Mari, the righteous mom

This post is a quickie, as it’s more about getting feedback than positing some position and buttressing it with evidence. I don’t have that evidence, see, and you lot may be able to help me more than conventional research. Not to worry, it’s not about something arcane; it’s about Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, which every fan [...]

GARhetoric: [aː] and [r]

As I chatted with ghostlightning, this post was born. It is at least 13% his fault, and 87% my love for phonetics. Bear witness to something which may be more GAR-exuding than the relative inactivity lets on: you know the drill.

Sidelines

I wrote my first Negima! post (here on Ghostlightning’s joint) about Nodoka and Yue, as I was bound to do so by favoritism and other darker things in the crevices between human comprehension. It was almost physically painful to have to pick two characters out of that cast of worthies…and as I was mulling that [...]

A Terrible Darkness addendum: on Lorelei and Love

As the title indicates, this is an addendum of sorts to my last post, which you can find over here: ["A Terrible Darkness"]. At Ghostlightning‘s (sort-of) request, I’m revisiting Shin Mazinger and the Gothic in light of the thirteenth episode, “First Love?  The Beautiful Lorelei!”

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