BTW, the gay thing doesn't mean he can't be with Tonks. Gay dudes go for her, we already have that canon.

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M.O. (modus operandi)

Did you ever take Latin?

Do you watch crime shows or read mysteries/thrillers regularly?

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A request: if you know of any decent stories in which a canonically male character becomes a girl (or was always a girl), but not just for the purposes of sex, please rec them to me! I will read... pretty much anything. Even if it's, like, Stargate and Fuji/Tezuka. :D

(While I was reading this story by ethrosdemon, I thought that the main reason I'm not into Supernatural is that there really aren't any women. I do want to be into Supernatural even without women, and I've tried to get into Supernatural, but it's just not my thing. I'm not really interested in it at all. However: if they changed nothing except the gender of the boys' father, I might like it; if it were exactly the same show, except about a brother and a sister instead of two brothers, I'd almost definitely not only watch it but also follow fandom for it.)

Dude, LJ. I've seen the navigation strip. If I wanted to use it, I'd be using it. Please do not set it up for me and make me have to delete it when I don't want it. Which, by the way, I don't--as I already established when you first came out with the thing.

I'm trying to imagine how many people will see it there on their page, unasked for, and decide "Hey! Now that it's been put here without my say-so, I actually rather like it and will keep it there forever!" but I can't imagine it'd be too many.

(Why are you pushing it so hard, anyway? Does someone give you money every time it's viewed?)

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After using the library to check e-mail & friends list (skip=wtf after three days of hardcore house cleaning to try to recoup bond--I have never washed so many windows nor scrubbed so much grime from floors and walls) for several days, I have figured out my internet situation at my new place: pre-paid dial-up. I had no idea this existed until this week! I might start paying for internet through the uni library like I did when I lived at college--I live pretty close, even if it'd be totally lame to trek over there to use the internet more than once a day. :D It's fast, though!

Please forgive me if I reply several days after you've posted something, when you'd already forgot you'd said it.


( Hey, naanima. )

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( About getting me into new fandoms, and the whole Fandom OTP thing--not really news if you've read more than, like, three posts from me. )


And I really, really do not understand the thing where women are interested in boyslash over other genres because that's the one thing they can't experience. I don't understand how gender is such a huge thing as compared to, say, being human, or being straight/bisexual/gay/asexual/whatever else you're not, or being an athlete. It's not like anyone ever says "I only write about aliens/cows/algae having sex because I can already experience being a human so I don't need to go there in fiction" or "I only ever write about athletes and suave don juans because, dorky math/language nerds? Been there, done that." So why say "I've already experienced having sex as a woman, and am now only interested in man on man sex"?

(Also boggle at the people who say it who are not bisexual+ and have not dabbled. They're all, "I could totally be a woman doing a [wo]man. I never will and am not interested in it at all, but still--it's physically possible, so I will only write boysex." OK, then.)

I am very distressed. I lost my wallet somewhere in Perth sometime in the last two days (or so). It doesn't seem to be in my old house anywhere, but it could be in any one of four cars, or possibly on a bus, or lying on the ground between my old house and my new house, or somewhere in my new house. If it's in my new house, it's almost as bad as if it's lost on the streets of Perth: I just managed to get everything put away in such a way that the place looks like someone lives there (i.e. six gazillion boxes of books are stacked neatly under my table, the ugly bags fill the closet, and the five big luggage bags full of stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else are sitting in spaces I don't need just now). If I have to take everything out and look all through that to find this wallet...! But I also don't want to have to cancel all of my cards and try to live on spare change for the next--however long it takes to get new cards, or to buy a new wallet. :(( The nomadic life is so hard.

(Edit: I found it, tucked away safely in my bag. But not one of the two bags I've been carrying back and forth between my houses for the past four days, or one of the fifteen other bags I took to my new house. It was in the one small bag that I left at my old place in the middle of trash I haven't yet cleaned up, a load of laundry I want to get done before I need to start using a laundromat, and an old rug I'm not taking with me. Of course I won't need my wallet from Wednesday until Sunday, right? Good job, AC.)


Anyway, I finished watching Ping Pong, and the ending confused me. Did Peco win the tournament? What happened to Smile at the end? Is he, like, not as good a player as everyone hoped, or is Peco just that good, or was he totally lying to his coach when he implied that he wouldn't let up just because his friend was injured? Did he ever get over his inability to play to win against Peco? What happened! It feels to me like Peco's character developed at the expense of Smile's (which regressed), but I'm quite bad at figuring out things with lots of movement so I'm very possibly misinterpreting everything.

So, uh, if any of you is into slightly less than canon RPGs, bnf_brawl? In which characters from different fandoms compete to become the biggest BNF by writing fanfic about each other. :D There should be more Naruto in this RPG! Especially some of the Sand kids, Kiba, or Hinata. I kind of want to play Temari, but I want someone else to play her more. I'd probably do better as someone like Kabuto, because I'm not very good at being abrasive. Intentionally, I mean.

( Some of my favourite bits so far. )

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I've been reading Hana Kimi and Mars lately, and the common theme in my reactions is: I like the best friend (Nakatsu, Tatsuya, Harumi) who also crushes on the lead, more than I like the lead. They are so adorable! I know there's absolutely no chance that they will get what they want (the characters I want the girl to go for always end up being the ones she drops), but I'm still on their side 99%.

( Mars. (I've read through volume 6.) )

( Hana Kimi. (I've read through volume 17.) )

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( Things about my life & my hair. )

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lesstraveled, I meant to put this in my last entry, but: despite the evil manipulations of our mail deliverers*, I got your package! And it is awesome. <33 Hershey's is kind of great when you have no chance to eat it for most of the year. (Note: I am not trying to engage in lowbrowmanship here; I really do like Hershey's.) AND ALSO. Whatever those kiwi things were, with the suspended pips! Those were totally great. I am baffled by the pocky, though; is there actually chocolate mousse in Japan? Do they put fruit in it? :D


*Whatever they marked on the card, they did not "try to deliver this package" at 2pm. My housemate was sitting on the front porch in full view of the delivery guy when he leapt out of his van to stick that in our mailbox without even looking towards the door. At 2:30. And, wonder of wonders, it was already in the post office mere minutes later when I got down there, and who knows how long it had been there. Are they actually paid to do that?

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Interest meme: Reply to this entry with your name and post these instructions in your own journal*. I will go poke around your list of interests on your profile and ask you one question about one of them. You wax rhapsodic on the subject of your interest for the edification of all and we'll learn something keen about you.

Or in simple terms:

Reply to this meme, I'll pick one of your interests, and you tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it and we all learn a bit more.


*Or, you know, don't. It's the "meme" part of memes that always gets me. But surely you want to know about people's interests, too.

OK, so. The thing where everyone in anime/manga fandom is all over the "pretty boys". I need a little clarification, in an "Is everyone seeing this the same way I am?" sort of way.

I don't actually think anime characters, in themselves, are attractive. They're blanks--they're pretty much all the same doll face with different hair and a few identifying marks (Atobe's mole, the rings under Itachi's eyes, Ibiki's scars, Fuji's ^_^ face). Some of the art is pretty, but most of the characters are pretty blank and similar within a certain artist's style. I know some of the characters are attractive because other characters say so, or because they act in a way that I associate with people who know they're hot, or because they don't have some marker that says "I am not supposed to be seen as hot or at least average-looking". I find others attractive because they have nice hair (:D) and their personalities & pasts are either cool or particularly dorky. There's nothing in the art design that makes Atobe or Sasuke objectively hotter than Oishi or Kiba. It takes imagination to pull "hot!" out of any anime character, even Temari or Yasu.

I'm not totally alone in this, right?



In other words: in what world is Prince of Tennis obviously populated with better-looking boys than, say, Naruto or Bleach or MPD Psycho? (Don't we all have to go through that period where our eyes are shredded by bad art before we acclimatise to the PoT version of attractive?) And why is Itachi a "bishounen" when he clearly has the marks of being haggard and world-worn? I really wanted to end those sentences with ??!? but I managed to restrain myself.

Fandom's House/Wilson* fixation left me with absolutely no idea that something was going on between Cameron & Foreman. In which episode did Foreman first say ( Minor spoiler for, um, whatever recent episode that is. :D )? It has to be in the most recent ten--I've watched all of the series up to episode 12--and I don't think it's in 15-17, unless the people I was reading spoilers from care even less about things that aren't House/Wilson than I thought. :D Anyone know?

But, man. ( Episodes 20 & 21 - Euphoria. )


*OK, dude, even if I didn't think that was the most platonic close relationship between two males since the Golden Pair, even if it were small and hadn't annoyed me with being unavoidable everywhere ever, I still would not go for it. I can't even remember what Wilson looks like because whenever he's on screen, the only thing I can see is his EYEBROWS. Some years ago he was in some movie about, like, not marrying the woman you love (I think 'innocence' was in the title?) & he was younger then and only had a very small role, but I immediately recognised him because of those EYEBROWS. It's really kind of gross, and it's definitely distracting. It's more distracting than Cuddy's breasts on full display in a cocktail dress. But in a bad way! :((

**And that is completely different from liking them--it's like, if two people were in mortal peril, and you could save one and only one of them, would you choose the guy you've never seen before or the guy who used to be sort of a friend but did something to make you hate him and refuse to talk to him again? I wouldn't hesitate to save the guy I hate over the guy I don't know, because even though I have negative feelings, I still care about him. I imagine that's fairly universal?


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In other news, there's one of those numbered challenges communities for things like hooker AUs, genderswap, apocalypse, and "woke up gay": wtf27. :D

( MBTI & Prince of Tennis poll )

( About Fuji Syuusuke & his unfinishedness. )

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Having just finished Oz, I have to express my dismay that ( spoilers for the last episode of Oz, even though that aired years ago ).

And also, where's the Sister Pete/Doctor Nathan slash, guys?

Hey, Nana... how come realizing a dream and being happy are such different things? I still don't understand...

:(((

I'm liking this series, but have only managed to read up to volume six. (YSI is my nemesis, seriously; it took me more than ten tries to actually get volume six downloaded, and by the time I went for volumes 7+, the links had all expired. :/) My love for Hachi just grows, though, whatever she does. When she does something awesome, I love her for it; when she does something stupid and irritating, I love her even more. I mean, Nana O is cool, and I imagine that everyone who reads the manga wants her--but Hachi-Nana is heartbreaking and young and selfish without even realising it. All of her ordeals (although I gather they get worse and worse as the series goes on) simultaneously make me sad & make me laugh.

(This is clearly my year for shoujo.)


Strawberry Panic! finally downloaded, though! The first episode, anyway. (I have no idea where to find the second episode now that everyone seems to have taken down their subs.) It takes a bit of a different route from the manga, in that you get to know the setup of the schools before you get to know the details of the playgirl Etoile's love life, but the basic feel of the series seems to be intact. (If you're wondering what it's about, think Maria-sama ga Miteru meets Gakuen Heaven. :D Three prestigious religious girls' schools, an ordinary girl who transfers in at a strange time, weird customs, the most important girl in school becomes attracted to the ordinary girl, "onee-sama", etc. Only there's more kissing in the first episode, and more open perving, than in either Maria-sama ga Miteru or Gakuen Heaven.) Nagisa's roommate is even more Inui-like in the anime than she was in the manga, which is all right with me!

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Taking my cues from what seems to be most of my friends list, I got my hair cut shorter than it's been since I was a little kid and absolutely refused to have my hair cut ever again. :D The front is still floppy in a Hugh Grant sort of way, but the back is pretty well shorn down. Still more than an inch long, but pretty short. Touching the back of it feels like petting a goose...! It's so weird, but in the way where I wonder why I had long hair, except that I thought short hair was kinda lame.

Oshitari? Someone whose existence I've totally forgotten?