1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

And here are the five that evil_authoress picked for me! ( Behind the cut. )

As an aside... I think I must be going senile in my old age, because I swear swear swear that I remember doing this same meme once before, possibly months ago. But I searched back through my journal using my own tags, and I absolutely couldn't find the post. Maybe I just hallucinated doing it...? I distinctly remember being asked to write about this icon, and explaining that it was a birthday present from poisonangel7, and about how awesome Anissina is. Aaaah, this is driving me crazy! Maybe I accidentally deleted the relevant post, somehow...?

Edit: Never mind, I found it! My eyes must have skipped over it several times when I was searching. Derrrrr.

Clearly Noah has embraced the Dartboard Method of Supervillainy here.



See, now this is what happens when your archvillains do stupid contradictory shit that makes no sense.

Maybe he was tutored by Fei Wong Reed? I dunno. But here we go, another chapter of Soul Eater.

( WHERE ARE MY FEATHERS, DOUCHEBAG?!?! )

Here's this month's Mini-Goddess, still being published on the spine of monthly issues of Afternoon. In case you missed any of the previous panels, you can find them all linked here.

( Behind the cut - plus MOAR. )

This makes me happy.

Not so much the gay (no, I'm sorry, but he is very very very bisexual) part, actually. But it makes me happy to see Rictor finally getting a relatively non-dysfunctional relationship. Poor widdle angsty Rictor deserves some happiness after all the crap he's been through. And that drawn out romance and breakup with Rahne was like, the most painful thing ever. It was painful to read, even. Uggggh.

Edit: LOL, I wrote the above before I bothered to look at the comments on the Robot6 post. But sure enough, there's already someone in the comments complaining that labeling Rictor as "gay" is inaccurate when he's clearly bisexual. And you know, to an extent, I kind of agree with that comment. Bisexuals get marginalized a lot, especially bisexual men, especially in a culture that likes to divide men into neat STRAIGHT/GOOD and GAY/GIRLY/BAD categories, with very little opportunity for crossover or gray areas in between. It is kind of annoying to see one of the first genuinely bisexual male characters in comics immediately being mislabeled as "gay" just because he kissed Shatterstar. Because, you know, men! If you ever kiss another man, that means that you are TOTALLY GAY FOR LIFE, and all of your passionate romances with wimmins up until that point have been damn dirty lies! (*eyeroll*)

Doujin spam posts are fun. I wish that I had started doing this three years ago. Anyway, in this batch: Ah! My Goddess, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam 00, and an original bonus BL comic from Toranoana.

( Behind the cut: Come for the Riza Hawkeye, stay for the STUPID SEXY LOCKON. Oh and uh, NSFW. Ahem. )

Still to be posted: This month's A!MG scans dump (which is made of sparkles and awesome), Soul Eater doujin for the masses, and a very very special Soul Eater scanspam post that is NOT doujin.

More pretty, pretty things - including scans from one of the earliest Sailor Moon doujinshi from Hello World.

( Also behind this cut: Eureka Seven, the Big 0, Gravion, Super Robot Wars, and Wagaya no Oinarisama. Oh, and Anemone's butt. )

Coming up next: A very, very special Soul Eater scanspam post. Not, not doujinshi, believe it or not. But something else just as awesome, I swear.

Pretty, pretty things from Japan. Also: The world's greatest wedding card ever.

( BURN BURN BURN LIKE A RABU RABU RING OF GLITTER SPARKLES!! )

In case you can't tell, I have a thing for glitter, sparkles, puppies, and weddings that end with all of the guests being set on fire.

Seen C&P'd around the net:

"Iran security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. If anyone is on twitter, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. The more users at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians' access to the internet down."

Some quick Google sniffing leads me to think that this is actually a pretty legit strategy. At the very least, it certainly isn't doing any harm.

1. Glass Mask, Betty and Veronica, and competition between women... IN COMICS.

2. This has been being passed around on my flist today, and I cannot stop laughing at it:



Julia, prepare to laugh your ass off. Or start crying. Or maybe both.

If you don't yet own a copy of CLAMP's Clover, now is a great time to get one. In case anyone needed a reminder of what CLAMP is really capable of, when they're not, you know, writing Tsubasa.

Next, a scathing takedown of Michelle Bachmann and the Minnesota press that helped her get elected, in comic book form. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you fall on, Michelle Bachman is crazy in a terrifying way. And she doesn't care what side of the political spectrum you fall on, either: Bachmann was accusing a Republican-controlled Congress AND President Bush of being "Anti-American Marxists" even before Obama and the Democrats took over.

Love. Love is in the air! And it's time for another Soul Eater recap. This month, we have sexy fun times! Lots of sexy fun times! Even Giriko and Justin are flirting with each other, you guys. It's like everybody's twitterpated in this chapter. Seriously. Anyway, let's get down to business.

( I NEED YOU! I NEED YOU TO MAKE MY WEE-WEE HAPPY! )

( Behind the cut: Eureka Seven, Fate/Unlimited Codes, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kyou Kara Maou, Shakugan no Shana, Soul Eater, and PUPPIES! )

Hmmm, I think that's it for tonight's scanspam. For the record, I was going to go the extra mile and scan this piece of terrible beauty for y'all to enjoy...But then I got tired. And the darn poster is too wrinkly to make a decent scan of anyway.

Oh hey look, I never got around to posting last month's Mini-Goddess panel. Oops. So anyway, here are two months' worth of Mini-Goddess, still being published on the spine of monthly issues of Afternoon. In case you missed any of the previous panels, you can find them all linked here.

( Behind the cut! )

We also got a few nice Mara scans this month. I'm working on getting those online right now.

Coming up next: Another huge multifandom scanspam post! There will be Eureka Seven, Fate/Unlimited Codes, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kyou Kara Maou (Daikekyuu 3 - I has it), Shakugan no Shana, Soul Eater, and THIS, which I feel completely justified in believing was drawn exclusively just for me.

Oh, and a brief word about today's Tsubasa chapter:

It's official. He's his own grandpa. Not even joking, here: He is literally, actually, his own grandpa.

This in addition to being Oedipus. Which means that in upcoming chapters he is going to have to kill his own father in order to complete the hookup with his own mother. Except that now we know that his father is also... his son.

Yep. The father is also the son is also the father is also the son is also the--

OH SHI--

Hey, remember how like, over a year ago, a bunch of us said that this looked like a REAL SHITTY IDEA?!

Apparently we were right. Hark! Grant Morrison's milkshake is bringing all the comic book fandom racists, apologists, and armchair anthropologists to the yard.

This.

BTW, I admire the ability of David Brothers to blog about any of Urasawa's manga in a coherent, let alone an downright eloquent, manner. Every time I start to write an LJ-post about Urasawa, I get stuck at "this is the best goddamn thing I've ever read EVER" and then pretty much can't come up with anything else to say.

Double-whammy. And I mean that in the whammiest possible sense of whammy.

( There isn't enough D: in the world. )

So.

Sherlock Holmes.

Wow.

I just...

Wow.

Also a headbanger: The final page of today's Tsubasa installment.

Pop culture has been hurling shit at me all day today.

Count how many of these "twists" Tsubasa has used since the Infinity arc.

( Personally, I counted twenty out of forty-two. Wow. )

And remember, kids: The Dresden Codak list? Is supposed to be a joke. But that's pretty much what Tsubasa has been reduced to by this point, anyway. It's a joke.

I mean, this is such a beautiful illustration of how big a clusterfuck the ending of Tsubasa has turned into. From now on I can just say, "SEE THIS?! Yeah, that? Tsubasa has actually done half of those things in its final quarter. It has actually. done. twenty. of. those. things. No joke. I can't even make this shit up."