Shades of Noir?

I am currently struggling to work my way through Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and remembering why I seldom step out of genre writing when I pick up a book.

In non-genre writing, no one is ever happy.

And that's completely setting aside the whole foot-binding thing.

Lava Doesn't Work Like That!

After watching more Gokaiger with hoshikage this evening, I pulled up the first two episodes of Transformers: Rescue Bots.

( slightly spoilery stuff here )