Yet another fangirl raving. Pity the world for having yet another one of those.

 
Nothing, nothing, nothing is like getting a line in a manga. Gives me hope that yes I can learn to read Japanese. That I will be able to someday, read manga, and not just look at the pretty pictures. Go me!

Of course, "reading" Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki wasn't what I was planning on doing today, but I got distracted. I will get that dj short story scanned. I will. I will...
posted by Mer W at 9:01 PM

 
Sharing the fruits of my smutbinge with everyone. Erm, all three of you... For the one of you that needs to know this m/m smut. You probably won't even want to touch this.

Durchgreifen by Lavender Onion
A nice little Petshop of Horrors/Weiss Kreuz crossover. Basically, it involves a threat to D that pulls in Schwarz and Weiss. In dealing w/the threat D comes off as oddly ineffectual for someone w/a lot of undefined power. However, I suppose that this can be justified by the fact that the threat is a physical one, and D's mode of operation is to create plots that allow the poor schulb to destroy him/herself. Actually, thinking about it. That's exactly what he does... He plots is way out of the problem using whatever tools he can come up with.

The story has some inspired lunacy. In one scene, D explains to Farfello that there are many gods, asks Farf exactly which he wants to hurt, and then calmly hands him a new god is a good one. My eyes went wide and I snickered my way through it. The adventures of the other pairings in the story got a couple of howls out of me too. Schwarz & Weiss actually carry much of the humor in the story, and they do it will. This writer's sense of humor clicked with mine.

Leon characterization seemed a little off to me. Lavender Onion kept his tenacity, and made him a good cop, and kept some of his blindspots (the obssesion with drugs). He did figure out who was after D, and was willing to do something about it. (But what was he willing to do?) But, I think she over emphasized his rudeness and cluelessness. Also, I view Leon as one of the only "innocents" in the PSoH universe. Leon will always do the right thing. He will do his damnedest to follow the rules, take care of the criminal, and take care of other people. For some reason, that got overshadowed in this fic. I like the WK & S boys was wondering just why D kept Leon around.

Loved Jill's characterization in this story. I swear, the character probably had a stack of BeBoys in her closet. I was very happy that Lavender Onion didn't make every cute boy gay. Making every cute boy gay isn't a bad thing, but it can be a huge cliche. I enjoyed the solution to the threat to D. It gave me a "ooooh, of course!" moment.

On a side note, while roaming through that page, go dig up her other PSoH crossover. It's fun, and I like the characterization of Leon better in that one.

More on my smut binge as it comes to me. Maybe.
posted by Mer W at 9:30 AM

 
Perhaps I should just get ready for work though. *ponders* Naaaaaaahhh. Reading smut is much more fun then tanking up the kitty and getting a shower.
posted by Mer W at 5:32 AM

 
It's 5:30 and I've been up since 4:30. Insomnia *sucks!* I'm gonna go find some smut to read...

posted by Mer W at 5:27 AM

 
So, so not what I was expecting. I dropped off the film of from my fall vacation to NYC developed the Sunday before Labor Day, and last night I finally picked them up. The very first picture I saw? A snapshot of the NYC skyline from the Statue of Liberty ferry with the Twin Towers clearly visible. *shudders* I am now very happy that I didn't follow my impluse to pick them up on Tuesday. That would have been just too much. Even with the distance of a little time, it's still disturbing.
posted by Mer W at 9:23 AM

 
Quick note since I don't want to tie up the MD phonelines. I'm fine, but I'm motherfucking pissed.

How dare they. WE are a national of people who have lost only 1 war this century. We threw nuclear missiles at the last people who launched a sneak attack at us. WE are the superpower who won the Cold War. We are a national of vindictive, proud and wrathful people, and someone will pay.
posted by Mer W at 3:48 PM

 
I think my cat is trying to commit sucide. Why else would he sitting under the hammer while trying to paw it off the coffee table this morning?

On another front, you know that you love your cat when, not only are you willing to let him use you as a scratching post, (Thank god, he's declawed, or it would be really painful.) but you're also willing to move closer to him so that he can perform said behavior on your hip.

Aithine, about Please Save My Earth? *sticks fingers in ears* Can't hear you! Tra-la-la-la!
posted by Mer W at 9:40 AM

 
I am never, ever going to have a decent commute again! *sobs* I want all these people of the roads, damnit!
posted by Mer W at 12:41 PM

 
Playing voyuer in a stranger's blog, because, well, I have no life. *hangs head in shame* and I have to say that I can't wait for some of those students to drop out. I haven't had a decent commute since they came back. Of course, this might have something to do with UMD bitching up the roads for it's own amusement and pleasure, but still if only just a few hundred or a bare thousand of them would get off the roads...
posted by Mer W at 11:36 PM

 
1.Usagi itsupiki tako o age

2. Usagi nihiki koma mawasu

3. Usagi sanbiki kusabue fuite

4.Usagi yonhiki men kaburu

5.Usagi gohiki ishi o keri

6. Usagi rotsupiki kusa suberu

7. Usagi nanahiki na watobi hanete

8. Usagi hatsupiki umatobi dosun

9. Usagi kyuuhiki kakurete shizuka

10. Usagi Jutsupiki tsunahiku yoisho

11. Katte!

*sighs* Will I least I did the hiragana.
posted by Mer W at 3:36 PM

 
I need a soda. I need caffeine. Need. Need. Need. However, I won't go get one, because that would make 3 today. Even I find that a bit excessive.

Instead, I shall go bother Jeff & Mark. *eyes rice crackers* Maybe, I'll eat some more of those too.
posted by Mer W at 2:40 PM

 
More on the Tarepanda.
Scene -- Flops off the subway car
10. (Kanji I don't know) ra nai (kanji I don't know)
Scene -- Panda follows some street preformers w/sale signs.
11. (kanji)(kanji) re
Scene -- Our hero is following a jogger while the sun sets.
12. Nojyuku (???)
Scene -- Panda at a construction site. He gets picked up by a worker, and taken away at the end of the day.
Scene -- Worker, worker's friend and Panda go out for oden and drinks.
13. otosaremono (damned if I know)
Scene-- Happily drunk, they leave poor and bedraggled panda in the street. (The bastards!) Happily, he's found by a lady with pink shoes.
14. Hiroware mono (again, damned if I know)
Scene -- Lady gingerly picks him up.
15. Shiawase (happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing)
Scene -- Lady is using our Hero as a leg rest while having a bubble bath.
16. Mou taretare (*shrugs* Dunno)
Scene -- Lady cuddles Panda while she sleeps.
Scene -- Next morning.
17. (Kanji)(kanji) ki
Scene-- Lady is cooking. Panda is on the table
Scene -- Lady meets man for date. Takes Panda in the pinic basket.
18. Doraibu (Trip by car)
Scene -- Roadtrip!
19. Scenes -- Cuddling on the pinic blanket. Panda is bored by this and flops off.
20. shitsuren (lovelorn)(I guess he misses his lady.)
Scene -- Panda lazes about in the meadow, and meets a butterfly.
21. Kaze no (kanji)kumama tare yukumama (The wind is ????)
Scene -- A field, a panda, a butterfly and a cloud that looks like the panda. (I kid you not on this.)
22. Atsu (exclaimation no real translation)
Scene -- Panda falls off a cliff.
Scene -- Wings behind the falling panda
23. Atsu
Scene -- Bird of prey flies with tarepanda in his claws
24. Atsu
Scene -- Panda is dropped into the ocean
Scene -- Panda floats along (glub, glub)
25. Atsu
Scene -- Panda is caught by fishermen.
26. Koura (kanji)shi
Scene -- Panda drying on a rack w/a bunch of fish
27. Seri (words?)
Scene -- Panda being auctioned off at a fishmarket.
Scene -- Housewife buys fish at fishmongers.
Scene -- Cat steals panda from bag.
Scene -- Dog chases away cat.
Scene -- Dog's boy takes panda home to mom.
28. Isoureu (Dunno.)
Scenes -- Dog and panda share the doghouse.
29. (kanji)(kanji)
Scene -- Our Hero stares up at the full moon.
30. (kanji)(kanji)ge
Scenes -- Our panda flops off down the street.
31. (kanji)(kanji)
Scenes -- More adventures. School girls, more tarepanda loot, trips theif, sleeps w/homeless person, gets burned by cig butts etc.
(*sobs* Poor lonely, lost Tarepanda)
32. ikidarere (Abandoned something????)
Tiny print-- Ikidaore no tarepanda (Tarepanda has been abandoned!)(???)
Scene -- Panda in the trash.
Scene -- Missing poster for tarepanda
Scene -- Policeman sees Our Hero
33. (kanji)(kanji)
Scene -- Policeman returns tarepanda to his lady
34. (kanji)(kanji)
Scene -- Lady looks at scruffy, dirty Panda
Scenes -- Much bathing and cleaning of Panda.
Scene -- Clean Hero!
35. Okari (Welcome home.)
36. (kanji)(kanji) mo yo kutare teimasu (who knows...)
Tiny print - Tadaima (I'm home)
Scene -- Panda back on the bed.

Owari
posted by Mer W at 1:58 PM

 
And someday, I'm going to finish playing w/that Tarepanda book!
posted by Mer W at 10:03 AM

 
Because, I remember one thing you asked me Pam, and because I feel the urge to blog.

The last half of the Farscape ep with the female Rygel.

More "come GET us" tranmissions were beamed out from Moya. However all prisoners were accounted for. The PK tech (who Karen & I think was Mouse in "The Matrix") was locked up tight. The Boolong was being put back together by Jool and Crais. THe Scarrain was w/D'Argo. THe Nebaria was w/Chyna. The female Rygel was resting after sex w/Rygel because their race always sleeps after pleasure. Important point, Aeryn is still mourning her John and can barely deal w/the Moya John.

Moving along, John tries to get all the prisoners off the ship fast, but events don't co-operate. The Scarrian gets shot. Rygel & Chyna take their new friends into hiding. Finally, it comes out that the female Hy. is the traitor. Seems the sex wasn't pleasurable for her. Ergo, no sleeping. She kidnaps Rygel; shoots up the medlab (Boolong is mince *again.*) Then, grabs the PK tech and skeedales in a transport pod. So, they (John, Aeryn, D'Argo) go chasing after her in D'Argo's new ship. Of course, they manage to save the little slug and destroy the evil-doers.

posted by Mer W at 10:01 AM