Petronia

Due to one Renaud-Bray stocking the tankoubon I was missing (the French edition is up to vol.18). Actually, there's no gear shift in going from Libs fandom back to this: starts off as a story about sharing a flat with one's best friend, winds up in deepest frozen circle of Tabloid Hell. XD;; Whether that's an indictment of Yazawa Ai or reality... I used to complain about Nana's pacing in the latter stretch but it comes off much better in comparison, if only because fiction has the luxury of FAST FORWARDING until something interesting happens. For years, if necessary.

( Notes on timeline and characters; spoilers. )

Haha so guess how long it took me to realise 'Yonekuni' and 'Hidekuni' are alternate readings for 'Beikoku' and 'Eikoku', even while staring at the kanji all this time? :D;

...Dude, it doesn't even work.

(Edited to add: if you plug 英国 into Google the first hit you get is the University of Cambridge, but if you plug "England" the first hit is the CIA Factbook entry. Um.)

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In other BL series I'm sort of following news: I'm waiting for penis_envious submissions to be posted even though I know they're going to hurt me (the better the writer the greater potential for brain damage, methinks). ( ...Actually Charmian had encouraged me to sign up for it, that day I was complaining of the blehs. )

But instead I made bb_shousetsu. Aren't we happy for that?

(Also for some reason I keep expecting people to write more Viewfinder fic. I dunno. It just feels like there should be tons of it lying around my flist, and I'm vaguely puzzled all the time to realise there isn't.)

Sarah wanted to know, but I stayed up too long last night talking with Justin and now I'm a complete zombie. XD So y'all make do.

( in which Chiaki fails at being a medical executor )

( in which high school girls make two and two equal five )

( in which Kagetora is a dumb aristocrat )

*rolls eyes* Fine, people who answered "Count D" win the Repartee Award, not that that was really what I was looking for. (I'm not sure what I was looking for... it just seemed to me that Asami is entirely typical of the sort of person who in PSoH shows up at Count D's door expressing only interest in pets that are "rare" and "highly difficult to tame" as everything else is "boring", upon which D smiles and sells them something that eats them before the week is out. Well, PSoH is morality tales where Viewfinder markedly isn't, one can't say Asami doesn't deserve it. =_=) Also, some of the rest of you are weird. But I <3 you anyway.

( In which, inevitably, Chrissie and I discuss Viewfinder charas as animals )

As for the other one, y'all lose for not cottoning on that the real question was "Renji x Ichigo or Ichigo x Renji?" ...No, I don't really think it works either. But I was pondering how Ichigo and Renji are very alike in some ways Rukia you vixen [2] but also different, and then I realised KT's image songs are key because that's really what it is, isn't it? The Man picks on Ichigo because his hair's a different colour, but he's a righteous kid who kicks ass and takes care of his own; and Renji is a badass samurai from DA HOOD, like, but he's got this romantic streak and... so. ^^; I don't know who's "metal" in Bleach, sorry, that was just the logical punchline. It's not Rukia at any rate, much as I like the idea of Renji x Rukia (I do, sort of) there's no such thing as Celtic fiddle-rap. Well, apart from Manau. [3]

You could keep going. Ishida x Orihime would be downer indietronica + wistful little-girl French vocals = Stereolab. SAA, ISSHO NI ASOBOU.


[1] Once we calculated that Feilong was born in the Year of the Horse, because we have no life. He's quite typical of it, methinks - beautiful, hard-working, faithful, sort of selectively high-strung and insane. JUST LIKE MY MOTHER.

[2] But I mean, I got no bone to pick with someone who appreciates hawt redheads.

[3] You don't know Manau? I BET KUBO TITE KNOWS MANAU.