Kingdom of Knuffel

Aha, I'm always for paperbacks over hardcovers; they're cheaper, easier to carry, and take up less space on the shelf.

You can always make a request for them to loan it to you from another library if they don't have it; it's called inter-library loan. >>b As long as another library they're connected to has it, you can read any book you want. :D

Ahaha, yes, I am familiar with ILL. It's what got me through college without going nuts. XD

I don't prefer one over the other, but if I start collecting a series in paperback, I'd like the rest to be the same, and vice versa. And I hate it when a manga starts with one publisher, then gets turfed to another that releases different sized volumes...or the publisher suddenly decides to change volume size...

I suppose I'm a little OCD about my books.

Aha, awesome.

Yeah, I get that, but sometimes I get jittery and I can't wait. XD; I went ahead and bought "Conspiracy of Kings" before it got close to becoming paperback. I bought it on sale. XD;

Nah, I like my manga to all have matching covers. Books too. When they print a different cover style that doesn't match the others, I feel a little sad. XD

Like when June stopped releasing the big tankobans and started doing the "standard" sized volumes? So much raaaaaaage...but I guess it's better that they have smaller sizes and keep publishing than the alternative of them going out of business...

Aha, I suppose. I like the standard size though; it's easier to find shoe boxes to put them in. XD

Mikael Hart wrote:@Nuke: You're right; Disney's villains tend to be less villainous elsewhere --I was bothered by the inaccuracy of it all in Hercules, but the same case occurs with some of their other films as well. I think the movies would be more interesting if the focus of these tales were more in tune to their original versions -- Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Black Beauty (okay, now I'm just being silly.)

Huh, I can understand that homosexual bit. In RP ad threads, I see a lot of "I want to be the uke" posts, the same way I see a lot of "I want to be the girl." XD I guess that as a supposed male character (in the physical sense, in any case) women would feel less in competition with them, though I feel like I've grown somewhat out of tolerance with "uke." The stereotypes they portray are weak and demeaning regardless of what gender said character is. However, again, this is only my personal preference and feelings on the subject; I don't much mind if people like the "seme/uke" roles, as it is something they might be able to relate to, as opposed to myself not being able to relate to it at all.

I've heard Disney tries to make the plots kind of standard and simple for kids. I'm not sure how true that is through. I think anything they take from a complex, deep background, such as Greek Mythology is bound to be disappointing in an accuracy way. Greek culture was.... well, we'd censor it. Hercules was just he same story as their other ones, Hero + Villain +Damsel in Distress and catchy music. Mulan and Beauty and the Beast were kind of unique. Beauty and the Beast is... particularly weird, because Gaston isn't "evil", he's a mislead, enabled idiot and the Beast is technically a cruel snob who's changed into a temperamental beast. But Bell "changes" him. It actually seems like kind of a bad message to send... So a girl should imagine that even if a man is cruel and has a temper she can change him... Uuh...

I believe I read about that in a really old NewType (will have to look through all mine.) I don't particularly like the uke/seme pairing either. It does still portray a relationship in which someone must be dominated. I feel like that's kind of a thing in shoujo and whatnot. One reason I do like Korean Manhwa and Chinese Manhua as far as romance is I don't feel like they make it as if the girl has to be backed up against a wall, caught or somehow dominated. I don't hate ukes, but I also think of them as a particular character type as opposed to being a real example for relationships. People've pointed out many times that yaoi isn't a reflection of a real homosexual couple, as is the case with yuri (although so little seems to be said about yuri...) I like seke pairings, which I sometimes find more common in real-hardcore yaoi.

Gr, when I try to submit a reply, it's like "nope." 4th time's a charm.

Aha, yeah, seme/uke pairings are like shoujo, come to think of it.

Eh? Why isn't it letting you post?

It either tells me there are other posts. I didn't notice, so I left, then I came back, it signed me out and then said the data was old. >.< I have to watch it...

Hart, do you do RPing on/through Knuffel?

O_o Huh, that's odd. I know if I take too long to post, sometimes I have to send it again.

Nah, I don't think I ever will unless it was a definite preplan by someone I'm very comfortable with or have RPed with before. Why do you ask?

I was just kind of thinking of trying out the RP here. I might do 1x1 though, since I feel kind of unfamiliar with how Knuffel does RPs.