Journey into Mystery

So, I hope the one who had the brilliant idea to put a demo of the avatar function on the CLAMP website gets a rash on their hand. I spent like an hour last night doing shananigans. This shit was somehow lots more entertaining than all candymaker doll generators put together. So since CLAMP is making me lose my religion (*plays a tiny mandolin*), somehow I don't feel ashamed to dress up favorite characters in somebody else's clothes. If anything, this was bizarrely cathargic.

( Mostly Clow, a couple of Watanukis, and of course some Amewarashi )

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I wish I could comment on your threads, but I doubt I can find the time because...

Now I count with the marvelous limit of ONE HOUR OF INTERNET A DAY. Not even voluntary.

Why yes, I'm climbing on the walls over here. Ahasjagsdhgjhasgjas.

ETA: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE THIS WEEK'S TSUBASA SPLASH COVER. OMFG FOR CEPHIRO'S MOKONA ON A POGO STICK. THAT'S JUST. OH GOD. THAT'S... CLOW REED WITH NO MINDFUCKING OMINOUS CREEPY CRAP?! JUST PRETTY ERIOL-ISH CLOTHES/POSE AND HIS HAIR DOWN?!?!

.........*dies* *dies, I tell you*

From all people to be good to me and give me gorgeous things that doesn't hurt my brain, and it's CLAMP. And it's been twice this week.

Fanservice? That I like?! ;_____; Srsly?!

*wants to oogle at it all day, doesn't even care about reading the rest of the chapter*

Photoshop refuses to install itself D: Something about Asian fonts. WTF ;_;

Some of you might remember a couple of weeks ago, when some scans of a CCS fanbook came out, and we were shocked and amused to see that, between the character designs, they had drawn more than two facial expressions for Clow Reed. But, you know, there wasn't really a chance to use them.

Here's another megane's character design doodles, but in a different fandom.

( Kiri's fanon crossover fact #242725: Jade and Nephry are that world's Clow descendants )

...LOL at the "LOL!" face and the ·_· face. Is it just me, or does it look like CLAMP drew those ones? He fucking looks like Fujitaka/Eriol when surprised.

And something that bothers me. Does Nephry need the glasses, unlike her brother? Is it ever said in canon? Because I have this silly mental image of her noticing how intellectual Jade looks, and she gets a pair instead. Then Peony sort of develops a glasses fetish, and that would explain why his casual clothes in Tales of Fandom included a pair.

As a matter of fact, what about Dist? With him and Nephry, I have seen fanart of both of them as children not wearing glasses, so I get the feeling it's yet another case of the same. Saphir gets his because Jade will find me prettier now~~~~ all the cool kids in Keterburg were doing it. Heck, I'd even bet he was the first one.

Here we go again, Tsubasa. Because being a CLAMP fan is kind of like being a Star Wars fan, in a way. You must love to hate them and hate to love them. You coo at the same time you whine.

( BAD CLAMP, NO BISCUIT! )

Please remind me my decision not to apply for more RP characters. B-because this reminded me I want to play Soel like burning. W-we have a Clow and all ;; And the whole main TRC cast, and a Yuuko. It would be so frigging cute! UNLIKE YOU, CLAMP.

And my AJ mood theme is back, and so are my icon posts, since my domain is back online :3 Woot!

ETA: Bunny comic did a Poirot parody.

Gah, my internet connection sucks from last night. I'll try to reply to emails and RP threads through the day. Last day of catsitting, BTW.

( TRC spoilers? )

But anyway, the BEST PART: ( the XXXHOLiC Kei drama, aka HAY GAYS, YOU CAN HAS MOAR CLOW REED )

1. I feel all polemic... almost:

Hah, I still haven't replied on the Evangelion comments because it's such a subjective issue I don't know what to say XD I do assure you I a) never took it as a 'religion' or teh bestest anime evah when I was eighteen, and b) am *also* liking the manga canon better. I can't argue about the Shinji thing because it's a personal preference, and I can see why he annoys a lot of people.

Also, I'm wondering if the origins of why I can't get into the wooden-faced, silent-and-devoted type of characters may lay on Rei Ayanami. But never mind about my own peeves, or why Rei rubbed me the wrong way in the old days, because that's also subjective.

Ah! And I've always wanted to watch Escaflowne, by the way. I never really considered it mecha because it's more fantasy than anything, though. Kinda like Rayearth, actually.

2. On this season's anime:

I started Denno Coil today out of curiosity. I've only watched two episodes so I can't say a lot, but so far it's been quite appealing to me. Also, screw cyberpets: I want to have a Mojo. They're like... so fluffy! With the antenna! Gah, I was squeeing every time they were on screen, even though they're kinda creepy whatever they are (don't spoil me).

I tried to check Baccano!, but I found no uploaded episodes on the stream sites I know. I'll check Mononoke when I'm up to date with Coil.

Lovely Complex is still my guilty pleasure. *facepalm* Sigh.

3. And now some Avatar shit:

There's a HQ version (not cam recorded) of the season 3 trailer. Awesome sauce. Can't wait till September! D: Also, you Earth King (or Bosco, or Sokka) fans -you know who you are- might want to check this out XDDDDD LOLarious.

4. And speaking of ANOTHER king with glasses...

Continuing with the OMGWTFBBQness of yesterday's reaction to the Tsubasa deluxe cover, I must add something.

Clow/Eriol's original sun staff has eleven points. King Clow's has nine. As I see it, either:

a) we cling to the possibility it's not the same staff, for sanity's sake! yay!

b) or Mokona forgot how many points it had ¬_¬

Of course, CLAMP does fanservice *I* can fangirl at.

King Clow, bitches. On the cover. Hot stuff.

Because it's KING Clow. I'm getting all peeved because people are going all "OMG CLOW REED"(*), when his clothes are so painfully, obviously Clowian. Don't you see the neck pattern? And the gypsy coins? Sure, the cloak has a sun and shit, but it doesn't look like the one on the Reed robes.

Anyway, I could tell you I've been kind of absent because I've been at my mom's, and I was too lazy to comment on stuff or make posts, and how my face is a horrible zone of pain again thanks to The Right-sided Molar (which will be removed when I've taken enough antibiotics, that being several days after the Potterdammerung).

Speaking of the Potterdammerung, these two posts seem useful for the battle against spoiling jerks:

- Because you CAN prevent forest fires
- Troll protection!

Have I told you I'll maim you if ANY OF YOU posts spoilers outside LJ-cuts or in my journal? I WILL. I promise.

And this is what I did while I had no Internet:



Revamped the Spirited Away fanlisting and redid all the 50x50 codes! I particularly like the hover thing at the menu. The top image looks kind of LQ, though.

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(*) And unless you subscribe to the King Clow = Clow Reed theory (**), he's not. Trufax.

(**) I dislike that theory a LOT because I believe it cheapens the plot, leaves plotholes in the other mangas Clow appears in, and every possibility for a Clow country version of a CCS adult woman as the queen of Clow becomes creepy by default (***). And I'll kick puppies (****) if CLAMP makes it canon.

(***) "My beloved queen, if We was born again, We'd fall in love with you again... And actually, guess what: We will!! :DDDD" (<- Also known as "I'd hit that... again, in my next reincarnation, yay!")

(****) Preferably, cousin Merce's Scottish terrier. He isn't a puppy, but I'd kick him.