Manga to download, for own reference
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petronia* Bleach, 223-230: may have to ask for uploads from the flist if the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
soul_society savefiles don't hold out. ^^; It feels longer than a month and a half since I dropped out of the serialization, actually, but seven chapters isn't even a full tankoubon.
(I just popped over to the comm and promptly laughed myself sick at that last CD cover with Byakuya. :P)
* Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, 108 and up. Arc should have progressed nicely in my absence. XD
* XXXHolic, 97 and up.
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Events of this weekend:
1) Dropped by the Otakuthon, the baby convention held at Concordia U, for about three hours. I'd actually completely forgotten this was going down, though Tania remembered in time to put together a cosplay (Aya out of Tenjou Tenge - she only had a blond wig though XD). So I don't even know if anyone I know online was there. Er, give a wave if you saw us and didn't know it was us? ^^; There was me, Tania, Talal, Tommy and a couple of girls Tommy knew, and I spent some time kibitzing with the harried dude named Victor who was DJing the dance using the faders on five different instances of Winamp 2.
I came away with the impression that I was way too old for this shit, but oddly, sharply nostalgic despite the fact that I've only been to a con twice. XD It's its own social atmosphere. In between the first and the second Shoujocon I attended online fansubbing became widespread, and that took away a lot of the previewing fun (as it did from the anime aspect of Fantasia); I was also getting way too much LJ meta in my diet to care about the panels. So in the end it's an opportunity to meet friends, sell/shop, and cosplay/watch cosplayers. I'm very much on the consumerist shopping/gawking end of that equation. XD The FF7 group yesterday was rather good, especially the Cloud. (Who was waylaid spectacularly by the yaoi fangirl panel. :P) I think he said it was the Aeris who was thorough and made them all wear ribbons.
2) Have been suckered by parents into watching that Korean historical drama about the imperial cook (Chinese-subbed and - irritatingly - dubbed in overlay, simultaneous translation style, so you always hear two people talking at once. Maybe it's the fault of the VCDs). I have a hunch the main character is going to get on my nerves after a while, but for the moment I'm fully entertained by watching historical Koreans be Koreans, and not Chinese for once, or Japanese for that matter.
3) Read Black Powder War, which depleted my allotment of visual function for the day. (I rilly rilly need that optometrist appointment.) The first section seemed like a pleasant variation on the second novel, with all the travelling and the palace intrigue that came after it; only after the Prussian campaign began did the storyline really head off into uncharted waters. Novik has a trick - which I suspect she borrowed from O'Brian - of ending a novel not with a properly tailing denouement but just after the last climax, when the resolution can be foreseen. This saves pagecount and is emotionally satisfying but makes the teaser chapter seem much more integral to the book than it really should be, because it's where you inevitably find out that the resolution does not resolve after all, but only kicks off a whole new set of circumstances. XD
Srsly, if Temeraire is the long-haired scholar bishounen I think we have a candidate for annoying perky loli.
soul_society savefiles don't hold out. ^^; It feels longer than a month and a half since I dropped out of the serialization, actually, but seven chapters isn't even a full tankoubon.(I just popped over to the comm and promptly laughed myself sick at that last CD cover with Byakuya. :P)
* Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, 108 and up. Arc should have progressed nicely in my absence. XD
* XXXHolic, 97 and up.
***
Events of this weekend:
1) Dropped by the Otakuthon, the baby convention held at Concordia U, for about three hours. I'd actually completely forgotten this was going down, though Tania remembered in time to put together a cosplay (Aya out of Tenjou Tenge - she only had a blond wig though XD). So I don't even know if anyone I know online was there. Er, give a wave if you saw us and didn't know it was us? ^^; There was me, Tania, Talal, Tommy and a couple of girls Tommy knew, and I spent some time kibitzing with the harried dude named Victor who was DJing the dance using the faders on five different instances of Winamp 2.
I came away with the impression that I was way too old for this shit, but oddly, sharply nostalgic despite the fact that I've only been to a con twice. XD It's its own social atmosphere. In between the first and the second Shoujocon I attended online fansubbing became widespread, and that took away a lot of the previewing fun (as it did from the anime aspect of Fantasia); I was also getting way too much LJ meta in my diet to care about the panels. So in the end it's an opportunity to meet friends, sell/shop, and cosplay/watch cosplayers. I'm very much on the consumerist shopping/gawking end of that equation. XD The FF7 group yesterday was rather good, especially the Cloud. (Who was waylaid spectacularly by the yaoi fangirl panel. :P) I think he said it was the Aeris who was thorough and made them all wear ribbons.
2) Have been suckered by parents into watching that Korean historical drama about the imperial cook (Chinese-subbed and - irritatingly - dubbed in overlay, simultaneous translation style, so you always hear two people talking at once. Maybe it's the fault of the VCDs). I have a hunch the main character is going to get on my nerves after a while, but for the moment I'm fully entertained by watching historical Koreans be Koreans, and not Chinese for once, or Japanese for that matter.
3) Read Black Powder War, which depleted my allotment of visual function for the day. (I rilly rilly need that optometrist appointment.) The first section seemed like a pleasant variation on the second novel, with all the travelling and the palace intrigue that came after it; only after the Prussian campaign began did the storyline really head off into uncharted waters. Novik has a trick - which I suspect she borrowed from O'Brian - of ending a novel not with a properly tailing denouement but just after the last climax, when the resolution can be foreseen. This saves pagecount and is emotionally satisfying but makes the teaser chapter seem much more integral to the book than it really should be, because it's where you inevitably find out that the resolution does not resolve after all, but only kicks off a whole new set of circumstances. XD
Srsly, if Temeraire is the long-haired scholar bishounen I think we have a candidate for annoying perky loli.
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Date: 2006-06-12 05:04 am (UTC)224 (http://www.streamload.com/shalott/EL/5OY6LT7PHL/Bleach_-_c224v2_M7.zip)
225 (http://www.streamload.com/shalott/EL/5OY6LT7PHL/Bleach_-_c225_M7.zip)
226 (http://www.streamload.com/shalott/EL/5OY6LT7PHL/Bleach_-_c226_M7.zip)
227 (http://www.streamload.com/shalott/EL/5OY6LT7PHL/Bleach_-_c227_M7.zip)
Can't help with 228~230, I'm afraid.
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suckered by parents into watching that Korean historical drama about the imperial cook
The mind goes interesting places while skimming.
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Date: 2006-06-12 05:19 am (UTC)Not always functional is it, this skimming thing. *eyeballs*
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Date: 2006-06-12 07:32 am (UTC)Aha! That explains it. Usually I don't read teasers if I know I'm going to be buying the next book, but in this case I can't help myself.
Appendixes and fake histories, on the other hand...I really like the extras at the end of these books, and I liked this one best of all. I wonder if she borrowed it from somewhere. It does that great thing where the proposal seems perfectly reasonable until you realize what's actually being discussed.
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Date: 2006-06-12 03:52 pm (UTC)The scholarly papers are interesting, and I wonder if she's going anywhere with them.
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Date: 2006-06-12 11:17 am (UTC)No idea if I *could* get into the scene now, or even three or four years ago. But, as I came in pretty much even before I was really an otaku, there it went: I'm not nearly as much an anime fan as...a con circuit addict, and of course, it's been *ages* since I've last actually seen something at a con.
...(uh, that *isn't* either the first volume of Melody of Oblivion at four in the morning, or Otaku no Video at three p.m. on the sunday.)
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Date: 2006-06-12 11:58 am (UTC)Oho, that sounds like Jewel of the Palace. I got myself a box set of that, and someday I'll sit down and make time for it. What reviews I've read of it, though, sound good to me.
^__^
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Date: 2006-06-13 12:06 am (UTC)Doujinshi plz. XD If only J-fandom could get hold of these books.
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:02 pm (UTC)I thought they'd send some kind of email reminder or something. Do you have pics of the FF7 group, by any chance? ^_^
Cynthia