yaoi vs shonen-ai and other matters

Just to clarify my title a bit..
Yaoi means sexually explicit guy on guy kind of romance... Shonen-ai is non-sexual Boys love.
So, for all of you having heard of or have watched an anime called Loveless.. that anime.. if anything, is Shonen-ai. As far as I have ever seen of the series.. a moment of kissing or two and a declaration of love was its extent. Not mentioning other types it may or might not have had... but Yaoi, it was not.

*steps off the soapbox with a sigh*
Did rather make me wonder if the author was just adding the 'romance' of the series simply for its hook, snagging that genre's audience. I thought it had a workable plot line anyway. Soubi was a looker but his story was a total.. euw. and Ritsuka.. needed a new sibling... and a new 'true name' as well... desperately!

Loveless

"MmBlaugh!" "Dmnit Soubi! You said you wouldn't Do that!" -- Ritsuka

Loups Garous


Another interesting anime was Loups Garous... and no, it isn't really about werewolves. About a future time of sorts, when people mostly interacted with monitor screens. Only the school children were given the means to actually meet one another face to face on school grounds. There is a series of murders and a set of 4 kids set out to find answers before they too are targeted for death.

A Mabinogi Moment

Just to impart... concerning the .... Quest called "Hat Delivery" in Mabinogi... the point to it is to make the hats. not to hang onto them. So far as i can tell anyway... the counter stays with the number you have made, if they are somehow stuffed, all 30 of them, into your inventory or not. so, make 10, get rid of them, make 10 more... get rid of those, then 10 more. Malcolm won't talk to you about them until you have made all 30 anyway.

I am once more taking a look at free to play open game/sandbox pve mmo's... maybe a return to Tera's shores? but thus far this year, I have been getting a sinking feeling of defeat, again, vs the powers that be.. around me... and not just with games vs lagless space on my computer but with education as well. little by little... its slipping away... again and I feel an overwhelming wincing oppression to just.. stop, since the uphill battle simply cannot be won by me. not in this lifetime anyway. Everything and everyone is saying so without actually using the words to do so. So.. looks like no more schooling for this meow because the only real way I could continue, is to pay out of pocket the whole way... which we -all- know the odds of that becoming a reality. yeah sheright!

And now I also have to indulge in a search n hunt for pen, paper and stamps to snailmail my snarglefest relative simply because they live out in the boondocks with a backward sense of communication that I never truly developed. Seriously!