Last week's wk_100 challenge was Character Death ( Read more... )

Last posting, I forgot to include two more douga I found on eBay. The same day I won Kyo and Yuki from Fruits Basket I also won two douga from Prince of Tennis:

2005-1-9 Douga: Prince of Tennis - Echizen Ryoma. The amazing first year student at Seigaku.
2005-1-9 Douga: Prince of Tennis - Kikumaru Eiji. The athletic regular team member at Seigaku; ( Read more... )

My LIveJournal account was down from Friday afternoon to late Sunday night, preventing postings to the wk_100 Girls Night Out Challenge. How dramatic. Good thing the sale closed first! (and I wonder what the impact will be on LiveJournal...)

A week ago, I bought two more douga on eBay, and I'm excited about the pair. From Fruits Basket, I have an angry ( Read more... )

I did what I wanted to do. Wrote an arc of seven Weiss Kreuz sonnets for the poetry challenge. No problem with the iambic pentameter, but cutting them to 100 words was the hardest editing I've ever tried to do. I finally left Sonnet VII, which was what I was working toward the whole time, at 103 words. Wonder if anyone'll read 'em...

(Sonnet I) ( ( Read more... )

The existing reviews written by viewers at my online anime rental source, Greencine, didn't do justice to Onmyoji, so I'm writing my own. I'll replace this with the final copy when it's done. Comments invited.

( Onmyoji - Sorcerers and Shikigami (Review) )

Pulling out poetry was right. People are writing some great drabbles for the Poetry challenge on wk_100, inspired by so many different poets ( Read more... )

The Poetry challenge on wk_100 has us all pulling out old poetry books. Reading poetry has a weird effect on me; I ended up writing something completely different.

I've been thinking a lot about the classic dichotomy in Japanese anime between Fate and individual freedom. Combine that with Pablo Neruda's wonderful poem, Song of Despair, and you've got a ( Read more... )

I shouldn't have, really. But I have purchased my first cel of 2005, and it's lovely.

From Weiss Kreuz, Ken rescuing Omi, scene not yet identified. Now I have three of the four assassins in my collection. No Schwarz yet; people keep outbidding me for Schuldig, and I haven't even seen any cels or genga of Crawford or Naoe Nagi. But I'll get a full ( Read more... )

Enjoyed New Year's Day reading books and online fics, and beginning to write a few; studying Japanese language and history; and updating my collection lists.

Found some excellent new fiction and Japanese history sites, including www.japan-guide.com, and www.taisho.com, a site about the Meiji era.

Happily studied Japanese for hours; verbs are ( Read more... )

Awhile back, a poll identified me as a neo-pagan Buddhist.

Today, another poll said I was an anarchist-Buddhist or Buddhist anarchist, scoring equally high on the two parameters. I'm fond of this one, too.