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petroniaSpent a good chunk of my Sunday attempting to catch up on fandoms - twenty chapters' worth of TRC and Holic each, mostly. Still about a volume behind on Holic but am pretty much up on TRC now. I don't want to have to spend time reading CLAMP's glorified crackfic (for pete's sake) so much as I wish I could just download the images into my brain and instantaneously digest the information contained therein, but for now we make do with what we have.
Concurrently I was reading Aristotle's Poetics, which served to highlight how ancient CLAMP's grab bag of tricks is. To give them credit they're pretty much the only purists in their particular scene... I keep wondering, did ever an Athenian want to throttle Sophocles this much?
"WTF, I can't believe Oedipus put his own eyes out at the end! What is up with the eyeball obsession? THE MADNESS MUST STOP!"
No, seriously. A night's sleep has dulled the edge of my exquisite hatred (not deploying Tychoesque italics, feel free to imagine) but I still can't believe they went there, for all values of "there". I do have the reflex that creator(s) ought to maintain some ragged semblance of dignity so the fans can have their space but... yeah. And I called myself a Weiss Kreuz ficcer too, this many a moon past.
"Like sisters", indeed. CLAMP Life Lesson #1: the Oracle, she's not always saying what you think she's saying.
What if, at the height of the fandom shipping wars, someone had written this AU fanfic?
Also, would it be unwieldy for Kurogane to carry Fai in any way that did not involve touching his ass?
What else? Oh yeah, spoiler zone declared in the comments - WHERE IS THE FIC, PEOPLE?? It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be heartfelt. 以上です。
Less vituperatively, I finished watching the Ouran anime. Very much in the "homg must bring artificial closure as manga shows no sign of wrapping up!" mode, but intelligently done despite the rush. Basically they played it straight like the shortest distance between two points, which is not a description of the rest of the series, but if you love the characters (and "they" know you do) you'd be a fool not to ride the wave. The fluffy, pink, shoujo-coloured wave.
More spoilersome observations: rather liked Eclair but not sure I would have liked her if the plot arc had run for another episode, which is what it deserved really. What really boggled me was how it went for the Kyouya-Tamaki-Haruhi triangle as opposed to Tamaki-Haruhi-Twins. Not that I don't like Kyouya etc. but ending the anime on that note (the fathers' conversation!) puts further developments at the mercy of my imagination, and my imagination can't do it justice. I haven't the gumption to wring the setup for what it's worth like a proper shoujo mangaka or Chinese fanwriter. I think they should just all move in together. Surely the families wouldn't object as long as respective conglomerates continued to rise in value?
I should read the manga but I doubt the question arises there, which makes it sort of moot.
Concurrently I was reading Aristotle's Poetics, which served to highlight how ancient CLAMP's grab bag of tricks is. To give them credit they're pretty much the only purists in their particular scene... I keep wondering, did ever an Athenian want to throttle Sophocles this much?
"WTF, I can't believe Oedipus put his own eyes out at the end! What is up with the eyeball obsession? THE MADNESS MUST STOP!"
No, seriously. A night's sleep has dulled the edge of my exquisite hatred (not deploying Tychoesque italics, feel free to imagine) but I still can't believe they went there, for all values of "there". I do have the reflex that creator(s) ought to maintain some ragged semblance of dignity so the fans can have their space but... yeah. And I called myself a Weiss Kreuz ficcer too, this many a moon past.
"Like sisters", indeed. CLAMP Life Lesson #1: the Oracle, she's not always saying what you think she's saying.
What if, at the height of the fandom shipping wars, someone had written this AU fanfic?
Also, would it be unwieldy for Kurogane to carry Fai in any way that did not involve touching his ass?
What else? Oh yeah, spoiler zone declared in the comments - WHERE IS THE FIC, PEOPLE?? It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be heartfelt. 以上です。
Less vituperatively, I finished watching the Ouran anime. Very much in the "homg must bring artificial closure as manga shows no sign of wrapping up!" mode, but intelligently done despite the rush. Basically they played it straight like the shortest distance between two points, which is not a description of the rest of the series, but if you love the characters (and "they" know you do) you'd be a fool not to ride the wave. The fluffy, pink, shoujo-coloured wave.
More spoilersome observations: rather liked Eclair but not sure I would have liked her if the plot arc had run for another episode, which is what it deserved really. What really boggled me was how it went for the Kyouya-Tamaki-Haruhi triangle as opposed to Tamaki-Haruhi-Twins. Not that I don't like Kyouya etc. but ending the anime on that note (the fathers' conversation!) puts further developments at the mercy of my imagination, and my imagination can't do it justice. I haven't the gumption to wring the setup for what it's worth like a proper shoujo mangaka or Chinese fanwriter. I think they should just all move in together. Surely the families wouldn't object as long as respective conglomerates continued to rise in value?
I should read the manga but I doubt the question arises there, which makes it sort of moot.
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Date: 2006-11-14 02:57 am (UTC)dude, you and only you.