Kyanobenthes' Scratch Pad

“Obaa-sama… does this mean that I will not find…?”

Chapter 1.10 is on track for a Thanksgiving weekend release. Current calculations will place it at about 11 pages in MS Word, 10-pt font and single-space, quite a bit longer than my average chapter. Let’s just say all the Nao/Natsuki talky bits are longer than expected. I wonder what the Livejournal post character limit is. [...]

O B A M A In other news, the California Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage passed, and similar bills passed in I think three other states. That’s really too bad. I’ve had writer’s block on an important Natsuki/Nao dialogue for a few months now, but I’m going to try to break it down anyway. [...]

http://www.kyotojournal.org/kjselections/oswalt.html Questioning Gender An interview with Japan-based psychotherapist Kim Oswalt (2006) “Kim Oswalt, an American psychotherapist who has been working with transgender clients in Japan for nearly five years, does not view transsexuality as a mental disorder. The very real suffering that Oswalt seeks to relieve is, she says, partly rooted in the client’s social [...]

Meaning information, of course. I discovered a legitimate and fairly recent website of a university course on Japanese culture. Fascinating stuff. This, in particular, is very interesting. The date is 1994: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~bmori/syll/Hum310japan/familyforms2 Here’s a counterpart international table from the same site: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~bmori/syll/Hum310japan/familyresp2 (Oh, hey, check out England…) Of course, the numbers would have more weight [...]

Hmm, I don’t think I asked this yet. Is anyone aware of canon information (artbook, drama CD, whatever, official site, etc.) concerning what Nao’s mom did for a living or if she had a job at all? P.S.: TAXES. P.P.S.: Have you ever edited a term book for four authors? I am. Mind you these [...]

Edited 9/19: XD I finally found a hack that’s supposed to show userpics in the Generator style, so I’m going back to that. Yup! But I’m still playing with it. Such ugly code… Things to know: One reason why I ended up buying a one-year subscription is to have the comment page styles the same [...]

*This omake chapter may be read independently of “Syncope.”

Setting: Natsuki’s fifteenth birthday.

I think there’s a very specific scene where we see the photograph of Natsuki and her parents burning up (a flashback of some sort). Does anyone know exactly where that scene is? A time code in an episode would be helpful or a description of the setting where the photo was burning. Unless I’m thinking [...]

So, ummm, can someone explain to me just how the Japanese classes are divided? Mai was in 1-A in the series and Natsuki in 1-B, for instance. Is it arbitrary? I vaguely remember a post about the class ranks elsewhere, but after a little bit of research, I’m just more confused. :P

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