So, as I mentioned elsewhere, Netflix is messing up Saint Seiya. The known SPECIFIC way they're doing this is by changing Andromeda Shun from a boy to a girl. Now the question is "Why does this matter?", and there's more than one answer to that. The general answer is: because Andromeda Shun's POINT was that he was able to be a man while having many standard feminine traits (being willing to show emotions other than anger or triumph, being very pretty, having a delicate face and figure, etc.), and who was even specifically representing a [ Continue reading... ]
On My Shelves: The Legend of Korra
May 3, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Earth. Fire. Air. Water. Only the Avatar can master all four elements and bring balance to the world. I hadn't ever watched much of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I knew it had been a successful series which spawned a well-thought-of sequel series. As I've been deliberately looking for things to show my daughters that star women heroes, and they like animated shows, The Legend of Korra looked like a good bet. It was. As stated in the quote above, while there are four elements that have their own "benders" – earthbenders, [ Continue reading... ]
On My Shelves: My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia)
January 23, 2018 By 1 Comment
"It is all right now. Why? Because I am here." – All-Might In a world like this one, but some undefined time in the future, civilization has been drastically changed by the emergence of strange powers, called "Quirks". At first very rare, by now over 80% of humanity has some form of Quirk – which can range from extendible fingers to invisibility, ability to project energy, and so on. In the younger generations, almost everyone has a Quirk. Due to the nature of these new powers, the profession of superhero became reality; for [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 33
November 3, 2017 By 2 Comments
In this final snippet, Procelli found he had been suckered... ----- Chapter 33. Silvertail felt a cold, cold smile crossing his tiny face as he saw the Mirrortaint stagger back in disbelief. "But . . . how . . ." Seika's face was radiant with understanding. "It was you, not Cordelia's father! But he sensed the distress—" Silvertail locked gazes with Procelli, and he could see fear in the defiant Mirrortaint's eyes. "I merely allowed myself to remember the day I gave my daughter to this fate . . . and let my fear [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 32
November 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Things seemed to have taken a turn for the worse, and they were bad enough already... Chapter 32. Even as that happened, Procelli loomed somehow larger, though his physical form changed not a bit. "Another wish granted," he said with a slasher smile, turning to Holy Aura. She could see Cordy, now in her father's embrace, but her face showed only the shock and anguish and confusion of the impossible; even a father's presence could only do so much. "You . . . obscene . . . thing," she choked out, unable to even form a proper [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 31
October 30, 2017 By Leave a Comment
The tyrpiglynt was out and apparently so was their secret... ----- Chapter 31. "Holly? Seika?" Tierra said after a few frozen moments. "Fuck," Seika said succinctly in the powerful soprano of Radiance Blaze. "But, that's the way the meme rolls, right?" Holly found she'd covered her face with one of Holy Aura's hands. "Yes. Yes, of course it is." Is Tierra going to be one of the Maidens? Or one of those ordinary characters that happens to learn the secret? If it was the latter, whether Tierra survived the [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 30
October 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment
The tyrpiglynt was now on the loose... ----- Chapter 30. Silvertail felt the fur rising on his back even before his more conscious senses recognized the surge in power from within the building that the girls had run into. Oh, no, Lemuria's Memory, no . . . It was the merest flicker of motion, a motion only eyes like his own could have seen, but he knew instantly that the worst scenario was now upon them. A Mirrortaint was now free, and in a crowd . . . a crowd whose emotions and lifeforce would not only feed it, but mask [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 29
October 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment
They'd figured out who they needed to talk to... ----- Chapter 29. Holly shivered a little, then pulled her coat tighter. "Jeez, I'd forgotten how cold it gets sitting in the bleachers." "Did you forget how boring this is?" Seika muttered to her, barely audible over the cheers and other shouts as Whitney High's White Lions contested with Columbia's Blue Devils. "You don't know anything about football, do you? This is a pretty good game." Seika gave her a scandalized look. "You call yourself a geek and you like football? [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 28
October 23, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Silvertail now knew what they were up against... ----- Chapter 28. "A . . . tyrpiglynt?" Holly repeated. The word sounded somehow creepy in and of itself. "What is that, exactly?" "A Reflecter of Desire," Silvertail said wearily. "Also called a Mirrortaint. A being from far Outside, so far that it has a difficult time manifesting in our ordinary world and can do so—to begin with, at least—only as a projection that echoes an existing projection in this one. A reflection, in short, which is a projection of the features of the [ Continue reading... ]
Princess Holy Aura: Chapter 27
October 20, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Silvertail had some investigation to do... ----- Chapter 27. Silvertail wriggled harder, and managed to get his furry shoulders through the small hole near the foundation of the school. That accomplished, he could easily drag the rest of himself through. It is fortunate that rats can fit through any hole their heads can go through. He had parked the car at a nearby restaurant. Making his way to the school from there, mostly in rat form, was the real challenge. Proportionately, rats were faster than humans—but [ Continue reading... ]
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