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taotrooper) wrote2005-05-27 05:13 pm
taotrooper) wrote2005-05-27 05:13 pm
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Clow country fixation
I just edited my userinfo and interests. It's been a while since the last time I touched them. I have 52 interests! O_O And I'm the first dork to put "Clow Country" as an interest XD Silly me. I'd add more interests I'm coming up to, but I'll let the 52 be there for some days, just for the heck of it.
Speaking of Clow Country, I can't bloody stop thinking about that stupid country. It's just puzzling me so much in so many twisted little ways it's not funny. No, not only the Predecessor King issue. It's just everything in general.
- The real-life place it's based on. It's reminding me more of Mesopotamia than Egypt. Actually, I don't know why I thought of Egypt at first, because now I notice there's little of Egypt -thank God, I don't want to see Touya marrying Sakura-. So now I'm trying to learn more about Mesopotamia in general, to see if I can nail what exactly about it makes me think about Clow. Besides, CLAMP does dig that civilization in some way, right? Tokyo Babylon, anyone? Besides, winged lions. Need I say more?
- Written system and its inconsistencies. I mean, well, they definitely use books and paper. They use what it seems to be parchment rolls, but only for archaeology drawings, but so do we in real life. However! In volume 1, in a Syaoran flashback when he talks to Yuuko, Sakura is holding a stone tablet with cuneiform symbols carved in it! What the hell, make up your own mind, Ohkawa. I'm thinking the old written style in Clow used to be cuneiform writing, but for other nations' transculturation they went to paper instead. It has happened before in our real world, so why not. Or maybe that's not even from Clow; maybe that's something Fujitaka excavated somewhere (either Clow or another country) and Sakura was taking a look at the weird stone.
- Religion. I'm thinking a lot about religion, considering I do want to write Clow!Touya/Yukito and I need to know about their beliefs in order to get Yukito's resposabilities in a convincing way. For instance, is their religion monotheist or polytheist? Do they worship icons? What are the High Priest's functions? Are they always supposed to be infuencial in politics -either in a pope-like fashion or as counsellors-, or that's just Yukito because he's the King'slover right hand? Can they have sex? Not that Touya should stop for that, mind you. Can they get married? (Important issue for the Clow-was-the-priest theories...) What kind of ceremonies and holidays would they have? What about the dead? Do they bury, cremate or mommify them?
- And the most important of them, the one I'm hoping CLAMP won't let as a plot hole. What the fuck were those ruins?!
Ah, on Wednesday I went to an anime projection at my faculty. Just a couple of things:
- Samurai Champloo with subtitles in Spanish slang is hilarious XD It was so full of cursing it was even more funny.
- GitS: Stand Alone Complex. I didn't get squat about that episode's plot, but now I'm so fricking glad those are the guys doing XXXHOLiC *_* They're nifty.
- Midori no Hibi is crack.
- Prince of Tennis: still doesn't moves me.
- The Naruto the movie ending is so dumb. I just wanted to kick the princess.
- I won an Akira figure, which I'll proceed to sell on eBay when I get a debit card to use Paypal withand buy HBP with said card.
Speaking of Clow Country, I can't bloody stop thinking about that stupid country. It's just puzzling me so much in so many twisted little ways it's not funny. No, not only the Predecessor King issue. It's just everything in general.
- The real-life place it's based on. It's reminding me more of Mesopotamia than Egypt. Actually, I don't know why I thought of Egypt at first, because now I notice there's little of Egypt -thank God, I don't want to see Touya marrying Sakura-. So now I'm trying to learn more about Mesopotamia in general, to see if I can nail what exactly about it makes me think about Clow. Besides, CLAMP does dig that civilization in some way, right? Tokyo Babylon, anyone? Besides, winged lions. Need I say more?
- Written system and its inconsistencies. I mean, well, they definitely use books and paper. They use what it seems to be parchment rolls, but only for archaeology drawings, but so do we in real life. However! In volume 1, in a Syaoran flashback when he talks to Yuuko, Sakura is holding a stone tablet with cuneiform symbols carved in it! What the hell, make up your own mind, Ohkawa. I'm thinking the old written style in Clow used to be cuneiform writing, but for other nations' transculturation they went to paper instead. It has happened before in our real world, so why not. Or maybe that's not even from Clow; maybe that's something Fujitaka excavated somewhere (either Clow or another country) and Sakura was taking a look at the weird stone.
- Religion. I'm thinking a lot about religion, considering I do want to write Clow!Touya/Yukito and I need to know about their beliefs in order to get Yukito's resposabilities in a convincing way. For instance, is their religion monotheist or polytheist? Do they worship icons? What are the High Priest's functions? Are they always supposed to be infuencial in politics -either in a pope-like fashion or as counsellors-, or that's just Yukito because he's the King's
- And the most important of them, the one I'm hoping CLAMP won't let as a plot hole. What the fuck were those ruins?!
Ah, on Wednesday I went to an anime projection at my faculty. Just a couple of things:
- Samurai Champloo with subtitles in Spanish slang is hilarious XD It was so full of cursing it was even more funny.
- GitS: Stand Alone Complex. I didn't get squat about that episode's plot, but now I'm so fricking glad those are the guys doing XXXHOLiC *_* They're nifty.
- Midori no Hibi is crack.
- Prince of Tennis: still doesn't moves me.
- The Naruto the movie ending is so dumb. I just wanted to kick the princess.
- I won an Akira figure, which I'll proceed to sell on eBay when I get a debit card to use Paypal with
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Gilgamesh doesn't have subtext. It has text. Both main chracters have sexual relations with women but that's more part of the culture they live in than anything that impinges upon their bond. and their's a book that historians think was proabably added after the main epic that makes the sexual part of their relationship explcit. The fanfiction tradition goes back thousands of years! Ships_manifesto has an essay for them if you're intersted: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ship_manifesto/61535.html
Ah, I love worldbuilding. The problem is I can get too involved in that bit and never get around to writing the actual story. Which I fully intend to do this time. *resolve hat*