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As ways to spend St. Patrick's Day go? Attending your father's birthday dinner in a cozy Moroccan restaurant--while people are standing in line in the cold trying to get into the Irish bar next door--is actually pretty good. The fact that this restaurant featured belly-dancing and that I got to watch Dad dancing with her and doing really well? Even better. (If I'd known, I would've brought a camera. Ah, missed opportunities...) And the woman she pulled in after that who danced to her in ways that had my brain going "Real life femslash! Mmmm."--hey, icing. (It was just good dancing, I know. But it was still lots of fun to watch.) And the food was good too. Excuse me while I purr contentedly for a bit.

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In more fannish thought, I just picked up volume II of the manga UNTIL THE FULL MOON. The primary attraction of this--it's on the cover and everything--is that it's by the creator of FAKE. As you might expect from that, it's really pretty, and has m/m content--sort of. Unfortunately it's nowhere near as good. The premise of the story is that Marlo is the son of a vampire and a werewolf, and somehow the result of this is that he's a mostly-normal guy who turns into a woman at the full moon. ...yeah, it's that kind of story. His parents consult a family friend who's a doctor and a vampire--nobody is normal in this story--and he can't help, so he decides the best thing to do would be to marry Marlo to his son David, also a vampire, who was Marlo's childhood friend. David thinks this is a terrific idea. Romance ensues. It's all long on soulful looks and flowing hair and jealous ex-lovers and very, very short on anything else--FAKE at least pretended to have plots. Here's what an episode of FULL MOON is like:

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What I find frustrating about FULL MOON, aside from some irritating relationship dynamics, is that I think it's got a fascinating premise--well, I could take or leave the vampire stuff, but it does help to ground the story in a setting where weird things happen and we can just get on with dealing with them--and it's mostly ignored in favor of all the romance-novel stuff, particularly in the second book. Surely a guy who regularly turns into a woman and is marrying another guy who loves him but is primarily straight has at least a year's subscription worth of issues to work out, and I would've loved a little more of that and a little less of David's old lovers trying to make their boyfriend jealous. Am I asking for way too much of a book that's mostly premised on being hot and sweet? Oh, probably. But I'm still a little wistful about the possibilities.

I thought Fruits Basket wasn't coming out till April? Well, hey, not complaining.

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Also very pleased to have scored three transparent FB postcards at my local comics store. (Actually, it's more like my local anime store; it just happens to have comics as well.) Pretty pretty pretty.

Thank you, trixie_chick. I knew the Fruits Basket manga was coming out early this year, but I didn't realize that meant, you know, now. Until you mentioned it. So thanks. So pretty... *happy sigh*

And, uh, is it just me, or is Shigure trying to tell us something about Yuki and Kyo...? ;)

Excuse me, Kyo--but did you just say that Tohru should "use Yuki until he falls over shrieking"?

Uh...huh.

Of course, it's completely innocent in context, and indeed that episode as a whole was so sweet as to almost induce diabetic coma. *g* But still. Lines like that don't help me stop with the warped sexual speculation about Fruits Basket, you know? :)