Linkspam: good and evil edition

The Hathor Legacy has just completed a fantastic series of posts about Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne.

Also, WTF, I had no idea that Kigankai was "based" in Nagano City. Hmm, shows what I know. And "just north of Tokyo" is more like a five-hour drive even going at 110 km/h the whole way (*cough*). And yes, I know that 400 police officers was overkill. But this is Nagano-ken, and our police officers have nothing to do. It's not unusual for five or six squad cars to show up even when there's a minor traffic accident, because really, they have NOTHING better to do. I wish I could feel angry about 400 police officers raiding an entirely female group centered around fluffy-sounding concepts like "healing medicine," but really, Kigankai is just about as benevolent as Scientology. Which is to say, NOT. And I hate to pass judgement before I've heard all of the facts, but Okuno's death sounds awfully similar to the death of Lisa McPherson. Ugh.

And now, for some good news. And this is some REALLY good news.

More vaguely spoilery thoughts on the latest chapter of Tsubasa Chronicle

1. I knew that the resolution of the Seishirou story would be anticlimatic compared to everything else (Tokyo, Celes) that just happened in the manga. Fortunately, CLAMP seems to realize that too, so at least they spiced things up by dumping a bucketload of comic relief in this chapter. I like that. Seishirou's story can't become TOO serious at this point, because, like I said, it could only come off as anticlimatic.

2. Fay finally gets to use his awesome new "power" yays. (And thank god there was no angsting involved.)

3. I can't tell if this version of Seishirou is not actually as evil as the x/Tokyo Babylon Seishirou, or if he IS really as evil as the X/Tokyo Babylon Seishirou and is just doing a really good job of pretending that he's not. Also, the fact that Tsubasa!Seishirou is related to Tsubasa!Fuuma automatically makes him seem less evil, simply by power of association. Because Tsubasa!Fuuma is made of win and awesome.

A much belated Dear Yuletide Author letter

Hello, mysterious Yuletide author!

( Letter behind the cut. )