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[Mar. 31st, 2008|09:20 am] |
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dunkle_feuer scanned a Tatsumi/Tsuzuki doujinshi last week, and the cover image has been lurking in my head ever since then, because (and I still don't know if this is a computer screen issue or a funny coloring job or my own bad vision or what) Tsuzuki's eyes look less violet and more blue in that picture. I am much too in love with the fairy tale-esque idea of him crying blood till his eyes turn blue--how many stories are there where someone has to mutilate themselves to get rid of curse or an unwanted attribute? There's "The Red Shoes", and the one about the girl who chopped off her own hands...it'd be wrong to sneak down to the stacks and hunt through all the fairy tale anthologies, right?
There's probably a drabble or ficlet lurking somewhere in there, but I'm not going to be the one to hunt it out. I don't care how tasty you look, plotbunny--I don't do that sort of thing any more. Go be hasenpfeffer for someone else. (Besides, nothing says "I've read far too many vampire novels" like tears of blood.)
Still stuck in the Land of Bleh; the weather isn't helping as it's supposed to be rainy and grey for the next three days. What I really want to do this week is just lock myself in the apartment with the Silent Hill games and The Maxx--did anyone else on the flist watch/read The Maxx? (Besides telophase; I know she's read it becaue she once traumatized me by pointing out how similar the KH Heartless and the Iszes look.) I ought to do a write-up/rec post of the series, since i's another one of those brilliant yet unknown ones, but it doesn't seem right to rec something that is 1) over a decade old and 2) not readily available except in an out-of-print VHS, bad-quality videos through torrents, and hard-to-find comics. And, er, since March/April is still wintery in places, it's probably not the best time for a series in which all the characters have massive psychological problems, even if the gloom is sometimes broken up by things like a digression into Seussian rhyme or a melee with a psychotic hammerhead landshark.
...on the other hand, the comic files themselves aren't that huge, and the low quality of the video files means I could just upload them myself. Hmm.
Website for the Blade of the Immortal anime is up. I have decided not to be excited about this, because I would much rather be surprised and happy if it turns out well than be depressed if my optimistic hopes get dashed.
In terms of completely different subject matter, apparently there will be a Chi's Sweet Home anime this season--apparently the first episode is already out and subbed?--so at least there will be more cuteness and light in the world.
What else, what else...rereading World War Z and reading the letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz; normally this would make me think that there needs to be a story set in 18th century France with zombies, but Chevalier d'Eon did it already, sort of. One hardly knows what to say to that. |
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::tempts you with this week's ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) fuda_100 topic::
Oh dear. It's awfully tempting to try and turn the idea into something, but my fear of butchering it would probably squash any attempts at creativity. Plus I think I've lost the self-confidence necessary for writing. | |
