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by TheHivemind » Wed Feb 04, 2015 1:02 am
Man, of all the things to get bored and randomly click on, I click on this. And then, after like half a year, I click on it again, because why not? I've got twenty minutes to kill, might as well skim through and see what's happened since the last time. Forgive me if I bring up "old stuff," I didn't really read the comments so much as just scroll by them looking for the next update.
Now I'm gonna have to make it a semi-regular occurrence, because this is intriguing, and contains at least one reference to the works of Kurt Vonnegut, which is a good way to make me pay attention (I could take or leave Last Unicorn, my memories of the book are lost in a haze and my memory of the movie is of some old lady getting fucking devoured by a harpy and let me tell you, as a kid that was some FUCKED UP SHIT to see--topped only in my mind by the fate of the Horned King in the Black Cauldron movie (there's an adaptation that took the teeth out of the book, let me tell you...then again that series was so fucking terrible in its ultimate treatment of its one decent female character that maybe it ain't such a bad thing to have mostly forgotten about it. The mythology of the Welsh deserves a better plunderer, I say. Er..what was I talking about?)).
Emi's a little scamp, isn't she? Kissing all the boys and some of the girls, running into people in hallways, trying to make things right in her aggressive way and getting shouted at with no plan B in mind, because plan Bs are for suckers. I'm naturally inclined to give the poor girl the benefit of the doubt, of course.
I think comparisons of Iwanako to Daria are perhaps not entirely unfounded. God, the 90s were fucking weird.
Was I going somewhere with this? Ah, yes.
You are walking the line between Daria and Shitty Teenage Harry Potter (which is my Harry Potter themed Wheatus cover band) with aplomb, and (rightfully) erring on the side of Daria. It is hoped that Iwanako's woes never veer too far into the melodramatic. So far, they have not! That is, if nothing else, worthy of commendation.
The description of whatshername--lady Kenji (I am TERRIBLE with names) made me think of kids in high school listening to Korn, and I giggled slightly to myself. Then again, I was totally into the girls in high school listening to Korn (weren't we all, deep down?).
Fucking Korn. Jesus. God bless the man who made all those punk mix cds later on, he saved my life.
What the hell am I even talking about?
Write more. It's worth reading, I think.
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