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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 08:35 pm (UTC)I'll see if I can find Magna Carta. I had a look at an artbook at Kinokuniya yesterday and I really like the character designs (even with the WTF breasts), and while I've heard that the story/mechanics suffer in favor of the pretty, god knows that's never happened before.
If you were Doofy McYellowboobs, you could wave around this huge flower thing. C'mon let's do it, it'll be hot.
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Date: 2009-05-29 08:57 pm (UTC)I will do a LOOK AT MY TITS costume if I get to have an alternate badass costume where the focus is not my ample natural bounty. Agreian's long-spiky-armor-arm would be pretty crowdsafe if it were done in black vinyl...
I'll see if I can find Magna Carta.
Look down at the used category, it's $15-20. Or help me move faster on the apartmentfinding and we can play it together; I have it already. ;)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009K7ESM/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1243629835&sr=8-1
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Date: 2009-05-29 09:07 pm (UTC)Fuck yeah superwin. I have to run off to the post office but I'll be on AIM tonight--there was something you wanted me to look at, right?
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Date: 2009-05-29 09:23 pm (UTC)