Geeky love
Jul. 13th, 2010 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI just finished(*) the shojo manga "Kimi ni Todoke". It's a bit slight but is adorably sweet. It's about a shy awkward 15 year old girl coming out of her shell and making lots of friends, my inner shy awkward 15 year old girl was very happy :) I was reminded of my first crush, on a guy who I also saw as kind and friendly and a million miles too cool to ever think of me that way.
Two differences I find significant are that most of the people who were nice to me on my journey into "Maybe I'm not too horrible for anyone to like" were themselves somewhat rejected by the social hierarchy rather than being the most popular kids (some popular kids were nice to me too, though), and that I was SO much more jealous and petty towards the people I liked (they were MINE).
Also! Set My World Into Motion is a very cool Dr Who vid about River Song.
I reread "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett. It really is a great book, and I'm not just saying that because it has femslashy crossdressing women with swords fighting the Patriarchy2 :D
1)Well, the part that's online. Which happily stops in a moderately satisfying place.
2)This is my favourite niche genre of fiction
Two differences I find significant are that most of the people who were nice to me on my journey into "Maybe I'm not too horrible for anyone to like" were themselves somewhat rejected by the social hierarchy rather than being the most popular kids (some popular kids were nice to me too, though), and that I was SO much more jealous and petty towards the people I liked (they were MINE).
Also! Set My World Into Motion is a very cool Dr Who vid about River Song.
I reread "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett. It really is a great book, and I'm not just saying that because it has femslashy crossdressing women with swords fighting the Patriarchy2 :D
1)Well, the part that's online. Which happily stops in a moderately satisfying place.
2)This is my favourite niche genre of fiction
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:24 am (UTC)I like that it's as much about friendship as about romance. Sawako really has no experience with either and her new relationship with Chizu and Ayane it just as important as her relationship with Kazehaya.
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Date: 2010-07-13 11:06 am (UTC)And in some ways the significance of her relationship with Kazehaya is that she's his most favourite friend, a position she couldn't imagine for herself for a long time.
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:47 am (UTC)Can you just find it on google? Or is there a specific site?
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Date: 2010-07-13 06:58 am (UTC)I can see it possibly appealing to your inner awkward 15 year old too, from what I remember of her :)
(And you are possibly the most universally liked and likeable person I know, not that the facts necessarily have much place in such feelings)