Against all habit, GIP

I was actually going to make icons to fill *all* my slots tonight, but got sidetracked into explaining on ML (for what now seems like the gazillionth time) that Peace Maker is not the dumb and genki shounen fighter series it looks to be from the first episode... So I only made two.

You will see the Akio one eventually. The keyword to that one is "blow up". Not as in explosion; as in Antonioni. *g* Because it is late and I am silly. (EDIT -- the squid one, though, I admit is a bit odd. And it's Herb Ritts.) I want to make GetBackers ones but my friends have taken all the good ideas already.

Meanwhile, this new default is easier than me snerking and telling y'all to go to amazon.co.jp to check out Suzu's purple nailpolish. Because saints alone know manga convention is such than when a boy mentally unhinges, the first thing he does to celebrate his newfound 3b1l is to buy makeup.

The second is to molest the protagonist a little...

About that drabble request

And I realise no one even thought about this but I must slake my own nitpicking soul - the drabble request is not a drabble request per se but a shortfic request, because let's face it, 100 words is a bit ghetto as a proper gift. ^^; Even if it occasionally does take me as much effort to trim down to 100 as to write up to 500, drabbles being like bonsai (which are like bishounen). So there is no word limit, and all of them will be as long as they need to be. Wen's (which I've thrown in with the rest simply because it looks to me as if it'll be done around the same time) will be 2500-3000 likely enough, and the current one is almost guaranteed to go over 1000. It's 700 so far, and a pity that's not NaNoCount, wot.

I kind of like said current fic, despite (because of!?) the fact that it's a failure on an almost ludicrous number of parallel fronts. It fails at being fanfiction by virtue of over-extrapolation; it fails at historicity (well obviously ahaha *dies*); as I've not read the last few tankoubon it almost certainly fails at canonicity; it fails at decent characterisation; it fails at BL out of masochism; it fails being Christmassy by being set in early summer, and it fails to provide good cheer by being really depressing. I can think of several people on my flist whom it would inspire to point at me and laugh. Perhaps its major merit is that it's incomprehensible, so it's not readily apparent that it's depressing (or, hopefully, that I am a laughingstock who shouldn't be allowed near pseudo-historical anime, or anything written pre-Meiji for good measure).

In other news, my dad's poetry book came in the mail. Remind me to post the one about the ancient Chinese poetess/nun/murderess with a bit of commentary. (FWIW the thing the other day was just some Faye Wong lyrics, so no need to think I'm intentionally talking over Westerners' heads or anything. XD In any case when I babble in languages beside English there's always a few people on the flist who understand.)