Amanuensis's Journal

The S.O. wants to know who I am and what has happened to his girlfriend.

Me: I started watching a new anime last night. Tiny little two-and-a-half-minute episodes. About a lost kitty.
S.O.: ...an evil kitty?
Me: In the first episode the kitty wanders away from mama cat and gets lost.
S.O.:...and ends up in slavery?
Me: And in the second is taken in by a nice family.
S.O.:...who are kitten torturers?
Me: And in the third she gets a bath.
S.O. No geopolitical conflicts? No world domination?
Me: And in the fourth she plays with a shoelace and has a nap.
S.O.: MY GOD, MAN, WHERE ARE THE POTATO CHIPS?

Death Note weave-in-and-out threadfic, the way I've always wanted it. All the moments about Light, and Light about L, and LightandL, that I wanted to feel to their depths, canon-compliant and done perfectly.

One Half the World, by theredwepainted. 3600 words, hard R/soft NC-17.

filkertom (who did Who the F**k Is Matt for the Death Note fans a little while ago) did it again--this time it's the premise of Death Note set to the Bad Horse Chorus (from Dr. Horrible). It's freaking fantastic. Go listen! (LJ post here for feedback)

cross-posted to death_note

My, it's nice to have a little time to meme-play.

Ganked from lycoris:

( Death Note meme--16 questions! )

Watched the first two of the live action Death Note films...( Spoilers for everything I've seen of Death Note--anime, manga, Book 13, and the first two live action films. )

<.<

Today, it appears...

>.>

...I may have...

o.o

...gone to three separate bookstores to buy a complete set of the Death Note manga along with #13 How To Read It and the Another Note novel and oh yeah a watch from eBay.

OH LIKE YOU AREN'T ALL FAMILIAR WITH THE JOY OF A NEW OBSESSION. DO NOT JUDGE ME.

I've watched the first episode of Death Note with the English dub, to see if the dub was enjoyable, 'cos I love this series so much I'd like to experience it every way available. I think it's well done, but I'm not so happy with Ryuk's voice. Not that the actor isn't good, it just makes Ryuk a different guy. Japanese-voice Ryuk sounds like the kind of lazy good-for-nothing friend of yours that lies on your sofa eating your Cheetos and watching your cable, but you let him hang around because he's fun to play Gran Turismo with and he never asks you when you're gonna clean the place up. English-voice Ryuk, on the other hand, is not a friend but he's this guy a friend of a friend of yours knows, and you never ever hang out with him because they say he has mob ties and drives around with three shotguns and a drum of kerosene in his car trunk, and you only call him if you have to get rid of a body, and he says, "I'll meet you at ninth and Gateridge; bring fifty feet of garden hose and $8000," and while you're still saying, "Where the f**k am I gonna get $8000 and garden hose at this time of night?" he's already hung up on you and is heading over.

So, um, yeah. Different.

Just finished episode 18 of Death Note. Okay, every time this show has started to go in a a direction that made me say, "Oh, no--no, don't go there--don't let this be--" it one-eighties by the end of the episode and I'm all "Oh, JOY, thank you." And here I am at this point, and I'm trying to remember that the series hasn't failed me yet. It'll all one-eighty again...soon, right? She'll hold together. Hear me, baby? Hold together!

*hopes*

*does not want actual spoilers, just wants to record this moment for everyone who knows what I'm talking about*