puddingcat: (Glorious)
Saiyuki Reload Volume Seven: So good I squeaked. Ok; I might also have made a kind of "mnuh" noise at the pictures of Hakkai without his shirt on, but admitting such a thing would be frightfully emabarrassing.

Yes. Utter adoration and lack of coherency. "Mnuh" and "Eeee!" sum things up remarkably well, however.

Also! Until The Full Moon volume two! More half-werewolf, half-vampire, gender-swapping lunacy! But I haven't read that yet, so my entirely unhelpful review shall have to wait.

(Oh, Hakkai. Were this any other series, I'd be convinced that he's pretty much due to be killed off. *No* character lives long after I've realised I like them this much.)

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Oooh, and the BPAL from [livejournal.com profile] strangefrontier arrived :) Along with a teabag that is neither a condom nor a fortune cookie wrapper, an an Unexpected Impostor Imp!

So, Bewitching Brews: JUKE JOINT
A bawdy, gleefully wicked and unruly scent: Kentucky Bourbon, sugar and a sprig of mint.

Really? In the bottle and on my wrist, it's gingerbread soaked in enough booze for the bottom of a trifle. Definitely more rum than Bourbon; it's a Mojito made with dark rum & muscovado rather than clear ingredients. With cake. If there's mint there, it's wild growing crossbred stuff rather than a freeze-dried genteel sprig.

I like this; it has the nice bits of Hellcat without the sickliness.

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Amazon order also included much cheesy metal, thanks to adding an album a week during the Bruce Rockinson Dick Show. Warlock! Threshold! Within Temptation!

Mmmm, cheese :) Technically, I'm a Rod (Dad was a rocker; Mum was a mod; following the Liger / Tigon convention, that makes me a Rod rather than a Mocker), but the Rawk genes are clearly dominant ;)


Oh, Hakkai...
puddingcat: (JLA)
Saying "It was as bad as I expected" would be an easy way out, and wouldn't let me share the sheer pain of this book with you :D ExpandSpoilers, or warnings if you prefer )

Anyway, after that I needed my Saiyuki fix. Only one volume to go now (and it's sat on my shelf, calling to me) and I'm up to date with ...Reload. Dammit, I'm now half-way through two stories where I want to give everyone big hugs and make everything better. The "Burial" arc and - well, Hakkai in general, but especially his interactions with Gojyo - quite appropriately left me feeling as if I'd had my guts ripped out. Comics shouldn't be able to do that to me.

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