Learning Japanese

Lately I've been feeling the urge to dig through my old folders and notebooks for my Japanese notes. My high school ran a pilot program in Japanese in my senior year, ran by a dimunitive little old woman from Alaska. We got through hiragana and katakana and some basic kanji. I'm pretty sure I kept the notes. I noticed this on AnimeonDVD board, but haven't looked at it at length. I need to install the right character set for my computer.

Japanese 101.

WENN, Subtext and the care and throttling of a fandom...

There are times when I desperately want to whap a fandom upside the head with a clue-by-four. The irony is that if this was any other fandom I'm around, they'd be arguing the subtext of every glance and every word. They'd be saying "See, see, how he's hovering over her" in the smallest of scenes. (Substitute "him" for "her" unfortunately and you'd describe most of the slash fandoms.) In "Remember WENN" fandom, they have no concept of this... unless it involves Saint Betty of the Purple Prosed Typewriter. A couple like Hilary and Jeffrey defies the normal, therefore they don't understand it. So they assume the obvious. They couldn't actually stay together all these years because they might actually care about each other? After all they rarely say so. And if it didn't say so in the script...

ARGH!

Ahem. Sorry. Really, I'm fine.