I think it was the food that got me
Jan. 20th, 2008 12:47 am| Your Inner European is Italian! |
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Jan. 20th, 2008
I think it was the food that got me
Jan. 20th, 2008 12:47 am| Your Inner European is Italian! |
 Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is. |
so very very bored
Jan. 20th, 2008 02:59 pmMy viewer-persona is broken:
Have tried 2 kdramas:
Green Rose-Looks like it's good, but this is my third time trying and it just isn't grabbing me.
Queen of the Game-Tried last night, and again just now. Also looks good. I should like it. But the hero is of the "Well, this person wronged my father and my father eventually committed suicide because of it(and in this case, apparently tried to take me with him.) Instead of acknowledging that my father was weak and chose death and abandoning me over trying to get back on his feet, I will decide the person who wronged him murdered him and ruined my life and devote my life to underhandedly destroying him." About the only time it's really worked for me is Kurosagi, where he hated his father even more than the ones who ruined his father, and his self destructive cycle was designed to stop people like the ones who ruined his family. In other words, he realized who was really to blame and even though he was making himself even worse and destroying himself, he devoted his life to trying to keep what happened to him from happening to others.
For the most part, though, characters with that kind of emo just need a reality check...BEFORE they start trying to destroy people's lives.
Anyway...
Have also tried the Shinsengumi drama. Suspect I will love it when I'm not trying it out out of boredom.
Have stared at my Blue Seed, Last Exile and Gun X Sword DVDs. Do not want boredom to affect enjoyment.
Have stared at Juliet Marillier's Blade of Fortriu and many manga and comics, but cannot work up energy.
Am enjoying![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
calixadiscovering very bad, trashy shojo. I will read bad, trashy romance novels, but not bad, trashy shojo. Even I have standards. I do fear what STARTING your manga reading with bad shojo on purpose could be scarring, though.
Will try Bleach. Why? Supposedly sticks close to the manga the first season, so mostly, it's just watchingRenji, Ichigo and Ishida the familiar stuff, but moving and with color and sound.
Also installing Turbo Tax. Suspect will be deeply saddened at lack of tuition break this year.
Have tried 2 kdramas:
Green Rose-Looks like it's good, but this is my third time trying and it just isn't grabbing me.
Queen of the Game-Tried last night, and again just now. Also looks good. I should like it. But the hero is of the "Well, this person wronged my father and my father eventually committed suicide because of it(and in this case, apparently tried to take me with him.) Instead of acknowledging that my father was weak and chose death and abandoning me over trying to get back on his feet, I will decide the person who wronged him murdered him and ruined my life and devote my life to underhandedly destroying him." About the only time it's really worked for me is Kurosagi, where he hated his father even more than the ones who ruined his father, and his self destructive cycle was designed to stop people like the ones who ruined his family. In other words, he realized who was really to blame and even though he was making himself even worse and destroying himself, he devoted his life to trying to keep what happened to him from happening to others.
For the most part, though, characters with that kind of emo just need a reality check...BEFORE they start trying to destroy people's lives.
Anyway...
Have also tried the Shinsengumi drama. Suspect I will love it when I'm not trying it out out of boredom.
Have stared at my Blue Seed, Last Exile and Gun X Sword DVDs. Do not want boredom to affect enjoyment.
Have stared at Juliet Marillier's Blade of Fortriu and many manga and comics, but cannot work up energy.
Am enjoying
calixadiscovering very bad, trashy shojo. I will read bad, trashy romance novels, but not bad, trashy shojo. Even I have standards. I do fear what STARTING your manga reading with bad shojo on purpose could be scarring, though.Will try Bleach. Why? Supposedly sticks close to the manga the first season, so mostly, it's just watching
Also installing Turbo Tax. Suspect will be deeply saddened at lack of tuition break this year.
so very very bored
Jan. 20th, 2008 02:59 pmMy viewer-persona is broken:
Have tried 2 kdramas:
Green Rose-Looks like it's good, but this is my third time trying and it just isn't grabbing me.
Queen of the Game-Tried last night, and again just now. Also looks good. I should like it. But the hero is of the "Well, this person wronged my father and my father eventually committed suicide because of it(and in this case, apparently tried to take me with him.) Instead of acknowledging that my father was weak and chose death and abandoning me over trying to get back on his feet, I will decide the person who wronged him murdered him and ruined my life and devote my life to underhandedly destroying him." About the only time it's really worked for me is Kurosagi, where he hated his father even more than the ones who ruined his father, and his self destructive cycle was designed to stop people like the ones who ruined his family. In other words, he realized who was really to blame and even though he was making himself even worse and destroying himself, he devoted his life to trying to keep what happened to him from happening to others.
For the most part, though, characters with that kind of emo just need a reality check...BEFORE they start trying to destroy people's lives.
Anyway...
Have also tried the Shinsengumi drama. Suspect I will love it when I'm not trying it out out of boredom.
Have stared at my Blue Seed, Last Exile and Gun X Sword DVDs. Do not want boredom to affect enjoyment.
Have stared at Juliet Marillier's Blade of Fortriu and many manga and comics, but cannot work up energy.
Am enjoyingcalixadiscovering very bad, trashy shojo. I will read bad, trashy romance novels, but not bad, trashy shojo. Even I have standards. I do fear what STARTING your manga reading with bad shojo on purpose could be scarring, though.
Will try Bleach. Why? Supposedly sticks close to the manga the first season, so mostly, it's just watchingRenji, Ichigo and Ishida the familiar stuff, but moving and with color and sound.
Also installing Turbo Tax. Suspect will be deeply saddened at lack of tuition break this year.
Have tried 2 kdramas:
Green Rose-Looks like it's good, but this is my third time trying and it just isn't grabbing me.
Queen of the Game-Tried last night, and again just now. Also looks good. I should like it. But the hero is of the "Well, this person wronged my father and my father eventually committed suicide because of it(and in this case, apparently tried to take me with him.) Instead of acknowledging that my father was weak and chose death and abandoning me over trying to get back on his feet, I will decide the person who wronged him murdered him and ruined my life and devote my life to underhandedly destroying him." About the only time it's really worked for me is Kurosagi, where he hated his father even more than the ones who ruined his father, and his self destructive cycle was designed to stop people like the ones who ruined his family. In other words, he realized who was really to blame and even though he was making himself even worse and destroying himself, he devoted his life to trying to keep what happened to him from happening to others.
For the most part, though, characters with that kind of emo just need a reality check...BEFORE they start trying to destroy people's lives.
Anyway...
Have also tried the Shinsengumi drama. Suspect I will love it when I'm not trying it out out of boredom.
Have stared at my Blue Seed, Last Exile and Gun X Sword DVDs. Do not want boredom to affect enjoyment.
Have stared at Juliet Marillier's Blade of Fortriu and many manga and comics, but cannot work up energy.
Am enjoying
calixadiscovering very bad, trashy shojo. I will read bad, trashy romance novels, but not bad, trashy shojo. Even I have standards. I do fear what STARTING your manga reading with bad shojo on purpose could be scarring, though.Will try Bleach. Why? Supposedly sticks close to the manga the first season, so mostly, it's just watching
Also installing Turbo Tax. Suspect will be deeply saddened at lack of tuition break this year.
Fangy Boys
Jan. 20th, 2008 08:41 pmLately, I seem to be tripping over "vampires vs werewolves" conversations. I may as well be a sheep.
Personally, I don't see how either is inherently attractive, really. Vampires are soulless demons who look at humans as happy meals with legs, to quote Spike. Werewolves are humans, but have hygeine issues and occassionally look at humans as happy meals as legs. Both can have character representatives that are interesting and appealing, but on the whole, seeing that a piece of fiction revolves around it having one or the other as a draw largely makes me move on. I need another, big draw that has nothing to do with either to pull me in. Largely, they're a necessary evil of urban fantasy.
That said...I do find the appeal of werewolves easier to understand than that of vampires. Vampires make look human, but they aren't(though now most fiction makes them having started out as humans.) They have no souls, and until pop culture got ahold of them, their only real use for humans was as food. Remember, Dracula was the bad guy, not the tragic hero. His "seduction" was a form of control to get what he wanted. To make them work as a romantic figure(because, lets face it, 95% of the time, it's how they're used) you have to completely rework the myth, and generally, fabricate an "out" to allow them to become human, or change them to the point where they aren't really vampires as traditionally dictated anymore. Werewolves, otoh, are human. Specifically, humans with curses, and the whole point of a curse is that it can be broken. Granted, most often the curse was from making a deal with the wrong person, but they are humans with a curse, not another race that looks human.
But basically, remove pop culture romanticism, and werewolves are inherently human and tragic, and vampires inhuman and evil.
Really, though, they could both disappear from urban fantasy(including romances) completely(well, werewolves I don't mind as much, but then, they aren't as prolific) and I wouldn't mind. I don't find either inherently appealing or sexy, and don't really get why people do.
Personally, I don't see how either is inherently attractive, really. Vampires are soulless demons who look at humans as happy meals with legs, to quote Spike. Werewolves are humans, but have hygeine issues and occassionally look at humans as happy meals as legs. Both can have character representatives that are interesting and appealing, but on the whole, seeing that a piece of fiction revolves around it having one or the other as a draw largely makes me move on. I need another, big draw that has nothing to do with either to pull me in. Largely, they're a necessary evil of urban fantasy.
That said...I do find the appeal of werewolves easier to understand than that of vampires. Vampires make look human, but they aren't(though now most fiction makes them having started out as humans.) They have no souls, and until pop culture got ahold of them, their only real use for humans was as food. Remember, Dracula was the bad guy, not the tragic hero. His "seduction" was a form of control to get what he wanted. To make them work as a romantic figure(because, lets face it, 95% of the time, it's how they're used) you have to completely rework the myth, and generally, fabricate an "out" to allow them to become human, or change them to the point where they aren't really vampires as traditionally dictated anymore. Werewolves, otoh, are human. Specifically, humans with curses, and the whole point of a curse is that it can be broken. Granted, most often the curse was from making a deal with the wrong person, but they are humans with a curse, not another race that looks human.
But basically, remove pop culture romanticism, and werewolves are inherently human and tragic, and vampires inhuman and evil.
Really, though, they could both disappear from urban fantasy(including romances) completely(well, werewolves I don't mind as much, but then, they aren't as prolific) and I wouldn't mind. I don't find either inherently appealing or sexy, and don't really get why people do.
Fangy Boys
Jan. 20th, 2008 08:41 pmLately, I seem to be tripping over "vampires vs werewolves" conversations. I may as well be a sheep.
Personally, I don't see how either is inherently attractive, really. Vampires are soulless demons who look at humans as happy meals with legs, to quote Spike. Werewolves are humans, but have hygeine issues and occassionally look at humans as happy meals as legs. Both can have character representatives that are interesting and appealing, but on the whole, seeing that a piece of fiction revolves around it having one or the other as a draw largely makes me move on. I need another, big draw that has nothing to do with either to pull me in. Largely, they're a necessary evil of urban fantasy.
That said...I do find the appeal of werewolves easier to understand than that of vampires. Vampires make look human, but they aren't(though now most fiction makes them having started out as humans.) They have no souls, and until pop culture got ahold of them, their only real use for humans was as food. Remember, Dracula was the bad guy, not the tragic hero. His "seduction" was a form of control to get what he wanted. To make them work as a romantic figure(because, lets face it, 95% of the time, it's how they're used) you have to completely rework the myth, and generally, fabricate an "out" to allow them to become human, or change them to the point where they aren't really vampires as traditionally dictated anymore. Werewolves, otoh, are human. Specifically, humans with curses, and the whole point of a curse is that it can be broken. Granted, most often the curse was from making a deal with the wrong person, but they are humans with a curse, not another race that looks human.
But basically, remove pop culture romanticism, and werewolves are inherently human and tragic, and vampires inhuman and evil.
Really, though, they could both disappear from urban fantasy(including romances) completely(well, werewolves I don't mind as much, but then, they aren't as prolific) and I wouldn't mind. I don't find either inherently appealing or sexy, and don't really get why people do.
Personally, I don't see how either is inherently attractive, really. Vampires are soulless demons who look at humans as happy meals with legs, to quote Spike. Werewolves are humans, but have hygeine issues and occassionally look at humans as happy meals as legs. Both can have character representatives that are interesting and appealing, but on the whole, seeing that a piece of fiction revolves around it having one or the other as a draw largely makes me move on. I need another, big draw that has nothing to do with either to pull me in. Largely, they're a necessary evil of urban fantasy.
That said...I do find the appeal of werewolves easier to understand than that of vampires. Vampires make look human, but they aren't(though now most fiction makes them having started out as humans.) They have no souls, and until pop culture got ahold of them, their only real use for humans was as food. Remember, Dracula was the bad guy, not the tragic hero. His "seduction" was a form of control to get what he wanted. To make them work as a romantic figure(because, lets face it, 95% of the time, it's how they're used) you have to completely rework the myth, and generally, fabricate an "out" to allow them to become human, or change them to the point where they aren't really vampires as traditionally dictated anymore. Werewolves, otoh, are human. Specifically, humans with curses, and the whole point of a curse is that it can be broken. Granted, most often the curse was from making a deal with the wrong person, but they are humans with a curse, not another race that looks human.
But basically, remove pop culture romanticism, and werewolves are inherently human and tragic, and vampires inhuman and evil.
Really, though, they could both disappear from urban fantasy(including romances) completely(well, werewolves I don't mind as much, but then, they aren't as prolific) and I wouldn't mind. I don't find either inherently appealing or sexy, and don't really get why people do.