Weird little things that can't be possibly coincidence

[matrixrefugee]

Today, Sept. 29th is the Catholic feast of the Holy Angels, plus it's also a Tuesday, which is traditionally the day of the angels... and I got my book on the Grigori or Watcher Angels in the mail! Just a coincidence? I don't think so...

Also: Another GIP, this time featuring my "Enniel Prussot" icon (Yes, yes, it's Muraki from 'Yami no Matsuei', but since the image fits I'm running with it).

Also there's a bit of an argument brewing over on the Eva Geeks forum, when someone decided to start tossing around some ideas on whether or not an Angel in human form could impregnate a human. One person got irritated about how an idea like this strays from canon (Like some of the weird things that have been posted in the section for fanfiction and fanart don't?!). Of course I stuck up for discussing this very topic (hey, it's one of the cornerstones of the third part of my current project), as well as being a bit suspect of the term "canon": the more I think about it, the less I like it, since it smacks of treating the fandom (or maybe the mythos is a better word for it) like a religious dogma or a sacred text that has to be rigidly adhered to and any other slant on it is heretical. I paraphrased a few lines from Shinji's inner journey in Episode 20:

"There is the Evangelion that exists in Hideaki Anno's mind, the Evangelion that exists in the producers' minds, the Evangelion that exists in the Eva Geeks' minds and the Evangelion that exists in your mind. Yet somehow, all these are the same Evangelion."

Comments

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I like it. That can apply to all fandoms and canons, I think.

P.S. Do you know any way to get Storm Constantine's Grigori books without going over twenty dollars at Amazon? Ebay has the first one for a nice low price, but the rest are kind of high for books.

(Either way I want Wraeththu first, though.)

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I actually managed to score all three Grigori books at reasonable prices: I think I found the last bargain-priced copies. But, I have an extra copy of the first one, which I'd be happy to send you if you could PM me your snail mail address. I'll keep an eye out for the other two, though to be honest, they're nigh to impossible to find over here in the States: the copies that I have are imports from England!

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

PS. Just found all three books on Alibris.com, the prices are a bit all over the map, but reasonable enough: http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?binding=&mtype=&keyword=Storm+Constantine&hs.x=0&hs.y=0&hs=Submit

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Thank you! I'll send a PM posthaste, and with the first one from you - anything you want in return? - the others are priced a lot better than Ebay and Amazon had 'em.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Hm... I'm looking for someone who's a better artist than I am to draw some illustrations for Neon Enoch Evangelion, if you could link me up with someone who'd be interested.

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who would fit...*frowns* I'd offer to draw for you, but I still can't get human faces / shapes right. Animals and objects are my limit. (So if you want me to do a painting of Pen-Pen, I'd be the one for the job.)

Is there anything else? I really don't want to go off and take a book without being able to do or give something in return.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Aww, ah well... I'll let you know when I think of something... I should have the package off to you in a day or two.