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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 22:50 (UTC)From:According to an interview what happened to Subaru should help Kamui to chose. I'm sure Kamui could do his choice even if Seishiro only pretended to die but... well, I fear CLAMp have done with Seishiro.
My idea is that the point of the bet was for only one of them to survive, Seishiro if Subaru were to lose, Subaru, if Seishiro were to lose because Seishiro expected to be killed by the one he loved.
Ergo Seishiro did the bet in order to find out if Subaru could be his killer.
Now... I'd love to think he came back to his senses, realized Setsuka wasn't a Yumemi and there's no reason to die when he could live happily with Subaru... but I guess this wouldn't fit with CLAMP idea of 'romantic'...
That's how far I go using logic.
Tecnically however Seishiro might have survived (because he decided to not die or by a lucky shot) and, sometimes, I enjoy myself trying to make up ways in which he might have saved himself.
After all there's no corpse and I really don't get how Kamui found only Seishiro's eye. It's not as eyes normally wander out of corpses...
Actually I liked your explanation of why the guys were seven. Almost no one cared to develop that part and you did it well and realistically. It's one of the things I like the most. The teams as CLAMP present them are apparently so... picked up randomly... Sorata tried to came up with the teory they were all in the 'guys from some temple/religion club' but then Karen and Seiichiro are a bit off of it... (even if Seiichiro's clan works for Ise Daijingu...).
The ages... are bizzarre. A bunch of teens, two adults and poor Subaru all alone in the middle of the two teams...
The angels... they're even more random: 2 teens (mn... not too sure if satsuki is still a teen, she's a student but she might be an university one...), 5 adults and Kakyou (who might be like Hinoto and look much younger than he is...)
They have nothing in common (and please tell me what is Kusanagi doing among them?) except for the fact that 6 seem to not care about humanity's destiny...
Actually superstition should have a logic basic that went distorted and forgotten along the way so there could be a logical reason about why 666 is considered a very bad number... and why 1999 would have been a perfect time to end the world... but I've to admit I don't know it...
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Date: 2006-12-02 22:58 (UTC)From:At least, they don't wander off in a usable condition!
Somehow, Kusanagi seemed to be in the wrong group. *g*
Well, I don't want to argue about superstitions, numerology and some such. I fear being a physicist makes me rather short tempered when it comes to those. As I said above: if there is a logical reason (provable, please) for the statement: put it up for the task. If there isn't it's just an unvalidated assumption.
Of course, assumptions can be fun to be played with in stories. ;)
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Date: 2006-12-02 23:36 (UTC)From:LOL True!
He and Subaru should have switched places in the early beginning. Okay, so it wouldn't have fit with your reasoning for why they were in the team but I'm sure Subaru and Seishiro wouldn't have really mind...
Mn... you're asking the wrong person... I'm charmed by the stories behind superstitions, magic, horoscopes and such but I don't trust them at all...
If there were a logical reason for it (and, mind you I'm saying 'if') it had likely been distorted or based on a false belief.
Superstition says spilling salt is bad luck. The belief has birth by the fact that salt anciently was very expensive so it was rather misfortunate to spill it. Actually however...
Friday is considered a bad day because Jesus died in friday. However I don't think this is enough to label all the fridays as bad days... (EHY, I'M BORN ON FRIDAY!)
What I meant to say in my previous reply is that there could have been something that made 666 look like a bad number... but not an actually scientific fact.
And that I do wonder if CLAMP picked up the date for something more than 'people think the world will end'...
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Date: 2006-12-03 11:11 (UTC)From:Meeting of the Dragons of Earth:
"Kamui": "Regarding the general work conduct of certain dragons..."
somebody in the back rows: "What work?"
About the salt:
It's not a logical reason, it's a historical reason. Back at the time when salt was expensive, it was logical (to some extend) to consider it bad luck (as in loss of wealth) to spill salt. Nowadays, however, with salt being available at reasonable prices, it's not logical to consider spilling salt a misfortune. Regarding iced streets and the risk of a passers-by slipping and sueing you for it, it's actually sometimes a misfortune *not* to spill salt nowadays. ;)
But I think it's a matter of definition. Logic in the common sense has a broader meaning than in the scientific community. I admit, I tend to use the narrower definition. Sorry. :)
Actually, let's not start on calendars, dates, and some such. There are more errors and reschedules in our time measurement in that regard than petals on the Sakura!
Oh, people came up with a lot of reasons why to panic in 1999. Unfortunately, 1.1.2000 disqualified them to some extend. ;)
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Date: 2006-12-03 13:02 (UTC)From:It's okay.
Calendars are filled with errors. If the world really had to end at the end of the 1999 year after Jesus' birth it would have surely not been in the day our calendars signed.
Someone really panicked?
My only concern was the millenium bug and luckily it didn't give me problems at all...
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Date: 2006-12-03 13:12 (UTC)From:...and no one shows up. Kinda depressing. Want to go for an ice cream instead? *G*
Most likely not even the year. ;)
No, I don't know of any real panics. Just a lot prognosted ones that didn't happen. The millenium bug... well, thanks to some meat cans in the US being labelled as out of date on the day of their production in 1982, people had enough time to prepare for it. :)
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Date: 2006-12-03 17:58 (UTC)From:Maybe if Subaru and Seishiro had been in team together RB wouldn't have happened, Subaru would have gone with Fuma out of duty and maybe Seishiro would have followed... so 3 angels instead of two...
Or maybe Seishiro would have persuaded Subaru to watch the final battle on tv...
With him you never know...
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Date: 2006-12-03 18:22 (UTC)From:no subject
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