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... )

Here's my reading list for 2011 - stuff I've already read, not stuff I intend to read. I'll try to update it throughout the year and see how that goes.

(new) meaning I haven't read it before; (reread) meaning I have.

( List )

My last two weeks have been more or less filled with: working, sleeping, AMV editing, putting together a quilt top, complaining about the snow, and... reading manga. Here's that last one. I wrote most of this earlier this week while drinking coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and waiting for a bus, like a huge (and cheap) dork, so please excuse that.

( Recent manga [and light novel] reading: All My Darling Daughters, Moyasimon 1, Ooku 1 & 2, Sand Chronicles 1, The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya, Solanin, Utena Movie Manga )

Oh, right. We (clearly) survived the G20. In fact, the only protest our area got was the Free Tibet one, and they don't get too rowdy. Nevertheless, the Gamestop was boarded up the whole time. Not the banks... not the Starbucks... Gamestop.

Apparently Tibetan exiles are pacifist except when it comes to scoring copies of Madden. THEN the gloves ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the last half of Afterschool Nightmare in one evening. (Jay's official present to me. ^_^ Fucked-up psychological manga, the gift that keeps on giving ( Read more... )

After School Nightmare may have a bog-standard Sad Shoujo cover, but it is disturbingly awesome. At least the first volume is; all "I've only read the first volume" caveats apply.

Capsule: Utena (you're really fighting against yourself!) + Silent Hill (disembodied strangling hands and people with no faces!) + a dash of Battle Royale (classmate on ( Read more... )

As if to prove that I am still capable of non-nerdy crafts, but really because I thought they were cool and I didn't have any winter-themed door decorations, I made a patchwork wreath after this tutorial for the winter in red, green, and white. It was more chunky than the example; I just kept wrapping it in batting. Turned out nicely, though ( Read more... )

A bit of everything. I'll try to sort it out. I emailed this to myself earlier; this is definitely not a "10:30 p.m. with freezing cold fingers" type of post.

( 1. Progress on 'My Japanese Coach' on DS )

OK, as for Heroes: The hour-long "our bad, please remember first season, please?" was weirdly entertaining. Do you really have to spoon-feed people? They're not going to figure out, say, that two characters are related if one calls the other "Mom"? I guess so. But it's amusing to see everything spelled out in hyper little chunks, like running the ( Read more... )

Mashup culture in the mainstream!, on CNNGirl Talk was also the cover story of last week's Pittsburgh alt-weekly, so I think I may stop being lazy and, you know, buy one of his CDs. But that's another story ( Read more... )