Winterly hell
Dec. 27th, 2012 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
secondlinaOkay, so, today I almost died. There's a giant snowstorm on Montréal today, trapping buses in the snow, stopping subways and killing electricity. It died down now, but during the day, it took me about 3 hours to come home after an attempt to get to work mostly failed. Most of the time was spent walking. So I was pretty frozen when I got home.
I guess my point is, villains who have snow powers can actually be a pretty damn big threat.
Tomorrow, i'm going back to work for a day, and then I get a couple of days off to spend with my family in Ottawa. That shall be nice. And hopefully less snowy.
I'm currently preparing a tiny conference i,m suppose to give in January about manga for a group of teens in a school and their professors. I'm suppose to convince the teens and the profs that manga is not just fanservice and violence. It will be easy for the teens, but I get the feeling the professors are going to make it hard on me. It's a shame manga still has this reputation when there's so much diversity in what is being currently published. Along with a bunch of other librarians, i'm trying to entice schools to use manga as learning tools, to get kids to read and to analyse the content. Stuff like Bakuman (a manga about folks who want to do manga) are so perfect for schools...
In any case, I wrote down my speech and I think i'm going to use the two hour bus ride to Ottawa to learn it well.
Right now, my favorite shojo series are Princess Jellyfish, Kamisama Kiss and Bride Stories. I actually did a Kamisama kiss drawing for the conference since it's a pretty darn popular series in schools at the moment (I think because of the anime now being available on crunchy roll).
All this research gave me serious Slayers nostalgia, I drew a bunch of Lina Inverse sketches, among other things.
-Isabelle
I guess my point is, villains who have snow powers can actually be a pretty damn big threat.
Tomorrow, i'm going back to work for a day, and then I get a couple of days off to spend with my family in Ottawa. That shall be nice. And hopefully less snowy.
I'm currently preparing a tiny conference i,m suppose to give in January about manga for a group of teens in a school and their professors. I'm suppose to convince the teens and the profs that manga is not just fanservice and violence. It will be easy for the teens, but I get the feeling the professors are going to make it hard on me. It's a shame manga still has this reputation when there's so much diversity in what is being currently published. Along with a bunch of other librarians, i'm trying to entice schools to use manga as learning tools, to get kids to read and to analyse the content. Stuff like Bakuman (a manga about folks who want to do manga) are so perfect for schools...
In any case, I wrote down my speech and I think i'm going to use the two hour bus ride to Ottawa to learn it well.
Right now, my favorite shojo series are Princess Jellyfish, Kamisama Kiss and Bride Stories. I actually did a Kamisama kiss drawing for the conference since it's a pretty darn popular series in schools at the moment (I think because of the anime now being available on crunchy roll).
All this research gave me serious Slayers nostalgia, I drew a bunch of Lina Inverse sketches, among other things.
-Isabelle
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Date: 2012-12-28 10:20 am (UTC)Oh man! Speeches! I'd be terrified! 0o I am not very fond of public speech. Awesome art! I hope you can convince both the teens and the professors you point of view :)
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Date: 2012-12-28 12:30 pm (UTC)