Bugs and Celestial Maidens

[secondlina]

To resume the bedbug issue : my friend Fauve hooked me up with a website saying that according to Montréal law, extermination of certain pests where to be organized and paid by the landlord himself, the list of pests included bed bugs. So despite what them concierge told me, I contacted my landlord directly and voilà, my apartment is going to be hosting an extermination team on Friday. And I don't have to pay for it.

Before the exterminators show up, me and Link basically have to clean EVERYTHING in the apartment and wash everything and anything that may be composed of fabric, even in the rooms that are not the bedroom. So, my apartment is gradually becoming cleaner then it's ever been, ever. Not that i'm usually messy, but DANG, THIS IS REALLY ANAL CLEANING.

I had to toss out a few things, pillows and Megatron, the giant carnival tiger plushy. I'm a little sad about that.

So, I guess I was lucky in my bad luck. Still, we have so much work ahead of us (about 70 loads of laundry. I kid you not).

Art of the day! This one is for putri-nih. It's her own original characters from a comic called "Changeling". I really like her characters because the one with the floaty scarf? That's a kid that is part-fairy, based on the "Tennin" legend.



Tennin can fly thanks to their colored or feathered kimonos, called hagoromo ("dress of feathers"), also represented by something I like to designate as "Floaty wavy scarf of awesome". In some legends, tennin are unable to fly without these kimonos (and thus cannot return to heaven). In a Noh play called Hagoromo, tennyo come to the earth and take off their hagoromo. A fisherman spies them and hides their clothes in order to force one to marry him. After some years he tells his wife what he did, and she finds her clothes and returns to heaven.

Yes, this is similar to the story of the Muses in Greek legend. And the story of the swan maidens in western fairy tales. And it was used in the anime "Ayashi no Ceres". It's also really awesome.

- Isa

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Urgh. Fushigi Yugi.

I keep picking up series by that woman thinking "Hey this looks cool! She probably won't re-use the same stereotypes again! ...oh wait, there she goes..."

I've been told being clean doesn't prevent bedbugs from coming into your home (since they are blood feeders, like mosquitos. They don't like dirt per se). But it does help you to find an infestation BEFORE it goes out of hand.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

You know I'm all for defending most female leads in the usual shoujo series, but....ugh, Miaka is one I absolutely cannot stand.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to abandon my home to get marrrriiiiiied in something that may or not be a book?"

YEAH.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

Compared to Kagome, Hitomi, the Magic Knight Rayearth girls (other female characters who get swept away to another world), Miaka totally fails.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Tamahome did so much better moving over to Slayers and becoming Zelgadis having to deal with Amelia. ^_- (Really lame joke about the same voice actor for very different characters, yes.)

I still have a love/hate relationship with Fushigi Yuugi. I loved it when I was a teenager, but I really loath it now. Too much teen angst for me, not to mention far too many guys hitting on one girl, who isn't exactly that amazing in the first place. It is pretty amusing how many of the voice actors went on to voice roles in Slayers though.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I...don't think I even knew they were the same voice actor way back in the day. D: I was still new to the anime world and didn't follow voice actors until I was older.

Too much teen angst is right, I totally wanted to strangle the heck out of Yui. Dear lord, did she flip out. =_=;