why do I fight? and why do I feel that I carry a sword through a battlefield?

I had to explain "harshing [one's] squee" to my dad tonight. Which was amusing.

In other news, cofax7 brought to my attention that apparently there is a war on that I did not know about--the feminist war against science fiction! That's right, those damn women [and PoC, and non-heterosexuals] are going to destroy...um, what exactly? oh, that's right, civilization as we know it, since the presence of characters who aren't [straight, white] males in any given text automatically invalidates it as a work of...science fiction, or something. I guess this means I'm a foot soldier and didn't know it, in a war (to quote The Hunt for Red October) "with no battles, no victories...only casualties." 

And finally...well, nothing much else is new. Graduate school apps blah blah blah.

The stars fell on Vladivostok

Darker Than BLACK - Ryuusei no Gemini 02
Flying squirrel to the face FTW! And, omg, I love Hei so much. I love Suou, too, though in a completely different and slightly less admiring way. For that matter, I love Misaki too (and I want her mountain bike). The Magician and the other contractors are pretty kick-ass, I must say--I can't decide which of them is the most badass, though it might be the golemist.

I find the use of language in this show pretty interesting, actually. When the golemist contractor (can't be arsed to look up his name) runs into Suou, he runs through Mandarin and then German before she starts talking in Japanese, and he explicitly says, "Oh, you speak Japanese!" Now, this is interesting because it's Vladivostok and all the signs are in Russian...but even the Russians speak Japanese. So it's kind of schizoid on the show's part, but it also shows a not-inconsequential gesturing towards some kind of authenticity.


( Spoilers & speculation )