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[taotrooper]

Fandom Laws, Irasto Corolary:
If a book series is big in Japan, there will be at least one union/webring. If you're lucky enough, after a lot of surfing, you'll get to at least one Japanese site with *good* fanart (not only doodles in oekakis, pretty stuff that makes you drool and stare.) And chances are, the links section will have a 70% of nice links.

Guess what I did today. Not study that much (it's not my fault, my concentration falls down with PMS synthoms!) I almost finish the Howl/Sophie fanlisting, and I had a urge for Japanese fanart hunting. My findings for Howl's Moving Castle:

Ruthia
Memewo
Pingos
Piece

Some of them are book-only, and others are both book and anime-based. I like the book ones better, since there Sophie is red-haired like she should be XD

Hmmm, I need to make Howl icons.

Edit: seen today in a community...
Person 2: "Yeah it is!! My fav couple is Sakura and Syaoran, but who doesn't like them?"
Person 1: "Yes!! Everyone love Sakura x Syaoran. They're just SO cute together that you can't not like them. ^_^ *squeal*"
Me: *raises hand* I do not love them... And besides, I don't think it makes grammatical sense to write "can't not", but that's just a hunch.

Of course, I didn't post that as then I would be the wanker. Again.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I need to make Howl icons.

Wonderful ! I was planning to do some, but finding pics is difficult (apart from that french website... but not good quality)
and thanks a lot for those links which I will now spend the night exploring, evil you ^^

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I won't do them until finals are over, mind you. But I will. I must. Howl's hotness will be inmortalized.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Good luck for those then ;)

[gekidasa.livejournal.com]

LOL. I'm not nuts about Syaoran x Sakura either. Eriol x Syaoran = much more amusing. >D

/Murasaki from TAFL

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I used to kinda like it, at the beginning, but the fandom made me sick of it. The stupid preteens squeeing with lack of spelling and grammar, the AU badfics, the pink and the petals and the cuteness and the sugar...

...

It's the fandom's fault. Really.

Eriol/Yamazaki is more plausible

[gekidasa.livejournal.com]

Eriol/Yamazaki is more plausible

Yes. Yes it is, actually. >DD

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Eriol/Yamazaki is more plausible

I am SO glad I didn't have to be the first one to say that. XD (I was tempted to say that to a couple of E/T rabid shippers once, but I was afraid they'd take it as a challenge...)

I do love S/S, though. In canon (the real one, not TRC). But I can't stand 1)the badfic 2)the fans who think CCS is only about that. On the other hand, I have nothing against the cuteness and the sugar. ^_^

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I was fine with the cuteness at first... I don't know, maybe I became more cynical? That, or the fandom got worse and I started hating the cliches. Quién sabe.

[flowright.livejournal.com]

saw howl's moving castle yesterday and now I'm curious about the book....

for SakuraxShaolan they may someimes are cute (I don't deny their cute power) but they sound/seem very fake to me.

Sure Shaolan had a crush on Sakura but Sakura having feeling for Shaolan just popped out from nowhere in the last volume, as if kodansha didn't want the main character to be left alone at the end of the story.

My heart is still bleeding for tomoyo anyway ^_^;;;

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

After reading the CLAMP no Kiseki interview, I wouldn't be surprised if Kodansha pressured CLAMP for making a non-open, happy ending. Or maybe they felt they had to draw it like that, because if the manga ending looked like the anime one, hordes of fans would hunt them down.

Well, at least it seems less forced than Eriol/Kaho... *sighs*

I love you!!

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeee! Links! HMC fanart! Shiney! *bounces around*

(no, there will be no sense from me for a while. I had no idea HMC fanart even existed. *grin*)

Re: I love you!!

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Enjoy ^_^