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Series: Mushishi
Wordcount: 100
Written for [livejournal.com profile] brainbreaker who requested Ginko at [livejournal.com profile] drabble_trade (exchange #1).

Bruises )

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

Kunai )

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

Swingers )


The first two haven't changed, but I edited the third one a little.
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I walked home today to find a dozen mochi plus a honey cake sitting innocently (but mysteriously) on the front porch. They're from an Asian bakery on Route 27 -- the box is extremely attractive -- and there's no note, so I have no idea why they were delivered.

While I have your attention, downloads!

Yukikaze/Gradius AMV
Another thing that appeared mysteriously, this time in my music folder. I must have downloaded this while on an NMHK kick, but not watched it since I didn't know the series -- and now that I do know it's pretty funny how un-Yukikaze-like this is. [livejournal.com profile] falxumbra is probably right when she says that the editor was only looking for high-quality dogfight footage, and didn't care which show he got it from. Great video, though.

The Pirates of Darkwater Comic
This is from the late eighties/early nineties, and it's awful. Worse than the G.I. Joe comics. Re-tells the first six or so episodes of the television series, minus the humor and plus gross anatomical errors like in this closeup of Ren:



Ewwwww. Now I'm all nostalgic; anyone know where I can get the television series?

Speaking of Pirates, I started reading One Piece yesterday! So far I'm not impressed, and whenever I ask someone (meaning, again, [livejournal.com profile] falxumbra) what's so great about this series, I get an avoidant answer. But that's okay, because I also hear it only gets better, and if I had to explain what makes Hunter x Hunter so great I probably wouldn't be able to either.

New layout! Now that Passover has come and gone, I figured it was time to ditch the winter colors. The new colorscheme is not particularly spring-like, but it's pretty and I like it.

Edit: mochi = boring. I knew they wouldn't be very sweet, but at least an interesting filling or...I don't know, something.
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...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.
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"Battle Fairy Yukikaze" is a space-military SF series about these poor schmoes who have to defend an alien planet ("Fairy") from the machines of a terrifyingly incomprehensible alien civilization, lest the aliens use it as a stepping stone to Earth. I've been reading [livejournal.com profile] petronia's novel summaries. I also downloaded the anime, but got the fifth (and final - it's an OAV) episode fansubbed in Russian by mistake.

Nooooooooo! Some not!drabbles, while I wait thirty hours for the last episode in English.

Variations on a theme )

I sort of want to do another series on the alien-ness of JAM, but I'm prevented by having NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON in the anime half the time. *crosses fingers that the last episode will clear some things up*

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