this cat! it is not a cheesecake!

This is for all those people who have friended me in the past 48 hours, who are under the impression that I actually post CONTENT!

( Take THAT! )

HAH!

Apologies for this recent spate of content; I shall soon return to the normal run of cat pictures, quiz results, and links to pointless funny things.

(I'm just worried, now I know people are linking to various posts of mine, that I'm going to have to start fussing about my typoes (You think they're full of typoes now? You should see them BEFORE I edit! Or just read some of my email). I gave up on grammar and punctuation long ago; I use semicolons because I think they're nifty, not because I have a clear idea of what they're for, and many moons ago as a child, someone told me that when you're reading out loud, you pause momentarily when you come to a comma. I seem to have internalized that backwards, as "you put commas in where you'd pause when reading aloud," and no amount of careful explanation of clauses and compounds and whatnot has ever made any more impression than that on me and I ahve accepted that the true use and function of the comma shall remain a mystery to me. If it's more-or-less readable, I'm all OK with that.)

That wasn't what I started out to post - I got distracted by a shiny thing.

( OMG CONTENT! Produced by cutting and pasting other people's content! )

I made a joke about stopping posting content and returning to my normal content-free life including pictures of my cat, and immediately a thousand* people commented asking for more kittyspam. Well, who am I to deny the people what they want?

( Bread, circuses, and kittyspam for all! )

* +/- 997

And Part 4 of my three-part series (why am I feeling like Douglas Adams here?) analyzing manga. Starting in on action scenes here, because I'm working on laying out an action scene myself and I need all the help I can get.

Again with the image warning for slow modems. And another warning this time: I'm using Hiroaki Samura's BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL here. It's violent. It's got some gore, with people getting limbs lopped off and such, but part of the point of the story is to take the samurai ethos that we're all familiar with and point out: hey! For every honorable, strict, controlled, proper heroic samurai following bushido out there, there's a million nasty, loutish, violent sons-of-bitches. But the story, while dark and violent, has humor to leaven it, and delves into some pretty interesting philosophical questions on the nature of honor, what the point of martial arts really is, and how far people will go to achieve their desires. For the type of story that it is, the violence is justified, I think.

Plus, the art's stunning and Manji is a badass.

There is also language. There's a big FUCK in one of the panels, so if I just offended you, you might as well go back to the FRUITS BASKET essays and do your best not to think about how the characters who turn into animals when hugged by the opposite sex engender children.

(Oh, please. Don't tell me you weren't wondering about that.)


( Onwards and upwards! )




Index to the Series

I found out today that the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, CA is - yes, indeed! - the week of Yaoi-Con, in San Fran. So I can just extend my stay by four days or so, and get an art table there. While I don't draw hardcore yaoi, my stable of prints is heavily weighted towards the bishounen, so I think I'd do fairly well out there.

From preliminary inquiries, I think I've got a good chance of convincing bpggle to come to both Internet Librarian and Y-Con with me, so he can hang around with me at Y-Con and be my booth babe[*].





[*] Kinda blows your image of a librarian, huh? XD

OK, I couldn't stand it any longer. I went into Photoshop and rearranged the panels on the second BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL example to see what I THINK (emphasis on that THINK!) the original panels looked like. [ edit ] There's confirmation in the comments that I got them right. I r so smrt!

( And lookit what showed up! )



Index to the Series