Still reading "The Art of 'Gormenghast'" whilst reading "the bricks" (as tomboy_typist has eloquently dubbed them), and a quote from Mervyn Peake himself jumped out at me:

If I had set the story in Paddington, I should have been restricted by the need for urban accuracy.I bought the DVDs because I got tired of trying to watch the miniseries on YouTube and ( Read more... )

Two for one! I'm feeling generous today... Better get a drink: here be a long post...

( Rambling the First -- The Nephillim Vector )

None of this is liable to make much sense since I had a cruddy day, up to and including almost having a meltdown because a young man with Tourette's Syndrome was in the lane next to mine and I was overstimulated already. It wasn't his fault: it was the fault of the bad wiring in my head ( Read more... )

Based on more than a few rants lately on fanficrants, I'm starting to wonder if one needs to post warnings about, well, the whole fic in some cases? Especially since I am sitting here eying one of my centi_50 drabbles which went right into R-/M-rated territory (yes, a certain gent whose name begins with M is involved and I'm tempted to Lampshade that as a joke), and ( Read more... )

The thought crossed my mind: what does one call a group of death gods? I used the phrase "bevy of shinigami" in an earlier entry, and it started to bug me what the proper term would be? (Yes, I obsess over things like this: it's more interesting than obsessing over bills or my alleged lack of a "love life", which I actually have, it's just not a ( Read more... )

It just dawned on me that as of this past weekend, it's been a year since I first watched Yami no Matsuei, though it took me two (three?) weekends to finish it (and I really didn't start considering myself a fan until I started reading/buying the manga in the autumn of last year). I can thank my friend Mark for this, because he gave me access to ( Read more... )

But first, another "Hey, It's That Voice" moment: "Whoa... am I hearing this right or am I just that tired? Rukia's captain sure sounds like a Certain Shinigami Named Kurosaki, if his voice had changed a little more..." (Liam O'Brien, who voiced Hisoka in Yami no Matsuei, only this time his voice is a bit deeper, no doubt because he's not trying to ( Read more... )

Okay, got that off my chest, and now I can focus on other things, like ( Read more... )

Or, How, with the Help of a Green-Eyed Love Machine, a Messianic Figure and His Opposite, and Some Handsome Death Gods, and Those Who Like to Write about Them, Along with a Writer whose Name is Pronounced Somewhat Like "Gay Man", I Learned to Stop Being a Rules Lawyer and Start Appreciating Some Pairings and/or the Writers Therof

( Cut for length and content. You might want to get yourself a sandwich and something to drink. Here be a big-ol' post )