Kakkoi

[incandescens]

Set a new wallpaper on my work computer -- the four Saiyuki guys. My coworker who happens to have a Japanese husband taught me the term "Omoshiroi" which she says means "interesting" and which I may well have misspelt. Also "Kakkoi", for obvious reasons.

I need to remember something that I perceived in a story last night. An otherwise okay piece of fanfiction, and I will say at this point that it wasn't the genre or the action in it which makes me note the point down -- it's just a feeling. The feeling, in the story, that while you're on a trip with three other people who look human, they aren't. They have their own whims, desires, perspectives, morality. And you're stuck on this trip with them. And you can't get away with them. And they're not human.

The feeling of not being safe.

I need to remember this. It may be useful someday.

Referring back to Saiyuki, I saw episodes 10-12 last night, which included a painful confrontation for Hakkai. Very very nice stuff, and the heroes demonstrated an unusual (for tv series) ability to act intelligently. Not to mention Sanzo being entirely serious about killing the Buddha if you meet him on the road . . .

Must do some work.

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[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

What fandom was the fic from? And yep, it's "omoshiroi." Kireina -- pretty, is another good one (as in, "Aya wa kirei desu!").

[incandescens]

The fic was from Saiyuki fandom. (Big, big surprise.) Not wildly distinguished in itself, but it left that certain image behind it. Mmm. Sanzo wa kirei desu? :)