ロリくらべ

catystorm did that meme where you ask what anime character you remind the OP of, and she picked Tomoyo. For me. I think she means like if Tomoyo was a yaoi fangirl? Yeah, that does sound pretty scary. I like Roy and Ed too much to be a lesb0r, but I can be scheming and weird! And nice! And I like drawing outrageous costumes for girls! Oh brother.

Anyway, this means I have to read Card Captor Sakura again, which is probably a good direction because all I've read is Mai-Hime/Otome lately (more on that below). And would you be amazed to learn that this is the first time I've noticed that Sakura is really cute? 'x' She's REALLY CUTE. Sometimes it bothers me that everything and everyone is so wholesome and happy in this story, but it's okay, because that's Sakura's world, and I don't ever want anything to hurt her anyway. It's so comforting. Certainly it makes Nanoha look hard and mean. Nanoha would do better paired with Fate, but---paired with Fate? That...kind of bothers me. OH MAN that reminds me, I bought this novelization the last time I was in Japan, and...JESUS CHRIST, YOU GUYS. LOOK AT THE COVER. I couldn't see what was going on when I bought it because the obi was in the way. The art inside is worse---most objectionable prize goes to Nanoha and Fate pictured naked and in full color with shiny, childishly smooth skin. CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THIS GIVES ME THE HEEBIE-JEEBIES? I want my 550 yen back T^T

I don't like the ending for Mai-Otome at all. All that talk about revolution and equality, and the real slaves---the otome---are never freed at all. It ends with them happily going back to Garderobe, as if nobody ever thought of doing something about the way otome have nothing to protect them, nobody to turn to, essentially no safe friends or allies. The women have all the power, but the men rule the world by isolating them, making them fight one another to the death, and occasionally making one bend over a table to be publically whipped. Bad aftertaste.

I'm still irritable and now I'm coming down with a cold---the sniffles started just tonight. Yeah, it's nice that I didn't have to get another cold for about five months, because last spring I had three, but...that makes at four colds this year, and I still have time to get another. :( If I don't take decongestants, my nose runs like a faucet and I have to wipe it all the time, so it gets chapped, but if I do take decongestants I feel totally disconnected and sad. And I just know my sinuses are going to have something to say about this...SOMEBODY HELP ME T_T