Holidays and linkblogging
scruloose and I aren't celebrating either of today's holidays, but happy Valentine's Day and happy New Year to those who are!
(I find it hard to think about Valentine's without hearing Mitsuishi Kotono singing out "Happy Valentine's, Kyo-kun!" in my head. scruloose humors me when I sing it out myself, because that's the kind of dorks we are. Possibly I should watch the Valentine's episode of Furuba today, to go with watching the New Year's ep. with scruloose, ginny_t, and bosonator last month.)
Instead, I'm spending today tightening up my script for Zone-00 4, in hopes of the dialogue having a shred of hope of fitting into the speech balloons. There comes a point where I just have to throw up my hands and wish the letterers luck, but first I strip out every single word I can. (Sgt. Frog and Demon Sacred both get the same treatment.)
If I'm very lucky, while I'm doing that scruloose will be finishing up the rough version of our bedroom closet so that my clothes can live there instead of in my office. (Context: our bedroom came with no closet hardware at all, and he assembled half of the closet but then decided that he wants to eventually go with a different design. He's had that working half of the closet because my office closet is suitable for hanging clothes--and is on the same floor, unlike his office, which is in the basement. Yes, we've lived here for over five months. We're procrastinators.)
I'm usually...not outright cynical about Valentine's Day, but not really a fan, either. In its current form it seems designed to both make people who aren't in a relationship miserable and put foolish amounts of "everything has to be perfect!!!" pressure on people who are in one. But yesterday yuki_onna wrote a really lovely post in its defense (well, she re-posted an older post, to be technical), and while it didn't singlehandedly make me decide we should do something to celebrate this year, it did soften me up.
Also, these Valentine's cookies are adorable, if you like looking at such things.
Unrelated to any holiday (and I don't remember where I saw the link), it's the most humungous pet rodent ever!
And via gaisce, a really good vid combining Revolutionary Girl Utena and Princess Tutu, two anime I adore fiercely. (I really need to watch Utena again. It's been years, and yet I still name it as my favorite with no hesitation, just as I've done for a decade--not counting that brief period where I'd claim Fruits Basket, before discovering the Furuba manga's infinite superiority to the animated version.) The vidder, arefadedaway has some lovely notes, including "They’re about some of the most classic and basic themes in storytelling: fear and courage and pain and hope and friendship, destiny and identity and free will. And they’re told from not only such an explicitly empowering and feministic viewpoint, but in a way that subverts, deconstructs, and challenges not just fairy tales, but the very way stories themselves are told. Because Ahiru, Rue, Utena, and Anthy craft their own stories".
[manually x-posted to DW]
(I find it hard to think about Valentine's without hearing Mitsuishi Kotono singing out "Happy Valentine's, Kyo-kun!" in my head. scruloose humors me when I sing it out myself, because that's the kind of dorks we are. Possibly I should watch the Valentine's episode of Furuba today, to go with watching the New Year's ep. with scruloose, ginny_t, and bosonator last month.)
Instead, I'm spending today tightening up my script for Zone-00 4, in hopes of the dialogue having a shred of hope of fitting into the speech balloons. There comes a point where I just have to throw up my hands and wish the letterers luck, but first I strip out every single word I can. (Sgt. Frog and Demon Sacred both get the same treatment.)
If I'm very lucky, while I'm doing that scruloose will be finishing up the rough version of our bedroom closet so that my clothes can live there instead of in my office. (Context: our bedroom came with no closet hardware at all, and he assembled half of the closet but then decided that he wants to eventually go with a different design. He's had that working half of the closet because my office closet is suitable for hanging clothes--and is on the same floor, unlike his office, which is in the basement. Yes, we've lived here for over five months. We're procrastinators.)
I'm usually...not outright cynical about Valentine's Day, but not really a fan, either. In its current form it seems designed to both make people who aren't in a relationship miserable and put foolish amounts of "everything has to be perfect!!!" pressure on people who are in one. But yesterday yuki_onna wrote a really lovely post in its defense (well, she re-posted an older post, to be technical), and while it didn't singlehandedly make me decide we should do something to celebrate this year, it did soften me up.
Also, these Valentine's cookies are adorable, if you like looking at such things.
Unrelated to any holiday (and I don't remember where I saw the link), it's the most humungous pet rodent ever!
And via gaisce, a really good vid combining Revolutionary Girl Utena and Princess Tutu, two anime I adore fiercely. (I really need to watch Utena again. It's been years, and yet I still name it as my favorite with no hesitation, just as I've done for a decade--not counting that brief period where I'd claim Fruits Basket, before discovering the Furuba manga's infinite superiority to the animated version.) The vidder, arefadedaway has some lovely notes, including "They’re about some of the most classic and basic themes in storytelling: fear and courage and pain and hope and friendship, destiny and identity and free will. And they’re told from not only such an explicitly empowering and feministic viewpoint, but in a way that subverts, deconstructs, and challenges not just fairy tales, but the very way stories themselves are told. Because Ahiru, Rue, Utena, and Anthy craft their own stories".
[manually x-posted to DW]