Fortress of Perpetual Midnight

いちおう書いておきますが、このブログは英語で書いています。英語の分からん読者がきたい出来ん為、こちら以外は日本語をほとんど入れていません。それでも、日本語のコメントはかんげいします。

What leading man of the small screen is named after a grenade?

Comic YuriHime isn't due out until the 18th, but I'm planning to make the amazon part of the order earlier than that, so I can make sure it ends up arriving at postty in time. So, if you have anything you want, I'd appreciate hearing it soon.

I've had a suggestion to mention something about the content of this one back when I first ordered it. It's taken me so long that amazon (which you can find through the button in the above link) is sold out, but you can still find it used through me. In any case, I certainly wouldn't say it's worth buying for the GL tokushū, as that's only eight pages out of 250. (I chose the magazine hyōshi-gai, and it's still tainting my recommendations.) Anyway, that would be more specifically (and yet still very roughly):


196–7

"Mitsu no Aji no Candy," a short prose story (shōsetsu) by Miyagi Ayako, one picture by Hirao Auri

Brief blurbs on the author and illustrator's landmark GL works, Ame no Tō and Manga no Tsukuri-Kata respectively

A sidebar about yuri through history, picturing YANEURA NO NISHOJO (Koya? Nobuko), Bishōjo Senshi Sailor-Moon (Takeuchi Naoko), Maria-sama ga Mite'ru (Konno Oyuki), Comic YuriHime (anthology), and Tsubomi (anthology)


198–9

An interview with Mses. Kazuma Kō and Morishima Akiko, who need no introduction

Brief mentions of Shōjo Kakumei Utena (Saitō Chiho), Ni-Nin ga Shinobu-den (Koga Bai?ichi), Onna no Ko ga Suki♥ (Aoki Mitsu?ho), and Sasameki-Koto (Ikeda Takashi)

An article about Aoi Hana (Shimura Takako)


200–1

A chart of various works organized along axes from platonic to erotic and from serious to comical (all the English words, so the Japanese authors may mean slightly different from what you'd expect for all I know), including (roughly from former to latter) __kō Suru Kawa no Hotori (On?da Riku), Lovers' Kiss (Yoshida Akio), Ren'ai Shōsetsu-shū (edited by Kishi?moto Sachiko), Kin&333; no Yō ni Tōi Hi (edited by __da Motoyuki), Jojo no Bimyō na Bōken (__gi Hirohiko), Lily no Kago (__jima Miho), BLUE (Sakizuka Io), blue (, Kawai'i Anata (Otsu Hiyori) ...


202–3

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If you want this to have the correct names and links, it would be quicker if you'd find them yourselves and post them for me.

I'll be gone to Georgia from Sunday, 2009.10.20 to Sunday, 2009.10.27. Of course, that means I'll probably be able to check my mail and LJ every day. . . .

My brother tells me that besides Indiana, he's considering applying for a precinct in Seattle due to the pay. In either location, rooming with him would make things a lot easier on me. Also, having a brother on the squad could possibly give me access to information about laws and/or weapons.

Incidentally, there are some other conceivable perquisites to the job that I failed to mention before. I can remember one: As it doesn't publish anything that has to be out the morning after it's written, the company would presumably allow me to work during the day, which would allow me to keep a constant schedule several days in a row, making things a lot easier on me physically and mentally.

It also occurred to me that I could try being a bounty hunter. Even if they don't let me have a firearm, I could try disarming people with a nightstick and stuff. And for that or being a private eye, I'd only need to have a reasonable relationship with one area police officer, and I have a pretty good idea of who(m) that would be.

Gibbs was continuously badgering the suspect, to the point of going jet-skiing with him. He finally got him to confess as they landed. Conveniently, DiNozzo (who was undercover as a UPS delivery driver) and Agent Todd (who was just there) arrived at the beach just in time to take him into custody.

This came from seeing the pre-title sequence from the episode with Ms. Moennig—I didn't watch the rest that time, since I'd already seen it. I've also seen her on two LAWs & ORDERs, but sadly, the only one of these three with any LGBT content was the SVU one. Apparently people like being disturbed, because NBC kept that show while dropping CI.

It recently occurred to me that I can leave the computer in the bedroom on, since it doesn't have Internet. This is making it a lot easier to note down ideas. As the only functioning OS is Linux, I haven't gotten it Japanese tech support, so I've been working on my latest fix, Project Supernatural Weapons and Tactics (as always, only a working title). This one doesn't have much necessary world-building design work, doesn't have female characters getting naked all that often, and is about fighting rather than relationships, so I thought it would be a good starting project for drawing. Unfortunately, I don't get to use firearms and don't know anyone who does, so I'm a bit vague on a lot of the details. Most significant is the armament for the entry team, which is shown off in the first chapter. It's too bad blitzcon only got that one course, and lokodraucarn doesn't use LJ. I'm currently thinking about just posting it online and using commentary from readers to build the corrected version, which they'd have to buy.

Incidentally, other things about weaponry I've thought up for MythBusters are here. Too bad the ideas I have for my story aren't going to be urban myths until I've drawn it. . . . I guess I could wait until the boys have had time to read the online version and test the myths before finalizing the printed graphic novel.

Rankin/Bass: +1 beard
Jackson: –1 beard

Where?

When I talked to my social worker about the fight mentioned here, she said she didn't notice. This difference in perception has always been a problem in dealing with human beings. Although I was acting extremely angry, normal people often seem to do that even when they're not, sometimes to the point of explicitly telling their friends to ____ themselves. It's irritating always to have to assume that someone is hurt since there's no way of knowing (since people who aren't angry often pretend they are, and those who are pretend they aren't), and even if I could ask, I've never encountered someone who is willing to talk out a problem. The obvious solution (one covered by the book we're currently studying) is not to care when I hurt others, but I still don't want to resort to that.

Your result for The Social Orientation Inventory...

The Complainer

-Attent/Self/+Attach/-Emo/+<3/Narrow/Insecure

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I was investigating a crime scene when I found Goren under the carpet searching for clues. Apparently it was also a crossover episode, as I believe I spotted Munch or Briscoe in the opening credits. Later, my investigation took me to a residential airship, where I was assisted by a young, female witness. The natives were rather hostile.

Meanwhile, Speed and Delko were visiting some sort of store on Stair Road, which was apparently on the coast of Florida due to the cornfield across the road flooding. A shootout ensued, resulting in the deaths of both CSIs. But I went back and tried again; in the second version, Delko survived.

Taking along a civilian toward the end of the first paragraph may have been influenced by CMs for White Collar. (Yeah, I watch so much TV that I dream about shows I haven't even seen.)

The latter paragraph's divergent realities were related to something else that I was considering lately. Back in my less realistic days when I thought about designing video games, one of the ideas I had (perhaps itself inspired by CHRONO TRIGGER, for all I can remember) was about a protagonist who hibernates, only waking during important turning points in history, thus seeing the long-term effects of her decisions in the past. I recently brought the idea back to mind after considering a freeware game engine for visual novels, which I discovered in the game I've mentioned here and here. The idea was to base it on the character of Lilith, a resident of "Earth" who is cursed due to her rebellion from YHWH to be hunted down and killed every time her followers reincarnate her. This would be intertwined strongly with Project AnthraXX, including subsuming the numerous background stories set in the distant past. Of course, an epic of that magnitude would be a full project rather than a shōrt, so I'm not sure how likely I am to make it. I also thought of a similar one set in the Grim Darkness of the Far Future. It would be a lot of work for something that's in someone else's universe and thus not something I can sell, but at least it would take less drawing than Abdiel.

So, it turns out that two of my regular buys are opening subscription services here. This is now apparently the only way to get the comics to which they're trying to restrict access. Unfortunately, they only allow addresses in Japan. If I use the proxy service, they'd be too far apart to allow me to combine them in one shipment, so I'd have to make twice as many orders a year. I guess there's probably only going to be one special per year, so if I use the subscription for one, I can get that, and I can buy the other one normally at that time to get it in the same shipment.