Journey into Mystery

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 )

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.

I just read Two Hearts, which is the sequel for The Last Unicorn ♥ Of course, it's not as magical, and the ending is just painful because of poor Lir. Woe.

But still, I'm shameless and I loved it because Schmendrick and Molly are so canon and cute! It's just... damn, it's like one of the best canons I've had for a couple of mine, like, ever. I didn't expect it to be so in-your-face. Yeah, TLU's ending had some burning subtext -they leave together! by own choice! singing!-, but it skyrocketed to hypertext in this story.

a) Dude, it's been decades and they're still together travelling?
b) The touching and the embracing continue.
c) Endearing bantering, just how I like it. Molly is practical while Schmendrick lives in his little corner of dorky, masochistic weirdness that's what happens when you live a long time without aging; ask Clow and Eriol!.
d) MOLLY'S SPEEECH. She's all like "but sometimes I want us both to be immortal and shit so we could be forever like this D:" That's a NEON SIGN of canonness.
e) They're so married the narrator girl ships them!
Molly: you can't argue when he's like that ¬¬U
Sooz: but good wives don't argue their husbands :P
Molly: LOL! we're not married, we're just, er, together (<- actual word, says it twice)
Sooz: oh, but you look married
Molly: pft, I'm never marrying that dork, he eats in bed! XD
Schmendrick: *at Sooz* ^_~

No, really. It's just awesome for characterization and post-ending interaction. I think I'm obsessing over this pairing in an unhealthy way, but it's no surprise.