I’m helping.

[snarp]

(Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.)

Sometimes, people get to my website by way of search engine queries which it is ill-equipped to answer. Today I will help those people.

why do people have grudges?

In part due to the human capacity for pattern recognition.

card captor sakura tropes

The Magical Girl, the Gay Best Friend, the Older Brother Who Disguises His Affection As Abuse, the Scheming Dark-Haired Glasses-Wearing Type, the Adorable Animal Sidekick, Handmade Goods As An Indicator Of The Sincerity Of One’s Feelings, the Dead Mother And Single Father.

what type of guys are serious and wat is going in there mind

Though that depends on your personal definition of “serious,” those who are employed or in school full-time may be a good starting point. Involvement in charities and community projects is also a hopeful sign. They will probably be thinking about the economy and their families right now.

my bending is more powerful than yours

And I accept this.

cultural norms in switzerland

In Switzerland it is common to have hot chocolate with breakfast.

scary monks

Benkei.

artsy shit

Attend showings of cinema majors’ senior projects. One of them will feature a listless woman being shot at strange angles as she smokes, watches television, and listens to her answering machine messages. If the department had a budget, the film will at times use a tilt-shift lens to make it look as if she is very tiny.

how manga is supposed to look

It should look like this:

From Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, volume 2. Copyright Yukito Kishiro.)

rain phenomena

When rain falls on the night before a new moon, a small, dark-furred, pale-eyed creature called the Shoon can be seen sitting on the bottom step of the porch. It has no ears or voice and does not eat, and its breath is white, as if the air around it is very cold.

windowwww lyrics

Sleeeeeep / With the windowwwww / Opennn / nnnnnn

how to say i hate you all in japanese

Minna daikirai （「みんな大嫌い」）

i imagine everybody has a hidden sword

Yes, that is a good thing to imagine.

secret plot manga

Blame, by Tsutomu Nihei. I cannot figure out what the plot is. It is a secret.

this part of the book is written in language so ancient so forbidden so unspeakable and so evil that you can t make heads or tails of it.

English to A. F. U. E. Dictionary.

rondo of swords plot spoilers

You have to fight the real Serdic later.

paranoid thought of the day

Your house may not be adequately ventilated, leading to build-up of toxic cleaning chemicals in the air.

kanji for justice in simsun

公明

moomin lady of the

cold?

hobbit house sl

This one is nice, though as it uses sculpted prims, sections of its walls are set to “phantom,” and it thus cannot be made private without modification.

how to get a sentence to appear on another line in php

echo "First sentence.\nSecond sentence.";

Comments

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Well, this is certainly the best thing I've read lately.

[snarp]

Then you should go read Gunnerkrigg Court or Sugar Sugar Rune!

The blog's search engine queries seem deeply magical to me. I do not know who would type such things or why they would lead to things I wrote. What if they are secret messages and I don't know how to read them?

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I am, in fact, slowly reading the archives of Gunnerkrigg Court (because of your having mentioned it before), and although I've only read a couple of volumes of Sugar Sugar Rune, I like it muchly and keep meaning to order more of the older volumes that are never on the shelves when I think to look. I generally like Anno's adult work better, but Sugar Sugar Rune is unique.

I would be awfully curious to know what about those searches led to you. I've had the mechanics of search engines explained to me generally before, but not much of it stuck.

[snarp]

I've been re-reading Sugar Sugar Rune this week, and have once again fallen completely in love with Anno. (Though I am also reminded of how unhappy I am with Del Rey's localizations.)

A lot of them contain apparently-uncommon phrases I've used. I do not know why the hidden sword one should lead here, but it was the top Google result for the phrase before I made this post.

[snarp]

(I mean the first sentence in the sense that I was tired when I wrote it and feel it necessary that you read much better things. Not in the sense that it is at all similar to either comic in question.)

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I've been eschewing reading in favor of doing crossword puzzles and listening to Richard Hawley, because most of my reading is supposed to be paper-related and I feel guilty about reading non-DRM books, so the threshold is low right now.

[severefun.livejournal.com]

Kishiro is indeed a mad God of comics. Too many are unaware of this fact!

[snarp]

He is! And he is no wussy merciful god like Miyazaki!