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I was checking MangaFox's update page, and saw a series called Neko no Koi listed. Naturally, I'll check out anything that has to do with cats, so I click. Bonus: it's BL. Double bonus: it takes place in Kyoto. I'm pretty excited about that, so I start reading. And.

Well, first of all, the scanlator used Electroharmonix to represent a traditional Japanese storefront sign. In my opinion, fonts like that are pretty offensive to begin with, but I could at least give it a pass if this were some kind of acid neon dystopian future Tokyo. For a traditional Kyoto machiya? Um no, what the hell.

But, I thought, maybe I'm being a little too sensitive.

And then it got so much worse.

"You jez told them that it warn't too sweet."

"'Cawse it is, this 'ere shop has been passed down for six generations." (That first word is supposed to represent "of course", btw.)

"If'n you sit dere, your kimono'll git dirty."

"Imma always be wit'chu, Chii."

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS THIS. YOU FAIL. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200. YOU MAY NOT USE YOUR GET OUT OF FAIL FREE CARD. I almost don't know which is more offensive, the idea that all Kansai-jin talk like Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel trying to teach himself AAVE, or that, even if the analogy were accurate, this is still a complete failure of an attempt to write out a dialect. NO ONE on the entire planet talks like that. Oh, and the extra brain-numbing bonus? All four of those lines come from the same character. Just seriously, I don't even.


In far less ragey news, Shounen Maid broke into the top 500 at MangaFox. It was within the top 200 before OneManga closed, then it got pushed back to like 8000. Anyway, chapter 6 is here or here.

I just walked to 7-11 in the frickin' pouring-ass rain, because I was afraid that $300 might not be enough for Super Comic City tomorrow. And then the machine told me I can't use my ATM card until 8 in the morning. What the hell. x_x

In my defense, about $100 is already earmarked for stuff I'm getting for other people. And I know it's stupid and ridiculous to even contemplate spending $200 on doujinshi for myself, but there's soooo many good circles going! >o< And I'll have to move quickly to get to them all, so there's no time to go back if I decide later that I want something. *flails* Whyyyyyyyy does it always have to end so early????

x_x I was "invited" to a Christmas party tomorrow. And by "invited", I mean I'm expected to prepare and run some sort of English Christmas game for 20-30 elementary school students. And for the privilege of all this, I get to pay ¥4000. And have I mentioned that I've wasted my whole day doing nothing and haven't even started on it?

Fuck.

Ugh. I swear, if I was made of any more fail, I'd be a black hole.

In addition to getting basically nothing at all done over the weekend, now I can't sleep. At all. Luckily, there's no classes today, so I can probably beg off on nenkyuu. But I'm still extremely pissed off at myself, and furthermore, what the freaking hell is wrong with my internet.

Oh, rkold I never did get around to ordering those DVDs, so don't expect them to be showing up. >.>

Goddammit LJ, can't you ever have a dramathon when I'm not insanely busy?

I was driving to the mall yesterday when I looked in my rear view mirror and saw this huge pickup truck behind me with a stuffed Tigger and Piglet on the dashboard. My first thought? "Oh, it's a Tigger/Piglet shipper."

Yes, I chastised my brain thoroughly for that.

The people next door are supposed to be moving out today, which means this should be the last time I ever have to use this tag! \o/