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[salinea]

Okay, first I'm feeling much better since yesterday. Hoping it'll hold. Thank you so much to everyone on my flist for being such darlings and comforting me. You guys are the best! ♥ Especially since I know I'm not half as good as you at comforting you when you're feeling down >_>; I'm sorry for that.

Second, I finally got my hands on Pet Shop of Horror (yes, took my sweet time, but it is difficult to find scans of, and it's never been released in France and I don't usually order manga from the US cuz that's kinda expensive) which was indeed as awesome as I was led to believe. Love (as I always do) the whole morality fables / creepy fairy tales / contemporary occult atmosphere and how it mixes domestic comedy. The characters are very much darlings, and the stories are very tight. Of the manga I've read set in the US, I thought it was the most self aware of cultural subtleties and I found the way it lampshades as well as uses (and abuses!) Asia as mysterious/female/magical/suspicious was hilarious. And I really loved the ending, what a perfect fanfic fodder!

Of course as soon as I was finished I was hitting rexluscus's tags to find fics and recs (haven't left comments anywhere yet : you know it's funny I never mind leaving comments on old fics but I hate doing it in fandoms which I'm not familiar with yet) and it was midway to reading a (very nice, very much fluffier than what I usually like but still wonderful) fic that it was kinda hit by how much those characters are similar to Damien and Tarrant. At which point I felt stupid because they're very very similar. Like okay Damien's slightly smarter, and Gerald's slightly less gender-ambiguous. Very slightly. Their relationship's different, not domestic at all, and much more bonding over religion and Biblic jokes which, yeah, not so much with Leon/D. Oh, and all the slashy subtext in Coldfire is unintentional *snorts* And now I feel guilty about not having passed the prologue+first chapter of the big Coldfire reread over at hunters_forest (althought the discussion appears to be quite lively without me so at least there's that).

And now it's 4am and I should get up early tomorrow to go touring the Marais and then watch anime; and the day after that I have to go to my parents to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah, and at some point between all this I need to find the time to download and watch the last Code Geass episode - AND I DON'T FEEL LIKE SLEEPING, like not at all.

I could talk about the movies I've watched lately. Would you want me to do that?

Oh and I'm vaguely considering trying to do NaNoWriMo this year, hoping it would help curing myself of that dryspell of inspiration.

And I need to get train tickets for the Utopiales which got a very drool inducing list of invited writers. There's Richard Morgan too, I've got half of a mind of taking one of those books he recced to me to have him sign to see if he gets mad or laugh because I'm an ass ; and there's Ellen Kushner (although I already have an autograph of her via the lovely generalblossom but now I can get one of her books signed, yay!); and Robin Hobb and Hal Duncan (guess that means I must get off my lazy ass and read Ink).

Actually with that list of writers I hope they're going to at least do one panel about gay and gender queer characters in SFF novels. Would be interesting to see Richard Morgan faced to people like Hal Duncan and Ellen Kushner, especially given how much talks I've seen about The Steel Remains as bold and daring for being a fantasy novel with OMG gay characters and a long and hard graphic gay sex scene, and people asking if it was difficult for him as a straight male to write that. (If so I will totally have to ask Kushner and Duncan if it's difficult for them write heterosexual characters and straight sex!!)

Gahh, I'm so hyper and it's 4am30. When am I gonna be able to sleep? ;_;

I have too many firefox windows opened right now.

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I loved Pet Shop of Horrors. Just the art and all the creative pets, and of course I loved D and Leon also.

[heavensgardener.livejournal.com]

Mm, Pet Shop of Horrors. I need to finish collecting that...someday. Eventually.

[scriva.livejournal.com]

I have only read two volumes of Pet Shop of Horrors, but I liked the little stories. Sometimes it's very amusing, and sometimes I find it weird, that Japanese obviously love the objecitvation as "erotic, mysterous, etc.", at least in manga. More than once I have seen it in BL mangas, when much emphasis is put on the skin of a Japanese or semi-Japanese character. And it's the point of the whole story in Amane Yamano's "Ikoku Irokoi Romantan", that describe the love affair between a Japanese and an Italian Japanophile.

By the way, I watched Guardian of the Sacred Spirit at your recommendation, and I loved it. It also had the cool, old woman character that I missed in "Avatar".

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

I really should read Petshop of Horrors again. It's been a long time, but I remember it was good.

(I should read more fantasy books, too. But I never know which ones are good unless I have some recs ; I can never tell only by the summary.)

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

Like okay Damien's slightly smarter, and Gerald's slightly less gender-ambiguous. Very slightly.

*wail* Now you've made me wonder about plots that would make it possible to stick Gerald in a dress.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, PSoH! I read it a little while ago (also late for the same reason you had) since I liked the OVAs when I watched them ages ago. I really enjoyed it!

[rebbe]

O: NaNooooooooooo -- NaNo is always funtiems, so good luck with that!

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I loved Pet Shop of horrors! I am such a sucker for that creepy plot twist/morality play/macabre irony type of ending, and the art was fucking gorgeous. I thought the ending was just a little bizarre, but then, I honestly liked the more episodic parts of the story versus the overall arcing "plot" anyway. (I hear the anime sucked though. Shame, though perhaps not completely unexpected.)

Just so you know, there's a contiunation of the series they're starting now (um, or at least it's on US bookshelves now) called Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo. Same shit, different city, basically. But how I love it so XD

Petshop of horrors

[ngblog.livejournal.com]

Les OAV qu'ils ont sortis (dispo en France, VOST) sont pas mal du tout, et introduisent bien l'ambiance à ceux qui connaissent pas encore le manga. En tant que fan, j'en étais bien contente ; tu devrais regarder ça si ce n'est déjà fait ! :)

[dizilla.livejournal.com]

wow, i never realized you never had read PSOH. XD It's a fantastic manga though it's been a real long time since I last read it hehe.

Yes, please talk about movies. =D I need to do that too soon.. XD

If you do do NaNoWriMo, we could be writing buddies! I'm planning to do it, lets see if I do haha.

Sleep is for the week. This weekend at Yaoi Con, I barely got 8 hours total... haha. ^_^

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

some delayed hugs about the "yesterday", glad you felt better soon. The Utopiales sounds wonderful, I so want to go to another thing of that sort one of these days. The local versions are very very tiny so not the same effect, though they do try - this year the guest of honor is also Richard Morgan. I have not yet read anything of his, do you recommend any, just in case I find the time to drop by and read something before?