| Meatloaf and personal hygiene. It's what's for dinner! |
[Jan. 30th, 2010|04:12 pm] |
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| |  pondering | ] |
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| | "The Room" Rifftrax | ] |
Odd coupling of total items purchased on a trip to the drug store:
A box of panty liners and a large bottle of ketchup.
I wondered if anyone thought I was off to play a prank or something. |
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| Sometimes they're shaped like bears. I seem to recall hearts at least once. |
[Jan. 28th, 2010|05:50 pm] |
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| |  cycle day 1 (no surprise) | ] |
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| | MST3K, "The Sword and the Dragon" | ] |
I like questing in the candy aisles at the drug store around the holidays, because that's the reliable time and place to find "Milk Chocolate Flavored" foil-wrapped treats. I don't know what is lacking in them to restrict them from being actual milk chocolate (they contain skim milk and cocoa. That's not enough?) but they have a fudgy melty taste that no "milk chocolate" product mimics, and I get cravings for them once a year or so. I'm a foody, but I'm no food snob. *eats another gold coin* |
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| *I* like Spartacus! |
[Jan. 23rd, 2010|09:48 pm] |
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| | misc. yaoi dvds | ] |
Okay, I really hope Spartacus: Blood and Sand keeps an audience. It could not be more chock-full of gratuitious blood and nudity and vulgarity. The characters are more than just archetypes, and the women kick some serious ass, YES. I like it much better than I ever liked HBO's Rome. KEEP IT UP, STARZ. |
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| Fic Rec: Kings of the Air, by Fabula Rasa (Top Gun) (friendslocked) |
[Jan. 14th, 2010|06:21 am] |
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| | Kenny Loggins izza god | ] |
You've got no excuse. You all saw Top Gun--well, okay, some of you younger ones haven't, but you sure as hell have heard "Danger Zone" and "Take My Breath Away" thirty thousand times on the retro station, and you all want to read ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fabularasa's exquisite Top Gun slashfic, 25,000 words and just packed with yummy yummy angst/romance manlove in the way Fabula does it so beautifully. Stop worrying that it's going to make you want to mullet your hair and just go read. The 80s command you! |
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| Holiday Drabbles, Various Fandoms set |
[Jan. 7th, 2010|06:02 pm] |
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| | "The Snow Queen" with Bridget Fonda | ] |
Various fandom drabbles to repay snowflake v-gifts! (PG-13 at the most, sorry.)
( For alice_montrose: Kuroshitsuji, Sebastian/Undertaker )
( For glockgal: Watership Down, Bigwig/Hyzenthlay )
( For midnitemaraud_r: Kyou Kara Maou, Gwendal/Conrad, loyalty )
( For an anonymous Who fan: Doctor Who, Doctor/Master, chains )
jenna_thorn, got any fandom/pairing in mind for that wedding request? I could still give it a go! |
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| Lord Bereshti's Concubines: Complete |
[Jan. 3rd, 2010|07:41 am] |
Yes, I'm a little giddy. I've finished writing Lord Bereshti's Concubines. *happy dances* The final chapters are posted; the novel is nearly sixty thousand words and forty thousand of them are dirtay dirtay porn, eeeee.
I never wanted to write Y!A books. Never even wanted to write "plotty story with slashy romance developing throughout and a sex scene or two to spice it up before the end." Not that there's anything wrong with those, but I want to write erotica, and the porn/text ratio of LBC makes me very, very happy. Ten thousand roses of gratitude to fabularasa for incredible beta duty.
For those of you who wanted LBC to be complete before subscribing to SL Publishing, your wisdom is evident; I don't like reading WIPs myself, not until they're done. For those who would like to read now, a one-month subscription ($8.95 U.S.) to the site will allow you access for one month to everything published so far on the site, including all 60k words of Lord Bereshti's Concubines (plus works by five other authors). (Yes, you can save everything for future re-reading!) We authors at SL Subscriptions are paid in a percentage of subscriptions for every month that we post new chapters--so, yeah, if there's a spike in January subscriptions, I'll know I did my part. ^_^
And for those who are undecided, well, not much else I can say; the novel has to stand as its own temptation. You can read the first three chapters for free on the site and see. The summary once more: Silvian is the favorite concubine of a wealthy lord. When a new, reluctant concubine is added to the collection, Silvian takes it upon himself to save the new one from his fears, with unplanned results.
Warnings/enticements: explicit sex, yaoi, strong language, dubious consent, bondage/punishment kink.
And in February, I'll begin a new erotic novel. Mwah. |
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| Holiday Drabbles, HP set |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|08:17 pm] |
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| | "Swing Parade" Rifftrax | ] |
First set of holiday drabbles, in thanks for the snowflake v-gifts! I decided to do all the HP ones first, and tomorrow or soon I'll tackle the other fandoms. They're all rated about, oh, R.
( For cluegirl: Remus/Lucius, St. Andrew's Cross )
( For christwise: Regulus/Remus, hair )
( For ella_bane: Draco/Hermione, potion )
( For the_flic, accioslash, and persephone_blue: Snape/Harry, Detention Served universe )
( For ll24ever: Remus/Sirius/Harry, ribbons ) |
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| Yuletide Reveal |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|01:34 pm] |
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| |  baring all! | ] |
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| | Mystery Fandom Theater, "Star Crash" | ] |
So, what did I write for Yuletide? One full-length fic and two Madness ficlets.
Master Li and Number Ten Ox fandom (Bridge of Birds and sequels, Barry Hughart):
The Huli Jing
jenqzy asked for "a new brief Li/Ox adventure," in the style of the books. Thank you so much for the inspiration; I wouldn't have dared to try to create it if you hadn't asked! 3475 words.
Baccano! fandom:
When They First Met
Miaou Jones asked for Isaac/Miria fic, and anythingbutblue and bananastasia said they wanted fic of how Isaac and Miria might first have met. I've had my "isn't it obvious?" opinion on that since the first episode. 523 words.
WALL-E/ Battlestar Galactica crossover:
Souvenirs
ageorwizardry wanted to see these two fandoms come together, so I had just enough of an idea to make a ficlet out of it. 286 words.
Thanks to everyone who commented; every one of the reviews had me squeeing! |
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| Yuletide writing drawing to a close... |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|07:20 pm] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
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| | rankin-bass christmas specials | ] |
One official Yuletide story already in, and today two Yuletide Madness drabble-ficlets completed and uploaded. Think I'll call it a night!
(This was much more fun than wrapping presents.) |
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| Graphics card and logic board aren't speaking to each other. BABIES. |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|08:39 pm] |
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| | Monster (is this ep 18? I think) | ] |
Jusso y'all know, the components of my laptop have had a hissy, and it's in the shop. Which means I'm computing on my four-year-old iBook, bless its pre-cambrian heart, and which means every time I want to open a browser tab it's two minutes of Spinning Beach Ball Of Death. (Y!M won't even work, the version's so old.) So I won't be disappearing but my communication will be..let's say select until I get the laptop back.
Work on writing is not hindered. I continue! |
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| Let it snow COOKIES! |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|05:58 am] |
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| |  giggly | ] |
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| | still haven't watched The Waters of Mars! argh! | ] |
Oh, my! What a beautiful snowstorm of cookies on my userinfo page! You guys are the best. Thank you so much, the_flic, accioslash, glockgal, cluegirl, tbranch, titti, ziasudra_fic, cordelia_v, karasu_hime, midnitemaraud_r, goseaward, tartanshell, chinatree, bewarethesmirk, alice_montrose, iscaris, jenna_thorn, shezan, bookshop, hpstrangelove, ella_bane, not_sally, annephoenix, djinn, painless_j, and the anonymouseses. *MWAH!*
I want to reciprocate with content--can I write you guys drabbles? Give me a pairing and a prompt, any of the fandoms you know I write in or squee about. And anyone can ask for a drabble, not just those people on the list above! I won't promise to do them all but I'll try to pick some that will please the maximum number of people on my flist, especially those in the above group. |
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| Don't eat while reading this. Eeesh. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
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| | Treasure Planet DVD | ] |
By the way, hearkening back to my earlier post--this doesn't spoil anything, since you can see on the Yuletide list of requested fandoms that no one asked for it--I did not get assigned to write for Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs. I decided, when I accidentally included it in the list, that rather than redo my list I'd just go read the book once and for all, even before the assignments came out, so I got it from the library.
I got through Ulysses easier than this. This is...guys, I have written some interesting metaphors myself in my time, some of them admittedly more purple than should be seen outside of crackfic, but this takes them all:
...Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus...
I can't even facepalm. It's too squicky. |
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| Also, being by myself, I got to watch anything I wanted on tv, not football. Anime yaoi, ho! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|10:07 pm] |
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| |  full | ] |
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| | hikaru no go, ep 70 | ] |
I had to work part of the holiday, so I just counted the time I did have off as a good thing, and took it easy rather than make plans with others. I did make time to make a yummy dinner for myself from scratch:
Chicken with sun-dried tomatoes in dijon-riesling-cream sauce
Sesame noodles
Spicy peanut butter soup
Tart green salad with proscuitto and asiago and warm balsamic dressing
Warm butterscotch-maple pudding
I love mixing cuisines. |
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| Yuletide biz. |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|05:35 pm] |
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| | entertained | ] |
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| | the year without a santa claus (on vhs, no less) | ] |
Ooh, I like my assignment for Yuletide lots. I thought I might get this one last year; it's something I've loved for a long time and am thrilled to have the motivation to write for it.
Regarding my own request,
Dear Yuletide Santa/Kringle/Hanukkah Fairy/etc.:
Everything I had to say about the specific fandoms, I think I covered in my request. If you'd like to hear more details about my fic likes in general:
Yes, I love slash. I discovered I liked m/m slash at the same time I dove headfirst into fanfiction; it was not a coincidence. Three of these four fandoms that I chose for Yuletide, I chose because I cherish the slashy possibilities of the two main characters. Having said that, I also like friendship fic, pre-slash hints, femslash, humor, crack (I adore well-done crack), Alternate Realities... I love NC-17 smut, but I won't be sad if the fic chooses not to go there, not if it doesn't feel right to you.
Please don't feel you have to write an epic. Short fic is often the most rewarding. I eat up even drabbles. Write me 5 200-word drabbles to make the word count minimum; I'll still go ape.
Thank you so much! |
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| Dirty, dirty AU non-con fic. NOW. |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
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| |  unf | ] |
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| | The Brak Show | ] |
So I finally got around to seeing Transformers...
Megatron: "Is it fear or courage that compels you, fleshling? Give me the Allspark and you may live to be my pet."
Me: *pants* Oh, F**K. I need fic. |
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| It's called a stuffing cage. |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|06:03 pm] |
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| |  dirty-minded | ] |
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| | RSC 1998 The Winter's Tale | ] |
First thing I said when I saw this in the Bed Bath and Beyond flyer was, "There's gotta be porn of that somewhere." |
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| Exchange fest musings |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
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| | Rifftrax Fantastic Four | ] |
I filled out my Yuletide form, and when I saw that I'd messed up on one I'd volunteered to write--picked Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs instead of Watership Down--I thought, fudge, if I get stuck with that one, I should just suck it up, go read the book and write the damn thing. S.O.'s been telling me for years I should read it.
For exchange fests like these I get more excited thinking about what I'd like to write. What I request is a bit bewildered-feeling, half-hearted. Is that what everyone feels? When I click with a fandom, I usually think about the story that comes to me, which means it's a story I want to write, not a story I want someone else to write.
What I want from other authors are the stories I can't think of. |
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| Comic update and an arrrgh. |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|02:18 am] |
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| |  *facepalm* | ] |
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| | im in ur comic pages lookin at hot boyz | ] |
*smacks head*
Good news: Starfighter has been updated!
Bad news: I FORGOT ABOUT IT WHEN YULETIDE NOMS CAME AROUND. And it didn't make the list from anyone else either. Arrrgh. |
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| Yuletide noms. Omnomnoms. |
[Oct. 18th, 2009|08:01 pm] |
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| | Defying Gravity eps. Too much soap opera, not enough SF. | ] |
Made my Yuletide list. I asked for 4 fandoms already on the list:
BlackJack
Ginn Hale - Wicked Gentlemen
Kuroshitsuji
Sunshine (2007)
And I added two that weren't:
Arturo Perez-Reverte - Captain Alatriste series
Michael Manning - Androgyne series (The Spider Garden/Hydrophidian/In a Metal Web)
I was surprised those hadn't been on there! For those who are curious about the latter, it's graphic novel erotica, and as intricately visual as it is, it's got a fascinating plot that was cliffhangered in the last volume, so it screams for fanfic. Check out the author's lj at metalweb. Note: Manning's stuff is very NSFW and he doesn't hide his art behind cut-tags, bless him. |
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| From starchy sticks of bitterness to 300-proof rotting slime in ten seconds flat. IT HAPPENS. |
[Sep. 16th, 2009|08:49 pm] |
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| | Carnival of souls Rifftrax | ] |
Me: I hate that I've become so picky about bananas. They've got to be at the exact stage of ripeness and not beyond or I won't eat them.
S.O.: I know what you mean, I'm the same way.
Me: You watch them like a hawk: too green, too green, too green, not quite yet, a little more-- and then you take ONE bathroom break and suddenly, oh, f**k, I missed the window!
S.O.: Took yer eyes off 'em just long enough to inhale. And it's all over.
Me: Yeah, sometimes you hit them in that twelve-hour time span when they're edible. And just one day beyond that...
S.O.: ...it's time to call in John Constantine.
In other news, I watched the first episode of Ouran High School Host Club twice tonight, once in Japanese with subtitles and one with English, and, damn, I have to say, that's a great English dub. Think I'm gonna go with it. |
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| Kuroshitsuji icons |
[Sep. 1st, 2009|08:21 pm] |
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| | accomplished | ] |
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| | Hans Christian Andersen | ] |
The S.O. and I watched all the episodes of Kuroshitsuji together and, of course, MSTied the hell out of them (like you do). The end credits for the later episodes got a lot of jokes made by both of us, so I made icons for 'em.
Preview:
  
Take, enjoy, credit or not, it's all good.
( Twelve Kuroshitsuji icons below the cut ) |
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| AVATAR FIC: An Immodest Proposal (G, ~1600 words, shippy) |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|08:00 pm] |
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| | squeeful | ] |
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| | MST3K, "Racket Girls" | ] |
GUYS GUYS FINISHED WATCHING AVATAR TODAY
I BRING FIC
(and now I can join communities and look at wikipedia pages and stuff wheeeeee)
Title: An Immodest Proposal
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Summary: His second official act isn't as well-received.
Rating: Very very G.
Words: ~1600
Author's Notes: A little scene I imagined as the last episodes approached. Something to flesh out the denouement, for the incorrigible multishipper in me. Spoilers for the series.
*****
( His first official act... ) |
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| Bits and bites |
[Aug. 1st, 2009|12:11 pm] |
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| |  here and there | ] |
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| | Freeze (Korean vampire miniseries) | ] |
-I have no proper con report for Azkatraz, as the gist of it goes, "Glomped this person, glomped that person, glomped those people," and has no anecdotes of crazy doom to entertain you. Plain, delightful fun that does not make for clever blog posts. Not that I'm complaining in the least. Those of you who made my weekend awesome, you know who you are.
-I did remember that it was Harry's birthday yesterday. But when it came time for cake, I was craving an egg tart. If I sang over it, that counts, yes?
-In my travels I saw some in-flight films, among them Monsters vs. Aliens. There were some joke-went-on-too-long, they're-pausing-too-long-for-audience-reaction flaws, but it was still oodles of fun and my favorite new oath is Hugh Laurie as Mad Scientist Cockroach Guy (still the consummate gentleman) crying, "Hawking's Chair!"
-Anime series I am currently giving a try: Monster. Tortured ethical protagonist. Ristorante Paradiso. Cute gentlemen waiters of middle age in glasses. Variety is important.
-Why I have not yet finished watching Avatar: Because there's a large joy-post coming shortly to celebrate my love for it before I reach the end. |
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| So much shiny today! Must keep posting! |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|02:41 pm] |
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| | delighted | ] |
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| | funny 'cos it's true | ] |
This is my new favorite thing in the world.
Must make into icon. And I think I will order everything on their site just to thank them. |
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| Unless they suspect your mad photoshop skillz... |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|07:20 am] |
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| |  bemused | ] |
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| | I got nuttin' | ] |
I just saw something about a local event thingy that will provide some free medical services for those who are unemployed. At the end it states, "You must provide proof of unemployment."
...
"Yeah, here's a photo of me sittin' on the couch playing Nintendo yesterday afternoon. See the timestamp? Two p.m." |
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| "You know, this isn't Lysistrata. I LIKE it, but it isn't Lysistrata." |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
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| | bouncy | ] |
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| | "Bet Torgo's changing back there." | ] |
Torchwood, I'm just 13 episodes away from finishing Avatar and I'm also trying very hard to get some writing done; did you have to have a mini-marathon this week? You couldn't have checked my schedule first? Nooooo, you couldn't, could you. I can't even save the episodes for later because I won't be able to read half my flist's posts, that's all anyone's talking about.
But Children of Earth is a great deal of fun. Shouldn't be complaining. I'm a little bewildered as to why everyone thinks it's the best Torchwood stuff evar; it's typical, solid Torchwood to me, which means it's fun and you've got to turn off your brain a bit and eat up the Captain Jack Bi-fabulous fanservice as it comes. Which I've never had a problem doing for Torchwood. MOAR BOYKISSING POPCORN PLZ. |
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| Current anime/animation experiences |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|05:53 am] |
I have given Fullmetal Alchemist (the original series) three episodes, and that's one more than I gave Bleach, and it doesn't have me, so, I'm stopping. I will give the new version of the series a try.
And I had thought 07 Ghost had me with the first episode--military-in-training BFF boys! Lost amnesiac royalty! He-killed-my-dad revelations!--but then episode two changed the setting and started inserting the supernatural stuff in handfuls, and that's a story I no longer care about so much.
Who was it who asked me to check out Soul Eater? I watched the first episode. It's cute and well-done! But it's not dark enough to hold me. (No, I can't explain why something needs to be "dark enough" and yet I can't get enough of Chi's Sweet Home/Chi's New Address. The rest of you are free to tell me why.)
Those of you gleeful that I'm watching Avatar, I've finished the first season and am squee-dancing as I wait for more discs to arrive. It's wonderful.
Back to mainlining Hikaru no Go. I've read the manga and am reliving the joy and tears all over again now that I'm watching the anime. (The manga's so huge I can't even remember how some of this s**t goes down and I'm on the edge of my seat every episode. That's a series.) |
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| I gotta draw the line, dammit! |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|08:36 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | kuroshitsuji | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  annoyed (but oddly aroused) | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Film Crew, "Wild Women of Wongo" | ] |
Just read the lastest translated chapter of the Kuroshitsuji manga. Arrrrrgh, Ciel Phantomhive, you will NOT give me an emetophilia fetish! No no no NO!
(Hurt/Comfort, it's just a form of hurt/comfort, must keep telling myself that. Calm down lil bobcat.) |
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