Whee.

[wombat1138]

Well, now that DS14 (and probably the rest of the Trilogy) has vanished from Schnoogle as well as Google caches, I can finally stop semi-compulsively trying to track down bits of Tanith Lee in that chapter. (There may well've been more Tanith elsewhere. One chapter was quite enough to work on.)

Pretty good timing, actually-- Kyouken 5.1 just arrived yesterday, so hopefully I can start on the raw transcription within the next few days. Maybe. We'll see. (Vexed muttering that Kyouken 5.2 was out of stock... guess I'll have to find another source and re-order.)

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[duncatra.livejournal.com]

I, erm, downloaded the PDFs. If you want them. ;)

Dunno if I'll ever read them, but I had to have SOME record. I have the SW-Fanfic-posted-on-Amazon as well.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Ah, posterity.

I might snarf the PDFs later, but for now I'm kinda Draco'ed out, even if the hunt did make me re-read most of the Tanith Lee in my collection. There are still a few lines from DS14 that've stuck in my head as something I've seen *somewhere* before, but I don't know whether they're worth plowing through all of Melanie Rawn's stuff or whatever else feels like a likely candidate. Considering the general pattern, there's probably more Zelazny stuff in there from the "Amber" books as well, but see the previous sentence.

*belatedly blinks at icon with askance WTFness*

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

CC doesn't seem like the Rawn type, although that would be wonderfully ironical considering how much fanfic recycling Rawn has done.

Icon is from a Star Wars Tales story, Hate Leads to Lollipops. Tales was an anthology comic that was awesome until they started listening to the continuty-mad fanboys and took away all the fun.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Rawn was the only other author I could think of offhand whose descriptions feel similar to Tanith Lee's-- sort of a hallucinatorily vivid jeweled mosaic, if that makes any sense. It's always possible that CC managed to come up with descriptions like that on her own, but I'm a bit doubtful, considering how many lines she casually took from other sources and stuffed them into her story in ways that don't even make sense when you think about them-- what's the point of adding an elaborate description of a robo-snake chained to the ceiling if the robo-snake never actually *does* anything and is casually offed in the next paragraph?

But I would truly wet myself with glee if some lines by Robin Hobb or Anne Rice popped up in there.

The icon's artstyle reminded me a bit of the Garbage Pail Kids. Is that story anthologized yet? Sounds entertaining enough to flip through in the bookstore, which is more than I can say of most of the novels for the past ten years.

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

That would be so, so much work... And Hobb? ::shudder:: Anne Rice has always been crazy, but that Hobb-rant came out of nowhere far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, all the Tales are in trades now. That one is in Volume 3. It's only like 4 pages, a quick read.

Tales really wass the only game out there for casual fans for a while there... It was fairly hit and miss but for the most part there was something in each issue worth reading. I might actually pick up all the trades, just to have them in an easier format than the comics.

[(Anonymous)]

...congratulation!
We all are waiting for you translation - keep it in mind :)

[swlover.livejournal.com]

Awww, I had just started reading DS14 when it got pulled. Not because I was interested in the story per se, but I was interested in some of your comments about the Tanith Lee similarities. Unfortunately, now, I'll be left to wonder how in the world it resolves - but I think I can handle it. It's not really worth trying to track down and read. :p I think I'd much rather go pull my few Tanith books and re-read them.

As far as getting your doujinshi - happy dance, happy dance! I hope you'll like it as much as I did. I have quite a bit of confidence that you'll find Kyouken 5.2 eventually, and if you don't, please remember I have a friend who said I could e-mail you her scans. Of course, I can't guarantee the quality of the scans - I've still not looked at them. But, if you want... :)

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Generally I've found that scans don't have nearly enough resolution to pick out the kanji; heck, even the original doujinshi copies barely have enough resolution to guess at some of the more complicated and/or handwritten ones.

Kyouken 5.1 has me feeling rather sorry for oro-chan; he just looks so completely hapless during most of Kaoru's warmup that it kinda feels like shouta molestation on a psychological level. He practically looks *terrified*, far beyond his bewildered but ultimately willing cooperation with Tomoe in "A Distant Thunder"... though really, their ages there weren't that much greater than the theoretical ones here.

Though what I'm really starting to wonder now is if he thinks he's fourteen years old again, why doesn't he expect Hiko to be lurking around somewhere, perhaps having set up this entire scenario as an elaborate practical joke?