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1. Killua/Gon pairing manifesto at ship_manifesto. It’s a lot like reading a summary of the series XDXDXD totally Togashi’s fault for basing so much of Hunter x Hunter on their relationship. Good choice of manga scans in that post; HxH is the furthest thing from subtle but those particular scans are so incredibly blatant, they do everything but show the killer with his hand still on the knife, which is protruding from his victim’s back. They certainly include him standing over the bloody body and his confession afterward.

(odrade42 has a much better grasp on Gon’s character than me. Ahaha but I think I finally understand now? I need to write something for 30_kisses soon, it’s been four months and I’m not kicked out yet only because the community mods have better things to do.)

2. Naruto: reccing Way of the Appartment Manager by Elizabeth Culmer. It's alternate timeline (which I consider worse, much worse, than AU); main character is an OC who gets to be Naruto's substitute Mommy. And it's awesome. The cool thing about this fic is how well it fleshes out the Naruto world -- village dynamics, jutsu mechanics, stuff like that. There's not a whole lot of HOW COULD YOU NEGLECT THIS POOR ORPHAN BOY YOU MEANIES, and what there is, is tolerable.

Rec is via this post of V's. I also reccommend Family -- it's another story that sounds bad in summary but which has excellent writing and well-reasoned implications. These two aren't quite canon; that's what makes them great.

3. HanaKimi manga: gorgeous characters with the best expressions. But if I hadn’t had the whole series to read at once I probably would have died of frustration. ( Cut I )

3. Prince of Tennis manga: makes it soooo much harder to fangirl Ryoma. ( Cut II )

4.Half-blood Prince: let’s play flist connection! Assume spoilers, of course, although they are very vague. ( Cut III )

Putting this here so I can link to it, but I don't particularly feel like spamming everyone on my flist with it, or posting anywhere on the first page.

This entry is BACKDATED July 11, 2006.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (the awful thing is, they're not that far away)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (nothing that's not online or being watched by someone else)	✓ I own lots of books.  (including lots I wish I didn't own!)
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.  (contacts; my glasses give me a headache)	✓ I love to play video games.  (...sometimes)	× I've tried marijuana.  (though I once told someone I had)
✓ I've watched porn movies.  (unintentionally (ARG))	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (almost always)
✓ I curse sometimes.  (mainly at myself)	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (for better or worse)	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

I watched until episode 16 on Saturday. Then I conned a friend into teaching me tennis. I’ve played occasionally for years – just never, you know, correctly =_= and now I’m looking at more than a decade of bad habits. There’s a reason the Seigaku first-years aren’t usually allowed to play!

I also drove myself out of forty dollars’ worth of gasoline. Worth it to spend Fourth of July in Ohio, where fireworks are legal? Maybe. Sandusky could use better beaches, Cleveland is a cleaner friendlier more prosperous version of Detroit, family in Canton/Columbus was as usual. I am so, so tired. Why am I always more tired after vacations than before?

Sorry, I was talking about TeniPuri.

( A couple things )

Fanfic! Just something I wanted to get down before I forgot. Written with Mike Doughty – Looking at the World from the Bottom of the Well on repeat.

( Ficlet – Non-trivial )

The tennis is (partially) made-up. If Konomi can do it…

But Ryoma’s strings are low-tension, you can see it in the way he bends them with his fingers. Physics says he’ll have to convert most of the incoming momentum himself -- I wonder if his rackets are heavy -- so he should have more control at point of contact, more time at point of contact, etc.

Probably. ^^;; my impromptu coach is leaving for Pennsylvania today, so from now on I’m on my own (again). How much tennis can I learn from watching PoT, do you think?

I'm finally caught up on Avatar. This prompted by two very good shortfics on theavatar100 (a decent fic comm in general, if not the most prolific).

1.Visitor by potato (formerly ratherodd)
2.Exhibit by v_voltaire

Rather than attempt an analysis of the latest episodes (ha! ha!), I've decided to summarize with pictures. As an added bonus, these pictures are all 100x100 pixels and are meant for use as ICONS/ICON BASES. They are pretty, I think, but only because the show itself is pretty.

For those just tuning in: Avatar is another olde China AU anime. But, umm, it's American.

( Book I, Chapter IX: The Waterbending Scroll )


Whew! That was more work than I thought, so you get a non-spoiling paragraph per episode from here on out. A shame, because nine wasn't even my favorite episode. Ten was.

( Episode 10 )
( Episode 11 )
( Episode 12 )
( Episode 13 )

In conclusion, I'll be very upset if this show isn't picked up for a second season.

You can find torrents of the episodes here and sum more icon bases for this show at my website.

So don’t say no one ever told you, okay?

( Batman Begins review. Spoiler-free! )




I take back everything nice I ever said about object-oriented programming. I swear, if I have to look through one more function that calls a function that calls another function that calls another function that calls another function, and all these progressive calls do is add levels of abstraction so that by the time we get to the original function the only variables are IntArg1, IntArg2 … IntaArg27, and I am supposed to magically know what these are...it will have been a typical day at the lab. Sigh.