Randomosity

[oyceter]

• rachelmanija has finished her excellent series of posts on PTSD: Parts I, II, and III


• She's also started reading Angel Sanctuary! My joy cannot be contained! Also, spoil her and have your brain taken over by Rosiel.


• rilina and yhlee continue to watch Gundam Wing. My joy is still not contained! OMG people watching and getting into my beloved first anime series despite its mecha-ness!


• I'm sure everyone has already seen the post-apocalyptic cities posters for I Am Legend but I wanted to highlight the fact that they have TAIPEI and SEOUL! EEEEEEE! (I love Hong Kong, but I feel HK is featured much more often than Taipei and Seoul! OMG! Taipei! National monument that is only a few blocks away from my apartment!


• I have taken the plunge, put my Netflix account on hold, and started Blockbuster. I blame my sister. On the minus side, Blockbuster only has DVDs 7-10 of GWing. On the plus side.... THEY HAVE DAMO ON DVD!!!!!


• shewhohashope hosts the 5th POC in SF Carnival and focuses on non-Western fantasy, including... WUXIA! (yes, I am a little obsessed right now) I particularly rec meganbmoore's wuxia primer for those of you like me who only know you like swords and flying people and historical costumes and have no idea what to watch outside of two or three things. And it's good for people who have absolutely no idea what wuxia is too! Win-win!

I should actually catch up on book and TV posting but... oh well. Soon.

Comments

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

I wanted to highlight the fact that they have TAIPEI and SEOUL!

I am deeply amused that your glee is the result of pictures of these cities in a state of post-apocalyptic decay! Yet I know exactly where this odd fannish joy comes from -- when I went to see 'The Day After Tomorrow', I was absolutely delighted that Northern Ireland gets mentioned in it, in the background soundtrack in one scene. Sure, it was mentioned in the context of getting utterly obliterated by freak weather, but it was still mentioned.

[oyceter]

Hee, I know! It's like... yay, we're all dead, but we are important enough to get our own poster OMG!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Megan's LJ is one of the best places to go to learn about wuxia, really. She watches all sorts of dramas. :)

[oyceter]

I know! I have been lurking about there and trying not to get more sucked into dramas than I have been because woes! My time! It slips through my hands!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

This is true! I'm remained pretty steadfast but alas, because of her constant nagging, I fell prey to the crack that is Perfect Girl Evolution (Wallflower). And I think she's going to start throwing Basara at me soon. So much manga, so little time!

[oyceter]

I throw Damo at you! Damo! Damo! Ass-kicking, crime-solving, forensics-knowing, sword-wielding heroine! Who is quiet and loyal and steadfast! I love her so much! (Ok, this is only on three episodes but still!).

I know, I need to pick up Basara sometime...

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

ARGH, NOT YOU TOO.

But, yeah, that does sound like the kind of heroine I like. After finishing Seirei no Moribito, I realized how truly rare that type of heroine is. Genuinely, I mean. We do gets lots of "ass-kicking" heroines in a anime and manga but when you peer more closely, you realize that hmm, actually, no, that's not the case.

[oyceter]

Bwahaha! I am evil! I must share the crack!

But um, yes. And she is not the usual "spirited" ass-kicking heroine. I do not mind them if they actually do have spines, as opposed to only saying they have spines, but I also like the quiet stoic ones too.

My latest favorite Chae-Ohk thing: she is tied up and hanging from a tree branch, and the male villain threatens her sexually by tearing open her top (stay with me!), and then! Before the romantic interest/hero/commanding police officer gets there! She flips up in the air and kicks the guy all while tied to the branch and then does something so when all the troops get there, she has already vanquished him! I think I cheered out loud.

shewhohashope lured me in with pic spam.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It is entirely possible that, as I am firmly convinced that DAMO IS THE BEST THING EVER TO COME OUT OF KOREA AND IN THE TOP FIVE MOST AWESOME THINGS EVER I have, indeed, been planning to eventually toos it at you.

And Basara has a strong, smart fighter heroine, a shrewd and ruthless hero only half a step away from a villain, justified angst, swords, and a pirate queen. AND it's a post-apocalyptic romance.

I remain appalled you don't read.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Didn't you decide to watch the Kimi wa Petto/Tramops Like Us drama a while ago?

[oyceter]

Oh, um... ha. Did I ever mention how easily distractable I am? I think I got to ep. 4 and then got distracted by other shiny things. I should start again! Except I also must finish Coffee Prince! And Damo! And that is only on the drama side of things.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Well, you've given it a fair shot. And you have years and years worth of drama recs to catch up on, so you're not really losing out if you don't want to watch this particular show.

Coffee Prince! At least get to episode 12, I stalled a little after that because it was already almost perfect at that point.

You're probably ahead of me in Damo, as it's the end of term at uni and I have assignments due.

Also: Hana Yori Dango!! I may upload episodes, just so people watch it.

I think I'm freaking out people with all this drama talk, so I'm considering getting a separate lj account just for drama talk.

This was a really disjointed comment, feel free to reply to any and all, or none of the points made.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I've already accepted that wuxia and dramas are my life now.

I also throw Damo at you. The world must watch Damo!

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

*shields self from peer pressure*

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy about London, but London is always getting destroyed.

So this is a film about Will Smith saving the world (or failing to do so, based on the posters)? I'm already there.

[oyceter]

I have no idea! I think it is post-apocalyptic. And he has a dog. That's pretty much all I've figured out from the trailer....

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Post-apocalyptic fiction is my most favourite thing! Plus Will Smith!

[kate_nepveu]

He's the last person on earth (with his loyal dog), there are monsters, it's an adaptation of a famous sf/fantasy/horror story of the same name but hard to say whether saving the world will be involved given the vagarities of movie adaptations.

(edited to add extra information)

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that I kind of hope it will be?

I can't really see the point of fighting to stay alive when you're the last person on Earth. Humanity is pretty much over already. In that situation, I'd be quite apathetic about everything, to be honest, let alone looking after a pet.

[oyceter]

Heeee. I think someone on deadbrowalking asked if that made him the ultimate Dead Bro Walking or not (I think in the book he is a vampire? Maybe?).

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Actually, in the book he's the last human left in a world of vampires/zombies. The book never comes out and specifies what they are. I say vampires but this is also the same book that helped inspire George Romero's Night of the Living Dead so.

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Okay, I totally want to watch I Am Legend now. Those posters are so cool! I like that they have Osaka as well as Tokyo.

[oyceter]

I know! The posters are awesome. I wish they had more Southeast Asia and South Asia and the Middle East and Africa and South America period because that would be so cool! Big cities! Destroyed! I am so easy.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I have no intention of watching this movie, but I will note that my parents live two blocks from the very tall building in the Seoul poster.

[oyceter]

Very cool!