Well yeah... sorry if you saw last night's capslock of O NO U DIDN. The shit is still NOT DONE, amazingly. I need to do my suitcase, fuck it all.

But anyway...

Feliz día del orgullo friki!

Happy "how do they rise" day!
*which still can't understand because she hasn't read that Discworld book*

And me, I'm a bit happier because I got this shiny, shiny fanlisting approval ZOMG *_* I must've had zero competition LOL So I have two wishlisters in upcoming. At least Waka already has a layout because I'm building a shrine anyway. I need to start on Ling as soon as possible.

So. Today it's Geek Pride day in Spain. To celebrate in some way, I'll upload random Star Wars mp3s.

The cantina band

The cantina band, song 2

The Imperial March (Vader's theme)

Duel of the fates (because the shiny Jedi/Sith duels were the only thing worth the prequels eww)

ETA: European man found in Ancient Chinese tomb.

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Is that you, Clow's dad?! :O

In TV Tropes, the article on Big Fancy House anime cliché.

Two characters in Card Captor Sakura have big houses; the less fancy one belongs to the Kinomoto family (Sakura's dad is a famous archeologist; Mom was a famous model). Tomoyo Daidouji, being the daughter of a toy-company CEO (her mom), lives in a classic Big Fancy House; Tomoyo's bedroom is bigger than the entire second floor of Sakura's house.

Two characters, they say.

TWO.

*makes a "You'll see, you'll see" gesture to the monitor and breaks out the spampic*

( LOLOLOLOL )

So, what have I been doing this Holy Week break? Well, I played some Zelda yesterday, and now I finally have the Master Sword (shut up, I'm slow and lazy)

But also, I've been downloading movies I was meaning to watch for some time, be it because I never watched the whole thing on my childhood, or because I keep hearing about it. So it was:

• Labyrinth (yeah, the one with David Bowie; my inner child approved, and now I have CCS plotbunnies, goddamit)


• Dogma (which was amusing, kinda like Good Omens but more serious and with prettier people)


• Clerks (since I was already checking Kevin Smith movies... *shrugs*)


• Kiki's Delivery Service (so adorable! it was odd how I could relate with Kiki in some aspects, and the fact that city looked like a nicer version of Coruña didn't help. where can I find a cute nerd like Tombo to flirt with me? or my own Jiji? :3)


• Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind (because I want to watch as many GHIBLI movies as I can; I adored this one, old school Miyazawa is surely amazing)

Now for some meta, and I'll go to bed.

You know, when it comes to mythology and we talk about winged lions, there are only three things to come to mind. One is the lamassu, the Asirian creature who's a winged lion with a man's head. The second is the griffin, half an eagle and half a lion. Nonetheless, those two monsters are very different to Clow's very own Cerberus. So far, what I've seen as most similar is St. Mark's evangelist symbol, which is pretty much a lion with angel wings (and St. Matthew's fits Yue, kind of). I was forced to learn the Evangelists when I was in elementary school (lol nuns), you see.

But today I was googling aroung to see if I could find something interesting about winged lions, and I stumbled with St. Mark's Clowcktower or Torre Dell'orologio in Venice. Pictures and descriptions of that place set me aback.

The outermost displays the number 1 to 24 in Roman numerals, and a hand embellished with a depiction of the sun indicated the hour. The second dial depicts the twelve signs of the zodiac, picked out, like the inner dials, in gilt on an enamel blue background. The inner dials indicate the phases of the moon and sun.

...For something so Catholic, it gives me too many vibes about a fictional Chinese-English man who most probably didn't believe in this god. Oh CLAMP. Like British crown jewelry wasn't enough, now you have to bring Venice! Someone write Clow in Venice and writing down ideas right now.

And the worse part of the tower is, of course, the lion statue. With starry background. Yessss. And it's not the only winged lion in Venice, mind you.

And to wrap it up, the WTF link of the day, just for this paragraph:

The winged lion is a symbol of peace.
The lion with an open book is a symbol of peace,
with its book closed is a symbol of war.

...*facepalm*

First canon pimping. Here's the 1/4 part of CCS. Pretty accurate to do it today, April 1st, day in which the main character was born.

Cardcaptor Sakura

This is the story of a pretty magician called Clow Reed, who had an unusual heritage for his time, a weird way to do things, a medium-sized reason to angst in the CLAMP scale of doom, and too much free time in his hands. He had made two cute creatures and a deck of magic cards and two Mokonas, but that was another canon, and he lived as happy as he could with them.

...Okay fine, the story is set decades after his death, and told from his heiress' point of view, but he's still guilty of everything.

So yeah, follow the adventures of 4th grader Sakura Kinomoto, who's forced to gather temperamental cards-spells with the help of a mascot who looks like a toy, a best friend who has a fetishist crush on her, and a foreign grumpy boy who knows kung-fu. The genre is magical girls. Not as epic as Sailor Moon, not as smart as Princess Tutu, but it's still cute and funny to read and it doesn't drag as much as the anime version, as there are less cards to gather. And the guys are pretty to look at, which is cool.

And there's the canon pairings. If the childish premise doesn't convince you, the not-so-politically-correct couples should. You want normal het? You got it. You want gay/bisexual teenagers? You got it. You want lesbians? You got it. You want male/asexual or alive people/ghosts? You got it. You want teachers proposing to their students? You fucking got it. And so on. This shit is bananas. Not as much as X and RG Veda, but you know, for the genre itself it's pretty WTF.

By the way, it's not gory as Tsubasa, and I promise you the main characters in CCS are pretty much different from their TRC versions. RLY.

Volume one

Download

Volume two

Download

Volume three

Download

The next volumes in a couple of days.

I'm doing the Watanuki-centric fics I was asked today, since it's his birthday. Yay!

Title: Mystery box I couldn't come up with a witty name, sue me
Genre: Crack
Fandom: XXXHOLiC/Cardcaptor Sakura
Rating: PG for swearing
Characters: Yuuko, Watanuki, Nakuru, Spinel, Eriol and black Mokona. Oh my!
Pairing: implied Clow/Yuuko. Eriol/Kaho if you squint.
Words: +1600

( Read more... )

Since Clow decided he wanted to die, and he actually "cut himself"...

...does that make him a sort of prototype for an emo kid? XDDD;

*dodges tomatoes*

ETA:

Anyway, so this doesn't look empty, a poll.

[Poll #951910]

It's been ages since I last used Photoshop or coded CSS. How nice it feels.

I've been rereading random manga parts just because.

- I had forgotten how cute and sexy Kazuhiko/Oruha is. And Suu and Oruha's friendship was so "aww". But most of all, the hidden "cameras" or whatever popping out occasionally freaked me out. I'm hoping that, when/if CLAMP finishes the two Clover volumes left, they develop more on Oruha's killer and whether Kazuhiko could find him/her/it.

- I think I've developed a couple of theories about Hohenheim, but I'll talk about that some other day.

- You know, in early CCS volumes, sometimes the similarities between Fujitaka and Eriol are too much. And I've noticed that when I write about Clow or read the Soel to Larg translations, I imagine his facial expressions and fanon traits like a mix between his reincarnations. Let me tell you, I would've PAID good money to CLAMP so they'd drawn a Clow with a kinda!evil!Eriol smirk or a surprised!Fujitaka look on his face XDDDD Because that'd be TOO hot.

More interview meme answers, this time for Laurus.

( About Howl's door, childhood cartoons, web design, Harry Potter, and pirate vs. ninja! )

yaired y yo nos pusimos a hablar sobre cómo algunas criaturas del cardholicverso son visibles para los no-mágicos (guardianes, Mokona Soel Modoki), mientras que otras aparentemente no (Mokona Larg Modoki, Tanpopo...) Ella pensó una teoría interesante en este thread.

Yo digo que las instancias de Mokona son de clases distintas, de diferente visibilidad (una pública, una de paquete), que implementan el mismo interfaz MokonaModoki. (ETA: no, espera, sería mejor clase abstracta y no interfaz.) Pero luego me digo a mí misma que estudiar Programación Orientada a Objetos me está afectando y que nadie va a entender qué papas dije ahora. ClowReed es una superclase deprecated de la que heredan las subclases EriolHiiragizawa y FujitakaKinomoto.

Mientras tanto, laurus_nobilis se preocupaba de las reacciones de los personajes en Clow y Japón con relación a la nueva actitud y personalidad de Sakura. Yo puse mi grano de arena en este thread (WARNING: spoilers del capítulo 142 que aún no ha salido) y cerré con broche de oro escribiendo un ficlet desde el punto de vista de -cómo no- el Eriol-tachi. Que parece que gustó mucho, con todo y que es improvisado. (y no, me parece que no estamos haciendo Sakura-bashing, maldita sea.)

Okay then. Operative Systems practice? Uploaded. OO Programming exercises? Uploaded. The deadline was until tomorrow, so for the first time or whatever I'm delivering something a DAY before. Go me or something.

I found the fourth book of Earthsea by chance, and I bought it even though I still haven't gotten the third one. And while I'm only by chapter two, I already know Ghibli screwed the books' timeline. WTF is Therru doing in that movie?

By the way, I went for a walk at the mini-mall near home today, because I like to peek at the pet shop. And the shop next to it is a decoration one. And there was this stand that -I SWEAR TO GOD- looked like my Card Captor Sakura mangas puked on it. There were these rustic Teddy bears made of regular fabric, the ones that look like they're hand-made by an aunt of yours but you know, in your heart, they were manufactured in [insert Asian country]. But see, these bears? They were THE CCS BEARS. They looked so similar it's eerie. There was one that was coffee-and-milk-colored and I was all like "Li made this one lololol" (yeah, it's darker than that, but humor me)

To make it better: The shelf right below the rustic bears? You know what it had? You know?!

SHEEP PLUSHIES. Assorted sizes. OMFGYAYHGHJSGKGKGS.

I had to leave before I went all "fly, my pretties!", and threw the whole lot at people. I think I'm honesty fucked from the head just to consider the idea.

ETA: this is kind of addequate, because today at OS the professor was talking about passwords, and how his account in the university in Santiago de Compostela was abused by some student who guessed his password -which happened to be, of course, professor's very own first name.

OMG hamsterfactor! You didn't have to ♥ ♥

( The geekiest Christmas present I've gotten this year, by far: )

I also got myself a couple of collectible card thingies of CCS illustrations I had to own but I don't want to buy the artbooks they're on any time soon.

( Warning: hot adults with glasses )