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For some reason I don't feel like today is Sunday night and tomorrow is Monday for work. D:
Busy weekend! Managed to hit both local farmer's markets (the one in the U-District and the one in Ballard) AND Pike's Place Market within a weekend, on top of other random shopping, to the point where my feet still hurt and I'll actually be glad to be stuck sitting most of tomorrow. XD; I ended up buying a copy of Lynn Flewelling's Oracle's Queen for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zinjadu (as a birthday present) and for myself, only she reads faster than me and I'm nowhere near done. D: BUT AT LEAST I WILL FINALLY KNOW IF KI DIES OR NOT. D:
--in other news, I officially bought my first porn! At Kinokuniya, through some weird pervy serendipity, they had volume 2 of Yamato Nase's "Chintsubu!" manga. The one with the talking emoting penii with faces.
"A man jealous of his own penis ... you're probably the only one in the whole world."
"Shut up."
^---100% genuine translation
I honestly don't like the traditional boy's love genre; the "dark" and the "obsessed" and "tragic" that most of the yaoi fangirls seem to keel over and die for really bores me. Also, reading a story like that -- for me, a romance story succeeds when it makes me care about the characters. If Character A is a jerk to Character B, and I don't give a damn, the story fails; if I go BUT WAIT NOOOOO YOU LOVE EACH OTHER T______T then it's a success! And honestly, I've yet to have that reaction to an actual romance story. I do it a lot more with stories that aren't romantic at all, which maybe says something about me. :p
In fact, that's where the movie "Chocolat" (or however the accent goes) absolutely fails for me -- the story of the movie hinges on you feeling the same way for the main female character that the movie-characters do; it's hard to buy that she's a wonderful, life-changing, beautiful wonderful person if you look at her and think that she's sort of like a teen's Mary Sue stepped onto the movie screen. (Granted, I have friends who liked it, enough to see it more than once -- but for me, not even the copious amounts of tasty-looking chocolate could redeem that movie.)
BUT BACK ON TOPIC, I have to confess I really like Yamato-sensei's stuff. It's cute and fluffy, kind of like mindcandy, the porn isn't a bunch of fluids and open mouths going "annnnn~" and well. It's often really, really funny. I mean, she's pulled off two+ volumes about boys who've had their penises switched and with faces and personalities -- and I'm with Kamiya, I want to know why the "Iwabuchinko" has glasses. It's hardly something to go crazy over, but it's cute and I giggled like an idiot in the store before I decided to go ahead and buy it. XD The guy at the counter gave me a Look, which suspiciously (?!) lessened when I assured him I was over eighteen and disappeared fully when I had to show ID for my credit card. Dear world: I am not a cartoon character and I am in fact old enough to legally buy booze in both Canada and America.
Also, Yamato-sensei's little omake comics about herself (her reactions to "Chintsubu!" being made into a drama CD and her reactions to the recordings are hilariously cute -- or cutely hilarious, maybe both) are all kinds of win. Plus, some love for the tiny girlyboy uke getting annoyed that his seme is trying to rape him (in the body of seme-san's younger brother -- it's, er, a long story) and then punching him in the crotch. And stomping it a few times. All in shades of Dramatic Chibi.
On top of that, for some unexpected reason, Kinokuniya had a copy of tactics special edition 8. WHICH MEANS I HAVE OBTAINED THE SPECIAL DRAMA CD I win at something, possibly life♥ If my computer forgives it, I will probably rip it for any interested parties, haha.
P.S. Sakurai Takahiro is possibly the cutest dork I've seen in a long time. D: I want to pet his fuzzy gelled head. (The tactics DVD comes with a freetalk between him and Miyata Kouki, including a section on Valentine's Day -- from what they said, the DVD originally went on sale in Japan during February -- including a "Valentine's memory" [painful for both of them] and "do you like sweets? or hate them?"
Sakurai: "I have to say, I hate whipped cream. DDDD: There's too much of it and it fills me up really fast, and I always look like I'm concentrating too hard! I don't like it. DDD: I have to eat as fast as I can to reduce the volume!")
But I haven't been brave enough to listen to the dub yet, though apparently Ed Elric = Sugino.
That's all.
Busy weekend! Managed to hit both local farmer's markets (the one in the U-District and the one in Ballard) AND Pike's Place Market within a weekend, on top of other random shopping, to the point where my feet still hurt and I'll actually be glad to be stuck sitting most of tomorrow. XD; I ended up buying a copy of Lynn Flewelling's Oracle's Queen for
zinjadu (as a birthday present) and for myself, only she reads faster than me and I'm nowhere near done. D: BUT AT LEAST I WILL FINALLY KNOW IF KI DIES OR NOT. D:--in other news, I officially bought my first porn! At Kinokuniya, through some weird pervy serendipity, they had volume 2 of Yamato Nase's "Chintsubu!" manga. The one with the talking emoting penii with faces.
"A man jealous of his own penis ... you're probably the only one in the whole world."
"Shut up."
^---100% genuine translation
I honestly don't like the traditional boy's love genre; the "dark" and the "obsessed" and "tragic" that most of the yaoi fangirls seem to keel over and die for really bores me. Also, reading a story like that -- for me, a romance story succeeds when it makes me care about the characters. If Character A is a jerk to Character B, and I don't give a damn, the story fails; if I go BUT WAIT NOOOOO YOU LOVE EACH OTHER T______T then it's a success! And honestly, I've yet to have that reaction to an actual romance story. I do it a lot more with stories that aren't romantic at all, which maybe says something about me. :p
In fact, that's where the movie "Chocolat" (or however the accent goes) absolutely fails for me -- the story of the movie hinges on you feeling the same way for the main female character that the movie-characters do; it's hard to buy that she's a wonderful, life-changing, beautiful wonderful person if you look at her and think that she's sort of like a teen's Mary Sue stepped onto the movie screen. (Granted, I have friends who liked it, enough to see it more than once -- but for me, not even the copious amounts of tasty-looking chocolate could redeem that movie.)
BUT BACK ON TOPIC, I have to confess I really like Yamato-sensei's stuff. It's cute and fluffy, kind of like mindcandy, the porn isn't a bunch of fluids and open mouths going "annnnn~" and well. It's often really, really funny. I mean, she's pulled off two+ volumes about boys who've had their penises switched and with faces and personalities -- and I'm with Kamiya, I want to know why the "Iwabuchinko" has glasses. It's hardly something to go crazy over, but it's cute and I giggled like an idiot in the store before I decided to go ahead and buy it. XD The guy at the counter gave me a Look, which suspiciously (?!) lessened when I assured him I was over eighteen and disappeared fully when I had to show ID for my credit card. Dear world: I am not a cartoon character and I am in fact old enough to legally buy booze in both Canada and America.
Also, Yamato-sensei's little omake comics about herself (her reactions to "Chintsubu!" being made into a drama CD and her reactions to the recordings are hilariously cute -- or cutely hilarious, maybe both) are all kinds of win. Plus, some love for the tiny girlyboy uke getting annoyed that his seme is trying to rape him (in the body of seme-san's younger brother -- it's, er, a long story) and then punching him in the crotch. And stomping it a few times. All in shades of Dramatic Chibi.
On top of that, for some unexpected reason, Kinokuniya had a copy of tactics special edition 8. WHICH MEANS I HAVE OBTAINED THE SPECIAL DRAMA CD I win at something, possibly life♥ If my computer forgives it, I will probably rip it for any interested parties, haha.
P.S. Sakurai Takahiro is possibly the cutest dork I've seen in a long time. D: I want to pet his fuzzy gelled head. (The tactics DVD comes with a freetalk between him and Miyata Kouki, including a section on Valentine's Day -- from what they said, the DVD originally went on sale in Japan during February -- including a "Valentine's memory" [painful for both of them] and "do you like sweets? or hate them?"
Sakurai: "I have to say, I hate whipped cream. DDDD: There's too much of it and it fills me up really fast, and I always look like I'm concentrating too hard! I don't like it. DDD: I have to eat as fast as I can to reduce the volume!")
But I haven't been brave enough to listen to the dub yet, though apparently Ed Elric = Sugino.
That's all.
