somedays good, somedays bad

Friday, March 08, 2002
3/8/2002 02:02:08 AM
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3/8/2002 12:39:46 AM
I go see kabuki tomorrow! Am excited. The sensei think I should get the earphones with the English track (because it's not just a translation of what they're saying, but they explain the meanings and symbolism of sounds, movements, etc), but I wanna gambaru and listen to the Japanese track. Then again, I wanna learn more about kabuki. So, so, so. Torn. Can I have both tracks, please?
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Thursday, March 07, 2002
3/7/2002 11:37:24 PM
Weeee! :D Threads of Fate be one of me favorite games. I love Mink, I wanna be her, and I wanna clunk people on the head with the twin rings she carries. And then I wanna twirl around and say, "hee hee," which is her version of an evil evil laugh. Sadly enough, I am a pathetic little gamer whose fingers have no moving skills ("Jump, bell, jump! .....What part of jump don't you understand?" ;-;). So instead I has innie-onee-chan play the whole thing for me, Mink's and Rue's games. But, I wonder, would it be different (the ending) if you play Rue first, and then Mink? Because you get an addition to the story if you finish both storylines.

And to quote Grandpa Simpsons, "It's cold and there are wolves after me!" (why, why, whyyyy did he say that? So random, so random, what are wolves doing in the middle of Springfield?) But if you be friendly wolves, and will help me ride the wind, then I will latch on, happily.
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3/7/2002 10:27:10 PM
Wellesley people! In reading your future, I see a present. Unfortunately, fortune-telling is an unprecise art, so I can't tell you exactly when, but it's there. So, um, expect it later rather than sooner. :D
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3/7/2002 10:25:28 PM
I also love my brother. I want to steal his sense of humor. Quotes from the latest email he's sent me:

    "Anyway, how is Japan doing? Are they ready to throw
    you out yet? Have you caused any fires? Eaten all
    their pocky? That stuff tastes about as good as it
    sounds. Pocky. Sounds like a teenagers face.

    Are you studying anything useful like nuclear
    reactors? Or home ec.? You should steal Japanese
    national secrets. Or maybe just steal the Emperor. I'm
    sure he'd fetch a fine price."

Aaaaaaaaffy! Oh well, more pocky for me.
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3/7/2002 09:59:05 PM
Mmmm, sudden inspiration struck me while I was in an Animate store (which, by the way, is a heavenly place for otaku of all sorts) yesterday, where they were playing a FB episode. Highlight for FB spoilers: [[The woman Hatori was talking to resembled, a lot, Momiji's mother. But we didn't really get to see her face, so I might be wrong.]]

So Hana to Yume is bi-weekly? XXXXXXXD Oh, the happiness!
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Layout Info
When I decided I was going to feature a female, for once, on my blog, I was origianlly going to have a kick-ass figure. Someone like Lina Inverse, or Mint from Threads of Fate. And I'll eventually make such a layout. But I realized that whom I really wanted to feature Kotori.

[As a side note, I'm fascinated by this picture, which was taken from With a Slash. I'm sure there are a whole bunch of symbollic World Desctruction reasons behind it, but had I seen it out of context, I'd think it was about menstruation.]

Kotori is heavily under-appreciated in X. Because she [initially] presents an obstacle to numerous yaoi couples, the fans tend to forget her existance. At least they don't usually imagine Killing Her/ Mangling Her into UberBitchGirl/ Put her into Ludicrous pairings, because Clamp already did a good job of getting her out of storyline. Well, that, and the readers are tired of watching her die in Many Painful Ways.

She's also disliked for her frailty. Of out of the entire X cast, she is definitely the weakest. Physically, she's pathetic-- her heart won't allow her 'strenous' activities like excessive running, or emotional shocks like seeing disembodied heads. Nor is her psychological state strong enough to deal with the trauma she received.

[My personal theory is that the reason for Kotori's physical weaknesses is because she's a Dream Seer. Consider Hinoto, who is blind, deaf, and can't walk. Then think of Kakyou, who's an even stronger Dream Seer, but who spends his days unconscious in a hospital bed. It seems as though the stronger a Dream Seer you are, the worse your physical body is. And Kotori is unlucky in that her meager skills as a Dream Seer aren't really worth the problems it gives her.]

Yet another fault of hers is that she's emotionally dependent. A cross look from 'Kamui-chan' makes her faints, and everytime something reminds her of headless bodies, she needs her brother to bring out of the shock.

Despite it all, Kotori is a favorite of mine. She was far, far, too weak for the world and position she was born. Under normal circumstances she might have led an undisturbed life, with a husband and a couple of kids born with the help of a ceasarin [sp?]. Instead, she was stuck between the two Kamuis in the battle to determine the world's fate. All things considered, she did well. She's even one of the few characters, who despite having been a Victm of Destiny, who believes that the future can be changed. She embodies the 'gambaru' spirit, even if she didn't have much to 'gambaru' with.

It's important to be strong. But it's okay to have a fragile self, too.

Strength comes from overcoming weakness.

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