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I have lots of THOUGHTS and FEELINGS about everything, and have been torn between "You should post them! Get them out of your head and into the interwebs where someone else could be entertained!" and "No, definitely not! Your thoughts and feelings suck, self. Keep them quiet at least until they're coherent, srsly." But tomorrow I am packing for the NINE-HOUR DRIVE TO KANSAS and FOUR AND A HALF DAYS OF NO COOKING AND NO VIOLIN. Which I forwent practicing today in favour of making dinner, oops. So, since I refuse to depend on crappy hotel wifi unless I really have to, here are some of them.

I hate long car trips. Hatehatehate. I can barely sit still long enough to watch a movie most of the time, and I get a general bleeeeaaagh feeling if I'm confined too long even in a big house with my own room where I don't have to share anything or put up with people if I really don't want to. And this one does not even contain any cousins at the end of it. (Plus I'm skipping my weekly-ish friends meet-up that is the teen library group.) NO FUN, WORLD. NO FUN.

On the other hand, it will force me to focus on novels and history and languages, things which I can have on hand when there's no internet, for at least nine hours total and probably more. Yay, learning things! I've been having sort of a block on novels lately, so maybe this will break that a bit.

Knowing some Japanese is kind of frustrating right now. It's like, I know stuff! But not enough to understand the things I want to read! :| Oh well, it'll get better if I keep practicing. And it's kind of interesting when I'm just starting Latin and Chinese, because with Chinese you get the fun of "Hey, I recognize that hanzi! But I know it's absolutely not pronounced jou." And with Latin, you get the fun of "Yay, easy pronunciation! No extra alphabets! Wait what conjugating nouns WHAT IS THIS MADNESS."

I am going to end up packing All The Language Books tomorrow, I just know it.


Okay, pretty sure Keima (of The World God Only Knows) is asexual. SO MANY NAKED GIRLS. SO MUCH LACK OF SECOND GLANCES. I can't think of any fic to write for this manga, but I'm sure it would be amazing. (Possible KHR crossover?)

I wanted to talk about Utopia of Homosexuality, but it looks like that'll have to wait until I have more sleep and mental distance. I have mixed feelings, by which I mean the manhwa's premise is cool but the execution made me acerage. (Finally, a chance to use this Azula icon! Sorry, lj-ers.)


Lady Gaga's new album has been growing on me. I don't quite know how I feel about it, but I think overall it's better than The Fame Monster. The lyrics are pretty good, and it's all so catchy! I think it was worth the extra money for the deluxe edition just for the Born This Way remix (despite my problems with that song).


I am utterly failing to find Korean counterparts of things like Nurarihyon no Mago or Pandemonium and Parade. This is probably because I'm not looking hard enough, but dammit I could really use some. And I need to go look at that map of the Avatar world so I can figure out where to put alter!Korea. And what to call it.

Ho hum.
esmenet: Utena holding up a baseball and winking (utena ;))
I was going to post about the interesting linkage of my brain chemistry (I made a cake and no one is eating it! = *sob for hours*, apparently) but then I had some cake and remembered that talking about the things I'm reading makes me feel better about not writing anything.

So! The World God Only Knows/The World Only God Knows (Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai, whatever). It is about a guy who's incredibly great at and obsessed with dating sims, and because of a slight misunderstanding he is hired/forced to capture the hearts of various girls. The only real problem is that he kind of hates the real world, and has no desire whatsoever to interact with real-life girls.

It's a lot less skeevy than I was expecting, and a quite a bit more believable. Keima says a couple times that real women should be more like their virtual counterparts, but now that I'm further into the manga that seems like it's less that he wants them to be compliant and more that he wants them to be something he can deal with. And by chapter 23 or so, it seems like he's better at dealing with people than he used to be, or at least better at applying his game-learned knowledge. He treats people like they'll do what he wants if he just pushes the right buttons on their hearts; fortunately for him, this is a workable strategy. (Actually, I'm starting to think some of his social obliviousness is cultivated to make people leave him alone.)

Also: surprising amount of ladies! Well, not really surprising, it's deliberately a parody of harem-type manga, but the whole thing is actually kind of a vehicle for the monster-of-the-week girls' character development and dealing with personal issues. And I think that maybe the overarching plot is about Keima and Elsee dealing with theirs.

Oh, I forgot to talk about Elsee! I love her. She's the reason our main dude gets into this mess in the first place, because she needed someone to help with her job and didn't look at his credentials close enough. There's not a lot I can say about her without spoilers, but she feels like our 'normal' viewpoint character even though Keima is ostensibly the Ordinary Dude. Also, based off two of the early chapter covers, my dream future/AU is for Elsee and Keima to run a bar (or maybe a cafe) together, and become a two-person version of that dude from Bartender.

Going back to what I was talking about earlier, it's interesting to read a manga that's all about people falling in love where the main character doesn't. It's his job to make girls fall in love with him; his feelings toward them seem to be entirely of the helpful variety. Not going to go "Yay, asexual character!" yet, but it's enjoyable. Refreshing. I might even read all the way to the end. :D

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