Once a month Barnes & Noble trip
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matrixrefugeeThus I put the Barnes & Noble gift card, which my dad gave me for Christmas, to good use: I got
--The other four (currently available) volumes of the Trinity Blood light novels;
--The soundtrack to "Daybreakers" (which includes the song from the trailer);
--Vol 3 of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project (which I just plain love: it's like the happier, gentler sibling to the Sadamoto manga. Even the artwork is eerily similar);
--Also yet another blank journal, this time with a print of cherry blossoms on the front and back covers (perfect for the plethora of Yami no Matsuei fics that are flying out of my head: I came up with two more ideas on the way home, one being the backstory on Mercy Falcone and how she ended up working for the American division of the Ministry of Hades [Warning: it decided to turn into a mild Bleach crossover]; the other is sick humor piece in which Tsuzuki gets a strange Valentine's package from an admirer. :: Adjusts eyeglasses, smirks:: Hm, I wonder who that could be...).
And a package with someone's Valentine's Day present arrived in the mail. Note to the previous owner of the book: Sidney is a perfectly normal girl's name, and it's been used as a gender-neutral name since the late nineteenth century; there was no need to redact the name through the first story in the book and substitute "Cindy". There are no girls named Cindy in an L.M. Montgomery book; unless a Mary Sue has invaded her world...
--The other four (currently available) volumes of the Trinity Blood light novels;
--The soundtrack to "Daybreakers" (which includes the song from the trailer);
--Vol 3 of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project (which I just plain love: it's like the happier, gentler sibling to the Sadamoto manga. Even the artwork is eerily similar);
--Also yet another blank journal, this time with a print of cherry blossoms on the front and back covers (perfect for the plethora of Yami no Matsuei fics that are flying out of my head: I came up with two more ideas on the way home, one being the backstory on Mercy Falcone and how she ended up working for the American division of the Ministry of Hades [Warning: it decided to turn into a mild Bleach crossover]; the other is sick humor piece in which Tsuzuki gets a strange Valentine's package from an admirer. :: Adjusts eyeglasses, smirks:: Hm, I wonder who that could be...).
And a package with someone's Valentine's Day present arrived in the mail. Note to the previous owner of the book: Sidney is a perfectly normal girl's name, and it's been used as a gender-neutral name since the late nineteenth century; there was no need to redact the name through the first story in the book and substitute "Cindy". There are no girls named Cindy in an L.M. Montgomery book; unless a Mary Sue has invaded her world...
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Date: 2010-01-16 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-16 09:06 pm (UTC)I was flipping through a copy of a verrrry hard to find collection of L.M. Montgomery's short stories, which I'd bought used from Amazon.com, when I discovered that someone, possibly the previous owner, had gone through one of the stories and crossed out the name of the main character, which was "Sidney" and penciled "Cindy" above it every single time it appeared. I've since discovered they did the same thing in another story in the same book, only this time it was crossing out "Kitty" and penciling in "Katie". It's not enough to really damage the book, but it is a bit "Buh?"-inducing.
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Date: 2010-01-16 09:38 pm (UTC)This is very... just, whut?
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Date: 2010-01-16 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-16 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-18 10:42 pm (UTC)Thank you, I needed a cringe-laugh today. And I second it with an "Oh, for pity's sake!"
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Date: 2010-01-19 02:13 am (UTC)