You're Back On Your Asshole Grandpa's Private Island.

Finishing Umineko inspired me to do the final touch-ups to this painting, which was not actually intended to be Rokkenjima (I was working from this picture, the source of which I unfortunately can't find) but is, now that I stand back and look at it, totally Rokkenjima.




I'm so restless now that I've finished Umineko. I can't play or read or watch anything else because I just get frustrated with it for not being Umineko! What do I do?

I usually deal with 'I've finished a canon I loved; what now?' by writing fic, but I don't have any ideas, alas. And I struggle to write for unvoiced canons, in any case; it's a lot easier for me to capture a character's voice if I've heard them speaking.

Maybe I should just replay the first six episodes of Higurashi in preparation for the final two to come out on Steam. Or, given that I love Umineko, Higurashi, Danganronpa and, to a lesser extent, Zero Escape, I could hunt down more canons in the 'murder! mystery! despair! plot twists! guilt! struggling against hopeless situations! possibly time loops! also warmth and friendship and love and a general refusal to take itself too seriously' genre.

Is He Embarrassed Because He Can't Do The Buttons Up?

Here are some notes on the early third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer! I'm up to 'Revelations'.

Faith: Isn't it crazy how slaying always makes you hungry and horny?
(EVERYONE LOOKS AT BUFFY)

I really liked Buffy's counsellor in 'Beauty and the Beasts' and I was very unhappy that he only survived for one scene. What a waste of a good character!

I'm also very annoyed that the 'werewolf' is clearly some sort of were-monkey. I'm so often let down by werewolf designs. The Harry Potter films, Supernatural, Buffy: all disappointments in this regard. Say what you will about Twilight, but at least the werewolves in the films looked like wolves. That's all I ask!

Angel is so bad at wearing shirts.

Before I started watching Buffy, I really wasn't expecting this protracted will-they-won't-they-turned-infidelity plotline between Willow and Xander. I'll be honest: it doesn't really work. If you're going to have an ~oh no, we shouldn't be kissing~ scene in a work of fiction and you want viewers to feel guiltily in favour, chemistry is really important. Willow has considerably more chemistry with her actual boyfriend than she does with the guy she's kissing instead, so this was never going to work.

I can't look at the cowboy vampire without thinking of the screaming cowboy song.

When was the last time Angel wore a shirt? Has he ever worn a shirt? Was he tortured by a shirt in Hell?

I keep forgetting this Willow/Xander plotline is happening and going 'WHY' afresh every time I'm reminded.

I was thinking Mrs Post had Mary Poppins' mannerisms right before Faith called her Mary Poppins. (Gwendolyn Post was also a character who had potential and was instead killed off immediately! Stop that, Buffy.)

You'll be able to deduce I wasn't a fan of the 'Willow and Xander kiss in the library' scene, but it did give us Giles holding his glasses in his mouth, which was endearing.