bujinkan, fic rant, ST

I have marks all over me from Bujinkan tonight. Not that it was any more brutal than usual, but my skin's really dry because it's so damn cold out so every single pinch and scratch shows up. I had good partners tonight and actually got in a fair amount of training (which doesn't always happen when you end up in a group of three...). We started off with different ways of getting out of a full nelson (not that I will ever be putting one on anyone who isn't a hell of a lot shorter and weaker than I am since I could barely hold my partner in one after he gave me a full couple of seconds to link my hands together properly). Then we did a review of the first four kata of the shinden fudo ryu. I had missed number three in the past weeks and I'm kinda disappointed I did since it's one of the more ridiculous looking moves you can do (oddly enough, I swear it's one of the moves you can do using Yoshimitsu (or maybe Voldo) in Soul Caliber). Basically, someone tries to strangle you and you get into their space and almost climb up so you're sitting with your legs around your waist and with your arms wherever it will do the most damage (*eg*) and not get you hurt. Then you lean back and make sure they bend over as you go down. If you do it right, they're off balance enough that it only takes a bit of a lean forward (and maybe tugging on the back of their ankle) and they crumble and you can put an ankle lock on them or what not.

I got rather pissed off about a fic I was reading today. My problem was that I had a moral objection. It weirded me out since I've only had this happen once before while reading another fic (Published authors probably get these things caught by their editors 95% of the time). 'Cause it really wasn't that I was objecting to what the characters were doing. I've read fics and books filled with depravity and morally ambiguous etc. and I have no trouble with it. If you're showing, say, a reformed villian, and they're being written before they were reformed, I expect them to do evil things and not feel sorry about it. Hell, there's a lot of amoral behaviour from otherwise moral characters that I'll accept as well so long as a) they know on some level that it's wrong b) they get called on it c) it's obvious the author knows it's wrong d) the narrator is biased. But sometimes there's a fic that's otherwise well written, but has a moment where morals are extremely lacking and it's obvious that the readers are supposed to think this is okay because the characters are "special" or what not.

( Continued but cut cause it's long )

Dad and I watched Mirror, Mirror (ST: Classic) a day or two ago. I was surprised by how cool it was. I'd rank it right below Amok Time in my book. It's not like they're the first to ever tackle the parallel universe idea but it was well executed and fun to watch.

Incidently, this is the best version of Country Road, ever:)

bujinkan, fic rant, ST

I have marks all over me from Bujinkan tonight. Not that it was any more brutal than usual, but my skin's really dry because it's so damn cold out so every single pinch and scratch shows up. I had good partners tonight and actually got in a fair amount of training (which doesn't always happen when you end up in a group of three...). We started off with different ways of getting out of a full nelson (not that I will ever be putting one on anyone who isn't a hell of a lot shorter and weaker than I am since I could barely hold my partner in one after he gave me a full couple of seconds to link my hands together properly). Then we did a review of the first four kata of the shinden fudo ryu. I had missed number three in the past weeks and I'm kinda disappointed I did since it's one of the more ridiculous looking moves you can do (oddly enough, I swear it's one of the moves you can do using Yoshimitsu (or maybe Voldo) in Soul Caliber). Basically, someone tries to strangle you and you get into their space and almost climb up so you're sitting with your legs around your waist and with your arms wherever it will do the most damage (*eg*) and not get you hurt. Then you lean back and make sure they bend over as you go down. If you do it right, they're off balance enough that it only takes a bit of a lean forward (and maybe tugging on the back of their ankle) and they crumble and you can put an ankle lock on them or what not.

I got rather pissed off about a fic I was reading today. My problem was that I had a moral objection. It weirded me out since I've only had this happen once before while reading another fic (Published authors probably get these things caught by their editors 95% of the time). 'Cause it really wasn't that I was objecting to what the characters were doing. I've read fics and books filled with depravity and morally ambiguous etc. and I have no trouble with it. If you're showing, say, a reformed villian, and they're being written before they were reformed, I expect them to do evil things and not feel sorry about it. Hell, there's a lot of amoral behaviour from otherwise moral characters that I'll accept as well so long as a) they know on some level that it's wrong b) they get called on it c) it's obvious the author knows it's wrong d) the narrator is biased. But sometimes there's a fic that's otherwise well written, but has a moment where morals are extremely lacking and it's obvious that the readers are supposed to think this is okay because the characters are "special" or what not.

( Continued but cut cause it's long )

Dad and I watched Mirror, Mirror (ST: Classic) a day or two ago. I was surprised by how cool it was. I'd rank it right below Amok Time in my book. It's not like they're the first to ever tackle the parallel universe idea but it was well executed and fun to watch.

Incidently, this is the best version of Country Road, ever:)