Divine Melody, by Yi Huan

This is not so much a review as a request that IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER MANHUA LIKE THIS, TELL ME RIGHT NOW.

Qin Caisheng is a little fox demon girl raised by a group of fox demon women who live secluded lives in the mountains. There are no male fox demons left, and Caisheng is apparently the first fox demon child to be born for centuries. Their master fears that their people are dying.

But Caisheng is a "fairy fox," born in the form of a human baby and not a fox cub, with the potential to eventually master a third form - that of a male. Which would un-doom the species! Provided that she sleeps with all her older sisters. There are no possible problems with this plan.

Sick of being confined and coddled by her future concubines, toddler Caisheng sneaks out and meets two human children. Playing, they are attacked by a dog enraged by the scent of a fox. The two children try to protect their new friend, but they are only saved when another fox demon, Huiniang, arrives and, in a badass manner, shoots the dog with her bow and arrow. Huiniang places a mark on the two children to show that Caisheng owes them a debt - they will be under her protection until she is able to repay it, however long it takes.

Two hundred years later, Caisheng, now physically a teenager, has learned to change into a man. But she's no longer sure she wants to father children on all her sisters. She just wants the one: Huiniang. ( Read more... )

I have read that antibiotics kill beneficial bacteria residing in the stomach and intestines.

Mine have gone farther. My insides are hollow and burnt, like a dugout canoe. Raindrops and leaves find fissures in my skull and fall gently through to the sidewalk. My arms and legs make empty sounds like drums, and there is a new space between my ears in which I can store small things, like my camera and handkerchiefs.

I'm going to become a paranoid internet person who refuses to take her pills because there might be Bad Chemicals And Stuff in them.

AKICWLJ/DW

My computer runs Vista, doesn't have enough RAM for it, and freaks out when I try to add more RAM. It takes fifteen minutes to finish booting up, takes thirty seconds to open Chrome, and gets too hot to hold in my lap. This affront can no longer be borne.

I've tested out a few Linux distributions on LiveCD, and Xubuntu looks good for 95% of my needs.* However, I do need to keep Vista around for the other 5%, so I want to set it up to dual-boot. I've never tried that before, and was looking at this guide - does anyone knowledgeable in such things see anything terrifyingly wrong with it? It's been heavily linked, so I have no idea how seriously to take any of the debates going on in the comments.

* I'm not new to Linux, so you need not warn me about its peculiarities in general - though warnings about Xubuntu's in particular would not come amiss. (I used Red Hat before.)