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Series: Mushishi
Wordcount: 100
Written for brainbreaker who requested Ginko at drabble_trade (exchange #1).

( Bruises )

Series: Naruto
Wordcount: 100
Written for reality_is who requested Shikamaru/Temari at drabble_trade (exchange #2).

( Kunai )

Series: Yukikaze
Wordcount: 536
Written for tongari who requested Rei/Plane at drabble_trade (Exchange #2).

( Swingers )


The first two haven't changed, but I edited the third one a little.

...to summarize things in exhaustive detail than to actually work out what I want to say about them.

Yukikaze is a show about these guys who are fighting a war they don't understand against aliens they don't understand on the other side of an interdimensional portal whose physics they probably don't understand, and meanwhile most of the people on Earth don't even remember they exist. Poor guys. There's also some stuff about artifical intelligence.

( Yukikaze Episode Summaries - SPOILERS, Obviously )


MEANWHILE, IN MOVIE-LAND:

Walk the Line.

Joaquim Phoenix was a inspired piece of casting: Johnny Cash in this movie is so pathetically dependent that without Joaquim's soulful staring eyes no one would put up with him. I wouldn't have, at any rate. He crossed my line a couple of times as it was, during the drug addiction scenes (I had to leave the room for one of them); but he gets better and by the end I'd been convinced that he -- and, more importantly, the movie -- had earned his happy ending.

V for Vendetta

Me: It wasn't as good as I thought it would be.
Mom: Too much hype.
Me: And there was too much exposition, I mean all of the themes were spelled out.
Mom: Like in a comic book.
Me: I didn't like the action scenes either, they were unnecessary and gross.
Mom: Slow-motion blood splatters are disgusting.
Me: And the way this theoretical British government so obviously being paralleled to the current U.S. government?
Dad: *interrupting* What was wrong with it?
Me: ...the United States isn't a fascist police state that kills everyone who makes fun of President Bush?
Dad: Fascism doesn't exist for no reason, it's exists in response to an organized opposition. It's only the absence of serious resistance that allows our government to maintain the illusion of democracy.
Me: ...
Dad: What I didn't like was that V was a lone-wolf figure. It would be more accurate to say that governments are overthrown by massive spontaneous popular uprisings.
Me: ...
Dad: But any move that ends with the Parliament building being blown up is a good movie.

My dad is like that, though. I think I get my love of official-sounding rhetoric from him. And actually, I did like the movie, just not as much as I thought I would.