I got my copy of mangaka_chan's doujinshi Feuer Fest in the mail today when I got home from another long day at the library. And wow. It looked amazing online, but it felt somehow more real (I'm not quite sure what the word I'm looking for here, almost "official" or "professional") to have an actual material copy of it--it printed out beautifully and just, so ( Read more... )

Kind of random, but I just wondered if anyone had thoughts on this. Why is it that two of the most vocal animal-human characters, Mr. Cat and Duck, end up as animals but two of the least vocal and most animal ones, piano penguin dude and Ms. Goat, end up as humans when the story ends? It seems like such a strange reversal since we think of complex ( Read more... )

Oh, stupid thoughts running through my head at 2 am after spending way too much time reading. I honestly paused a minute and thought about this.

Maybe, Drosselmeyer was a grad student, a scholar at university taught by the ancestors of the bookmen who chopped off his hands. And he studied but was never good enough (way to transpose my own anxieties ( Read more... )

Title: The Food of Love
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Pairing: Mythos/Tutu, implied Mythos/Fakir
Rating: G
Genre: humor, angst
A/N: Set near the beginning of Season 2.  Written for the PT gift exchange, for ladyairy.

( Summary: Mythos gave Princess Tutu a gift to determine her feelings for him, but what did he try to determine his own? )

 
( Summary: It’s probably been done before. )

 
Five Reasons Why Drosselmeyer Didn't Write The Prince and the Raven

I. Fable

Outside, it is raining and inside the little house at the edge of town, it is also raining but not in the same way; the lamp burns low because they have only so much oil and by its gloom, the old grandmother reads a fairytale to the child.

The story is a happy one ( Read more... )

As any reader of the Tortall books knows, the discussion of race, colonialism, and imperialism improves as TP herself grows and improves as a writer. One drawback of published work is that you are stuck with your early mistakes, so the somewhat simplistic world-building of early Tortall ‘verse could not be scrapped as TP’s ideas clearly became more ( Read more... )

So ever since I saw the Star Trek movie, I’ve gone on a Star Trek series binge-watching DS 9 for the first time (a little to dark for my tastes; I’m a TNG girl at heart, although I do like how DS9 has more roles for the ladies beyond nurturing and taking dictation), and the Original Series which I had always assumed would be too cringeworthy but is ( Read more... )

Dear self ( Read more... )

Ok, so I've only been to one anime convention and that was Anime Boston back when I was a sophomore in college and I've never cosplayed (haha, I keep wanting to say "cross-play" as some sort of weird conflation of "cross dress" and "cosplay" XD). There are a number of reasons for this, but mostly because I am Too Lazy ( Read more... )