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rheasilvias journal...
Sum up your former/current fandoms in a few sentences, as if they were human beings/very convincing sockpuppets on your flist. Ask your friends to guess which fandoms you're talking about!
May I introduce the following animes, books, and mangas:
1. There were countless references, endless rides, comical elements and serious issues. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes on the edge of pain. Your violet sparkles, golden light, and green eyes caught me.
[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guessed correctly byelbales]
2. Nobody believed in you. There were four attempts before the fifth turned out working, and even that was a haphazard chaos, few people put faith in. Yet it worked out, in the past and the future and even in the darkness of a new middle ages.
[Babylon-5, not guessed]
3. Spaceships on the surface, a war against the gods on a planet not fully terraformed yet. You are a beautifully drawn movie, but still I always believed your story to be more complicated than could be told in your roughly two hours.
[Big Wars, not guessed]
4. When I discovered that you are based on novels written in the 1940s I was thrilled. But before I even read them, I played in my mind with your drop-formed ship.
[Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton, not guessed]
5. I just discovered you, after I fell in love with your arch enemy a few weeks ago. Your name means nothing, but you are anything but. In fact, you kind of remind me of the hero in 4. :)
[Cosmowarrior Zero by Leiji Matsumoto, not guessed]
6. You are feckless and powerful, strong and confused; a knight in shining armor, who scrapes his knee on the parapet of a crumbling wooden fortress with an owl to lead him through the shadows into the arms of one soon to be king.
[Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly byelbales]
7. You are tough, smart, and deadly - and despite you telling your own tale, I'm sticking around waiting eagerly for the next natural death.
[John Rain the assassin created by Barry Eisler, not guessed]
8. Kill the frogs! And then fall back to earth, Commander! 264 is waiting for your astrogator.
[Raumpatrouille, guessed correctly byrheasilvia]
9. You leave none of your characters truly unharmed, though your creators proclaimed never to do a resurrection, at least one of your (minor) characters came back from destruction.
[X, guessed correctly bysolo____]
10. You carry the X and the pentagram. Sakura petals flutter like snow flakes through your blood tinted pictures. Your men are dead, guilt-ridden, powerful, mysterious and/or perverted.
[Yami no Matsuei or Descendants of Darkness, guessed correctly byjjblue1]
11. Your dead sidhe prince changed forever my perception of what elves (and sidhe) are supposed to be. I never wrote fanfic about you, but there are two pastel chalk pictures and an original shortstory of mine, clearly being inspired by you.
[The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly byelbales]
And? Any idea who they are? :)
rheasilvias journal...Sum up your former/current fandoms in a few sentences, as if they were human beings/very convincing sockpuppets on your flist. Ask your friends to guess which fandoms you're talking about!
May I introduce the following animes, books, and mangas:
1. There were countless references, endless rides, comical elements and serious issues. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes on the edge of pain. Your violet sparkles, golden light, and green eyes caught me.
[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, guessed correctly by
elbales]2. Nobody believed in you. There were four attempts before the fifth turned out working, and even that was a haphazard chaos, few people put faith in. Yet it worked out, in the past and the future and even in the darkness of a new middle ages.
[Babylon-5, not guessed]
3. Spaceships on the surface, a war against the gods on a planet not fully terraformed yet. You are a beautifully drawn movie, but still I always believed your story to be more complicated than could be told in your roughly two hours.
[Big Wars, not guessed]
4. When I discovered that you are based on novels written in the 1940s I was thrilled. But before I even read them, I played in my mind with your drop-formed ship.
[Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton, not guessed]
5. I just discovered you, after I fell in love with your arch enemy a few weeks ago. Your name means nothing, but you are anything but. In fact, you kind of remind me of the hero in 4. :)
[Cosmowarrior Zero by Leiji Matsumoto, not guessed]
6. You are feckless and powerful, strong and confused; a knight in shining armor, who scrapes his knee on the parapet of a crumbling wooden fortress with an owl to lead him through the shadows into the arms of one soon to be king.
[Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by
elbales]7. You are tough, smart, and deadly - and despite you telling your own tale, I'm sticking around waiting eagerly for the next natural death.
[John Rain the assassin created by Barry Eisler, not guessed]
8. Kill the frogs! And then fall back to earth, Commander! 264 is waiting for your astrogator.
[Raumpatrouille, guessed correctly by
rheasilvia]9. You leave none of your characters truly unharmed, though your creators proclaimed never to do a resurrection, at least one of your (minor) characters came back from destruction.
[X, guessed correctly by
solo____]10. You carry the X and the pentagram. Sakura petals flutter like snow flakes through your blood tinted pictures. Your men are dead, guilt-ridden, powerful, mysterious and/or perverted.
[Yami no Matsuei or Descendants of Darkness, guessed correctly by
jjblue1]11. Your dead sidhe prince changed forever my perception of what elves (and sidhe) are supposed to be. I never wrote fanfic about you, but there are two pastel chalk pictures and an original shortstory of mine, clearly being inspired by you.
[The Dreaming Tree by C. J. Cherryh, guessed correctly by
elbales]And? Any idea who they are? :)
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Date: 2006-12-02 21:16 (UTC)From:2. I've seen quite a lot of variations in the translations of that talk between them about the use of other magics. The point is: Subaru knows them as well, but he wouldn't use them (out of respect, taboo, etc.). It is not stated that onmyodo explicitly forbids other magic (at least not in the German version) but the abuse of them. That's not quite the same.
3. Runes are Nordic magic, used by ancient vikings, Germanic, Celtic, and Anglo-Saxon tribes. It is a fundamentally European style without a comparable element in the Asian myths and magics on which Onmyodo is based.
4. Not everything the Sumeragi do is based on the rules for onmyodo. There are a lot of old customs and rituals related to Shintoism and tradition, not magic. Not to seek out a fortune-teller seems to be one of the family customs. Asking the fire at the monthly festival about the savety of the relatives is another custom.
5. Hinoto and Kakyo...
well, as stated somewhere - "A dreamseer can only see the future of the reality *that is*. If reality changes (thanks, Dao), it's a new reality and until that reality happens, a dreamseer can't see the future of it. (that's my explanation - the whole topic is very far off anything addressed in the manga or elsewhere)
Hence, Kakyo believed the final battle was to be decided and the world ended. The reality ended indeed - to be replaced by an altered version of it. Again (thanks, Dao). *g*
As for Hinoto...
she's got a mad split personality disorder! ;)
6. The spirit is much in the future right now. But I woN't close the story without getting the disagreeable sod out of Seishiro's basement. I'm sure, he has better use for the room than stacking it up in ancient Sumeragis!
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Date: 2006-12-02 21:46 (UTC)From:5. LOL Poor Hinoto... I don't know why but I've never liked her... it's interesting how Kotori managed to see what Kakyou and Hinoto couldn't see despite her gift being latent... I do wonder if she would have ended up much more powerful than them...
6. LOL
But Seishiro seems to like to have Sumeragi in his house... well, no, actually only one Sumeragi... and maybe he'd like a bit of privacy! ^_-
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:05 (UTC)From:5. I'm not sure Kotori saw anything. She could also be just a young girl dreaming.
6. I think he's very specific about which Sumeragi. And greatgreatgreatgreat...greatgrandpaps is certainly *not* that one. ;)
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:27 (UTC)From:All I could find about clan more often than not involved Yakuza clan... *sighs*
5. Maybe...
6. ROTFL True... but Sei-chan... weren't you a supporter of having good relations with your beloved's family? ^_-
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:34 (UTC)From:6. The *living* family, dear! The dead is rather uninteresting. And whoever calls me "Sei-chan" is going to be fed to the Tree (minus the Tree, that is)!
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:04 (UTC)From:6. ... Actually I doubt you would have the whole stack of Subaru's relatives wandering through your house... or basement that's it... ^_-
And that's interesting how you're not denying Subaru's your beloved!
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:08 (UTC)From:7. off to bed... bye for now.
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:38 (UTC)From: