what dread hand

There are a few versions on YouTube, but this one has the best sound quality.

I've been avoiding all spoilers of the upcoming episode and even refused to watch the extended previews or read fic which might be vaguely based on rumours, but then, three days before the premiere, I succumbed. I angsted about it for a day, then sneaked a peek without sound, and saw to my downfall that it featured Sendhil Ramamurthy wearing glasses.

I've wanted to see that since I listened to the commentary of 1x16 where he revealed he wears contacts. It was even better than I had imagined; he looks like an undergrad, and if he wore a suit with them he'd look like a gigolo. Both is good. Then he smiled, and tapped, and I died.

Also, he is waving his hands around quite a bit and they look so pretty (which I knew already) yet big (which surprised me). I don't think Mohinder is the type, but SR needs a smoking part.

How I manage to forget, time after time, that if you put a group of people together more or less randomly you will end up with more idiots than sane people, is beyond me.

Here, have some proof that Mohinder has chest hair. It cheered me up.

In my eternal quest to procastinate as much as possible before actually sitting down to read those damn books I have to read, I have begun to re-read the 21 volume epic that is Please Save My Earth.

One good thing has come of that, though. I now know who Peter Petrelli was in his past life.

Issei. Only problem being I actually like Issei a lot. Milo Ventimiglia should totally play him if they do a Hollywood remake (highly unlikely).

My favorite character in PSME, though, is totally Haruhiko. I didn't yet consciously realize it the last few times I read this comic, but I think the biggest reason I adore Haru-chan is that he is a guy with huuuuge issues from his past who gets mentally and physically tortured by a guy with even huger issues. I guess I always digged that kind of thing. It's especially nice because although Haru-chan is a crybaby (and, I believe, hated by fans for it), he has such a strong will to survive and live and go on, no matter how hard he's beaten up. (Although he does try to kill himself once.) I just love that kind of character.

(Also, Haru-chan is quarter-Indian. Total coincidence, I swear.)

I'll go back to procastinating now. If the weather is good tomorrow, I'll go to the park to read, methinks.

I don't want from Sylar:
• a father who beat him up
• classmates who bullied him
• the cheerleader who dumped him cruelly
• the small animals he killed as a kid
• return of the fug-ugly Gabriel haircut

They say 21 is about him. phe4r.

Everything about you is so funny, lately. Like this. Have I struck a goldmine?

Things to do when summer vacation arrives
• work
• travel
• build fic archive
• make commentary blog re: the Japanese of Heroes (Y/N?)

I wonder if Sylar knew it was himself in the painting.

Note to self: Ugly Betty starts next Wednesday.

I think I 'get' Sylar now.

Hm.

Can't decide if I like it or not. Sorta hoping he'll be ambiguous again next week.

ETA: Watching for the second time. Cannot. Stop. Loving. This. Mohinder! Guh.

ETA2: It's like I can't stop thinking about (or, indeed, talking about) this episode. I think it might be because while Five Years Gone was mind-blowingly brilliant, The Hard Part is more subtly interesting. The Gray Family Theme (... I'm sure that's what it's called) is wonderful. Probably my second-favorite theme of the series, after The Suresh Apartment Theme (I'm also certain this is what it's called).

I was capping some select scenes just now, and noticed that after that scene of [spoiler] with Sylar which ends with a close-up of him in deep despair, the immediate next shot is of Mohinder smiling the most bright smile we've ever seen on his face because he found [spoiler]. Mo, you're so evil. *giggles*

Chatlog.

After seeing that SFX ships Sylar/Mohinder, I decided to walk home from the station and go by the local magazine kiosk to look for the issue. They didn't have it, and I know from talking to the owner that he had cancelled the magazine in the past because it didn't sell too well, so I went up to the guy at the counter.

Me: Hey there. Are you going to get SFX?
Him: SFX? What's that one about?
Me: Nerdy TV-shows. Um. Movies, and stuff like that.
Him: Oh, right, that one. Yeah, we're getting it. Should be on its way.
Me: Really? Great, thanks!
Him: Yeah. A lot of people have been asking about it, actually.
Me: ... really.

... There are mylar fangirls in my neighborhood?

ETA: icons.

(The second one was made after a chat with Anna weeks ago. S/M makes Sylar go :D and Mohinder go D:)

I almost never watch TV (in the sense of being-broadcast-now) aside the occasional sports events, but today I sort of let it run after turning off Casino Royale because My Name is Earl was on, which seemed to seamlessly run over to an episode of According to Jim while I was fetching coffee, so I watched that one too. And you who was guest-starring on it? Bill Fagerbakke!

So I got to yell at the screen, "Hey, it's Bill Fagerbakke!"

Repeatedly. And again after the break. And over the end credits.

My Sunday is complete.

I think that mashed-together pairing name is sort of official now.

I propagated it. I'm sorry. I never meant to, it was just a joke. But then, the pairing in itself is a joke, so that's sort of okay.

I just want Mohinder to get slashed with everyone on the show; is that such a bad thing to wish for? I like Mohinder sore. Nothing.

Anna! The cast promos you so badly craved! Spoilers included. Or at least I assume so; it does give a pretty good idea of who died in 1x23.

Also spoilers in the extended entry, if you consider promo stills and breast-up pics of SR a "spoiler". But better be on the safe side. Seeing ZQ in the main cast is so odd, lulz. But love it, absolutely love it.

Which makes me feel 17 again. Ew?

If I were a badfic writer the kind of person who actually believes there's something resembling romantic feelings between Sylar and Mohinder, I'd say this was their song.

You make me feel like my father never loved me

I'll bet he does, Momo.

In case you did not yet know that Anna is awesome, I'm here to inform you that she is.

She is also godly, though that one might be slightly insider.

Everyone should comment here to tell her she needs to make more comics.

A conversation between Mohinder and Matt.

"My apartment has begun to reek lately, and I just can't get rid of the smell. I wonder why."

"You're a slob?"

"Hm. Well yes, I am."

END

As some of you might know, until about April of this year I spent most of my fandom time writing LotRips in Japanese. I since closed that site when I fell head over heels for Heroes, but today I was sorting through the files there (mostly to delete embarrassing junk), and found the first diary entry I probably ever wrote about my newfound obsession.

0314 Heroes ep18

この溢れる萌えをどうしろと。16話くらいまではカプ萌えなんかありえない、とか思ってたのに。サイコ殺人鬼×インド人学者にこんなにも萌えるなんて誰が予想した・・・！とは言ってもこのドラマを勧めてくれた友人はがっちり予想していたらしく、18話がいかに萌えたか報告すると「やっぱりアンタはアレで萌え死ぬと思ってたよ」と言われた。み、見透かされてる！

モヒンダー（インド人の方。はっきり言って美人、エロ星人）が強気で出てあからさまに象徴的にサイラー（殺人鬼の方）をレイプしちゃうところからもうね、凄いね、びしびし萌えてテレビの前で悶えてました。その後のアレもねー、サイラーが黙ってるわけないんだよねー、絶対お返ししてくれたに違いない・・・！いくらグロ描写の多いこのドラマでも流石に男×男のレイプは見せられないから暗転しただけさ！と大真面目に思っている自分はちょっと萌えすぎて頭が悪くなったかもしれない。でも真面目な話、モヒンダーって迂闊すぎるよ・・・知らないまに男にやられちゃってるんじゃないかと心配だよ・・・。お前あの顔しときながらさあ、素直すぎるよ。分かってないよ。今日知り合ったばかりの男とうかうか旅行に出るなよ。襲われるってば。

ことの起こる前のサイラーの目線がモヒンダーを追うシーンとか、初恋の人を想う小娘のようにしか見えなくて困る。殺人鬼のくせに可愛いんだもんなあ、サイラー。しかしモヒンダーみたいな美人さんに優しくされて信頼されたら誰だって惚れるよな。19話までに一ヶ月以上あるので、その間に無理矢理もほのぼのも沢山フィクを読んでおくぞー！だって19話で誰が死ぬかも分からん・・・。いや、多分この二人は死なないと思うけど、19話以降はもう会うことないかもしれないのが一番心配。願わくばサイラーにはモヒンダーを人質にして一緒につれて逃げて欲しいけど、人質とるタイプじゃないしなー。でもサイラーがモヒンダーの体にずっと残る傷をつけること希望！美人さんにはちょっとくらい傷がついてた方が更にエロいよ、ハァハァ。傷を見るたびにサイラーを思い出して憎めばいいよ、ハァハァ。

I'm beginning to actually really like Thompson.

Unsettling.

I'm apparently sort of bummed that Sylar appears to have been a sexual creature after all.

Not heterosexual, I don't care about his orientation, just sexual.

Hm. Odd. Good for him, though.

People really, really like the handpuppets.

Which makes me giggle and scared at the same time, because I host the RPS on the same site as those puppets. I think a move might be in order.

So as I was reminded by the TWoP boards about the handpuppets, I was also struck once again by a thought which had been haunting me for a few months. Namely, that the puppet Sylar looks like a tomato.

Sylar:

Tomato:

P.S. Georgia, is there a chance you still have that LAL book with the concept designs and could upload the pages about the space chapter for me? I can't find it anywhere. Just when you're less busy, of course.

First Kevin Smith, now the BBC.

I laughed. Sorry, Masi.

(Also, I'm fangirling James hard these days. He's just too sweet.)

Possible answers, in order of likelihood:

1. "In 1, 2, 5, 13, 19, and 20."
2. "Why are you asking? Wait, are you a troll? Are we being baited? Are you from fandom_wank?"
3. "We don't like mean people here."
4. "In 2x06."
5. "In 1x24."
6. "In our minds."

ETA: There has been unexpected development. I can't decide if it's a troll or not. Very fascinating. Will follow with great interest and popcorn.

I HAS IT!

And it's shiny and hologram-y and pretty and witty and gay!

My week has just been made. ♥

ETA: I've only watched the deleted scenes on the first disk, but they're excellent character and relationship snippets. Excellent. Honestly, if they had been in the show, some of the characters might not have had to be killed off.

ETA2: Well, as far as shipping (FPS or RPS) is concerned, that was the WORST bunch of special features I've ever seen. There was a tiny bit for the Peter/Nathan people, and then that's it, I think. Also, Sendhil was incredibly pretty at the 2006 Comic Con, but that's to be expected. His shirt was actually blue, not black as it looked to me in pics and vids; only thing notable. But I still loved the deleted scenes anyway. Damn you, Heroes, for making me care about it above and beyond shipping!!! *shakes fist* D.L., Isaac and Simone, Claire, Lyle, Angela, and Matt really get some good stuff. The commentaries are from the NBC site, and I hope someone will rip the video from the HD-DVD so we can finally get good-quality versions of them.

There was absolutely no Zachary Quinto. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. Just so you lot of ZQ fans won't get too disappointed when you see it.

Instead of watching the DVDs, I've been watching Japanese fansubs on nicovideo. I guess that's priorities for you. It's full of the usual fansubby translation errors which make me snort (a patient zero is not a man who is patient), but this one (not an error) takes the cake.

I DIED LAUGHING.

ETA: Only Greg can do this and enjoy it.

Oh, Japan. Never change.

Please don't.

No, really. No one needs to feed him with these ideas. He's obsessed enough as it is.

Here, have an exciting hypothesis I thought up a few days ago:

Heroes is about family.
Fandom is about sex.
Ergo, Heroes fandom is about incest.

1. lack of sleep
2. constipation

I have both in abundance today, baby! (Sorry for that slight TMI.)

The rest of this entry has been deleted, since I really just needed to let off steam. Sorry to anyone who sat through the wall of text that was here previously.

After I wrote that essay rant of rage about why I dislike Peter, Nathan, and 1x23, Anna told me I should post it to heroes_tv and see how people would react. I thought about it and then didn't, because 1) I felt it was too much of a rant rather than worthwhile meta, and 2) I didn't particularly feel like discussing any aspect of it, especially not with Peter and/or Nathan fans. But now I'm sort of considering posting it anyway, because it's amazing how much I can disagree with a person on one subject.

But then, while I think she's delusional for her opinions she'd probably think I just don't get it, so ...

I was trying to write a long and complicated entry about the misogynist women of Heroes fandom, but then Anna went and did it much better, as is her wont. Damn her!

I'm seriously frustrated with this fandom right now, to the point where I've become bitter about the show itself. I hope Monday night will mark a beginning in people going back to being just a slightly bit more sane, since they'll have other things to talk about than the cast. My annoyance for the misogynistic female fans has begun to rub off on my opinions of Zachary Quinto (in particular) and Milo Ventimiglia (to a slightly lesser degree), because those two are the ones I usually "blame" for the stupid fangirls in fandom, and I hate it. Lately, it's been like I can't look at ZQ doing something awesome or cute without getting annoyed with him, because it automatically makes me think of fandom and by proxy I'm overcome with utter dread. It's not ZQ's fault, or Milo's fault, or David Anders' fault, and I don't want to be hating them, fandom. Please don't make me.

In other news, I finally have some time to watch the season one DVDs again, and right now I'm at Seven Minutes to Midnight. My opinion on season one hasn't changed much; still love the Bennet Family & Zach storyline, adore Charlie and Hiro and Ando, Audrey still kicks ass and is so subtly a nice person I can't stop loving her, and I'm possibly loving Mohinder even more at this viewing. He's just so animated in this episode, from crying to flirting to frustrated to angry to awed to desperate. Loving the flashback of him and Chandra fighting, in particular: Chandra seems almost sad in it, like he actually is hurt that Mohinder thinks him delusional. And the disgust on Mohinder's face as Chandra says he's leaving no matter what ... ahhhh, SR, no one does D< like you! I'm so happy your fandom is sane. Nothing.

One thing that has changed: I used to look forward to the big mystery being revealed, but now I miss the old HRG. You know, the one you were never really certain about, good or evil, what is he doing? I think David Lynch said about the murder of Laura Palmer that when it was solved, something beautiful was lost; I feel much the same with HRG. I love Heroes for being adament on answering the questions it poses, but once we knew everything about HRG, something was lost.

Which, I guess, makes HRG a dead teenager. Or maybe Bob?

I need to practise this more. Also, next time: no flash. My brother loved 'em, though!

(My fingers are so short, chubby, and pale. Well, I'm pale everywhere, but the palm of my hand is worst.)

If you don't know what "sounding" is and would rather not read about things that might make you look at your pee-hole in a different light, the text below is not for you.

I'd been thinking about doing one of these for weeks, but Amanda posted an online comic easter egg of Niki/Mohinder goodness, and then I just had to, didn't I?

13 pics, 600kb

Why has no one written this? No, seriously -- why?

I also did a picspam of the four cast members in Tokyo some time back, which I've now archived. Much Masi/Sendhil goodness in Tokyo.

I'd make a Greg/Sendhil picspam next if it weren't for the fact that an excellent one exists already.

Why?

1. Heroes Unmasked episode 17: Bad Company The One About Mylar (thanks Anna!)

2. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, Jenn's back!

3. Got a download link for the Parley fest interview with cast and crew via seedy means (thanks to Ade&Zarina) and after one night of sleep the file is even available again, and I'm at 51% now oh-em-gee!

4. Spoiler for episode 11 in extended entry (via Bobby)

Wanna see something scary?

Anna: Well, if Sylar wants to spend more time with Mo, he needs to get along with his friends.
Anna: The Spice Girls agree.
Me: The Spice Girls are wise. They also say remember to Put It On. Sylar should listen.
Anna: XD
Me: Who knows what filthy places he's been in! :<
Me: ... and that wasn't supposed to come off misogynistic, wtf. o_O
Anna: Sylar is the guy you want to have good hygiene, it's true.
Anna: He plays with people's blood.
Me: Exactly! Yes! That's what I meant!

Fandom has tainted me. I worry that every word coming out of my mouth might be racist or misogynist.

subject: Do NOT read this until you've seen the episode

... that's just mean. *fidgets*

And I just downloaded a tiny little clip of the preview, and FUCK YEAH.

And ... my download is slow as always, so I'll be a hermit until it finishes.

I haven't watched the sneak peaks (because I'm excited about this episode for the first time in months), but I have been reading bits and pieces of info in various places, and ...

I slept for three hours (curses, Mohinder torture porn!) and wake up completely shaky and just need a bucket of coffee and light entertainment to clear my head before I head out, and what does my flist give me?

TEMPTING, TEMPTING SNEAK PEEKS.

EVEN MORE TEMPTION BEHIND-THE-SCENES.

I fell for it, obviously. It's not my fault, I wasn't in any mental state to be able to resist ... MYLAR!

Not so much spoilers as keyboardsmashing below.

I've been reading 'em.

(Why do I keep being tempted to spoilers every early morning? Maybe I should stop going online at these hours.)

My money on who dies, not really speculative since they're based on spoilers I've been reading all season:

• the Sylar/Mohinder interaction in the sneak peeks actually only being a five-minute excerpt of their 35-minute storyline
• Maya and Mohinder has some sort of emotional connection (hahaha as if)
• Mohinder is in danger and The Haitian comes to the rescue
• any Haitian scenes at all, actually
• any scene at all where people are shown to care about Mohinder's safety, actually
• no Matt/Mohinder, but I'm being spiteful
• Molly being cute
• the Sylar/Mohinder storyline to end in such a way as to allow tons of hiatus fic
• SR doing commentary
• ... OKAY I ADMIT IT, SR doing commentary with ZQ, so kill me

The space key on my keyboard is busted so I can't press on either of its ends. This is fucking up my typing speed considerably since I have to take it into consideration all the while I type. Gah.

I need a new rule of life. "Don't post fic/art/icons/macros/whatever when I'm manic." Problem being I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN I'M BEING MANIC AND NOT.

That was completely unrelated to anything above, sorry.

I shouldn't let a TV show make me feel so vile, but it's seriously ruining my mood. Not even Sendhil is cheering me up.

Nope, not cheering me up.

No.

...

Well okay, maybe it is cheering me up a little bit.

I'm not really sure how I'll stay interested until volume three, however. I don't want to stay in this fandom just to complain about the show; there has to be at least some enjoyment. But where to find it?

Even the RPS is looking unattractive right now. (Though I'm pretty sure I'll be over that in a few hours, hahahahaha.)

Sorry if I'm ruining the funk of anyone visiting. Believe me, I wish I were excited.

I need a Mohinder/Maya fandom, ASAP.

A community, too.

sylar_survival_victims, perhaps. (Not really.)

I feel this is an appropriate time to refer to my post on the subject of the Petrelli brothers and how they are perceived by fandom, and state that I still feel exactly like I did when I wrote it.

A point worth noticing might be that Nathan's storyline in season two went exactly as I predicted. I usually dislike gloating, but I do enjoy it when my view of a character is confirmed by the writers.

Let me count the ways. But mostly, let me show you what I got in my mail today (because she said I could share ♥):

(Click to enlarge.)

The one in the bottom right corner is the original of this adorable pic that I've posted before. And look at Nathan in top right corner! And MUFFIN! And she made Mohinder cry!!! (That shouldn't make me so happy. But love Mohinder crying!)

Thank you soooooo much. ♥ I never did anything to deserve this. It made me so happy.

And ... it makes me feel like I really want to send stuff to people for the holidays, too. Because I just generally suck at showing my appreciation. Yes. I shall.

1. A Yaeko fanart done in the style of shojo manga because violet_anchovy was talking about a Heroes AU following Kôcha Ôji (The Tea Prince) with Yaeko as Hiro's green tea princess ... and I just realized while typing this that it won't work because the title is actually kôcha (black tea). Wah! But on the other hand the title is also prince, so oh well.
2. Arrested Development = I like it so far!
3. Super Paper Mario (Wii) that I bought used because I wanted to play Super Mario Galaxy but that one's being saved for Christmas = Am at chapter 1-4. It's fun and cute and the game-play is innovative, but I wish it were more challenging. Maybe it'll come.
4. Anna is awesome as usual and muses on Sam Winchester's wardrobe.
5. I was telling Jenn about this yesterday, but I want to properly meta about Mohinder's attitude towards women and how subtly I think SR plays it. So subtly that I didn't notice until yesterday, and we all know how I obsess over every small detail about Mohinder.
6. ETA: I've been reading all the High School AU fics coming out of Heroes fandom (because I like them. What), and I'm now wondering why no one has gone the route of making Gabriel and Sylar two characters, perhaps brothers or even twins. It seems so obvious. Gabriel would be the nerd and hang out with Mohinder, while Sylar would be cool and hang out with Adam. Elementary. Then, in my head, Sylar would totally try to put impure thoughts about Mohinder in Gabriel's brain, and when that didn't work (because Gabriel is stuck-up), he'd take matters into his own hands. And take Adam along for the ride. Yeah okay, I just want to see that threesome, I admit it, but who can blame me.

Wait, that was five six things.

Ohhh, a kink meme! Only working to solidify that people sexualizing Claire creep me the fuck out, yay! Blonde slutty underaged cheerleader fantasies FTL!

(I know, I'm biased. But bwaaa, so creepy.)

I have to admit I laughed hard when someone said "this show needs more decent female characters (implied: aside Claire)", and would probably have replied with snark hadn't it been a, well, kink meme and it was thus off-topic. lol no, you need to get over your obsession with any woman who happens to be young and happens to have hair like that, completely regardless of what her face looks like or if she has a personality.

How useless was season two Claire, exactly? No, really. People rejecting reality and substituting it with their own version is always so funny. Ew ew ew.

I have overcome my "glass tubes inserted into private parts" trauma* by relating it to Sylar/Mohinder torture porn!

Amazing. I wonder if S/M will also cure cancer.

* No, don't worry, it didn't happen to me. It's a NaruTaru thing.

edit in ze morning: everything works fine nao.

*pimps new Mohinder comm*

*also pimps new(-ish) Niki/Mohinder comm and genfic comm in the hopes that they will live*

God, I'm so tired. Why am I still up and spamming you? =_= Also, if I've been whiny lately, if you could please chalk it up to PMS I'd be much obliged.

From the newest chapter of the online comic:

Alternate cuts: one, two.

They coulndn't have made those trading cards uglier if they tried.

HIRE ME PLZ, NBC. I R A HACK BUT I R STILL BETTAR THAN HALF OF THOSE PEEPS.

Not to mention some of those are so obviously traced.

I like Katie Cook's, they're cute. As long as she doesn't try to do non-SD, then her style turns into some odd Aoyama Gôshô and Justice League cartoon hybrid. Also, Katie, DRAW MOAR MO.

Disclaimer: I'm certain each and every one of these artists are very talented at what they do, and that the number of works they had to produce and the tight deadline had an effect on the quality of their output. I guess. I suppose. Maybe. And I believe the horrible pay had something to do with it, too.

Also, I lol'd. What else can you do? Oh Brian, u so gay. Too bad you don't draw prettier.

Am I overreacting? Are they just voicing their neutral opinions based on observations of canon and their personal preference, or are they raging misogynists who will throw logic to the wind and ignore bad writing of the male characters to put down females as dependant whores?

(No, not all of them. Just some.)

I tend to go with the latter. And it creeps me out and I never want to post to that community again. I'm pretty sure that now that Anna and I are disinterested, it will degenerate into a ground for fic-crossposting and not much else anyway, so I don't see it as much of a loss.

Seriously, how can lines like "[Maya] latched onto Sylar so quickly that it's easy to imagine her latching onto another man right away" not tick someone off? Personally, it makes me see red.

P.S. I'm reading the last volume of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and keep getting distracted by the thought that if this manga had a large fandom, there'd be people calling Kushana a bitch and a slut and Nausicaä a Mary Sue.

And people would be writing self-inserts where they marry Namulis (that crazy, sexy fucker) in place of Kushana (the whore).

It's a scary thought.

I was reading her old Heroes-tagged entries, looking for that post about the German dub, and fell over this thing which I'd completely forgotten about:

animated Sylar gif, sort of not safe for work, 275kb

(Ela, Jenn tells me to thank you for that. ♥)

Also, people, I expect porn for this.

この子が

恥ずかしがることをするのって萌えるんだね・・・！ﾊｧﾊｧ　いちいち真っ赤になってくれそうでたまんないよ。

センディルさんをＳっぽく書くのも久しぶりで楽しい。

「僕が来る前にちゃんと洗った？」
「あ、洗った」（前センディルさんに洗われて恥ずかしかったので最近は自分で洗うことにしている）
「じゃあ服脱いでベッドで待ってて、すぐ行くから」
「分かった」
「脚広げて待ってるんだよ？」
「・・・分かった」（真っ赤）

みたいな萌えは駄目ですか。どうなんだ、エラたん。

There are lots of reasons for this, but fandomsecrets brought the final straw this time!

No. Just no. Be a troll, please.

This combined with Sybriel and I'm seriously thiiiiiiiiiis close to quitting this fucking fandom.

ETA: Here, I got up too early and haven't had my coffee yet, so I'm grumpy. Have a list of everything I hate about this fandom.

I'm thinking of making a Japanese site for the propaganda of Sylar/Mohinder (and Z/S a bit, too).

Problem: in Japan, "who tops and who bottoms" is SRS BZNS, and I feel I can't make a site without clearly defining who does what. Theoretically, I could just say that I don't care who does what (which is the truth), but then I'll be alienating 98% of my potential audience. I could also theoretically say that none of them do any of it, because the site isn't about porn but rather the two as they appear in the canon, but then most of my audience would probably be highly suspicious and run from the site the first time I even vaguely reference sex without clearly defining who does what.

Yeah. Japanese people are odd. And no, I'm honestly not exaggerating.

I thought I could live with just saying I support Sylar x Mohinder (meaning Sylar tops), since the only way S/M will ever get anywhere is probably if Sylar pushes Mohinder to the floor and has his way with him (i.e. it's highly unlikely that Mohinder will ever push Sylar to the floor and do stuff, seeing as Mohinder hates Sylar), but that would mean I had to deny Mohinder topping Sylar as Zane, or Mohinder topping Sylar in a fit of rage, or Mohinder topping the president, and I don't want to deny any of those things (they're hot).

As for Z/S, that's just even more complicated. I think ZQ is probably basically a top, but that doesn't mean they don't constantly switch in my head, and if I claim to be shipping Z x S or S x Z, I'd be lying. And even if I don't intend to write smut about them in Japanese (speaking of which, I should write Masi/Sendhil in Japanese sometime...), I don't trust myself to talk about any of their interviews or the commentary or any pic of them together and just stick to one top and one bottom.

I don't think I'll ever get to make that site. Woe.

Side-note: what do you guys prefer when you read or write fic? I mean I know most people outside of Japan don't have militant preferences, but anything you think is hotter than the other?

Because I suck at German and the German channels on our TV growing up were a constant reminder of how I always managed to fail that subject.

Anyway:

Y HALLO THAR LONG-ASS NEEDLE!

More at their site. There are a bunch of angles I've never seen before.

A Malaysia-based magazine called Galaxie apparently has a feature on Heroes in its current issue including interviews from the Asian wing of the World Tour.

I can't for the life of me find any sites where you can order this online. Hm. Maybe I should mail them about it. (Their e-mail is gmail, which is sort of cute.)

ETA: Mailed 'em. Can't hurt.

Also, did I mention that I suck and my life sucks? It does. I could hit my head against the wall until I bled to death right now. Jesus. I feel like puking.

(Not a "pat me on the back plz" moment, just ... SERIOUSLY WHY AM I THIS WAY?!)