there" pile ( Read more... )

Got most of my hair cut off; decided on my slate of projects for the con, including new ones added on WHILE shopping for materials; made most of a Crona/Ragnarok bear set; finished reading the third Spice & Wolf novel, part of our Borders-closeout-sale haul; and started watching Honey & CloverCrona and Ragnarok have been fun. I happened to have a ( Read more... )

Yesterday we rewatched "Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead," and I stand by my un-original but no less fervent fannish opinion:
( Spoilers up to 'Let's Kill Hitler' )

http://utena-tfln.tumblr.com/

Texts from Last Night + Revolutionary Girl Utena.

That is all.

(I'm just writing right now, and sloooowly stockpiling plain bears for later cons. And reading Ghost Story.)

Also: Summer Wars is adorable. We'd borrowed it for months (yeah, we do that to everyone, sorry) and finally watched it today. Naturally, Jay and I had more or less the same thought near the beginning, when the girl introduces, like, 20 members of her family at the same time ( Read more... )

Sooooo the director of Utena is back with Mawaru PenguindrumThings in the first episode that will be familiar to viewers ( Read more... )

Finished watching the first season of Spice & Wolf; Netflix doesn't have the second yet. - What? It's about capitalism! What's more American than capitalism? Don't answer that.

Finished the Dresden Files reread / Side Jobs read. I've been marathoning this stuff for months, and now I don't know where to start with my backlog. Something that won't ( Read more... )

Apologizing for liking manga that's marketed to women.

Haaaaa, yeah, sorry. Though I mostly dance around / equivocate when starts to intersect with one of my other neuroses.

Anyway.

I love tearjerking drama, if the author has a reasonable grasp of characterization. (Deal with cardboard-cutout "insert girl from Algebra that you like in place of ( Read more... )