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While browsing D.Gray-Man for potential iconmaking, I realized I had forgotten that Allen's morning workout consisted of things like this:

(unspoilery and scaled down, so no cut...click and it gets bigger)


Now, that takes skill.  And makes one wonder what another year or two with General Cross would have turned him into... 

*wonders if she'll bother to make icons of anyone but Kanda and Lenalee if she does make icons*

ETA:  Also while browsing, I am reminded of why I liked Lenalle almost immediately(read: as soon as she did something):



(I wonder if anyone else could do that and live...maybe Komui...)

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While browsing D.Gray-Man for potential iconmaking, I realized I had forgotten that Allen's morning workout consisted of things like this:

(unspoilery and scaled down, so no cut...click and it gets bigger)


Now, that takes skill.  And makes one wonder what another year or two with General Cross would have turned him into... 

*wonders if she'll bother to make icons of anyone but Kanda and Lenalee if she does make icons*

ETA:  Also while browsing, I am reminded of why I liked Lenalle almost immediately(read: as soon as she did something):



(I wonder if anyone else could do that and live...maybe Komui...)

Last Exile eps 9-12

 

( clicky )

Meanwhile, I think I'm coming down with a cold

Last Exile eps 9-12

 

( clicky )

Meanwhile, I think I'm coming down with a cold

Basara Vol 24

( Today, we have gender role reversal central )

Basara Vol 24

( Today, we have gender role reversal central )

renji's tattoos

Does anyone happen to have a picture showing as many of Renji's tattoos as we've seen, or can tell me what volume/chapter we saw them in?  To save me hunting through endless volumes for a good shot...

renji's tattoos

Does anyone happen to have a picture showing as many of Renji's tattoos as we've seen, or can tell me what volume/chapter we saw them in?  To save me hunting through endless volumes for a good shot...

Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning Vol 2

I find myself largely in the same "I'm ready for win the anime breaks off" state as with Hoshin Engi.  Good, a little deeper than the anime(and in this case, darker) but mostly familiar ground.  Everything in this volume I've watched several times in anime version, and most of it plays out the same.  Except that the anime was downright cheery in comparison to the manga.

For example, a character who was killed by being pushed off a roof in the anime is killed in the manga by being stabbed to death, with his killer deliberately avoiding all vital organs, until he was ready to kill him.  (Kousuke, I WILL NEVER LOOK AT YOU THE SAME WAY AGAIN!  And you were already a killer...)  It also changes the blade children's "we are destined to die" bit into something more along the lines of "we are destined to kill. "  Which actually makes moresense...everyone dies, not everyone has some sort of genetic destiny that turns them into killers.

Eyes's emo also gets even more sinister and impressive.  Not to mention psychotic.  Observe:  

My earliest memory is from when I was three.  There were these ants.  And as they all marched in a row, I picked them up one by one and crushed them.  For God knows how many hours.  Then it was butterflies, crickets, grasshoppers...I just loved killing them.  When I was five, I strangled out pet husky with wire.  That was when my mom started to realize that something was wrong.  She tried to occupy the hands of her son who desired bloodshed by tying him to the piano day and night.

Yes Eyes, you're psychotic.  We get it.

Then there's:

Bloodshed is our fate...do you understand our fate?  After all...we children are all cursed...

He's also positively cheery about trying to blow people up with bombs shaped like turtles.  Then, of course, Ayumu has even more 'weight of the world...or at least my brother's reputation" angst, and Hiyono, if possible, is even more chipper than in the anime.  (Except I accidentally spoiled myself for the manga, which gives that an entirely different tone than it would have otherwise.)

Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning Vol 2

I find myself largely in the same "I'm ready for win the anime breaks off" state as with Hoshin Engi.  Good, a little deeper than the anime(and in this case, darker) but mostly familiar ground.  Everything in this volume I've watched several times in anime version, and most of it plays out the same.  Except that the anime was downright cheery in comparison to the manga.

For example, a character who was killed by being pushed off a roof in the anime is killed in the manga by being stabbed to death, with his killer deliberately avoiding all vital organs, until he was ready to kill him.  (Kousuke, I WILL NEVER LOOK AT YOU THE SAME WAY AGAIN!  And you were already a killer...)  It also changes the blade children's "we are destined to die" bit into something more along the lines of "we are destined to kill. "  Which actually makes moresense...everyone dies, not everyone has some sort of genetic destiny that turns them into killers.

Eyes's emo also gets even more sinister and impressive.  Not to mention psychotic.  Observe:  

My earliest memory is from when I was three.  There were these ants.  And as they all marched in a row, I picked them up one by one and crushed them.  For God knows how many hours.  Then it was butterflies, crickets, grasshoppers...I just loved killing them.  When I was five, I strangled out pet husky with wire.  That was when my mom started to realize that something was wrong.  She tried to occupy the hands of her son who desired bloodshed by tying him to the piano day and night.

Yes Eyes, you're psychotic.  We get it.

Then there's:

Bloodshed is our fate...do you understand our fate?  After all...we children are all cursed...

He's also positively cheery about trying to blow people up with bombs shaped like turtles.  Then, of course, Ayumu has even more 'weight of the world...or at least my brother's reputation" angst, and Hiyono, if possible, is even more chipper than in the anime.  (Except I accidentally spoiled myself for the manga, which gives that an entirely different tone than it would have otherwise.)

(no subject)

 Comic fans, is it wrong of me to want Jubilee to date the oddest characters, just for Wolverine's reactions?  If nothing else, it'd be a fun way for Marvel to enforce the current "red shirts are the way to go" mentality.

(Yes, I think about things like this.)

Also, my paid account is expiring in 5 days.  I probably won't be able to renew it until late March or early April.  What will I do with no polls and only 30-odd icons? *goes into withdrawals at the mere thought*

Very, very sleepy and drowsy.  Long to go home to sleep.  Know that when I do get to go home in an hour, I will be trapped wide awake for at least an hour or two, thanks to the "must not crash car when driving home at midnight" second wind.  But it's a treasured second wind, all told...

(no subject)

 Comic fans, is it wrong of me to want Jubilee to date the oddest characters, just for Wolverine's reactions?  If nothing else, it'd be a fun way for Marvel to enforce the current "red shirts are the way to go" mentality.

(Yes, I think about things like this.)

Also, my paid account is expiring in 5 days.  I probably won't be able to renew it until late March or early April.  What will I do with no polls and only 30-odd icons? *goes into withdrawals at the mere thought*

Very, very sleepy and drowsy.  Long to go home to sleep.  Know that when I do get to go home in an hour, I will be trapped wide awake for at least an hour or two, thanks to the "must not crash car when driving home at midnight" second wind.  But it's a treasured second wind, all told...