Equivalential

equivalent_t @ 2009-11-07T21:28:00

2009-11-08T03:32:28Z

Toward the Terra, Definition Of : Your First Love Is The Greatest Tragedy.

Seriously. If I have to cram this series down in one sentence...the extent that I've watched it, anyway, which is currently Ep. 15...that would be it. Because, heteronormativity aside, THAT and THAT and THAT and what I think will also end in tragedy yes THAT are all pretty much first loves from one side or the other. Romantic loves. Yes. AND THEY CAN BE GODDAMNED TRAGIC TOO DAMMIT.

Also. Blue. Is. Epic. Gar. And epic tragic romance (???? I hesitate to call it romance but WHAT THE HELL ELSE IS IT) wtf. Even the OP agrees with me! The freaking series motto agrees with me! I, I do have this soft spot for this kind of relationship actually?? The whole 'I would totally be an awesome heroine were I a girl, but as I am not, I will settle for being your awesome support' type??

I would recommend this old 2007 series! (Late to the party, I know.) Don't let the retro look fool you, the budget spent on this is quite remarkable. Not INCREDIBLE, but you'll find nothing really jarring, it's well animated when it's supposed to, and it moves at a BREAKNECK pace unless it's trying to stamp on your heart. Also don't mind my ramblings. I am getting used to this 'being a fujoshi' thing and am trying to balance out my fangirlship as such. It's gen if you want it to be gen, honest, although certain pairings can be a bit hard to argue against...

equivalent_t @ 2009-11-07T19:55:00

2009-11-08T01:59:14Z

WHY DO I LIKE SHIROE SO MUCH I'M SUPPOSED TO LIKE KEITH HERE IF MY USUAL TRENDS HOLD.

Also : I would like The Brain to decide whether it likes old people or jailbait, thank you. I swear. The degree in which I swing between ojicon and shotacon[*], it is hilarious. Oh hey, maybe that's why I like US/UK, it's an extremely old man and a really childish...*is bricked*

[*] By 'shota', I mean somewhere around 13-15 and you HAVE to be supercapable for your age. It's just a very huggable age range for anime characters. Extreme (6-10) shota does not hit my moe buttons.

I am STILL kind of blah toward Blue, which may be due to the hype, even though the last lines of the OP really get me and those were totally his and Jomy's lines. I do like Jomy, though.

Getting around to watching Terra E

2009-11-07T22:11:46Z

I did not expect an anime based on one of those (mostly awesome) vintage SF manga that was geared toward women to have AWESOME flying scenes. Who cares if the polygons are lowres, it's the directing that counts. (It may be enhanced by me knowing that things can ALWAYS go disastrously wrong in those vintage manga, so every missile fired can result in everything going downhill. Perhaps this is why manga from that age is so frequently awesome : they seldom have Get Out Of Jail Free cards, even for their special ability-ified heroes.)

Also observation : While I usually want to head-kick western heroes in books and movies, anything from Matrix to Nightmare Before Christmas, when they're being stupid, I find myself grinning when it's from vintage SF manga. Why? Do I just have higher tolerance because I grew up with those and could relate to those forms of stupidity more? I notice western bloggers tend to be less tolerant of Whinging People In Anime in general.

Well, yes, I'm sick and cannot do things and reading hurts my eyes, what else can I do with my time?

Still sick, but at least the fever's gone

2009-11-07T00:02:21Z

On P3 Portable : This is getting really close to a system seller for me, with the only catch being I need like five other games I remotely want to play on the PSP before I can justify the purchase to my conscience (there's two right now : Princess Antiphona and Peace Walker, although that does not consider the PS library I have if I get a model that could be coughcough). My P3 wherever I go! On the airplane! On the bus! And Social Links with ALL your party members, that is the sole feature I believe everybody wanted out of P3. Also it seems like they took quite a few 'story mode' improvements from P4, which is cool. P4's 'story mode' improvement is completely awesome.

Still. I have some reservations. That school event where you eventually find Fuuka (IIRC), in which you get stuck walking around with Yukari? If you play a girl in here, you get stuck walking around with Akihiko, apparently. While that sounds like enormous fun because Akihiko = Hilarity, I worry if this means Aki's your primary love interest on the girl side of things. AND THAT IS SO WRONG. I mean, I know this is the option most fujoshi would welcome with open arms because Aki's the soul of fangirl bait, and Junpei's out due to Chidori (unless you have some sort of post-spoiler bleep social link initiation, but wouldn't that be a repeat of...), Sanada Akihiko as your primary love interest of sorts is just SO WRONG. And I'm not even his slash fan! Also : Do I really want to think about the possible happenings in the July Shadow event?

They also need to add friendship tracks if they don't want the girl sleeping around with everyone by default, heh, which they probably don't considering this is Japan. Wonder if Minato also gets the benefits of this. He'd enjoy it if fewer people wanted to tear his pants off, I believe. And also since IIRC you get this option regardless of the gender you pick, I wonder if you can get yuri/BL routes depending on whether you pick Elizabeth or Theo as your Velvet Room liaison?

Despite my reservations and the rumor that the girl gets a better ending than Minato RARRR, though, I still want this game. So badly. Sigh.

equivalent_t @ 2009-11-05T09:43:00

2009-11-05T15:45:21Z

If you were the body----the body, I must emphasize, not the mind inhabiting the body---of a somewhat fatigued grad student who is finally freed from a rather ashkajdhkasjd work period, what would you do?

a) Get hungry. Tell the brain a feast must be getting ready, man!
b) Get sleepy. Rest. Rest SWEET RESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
c) Get extremely energetic. Finally time to do all those things!
d) Catch a cold.

Three guesses as to which choice ET's body made.

equivalent_t @ 2009-11-03T08:08:00

2009-11-03T14:13:18Z

Your semi-regular ET service will return on Wednesday evening.

Meanwhile, I am busy being horrified that I may have----horrors of horrors----finally turned into a real fujoshi. Hetalia! You have been the death of me!

(When you walk into your old fandom and 1) realize that the two mains' epic friendship which actually was extremely epic is also extremely slashy, 2) realize that in most of your new fandoms, you generally find the BL-esque relationships more interesting than the het, you get to re-evaluate your fandom preferences)

(Maybe it's just because I've ran into all variants of het under the sun. IDK. Or because I've started to identify with/like female characters less and less over the years, except for a few notable exceptions. (This is probably a symptom of my rejection of femininity and feminine sensuality, which tends to crop up in oodles.) Maybe it's just because I've turned into this slash-everything-together fujoshi. IDK. But then I still do prefer some het ships where it's interesting and makes sense...)

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-28T07:40:00

2009-10-28T12:43:31Z

Bullet points because I'm lazy.

1) I read Kimi ni Todoke during breakfast and it's rotting my teeth. Curse you and your recs, Taka! Extroverted Guy/Introverted Girl has never been this cute. And it's actually pretty funny, if I skip over Sawako's monologues. Flag-Crushing = Instant Hilarity. Always. (Yes, I am easily amused, why?)

2) COME WHAT MAY, I SHALL PWN THIS EXAM AND ENSLAVE ITS BABIES. DAMMIT. DAMMIT!

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-25T22:22:00

2009-10-26T03:23:02Z

Dear Me,
Subject : Your Work Habits

Can we try to not write, or come up with ideas for writing, or god forbid translate anything right now? I thought we had this conversation years ago! Why a relapse now! It's that nostalgia thing isn't it, gah, I knew that would not be good for me. And yet. And yet.

Anyway. Please to not be writing or spending time thinking of what to write. You owe about ten people this. And also your professor will probably hang your hide off the lab door.

Manage Your Time,
Me

P.S. You. Yes. You. Flist. If I somehow manage to try and come up with a fic, which is an unlikely prospect at best considering things, what sounds better? I'm thorough trying to convince myself which one is more worthy of the hair-pulling and which one is not. Or at least on a relative scale.

1) Austria/Hungary, post-battle of Mohacs in which Hungary falls under Vienna's jurisdication. There is crack, angst, and serial-murdering countesses in creepy castles who just happened to be named Elizabeth. Has been in head for a LONG time, but will take tons of research still.
2) US/UK, vaguely creepy vaguely steampunk longshot (har har) set in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. Simply put, US gets a mystery package after which his fingers starts rotting off and UK, who may or may not know why, has disappeared. Contains London, mad scientists, fairies, Scotland+Wales+horde of OCs and also UST.
3) US/UK, FR/CA vaguely creepy Hansel-Gretel retelling AU set maybe in the Civil War or any other era where parents kick their kids out of the house due to soldiers/plague/whatever at the door that is reasonably modern. Setting's not that important here. IDK. Parents is Sweden/Norway btw. Contains creepy!France, cabinets of curiousities, dead things and morbid boys.
4) I don't know what pairing it is anymore Spy AU in which MI6's Berlin section gets pwned by a Mole, CIA sends in greenhorns-who-happen-to-have-MI6-connections to inspect the damage on their side, East Berlin ex-soldiers waffle between his different hatreds and is also drinking buddies with sekrit MI6 badasses on the side, and there is this creepy Moscow Center dude waving sunflowers in the background while the French service figures out where the scraps are.
5) Allies vs. Axis Superhero AU in which US and CA are main characters with a side dish of US/UK and FR/CA and utter hilarity on the Supervillain pairings side (Axis also contains Hungary and Austria and Gil, which makes it a bit explosive sometimes). Contain crack, Indiana Jones-esque antics, time travel, immortal people, angst and charming coming-of-age clichery. I think I talked about this somewhere before, but can't recall where.

*crickets chirp*

[EDIT] Don't ask me how 1851 became 1885.

How I used to love you so, the mercy of RNG

2009-10-25T19:12:47Z

Dear Merric AND Soren :

When I actually tear myself out of work and spare the time to play a map each day (which I might not even be able to do as your maps are starting to get bigger), it would please me greatly if you could, you know, get an actual MAG stat. Especially you, tactician sir. Merric got his MAG screwed often enough in my old Monshou game that I could sort of resign myself to the fact, but you. Do you realize how wrong it is to go ten levels with two increases in STR but zip in MAG? (Although, you could go on being hilariously sappy. I wholeheartedly approve of IS making a Mage of InstaDeath your awesome tactician/logistics officer and then your gay love interest and they should totally keep up the trend; they've got to branch out from incest sometimes. Anyone who played the English version of Fire Emblem PoR, do you know if he's supposed to sound like Ninian in there when he's in IkeMode?)

I do notice a trend in FE since the original director left, BTW. The first FE's....including FE4, with its emphasis on human nature and Tearing Saga, with its political hilarity....have fights that practically boils down to "Here's a dark dragon, go kill it." FE6-10 seems to be more about accepting differences between you and the other guy. So yes, FE8 has some dubious plot devices, but I maintain that the real villain in there is the earthquake and a sense of despair that drives men mad. That despair was....more real than the other villains, and it makes you understand a bit of why 'they' are different. The rest is icing. And if I guess correctly, you don't get away with having the Yurius look without something to do with black dragons, so I'm waiting to see what 9-10 is throwing my way.

But then I ramble. I tend to do so these days.

Oh yes. I should mention. I still don't own a Cube or a Wii. I just figured out that the dual cores in my laptop ought to be good for something----finding the Japanese version (due to my disc not A) being here B) dumpable without a real Cube/Wii) on the net was a bitch, even on Share. But then everything is a bitch on Share.

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-10T20:01:00

2009-10-11T01:05:14Z

I was watching this to cure myself of manga!FMA-related blues----don't ask about my exam, I pwn this subject---and now I want a Wii. The bloody Wii is the LAST CONSOLE EVER that I'd wanted, really, Twilight Princess or no-----but but but both of them are just too cute! Especially the taisa. Taisa kawaii. Omochikaeri. Dammit they totally made this crack for fangirls didn't they. (Considering you can get a Roy/Ed version of this....but then again, everyone apparently can pimp everyone including but not limited to Armstrong...so maybe equal opportunities?)

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-09T22:41:00

2009-10-10T03:43:13Z

HIROMU ARAKAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

IF THAT SWORD DOES ITS JOB THEN I SHALL START EATING BEEF.

Amused

2009-10-07T13:48:14Z

According to this, ET's journal is apparently an ESFP. Which is rather hilarious, because I'm a pretty hardcore INTx and happens to look at those ESFP people with a certain degree of disdain! (If you happen to be one, it's not you, it's me. I happen to look down on people who live in the real world.)

Am getting everything done, I swear.

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-05T08:33:00

2009-10-05T13:36:50Z

OK, US/UK flist which at this point likely consists of one person : Would you happen to have the MAD that used to be here saved? It's played to 'Old Fashioned Love Song', IIRC, and I thought I had it saved but apparently I don't. It's the one that contains a shot of Al and Arthur playing on a PS2/Xbox together and crying together and has them drinking juice when Al decides to confess, if that helps.

Oh, and it has a hilarious karaoke sequence at the beginning. Can't forget that.

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-04T20:54:00

2009-10-05T01:56:45Z

Can you believe it? There was a time when she called me a 'literary genius'.

Sometimes I still wonder what happened to my inner writer. It just.....went, one day. And never really came back. Of course I was never as good as I thought I was, but at least...I could spit stuff out?

(Hi, I'm looking through my old LJ correspondence. I *have* been around longer than I appear, you know.)

equivalent_t @ 2009-10-03T09:00:00

2009-10-03T14:02:33Z

Wonderful. Wonderful.

This may be the first exam in my life that I've failed. And because of the stupidest reason. The fucking most stupidest reason. All that studying, for nothing!

Dear professor : Write the TIME on the blackboard next time, eh? Or maybe I should be more careful, considering we have a bunch of screaming introductory highschool course in the room at the last minute!

And what's worse, I think, is that I can't take my mind off of this. This has never happened before. I don't know how! Failed work, sucky things, I know how to distract myself from them. Failed exams? I don't know! I don't even know where to begin! What do I think of that wouldn't remind me of it? Is there such a thing?

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-26T17:27:00

2009-09-26T22:32:53Z

A non-Canada centric doujinshi in which Canada is totally the most awesome character ever? Nah, perish the thought.

NOT.

I did not know Yumeuta reprinted this. I DID NOT KNOW SHE REPRINTED THIS. Else I would have ordered it and its sequels (makes no sense to read sequels unless you've read the first, I'd say). Um, is this time to lose money again?

*looks at pile*

....perhaps not. But but but.

But let me reiterate : Canada is totally the most awesome character in that doujin. Seriously. (And no, don't ask me for details, it was a very quick read and my friend and I just embarked on a Suicide Project At Work In The Middle of Midterms, Which Is Bound To End Well.)

And once again, if you know what I'm talking about : I'm very, very terribly sorry. It's been gnawing on me. After the midterms, I promise.

In other news : I've been working in the middle of rain and fog for the past week and now appear to have caught something. Pre-20th century English farmers, I feel for you. Also there was a conference at a very awesome facility which had certain equipment that made me want to kill a wall in jealousy, but the details are kind of hush-hush on that.

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-26T14:37:00

2009-09-26T19:38:03Z

WHERE DID MY TIME GO

I AM TERRIBLY TERRIBLY SORRY

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-13T14:56:00

2009-09-13T20:08:57Z

I am working on The Projects and thus haven't been around, but I figure I'd post something about the totally weird going-ons of the SimLife.

.....So Arthur managed to get into the City Council and got really chummy with his boss, who happens to be a pregnant female. This is nothing outstanding. Kissing up to the boss is pretty much how Sims, especially in the political career, get ahead. (Although, both Alfred and Arthur seems to have nothing but female friends...I wonder if Playership runs in the family.) What's weird is how early one normal workday morning his boss appears at his house in a negligee.

Negligee.

And then proceeded to play computer games on her laptop, using his breakfast table. Somewhat at a loss (he was attempting to talk to her about work; this is typical of people who has the Ambitious trait I believe), he went gardening.

And then she started to have baby pains.

Naturally, being a family-oriented man, he rushed her to the hospital where her real hubby arrived a few hours later. It was a boy, whom his boss named....Alfredo (through the Name Generator List, so I hoped, it's either that or A) inappropriate attraction B) Arthur spouted off too much about how wonderful Alfred is, which he actually does a lot). Having witnessed the birth, he then got invited to his boss' manor, whereas he proceeded to the bar and had himself a drink. lol Arthur.

Which is the point his boss asked him to move in with them. In full sight of her husband, whom he had just met.

This is where I scratched my head a bit and went ".....EA, I know your purpose is to code crazy people, but in what world is this not a totally inappropriate relationship?" (Incidentally, the husband walked in and started insulting Arthur and then got into an argument with his wife about this behaviour. Er. I should remind you active sims do not romance people if I don't tell them to, so that is out of the window. This is just......yandere friendship?)

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-10T07:48:00

2009-09-10T12:54:11Z

You know, Al/Asa/Gil is a lot more fun than Al/Asa/Francis. IDK. I find such things more fun when there's a decent chance that the third party can actually win the day, which with France....they do have a lot of baggage, yes, and there're a lot of ways Asa can end up with Francis. But picking him willingly without Niichan 'healing' him with something? Snowball's chance in hell, as far as JFen throws it. Gil/Asa is more like "You know, my (dearly beloved and clearly doted upon) brother made me outdated and yours almost made you outdated, let's be stupid ex-awesomes together" and it's actually pretty cute.

..............Don't ask me why I suddenly say this. Result of reading something on the other side. Don't ask me where.

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-09T22:29:00

2009-09-10T03:33:27Z

So we've had blogs set up 'real time' from the World Wars, but how about one from the seventeenth century? English Civil War realtime blog, dude. It's not 'authentic', no, if we're referring to using 'actual diaries' because I don't think those existed in great abundance, but it's pretty much based on actual published tracts. I don't know it I find this to be incredibly geeky, impossibly awesome or possibly both.

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-08T20:36:00

2009-09-09T01:42:53Z

I don't get all this fanboy reaction to Okamiden. Which, if you haven't heard, is the Okami sequel. They're all like "Capcom's selling out for money" (Dude, if they want to sell out, they won't sell out with OKAMI of all things) "It's a downgrade, the graphics are going to be horrendous because it's not on an HD system" (Uh, I also had pipe dreams of it being on an HD system, but that's not realistically possible. Besides, how are you any different from the 'stupid masses' who passed it up because it didn't have l33t anti-aliasing up the eleventy, then?) or "It's a kiddie game now" (And Okami was adult how? Aside from Sakuya, that is).

And you know what? Fuck them. DQ9 looked gorgeous on the DS, it's not like throwing a series back into the stone age. And now that the first in-game movie of Okamiden is out, I suspect a lot of them are going to shut up and shuffle feet angrily. Because that thing? IS GORGEOUS. I mean...aside from some jaggies, it honestly don't look all that different from the PS2 version!

Chibiterasu, BTW, is cute enough to be a crime. D-divine puppy!?

Somehow all this IT'S NOT OKAMIIIIIII seething sounds rather similiar to the ones I heard for Suikoden. Fanbois will be fanbois?

P.S. Dear Alfred : It's impolite to invite your friends over and then ignore them to play catch with your dad. Also, you risk killing your controller via blood loss. Of all the things you want to grow up being, an astronaut?

P.S.2. Dear Arthur : Just admit that Al is better at Chess than you are already.

Sims : Are you trying to kill me?

2009-09-08T02:48:44Z

So because it's finally been modded enough to be played with some sense of internal logic, I loaded up my copy of Sims3 today. For, you know, the common fujoshi purpose. Naturally my first run was with a stand-in with a few pertinent traits to get the hang of the system, and then I created the real thing a couple of hours after I've figured out where to go and what to do.

Family of Fujoshi Shame consists of : Arthur E. Kirkland (adult, traits : Ambitious, Family-oriented, Loner, Green Thumb, Neat---E. in this case stands for 'Empire', to prevent confusion with any future Arthur households) and Alfred E. Kirkland, his son (child, traits : Brave, Lover of Outdoors, Good). And, while I totally just planned to be amused and observe, I did not plan for this game to kill me with moe.

The first day of the game was naturally a Sunday, where your Sims 'move in' and socialize with your 'starter' neighbours who'd come visiting. Arthur started the day off by...hugging Al and opening the house door for him. Which was totally cute. They made a beeline for the bookshelf and...sat reading next to each other on the sofa until the neighbours called. Both of them were ignoring the doorbell. XD So, out of propriety's sake, I broke the 'observation rule' and had him invite them in. Which he did. And then promptly ignored the visitors and launched into a conversation with Al, in which three hugs were had. Then Al asked him to go play tag outside, which he did, completely ignoring the neighbours for like four hours while they had a blast running outside. And since Al has more energy than Arthur, he's always like catching him and going like 'dad are you okay' when he's wheezing, and in the afternoon four more hugs were had. Which is like. Whoa. There was also this little break where Arthur had to go pee, which the neighbours ran up to talk to Al but then he was suddenly in a bad mood for socializing and kept thinking of his dad. Which is AWWWWW.

So the house I picked for them has two bedrooms : the master bedroom with the double bed, and the kid's bedroom with the single bed and the homework table. To my surprise, Al took the master bedroom and Arthur took the kid's bedroom. Al did toss and turn a lot, so maybe that fits him better, but then I found out that one thing Arthur likes to do coming off work is to sit on the bed and watch Al does homework with a doofy grin on his face, often falling asleep just when homework's done. Which is AWWWW. And while he's a Loner and thus gets a bad mood for being with too many people, he always has the 'awesomest time ever' mood when he just gets a bit of interaction with his son. And his mini-wishes----think of them as 'Fulfillable Moments of Happiness That You Can Either Help Make True Or Not'---consists of...aside from gardening...'Playing Catch with Alfred', 'Talking to Alfred', 'Seeing Alfred being the Honor Student'. And whenever Alfred is onscreen, he's usually thinking of Dad, too, and actually gets the 'awesomest food ever' when eating Dad's home cooking.

Which is AWWWW.

They weren't kidding when they put 'family' in family-oriented, I believe.

Also, Arthur knocked out the stove on the third day with a breakfast fire. I consider that pretty awesome. The tester I was playing before certainly never set his kitchen on fire, and he had the 'clumsy' trait, dammit!

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-03T00:48:00

2009-09-03T06:07:47Z

Finished reading! It's....hmm, a little bit hard to summarise. The whole book is a buildup towards 1812, so there's no real emotional climax like the one in Kissline, although the buildup is really quite good. As the name suggests, it's more or less gloomy throughout---you get the atmosphere that rain really is haunting it, even though there is only one raining scene. XD It will, however, satisfy the historical geeks in you.

Basically, it's England's train of thought from battle of Yorktown, fast forwards to America's insistence on trading with France during the Napoleonic years (this is where France appeared; to tell England/gloat over their current relationship, although there's a bit of a kinder undercurrent somewhere in there that suggests France sympathizes under all his jabs, most of which actually hurt. I love Niichan in this one). America also drops by in Europe to negotiate this with England and say how he doesn't have to obey what England says now and that he's not pleased with the British Navy blocking his sea lanes with France. England tried to talk to him like a stranger, and America kept telling him to 'look into my eyes when you say all that'. Naturally, the conversation didn't go well and England concluded that they had nothing more to talk about. This is when, um, the event happened. Although America, for all we know, doesn't appear to be truly mad : he's not desperately frustrated like in Kissline (though remember that we don't get to see it from his eyes this time) but more like testing the limits of what he could do. And what he wanted to do at that moment was to have England know that he's different now. And while I'd say that worked, the 'different' England ended up thinking and the 'different' America wanted are probably not the same things.

One thing about this book is, England keeps his emotions under much tighter guard than America. It looks like it'll pay off quite a bit in the final installment, but works much less well for the book's own climax. No, that was not a pun. It did not churn and roil and kick you in the gut like Kissline, is one thing readers should be aware of. But it will lurk underneath and tick the clock rather ominously. (Do we really need to wait another 200 years for that happy ending? GAH.)

The final line, btw, is "We'll destroy him along with France."

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-02T23:59:00

2009-09-03T05:00:29Z

Koishitau Tooki Ame no Oto (what I've been calling Longing Sound of Distant Rain) just came out. I worship this scanner, totally.

Expect summary here in this journal, STAT.

equivalent_t @ 2009-09-02T19:20:00

2009-09-03T00:28:18Z

So I went to After Field Mountain again today, just to check, and then I saw one webcomic that is said to be uploaded with the rest of the 'new' updates, but didn't seem to be there (or escaped my attention) last I look. To my great joy, it's her detective AU!

..........According to her, Inspector Jones' kirakira sparkles smile brings all the gay constables to the yard. (Well. It IS Scotland Yard....) And Mr. Williams was frequently the object of undesired attention while he was still in the Oh-so-British boarding school. One would expect that Mr. Jones would have had his share of 'admirers' as well, being practically identical but with a roguish charm, but to act this admiration out on him probably would require said admirers to have a death wish. Mr. Jones only had eyes for the World's Only Consulting Detective. XD As for the Consulting Detective...apparently he is fairly popular with the ladies, not that he'd notice. And seemed to be planning Moriarty-worthy schemes upon his assistant's school admirers when he learned of the anecdote.

And the Phantom Thief? He, apparently, is very popular with other people's wives.

I am currently torn between death of laughter and feeling bad for poor Mr. Williams. Oh, Matthew!