All Kinda Classics

 I generally try not to do this blog three days in a row. But, while wandering the internet on my lunch break, I found this: It's pretty bad, but it's also one of those things people thought was lost for a couple decades. Excellent 90s representation. Exactly one Asian, black, and disabled person. Why does Victoria get a pendant from Darien and then wind up immediately replacing it? For years, all anyone had was a cam rip of this: Which, honestly, is better.

Continuing yesterday's magical girl ramblings. Crystal not being good isn't a terribly controversial opinion. The art is atrocious in the first couple seasons (I don't expect perfect scaling, but I think Usagi's hair varies by about 10 feet in some episodes), I think they had about three different models for Venus's sword that they swapped at random, and WTF is with everyone's face. But the real issue is filler. I talked about this on the other blog a little, but the original Sailor Moon anime's first season had to try to stretch 14 chapters of manga into 46 episodes, and was running almost concurrently. That lead to a lot of filler. Some of it is really good. The Doom Tree arc (technically part of season 2, but whatever) is better than the actual  season 2 arc. Some of it is pretty bad. Beach episodes are usually bad, but the one that doesn't even have the main villains is especially pointless. Crystal tries to go 1:1 with the original manga. Each episo...

Kind of a disjointed rambling on several topics here. Earlier this year, I started going copywork some nights, especially if I wasn't feeling up to regular writing. It's an old way to practice writing at pretty much all levels. From basic practicing handwriting/typing (the mechanical act of copying) up to doing analysis and practicing your own writing. Basically, pick a piece that you like and rewrite/type it. Handwriting is more traditional, but I mostly type. It's easier to do comments that way, and one of the pieces I'm doing is heavily formatted. I'd have to get a whole stack of different pens or something to try to do it justice. Sailor Nothing  by Stephen "Twoflower" Gagnes started in 2000. It was published ~monthly until it wrapped up in 2001. It was  a hugely popular fic back in the aughts, that's become controversial with age. Short version: 1. It's fairly graphic in a way that was popular at the time, but frowned upon now. There's som...

 We get some decent background here. Winston works 60 hours a week, and Julia even longer. London was nuked ~30 years ago.  ("Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!" she said parenthetically) Parenthesis original. I liked this bit: She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught.  As well as: She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

 I can't find my marked up copy of 1984. I thought I had it on my desk at work, but I couldn't find it. I checked my bag, since I knew I put it in there the other day to bring it home when it snowed. I can't find it anywhere at home. It doesn't help that I have like 20 almost identical copies in my room at work. This is a filler post. EDIT: I found it. It fell under the dining room table.

 I kept accidentally buying Flight of The Intruder as a kid, thinking it was a different book in the series.