Monday 11 March 2002

Pic of the day: Not the most exciting thing in the world, unless you have some special fetish that I don't know of.

Barely ecchi teenz

I was so dissatisfied with today's entry that I decided not to upload it at all. It probably made sense, but not the sense I meant it to make.

I'll try to keep this so simple that I even understand it myself. (You probably remember from school how much harder it was to make sense of what was on the blackboard when it was you standing there. Well, life is like that too.)

I like ecchi (indecent) humor. I find it harmless, unlike ethnic jokes for instance. It is remote and theoretical to me. So understand. Even if I roleplay a female character in Dark Age of Camelot, that doesn't mean I consider a sex change or even a stuffed bra. Similarly, even though one of the main characters in my latest novel attempt is gay, that doesn't mean I'm going to seek out the nearest gay bar (there is probably one in the city where I work, perhaps more) and try to get some. (Not that I'd be likely to score, but that's beside the point.)

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Now that that's cleared up, here's what I consider a cute, funny story of the day.

I was this warrior grrl character on Dark Age of Camelot today again. While she was holding the Promise Room against undead incursions together with four male characters, she found among the loot a bottle of enamel that she wanted for her leggings. So during a rest in the battle, she took off her leggings to color them green (you can see the color in the picture above), then put them back on. Shortly after, one of the other players declared that he needed to go AFK (Away From Keyboard) briefly because of a nosebleed. I immediately replied: "I hope it's not because of me!" The three other boys found this hilarious.

(For those who, like me until sometime last year, have no idea what I'm talking about: In Japanese cartoons and comics, a bleeding nose is used as a sign of strong sexual interest. Some say it only happens to virgin males. The origin of this euphemism is unclear. But evidently it has become quite well known...)