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MUAHAAHAA! It lives!
Also... Gotta have a blackmail pic of the husband playing with the dog. All the cool people are doing it. :-) See? I told you he has long stoopid pretty hair.
Public humiliation is fun! Eh, Greg?
Oh, I noticed that for some perverse reason my picture of Sango failed to load properly when I did my last entry. Which was especially cruel since I mentioned spandex and all... :::shrugs::: Anyway hopefully this time you can see her. SANGO!
And!
Re; "The Twelve Kingdoms". It's getting very convoluted! I'm on the third story arc, "A Great Distance In The Wind, The Sky At Dawn" (don't you just love the lyrical-sounding chapters? So pretty), and I'm getting a little "Waitaminnit...what about that kid so-and-so, who left the kingdom of whoositz, where's he? And what about whats-his-name who fell off the cliff waaay back in arc one...wha happen? And and and..." There's all SORTS of unfinished business, and only a few discs left to finish it in, and new people keep popping in and muddling up the storyline. I'm getting anxious.
Cool thing is I'm starting to really "get" the language. Like I can totally figure out the names of all the Kirin as long as I know their gender and the kingdom they're from...and I know all the honorifics. Which is a good thing because the first few discs had me hitting pause and checking the glossary of terms kindly included with the series just about once every few minutes. S'fun though! Me = language geek.
I'm having a really hard time with some aspects of the story. The whole "babies from a tree" thing...doesn't that cause sexual tension to fly right out the window? Do they even need to have sex? I love the fantasy aspect but... :::shrug::: It just seems so ~odd~ to me because a world where all living things procreate asexually would seem to necessarily have a completely different view of life, morality...just everything. Would an asexual society be territorial? Or proprietary? Would there be monogamy, or romance, or even love? Sex and procreation seem like such all-pervasive motivators in every society, it's so deeply tied into our instincts for basic survival, I just can't conceive of a world without that.
Also... Gotta have a blackmail pic of the husband playing with the dog. All the cool people are doing it. :-) See? I told you he has long stoopid pretty hair.
Public humiliation is fun! Eh, Greg?
Oh, I noticed that for some perverse reason my picture of Sango failed to load properly when I did my last entry. Which was especially cruel since I mentioned spandex and all... :::shrugs::: Anyway hopefully this time you can see her. SANGO!
And!
Re; "The Twelve Kingdoms". It's getting very convoluted! I'm on the third story arc, "A Great Distance In The Wind, The Sky At Dawn" (don't you just love the lyrical-sounding chapters? So pretty), and I'm getting a little "Waitaminnit...what about that kid so-and-so, who left the kingdom of whoositz, where's he? And what about whats-his-name who fell off the cliff waaay back in arc one...wha happen? And and and..." There's all SORTS of unfinished business, and only a few discs left to finish it in, and new people keep popping in and muddling up the storyline. I'm getting anxious.
Cool thing is I'm starting to really "get" the language. Like I can totally figure out the names of all the Kirin as long as I know their gender and the kingdom they're from...and I know all the honorifics. Which is a good thing because the first few discs had me hitting pause and checking the glossary of terms kindly included with the series just about once every few minutes. S'fun though! Me = language geek.
I'm having a really hard time with some aspects of the story. The whole "babies from a tree" thing...doesn't that cause sexual tension to fly right out the window? Do they even need to have sex? I love the fantasy aspect but... :::shrug::: It just seems so ~odd~ to me because a world where all living things procreate asexually would seem to necessarily have a completely different view of life, morality...just everything. Would an asexual society be territorial? Or proprietary? Would there be monogamy, or romance, or even love? Sex and procreation seem like such all-pervasive motivators in every society, it's so deeply tied into our instincts for basic survival, I just can't conceive of a world without that.
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Still...human physiology is completely tied to our sexuality. Dimorphism, secondary characteristics (let alone the primary ones)...why would beings that reproduce asexually even have breasts...or any "plumbing" at all? You'd think everyone would look like naked Barbie/Ken dolls. It would seem to me that the distinctions between "male" and "female" would break down completely.
I know I'm over-thinking this. :-) It's just that I LOVE a story with a little sexual tension in it (makes the world go 'round) and I'm having a hard time buying that there would be any in this story. Also it seems so funny to me, that they live in a world redolent with war and violence...but at least they don't have to carry babies in their wombs (whew!). What kinds of issues does the author have with that? Is it just an "eastern" thing? I just keep wondering where the author was coming from. Maybe it's just part of ancient Chinese mythology (like the Kirin). *shrug*
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That's true--men only have man-boobs thanks to their starting out as girls first off, and the biggest biological differences between us are sexual. Remember when Youko was surprised at her female minister, then reasoned that women can rise to high rank easily in that world because there's no child-bearing role to marginalize them? My guess is that the gods [the author] designed them as normal humans, then decided to place the burden of childbirth on those poor trees. It'd cut down immensely on population problems, unwanted babies and all that good stuff, at the very least.