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1) Maybe on some deep subconscious level, you just read RenRuki stories because it looks like Kurama x Hiei from a distance?
2) ( I reread Bleach vol.3 over the weekend. )
3) P.S. Byakuya has gone back to wearing his macaroni for sures. Sorry!
4) ( Speaking of Byakuya, I went back and looked at my old drabble request meme. )
5) Your lips are like a crimson thread
Howl's Moving Castle fic, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
obakesan. It is a very nice feeling to finish reading a book and log online to find someone on the flist has written a fic for it, almost luxurious. XD Usually when a prose work is called "poetic" what is meant is a stylistic - syntactic? - quality, but there is such a thing as poetic conceit as well, and this piece employs it.
Out of the Diana Wynne Jones books so far I like this one best; it is also the most unabashedly shoujoist. XD It feels as if it's intended for a slightly older audience, but perhaps that is just because the protagonist is not a child. (DWJ's trick of getting one to see the "real world" from the wrong end of the fantasy telescope is something else. I had to work hard to flip it in my head and picture meeting Howl as an over-educated under-employed charming do-no-gooder in a Welsh pub.)
6) Watched Syriana in ahem Oscar review copy rip. The Village Voice review is pretty close to what I think. There is a film twice as depressing as Brokeback Mountain, and three times as dry (I suspect if one doesn't have a basic working knowledge of the financial sector/oil industry/Middle East politics, say from regularly reading the Business and International News sections of the newspaper, one would simply fail to follow - my sister didn't, and she's not what you'd call a dumb moviegoer). But as my mother said, the good thing about America is that Americans are willing and able to make unflattering movies about themselves. Well. She didn't say "good", she said "odd". But I think it's good. XD;
I really wanted to see this mostly because I learnt tricks from selfsame scriptwriter in Traffic. XD Syriana is even better at cramming information into the seams - infodump voiceover! - and forcing the viewer to employ intelligence in dot-connecting, but there's too much tangle and not enough skein, and (I realised in my own writing) too many strategies of abbreviation can make for dry results. Boy can they make for dry results.
7) Still waiting on theljarchive fix. >_>
2) ( I reread Bleach vol.3 over the weekend. )
3) P.S. Byakuya has gone back to wearing his macaroni for sures. Sorry!
4) ( Speaking of Byakuya, I went back and looked at my old drabble request meme. )
5) Your lips are like a crimson thread
Howl's Moving Castle fic, by
obakesan. It is a very nice feeling to finish reading a book and log online to find someone on the flist has written a fic for it, almost luxurious. XD Usually when a prose work is called "poetic" what is meant is a stylistic - syntactic? - quality, but there is such a thing as poetic conceit as well, and this piece employs it.Out of the Diana Wynne Jones books so far I like this one best; it is also the most unabashedly shoujoist. XD It feels as if it's intended for a slightly older audience, but perhaps that is just because the protagonist is not a child. (DWJ's trick of getting one to see the "real world" from the wrong end of the fantasy telescope is something else. I had to work hard to flip it in my head and picture meeting Howl as an over-educated under-employed charming do-no-gooder in a Welsh pub.)
6) Watched Syriana in ahem Oscar review copy rip. The Village Voice review is pretty close to what I think. There is a film twice as depressing as Brokeback Mountain, and three times as dry (I suspect if one doesn't have a basic working knowledge of the financial sector/oil industry/Middle East politics, say from regularly reading the Business and International News sections of the newspaper, one would simply fail to follow - my sister didn't, and she's not what you'd call a dumb moviegoer). But as my mother said, the good thing about America is that Americans are willing and able to make unflattering movies about themselves. Well. She didn't say "good", she said "odd". But I think it's good. XD;
I really wanted to see this mostly because I learnt tricks from selfsame scriptwriter in Traffic. XD Syriana is even better at cramming information into the seams - infodump voiceover! - and forcing the viewer to employ intelligence in dot-connecting, but there's too much tangle and not enough skein, and (I realised in my own writing) too many strategies of abbreviation can make for dry results. Boy can they make for dry results.
7) Still waiting on the
ljarchive fix. >_>
