A few new links added today.

Curvy - Involves a world made of candy, pirates, and graphic lesbian sex.

Moon Over June - Involves gynecology, higher math, and graphic lesbian sex.

Magpie Luck - Involves time travel, tea... and no graphic lesbian sex. Yet. The writer could surprise us.

I think they look kinda awesome actually, especially the first one.



( Full images behind cut! Also, they're kinda big. )

Sauce.

On December 23, 2009, famed movie critic Roger Ebert answered a question about "The Last Airbender" in his weekly Q&A column:

Q: Regarding the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan vehicle "The Last Airbender," what do you think about the whitewashing of the production so that all of the original Asian cultural landmarks, architecture, philosophy, and costume design are being retained while they cast white kids to play the main characters?

A: Wrong. The original series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" was highly regarded and popular for three seasons on Nickelodeon. Its fans take it for granted that its heroes are Asian. Why would Paramount and Shyamalan go out of their way to offend these fans? There are many young Asian actors capable of playing the parts.

Source.

Snow again tonight
Started late, while working out
White day tomorrow

• 10:20 @erikamoen How does it feel to be done with Dar? Is it like sending a kid off to college? Will it ever come home to do laundry? #
• 17:59 @jebbrwocky Is this for the Lesbian Conan story? Then definitely mythical ancient era. #
• 23:45 The sound of barfing makes me queasy. :/ #
• 00:19 @jephjacques "cuntmayor" is now my favorite insult forever. #

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Specter's Flute is done! A sweet and sappy ending. And we get to see how Luke joins up with Layton for further shenanigans. I can't wait to see what Descole has up his sleeve in Eternal Diva.
I managed to solve 156 puzzles so far. The rest are either hidden in some place I missed my first go round, or locked until I solve more puzzles in Secrets Mode. Not bad for lacking any Japanese fluency. The word puzzles were the hardest. Whenever I read "please input X hiragana for the answer" I just groaned, pulled out the dictionary on my iPod, and kept trying words.
I think my favorite puzzle type were the 'dropping things and bouncing them across the screen to a waiting basket' ones. I solved three so far; you basically have an object (first an apple, then a watermelon, then a bomb) dropped at the top left of the string. You're given a certain number of strings you can arrange on a grid so the object bounces to the right of the screen into a waiting basket. There are various horizontal and vertical blocks set up to make things more interesting. Perhaps I just like dropping apples. It gives me illusions of being Newton.
Time to start Diabolical Box! Oh! And the London Life RPG! All I've done in it so far is set up my character (in a Mii-like fashion, you can choose your gender/face/hair/clothes) and found an apartment. Tiny London is adorable, and I love seeing the tiny 8-bit styled sprites of characters from the games. There are folks from all the games, I think; I've run into a number of residents from St. Mystere and Mist Halely when looking for the apartment. Also, you arrive in Tiny London on the Molentary Express. So far my favorite bit of London Life is the warning when the game is loading, which warns you about tiny letters, tiny characters, tiny clothes and tiny life.

I did a couple drabbles for Urzai Week way back at the end of October, but for purely lame reasons (aka forgetfulness, editing procrastination, and shyness) only got around to posting them now. Enjoy.:)

Title: Point of No Return
Rating: PG (for vague discussion of death?)
Characters/Pairings: Ursa/Ozai (mentions of Zuko, Aang)
Word Count: 730
Prompt: I know that home is the one place you won't come
Summary: Ursa has never been able to return, even years after the war has ended.
Notes: Some interesting ideas in this one that have got me thinking about certain finale events a little differently…

She stands at Ba Sing Se station.

Title: Murder
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Ursa/Ozai
Word Count: 457
Prompt: Knowledge is second sons seeking the slaughter/And princesses playing their parts
Summary: Ozai’s willingness to kill shocks even himself.
Notes: I was actually surprised by the outcome of this myself. Sometimes characters just seem to take on a life of their own, you know? (Although I do believe this scenario is completely possible.)

Ozai knew he was slipping.

I'm starting a manga review blog over on blogspot, so that I can try to be more coherent about all the stuff I'm reading

You can find it here: http://suitablefortreatment.blogspot.com/ I have a review of Dogs, Volume 2 up there now.

I'll likely still posts the weekly shopping lists and Hakusensha contents lists on LJ, mostly as they tend to get very boring except to geeks like me. :)

The sun is rising over Tokyo Big Sight.

Disadvantage of first train to Comiket: crowds. advantage: not getting lost. tip for winter: put your suica in your glove for faster passing through subway gates.

End-of-year figures are out. It's a bad time to be a magazine, really.

1) Weekly Shonen Jump, 2.8 million (Shueisha)
2) Weekly Shonen Magazine, 1.7 million (Kodansha)
3) Monthly Comic Korokoro, 912,000 (Shogakukan)
4) Monthly Shonen Magazine, 904,000 (Kodansha)
5) Young Magazine, 857,000 (Kodansha)
6) Weekly Young Jump, 852,000 (Shueisha)
7) Ciao, 815,000 (Shogakukan)
8) Big Comic Original, 792,000 (Shogakukan)
9) Shonen Sunday, 773,000 (Shogakukan)
10) Weekly Shonen Champion, 500,000 (Akita Shoten)

Top shojo/josei magazines after Ciao: Nakayoshi (307,000), Bessatsu Margaret (276,000), Ribon (274,000) and Hana To Yume (227,000).

Note that Shonen Sunday is not only dead last among the big 3 in shonen, by a huge margin, but it also loses to its own companies' titles for little kids, for older men, and for girls. Ow.

Got a late present
An unexpected guitar
Don't know how to Rock

• 08:49 I am really glad I saved up a sick day at work. #
• 09:41 Woo pseudoephdrine is fun! #
• 10:50 I can't stop touching my mouth. #
• 17:54 Being sick makes me feel EXTRA sarcastic. #
• 00:18 One thing I love about shoujo manga: every couple looks like a lesbian couple. #

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Well I got these two. I'm in pain, there is swelling, scabbing, peeling, etc but it was so worth it. I have no regrets.

( I got an Avatar tattoo )

Anyone else?

One thing I got for Christmas that I forgot to mention was...

...the image of my mother in her pink bathrobe re-enacting Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video. Mom, I love you, but it got really awkward around the sexier parts. Especially because I am kind of in love with Lady Gaga, and want to do naked things with her.

My mother's taste in music:
-Classical
-Christian
-Lady Gaga

Thank you to whoever left a comment on the Lesbian Pirates site about how much they dislike today's YU+ME page.

I'm so glad you figured out my secret code, in which taking down the comment box on YU+ME actually means I want you to go leave comments on another site for another story.

I admit, it wasn't an easy code to figure out. Most people figured I took down the comment box on YU+ME because I didn't want to hear any more comments about how much people hate this or that. Others decided to use the forum that I have set up for YU+ME. But you are among the handful of really smart people who saw beyond the obvious.

Thank you for your oh-so-helpful comment about how much you hate today's art. Just for you, I'm going to spend another 3 sleepless nights redrawing several pages, because you took the trouble to circumvent my system and make sure I saw your Very Important Opinion.

I hope everyone keeps going to Lesbian Pirates to leave comments about YU+ME. I do so love that.

Love,
Megan

PS: Everything above was actually sarcastic.

PPS: This isn't why all the comments on Lesbian Pirates are gone. It really was an accident that they got deleted.

PPPS: I am still filled with pseudoephedrine.

This holiday season I have basically been:
- napping
- doing family holiday stuff
- shopping
- playing Professor Layton and the Specter's Flute

I have bought Prof Layton and the Diabolical Box but am not going to start on that until I finish Specter's Flute. I'm up to puzzle 100'ish of what appear to be about 150'ish story puzzles, so I am already 2/3rds through the game. The plot is moving along nicely, and I can't wait to finish and watch the Eternal Diva movie!
For what it's worth, Remi is simply full of win. She kicks ass. Literally. She knows martial arts. She has been labeled "the explosive woman" for her rather hot temper (although she's not violent unless provoked, and the other party really, really deserves it.) I will miss her presence in Diabolical Box, I'm sure.

Otherwise I'm just hanging out, taking it easy, meeting up with friends, etc. We're going to see Avatar later today. Should be pretty.

Title: Guide Me Home
Characters/Pairing: Ursa/Hakoda
Summary: They were engulfed in war and had already lost so much when circumstance pulled them together. (Eventual Ursa/Hakoda, takes place during the show, without contradicting canon.)
Disclaimer: Avatar is not mine.
Rating: T
Author: qwi_xux


Chapter Seventeen: The Northern Water Tribe


Previous Chapters: (Chapter One) (Chapter Two) (Chapter Three) (Chapter Four) (Chapter Five) (Chapter Six) (Chapter Seven) (Chapter Eight) (Chapter Nine) (Chapter Ten) (Chapter Eleven) (Chapter Twelve) (Chapter Thirteen) (Chapter Fourteen) (Chapter Fifteen) (Chapter Sixteen)