So, what about that manga/yaoi stuff, anyhow?

For reference, the books I bought were a duology, Until the Full Moon, or something like that. Interesting concept, shallow handling.

I talked to Rapunzel last night. She said she has the first of these two and that she didn't really like it that well, so maybe I just didn't choose the right book(s) to experiment on, I don't know.

The books I read while on the Familial Visit, Rapunzel's books, were the Fake series. I don't why "Fake," but I enjoyed them. I'd like to see more like those, if I knew how to find them. I'm not sure it's a fair experiment to read something that's maybe not as good (like the ones I mentioned above) and to dismiss the rest of the genre on those grounds?

In my ongoing question for Information and Education, I did a bit of surfing last night.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that you can actually d/l some scanned/translated stories, free of charge, on the net! I'm assuming these will be the same picture format, although I confined myself to bookmarking last night and didn't actually look at any of the stories.

Imagine my amusement when I discovered the manga/yaoi "fandom" and read that it's tolerated, even tacitly encouraged overseas.

Imagine my interest when I found a site of definitions. (Imagine my surprise when I learned that "yaoi" stands for, ""yama nasi, ochi nashi, imi nashi," which roughly translates to "no climax, no plot, no point.") (Imagine my further surprise when I discovered that a story that's a, "lemon" isn't a bad one, it's a story with sex. And that "lime" and "citrus" have their own places on the sexual scale o'manga/yaoi.)

(Imagine my embarrassment as I realize I should have memorized those definitions before I started writing this post.)

I love the internet. If I wanted to put the effort into it, I could be an "expert" on this stuff in a week.

OTOH, I haven't really decided if I want to or not. The problem is that I'm not visual.

Most people are visual. That is, their preferred mode of taking in information is through their eyes. "You have to see it, to believe it" style of thing. (Something like...70% 80% of the population? Is primarily visual)

This explains the amazing popularity of television. And of movie adaptations of books. And, I've decided, of manga.

But I'm not visual, I'm auditory. For instance, I rarely watch television. I listen to television. When I read, which I do voraciously, I "hear" the text, I don't "see" it on the page.

There aren't enough words in manga/yaoi. For instance, those Moon books I bought? I'm going to have to go through them again, spending some time consciously staring at the pictures to see if they're as shallowly written as I thought they were at first.

Sigh. I'm about to start calling my employed friends and asking them if they'd like to hire me. I'm really bored of not working.

(P.S. I'm going to have t0 stop dissing Bossyboots. He just brought me spoils from the training conference.

A tee-shirt, two little blue rubber men, and a jump drive which I understand from McSwain! Is a gem of a thing to have, indeed.

Right now, my two blue boys are having sex, but that's just how I accidentally laid them down on the desk. I hate to interrupt, though. It seems impolite not to wait until they've finished.

How do you know when a rubber man is finished? I guess I'll just wait for him to stop bouncing and to start looking for his pants.)