Tweaking on the Koumyou pic...

Inked on Project Blue Rose for a while, then went and fixed the parts of the Koumyou pic that were driving me the most crazy. The perspective is somewhat better now, and kid!Sanzo actually looks like kid!Sanzo, finally. And he doesn't have such teeny dinky feet as I'd originally had.

( And in a side-by-side comparison, in case anyone cares... )

And in other news...

... an archive of pictures of people proving theorems in sarongs. No, really.


ETA: French-fry encrusted corndogs, sold as street food in Seoul. My arteries are exploding just from the picture, but it looks just. so. good. (I'm hungry! Waaaaaaaaah!)

Oh, and Fluffy Mackerel Pudding, three words which under no circumstances should ever occupy the same sentence. (I'm still hungry, but not for Fluffy Mackerel Pudding.)






I don't know what my boss was typing in his cube a moment ago, but it had a really good beat:

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On Heian journaling conventions...

(From a comment I replied to m00nface with*) I seemed to have bogged down on Genji, but I'm mostly through The Confessions of Lady Nijo, which was written about 200 years after Murasaki, but still reads like diaries of Murasaki's time. It's hard to figure out who people are in it, especially since they get promoted and their title changes and she uses titles instead of names and doesn't bother to say "Captain Soandso was promoted and is now Minister Thusandsuch" and so much of the really gossipy stuff is between the lines and the emotions she expresses are all stylized into acceptable Heian expressions and she jumps years without explaining what happened in between so all of a sudden there's all these new people and you don't know what's going on but by God, I know EXACTLY what everybody is wearing.



* m00nface is taking Classical Japanese this year and gets to read parts of Genji and The Pillow Book in the original. I encouraged her to post whatever she learns to reading_genji

woo!

I and the_z are winners of the Seventh Sanctum Beauty Contest, me Men's for the Circuit Rider, and her Women's for her catgirl comic. :D