I'm about to horrify my husband...

[merimask]

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.

Comments

[lotus-faerie.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Do you still feel the need to have relationships, just without the sexual aspect? Note I did not say without the "physical" aspect, as there is so much we can do with another pesron that does not involve sex: cuddling, caressing, hugging, etc.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Of course :) I think all humans do. Though the proportion of asexuals who love being alone a lot is higher than among any other group I'd say. I do prefer to spend the majority of my time completely alone, but I couldn't deal without ANY very close relationships. My best friend and I are very close. But if you mean specifically with men...no. Just with whoever I love most. Though the idea of a romance without sex is quite appealing...but basically impossible to find. As long as I have my friends, it's not important to me.

I'm not much of a touchy person though. I like a good hug from a naturally affectionate but not needy person but I don't generally like cuddling except in special circumstances with special people.