Well, as far as I know she’s fine. (I haven’t heard from her for a few weeks, either.)
I think she’s just been really busy lately, and trying to adjust to American life again. Also, online correspondence can get kind of overwhelming after it builds up for a few months, and she was away for over a year. I’m sure you’ll hear from her once she’s completely settled :]
Your You’re My Whatever in the Finder Naked Truth Hong Kong What? summary is spot on. :)
Tsuta Suzuki is a fav of mine for the humor. I do enjoy yaoi for its VERY realistic humor.
TRC ended without Fay or Kuro nekid, so probably, badly for you. It was one of those open-ended, continuing-on, no-real-answer endings. The scannylations are spread out there if you want to check out their new outfits at the end. :)
Thanks! I wish that last chapter had been a little less, you know, people bleeding out of the ass, and a little more - you know what? That part was great. I want to hold hands on an airplane with a violent career criminal, too. Mom will be proud.
It was one of those open-ended, continuing-on, no-real-answer endings. I was afraid of that :[ :[ :[ :[
"This oji-san tells me, 'What a great relief it is to have adulterous sex out in the open air!' It’s fun!" How do you make a statement like that look normal in English? No, I’m asking.
And now you have some idea of my dilemma.
I can tell you the ending, if you want. It got complicated, as you might imagine.
Well, the character responsible for that line said it mid-boink, accompanied by the 'fu! hu! hu! ha!' noises, which, in addition to being completely horrifying, made it hard to understand as an independent statement.
I can tell you the ending, if you want. YUSSS.
It got complicated, as you might imagine. [*CRIES*]
Re: spoilers, obviouslystarlady38February 26 2010, 04:50:24 UTC
Oh wait, and the clones aren't actually dead (again). Their souls are within Shaoran and Sakura, and Shaoran wants to find some way to put those souls in bodies.
Re: yay I love posts from you!orysseinFebruary 26 2010, 08:56:10 UTC
The deliberate counter-cliche has become a cliche. No, no, I know exactly what you mean. If I see one more imaginary 40-year-old gay man whose secret wish is to walk down the street holding his boyfriend’s hand, I may convert to ledikomi out of spite. And a lot of Suzuki’s work is predicated on that kind of thing - liiiiike Hand Which and Kono Yo Ibun, and some of those disposable one-shots. But! The better stuff, like Merry Checker, Sangen Tonari no Tooi Hito, and Kami-sama no Me wo Nusunde (one of the one-shots from Boku no Shiru Anata no Hanashi) is all about the very mundane experience of love in an average life - and how transformative it is despite/because of its ordinary pleasures, especially for people stretched into near invisibility by occupational pressure and social obligation. So, it’s a hit/miss sort of thing, with her. I can see why you’d lose interest given long-term exposure
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not so much into oysters T___TmotorbikeFebruary 27 2010, 08:09:24 UTC
You totally got it right! Most of what I have of TS is stuff like Hand Which and Akanai Tobira. Plus ridic story where boyfriends look up gay sex on wikipedia. Latter touted as genius by the manga-reading community!!! lolol depressing. But Merry Checker etc is around yes? For download? I have to admit, I am totes stoked for possibility of Suzuki art + her at her narrative best. When she doesn't miss the hits are, like. KO
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Re: not so much into oysters T___TorysseinMarch 2 2010, 06:24:45 UTC
THANK YOOOOOOOU ♥ ♥ ♥!!!!
(I awoke Friday afternoon to no phone, a condition I maintained until 6:30PM today. It’s not even a joke anymore.)
Now I can't unsee it. The alternative is that Yoneda was so intimidated by her lack of artistic proficiency that she decided to become a copy editor instead of a mangaka. It won’t look so bad now, promise.
I haven’t had a chance to read Dear Green again, because I just now sat down to hold parley with the internets :< It will happen soon, though.
Downloading the Est Em scans as well. I LOVED the Basso. New favorite. Although, UGH UGH UGH random digital people talking about how excited! they are to get a "print copy" of House of Five Leaves from fucking Viz. (Weeping.)
Miyamoto Kano Effect I don’t understand what fandom sees in Kano Miyamoto. No, really. I have nothing. Her much-loved backwards masterpiece of awfulness NOT/LOVE is one of the reasons I went BL-free for a year and a half. It’s one thing to enjoy the vapidness of a genre cliche in context; a lot of the disposable romance in mass
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Ooooh, shiny. By which I mean, thank you for the BL recs. I will definitely have to check those out when I actually gain back my life from work and school.
I also wanted to check in with you to tell you that, although I rec'ed and still love Kushner's Swordspoint, please, for the love of God, stay away from The Fall of the Kings. It made me cry the sad tears. And not because anybody died, either (although some do). It was just. The characters! And the prose was lacking. And I think I went into a rage at the end, which wasn't even really an end, and I'm more or less pretending that the whole thing never happened. At all. I'm selectively believing things from The Privilege of the Sword and leaving it at that.
I second the Kushner recs, actually! Love Swordspoint + official fanfiction Privilege. Quality reading. Sadly, Fall of the Kings is boring and ill-conceived. Delia Sherman is a capable co writer but she's too big of a history geek to be writing this story. Anyway it doesn't matter if you read it or not, closure wise.
I kept waiting for it to build up into some kind of awful trainwreck, which would at least have been interesting on some level, and instead I got--well. Zombies, pretty much. I felt like the characters sort of ceased to be. There's quite a lot of fantasy that I read by history geeks that is just fantastic (read: Guy Gavriel Kay), but Kushner's world and characters don't fit into that kind of work, like you say. Anyway, this is just me commiserating basically, haha.
You are very welcome, and good luck. (I would have posted direct links, but I don’t want to get booted out of manga_luve.)
FUNNY STORY: I do about 45% of my book-shopping at a local used bookstore which is run by a lady I have been friends with since I was maybe nine. When you originally recced Swordspoint, I Googled it and found that it had a sequel called The Fall of the Kings, which also sounded gay and intriguing. So I wrote both titles down, along with the name "Ellen Kushner," and took them downtown. The proprietor of the used bookstore said: "I can’t find Swordspoint, even though I know it’s in here someplace, but I’ve got The Fall of the Kings right here, under, um. The letter J. Do you want it?" And I said: "Yes!" And I bought it for $3 and I took it home and I started reading it, and :[
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And :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[°°°°°°°°
I went ahead and got Swordspoint, which my friend eventually located (probably in the cookbooks section), but it’s just been sitting forlornly on my untranslated manga waiting to be shuffled off to
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I think she’s just been really busy lately, and trying to adjust to American life again. Also, online correspondence can get kind of overwhelming after it builds up for a few months, and she was away for over a year. I’m sure you’ll hear from her once she’s completely settled :]
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Hope to hear from hear soon! I miss that little pirate!
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I know, right? It’s a sadder internet without Jamie :[
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Tsuta Suzuki is a fav of mine for the humor. I do enjoy yaoi for its VERY realistic humor.
TRC ended without Fay or Kuro nekid, so probably, badly for you. It was one of those open-ended, continuing-on, no-real-answer endings. The scannylations are spread out there if you want to check out their new outfits at the end. :)
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It was one of those open-ended, continuing-on, no-real-answer endings.
I was afraid of that :[ :[ :[ :[
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And now you have some idea of my dilemma.
I can tell you the ending, if you want. It got complicated, as you might imagine.
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I can tell you the ending, if you want.
YUSSS.
It got complicated, as you might imagine.
[*CRIES*]
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No, no, I know exactly what you mean. If I see one more imaginary 40-year-old gay man whose secret wish is to walk down the street holding his boyfriend’s hand, I may convert to ledikomi out of spite. And a lot of Suzuki’s work is predicated on that kind of thing - liiiiike Hand Which and Kono Yo Ibun, and some of those disposable one-shots. But! The better stuff, like Merry Checker, Sangen Tonari no Tooi Hito, and Kami-sama no Me wo Nusunde (one of the one-shots from Boku no Shiru Anata no Hanashi) is all about the very mundane experience of love in an average life - and how transformative it is despite/because of its ordinary pleasures, especially for people stretched into near invisibility by occupational pressure and social obligation. So, it’s a hit/miss sort of thing, with her. I can see why you’d lose interest given long-term exposure ( ... )
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(I awoke Friday afternoon to no phone, a condition I maintained until 6:30PM today. It’s not even a joke anymore.)
Now I can't unsee it.
The alternative is that Yoneda was so intimidated by her lack of artistic proficiency that she decided to become a copy editor instead of a mangaka. It won’t look so bad now, promise.
I haven’t had a chance to read Dear Green again, because I just now sat down to hold parley with the internets :<
It will happen soon, though.
Downloading the Est Em scans as well. I LOVED the Basso. New favorite.
Although, UGH UGH UGH random digital people talking about how excited! they are to get a "print copy" of House of Five Leaves from fucking Viz.
(Weeping.)
Miyamoto Kano Effect
I don’t understand what fandom sees in Kano Miyamoto. No, really. I have nothing. Her much-loved backwards masterpiece of awfulness NOT/LOVE is one of the reasons I went BL-free for a year and a half. It’s one thing to enjoy the vapidness of a genre cliche in context; a lot of the disposable romance in mass ( ... )
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I also wanted to check in with you to tell you that, although I rec'ed and still love Kushner's Swordspoint, please, for the love of God, stay away from The Fall of the Kings. It made me cry the sad tears. And not because anybody died, either (although some do). It was just. The characters! And the prose was lacking. And I think I went into a rage at the end, which wasn't even really an end, and I'm more or less pretending that the whole thing never happened. At all. I'm selectively believing things from The Privilege of the Sword and leaving it at that.
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(I would have posted direct links, but I don’t want to get booted out of manga_luve.)
FUNNY STORY:
I do about 45% of my book-shopping at a local used bookstore which is run by a lady I have been friends with since I was maybe nine. When you originally recced Swordspoint, I Googled it and found that it had a sequel called The Fall of the Kings, which also sounded gay and intriguing. So I wrote both titles down, along with the name "Ellen Kushner," and took them downtown. The proprietor of the used bookstore said: "I can’t find Swordspoint, even though I know it’s in here someplace, but I’ve got The Fall of the Kings right here, under, um. The letter J. Do you want it?" And I said: "Yes!" And I bought it for $3 and I took it home and I started reading it, and :[
And :[ :[
And :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[ :[°°°°°°°°
I went ahead and got Swordspoint, which my friend eventually located (probably in the cookbooks section), but it’s just been sitting forlornly on my untranslated manga waiting to be shuffled off to ( ... )
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