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cephalopodDamn it, I need a fandom. It seems really odd to deliberately shop for a fandom, rather than passionately leaping upon one--there's a sort of arranged marriage vs. love match dichotomy going on here. Is one less real than the other? Less devoted? Does a reasoned choice make for a better match? Screw it, I dunno. But I do know that I write and draw more and generally feel more creative when I've got a fan community to interact with. I've been feeling the lack of common fan-ground for a while.
Code Geass is neat and I'm digging how it presents itself first as an earnest Gundam-esque teen-boy drama and slowly but with gathering speed goes off the rails with switched-up gender role tropes and subversion and nipples and heinous motherfuckerdom. Still working on this one, but I don't feel the tingle of fan-love yet. Might be because it's still basically about two school-age boys dealing with Big Issues and War Things while trying to retain that childhood friendship. Seen that.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is rad as hell and I love it because every single thing in it is faaabulous and cranked up to 11, but there's three series and I'm starting on the third because the earlier ones date from 1989 and 1997 and have been out of print forever. Hell, so have the first volumes of the arc I just started on. I think I'm missing some context.
I dig me some Le Chevalier d'Eon, but I suck at keeping historical figures straight (by which I mean keeping them named the right thing with the right titles in my head, rather than het.)...I just don't feel confident messing with it.
...which is probably why I never really got into FF12, too, come to think of it.
And I think I sprained my Metal Gear fan-gland when I entered fandom the first time. Criminy.
Lessee, what else...Black Lagoon, that's jolly fun and the Southeast Asian setting is new and neat. A little hard to filter out the moments of salaryman wish-fulfillment, though.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I AM MY OWN SNIFFY KOREAN GRANDMOTHER WHO DOESN'T WANT ME TO GET INVOLVED WITH ANYTHING UNSUITABLE AND WHO HAS ARRANGED A NICE LUNCH WITH MY MOTHER'S COLLEGE FRIEND'S SON WHO WORKS AT WOO-RI HE'S HEADED FOR A BRANCH MANAGEMENT POSITION YOU KNOW and I don't even have a Korean grandmother, goddamn
I think that's a metaphor for FF7 or something. I have no idea.
Maybe Fallout 3. Maybe. There's Dogmeat.
Code Geass is neat and I'm digging how it presents itself first as an earnest Gundam-esque teen-boy drama and slowly but with gathering speed goes off the rails with switched-up gender role tropes and subversion and nipples and heinous motherfuckerdom. Still working on this one, but I don't feel the tingle of fan-love yet. Might be because it's still basically about two school-age boys dealing with Big Issues and War Things while trying to retain that childhood friendship. Seen that.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is rad as hell and I love it because every single thing in it is faaabulous and cranked up to 11, but there's three series and I'm starting on the third because the earlier ones date from 1989 and 1997 and have been out of print forever. Hell, so have the first volumes of the arc I just started on. I think I'm missing some context.
I dig me some Le Chevalier d'Eon, but I suck at keeping historical figures straight (by which I mean keeping them named the right thing with the right titles in my head, rather than het.)...I just don't feel confident messing with it.
...which is probably why I never really got into FF12, too, come to think of it.
And I think I sprained my Metal Gear fan-gland when I entered fandom the first time. Criminy.
Lessee, what else...Black Lagoon, that's jolly fun and the Southeast Asian setting is new and neat. A little hard to filter out the moments of salaryman wish-fulfillment, though.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I AM MY OWN SNIFFY KOREAN GRANDMOTHER WHO DOESN'T WANT ME TO GET INVOLVED WITH ANYTHING UNSUITABLE AND WHO HAS ARRANGED A NICE LUNCH WITH MY MOTHER'S COLLEGE FRIEND'S SON WHO WORKS AT WOO-RI HE'S HEADED FOR A BRANCH MANAGEMENT POSITION YOU KNOW and I don't even have a Korean grandmother, goddamn
I think that's a metaphor for FF7 or something. I have no idea.
Maybe Fallout 3. Maybe. There's Dogmeat.
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Date: 2009-05-29 08:27 pm (UTC)Most of the time it's a cool blend of ultraviolence and cultural anthropology (esp. Thai, Japanese, and Chinese), with especial love for small-group military dynamics and tactics. Gun fetish, smack-talking, and thorough enjoyment of personal domination feature heavily. :D I have a personal fondness for the attention spent on accurate labels and packaging for the Thai beer and snacks and bits of signage.
One of the things I like best about it is the treatment of female characters. One of the Black Lagoon's crew, Revy, is dressed like a throwaway angry gun bunny but she's absolutely not; she has a thoughtful background and real depth and her motivations are complex. And Balalaika...oh goodness, you'll like Balalaika. Russian veteran of the Afghani wars, head of her defector merc crew. Absolute crazy badassness, rock-solid command and total control except for the moments when you realize that despite all these things, she's gibbering batshit. But she's still human enough to do non-badass things; I mean she's a businesswoman, she grouses and does paperwork occasionally. Pure love.
(...wow, that was long.)
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Date: 2009-05-30 04:32 pm (UTC)