May 2013
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Fucking Melville
Dissertation rant ahead.
MELVILLE, YOU FUCKER, WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING, YOU ACTUALLY WROTE WOMEN WHO WERE PEOPLE AND NOT FUCKING SYMBOLS FOR THE FUCKING SPIRITUAL EDIFICATION OF YOUR FUCKING MEN, AND THEN, THEN YOU GOT ALL WOE IS FUCKING ME, OH MY POOR WHITE UPPER CLASS COUNTRY IS SUDDENLY BROKEN, OH WOE, AND BACKSLID LIKE A GERMAN BOBSLEDDING TEAM GOING FOR THE GOLD, FUCK YOU...
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daikonjou:
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Anipuri Sakuno is pathetic. They deliberately took all her moments of sturdy if quiet self-reliance and eviscerated her into this useless frill. If you actually want any decent Sakuno, look at the manga.
We do, /eventually/ get to see the younger coach and she was a /fox/. I take consolation in the fact that Echizen-tou clearly never made any time at all with...
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Bits and bobs on military ranks for Branch!
andreaphobia:
n_n Still don’t have the manga in hand, but I found some raws from vol 7 and 8!
This should be obvious by now but there are manga spoilers within. ^_^
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*squeals with glee* I was right, yes, yes, yes! *hugs you* Thank you so much for finding those! *dances a bit*
And in that context… I think there really is no good way to translate “heichou” that...
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exampleofinconsistency replied to your post: Tumblr. Where is my cut tag on reblogs, tumblr?…
If you mean the ‘Read more’ cut you can just open up a text post in another tab, insert a Read more cut and copy-pasta the whole thing into the post wherever you like it. That’s how I do it :)
*kicks tumblr in annoyance* I shouldn’t have to do this. You’re right, though.
*goes to do...
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Tumblr. Where is my cut tag on reblogs, tumblr?
This is very important, tumblr, and I’ve already had a REALLY BAD DAY.
I woke up to find out that a very important table in one of my client’s databases had corrupted irretrievably and I had to restore with a backup from, like, a month and a half ago, which involved cutting and pasting between Excel and TextWrangler for pity’s...
Heichou, Part 2
andreaphobia:
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See, that’s why I like “captain” in particular. It’s not just used as a rank. It’s just about the only English word I can think of that’s used /both/ as an actual rank and as a more general “leader type person” word. (Well, there’s also commander, but that’s already used for whatever Erwin’s actual title is.) As I said, it isn’t literal. The “actual rank”...
Heichou, Part 2
andreaphobia:
branch-and-root:
Okay, after a night’s sleep, my linguistic brain has woken up a little more and I remember what I didn’t put in the last post.
Because the fun part about all the “noun-chou” words is that they can also be read as “head noun”. Buchou, danchou, and for that matter heichou, they all imply that the leader in question is one of the nouns in question. S/he’s part of...
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Early scanlation of SnK chapter 45, courtesy of... →
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Omg omg omg OMG OMG OMG ADGSFSDJKHSAGKLJDASHL
Okay, the last page is perfect, Hannes is wonderful, Mikasa is such an adorable little psycho, and…
I just can’t get past appreciating Levi’s cravat.
This is what happens when I fall for a character. *hands*
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Heichou, Part 2
Okay, after a night’s sleep, my linguistic brain has woken up a little more and I remember what I didn’t put in the last post.
Because the fun part about all the “noun-chou” words is that they can also be read as “head noun”. Buchou, danchou, and for that matter heichou, they all imply that the leader in question is one of the nouns in question. S/he’s...
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girlsbydaylight:
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no but guys if you don’t know it, weiss kreuz was this hideously animated venture into brand territory by koyasu takehito (aka that deep voiced guy who’s in everything; he was zechs) who wanted to make a franchise for him and three of his seiyuu friends. he had a (genuinely talented) manga artist design the characters (and later screwed her out of royalties for...
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For some reason, possibly because SnK does bad things to a person’s brain, I am re-watching the second season of Magic Knights Rayearth.
I think maybe I just want to see my favorite queer and cross-generational threesome forming up one more time.
And MKR combines a classic CLAMP angst-bomb with things turning out all right after all (for everyone who is not a girl going through puberty,...
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sapphylicious:
Things that are driving me legitimately crazy:
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Okay, so, about the rank structure.
I’m going to have to rely on Andrea and her new loot to tell me what the actual “squad leader” rank is, and what Erwin’s rank is, but I’m guessing it’s things like “danchou” or “taichou”. That would fit both with how...
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sapphylicious:
SnK shipping thoughts below. Overall, it’s not a very shippy series, but I do have some opinions and preferences.
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Yeah, this hasn’t really struck my shipping squee much either (aside from the Ymir/Krista “awwwwww!” which is of cosmic proportions).
To be sure, the thing that’s twigged most, for me, is the way Levi’s “lesson”...
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Thought for the day: What do you get when you cross mecha with biological warfare?
Possibly, Shigeki no Kyoujin.
[[MORE]]Speculation: the titans are humans. See also Conny’s mother’s presumed transformation in a village with no blood or signs of consumption but with a bunch of titans suddenly wandering around. This is the nature of titan reproduction.
Further speculation: the...
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While theres undoubtedly a lot to be said for watching/reading SnK unspoiled, I gotta say, knowing some of what’s going on the parallels between the two sides are /really, really obvious/. To the extent that I’m wondering whether Berthold’s story about the day the enemy came to their village was actually completely accurate except for the little matter of perspective on...
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ok, yeah, fine, watching it
Speculation: Whatever humans did to (or to create) titans (at least the intelligent ones) will wind up having been directly parallel to Eren’s formative trauma. Mutual eradication for identical reasons: the raw core of feud/vendetta.
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So very wonderfully drunk. Let me proceed to eat a bowl of deep-fried banana peppers to soak up the alcohol.
^_^
Had wonderful two hours talking with fellow women faculty. Life rocks. Free food, whee.
(Not drunk enough not to correct spelling errors, yay.)
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IT’S DONE, IT’S DONE, CHAPTER FOUR IS DONE, TWO MORE TO GO!
I can see the light at the end of the diss. It is the light of taking the most fatuous and patronizing of the critical sources and having a bonfire with them.
Now I am going to go and have Collegiality Hour with my colleagues and drink.
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April 2013
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chronolith:
ikiriharuka:
I like shipping Riko w/ other KnB characters since I idolize her just that much.
Never really thought about the what if scenario where Riko is the one to go to the other schools.
If it were Touou or Shuutoku, surely the coaches would snap her up like lightning, given they played with her dad and know the kind of trainer he is now.
Hmmmmm…
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exampleofinconsistency:
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andreaphobia:
cactuarneedles:
…you know what would be awesome? A giant Season 2 premier party/hangout with KuroBasu fandom, except in real life. OH THE SHENANIGANS.
n_n Can’t do real life unless you’re all willing to come to the bay area, but let’s do one online!
Seconded! We could stream episodes and have a slideshow of the manga running if...
andreaphobia:
cactuarneedles:
…you know what would be awesome? A giant Season 2 premier party/hangout with KuroBasu fandom, except in real life. OH THE SHENANIGANS.
n_n Can’t do real life unless you’re all willing to come to the bay area, but let’s do one online!
Seconded! We could stream episodes and have a slideshow of the manga running if anyone has their own copies handy. And have...
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Today has been a good day, a productive day, a day in which I can argue without crossing my fingers that Melville really was moving toward a concept of greater gender equality before the Civil War pissed in his cheerios, a day in which I have scorned the ridiculous amount Home Depot wanted for soldering a few easily accessible pipes and found someone to do it for less than half the price, a day in...
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annotated-em:
A thought that occurred to me while talking to someone about the Naked Miragen fic:
Momoi can fake being a nice, polite girl fairly well—well enough that she has most people fooled, anyway—but she’s been friends with Aomine for much, much too long for it to be completely true.
Hypothetically, this means that Dai-chan probably knows how to be a nice boy and chooses not to behave...
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andreaphobia replied to your post: Okay, against my better judgement I took a look at…
Don’t do this to me wow, I didn’t even want to think about it. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This is how Clamp sucks you in. They give you a juicy mystery to figure out, with just enough hints to suggest something interesting and not enough to do anything but wait for...
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Okay, against my better judgement I took a look at Holic Rei.
Immediate observations: Watanuki’s eyes are the same color. Doumeki has parishoners yet cannot do exorcisms. Watanuki says several times that Yuuko’s usual obstreperous behavior is fine if it makes her happy. Doumeki tells Watanuki that his “act” has been slipping lately. Watanuki acts knowledgeable about...
sapphylicious:
Just spent all day — seriously, all day — marathoning the entirety of the Kurobasu anime. TIME WELL SPENT. The best part was probably how everyone had a collective meltdown whenever Aomine was on screen, lol. He… has that effect. I actually hadn’t seen all the Touou-Kaijou episodes lolol around that time I got sucked back into Kpop and just… never got around to it. Holy shit, they...
I have held back no water in its season.: It's all... →
chronolith:
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You know what I’m liking about this arc of Kuroko no Basuke? The emphasis on how much difference physical endurance makes. The MiraGen have amazing skills right from the get-go, but they’re still twelve/thirteen years old and just plain aren’t physically developed enough to play through two…
(On my phone so this will be typo riddled.)
The thing about basketball...
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It's all about endurance
You know what I’m liking about this arc of Kuroko no Basuke? The emphasis on how much difference physical endurance makes. The MiraGen have amazing skills right from the get-go, but they’re still twelve/thirteen years old and just plain aren’t physically developed enough to play through two games in a day. So, one, I like the realism of that. What I like even more, though, is the...
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Tumblr already working on reversion
*laughing endlessly* Got an immediate response to my support request, so immediate I suspect it was canned, saying they’re already working on reverting tracked tags to normal. If this was supposed to be an upgrade, I suspect they have speedily backtracked. If it was a logged-in-or-not glitch, I imagine that just catapulted to the top of the “fix right now” list.
amandaplaysneopets:
How to tell Tumblr to fix the tracked tags:
Go to the Help page.
Type into the bar “feedback.”
Scroll down until you see the “Contact Tumblr” button.
Title your subject something about reverting the tracked tags back.
Be polite in your message of why you think this isn’t a good idea and what made tracked tags actually great in the first place.
Send.
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