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Damn names.
...Okay, so "Michael" is out on account of (a) I now have a friend named Michael who I did not know at the time of creating this character; and (b) it's too damned common ( Read more... ) -
WHAT am I getting myself into??
Beyond HumanModern fantasy manga. Art of the "memo pad and ballpoint pen and 30 spare minutes per page" quality ( Read more... ) -
On "The Long Goodbye," Homosociality, and why I think the Japanese like yaoi so much
I should really just have some sort of rule against letting myself read noir past eight.
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Oh my God.
HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE.
Genius, sheer bloody genius.
The plot of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as a filk of T.S. Eliot's The Wastelands. -
Maybe I should be wearing sunglasses.
So, today's shopping trip was dedicated to seeing if I could track down a certain PS2 game that was requested as a christmas present. I found it on the second store (SCORE), but the first one was... interesting.
I'm really glad I didn't have to look in more than two stores, if the reaction I got at I Will! was characteristic:
Me: あのう、こんいちは。 ( Read more... ) -
Huh. Weird dream.
...admittedly it's not the dream that weirds me out so much as the waking-world shit ( Read more... ) -
You're kidding. Right? RIGHT!?
Sony's just filed a patent on technology to make a video game unplayable on any console except the one into which you first insert it.
Fuck you too, Sony. Fuck you very much.
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Now that's original.
(From the manga Rin! as translated by Mochi*Mochi ( Read more... ) -
Huh.
Okay, I'm sort of un-writer's-blocked. Lucas is talking, even if Nic's not, and I've decided that if Nic's that bloody secretive then I can spend at least a chapter on amusing Lucas shenanigans while he tries to get Nic to talk, i.e. the "better him than me" backup plan ( Read more... ) -
I'm too scared to do this.
From a comment by edana_ni_emer in fanficrants"Have you ever heard of Google Seppuku? You input between three and five random Japanese characters into Google Image Search, and see how far you get before you see something that makes you want to kill yourself ( Read more... )