This is just too cool not to share. It's a fan video for Avatar though... you have thus been warned!
Video was made by ravenhpltc24.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
The Other Fish
Now, to take away some of the edge off the previous post I will talk a bit about some worthy (though fictional) men. Haha I mean, my past and current pleasant cartoon distractions.
Geek alert. Do not proceed if you are allergic to fandom.
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This is Kenshin, ex-assassin turned housemaid. He looks like a girl, but he can kill you in flash. The story of his conversion, from killer to cook, is what Rurouni Kenshin's all about. Aside from the compelling lead character, RK is also great because of how well it blended fiction with historical fact. A pseudo-historical romance, this manga/anime actually helped me answer one of the items in one of the STS exams (the mandatory subject all UP students hate). What's not to love? If you want to talk some more about Ken-san, I would happily smother you with all the information I have. And the geek steps fully out of the closet. Not that I was ever really in the closet...
this graphic was taken from www.romantation.com --- it's actually fan comic illustration (doujinshi), Spark! But it's remarkably similar to the (later) canon drawings.
Now below is my newest idol, Prince Zuko.
Zuko is a surprising, sexy, study in contradiction (yeah, go alliteration!). The caricature bad-guy in Season 1 of Avatar the Last Airbender, Zuko is slowly revealed to be a complicated character. Branded and banished by his own father, a lesser man would have succumbed to cynicism or cruelty or despair. But even in his darkest moments, Zuko found the kindness in his heart to teach a poor boy how to defend himself, and risk discovery in enemy territory to light candles for a girl. He's strong, brave, angry, and conflicted. But he's also sweet, in an awkward, boyish sort of way. Finally in Season 3 he sees the light and defects from his father to join the Avatar's group in their fight to end the war. And with that, you know that the very tenacity with which Zuko hunted the Avatar in the first season is the very thing that would make a damn loyal friend. That's mah-boy Zuko. (Zuko is voiced by Fil-Am actor Dante Basco.)
Okay fangirl drooling over.
Geek alert. Do not proceed if you are allergic to fandom.
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this graphic was taken from www.romantation.com --- it's actually fan comic illustration (doujinshi), Spark! But it's remarkably similar to the (later) canon drawings.
Now below is my newest idol, Prince Zuko.
Zuko is a surprising, sexy, study in contradiction (yeah, go alliteration!). The caricature bad-guy in Season 1 of Avatar the Last Airbender, Zuko is slowly revealed to be a complicated character. Branded and banished by his own father, a lesser man would have succumbed to cynicism or cruelty or despair. But even in his darkest moments, Zuko found the kindness in his heart to teach a poor boy how to defend himself, and risk discovery in enemy territory to light candles for a girl. He's strong, brave, angry, and conflicted. But he's also sweet, in an awkward, boyish sort of way. Finally in Season 3 he sees the light and defects from his father to join the Avatar's group in their fight to end the war. And with that, you know that the very tenacity with which Zuko hunted the Avatar in the first season is the very thing that would make a damn loyal friend. That's mah-boy Zuko. (Zuko is voiced by Fil-Am actor Dante Basco.)
Okay fangirl drooling over.
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Geek alert out.
T - for Troll
Moments like what happened tonight are what make me think that maybe there is a Harry Potter world out there and JK Rowling hadn't made it up --- she'd actually been there. You know why I think this? Because some TROLLS have escaped the Potterverse and are WALKING AMONG US.
Sure they look like ordinary men. But their offensive crudeness unmistakably gives them away as the progeny of trolls, or a troll and a centaur. (Guess the horse-man couldn't find any women to kidnap).
Here's the scene. I got into the elevator on the second floor of Paseo Center to get down to the ground floor (because the escalators were under repair and there weren't stairs in sight). Three men were already in. There was just me and the three men (trolls). As the door closed on us, one of them sniggers to his friend, "Oi pare saan na nga pala yung babaeng ni-rape mo kagabi?" And they laugh.
Now, even if that was a simple joke among friends and was not some sadistic prank to freak the hell out of lone female co-passengers in elevators, it was just plain wrong. Furious, I got off on the ground floor without showing any sign of annoyance or girl-y terror. What a bunch of asses.
I'm really wishing all of them would wake up tomorrow as girls, barely 5 feet tall, with bad backs. So they can find out what it's like to be small and weak, and have to walk home alone at night, with possible trolls lurking around them. Let's see how that makes them feel. Or they could all just choke. That's fine with me too.
If that scene had come out of a Dark Angel episode, the elevator doors would have opened with the three men lying unconscious on the floor and me walking out with one eyebrow slightly arched, pissed yet bored-looking at the same time.
That scene would have been fine with me too.
Sure they look like ordinary men. But their offensive crudeness unmistakably gives them away as the progeny of trolls, or a troll and a centaur. (Guess the horse-man couldn't find any women to kidnap).
Here's the scene. I got into the elevator on the second floor of Paseo Center to get down to the ground floor (because the escalators were under repair and there weren't stairs in sight). Three men were already in. There was just me and the three men (trolls). As the door closed on us, one of them sniggers to his friend, "Oi pare saan na nga pala yung babaeng ni-rape mo kagabi?" And they laugh.
Now, even if that was a simple joke among friends and was not some sadistic prank to freak the hell out of lone female co-passengers in elevators, it was just plain wrong. Furious, I got off on the ground floor without showing any sign of annoyance or girl-y terror. What a bunch of asses.
I'm really wishing all of them would wake up tomorrow as girls, barely 5 feet tall, with bad backs. So they can find out what it's like to be small and weak, and have to walk home alone at night, with possible trolls lurking around them. Let's see how that makes them feel. Or they could all just choke. That's fine with me too.
If that scene had come out of a Dark Angel episode, the elevator doors would have opened with the three men lying unconscious on the floor and me walking out with one eyebrow slightly arched, pissed yet bored-looking at the same time.
That scene would have been fine with me too.
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