http://not.dotq.org Five Words: You Can't Censor My Love Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:42:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can read this on THAT if you dislike sensible presentation. Black is lelangir. Red is lolikitsune. "Ne, lelangir-san, lelangir-san~!" "Nani, eruke?" "For the awards, do you nominate your favorites or the 'objective' best?" "wut" Here, lolikit and lelangir take a look around the 'sphere and discuss whom they would nominate for what if the Anime ... http://not.dotq.org/2009/01/07/preemptive-aba-2009-nominations notdotq brings you this coverage in conjunction with Shirukii. You can see Part 1 of my coverage here. Also, yes, I gave into "Owen's hegemony" and watched subs ((The actual reason here being that the raw file that worked was too high quality for my 2003 iMac.)). Now with 2500% ... http://not.dotq.org/2009/01/04/maria-sama-ga-miteru-s04-e01-part-2-epic-winget Dear Gargron et. al, You recently wrote a short post called "Will we get better comments?" to which I responded in a troll-ish manner here. With Impz penning his thoughts on team blogging referencing you, I would like to give my opinion on your blog in general. You should get rid of ... http://not.dotq.org/2009/01/04/open-letter-to-anime2 notdotq brings you this coverage in conjunction with Shirukii. I'll real-boot my Raw Delusion ((lelangiric version)) and show my PR guy just how powerful my ignorance truly is!! Maria-sama ga Miteru: a show about disgustingly rich girls attending a private school that at once shields them from the harshness ... http://not.dotq.org/2009/01/03/maria-sama-ga-miteru-s04-e01-part-1-epic-failget We Remember Hate. Miao on My Mind was way too slow to combo ((by which I mean that notdotq became Miao on My Mind way too late)), and I've been meaning to dismantle it for a while now. With a final push from ghostlightning, I got off my ass and did ... http://not.dotq.org/2009/01/01/happy-fucking-new-year-worms I wrote up a long post at Dreams of the Quill where I discuss some of the past year's highlights. I'm not going to do an anime-centric post here of a similar nature because I think that my 12 days posts sum things up pretty well. Happy New Year! http://not.dotq.org/2008/12/31/looking-back-on-2008 One of the central themes I intend to explore in my blogging is the concept of the guilty pleasure. In the more common contexts, guilty pleasures are negatively valued/low-culture activities and pursuits relative to high-culture media. For example, a person with a 'cultured' self-image may feel guilty taking pleasure in a ... http://not.dotq.org/2008/12/29/ephebophilia-here-i-split-hairs ←[99] SHAFT + School Rumble + Strawberry Panic. That's the impression I got. One half of the lead character binary is Kanako: lesbian, tall, tomboy, deretsun for Maria; only becoming insecure (tsun) once her homosexuality is put into question. Her character design and personality remind me of a cross between Yakumo ... http://not.dotq.org/2008/12/28/first-impressions-mariaholic-unlimited-poetic-justice-works 2.14x show. Not as painful as Remember my Memories, but just as bad if not worse. http://not.dotq.org/2008/12/27/what-i-marathoned-because-i-had-too-little-intelligence-8-to-heart-2 So this whole show turned out to be a bawfest about an angel. Who gave a fuck? I certainly didn't. Visual metaphor for sex. *nod nod* The final episode of ef ~a tale of melodies~ will have a place in my memories for years to come, I believe. Not because it was ... http://not.dotq.org/2008/12/25/ef-a-tale-of-failigion-end