Not really fannish, for once

What I want to do is rampage through my flist commenting on every second entry, mostly telling people to go look at each other's projects. This is kind of beyond me at the moment, though, as I'm 200 pages into Fire From Heaven and mentally far from dealings with the Computer Age. ^^; (Have to pick the best of good novels to read these days, or my attention isn't held; fanfiction's made me more fastidious than published books, ironically enough. Also sororial unit demands it, so she can complain bitterly and sans restraint about the perspective switch in the second book or whatever it is that's got her gander up. XD She doesn't like it, and won't read the third. Perhaps she'll cave, but who knows? Neither of us has read the last two of Jacqueline Carey's trilogy.) It feels a little odd, because I've read any number of Roman historical novels but can't remember any Greek/Hellenistic ones - I mean, that are really historical novels and not, dunno, Jean Anouilh's Antigone. (Or for that matter, Sophocles' Antigone.) Plenty of that sort of thing. But Alexander belongs to the mental category presided over by National Geographic. I actually found the old magazine with the article I used to read over; it's the same age as Renault's novel. ^^;

As for the rest, marathoned the last half of Tsukihime, which finally began to pick up and deliver circa episode 8 (but is there any more Sheep's Song? ;_;). Akiha's by far the most interesting character, which actually prompted a ramble-post regarding whether canonically obsessive sibling relationships can be written as anything else but 'cestfic in the eyes of a ready viewer (if not the actual writer), which I then privatised after deciding that rather than angst about it I'd write it and see. XD Thrice-becursed fansubbers bundled the YamiBoushi eps while I was still in the middle of downloading ep.6 and up singly, so I started Maria-sama ga miteru instead. ...I can't tell if I like it wholeheartedly, or if I like it because it sort of disturbs me. It's as if they took Oniisama e (and a good dose of Utena's surface aesthetic) and made it fluffy. o_O Also I went to a girl's high called Villa Maria, and thence to a somewhat affiliated college called Marianopolis, and every once in a while in the anime there'd be a shot of a staircase or stained-glass window or statue that looks exactly like my old HS, which really wigs me out. I suppose convent school buildings all around the world are the same. ^^; Pure times, innocent times... eheheheh.