So, a while back I took a look at the first few chapters of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, and was rather unimpressed. Ed seemed noisy and irritating and the whole thing rather shallow.
A recent fanfic binge, however, has disabused me of that notion, so I'll definitely be looking into this farther. ^_^
The crossover bunny comes into the question in my getting the distinct impression that this could fit into the Nanohaverse without even a ripple.
Thoughts?
Ja, -n

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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."

I know there are anime fans here...
There's a question that's been nagging a few of us, on and off, over on the Usenet group rec.arts.anime.music (a rather specialized group, to be sure, and low-volume - the average month's on-topic posts can be counted on one hand).
The most recent posting of it was back on 13 November 2006, by the group's FAQ maintainer, ru igarashi:

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A long time ago, and a few times at that, there was a question about the music that plays in Love Hina, episode 12, as Motoko stands on the roof, about to face the uber-tama. I thought we had identified it, but I can't find any reference to it in Google (other than our inability to identify it). Does someone know who the composer is and the ID of the work? It isn't Night on Bald Mountain from what I recall.

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As I recall, there are either three or four classical pieces in that episode. Night on Bald Mountain is the one that plays just before the one you're asking about... and I don't know what it's called, either.
(Not the answer you wanted, but at least it confirms your recollection...)

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My company worked on the DVD for Superman: Doomsday and it was pretty good, but what really wowed me was the featurette included in the DVD.
And as the title of the post says, Darwyn Cooke's opus is being animated direct to video.
And with Stan Berkowitz is writing and Bruce Timm
producing.
With what I saw it's gonna be great. And the voices: Kyle Mclachlan as the voice of Superman, Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman, David Boreanaz as Hal Jordan
The animation is distinctively DCAU but it also has noticeable Darwyn Cooke influences.

I actually got off my ass and wrote something.
This part is set just before SOS-con.
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"Oh, come on. You're supposed to be bringing us in to land, not reading."
I looked up from my current novel and turned to look back at the cockpit door at George. "We're in a holding pattern at the moment, waiting for Phobos control to get back to us and I have the proximity sensors on. Plus, the nav system will warn me if we start to drift from where we're supposed to be."
"Warn you how? I've seen how engrossed you can get in a good book, it takes a foghorn to wake you up."
"Har har, I'm not that bad. besides - "
The radio crackled to life, 'Starhawk, this is Phobos Control, you are cleared for approach. Transmitting vector and landing bay information now.'
"Roger, Control, receiving." I replied, hurriedly marking my place and putting the book aside.
We'd managed to arrange a pretty good deal on the docking fees, mainly because we are bringing in extra supplies for the Convention center. Whoever these SOS-dan people are, they didn't give Phobos much more warning about the con than they gave anyone else. This had resulted in the Center's management finding themselves short of various Con necessities like pop, microwave pizzas, coffee and so on. They weren't out of anything, but they usually had more lead time to stock up supplies before the crowds decended like a cloud of locusts.
Anyways, we'd been in Melbourne offloading cargo, when the convention center called Babylon.5 trying to find a cargoship that could get the suppies they were ordering and bring them to Mars fast. We fit the bill and promptly bounced over to grab the cargo before heading off to the red planet with a load of food and cleaning supplies (the cleaning supplies were more for _after_ the Con).
We had a few passengers too, people who had been on B.5 and sufficiently tied into the grapevine to appear at the airlock with an overnight and/or costume bag when the 'Hawk made a brief stop home. Actually, Rob, my copilot and navigator, was currently in his cabin with his wife getting into their costumes.
George was the ship's cook (and a damn good one), medic, and one of the 'gunners'. The latter job will be more impressive when we figure out how to run the power feeds without something melting or burning out. Currently the ships two quadturrets (partially a Millenium Falcon hommage) are little more than impressive looking laser pointers.
The other theoretical gunner is Susan, our cargomaster. She also pilots the APE unit we use for moving heavy cargo and EVA repairs.
The final member of the crew is JT, our engineer. He's usually in the engine room. I sometimes think he identifies a little too much with Kaylie from Firefly, I expect him to start sleeping there any day now.__________________
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

Here are a few snippets of fanfic dialogue that have bubbled up from the twisted depths of my imagination. Anyone disturbed enough to want to run with one of these is free to do so:

Well, sort of... according to this Inquirer story:

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Mitsubishi Heavy ... has canned its humanoid Wakamaru robot because it can't perform mundane tasks like washing the dishes or cooking.
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Plus expectations were high because of anime stuff like Astro Boy. The wire quoted an engineer saying that people thought Wakamaru would be able to cook or sweep the floor.

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I've been having trouble connecting to the net these last few days due to some unknown problem with my cable/High-speed ISP. I can't seem to connect during the day, but access restores at around 9 pm nightly.
Thus, apologies for missing the Little Legends session this morning, HLW, North, et al.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Re: nitty gritty
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Maybe we should get down to defining some terms.
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Feel free to toss out a starting position for review and discussion - that's what the rest of us do when we want a point settled. If they're discussed and agreed on, then they'll probably end up in the Gazetteer. (If nobody wants to discuss them, then they probably aren't important enough for the Gazetteer.)
[Starting point/speculation/basis for argument: The Articles of Convention, which were at once Constitution and treaty with Earth. As the broad consensus on the governments of Earth, particularly those which have cut off emigration to space, have always seen Fenspace as a monoculture, this strengthens that perception. Particularly as the Cons were touted as being representative of ALL Fen in Fenspace, with the idea being that it is the consent of ALL the governed. Which is everyone in Fenspace. At least that's the idea.
However, many groups, the minority [though how much of one is an open question, as no one has done a full census of Fenspace (right?)] of Fen disagreed with the Articles, either in part or in whole, did not show up to Cons, and did not recognize the authority of Majority Rule. Thus started a wave of counter-Conventions, denouncing the Articles.
This is particularly the case in that before the Articles, it was broadly understood that voluntary citizenship and micronation proliferation were the societal norm. And so micronations which did disagree with the Articles were redesignated as either allied states, neutral states, or rogue or "criminal" organizations, stripped of any recognition by the majority factions.
This criminal appelation was given to those nations which broke the criminal provisions of the articles and/or the human rights provisions. these included those states or post-states which provided unregulated manufactured pharmaceuticals earth-side, engaged in near-earth weapons smuggling, landtheft, etc. etc. (i'd still like to argue for the existence of slavery because it's part of human nature to want to dominate, even when it's just irrational to do so. perhaps especially.) And so the birth of Boskones.
(I think that the political aspect of criminality shouldn't be ignored, nor the economic. Many of the criminal activities done today are done in support of political gain. The Taleban and the Afghani opium fields come easily to mind. So too does the Contras. Fanon and the lumpenproletariat, etc.]
(BTW, and going off on a tangent, why the heck did you post that Sector General writeup to the Gazetteer without taking any of the discussion about it into account? You've essentially built the biggest white elephant in Fenspace by doing that, since it's the only structure that far out... I haven't bothered to add it to the Places in Fenspace sticky because it fails the reality check.)
[anyway, i always saw that gazette entry as being written after OGJ when more infrastructure's in place and more Saturnian and Jovian colonies were getting started. there has to be a certain amount of wastage in both educational and medical facilities.
From a strictly Free Market perspective, it is a massive boondoggle. Probably around the time of OGJ it's little bigger than, say, half a strip mall. If that. And most of that's for docking of ambulences.]

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"Hegemony"? I do not think that word means what you think it means. The Conventions no more have hegemony over the factions than the UN has over the nations of Earth.
(Hegemony: predominance of one country over others by virtue of leadership or influence. Syn: ascendancy)
As for what right they have to do this: "The Convention is Fenspaces great experiment with direct democracy." (This is the very first sentence from the Quick Start Guide entry on Conventions, as you'd already know if you'd read what's already been posted.)
[The majority rule aspect of the convention is a de facto hegemony, particularly as the most populous factions/micronations/states/post-states push their own agendas against the smaller factions/et. al.
also: you should probably get the Quick Start stickied or something as the glossary only says that it's "The closest thing to a government possessed by the Fen. An annual gathering descended directly from WorldCon is held to modify, ratify and reassert what little law exists off-Earth. Furthermore, Conventions can be called by anyone in times of emergency."]
-murmur

Someone released the DVD at the usual sites.
Random Curiosity's blog on it.
downloading now as we speak.
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Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
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Just what it says. I suspect I'll be a couple days catching up to things.

-- Bob
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