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petroniaFinally got around to updating my lj memories. ^^; The fanfiction posts are listed here; you'll only see incomplete drafts, though, i.e. the chunks of fic that haven't yet made it to the website proper. Over the last year that mostly means Vagrant Story, Get Backers (the infamous Drabble Deck and the Fuuga OT3 fic) and the latest couple TeniPuri things.
If you've had me friended for a while you'd have seen all of it. But about half of you have had me friended for less than six months. ^^; <--(inexplicable sudden popularity)
Shinji's 20.5 profile has "Lexidata" listed as one of his interests. レキシーデータ, that is to say, so it took me ages of squinting just to figure out how to pronounce it - and then when I googled it, it turned up a bazillion Japanese Prince of Tennis fangirls puzzling over it on their BBSes. (To the point that one of Shinji's 100 Questions is "Do you know what the Lexidata is?" XD) Mind you the fanbook tells you what it is, in the straight-faced tone the fanbook employs for all its coke-induced flights of fancy: it's an educational toy for preschoolers that was popular some years ago. The Lexidata being designed to build cognitive and visual recognition skills, it is not difficult to imagine [sic] that it fostered Shinji's cool-headed judgment [sic], given that he's been playing with it ever since he was little. [sic, sic a hundred times, you think I could come up with this?] "Also," continues the fanbook, "the image of little Shinji sitting in his room all alone playing with his Lexidata is really cute." (WHAT ABOUT THE IMAGE OF BIG 14-YEAR-OLD SHINJI PLAYING WITH HIS PRESCHOOL TOYS, KONOMI YOU FREAK??)
(Google turned up further specifics. The Lexidata appears to be highly popular in Francophone countries even now. Basically, it's an analog computer / plastic box roughly the size and shape of a PS1, with twelve buttons on the top. The kid programs it with the number of the card series s/he's working on, and then punches the buttons to answer the multiple-choice questions on the vocab/math cards. If s/he get all twelve questions right, it gives a little flourish music and the plastic doll/rocket/thing pops up in the corner. ^^; The French card sets go up to what I'd call a grade 5-6 level, but dunno about the Japanese ones.
You might note also that the company that makes these things is based in... Pointe-Claire, Montreal. I am disturbed all around.)
If you've had me friended for a while you'd have seen all of it. But about half of you have had me friended for less than six months. ^^; <--(inexplicable sudden popularity)
Shinji's 20.5 profile has "Lexidata" listed as one of his interests. レキシーデータ, that is to say, so it took me ages of squinting just to figure out how to pronounce it - and then when I googled it, it turned up a bazillion Japanese Prince of Tennis fangirls puzzling over it on their BBSes. (To the point that one of Shinji's 100 Questions is "Do you know what the Lexidata is?" XD) Mind you the fanbook tells you what it is, in the straight-faced tone the fanbook employs for all its coke-induced flights of fancy: it's an educational toy for preschoolers that was popular some years ago. The Lexidata being designed to build cognitive and visual recognition skills, it is not difficult to imagine [sic] that it fostered Shinji's cool-headed judgment [sic], given that he's been playing with it ever since he was little. [sic, sic a hundred times, you think I could come up with this?] "Also," continues the fanbook, "the image of little Shinji sitting in his room all alone playing with his Lexidata is really cute." (WHAT ABOUT THE IMAGE OF BIG 14-YEAR-OLD SHINJI PLAYING WITH HIS PRESCHOOL TOYS, KONOMI YOU FREAK??)
(Google turned up further specifics. The Lexidata appears to be highly popular in Francophone countries even now. Basically, it's an analog computer / plastic box roughly the size and shape of a PS1, with twelve buttons on the top. The kid programs it with the number of the card series s/he's working on, and then punches the buttons to answer the multiple-choice questions on the vocab/math cards. If s/he get all twelve questions right, it gives a little flourish music and the plastic doll/rocket/thing pops up in the corner. ^^; The French card sets go up to what I'd call a grade 5-6 level, but dunno about the Japanese ones.
You might note also that the company that makes these things is based in... Pointe-Claire, Montreal. I am disturbed all around.)
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Date: 2004-02-05 07:30 pm (UTC)And I really, honestly thought that the chibi-episodes of TeniPuri would be the height of weirdness. Ever. I guess that's where the producers get their crack deals: straight from the source.
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Date: 2004-02-05 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-05 07:50 pm (UTC)It might also explain why Shinji just seems so SLOW in everything except tennis. the reptition has gotten to him.