Tenipuri (Hyoutei) fic :P

In time for the Seigaku-Hyoutei manga rematch, ahaha. 500 words trimmed from The Subrosa Fic We Don't Like To Talk About. As of the moment it exists in three versions: the one that was posted, a file called "demo mix" containing most of what was hurriedly hacked off from the posted version, and a file called "final mix" that is still in progress. My essential problem with this fic is that I don't know what its point is. I usually don't know what the point of a story is until I finish it, though, so it's a bit of a catch-22. I think I'm going to have to make an arbitrary decision re: what Oshitari really feels about Atobe, and stick to it. ^^; And write the tennis which I absolutely suck at.

Anyway. The original concept I had was that the fic would cover a fairly lengthy time period, but the final product turned into a sort of blow by blow narrative of the current Hyoutei third-years' first year, with Ohtori and Hiyoshi not even in the picture and a fair amount of what I mentally term Blaise Zabini-age. So I have no idea what to do with stuff like the following (which takes place in the "Private Beach" futurefic continuity, you know, in which Atobe is a pop star?), other than posting it for the errm edification of my flist yeah right.

( He's studying for his end of term exams when the phone rings... )

Videos

Actually, when I was in the shower just now I composed an essay in my head regarding what Oshitari feels about Atobe in my ficverse (or what Atobe's existence in Oshitari's personal sphere - rather than vice versa! - means to him given the sort of person Oshitari is, is probably a more accurate way of putting it), but I think most of you would rather get music videos. XD;; At any rate it's 2AM in these parts.

Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing (44MB): mitethe very kindly found and uploaded this so I could get it. ^^ PSB videos come in several loose categories: the ones in which they do horrible traumatizing dances in horrible traumatizing hats/outfits [1], the ones where they stand there and sing (in Neil's case, Chris just stands) while drama is hinted at through emoting dancers and lighting effects [2], the ones that are stories about straight folks having relationship psychodrama even when the song itself is exceedingly gay, and (my favorite) the ones in which astonishingly beautiful people swan about doing whatever it is that beautiful people do and dull normals don't. "Domino Dancing" falls in the last two categories, except the song is not at all slashy [3] but the video uhh well. XD IIRC the boys swear the effect was unintentional in the PopArt DVD commentary track but then they also claim they didn't realise "So Hard" was a double entendre until after the single was released, so.

I also like the roles they give themselves in their story-oriented videos. XD While the beautiful people are having drama on the dancefloor, Chris is the little DJ in the funny hat and Neil is the guy holding up the wall and mumbling to himself.

Yaoi Theatre 3000 (23MB): got this off Tania. I imagine it's made the rounds but if you haven't seen it it's worth the download - a spoof of a spoof, sort of meta-spoof as it were. There's one line in it that made me lose it completely, see if you can guess what it is. XD What it really needs is a version 2.0 that includes clips of Prince of Tennis.


[1] That have been known to traumatize entire small Eastern European countries. In retrospect you can see how making a vaguely Russian Socialist Realism-styled video for a song called "Go West" young man, to San Francisco might have come across as a bit gratuitously threatening.

[2] Such as disco strobes refracted off David Bowie's jewelry.

[3] Unless you think it's about Kagetora.