Nerdiness of Nic

There's more than a few stories out there about a world where men are a rarity. Something happened somehow and now they're next to extinct or they're completely gone from the planet Earth. Women have moved into the traditionally male gender roles while men are treasured and hidden away because without them the ability to reproduce and propagate the human race would cease.

( Ooku: The Inner Chambers is one such story. )

I've been trying to recommend manga that are lesser known, not super popular, whatever you call it, in order to bring them whatever meager attention my friendslist creates to get more people reading. Skip Beat isn't any of those things. It's pretty damn popular without me doing my puny thing here but I don't care how many fangirls and boys Skip Beat has, it deserves a thousand times more. The manga is just that awesome people.

( Skip Beat is a shoujo manga with the coolest female protagonist of all time. )

I read lots and lots of manga. I've decided to do some recommendations and reviews on some of the manga I'm currently reading maybe once a week or every other week. Most of my interest lies in romance so a good deal of these series will be shoujoai. I will let you know before the LJ cut what the series is about theme wise. I'll also be going a bit into plot with each entry just because I don't think it's possible to give a sense of the series if you don't.

( Kimi ni Todoke is shoujoai and fluffy and just heart warming. )

I've lived a lot of places and had a lot of landlords. Most of my horror stories involve some roommates and a lot of asshole neighbors in apartment complexes and generally unsafe ghetto neighborhoods. I'm glad despite all my various woes in this department I never dealt with a landlord like Gary: The Landlord of the Flies.

Read this blog, all of it, there's not a lot so far but what's there is highly amusing.

I live in the Midwest and we normally get much snow in the winter. This season has been unusually mild but I love cold weather and I like snow, I just prefer not driving in it. As much as I love winter I'm not a fan of winter sports. The only sports I've ever played are soccer and roller derby. I've always been freaked by the idea of ice skating and skiing.

My issue with skiing is simple. You go down big ass hills and sometimes mountains on two little twiggy sticks then you expect not to die in the process. Logic fails me in this sport and I rather play roller derby and skate around smashing into other girls and pretend to be super hero bad ass with my roller derby name L.Ron Haggard. Yeah, not a fan of Scientology.

Anyway! A skier in Vail was left hanging upside down with his pants off on a ski lift. I'm a mean person, it made me laugh. They also have pictures of the poor guy showing his naked and presumably freezing ass to the world.

Just for the fun of it, here's another article. The porn industry is seeking a federal bail out. I'm not sure if the coolness factor of Congress would increase or decrease if they did this. It would increase with me but probably decrease with the theoretical conservative majority we have in this country.

Though I wonder why porn needs bailing out? People love porn. It's probably because you can get it free all over the interwebs so there's no reason to pay for it anymore. YouPorn, hello!

I know it might not seem like it these days but I'm still a huge manga nerd and today I happened upon a great Japanese web comic that was later published and is currently being made into an anime. What's the series?

Axis Powers Hetalia which is basically about various hilarious and mostly bishonen characters who embody an assortment of countries and the comic tells the story of famous events in world history through their interactions. It's really funny if you're not overly politically correct since there is a good amount of stereotyping involved. Not mean stereotyping but more like, England can't cook food stereotyping, America has a huge ego, and Russia is hella pretty but totally insane. Maybe Russia one is mean. I dunno. lol.

I love the series and have spent a few hours already reading through the scanlated comics HERE. The only thing I have to dispute is the fact that America is a bishonen guy wearing cute wire rim glasses. Dude! Come on, America is so much butcher than that.

I do love his relationship with England though. They have such an angry love. Hee. And yes, I'm already enough of a fangirl of America and England that I had to make an icon out of them fighting in disgustingly cute chibi form. America doesn't have his glasses on as he declares freedom though. I like him better that way.

Sometimes Cracked genuinely does crack me up. Then again, I do find delight in laughing at the lameness of the nerdy things I love. Such as really fucking bad fanfic. Check out their article on the The 5 Most Baffling Sex Scenes in the History of Fanfiction for it is filled with the funny.