Sorry for not posting much lately - things have been crazy :p

But this may be my new favoritest thing in the whole world now:

https://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/e791/?cpg=fbl_e791

Star Wars: The Old Republic has pretty much been consuming all of my free time lately, so I apologize for not saying much^^

But, holy shit, the new Hobbit trailer - the movie needs to come out now.  Also, the soundtrack; I think I've played the trailer about 50 times today just to hear that song.

Kids back in school + major car repairs to do = not much time for posting lately :p  But even more than that, I find it really hard to articulate my thoughts about Nami.  Her character growth is more complicated than the rest of the crew.

( Nami-swannnnn! )

Next up, Zoro! 
( Cut for spoilers )

Whew, life gets crazy sometimes; I had planned this to be up over a week ago :p  Anyway, continuing on.

As I mentioned in this post:  http://manga-crow.livejournal.com/25861.html one of my favorite aspects of Oda's storytelling is the subtlety with which he builds his themes.  This is especially true of his character development; look elsewhere ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned a few times, I have been wanting to do a series of One Piece articles in honor of the crew reaching the halfway point in their journey.  Those articles are going to be mostly character based, exploring the arc of the growth over the series thus far, but before I got to those, I wanted to talk about some of the non-character ( Read more... )

Grr, and here we come to the worst of any of the changes; this is the arc that made me starting reading the manga first, and then watching the anime ( Read more... )

Bleh, I didn't realize how much I depend on LJ for interaction until it's gone :p  Yay for it being back now, though ( Read more... )

Well, I can't get to anyone else's posts, but maybe I can post my own?

Anyway, if you haven't seen the new trailer for Avatar: Legend of Korra, what are you waiting for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VkHYtS6MY

Me?  I'll be in my bunk.

Whew, now that the bile is out of my system, let's talk about something far more interesting - One Piece ( Read more... )