petronia

It occurs to me that Viewfinder and its ilk are the only series on what I think of as the classic animanga fandom schedule anymore - you know, back when fansubs came four episodes to a VHS tape and there was no such thing as chapter-by-chapter manga scanlations? Wait two months for an installment, arm-wave excitedly for ten minutes, settle down to write fic and wait another two months. I'm not sure if this counts as irony or what. XD

People on my flist talking about the latest chapter of Viewfinder:

sesame_seed in essay form with bonus music,

yasminm... succinctly. XD Also, I don't usually visit the comm except to anonymously gack scans but I have to link the Is The Author Dead (tm) thread for posterity. Dude, if it shows up on

yamane_ayano for love of life it must really be a fannish inevitability. XD Or is it a sign of sensei's genius, that people are getting riled over non-con in a BexBoy manga - in which every other chapter to date has been borderline or all-out non-con by the by, the characters solve ALL THEIR PROBLEMS through either forced sex or bullets so I honestly don't know what people were expecting when Takaba misplaced his brain and went haring after Feilong,** I mean it's not precisely Only The Ring Finger Knows. Yanno.

If we're going to get on the subject at all, I'm with the person who pointed out that Yamane-sensei quite obviously likes Feilong - I mean, you can tell when a mangaka isn't terribly fond of one of their characters or doesn't know what to do with him/her. They tend not to get their own tankoubon-length flashback arcs, let alone 4,091 gratuitous chapter frontispieces. She likes him unscrupulous and a bit psychotic, evidently; well, for that matter so do I. This is why Kristin says I don't write enough fluff. XD;;

(My problem is that AFAICT pretty much nobody in the entire universe likes Asami, Takaba and Feilong about equally, except it's obvious to me that Yamane-sensei herself does. And I do. Thus I think I understand her best or something. >_>)

** I was expecting exactly what happened, I'll have you know! Except for the part where Asami manages to show up in time. And the part where he and Feilong conspicuously fail to cause lasting damage to each other despite being at a distance of what four yards. For bob's sake Asami didn't even shoot to disable like Fei did, he shot to disarm, it only got Feilong in the side on a ricochet. I would've been a lot less charitable to someone who'd just raped my boyfriend and SHOT ME IN THE LEG.

(Either that or the ricochet was planned and he's just that good. XD;;;;;; Who knows. I bet he owns at pool.)

Hikaru no Go fic to come, stay tuned. *whistles*