Random observation

Most of the fictions I'm fascinated with at the moment are concerned to some degree with religion. Even some of the music I'm listening to at the moment is. I find that vaguely... weird. Somebody trying to tell me something?

The evidence:

- It's Walky! (webcomic): has a main character who starts out very religious, then goes through a non-religious phase, then rediscovers her faith, struggles with it, but ultimately holds on to it.

- The Book of the New Sun (novel): has all kinds of religious motifs/themes. The Urth mailing list is debating religious stuff a lot.

- Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 series): the Cylons, especially Six, have this thing about God...

- Angel's Egg (movie): mysterious Japanese animation movie that may or may not be a religious parable. Cross-like objects and insubstantial fish abound.

- BE (Pain of Salvation album): seems to deal with religion, as well.

I was drawn to none of these things due to their religious content; in each of these cases I only discovered the subtext while reading/watching/listening to the 'text' in question.

I declare this the day...

... I actually start catching up with my LJ backlog, which by now encompasses 63 LJs, 8 communities, and about six months of entries.

So, if you suddenly start getting replies to really, really, really old entries, you know why.

I think I don't need to explain that the actual catching up will probably take a while, as I have other stuff to do besides reading thousands of LJ entries. I'll take it one LJ at a time, I think...

BTW, welcome to my friends list, aislingde and magnifica7. And hi also to _happyme_ who friended me. Haven't friended you back yet, but will certainly check out your LJ... and your vids. ;-) Friending back is definitely an option, I just don't do it that easily.