An anonymous commentator pointed out that as much as Now: Zero resembles Death Note, it resembles the Death Note pilot chapter even more:

http://sub-divided.livejournal.com/131007.html?thread=1459903#t1459903

So the question is, does one of these ( Read more... )

The credit for this goes to emblem, who found it. I'm just the person who had to immediately order it from amazon and pay the extra $2 for it to be delivered overnight.

...The package I mentioned in my last post was J.G. Ballard's The Venus Hunters, a short story collection which combines stories from 1967's The Overloaded Man with stories from 1969 ( Read more... )

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I should really finish this essay, if for no other reason so that I can write for holmesian with a clear conscience. January 5th is a Friday, thank God. I have two scenarios in mind but I'll probably just write the easy one.

worldserpent asked if you have to be smart to write a character who is smart, or a poet to write a character who is a great poet. No more ( Read more... )

Thought I'd work at getting my fic journal up to date (for once) and I remembered these. Letters, written last January, for svz_insanity on her birthday. (Stacey, you don't mind, do you ( Read more... )

aishuu and ninjatrauma are running recology, a sort of crash course in Methods of Reccing. I haven't joined because uhhhh I dunno. Long recs bore me, I'd much rather see a one-sentence summary and skim the story myself. But hypocritically, I wish more people had joined, because the comments in the introduction post are full of great rec websites. In particular,

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A belated welcome to everyone who added this journal in the last couple weeks! Why It seems some of you are here for Death Note, which makes me wonder what the last chapter of the official English release was. (Volume 6, chapters 44-52? The return of Evil Light? Cool, but not quite the chapters I'd have expected to have ahaha but anyway.) I don ( Read more... )

As a side note to various discussions on racism in American media, Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Greatest Sidekicks of All Time includes a handful of black sidekicks to white main characters -- including one where the two were originally billed equally -- but nothing the other way around.

On that anon meme: OMG YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME. I ( Read more... )

( Probably won't be wank, though, 'cuz I doubt anyone will say anything. )

worldserpent said:

[Death Note] is going to continue until it is canceled. Because Light is the hero, up to that point, everyone up against him is teh doomed. So I think we need to start mourning pre-emptively for anyone who's going to turn on him...me: AIZAWA ;__ ( Read more... )