Of Swords and Parasols

16 x Capital Scandal
18 x My Girl
21 x Painted Veil
15 x xXxHolic

   

Just a few simple icons made by blindly saving pictures and then clicking on thumbnails that didn't look spoilery.  Most are very simple because I haven't seen it yet and thus have no real feel for it.  Only 3 have text.

       

 
ETA:  My last 3 entries have used this icon.  I clearly like it too much.

oyceter has posted on what is possibly the most amazing cdrama ever here. 

Not the best, just the most amazing.  My chief thoughts after reading the post were "I wonder if that scene was better tha the one like it in Wolf's Rain," and "if they're destitute, how can she afford a huge funeral procession?"

At the other end of the drama spectrum, dangermousiehas posted a mostly unspoilery rec post for the kdrama Legend of the Four Gods here, as well as a pusher post(a little while back) on Capital Scandal here. The first half is mostly unspoilery, but once she says it's spoilery, I assume she spoils everything in the series(I haven't looked past that point.)  A few on the flist who recently started watching kdramas might want to check them out.  (They're also-and have been for months-at the top of my "dramas to get" list.)

kingcrankycat  has summarized the X-Men crossover Messiah Complex here, here and here.  Click to see:  

1) character butchery on a massive scale(only half as much as he related to me while he was actually reading it-from his accounting, the only in character thing-except maybe bits of cable and Xavier-was Gambit's extreme and not-always-logical monomania over Rogue and Mystique's equally extreme but more evil monomania over Rogue) and 

2) Why most bad manga art can do nothing to me(note:  there is also much, much good art in US comics...just not a lot here....pretty much just Eaton.)

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has a few articles of interest for all fiction, regardless of medium or genre:

On Ideas, repetitiveness, and Copyright Infringement

Anonymous Musings: Fans Shouldn’t Criticize Writers? How come?

Embrace Your Bad Taste