Paper Moon

For the record, bronzemongoose called it.

( Let the bodies hit the floor. )

Well, at least something happened in this chapter. I was afraid that we were in for another five or six chapters of vaguely ominous foreshadowing before the plot moved forward again.

Y HALO THAR, Kurogane and Fay.

( Remember when those guys were actually in this manga? )

Remember how last week, I was all excited, because I thought that things might actually be happening?

( False alarm. )

Minor note of interest: This week's Shounen Magazine featured a typo in the Table of Contents that placed Tsubasa on page 273 instead of on page 377. And I spent a rather frustrating five minutes flipping around the 200's desperately looking for the Tsubasa manga, before I figured out what was going on.

Yes, that little nugget of trivial information is possibly more interesting than anything that actually happened in this week's chapter.

As promised, this chapter opens with three color pages. Yay!

Unfortunately, we were also promised a "double-length" chapter at the end of CLAMP's hiatus, and this chapter was more like half the length of a normal chapter. Oops.

Okay, so this is going to be a rush summary. I read the chapter during the five minutes that I spent eating breakfast this morning, and I'm going from memory now, so some parts are going to be not so much with the details.

But anyway, ( after a five-week wait, absolutely nothing happened. )

No Tsubasa this week. There will be a new chapter next week, but I'll be back in America for a short visit (yay!) and more likely than not won't have the time to read it. Just FYI.

So, now for something totally unrelated.... Flist, I come begging for advice. I need to backup my livejournal accounts, but I'm running into problems.

Previously I've been using Livejournal Backup, but it went FUBAR on me last month. Now for some reason it only backs up the first two entries of any given account, and it's refusing to archive comments. I can't figure out why it suddenly stopped working. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. I made sure that I was working with the lastest release. But it still just. won't. work.

I've tried multiple times to install and use LJArchive, but I always get some sort of fatal error whenever I attempt to run the program.

So, can anybody recommend any other livejournal backup methods?

Code Geass R2 episode 05. Tsubasa chapter 189. Just when I thought that the WTFery could not be topped, we get Code Geass R2 episode 06.

I'm going to do what I did last week, and just quote Jason again:

If the end of Empire Strikes Back was a ten on the “I am your father” scale, this was clearly a negative fifteen.

Even if the revelation was "uncle" and not "father," this still merits a Quote for Truth.

In light of trying to make sense of Tsubasa chapter 189, I've been combing over the first couple of volumes of xxxHolic manga, trying to find the part where Yuuko said that Sakura and Syaoran were in high school and dating. I haven't found that part yet, but I DID find the scene in chapter 02 of xxxHolic where Yuuko says that she's never met Sakura or Syaoran.

It happens when Watanuki is cleaning out Yuuko's "treasure room." He finds Cardcaptor Sakura's (Clow Card arc) wand and is all like, "OMG a magic wand!" But then Yuuko tells him, "Nah, it's just a plastic model that lights up and makes noise." Which is true, unfortunately, boo. Then Yuuko says that she really wants to get her hands on the real thing. And she waxes nostalgic about the "creepy guy" (Clow Reed) who invented the real wand, and says that the real thing now belongs to "a cute girl who's somehow a blood relative of that creepy guy." Then Yuuko says, "I have yet to meet that cute girl or her companion. But I will soon... Not them, actually, but ones like them." This is right before Tsubasa!Syaoran and Sakura show up at Yuuko's shop.

Now I'm really, really curious to see if that scene can at all be reconciled with Tsubasa chapter 189, in which ( SPOILERS! )

Also, GIP.

EDIT: Okay. Now that I've gone and looked at Tsubasa 189 again, it turns out that at least one inconsistency is solved. Yuuko says よく知っている in reference to both Sakura and Syaoran, which could translate as either "I know him/her well" or "I know of him/her very well." Also, when talking about Sakura, she further adds "Although I've yet to meet her."

That explains why Yuuko can tell Watanuki that she's never met Sakura or Syaoran face-to-face. She just knows a lot about them.

But if she never met Sakura, then how did she get Sakura's wand? And how did she know about Sakura's dream visions? Did somebody else tell her about these things and give Yuuko the wand? I can't imagine that Yuuko would ever grant a wish or receive a payment by proxy...

Also, this still doesn't explain how Yuuko could have the wand six years before xxxHolic and then just NOT have the wand later.

Posted on fandomsecrets today:

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Oh god, I am so glad that I'm not the only one who feels that way.

I'm going to check back on the comments in a few days and see if I'm not alone. Or if the fanbrats start wanking, that would be entertaining too. Hating on Saint Fay?! How dare they!!

I can't be the only person who progressed from eye-rolling to outright laughter while reading the Celes arc. I can't be.

Anonymous LJ benefactor, whoever you are, I love you. (*hugs*) Thank you!

Also awesome, and long overdue for a plug: this month's meiousei.

There was no Tsubasa this week.