SUCCESS!

The very vast majority of today was spent cleaning out my tags list.  While I doubt anybody cares(well, maybe calixa, but only because i've also been talking to her about it all day) basically:

*Redundant tags are gone: skip-beat/skip beat, fullmetal alchemist/full metal alchemist, cable/deadpool/ cable & deadpool, stargate/stargate sg-1, etc. are each just one tag.
*No more book titles.  Novels are just author and, when applicable, series.  Manga, of course, is still by series, though the few mangaka that had tags still do.
*Manga and anime with 2 names, i.e., kino no tabi/kino's journey, 12 kingdoms/juuni kokuki still have both tags as some people tend to only look for one or the other.
One the flipside, there is only "young warriors of the yang clan" for the Young Warriors series, because it's not really a good title for the series, and no one really knows it by that name, anyway.
*Tags like "real life' and "work" are gone.  "Work" because, even though I've never talked about anything remotely confidential, I do use LJ at work a lot.  "Real Life" will probably build up again, and the posts are still there, I just don't know that I want a new friend looking at a problem or RL event from a year ago(largely because I'm likely to have forgotten about it...)
*Things like "stalkery people" and "weirdos" are also gone(though again, not the posts) because they tend to be about things that remind me why it may not be wise to live alone in an apt. and get off work at midnight.

I might go back through and add author:/drama:/manga:/anime:/movie: etc. tags later, but it's too much work for now.

Sadly, just looking at my LJ page, you could probably never guess that close to 200 tags are gone now(a lot of typo tags with 0 post were still in my tag list...)

SUCCESS!

The very vast majority of today was spent cleaning out my tags list.  While I doubt anybody cares(well, maybe calixa, but only because i've also been talking to her about it all day) basically:

*Redundant tags are gone: skip-beat/skip beat, fullmetal alchemist/full metal alchemist, cable/deadpool/ cable & deadpool, stargate/stargate sg-1, etc. are each just one tag.
*No more book titles.  Novels are just author and, when applicable, series.  Manga, of course, is still by series, though the few mangaka that had tags still do.
*Manga and anime with 2 names, i.e., kino no tabi/kino's journey, 12 kingdoms/juuni kokuki still have both tags as some people tend to only look for one or the other.
One the flipside, there is only "young warriors of the yang clan" for the Young Warriors series, because it's not really a good title for the series, and no one really knows it by that name, anyway.
*Tags like "real life' and "work" are gone.  "Work" because, even though I've never talked about anything remotely confidential, I do use LJ at work a lot.  "Real Life" will probably build up again, and the posts are still there, I just don't know that I want a new friend looking at a problem or RL event from a year ago(largely because I'm likely to have forgotten about it...)
*Things like "stalkery people" and "weirdos" are also gone(though again, not the posts) because they tend to be about things that remind me why it may not be wise to live alone in an apt. and get off work at midnight.

I might go back through and add author:/drama:/manga:/anime:/movie: etc. tags later, but it's too much work for now.

Sadly, just looking at my LJ page, you could probably never guess that close to 200 tags are gone now(a lot of typo tags with 0 post were still in my tag list...)

Hayate the Combat Butler

Hayate the Combat Butler is another manga I should do a proper pimp post of, but am to lazy to do so. Instead I bring you an average day in the life of a Combat Butler (mostly from vol 4, w/ 2 pages of vol 3 as the scene starts there)

( A true Combat Butler always remembers to bring along the heavy weaponry )

Hayate the Combat Butler

Hayate the Combat Butler is another manga I should do a proper pimp post of, but am to lazy to do so. Instead I bring you an average day in the life of a Combat Butler (mostly from vol 4, w/ 2 pages of vol 3 as the scene starts there)

( A true Combat Butler always remembers to bring along the heavy weaponry )

art: xXxHoLic

 In my last xXxHoLic(someone will have to explain that title to me one day...) post, I meantioned liking the art a lot, so I bring examples.  These pics are almost completely random, as opposed to scenes, like I usually post.

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art: xXxHoLic

 In my last xXxHoLic(someone will have to explain that title to me one day...) post, I meantioned liking the art a lot, so I bring examples.  These pics are almost completely random, as opposed to scenes, like I usually post.

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now this is some quality wuxia angst

 Currently in Romance of Red Dust, the otp has fallen off a cliff and into a river after a battle with assassins.  They were, of course, separated, and the results of the fall were:

1.  Li Jing apparently got gangrene in his legs from being in the water too long.  His life was saved by the daughter of the local governor(who dresses like a boy and wants to be a general, but everyone knows she's a girl) who thinks he's her True Love  because she was once told she would find her True Love in the water.  (I sincerely hope she gets her own OTP and does not become one of those wuxia other women who marries the emperor out of revenge...those are always fun, but they always come to a bad end and I rather like this girl.)

2.  Chu Cheng(it's what they mostly call Hong Bi now)  is blind and has been taken to a charity house(BLIND! ASSASSIN! I love you, wuxia.)  Two harpies tried to sell her off to a brothel(actually, I thought she was a blind AMNESIAC asassin for a few minutes, but apparently she was lying to make the harpies sdhut up and leave her alone when they were needling her about her past) but she was saved by the benefactor of the charity house and taken to his home.  He is the son of the local governor.

3.  As a direct result of 1 and 2, Li Jing and Chu Cheng are now in the same palace, but don't know.  One is crippled and the other blind, and they think the other is dead.

I'm sure people will be walking and seeing and aware of each other's being alive soon, but this is some very quality stuff at the moment.

Unrelated to that, but Shu Qi has amazingly cute freckles.  I wish they didn't put so much makeup on her half the time, as I think she looks better with less makeup. 

ETA:  Also, the governor's son saw Chu Cheng before and knows she's a fighter, and understandably finds it rather convenient that the kunbg fu expert he met on the other side of China recently suddenly shows up blind in his charity house, so he had her tossed in a prison cell.  I'm sure this, too, is temporary, but I feel it's worth mentioning.

now this is some quality wuxia angst

 Currently in Romance of Red Dust, the otp has fallen off a cliff and into a river after a battle with assassins.  They were, of course, separated, and the results of the fall were:

1.  Li Jing apparently got gangrene in his legs from being in the water too long.  His life was saved by the daughter of the local governor(who dresses like a boy and wants to be a general, but everyone knows she's a girl) who thinks he's her True Love  because she was once told she would find her True Love in the water.  (I sincerely hope she gets her own OTP and does not become one of those wuxia other women who marries the emperor out of revenge...those are always fun, but they always come to a bad end and I rather like this girl.)

2.  Chu Cheng(it's what they mostly call Hong Bi now)  is blind and has been taken to a charity house(BLIND! ASSASSIN! I love you, wuxia.)  Two harpies tried to sell her off to a brothel(actually, I thought she was a blind AMNESIAC asassin for a few minutes, but apparently she was lying to make the harpies sdhut up and leave her alone when they were needling her about her past) but she was saved by the benefactor of the charity house and taken to his home.  He is the son of the local governor.

3.  As a direct result of 1 and 2, Li Jing and Chu Cheng are now in the same palace, but don't know.  One is crippled and the other blind, and they think the other is dead.

I'm sure people will be walking and seeing and aware of each other's being alive soon, but this is some very quality stuff at the moment.

Unrelated to that, but Shu Qi has amazingly cute freckles.  I wish they didn't put so much makeup on her half the time, as I think she looks better with less makeup. 

ETA:  Also, the governor's son saw Chu Cheng before and knows she's a fighter, and understandably finds it rather convenient that the kunbg fu expert he met on the other side of China recently suddenly shows up blind in his charity house, so he had her tossed in a prison cell.  I'm sure this, too, is temporary, but I feel it's worth mentioning.

Neil Gaiman is the most awesome person ever.

Or this girl's fiance is.

Or both.

This is a post of much awesomeness.

Neil Gaiman is the most awesome person ever.

Or this girl's fiance is.

Or both.

This is a post of much awesomeness.