Remember Gatchaman?
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pmYesterday, one of my adult students told me that her mother used to write gay Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) doujinshi. To which I could only reply, Awesome!
I also crossed a rubicon of Thai literacy yesterday. At a snack food shop I was able to read the name of the thing I wanted (khanom jeep), ask for it without pointing, and get the thing I’d asked for.
In other news, I have fucking awful PMS this month. Nothing physical of note, just baaaad wolf blues, in honour of which I drew this monster:
The monster has his own problems. He — being normatively male, thus PMS-less — is blue for other reasons. Mainly, he’s blue because people don’t taste good anymore. Everyone’s damp and stringy and musty inside, he says, like old macrame left out in the rain.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Poor blue monster.
*petpetpet*
October 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
He looks at you with little, beady, yet soulful eyes. He purrs. He wonders if you taste better than old wet macrame. He thinks you might. Do you have any Jersey caramels?
October 9th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I have said Jersey caramels. he looks like he would be a wicked little critter to hang around with. I also know he wouldn’t want to eat me. because I would taste like dirt and oil, and I will bite back.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
If you were to give him a Jersey Caramel, he’d be ever so happy. They remind him of the way people used to taste back in the old days. Soft, creamy and sweet, with a hint of butter.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
You said he ate jesus!! I imagine that meal was too stringy and possibly hairy…
October 10th, 2008 at 1:55 am
he can have the bag if he asks nicely
October 10th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Lee - stringy, hairy, and the halo tasted just like an old frisbee that had been lying on a roof collecting water and dirt. (The monster’s range of metaphorical thought seems to be confined to a messy back yard.)
Colin - you bet he asks nicely (as long as the bag has the caramels in it…).
October 10th, 2008 at 8:08 am
With a name Gatchaman, I think a yaoi sounds fitting.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
XD Can’t argue with that!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
At least I got a laugh out of you! I think! XD Hm, but yeah… it seems art is a good way to release some stress, but I am not good at drawing or am I motivated enough to write anymore. Maybe it’s a writers block. x___x
October 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Well, if my raging PMS provides amusement for others, then it’s all in a good cause, I suppose. I understand not being motivated to write…but drawing… you know, it’s like driving. Anyone who can see can learn to do it. I don’t mean everyone can learn to draw like a genius — I sure can’t — but you can learn the basics. And there’s a lot of pleasure and stress relief to be had in those. Or you can go all Jackson Pollock.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Gay Gatchaman doujinshi? HAH, that is awesome!
That is the cutest man-eating monster I think I’ve ever seen…
October 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
She delicately implied that perhaps it wasn’t suitable for her mother to be writing such things while her young daughter was in the house. I kind of want to meet her mother. She’s a writer — she’s written five children’s books — and she’s into Vampire Hunter D and Guin Saga. I guess she’s one of those hip old baby boomers — if it’s hip to be an otaku.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I suppose you’re right. I just need a nice drawing pad and a good pencil.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
And a squishy eraser — useful, and comforting.