This Wikipedia section on J.K. Rowling's response to the purported sexism in the Narnia books made me recall a somewhat similar scenario in CLAMP's work. In X, Arashi can't produce her sword after having slept with Sorata, which blows. Thoughts/discussion? There's a parallel here, but idk about "CLAMP and sexism" because I've always sort of had an ( Read more... )

WHY CAN'T I WRITE(I've tried but mostly I think I am just a passionless blob. All my rough drafts are as dry as an old woman's--well actually let's not go there. I am drunk on too little sleep, hunger, and soap opera-esque Gothic lit, and have only this to say: in conclusion, I am Miss Boring McBoringster, thanks! very much ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who spammed with welcome back comments last week. XD; I don't really know what to say. I suppose I was kind of under the impression that I'd be happier returning to Eljay once I'd spent some time away from it, but that isn't really the case. I think my problem has more to do with fandom in general than with Eljay or with my flist ( Read more... )

1. D00d, I woke up today after 21 hours of continuous sleep. @_@;; I must have been much more tired than I thought? I probably got about 10? maybe 12? hours of sleep the whole week, so after I lunched on Friday and checked the mailbox I just sort of... crashed. XD From 3:30 until 12:30, holy shit. I think the longest record I've kept for continuous ( Read more... )

Did anyone ever see that Law & Order: SVU episode where the pedophile is a woman who raped the young boy in a bathroom stall because she had a tumor in her brain? Except that Elliot and Olivia only found out about the rape because they took a look at the hidden cameras that were found in the bathroom stalls of the public restrooms. The cameras were ( Read more... )

1. Despite myself, I think I might be taking notes for making a FST for TRC. Something atmospheric for all the different worlds we've seen so far. Would anyone be interested in this? I doubt I'll actually complete this if I don't really have incentive, yes, I'm *that* lazy. Mostly, though, I have a bunch of songs that fit Clow Country eerily well, ( Read more... )

I've been really itching to write ever since that randumb Hachikuro fic (I'm going to be referring to it as such from now on, it seems XD). I think it was the fun of actually meeting the deadline in a relatively timely fashion--it was timely by my standards, given previous history with them--after about a month of hammering it out. And it was ( Read more... )