Memequizzage, good lord

[petronia]

(gacked from tongari)

eXpressive: 3/10
Practical: 4/10
Physical: 4/10
Giver: 1/10

You are a RSIT--Reserved Sentimental Intellectual Taker. This makes you a Archetypal Older Child.

You are a hard nut to crack. You have a wicked sense of humor. Despite your reserved nature, you are more comfortable (and successful) in the meeting and courting mode than you are in a long term relationship. You feel misunderstood, and usually you are.

When you're in a good mood, you're funny, fascinating and a sexy firecracker, but when you're in a bad mood you are moody, broody and impatient. In courtship mode, you don't have to let anyone see your moody side. If you had your way, even in a long term relationship you would have enough time apart to deal with your bad moods yourself; unfortunately, it rarely works that way.

You stifle *a lot* of anger and frustration -- from all areas of your life -- so when it comes out it comes out nasty. More than any other type, your conflicts tend to turn on one tiny thing -- the dishes, the laundry -- that's really a scapegoat for your larger dissatisfactions with your relationship. You're baffled that your partner just can't do the dishes -- your partner is baffled that it's such a big deal. The only way around it is to let the dishes go entirely and try to get at the real root of what's bothering you.

I'm making you sound like a bear, but the fact is that you're so warm and charming most of the time that it effectively offsets the times you're unhappy.

You will make a weirdly good parent.

Don't pair up with someone who'll make sexual demands of you. That's just not going to fly at all.

Of the 187813 people who have taken this quiz, 5.3 % are this type.

Okay okay. Here's one of the Insert Coin Retrieve Rant From Slot memes going around (I'm not going to do the original rant meme because you know me, blood from a rock):

1. Comment with any 'ship from a fandom that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.

2. I will ramble about aforementioned 'ship(s). This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1. Keisuke/Ryousuke from Initial D, in that order.

2. Ryuuku/Raito from Death Note. Seme/uke interchangeable.

3. Asami/Feilong from Viewfinder, both past and present.

<3


~ your secret admirer

secret admirer indeed

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Three! :0

KeiRyou and RyouKei are basically two separate schools of thought. I remember one of my flisters at some point ('twas a while back) saying that RyouKei kind of wigged her out, because Ryousuke has all the strategy cards and probably always will. Smarts aside (eheh), Keisuke doesn't lack in self-control when it comes to larger issues, going by canonical evidence, but Ryousuke's the cooler head. And Keisuke trusts and hero-worships his brother to such an extent that Ryousuke could very well take advantage of/use him - rather, it would be taking advantage even if that weren't the intent. (Ryousuke does use Keisuke, in the series. For that matter he uses Takumi. It's up to the reader to decide how benign all this is: after all their personal goals coincide, and both Kei and Takumi opted in, although they are oblivious to the subtle emotional manipulation. XD)

KeiRyou sidesteps the issue by taking it out of Ryousuke's sphere of control, so to speak. Some of the ficcers frame it as an "indulgence" on Ryou's part, giving his brother what he wants because he happens to want it and he is a yasashii oniisan like that (kind of like my putative vision of Fujicest I guess - my problem is that I can't see Yuuta wanting it XD;;). The rest frame it as... well, as taking it out of Ryousuke's sphere of control. There is something to seeing a character like that nonplussed. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...Good lord, I was sure you meant L/Raito. o_o Well, at least I must still have a stock of eloquence somewhere, I think all my L-versus-Raito-in-whatever-sense words have been used up. But what to say...?

When you get down to it, what brings and binds Ryuuku and Raito together is boredom, desire to escape from. They're the salvation of each other in that sense. XD We learn that Shinigami are able to feel - heck, we learn that Shinigami are able to altruistically self-sacrifice - but Ryuuku so far seems unperiled by emotional pitfalls. He's laid-back, detached, amused. You get the feeling that none of it is terribly serious to him, but then again, why should it be? He kills people all the time anyway, that's what a Shinigami is. And for all Raito's blustering, pretty much the only thing he can do to Ryuuku is withhold apples.

Raito is much more interesting as a Death Note owner than most of the possible alternatives. I suspect Ryuuku is a bit more aware of this than he was at the beginning.

Other than that I can't square this into a "pairing" in my head. XD I enjoy reading their interaction in the manga though, because it's always funny to see Raito get no help whatsoever and be forced to muddle.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Asami/Feilong oh good grief. You probably shouldn't ask me, I'd have to sort through my thoughts which are in bits. But--

--It's romantic, that flashback story; almost extravagantly so given the characters involved. Much more so than one'd expect. Threw me for a loop, frankly. Unlike the Takaba-centric episodes, it made me wonder what Asami was thinking/feeling, which I thought was an odd reaction until I realised that this is uhhm because in the Takaba episodes you actually get to see Asami's thoughts, and in the Feilong story you don't, and this is due to the narrative issue of needing to conceal Asami's motivation in involving himself in the whole smuggling-whatever hullabaloo. ^^; So very likely it's not as complicated as I've made it out to be in my head. I mean, Asami is not terribly mysterious in the Takaba eps when you get down to it. There's this game he chooses to play with Takaba (not true of Takaba, I'd note), like all indulged vices it necessitates a certain outlay/risk but nothing he can't handle. By the second chapter of Viewfinder or so it's apparent that Asami choosing to play the game with Takaba makes Takaba one of his people, so that's what it becomes. Asami views the world in terms of territory anyway. The situation in the abstract has the potential of causing really big fuckups for him - witness Takaba telling Feilong of his whereabouts - but it's BeBoy manga and really the rules would have to change a lot for it to slip away from Asami. ^^;

None of that with Feilong, which is what threw me for a loop. I have a screaming natural resistance to the act of writing down the next clause, but I think Feilong is the closest Asami came to romantic love ever, and afterward he very calmly put it all in a box and buried the box in a hole in the ground and forgot about it. If I had to bet I'd bet it doesn't affect him now (how Feilong feels about it is unfortunately self-evident). On the other hand Asami does have a tendency to use his seme-fu as a shortcut to get shiz done, and... well, who knows. >_>

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Gyousou/Taiki. :D Please.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

(Not at all for your benefit, clearly, but to satisfy my burninating curiosity since I foisted the thing upon you and have yet to hear what you really think. If you have thoughts. ^^;)

[sjdr.livejournal.com]

I am amused we got the same result on that quiz.

Explain to me the Ashley/Syndey. For I do not understand it.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Here is the problem with Ashley/Sydney: it's logistically impossible, and way too much fan effort has been spent worrying at and bending the boundaries of the VS universe in order to make it possible, as opposed to just accepting Occam's Razor for what it is and putting all that energy to better use. Like, I dunno, constructing a plausible picture of the political situation in Valendia over the course of the past fifty years from the hints and fragments of information dropped. Or the religious/magic system. Or something. Of course I only say this because I'm obsessed with the worldbuilding of VS, not to the exclusion of everything else precisely, but... well.

Actually it also dovetails with the immense fan effort put into not having Sydney dead at the end. ^^; I mean, I don't like it any better than the next fangirl, but it's hard enough to understand what did happen without trying to patch or AU or explain it away.

All that being said, how is it difficult to understand where the impulse comes from? XD Mindgames! Righteous-but-insane versus manipulative-but-sincere! Fighting together briefly against a common enemy! Catch-me-if-you-can! ...And so forth. You do wonder what they said to each other during that missing week, although the question is perhaps better framed as "what would they have to say to each other". For the sake of worldbuilding, again. XD

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

No shirt x no pants! It's *easy*. :P

(as for the quiz, it is a source of continual surprise that you don't have a younger sibling. you'd be really good at it.)

[squidlet.livejournal.com]

You two got the same result? Me too. This is so strange.

Gingetsu/Lan, please. I just don't get them, like AXN on my cable-free television.

[absenceofmind.livejournal.com]

naoexkage--JUST KIDDING. NO REALLY, DON'T ANSWER THAT ONE.

because SOMEone's got to, and really, why not me? *grin*

banxgin!! feel free to make it concise, such as "ginji is a big puppy around ban and only ban" and leave it at that. XD

[perseid.livejournal.com]

Yes, pls expound on this couple, do, so I have valid reasons to give my friends-in-denial who do not understand why BanxGinji are the Ambiguously Gay Duo. =/

[petronia.livejournal.com]

(Naoe x Kagetora? As if I wouldn't laugh in the face of anyone who did seriously ask for that. XD;; I'd like to get other things accomplished with my day as well thx.)

Ban and Ginji are love, the end. See my lj memories. Okay, okay, I'll make an effort. XD But it should be enough, shouldn't it, to say that they are the salvation of each other? Never mind how often it's implied and/or outright stated in the series. Paul says it, for cripes' sake, and the man is more given to sentimental gesture than verbal effusion. Because Ban's there for him, Ginji gets to be Ginji. Because he has Ginji, Ban gets to remain Ban. They self-actualise through each other; they choose to put their initials together and identify themselves as one thing. Given which the question of whether or not they're sleeping together is a red herring bordering on irrelevancy. In my fic they do, because I'm dirty-minded (and also when you get down to it because I find it hard to picture one of them getting laid with someone else - what's the other one doing during that time, I start wondering, taking a stroll around the block? guzzling coffee at the Honky Tonk? >_> - and it would be kind of cruel to keep them from getting any whatsoever, they're so pretty and full of youthful energy), but maybe there's no eros component to it. I'm down with that, really. My point is that it would actually not make the tiniest whit of difference to the very-shounen-fighter canon, which behaves as if they might be sleeping together, it's just not terribly relevant to the plot to show it.

[amamiyarin.livejournal.com]

Shouryuu/Rokuta. Because I'm curious. ^^;;;;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Shouryuu and Rokuta are great. XD Once again they could've strolled out of FSS, although Rokuta would find the implications horrifying. But I have a dorky weakness for the kickass-ruler-wandering-around-in-wastrel-disguise trope that comes from Chinese TV drama watched as a child or something. (For all I know Gyousou is also wandering around in disguise but it wouldn't be wastrel disguise, ya catch my drift.) As for uhh pairing, why ever not? They're perfect conversational foils, they can be deadly politico-serious and have antics, it's cute like shota only it's not because how old are they again?

...Which led me to think about how old they are again, and thence to the alarming conclusion that I don't remember a single historical detail regarding Shouryuu's Japanese lifetime. =_= At least he wasn't in Mirage of Blaze's period - I think.

[starlighter.livejournal.com]

[petronia.livejournal.com]

1x2, 3x4: faits accomplis. XD No, I'm serious, it's been too long. Back then I shipped whomever fandom (and Tania) told me to ship. It's not an approach that would fly now, for a multitude of reasons. Also I read a lot of GW fic before I had access to the series at all, and likely most of it was terrible but I couldn't tell. The past is a different country.

I'll continue later but I have to run. ^^;

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, if I'm allowed to ask, will complete the 12Kokki ruler/kirin triplet and ask for your thoughts on Youko/Keiki.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Am always willing to override logical considerations for an uptight dude x redhead pairing. (See: Kishimoto x Mitani) Not so much that Youko/Keiki is illogical, mind you, but when you get down to it 12K is not really about romance. Upon which one gets into secondary fannish considerations, like how to make things better for the characters - and Keiki could stand to have a bit of work done on his emotional quotient. XD;; I really like Keiki, he cracks my shit up, and also I feel sorry for him for what he's had to go through with the last kind-of psycho queen, and also I feel just a little bad for not taking him very seriously. ^^; In the sense that he's this tall broad-shouldered intimidatingly beautiful man with long blond hair but I don't see him as that at all when he's on screen, I see him as a pony. Ponyyyyyy. Who's all "I cannot change back your Majesty that would make me naked. *blush*" The discrepancy is much more jarring than with Taiki or Enki, who have rather pettable and cute human forms to begin with.

...It's such a girly universe. XD

[nyahnyah.livejournal.com]

Shuichi/Ryuichi. <3

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Shuuichi/Ryuuichi: RUN RUN FOR YOUR LIVES THE UNIVERSE COULD NOT POSSIBLY SURVIVE THE IMPACT--

Ahem. XD It is twice the crack, though; I mean what do you want me to say? We know that Shuuichi is a big dorktastic fanboy of Ryuuichi. We know that Ryuuichi is really a higher being of enlightened consciousness, the proof of it being that he carries around a stuffed bunny rabbit named something roughly equivalent to "Teddy Bear". So I see this pairing as pedagogical, with Ryuuichi inducing Shuuichi step-by-step through the Gates of Sparkly, JPOP, ZOMG, WTF and Crack. Further than a certain level in the proceedings I cannot begin to speculate; what it looks like to me is two boys in plushie suits having a conversation that doesn't make sense to anyone else, or possibly two separate conversations altogether. But I am uninitiated to the mysteries, being unworthy.

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

can/fanon Akira/Hikaru potential at the end of the manga. I want to know just how upset I can rightfully be. XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Akira/Hikaru potential at the end of the manga as opposed to...? :P Seriously, I don't see that it makes a difference - which I suppose has something to do with the fact that I could never see that ending as anything other than artificially induced. That is to say, it felt to me like a lot of plot threads were set up to be carried forward with intricacy and care, and then Hotta Yumi decided for unrelated reasons to call it a day. The cut was arbitrary, no attempt made to tie anything off, you can see where the knife went straight across. It's not the first time it's happened with regard to a Shounen Jump series, and each time narrative logic itself compells me to believe that things continue to proceed accordingly within that continuity, just below my range of "hearing". No doubt Akira and Hikaru will have a fight over the loss. Then they'll play some more go. Hikaru might rematch Suyeong in private, which is what I expected to happen in that arc. They'd both want to beat Yeongha, but Yeongha is only one of hundreds of opponents out there that have and will give them a hard time, notably all the "old-guard" adult population of the series from Kuwabara Honinbo to Kurata - hell, Akira's lost in the series, in competition, more than once, and not against Hikaru. The only difference is that the series didn't end on such a loss. It certain doesn't change Hikaru and Akira's positions vis-à-vis each other, which more than anything else is a metaphor for the game itself. i.e. it takes two people to tango play go, just as Kuwabara-sensei said.

[marici.livejournal.com]

Tenjo Tenge, siblingcest of your choice.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

And God Oh!Great said, let there be Natsume; and it was so. And O!G called the first one "Shin", and the second one "Maya", and the third one "Aya". And O!G saw that they were t3h hawt. (Congregation, severally: Amen!)

...I should leave off before I dig myself any further into this hole, especially since there's every chance the next sentence out of my mouth will resemble "Shin and Maya are almost kinda like Mirage of Blaze only incestuous and not gay!" But uh, yes. I'm into Shin and Maya's relationship because O!G was pretty much pulling this entire manga in installments out of his hat (I stopped watching the anime eventually because the umm lack of pr0n proved too distracting >_>;;), and thus the rules of character interaction kept changing; but I can about make out that Maya's feelings for her brother are equal parts possessiveness and competitiveness and nearsighted disregard for his mental health - and sexualised, definitely - and what she gets back from him is not a whit less toxic. And I mean, hey, I'm all for that kind of thing, right.

[arisuesei.livejournal.com]

Takaya x Naoe, in that order. >:D
Juubee x Kazuki. <3

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Takaya x Naoe: Oh my God what mind-altering crack is this After I read sesame_seed's fic (the one I recced yesterday) I brooded on it for a while, then wrote her a ridiculously long feedback essay in which I raised the question: if - given the physical constraints of her story which you really should read - Kagetora had had sex with Naoe, would that make Kagetora the seme?

It just wouldn't compute. It was like a Zen koan. I flitted and beat myself against the possibility like a dumb bird against a clean windowpane. When I put the question to a jury of my peers the conclusion was that no, Kagetora wouldn't be seme - Naoe would find some way around it. Mentally, if nothing else. ...Canonically, I can reliably say this for the novels, I think: if Takaya said "I'd sleep with you if you let me be on top," Naoe wouldn't take it. His entire issue is that he wants it on his terms (or he would've seduced Takaya long ago. He could've, trust me). It's impossible to pick his feelings for Kagetora apart into separate emotional threads - everything's tangled into a big Gordian knot I wish someone would take a sword to - but a lot of Naoe's physical lust for Kagetora/Takaya is a reification of his desire to dominate, and when he talks about it he's very... unsparing... of the reader's delicate shoujo sensibilities. =_=

[corneredangel.livejournal.com]

Aw, what the hell, let's make it easy. Don't even need to rant, just point me to *where* your rant is:

Sieg and Reinhart. Or, hell, *just* Sieg.

(...although, perhaps, *von Oberstein* and Reinhard...)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Here's frustration (and drunk-on-red-wine sentimentality) for you: I read a drabble not two days ago that expressed pretty much all I have to say but I can't find it. Who on earth wrote it?....

"When we are together we speak always of him. When he and I were together we always spoke of you."

And:

"You did not miss, Ansbach. The half you killed was the better."

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

I was racking my brains trying to figure out what to ask, but....

DN: L/Light/Misa, the triangle

Or

TeniPuri: I was going to ask your opinion of Fuji/Yuuta/Mizuki, but that would be too many triangles, so instead I'll ask, whom do you like to pair up with Atobe the most, and if you don't have any opinion on that, your opinion on Yagyuu and Niou.

[fable.livejournal.com]

I figure, as long as you're still answering questions, it's not too late to ask more, right? XD

crawford/schuldich.

[sesame-seed.livejournal.com]

Are you ever going to finish this meme? XD *nudges*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Huh, I'd forgotten all about this one. XD Why on earth are you looking at it?

I could finish it, I guess, although Charmian and Sai might be surprised. XD