Journey into Mystery

1. Friends cut time. I'm really sorry if it was your turn, guys. If I defriended you, one of these might be the reason:
→ Your account has been kind of dead for a while.
→ Your account is active, yeah, but I see no newer post lately, meaning you filtered me out and um. I guess that means you don't like me anymore?
→ I do like you, really, but there's something about your latest posts/comments that annoys me too much or reeks of arrogance, and telling you this would be too rude and might harsh your squee.
→ We have not talked in a long time, we've grown distant and strange.
→ I met you a few months ago and we never truly connected.

Um, I suppose we can discuss this, if you feel I made a mistake. Or if you weren't defriended but want to cut me, take the chance and do it now? Anyway, I rarely make flocked posts now so you're not missing anything if you wish to keep me. I use my flist more like a reading list, really.

2. Yuletide reveal! I wrote Somewhere between stories, a The Last Unicorn fanfiction. It's Schmendrick/Molly, post-novel, and my usual "just keep talking, you idiots" brand of dialog-centric writing. Funny story: I had a plot planned when I got my assignment, but I had no time to pull it out and wrote metatastic fluff instead. But it's cool, because this was what my recipient wanted. Even if it's chaotic I'm happy with it and it even had some feedback/rec.

3. I had something else to say, but I'll leave it to another post.

Okay, I know I have prompts left to fill here, but eh.

Give me a character or pairing* (or several characters for genfic!) and a prompt. I'll write you 2-4 lines of fic.

x Up to four requests by person.
x Asking for something more specific is fine, but the basics of the meme must be there.
x Time to write the requests: 1 hour after the comment is posted. I don't work well with time limits.
x I reserve the right to reply in Spanish if the requester speaks it and it makes my life easier.
x Crossovers are welcome and encouraged.



* I'm... peculiar with pairings and can't really write something I'm not into or can't see so... unless you're sure I ship it? ...Don't ask as a pairing.

Series?
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- XXXHOLiC (only gen, unless Clow/Yuuko)
- Most CLAMP (ask before, just in case)
- Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- One Piece
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Fruits Basket
- Ouran Host Club (manga)
- Princess Tutu
- Aria
- Kino no Tabi
- Mushishi
- Mononoke (only gen)
- Vinland Saga
- Okami
- Zelda games for N64
- Ace Attorney
- Tales of Symphonia (only gen)
- Odin Sphere
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Good Omens
- Mansión-verse -of fandoms/characters I'm familiar with

1. After finishing the second case of Apollo Justice, I can say with no fear of being mistake that the one(s) who localized this game MUST be the one(s) who did Okami. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR. And no, it's not my obsession or anything: it is THAT obvious. Every time Klavier opens his mouth. But the icing of the cake was...

Auf Wiedersehen, baby.

That... oh GOD XD It's like, do you HAVE to use this amount of random fangirl [insert European language here] to translate the Engrish-loving blond guys in your games, CAPCOM America? Don't make me like Klavier just because he has dialect patterns in common with Waka, okay?

2. Just a random question. As fanfic writers/fandom roleplayers, what do you find more stimulating?
a) Exploiting relationships you find interesting, even though you can't get into half of the pair (or both of them) for your life
b) Exploiting characters you find interesting, regardless of relationships (unless it's essential for the fic/RP/characterization in general)
c) Both of them
d) It depends of the case

For me, unless I have a really good plotbunny for a) or I'm forced to write it in an exchange, it's b) I'm a sucker for introspection or showing character reactions, even when writing pairings. I usually feel only comfortable writing pairing fic for ships in which I like or find interesting both halves (AND like their dynamics), because otherwise I don't have fun if I have to think too hard on how the one I like least would act. I normally have no idea, and I'm into IC writing, so for me it's a bit of a problem. It's not easy to get the voice of someone you're not entirely fond of right, unless the character is too similar to you.

3. More crossover ficlets. etrangere asked for Fakir and Shigure Sohma. ( I apologize for my sucky Gure characterization beforehand )

【THE TIME CAPSULE MEME】=> my thread

More anime movies, this time Kino no Tabi: The country of disease (for you). Now, I missed Kino no Tabi. I really enjoyed it, some sort of extra episode more than a movie. It feels quite like the original series in narrative with the usual fucked-up twist in the end, although it's not a surprise considering it's a novel story. But anyway, I found it quite well, cute and sad. It took me a bit to get used to the art, though. Also, Hermes talking to another motorcycle and expecting a reply was both funny and "aww" at the same time.

There should be more random movies or OVAs of Kino to animate interesting novel chapters. It's just so bittersweet they tease us like this.

( Fanfic meme, now that Yuletide is over )

I'm doing the Watanuki-centric fics I was asked today, since it's his birthday. Yay!

Title: Mystery box I couldn't come up with a witty name, sue me
Genre: Crack
Fandom: XXXHOLiC/Cardcaptor Sakura
Rating: PG for swearing
Characters: Yuuko, Watanuki, Nakuru, Spinel, Eriol and black Mokona. Oh my!
Pairing: implied Clow/Yuuko. Eriol/Kaho if you squint.
Words: +1600

( Read more... )

Except the last one got life of its own, surpassed the required situation, and ended up as an one-shot.

For ghostly_watcher, Watanuki with guardians (except it wasn't just one, and he didn't "run into" them, and it wasn't just the guardians)

( Mystery box )

And tomorrow I'll get to update the RP. I was going to do it last night, but my connection was wonky, and today I had to get rid of this bunny.

Sorry. Some were longer than others, and they're definitely a bit long for drabbles. But I had nothing better to do and I got inspired. Anything to overcome the pain.

For csakuras, ( Edward and Ling )



For shirasakura, ( Tomoyo and Kurogane )



For katharos_8, ( Touya/Yukito )

20 minutes capped. Seven hundred and something screencaps. 40 minutes to go.

*dead*

Fine, I won't be able to get this meme done immediately (hell, I bet some weeks will pass), but you can start asking just in case.

Every person on your flist gets to request a drabble from you. Your friends can pick a relationship, a story arc, a missing scene, or pretty much anything they want, unless the author has previously mentioned that they will not write it. They comment with what they want, and you write drabbles and post it in your LiveJournal.

Fine, then... the fandoms I could write:
- CCS
- XXXHOLiC
- TRC
- Let's just toss the whole CLAMPverse, just for fun. I know almost all mangas
- FMA (I'll write mangaverse, though)
- Bleach
- RurouKen (except anime filler or the last two OVAs)
- Furuba
- Or anything you're sure I like enough to write about

Things I won't write:
- Sex or aftersex scenes, unless it's an OTP of mine
- ERIOL/TOMOYO
- Sakura/Syaoran. Any of them.
- FMA slash. Envy. Anime-only characters.
- YUUKO/WATANUKI (gen is fine, though). Doumeki/Watanuki unless it's in a platonic or friendship way.
- Romance or smuttiness in Bleach. For this one, only gen
- A lot of the mainstream canon CLAMP couples, like Hideki/Chii or stuff like that. You can ask anyway, but I'll be picky

Back to screencapping, now. Ugh.

Just wrote my first FMA fic, but it was in Spanish.

Es un precanon Maes/Gracia desde el punto de vista de Hughes, y tiene insinuaciones hacia el porqué Royai tiene que ser canon. Está en mi fic journal, y lo acabo de escribir para gingetsu. Si a alguien le interesa leerlo, ahí está. PG-13 por hablar de guerra y sueños húmedos.

Maybe I'll translate it to English some day.

You know what I love about the XXXHOLiC Spanish edition? How they translate the funny parts and make it funnier. For instance, there's certain ingenious sarcasm in Watanuki's phrases. For instance:
"Y encima, merienda a la carta, tío!"
(On top of that, snacks a la carte, dude!)
cracked me up today.
They take their artistic licenses, but the meaning remains intact and it looks great and witty. Yuuko keeps adding sweet endings to her phrases when she asks Watanuki for something (I mean, like 'sweetheart', 'darling', et cetera), and that way she sounds more of an adulator when it's convenient. She's hilarious when she talks in slang. She's not formal at all, even sometimes she calls Watanuki for his first name, or even worse, she calls him "Wata" XD

And you know what I hate about the Tsubasa Spanish edition? Sakura never knew Syaoran's name in the translation. She still hasn't. She calls him "muchacho" (boy) all the time, and nobody seems to bother to tell her his name is Syaoran. (honestly, is she that dumb? she keeps hearing Fye and Mokona calling him by his name, and stil!)

Apart from that, I don't mind anything about it. I like the fact Fye's name was left as Fye; and meanwhile, Syaoran's name is written in Chinese romanization (Xiao Lang). I don't mind that, since the Spanish CCS manga also spells it that way, so it kind of clicks.

Tonight I'll post again. I have everything set: CCS and X rants! It's graphic wise, the complement pictures are ready ^_^

Ooh, I almost forgot. Laurus inspired me to this, because of certain white Mokona phrase.
( A little drabble: Clow quotes Seishirou Sakurazuka )

Off to study, then.