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la_vie_noire) wrote2008-10-05 06:20 pm
la_vie_noire) wrote2008-10-05 06:20 pm
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I have been trying to run Portal on my PC since like three days ago (I have been loading it since like a month ago), and don't know how to solve the error I'm having. Apparently it has to do with this other game, Half Life 2, that I have to install too to make it work ('solutions' found in Google haven't work). I hope I'm successful with this. *sighs* I seriously will cry or something if that doesn't work either.
I was watching some vids (even if they take forever to load for me), and found this one: "Gloria", of The Sarah Connor Chronicles fandom. Amazing I tell you, and great song too. It amused the hell out of me because they made Sarah/Cameron. A vid about Sarah and Cameron that seems almost plausible, and hot as hell. And because AHAHAHAHA THAT'S MY NAME.
Because Tsubasa spoilers blew off my mind, I am re-reading XXXholic. ... What?
You know? Watanuki doesn't even think twice when he sees TRC!Sakura and Syaoran for the first time at Yuuko's shop. He is all, 'the kids came out of the sky!' and all that jazz. He doesn't look like he is in front of people that look familiar to him.
But we don't even know when Watanuki gave off his memories about his parents as a price to Yuuko because it happened off-screen (which I think is a pretty unusual way to play with Watanuki's POV), but we know he still remembered them back then because CLAMP made him talk about his father's cooking (or at least, remember it). So really, weird and complicated and confusing are all understatements.
I'm thinking right now that maybe XXXholic's universe isn't the same as CCS's. I think Yuuko mentioned once that the shop wasn't even in XXXholic's world (maybe she was talking about something like an astral plane, but I don't care). Of course, we are supposed to think that CCS's Sakura and Syaoran are TRC!Syaoran's parents, and CCS's-world-isn't-the-same-as-Holic's wouldn't exactly explain anything; but it would make me feel better about Touya's cameo in Kobato (which I'm pretty sure takes place in XXXholic's world). ETA: Oh, forget it. Yuuko just said to Watanuki "in the world where we live exist two persons called Sakura and Syaoran who are Clow's descendants"* (emphasis mine). God damn you. Hm. I would like to know if that was in present tense in Japanese.
Daughter of ETA: Watanuki: "Does that mean that I exist in other worlds too?"
Yuuko: "Exactly." What, Yuuko? What .......
Grand daughter: Yeah, Watanuki calls them by their names. Still. doesn't. make sense, Clamp.
Holly hell, Aren't we just jossed every week with this manga? ("We" includes Ohkawa. Maybe.)
I just re-read the arc about the lady obsessed with her computer. I laughed. The Internet-obsessed housewife touched my buttons, even with all that 'is pathological!' thing. I forgot how unusual of a female character Yuuko is, and I think I like how the moral in this particular story worked. I liked the "it doesn't matter what your son, or your husband think; what matters is what you want to do" thing. What I did not like was that she has to decide between pleasing her family, or pleasing herself. But whatever. (Oh, I know some people will tell me 'she wasn't pleasing herself, she was an addict!' well, people don't exist in vacuum and housewives who are neglecting their families because of Internet are... well read as neglecting their families because of Internet. What I mean with this is that when the only hobby of a housewife that doesn't have anything to do her family is portrayed as pathological because it keeps her away from 'family obligations,' I won't like it.)
*All those quotes are my translations from my scanlations in Spanish if you want to know.
I was watching some vids (even if they take forever to load for me), and found this one: "Gloria", of The Sarah Connor Chronicles fandom. Amazing I tell you, and great song too. It amused the hell out of me because they made Sarah/Cameron. A vid about Sarah and Cameron that seems almost plausible, and hot as hell. And because AHAHAHAHA THAT'S MY NAME.
Because Tsubasa spoilers blew off my mind, I am re-reading XXXholic. ... What?
You know? Watanuki doesn't even think twice when he sees TRC!Sakura and Syaoran for the first time at Yuuko's shop. He is all, 'the kids came out of the sky!' and all that jazz. He doesn't look like he is in front of people that look familiar to him.
But we don't even know when Watanuki gave off his memories about his parents as a price to Yuuko because it happened off-screen (which I think is a pretty unusual way to play with Watanuki's POV), but we know he still remembered them back then because CLAMP made him talk about his father's cooking (or at least, remember it). So really, weird and complicated and confusing are all understatements.
I'm thinking right now that maybe XXXholic's universe isn't the same as CCS's. I think Yuuko mentioned once that the shop wasn't even in XXXholic's world (maybe she was talking about something like an astral plane, but I don't care). Of course, we are supposed to think that CCS's Sakura and Syaoran are TRC!Syaoran's parents, and CCS's-world-isn't-the-same-as-Holic's wouldn't exactly explain anything; but it would make me feel better about Touya's cameo in Kobato (which I'm pretty sure takes place in XXXholic's world). ETA: Oh, forget it. Yuuko just said to Watanuki "in the world where we live exist two persons called Sakura and Syaoran who are Clow's descendants"* (emphasis mine). God damn you. Hm. I would like to know if that was in present tense in Japanese.
Daughter of ETA: Watanuki: "Does that mean that I exist in other worlds too?"
Yuuko: "Exactly." What, Yuuko? What .......
Grand daughter: Yeah, Watanuki calls them by their names. Still. doesn't. make sense, Clamp.
Holly hell, Aren't we just jossed every week with this manga? ("We" includes Ohkawa. Maybe.)
I just re-read the arc about the lady obsessed with her computer. I laughed. The Internet-obsessed housewife touched my buttons, even with all that 'is pathological!' thing. I forgot how unusual of a female character Yuuko is, and I think I like how the moral in this particular story worked. I liked the "it doesn't matter what your son, or your husband think; what matters is what you want to do" thing. What I did not like was that she has to decide between pleasing her family, or pleasing herself. But whatever. (Oh, I know some people will tell me 'she wasn't pleasing herself, she was an addict!' well, people don't exist in vacuum and housewives who are neglecting their families because of Internet are... well read as neglecting their families because of Internet. What I mean with this is that when the only hobby of a housewife that doesn't have anything to do her family is portrayed as pathological because it keeps her away from 'family obligations,' I won't like it.)
*All those quotes are my translations from my scanlations in Spanish if you want to know.