Mahjong for the win

[taotrooper]

Happy belated birthday, fujurpreux! ^_^

OMG MAHJONG.

I'm so, so, so, SO glad Yuuko is back in action. I missed you so much! T___T Meanwhile, I'm the one of the rare people in fandom who loves Yuuko because she's so Yuuko-ish and amazing and funny, and not because she provides D/W subtext. Sigh. Recognize Yuuko beyond that, for Mokona's sake.

OMG MAHJONG. Exorcism by playing mahjong could only happen in this manga. I must be insane, because any China reference turns my ship-radar on. Gee, I wonder who could've told her such obscure fact about Chinese exorcisms! It's not like ever she knew anyone who lived in China, no sir-ee. *kills plotbunnies with a kitchen knife* Also, can we set "Mahjong Solitaire" as an optional shipname for Clow/Yuuko, pleeeeease?

OMG MAHJONG. I loved how the circle-1 tiles had a Mokona on them X3

OMG MAHJONG. It brings me back to Gohou Drug in a good way. Heck, even in the way Watanuki gets the tiles over his head while losing, just like Kazahaya. Of course, Yuuko and Kakei must play mahjong together like the BFF they are. Maybe she got the idea of playing mahjong with her boys and embarrass Watanuki in the process from Kakei himself. *stabs more bunnies*

OMG MAHJONG.

And Yuuko's faces are so made of awesome *o* Decided! I'll be making a Yuuko mood theme! And some icons! *kills the iconbunnies who tried to hump the surviving plotbunnies*

If you excuse me, I'm craving some mahjong solitaire.

ETA: For my own reference, Wikipedia's entry for the manga AKAGI.

Comments

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Come on, you know they totally played it.

Why yes, they certainly did! And Yuuko complained a lot because Clow kept cheating. She wanted to see him as naked as she was, dammit.

I was just saying "mahjong solitaire" because it's a merge between solitaire (Clow's fanon game) and mahjong (what Yuuko has played in canon). As far as we concern, if we tell we ship "strip mahjong" in XXXHOLiC, people could say we ship Yuuko/Doumeki/Watanuki/Mokona. Um.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

*blink* Point, that.

We need to make that populatr. It's better than 99% of the pairing names out there. "Pumpkin pie"? "The Government Stole My Toad"??? And I still don't get Donuts, though that one did start as a stupid in-joke and then grew big.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I find The Government Stole My Toad sort of cute. It's still more original than most of the purple prose-filled or name-merged ship names in that fandom.

It's really stupid. I eat Donuts as a Snack sometimes, and I let me tell you I don't ship either D/W or Sirius/Snape. I liked the Japanese ship name version, 104, because it's short and not so idiotic.

If you think Mahjong Solitaire is a nice name, we should go for it and make it the next Donuts. It's still smarter than, say, Alcoholic Love or Tequilashipping. We can't even use initials because it could also mean Clow/Yue. Merging won't do since Cluuko or Yuuklow sound just ugly.

Or we should stick to Clow/Yuuko?

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I think we can get away with Mahjong Solitaire as an in-joke. It's not like we're popular and it'll invade the fandom.

Which, by the way, is what happened with Donuts - I was there when it was born. A girl in my flist started it as a joke ("if Harry/Hermione can have a stupid name like Pumpkin Pie, I can call them Donuts!" or something along those lines). And then it was all over the fandom and she was all "uh, I was joking".

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I know that. Sometimes I check the flistflist, and I saw when lazulisong was all WTF because they took her seriously. She was also linking the original entry that day, IIRC.