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petroniaWhich is absolutely just as well. This week has been wretched and not even fic is working, because (as Charmian pointed out) all I seem to read are stories about Byakuya and asking Byakuya to cheer one up is its own punchline. I tend not to dwell on or enumerate negative occurrences on LJ because words reify experience for me - which also explains why I sometimes take on an obviously literary tone when I feel some RL event deserves setting down, not because I'm consciously attempting to live a narrative but because what I write on LJ is the "final version" as opposed to the jumble in my head that passes for a short-term memory half of which will be swept out with the trash during my next good night of sleep**, and I need to employ what writing skills I have in the interest of exactitude - but said habit this week leaves me nothing to ramble on about but arcane fannish indulgences and minute taxonomies thereof. So... that's what it will be.
1) Four nights ago I had a dream about Adrian Brody. It was part of a larger narrative I no longer remember. I was hurrying though a white-walled, open-plan space like a contemporary art museum or certain areas of Seireitei. I passed above a hall on a second-floor open walkway, heard the sound of a piano, looked down and saw that Adrian Brody was playing a white concert grand with his back to me. He was not looking at the keys; his face was uplifted, his eyes closed, he wore a look of divine contentment. I was charmed and my curiosity piqued by this sight as it would have been in the waking world, so I found my way downstairs. When I got close enough (in the dream, barely a foot away, peering) I realised he was not playing the piano, but listening to the melody being played on a pianola.
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dipping_sauce and iatros (hope your interview went well!). Afterward I read a magazine in the convenience store while waiting for the bus. There was an interview with Adrian Brody where he talked about how he used to race RX-7s as a teenager. He also owns a chihuahua.
2) No one in the Chinese fandom writes Ikkaku/Yumichika either.
3) Roffles aside Renji's hairtie is magical in one respect: it reduces the actual amount of hair he has by half. Comes in useful I dare say. ...The contrast also accounts for the erotic appeal - for lack of a less straightforward way to put it >_> - of Renji's hair among fangirls (randomly sample fic if you don't believe me but I rather think I am believed). I can think of a few other instances where a (male) character's hair gets loose for dramatic effect in a shounen manga battle - Kenshin, Emishi in GB, honestly feels as if I should remember more cases - but you know how much hair they have beforehand, it doesn't come tumbling down à la Scarlett Johansson in Girl with a Pearl Earring. The impact might be subliminal but it's there (and not to imagine KT did it any less deliberately than he wrote Gin as wackofanonextremelyevil!Fuji). In Cfandom I suspect half the writers mistake Renji for Scarlett Johansson entirely, it would explain a lot.
I occasionally use the word count analyzer plugin in ljArchive as a popularity metric, to determine what characters I talk about the most (including occurrences in fic, which I think should count anyhow). The Bleach character I mention the most is Renji, except then I realised it's such a common name that I can think of 2-3 other characters named Renji I'd been talking about on the blog, so results are not very scientific. ^^; Second is Byakuya, third is Rukia, fourth is Aizen, fifth is Ichigo. I guess none of this is astonishing. All a good ways below characters from Mirage, or GetBackers, or Initial D, or even Viewfinder - but 'tis early in the game.
5) Top ten ways you know you're reading a Sabina!fic: I feel the premise of this meme is wrong, because I am not a reader of my own fic (or at least, a very special and non-representative one) and thus should not be answering this question. Tell me, folks, if you feel like doing so - how do you know you're reading a fic written by me? ^^; (Someone on an SSBB guess-the-author thread said something along the lines of, "Cafés are a very Sabina-like setting.")
** My imagination subscribes perhaps to J.M. Barrie's idea that mothers sort through their children's thoughts at night, folding and organizing as if it were so many piles of laundry. My mother being my mother, almost certainly tosses two-thirds of what she finds in the rubbish on account of it being clutter and no use to anyone, which would explain a lot.
1) Four nights ago I had a dream about Adrian Brody. It was part of a larger narrative I no longer remember. I was hurrying though a white-walled, open-plan space like a contemporary art museum or certain areas of Seireitei. I passed above a hall on a second-floor open walkway, heard the sound of a piano, looked down and saw that Adrian Brody was playing a white concert grand with his back to me. He was not looking at the keys; his face was uplifted, his eyes closed, he wore a look of divine contentment. I was charmed and my curiosity piqued by this sight as it would have been in the waking world, so I found my way downstairs. When I got close enough (in the dream, barely a foot away, peering) I realised he was not playing the piano, but listening to the melody being played on a pianola.
On Wednesday I had dinner with
dipping_sauce and iatros (hope your interview went well!). Afterward I read a magazine in the convenience store while waiting for the bus. There was an interview with Adrian Brody where he talked about how he used to race RX-7s as a teenager. He also owns a chihuahua.2) No one in the Chinese fandom writes Ikkaku/Yumichika either.
3) Roffles aside Renji's hairtie is magical in one respect: it reduces the actual amount of hair he has by half. Comes in useful I dare say. ...The contrast also accounts for the erotic appeal - for lack of a less straightforward way to put it >_> - of Renji's hair among fangirls (randomly sample fic if you don't believe me but I rather think I am believed). I can think of a few other instances where a (male) character's hair gets loose for dramatic effect in a shounen manga battle - Kenshin, Emishi in GB, honestly feels as if I should remember more cases - but you know how much hair they have beforehand, it doesn't come tumbling down à la Scarlett Johansson in Girl with a Pearl Earring. The impact might be subliminal but it's there (and not to imagine KT did it any less deliberately than he wrote Gin as wackofanonextremelyevil!Fuji). In Cfandom I suspect half the writers mistake Renji for Scarlett Johansson entirely, it would explain a lot.
I occasionally use the word count analyzer plugin in ljArchive as a popularity metric, to determine what characters I talk about the most (including occurrences in fic, which I think should count anyhow). The Bleach character I mention the most is Renji, except then I realised it's such a common name that I can think of 2-3 other characters named Renji I'd been talking about on the blog, so results are not very scientific. ^^; Second is Byakuya, third is Rukia, fourth is Aizen, fifth is Ichigo. I guess none of this is astonishing. All a good ways below characters from Mirage, or GetBackers, or Initial D, or even Viewfinder - but 'tis early in the game.
5) Top ten ways you know you're reading a Sabina!fic: I feel the premise of this meme is wrong, because I am not a reader of my own fic (or at least, a very special and non-representative one) and thus should not be answering this question. Tell me, folks, if you feel like doing so - how do you know you're reading a fic written by me? ^^; (Someone on an SSBB guess-the-author thread said something along the lines of, "Cafés are a very Sabina-like setting.")
** My imagination subscribes perhaps to J.M. Barrie's idea that mothers sort through their children's thoughts at night, folding and organizing as if it were so many piles of laundry. My mother being my mother, almost certainly tosses two-thirds of what she finds in the rubbish on account of it being clutter and no use to anyone, which would explain a lot.
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Date: 2006-01-20 10:05 pm (UTC)That is a beautiful line. I needed that today.
Wah, Peter Pan<3.
One distinct characteristic of Sabina!fic: there is often a lot of comedy to be found in dry conversation, i.e. you leave with the feeling that it's not that the characters are funny nor is the conversation topic, but more on how each person responds to the other with the particular lines and reactions they use.
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Date: 2006-01-21 12:18 am (UTC)p.s. Considering how Nat and Whit and I are all on AIM, it seems to me that our collective gravitational force ought to suck you out of MSN orbit like unto a BLACK HOLE OF DEPRAVITY.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 08:13 am (UTC)All you need is a login. No download, no install.
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Date: 2006-01-21 03:07 pm (UTC)2. I am saddened by this. Extremely.
3. In Cfandom I suspect half the writers mistake Renji for Scarlett Johansson entirely. You win at life, and I wholeheatedly agree, at this point I play the 'I have being brain washed by C-pop culture, therefor, I think of Renji as Scarlett Johansson.'
5. Sabinafic; When it feels like I'm being slowly pulled below the surface of an ocean. There's something about your fic that always seem, um, so tactile.
umm let's see
Date: 2006-01-22 04:11 am (UTC)Physical places or objects are understood -- by the characters as well as by the readers -- to be emotionally or metaphorically significant, but what they signify is not stated.
Vacations!
Re: umm let's see
Date: 2006-01-23 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-23 03:19 am (UTC)There must be Ikkaku/Yumichika! Dammit, I have way more crap I want to write than I'm currently capable of writing, apparently.
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Date: 2006-01-23 06:31 pm (UTC)And if it has food in it, I know almost immediately if it's yours :)
Re: umm let's see
Date: 2006-01-23 07:18 pm (UTC)