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I watched The Dark Knight last night. HOLY SHIT, GUYS. I got the chills, that's how fucking incredible it was. It was just delightfully disturbing and real feeling – I love it when superhero stories (or fantasy, for that matter) is solidly grounded on reality; that’s why I loved Watchmen as much as I did, I guess. In all, it was claustrophobic, horrifying and utterly fantastic. That feeling of panic, and how morally complex it was. Batman Begins was good, but this is years ahead of it, in every way.

( HOLY SPOILERS, BATMAN! )

I’ve been in the mood for painful, unhealthy and doomed romance, along with being in the mood for Clamp, so I went and read Tokyo Babylon. It’s so weird, but I’d never finished it (I only got through the first volume, I think?), and yet I liked it lots. The final volume might be painpainbloodpainsakuraspain, but even the first, cheerful volumes are sort of depressing, knowing how it all ends. Jeez, no wonder Subaru and Kamui get along so well, that with their angst and their evil sort-of-boyfriends.

I think I’ll be re-reading all of X one of these days. It’s been far too long.

ETA: ZOMG, YOU GUYS, HAVE YOU SEEN THE WATCHMEN TRAILER? ASLFJA;LSJF, SO FUCKING AMAZING.