Wake the Sun

One of the best parts about modding doujin_market is keeping on top of event pick-up service announcements. Like this one: feikoi is offering pick-up for Movies Paradise 14, a western fandom doujinshi + fanzine event. SWEET, RIGHT?

You have to let her know what circles/pairings/books you want, of course, the more information the better. Which is difficult (if you don’t already know what you want and you don’t read Japanese) because the event and circle pages are all in Japanese. Plus many of the circle pages are riddle-locked - you have to solve two riddles and enter them as an ID and password before you can access the site. Yeah.

I used Google Translate and the Japanese Wikipedia to sort through some of the information and figured I might as well share what I’ve got.

( Navigating the Movies Paradise 14 site )

I mostly worked through Inception and Green Hornet, since those are the fandoms I’m interested in, but if you want help looking through the others (listed below) I’ll do what I can.

List key:

* - website is easy to access
! - website is inaccessible
? - website is riddle locked
x - no website listed

I’ve listed whether a circle is bringing a comic-based book or a fic-based book, plus whether or not the book has porn adult content.

( Inception Circles )

( Green Hornet Circles )

( Mini-events )

( Other fandoms listed )

If anyone figures out any of the logins (or just translates the riddles), please let me know! And as always, please don't pull art off of people's sites and then use it/post it without credit.


[dusts off hands] Alright, now to figure out what books I actually want... (I'll probably make a list of those too. I like lists. Watch this space.)

So! My contributor's (!!) copy of the Anthology of Tony Stark came last night. It is beautiful, y'all. So, so, so pretty. The cover, it shines! The interior printing and paper is fantastic! The gags comics are funny, the art is amazing, the stories are amazing (the ones in English, anyway - elspethdixon, pandanoai, and crimsonquills all contributed. Folks, T is for Thong is in here. You need this book. And for $12 + shipping, you can have it!

I, uh, didn't actually look at my pieces, because I have wussy artistic issues, but I imagine they look just fine!

Another thing that is shiny - Coraline. Which I will be seeing tonight and, barring unforeseen suckage (not possible), several more times over the next week. I love the book, y'all. I love Nightmare Before Christmas. I love stop motion animation. I LOVE Neil Gaiman. I love (genuinely) creepy children's stories. If you too love these things, see the film. If you're in the Dallas area and want company while seeing the film, let me know and we will hook up.

The shear awesome of all this may, in fact, completely counter the bit where I have to come in to work Sunday. We will see.

I like doujinshi an awful, awful lot. Which is why I have an awful, awful lot. To keep track of it all, and to also consolidate my wishlist and sales in one location, I've created

ink_and_tone. May it be a reference to myself and others. Currently up are series A - C: Bleach, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Chrono Cross (12 books total).

EDIT: And we're up through Hikaru no Go, with a sidetrack into East End Club's original work (94 books, 18 series). The posts are a wee bit image heavy - I'm trying to find a workaround.