Journey into Mystery

...with a meme, AUGH.

1. Think of up to 20 'ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given if asked in the comments.

01. The princess and the mercenary
02. The emperor and the military man
03. The hero and the androgynous ninja that doubles as princess
04. The swordsman and the martial artist teacher
05. The mechanic and the alchemist
06. The sorceress and the swordsman
07. The wizard and the hatter
08. The prince and the disabled ninja
09. The older brother and the happy alter ego of an emo tsundere
10. The middle-aged lady and the wizard
11. The goddess and the alien
12. The rock star and the forensic fangirl
13. The witch princess and the bunny prince
14. The raven princess and the heartbroken prince
15. The spooky gym leader and the mystery man
16. The eccentric rich boy and the middle-class trap
17. The smart comedy relief and the warrior girl
18. The hired bodyguard and the healer shaman
19. The vampire queen and the princess
20. The alchemist and the princess

Remember when I thought that crushing on minor Pokémon characters was sort of low? After my, I don't know, fourth crush or something I was fine with it. I guess the shame just fades. BUT NOW I'M CRUSHING ON ALMOST EVERYONE IN BLACK/WHITE BECAUSE OF FANART. I HAVEN'T PLAYED THAT GAME. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME. NO, SELF, YOU'RE NOT SHIPPING MAIN GIRL WITH N JUST 'CAUSE IT'S SEXY AND A LESS JERKASS KIND OF FOEYAY. Uuuuuuuuugh.

What else? I don't know if I should sign up for Yuletide. On one hand, the weird parameters to decide "obscure" this year were so suspicious and I understand why the wank. There's going to be a lot of point missed this time. On the other, I like the signup form. There are some fandoms and characters I'd never offer because, for instance, I wouldn't like to get a request for slash or incest or porn in that fandom. So it's easier to cover my back this time. But yeah, I don't know if I'll be able to get inspired in time and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the weirdness going on.

So anyway, let's have a meme to add to the pile of unanswered stuff I have in my list :D

★ Reply with a fandom and I'll tell you the following:

▌ favorite character
▌ least favorite character
▌ prettiest character
▌ character I wanna marry
▌ favorite pairing
▌ favorite episode
▌ unpopular opinion

Name a fandom you know I'm familiar with, and I will tell you:
→ OTP
→ Runner-up pairing
→ Honourable mention(s)
→ Crack pairing(s)
→ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

And an oldie.

Choose five fandoms, list them, then answer the questions under the cut.
1. Persona 4
2. Okami
3. Ace Attorney
4. Fullmetal Alchemist
5. Tales of the Abyss

( Lalala )

1. The moral of the story, kids. Don't EVER install something in Mininova that has no feedback yet. I've spent part of my night and all of my morning reformatting and reinstalling shit on the laptop because it was getting frustrating to get the malware/troyan combo gone. Since I had just reformatted the computer and there wasn't a lot to install again because I had been lazy to do so, I figured I could afford to do it all dumbfail.

It was still made of annoying to reinstall all my Firefox addons again when I did it less than a week ago.

2. ( short TotA spoiler )

3. I'm still dealing with the beginnings of my annual seasonal-lack-of-light fall/winter depression, but that's something boring to talk about anyway.

4. Two memes, to break the ice.

a) I want to talk about how my ships and concept of shipping varies with fandom, so name me a fandom and I'll discuss what I ship and what shipping means to me in that fandom.

b) I have a lot of fandoms. Have you ever wondered about one of the fandom I sometimes mention on my journal which you don't know of? Ask me any question you want about them!

As usual, a list in my profile.

5. Click in what I hope it will be my last dragon.

Around... 28 hours of game. I'm in Tethe'alla's base killin ur d00dz. I think I won't be able to play for a week since I'm going to my mom's today (unless they lend me the Wii). I have a lot to say about characters at this point, my impressions of the Tethe'alla half of the party so far, and general stuff about the game and the gameplay. But I'll do it later.

Here's a meme taken from everyone. I think I've done it before.

List the first five OTPs that come into your head.
1. Clow/Yuuko
2. Ema/Klavier
3. Touya/Yukito
4. Lina/Gourry
5. Howl/Sophie

( Questions )

Practice presented and handed out. Goddammit, finally. Except my family wants to see who had more hits so I have to sum shit up.

So on the meantime, I'll go with memes before leaving for theory class.

anonymous ◉ meme

Also, from everyone else and their dog.

Step 1. Give me a pairing(s)

Step 2. I ramble on it for at least 100 words

Step 3. Profit Repeat

So anyway, the pairing poll might still be running, but the results are so amusing I felt like doodling. Please note that I can't draw for shit, and I did this directly in sharpie. And I didn't do details.

So far, the third place is a tie!



( See the other runner-ups )

abarero asked me five questions in that question meme.

1- What's your favorite type of canned beverage?
Lemon soda (7-up, Sprite, that kind of thing). But I also used to drink a lot of non-alcohol malt in cans when I was in my previous college (particularly Maltín Polar). However, imported Venezuelan malt is kinda expensive here.

2- If you had to pick one book to teach to a literature class (of any reading level) which book would it be and why?
Probably The Little Prince or The Neverending Story. It's good for children, and adults could get a couple of ideas out of them.

3- Which would you rather have: skills with swords/other weaponry or sorcery/magic?
MAGIC *____* Besides, I don't have the body build or aim for any weapon.

4- What's your favorite song not sung in English? Why?
Mmmm, I don't know, it's been ages since I last heard music in other languages, apart from anime music and J-music. In Spanish, I'd have to say it must be something from the first Shakira records (...before you scream? I swear she used to be GOOD). In Japanese, probably something from The Pillows, X Japan, or Shiina Ringo.
...I have a hard time deciding songs, let me be D:

5- If you could pick one series that you could be the director of an anime/animated version of it- what series would it be and why? (it can be a series that has already been animated, but you feel it was poorly done)
I'd love to direct an anime based in Okami, just 26 episodes. Even if they're too many to cover the plot, we could have fillers to develop minor characters or slip new Japanese myths on their universe. Also, we could have precanon flashbacks! Of course, I'd ask Hideki Kamiya to tell me everything he thought of that the game couldn't cover, including backstory stuff. The only problem would be the original chara design: it works well in the game, but would it work in animation? Or should we anime-ized the humanoid characters? But anyway, it could be awesome.

You know this week's local weather was extremely crazy when it's even mentioned in National Geographic News. (for the record, I rarely go to that zone so I was fine. there were huge waves that day in my village, but that weird shit didn't happen around here)

Also, while I do get excited when I hunt for Japanese fanart and there are a lot of fansites for a couple that intrigues me, since not all my ships have a strong fanbase, it's discouraging when a big part of it is OOC (illustrations I can take if they're pretty/cute enough; comics and 4koma not that much). It's especially jarring that, for at least a couple of non-canon het pairings I ship, the usual interpretation is the guy being a love-sick puppy, with the hearts, the blushing, the romantic fantasies. In short, Tamaki Suoh clones. You know, if I wanted to see that, I'd just look for Tamaki/Haruhi fanart and not, say, Ushiwaka/Amaterasu or Kyouya Garyuu/Akane Houzuki. It is kinda creepy, and I wonder if that's just some "foreign blond dude in Japan" het archetype/cliché in Japanese media I've never heard about or I'm just fucking unlucky.

Guys, I just had a revelation. Since it's implied Kobatoverse is HOLiCverse... then there's an Icchan Mihara in that dimension! But see, there's already one character with Mihara as her last name. So, the chances of Chiharu being related to Icchan, probably as a second cousin or something, suddenly are higher.

However, I'd say that I like the idea of Chiharu being Oujirou and Tamayo's daughter. Except the timeline with CCS probably doesn't fit without stretching it a lot. So I guess it's most likely a no-go.



Someone was plugging a CLAMP friending meme last night, and just by looking at the comments I realized that the ships people mentioned were... how to say it... so average and expected. I mean, it's not like I expected an avalanche of crack pairings or something, but when I think of the stuff *I* ship, there's a big contrast. Fans rarely admit to ship adult pairings unless it's Kurofay or minor canon ones, or at least not hard.

So, since I'm bored and want to procrastinate, I'm compiling a mastership of the CLAMP pairings I ship at the moment.

( I think there's only ONE missing eye in these )

ETA: More duckies

I started watching Gurren Lagann. Then I stopped at episode 3 when I realized my favorite character was... yes, the one who dies early. NOT ON, MAN. Because I obviously know what happens, and I don't want to see it. Bleagh. I pass, not because of what happens itself, but because in my (perhaps bad) experience with that kind of event and that kind of dynamics with the main character sup HikaGo I never, ever, ever can get into the rest. And that's pretty much all the anime.

Man, I know I sound like a prat. But see, that's the only character I like so far. So unless I can be sure a character that I can dig will pop out...? I'm doubting I can enjoy it as much as you rest do. No, I also doubt I can like post-timeskip!Simon, or how the plot advances afterwards.

Sorry for sounding so bitter D: I really tried. I will watch the rest just to see how it turns out anyway, but ugh.

A meme I snatched from haro.

List the first five OTPs that come to mind and then click the link to answer the questions:

Okay, from the top of my head.

1. Clow/Yuuko (CLAMP)
2. Touya/Yukito (CLAMP)
3. Ling/Lan Fan (FMA)
4. Howl/Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle)
5. Lina/Gourry (Slayers)

( The rest of the meme )