Finally I figured out how to view 2chan by RSS: if you can see a page, an RSS feed can be made of it on the web via RSS third party services like post2RSS. BTW, this is why turning off your RSS feed on LJ is not an effective security measure. Friends-locking on LJ, or other password protection type things on Wordpress, are, while not perfect, far more effective.

Actually, it annoys me that there are so many public journals on LJ I can’t read via RSS. I’ve come to like my Sage reader, and I’m always searching for great RSS reader programs.

Anyway, in case you haven’t seen my post in the LJ Saiunkoku comm, on 7/25, a new issue of The Beans is coming out. There will probably be a Saiunkoku short story in there, and there’s some kind of special information. Also, there’s a clear file of the cover, which is going to be a Saiunkoku image.

Personally, I have a cavalier attitude towards spoilers. I sometimes seek them out, and I usually don’t go insane if I stumble across one. However, some people wish to avoid spoilers, so the least one can do is respect their wishes.

In this blog, we’re all about discussing spoilers. It’s obvious that this blog contains spoilers for all kinds of things. So it’s okay to just go around discussing spoiler info freely. But, I really cannot understand why some people just post spoilers in the comments of a blog where the blogger has repeatedly said he doesn’t want spoilers! If you want to discuss spoilers, you should get your own blog and link to it (blogs are free, get a wordpress one) and discuss there. If you’re going to comment to a blog, don’t comment things that the blogger has specifically said they don’t want. I’m talking about how people continually post spoiler information in Impz’s anime summaries. Even if they don’t see his comments about it, it’s just common sense to not openly post spoilers.

While I’m at it, it annoys me that people post disinformation in wikipedia. Please don’t post things without a source. Kadokawa has not made any announcements about the next Saiunkoku novel. It’s definitely not out in Japan. As of 1/10, I’ve heard no buzz on the Japanese fanboards about a release date for the next book.

I blame Youko: I now want to eat Italian food. Risotto, italian sausage, antipasti, etc. Also cannoli. There should be more internationalization of dessert.

Meaningless pretension of the day: someone should write a tongue in cheek essay on the structuralist significance of the Saiunkoku founding myth. (Eh, I wonder… this doesn’t really work because the Immortals do really exist so it can’t be a case of existence preceding essence, as it were, but has anyone written a fantasy novel from an anthropological perspective in the Levi-Strauss vein? Maybe they have, I am not that knowledgeable about anthro.)

LJicon gravatars now working. If you comment as username@livejournal it’ll feature your default icon.

Speaking of Saiunkoku, I have finished reading book eight not using the dictionary, which means I skipped a lot of the hard words. I tend to feel that the consequences of the events were a lot more interesting than the events themselves, because of Offstage Villainy. Anyway, will put up a post on it as soon as I finish going through it w/ dictionary.