on the hunt for greatness

that's the title of a will-be chapter of Ilium Agonistes, by the way... it'll probably be in book 2, Aionos...

I'm still sick.  The illness has now moved into my lungs and taken roost there, where it is making me cough so hard that it feels like my throat is actually being torn into bloody chunks.  Sorry for the graphics.  I've used the word blood too many times in this here last chapter.  My cold/flu/disease is evidently making me lose my mind (Friends' Ross: Am I?  Am I?  Am I lo-o-o-osing my mind?) because I am actually trying to buy doujinshi. 

But before I get into that debacle, I'll first tell you all about my latest computer escapade.  I'm a hypochondriac computer owner.  But to be fair, my computer is cursed/possessed.  I've reformatted it once already, and that's sort of like an exorcism for computers since it wipes the hard drive completely clean.  The reformatting made me even more paranoid, though, and I think my number may be blocked by the tech people because I call with every little thing.  Or used to, anyway. 

So the latest thing: disregarding that my iPod refuses to update itself properly (well, it does... it's never damaged, and the problem fixes itself and... yeah), when I tried to watch a YouTube video it would skip about every three seconds.  I thought it was just that video.  Nope.  So then I went to DailyMotion, my new favorite site because it apparently hasn't been bought out by FUNimation's goons, and that was skipping too.  What the fuck?  Should I be telling people that my internet videos had died?  However, I stayed calm... relatively... closed all my windows (including my last LJ update that hadn't yet been posted...), cache cleaned this bitch, and then tried again.  It works now. 

So yes, I'm also trying to buy doujinshi.  There's one in particular that I want to get my little hands on - it's called "huu-jin hun-jin shishi".  I've seen images from it and I want it like whoa.  Well, not actually like whoa.  It's more like I'm just bored and I don't want to edit an article called "Opium and Heroin in Iran" that's 46 pages long (do you blame me?).  Anyway, that one I'm searching for - Huu-jin Hun-jin Shishi - is like a retelling of the entire saga (it's 100 pages long) with just a little more G/CC thrown in for good measure, and humorous shit, but none of it is explicit, it's more like... if someone who could pull off romance was doing DBZ.  Doesn't that sound wonderful?  Well, it does to me, so shut the fuck up!

However, I have come to some disturbing conclusions about buying doujinshi.  This one store I'm at now - Mandarake (Japanese mandrake, I guess) - has the following options: Hentai, Yaoi, and non-Hentai.  I learned while on this site Adult Fanfiction that "hentai" also means "heterosexual".  Of course, everything must have disturbingly graphic sex scenes.  Ah well, I really am a woman - words get me much better than pictures - and I marvel at men's lack of imagination that they must have "everything spelled out" for them.  This one that I've actually heard of, Dragonball H (H standing for Hentai, naturally), is actually one of the few on this Mandarake site that is actually... sold out.  It's all couples, apparently, which is why it's sold out (regardless that my couple is on the cover... looking very innocent, at that).  But still - a DBZ doujinshi, sold out?  This show is never going to go away.  Anyhow it still gives me the heebie jeebies. 

Another site, Animaxis, has the following "series" - the Deluxe Edition.  It doesn't seem to do anything other than, uh, plagiarize the original comic books and draw them... over.  And the point of that is what?

Shopping Mall Japan is way too, uh, Japanese.  When I clicked on a link it just went to this Yahoo JP page with nothing in particular of interest on it except little ads that said, with the kanji above, "sites that are harmful to children are blocked for nothing!"  Yeah, ok.  I left that site pretty quickly.

The RinkYa site, with a similar format to Shopping Mall Japan, when you click on Books/Magazines has some random words that are supposedly product descriptions that say "I make love a younger sister" and "He is a boy from a flower".  Along with "Inconvenient truth".  And then I got completely confused by their choices - Juvenile Comic, Female Comic, Male Comic, and then Eichi (H) is under Juvenile Comic, and just... no. 

Aloha Anime.  Don't go here.  Just... please don't.  You'll regret it.  Your brain and eyes will regret it.  All I can say is, why the fuck do people have hentai doujinshi about Pan, who is 14 in GT?  Sigh.  Maybe it's not the site.  Maybe it's my fandom.  Maybe my fandom is fucked up.  Well, actually, I already knew that.  DBZ seems to attract society's delinquents, sadly enough.  And me.  Heh heh.

Twinbells Doujinshi is so snooty that it doesn't even have DBZ doujinshi.  Well, fuck you too.

The Doujinshi-Online "reference site" that haughtily says that it does not and will not ever offer scans (*rolls eyes*) reminds me that: there are way too many doujinshi artists that insist on CLAMP-ifying DBZ characters instead of sticking with Toriyama's "ugly" style.  I mean, if I wanted to read pretty manga, I'd read pretty manga.  Please don't make them look like fuckin' Fushigi Yugi, you know.  Also, Bulma's hair is not pink or purple.  But then again she changes it so often, who knows (har har).  Oh, yeah, and that, as usual, there are way too many B/V doujinshi out there if you consider how dumb this ship is (about that whole fucking family, actually.  Sorry Trunks fan girls, but enough is enough).  Also, "Gracias Returns" is not gramatically correct in any language. 

WHOA.  HOLD UP.  I THINK I FOUND IT.  Translated from the Japanese, it's "Glorious 1984-1995 AD" (the years DB and Z were in production). 

Sadly, that didn't help my quest for it at all.  Son of a fuck.  And the quest continues.  I wonder if any of these people would like... sell theirs... for $50...

I scratched my face rifling through eBay's offerings.  It's because of all the doujinshi related to DBZ that could exist... of course eBay pretty much has the yaoi.  The hunt for greatness is a dangerous thing.  There's also other great offerings on eBay unrelated to my fandom... like pokemon furry yiffy doujinshi... Powerpuff Girls porn... Not mine, of course.  Not that that's too surprising.  If I owned that doujinshi I wouldn't want to sell it either.



Also, I've made a meme.
Name 7 Things on Your Desk
tissues, Burt's Bees chapstick, rice crackers, Jane magazine, pictures of my parents, chai tea, a Shiva statue

Name 7 Things on Your Wall(s)
a red Chinese decoration thingy, a National Geographic world map, a map of Australia, a Ghostbusters cut-out, a Nebraska calendar, pretty circles of blue and purple giftwrap, cut-out pics of ice, cut-out pics of Melbourne

Name 7 Books/Items on Your Bookshelf
Kamus Indonesia Inggris, Terror in the Mind of God, Globalization: What's New?, Globalization and its Discontents, Build a Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies, The Road, DBZ #10

Last 7 Songs You Played
"This is Your Life" - the Dust Brothers, "Pure Morning" - Placebo, "I Know" - Placebo, "Wonderboy" - Tenacious D, "Right Now" - Korn, "Got the Life" - Korn, "Hurt" - NIN

7 Web sites You've Bookmarked (and please don't do the standard, like facebook)
Snowblood Apple: Movie Reviews A-Z, Toonami Digital Arsenal, H.R. Giger: The Official Web site, Studies in the Political Economy of New Order Indonesia, .a wind of such violence. the work of sylvia plath, The Uyghur-English Dictionary Project, Street Music of Java

7 Things You Want to Eat Right Now
dried mangoes, fresh mangoes, Oriental flavor ramen noodles, shrimp crackers, mint chip ice cream, banana pancakes, shabu shabu

7 Places You Want to Be Right Now
Home in Lincoln, Jakarta, Cheyenne (WY), Custer National Park (SD), Melbourne, Alaska, northern California