Dec. 5th, 2007

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5:00 Leave office. Manage to spill water all over my chair and the floor on the way out.
5:10 Catch bus home. For the record, it's snowing.
5:20 Arrive at home.
5:30 Realize that the power cable for my laptop is still at work. And that I can't get back until my professor picks up his cat (I was cat-sitting this week). So, I read comics.
6:10 Professor arrives (on time!) and cat is picked up
6:25 Go to bus stop. Still snowing. iPod appears to be out of power.
6:35 Bus arrives.
6:45 I arrive on campus.
6:50 Get to my office building. Help an undergrad find the mailroom and unlock it for her. Grab power cord -- it's exactly where I thought it was.
7:00 Arrive at bus stop. Snow has stopped, but it is still cold.
7:10 Bus arrives -- surprisingly on time
7:20 Arrive at home, two hours after the first time.

My feet are cold...
beccastareyes: Image of Sam from LotR. Text: loyal (Default)
5:00 Leave office. Manage to spill water all over my chair and the floor on the way out.
5:10 Catch bus home. For the record, it's snowing.
5:20 Arrive at home.
5:30 Realize that the power cable for my laptop is still at work. And that I can't get back until my professor picks up his cat (I was cat-sitting this week). So, I read comics.
6:10 Professor arrives (on time!) and cat is picked up
6:25 Go to bus stop. Still snowing. iPod appears to be out of power.
6:35 Bus arrives.
6:45 I arrive on campus.
6:50 Get to my office building. Help an undergrad find the mailroom and unlock it for her. Grab power cord -- it's exactly where I thought it was.
7:00 Arrive at bus stop. Snow has stopped, but it is still cold.
7:10 Bus arrives -- surprisingly on time
7:20 Arrive at home, two hours after the first time.

My feet are cold...
beccastareyes: Image of Sam from LotR. Text: loyal (Default)
Things that Make Becca Squee: Day 3

Another comic today -- for the record, I don't really have an order for these things. Day themes, yes. Wednesday is 'Gaslamp and Urban Fantasy', and I'm writing about the manga Chrono Crusade by Daisuke Moriyama. And, unlike the previous series, this one is finished at 8 volumes. You sometimes see it spelt Chrno Crusade, thanks to a weird romanization.

So, Japan and Christianity. The best way to explain things is to imagine everything you have ever seen in fiction about ancient Greek mythology or derivatives. Some of it is really good. Some of it might be entertaining but only has a couple of names in common with mythology. (True story: my dad had to keep me from complaining about Disney's Hercules while we were in the theater. Yes, I was old enough to know better, at age 13. Then again, friends had to do the same at Mission to Mars several years later...)

Christianity in manga can be like that. You get stuff like Nuns Are Mikos, which refers to the large numbers of young, part-time temporary sisters/nuns in anime, because that's how Shinto shrine maidens do it. You get plenty of stuff that is tossed in Because It Looks Cool, and some stuff that... well, if people at a friend's former church objected to her reading Lord of the Rings, they'd just have a heart attack at (see: Angel Sanctuary and Neon Genesis Evangeleon*).

*Though, from what I've heard, a lot of the religious stuff in NGE was tossed in for the Because It Looks Cool.

Just... bear that in mind.
Read more... )
beccastareyes: Image of Sam from LotR. Text: loyal (Default)
Things that Make Becca Squee: Day 3

Another comic today -- for the record, I don't really have an order for these things. Day themes, yes. Wednesday is 'Gaslamp and Urban Fantasy', and I'm writing about the manga Chrono Crusade by Daisuke Moriyama. And, unlike the previous series, this one is finished at 8 volumes. You sometimes see it spelt Chrno Crusade, thanks to a weird romanization.

So, Japan and Christianity. The best way to explain things is to imagine everything you have ever seen in fiction about ancient Greek mythology or derivatives. Some of it is really good. Some of it might be entertaining but only has a couple of names in common with mythology. (True story: my dad had to keep me from complaining about Disney's Hercules while we were in the theater. Yes, I was old enough to know better, at age 13. Then again, friends had to do the same at Mission to Mars several years later...)

Christianity in manga can be like that. You get stuff like Nuns Are Mikos, which refers to the large numbers of young, part-time temporary sisters/nuns in anime, because that's how Shinto shrine maidens do it. You get plenty of stuff that is tossed in Because It Looks Cool, and some stuff that... well, if people at a friend's former church objected to her reading Lord of the Rings, they'd just have a heart attack at (see: Angel Sanctuary and Neon Genesis Evangeleon*).

*Though, from what I've heard, a lot of the religious stuff in NGE was tossed in for the Because It Looks Cool.

Just... bear that in mind.
Read more... )

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