HALP.

[esmenet]

Bleargh. Christmas was kind of fun, if very exhausting, and now I have nothing to do. Except enjoy having a real keyboard, which is nice because while my new iTouch (!) is SUPER SHINY, it is also a bitch to type on. :[ And my oven is broken. But! Everything else is okay. I have a closet full of new clothes. And you guys are awesome. Even Especially those of you I just met over at the KHR friending meme and haven't gotten a chance to know yet. So! The Five Questions meme. Ask me five questions, I'll answer them, and if you want I'll ask you another five back. My favourite getting-to-know-you exercise. :D



Also, I'm kind of burned out on all the stuff I'm writing right now, and the plot bunnies I'm getting are for series I'm not actually very familiar with. (Stuff like Naruto and Bleach, I mean, where I read like a fourth of it and stopped and everything I know from after that is through fandom osmosis.) Sooooo . . . does anyone have any ideas/requests they don't mind if I mess around with? I can't promise that I'll end up writing all or even any of them (I'm notoriously slow at writing, besides) but I would love to see some of the plots/fics you want to read but don't feel like trying to write. You know, stuff like 'an epic Severitus about Harry becoming an awesome magical engineer and having buckets of UST with Theodore Nott' or 'genderbent Squalo/Yamamoto'.

Fandoms: Anything you know I'm familiar with, though it would be nice if they weren't super-long or if they were (like Harry Potter) the kind where you can really get away with just making shit up and slapping an 'AU' label on it. Again, I can't promise I'll actually do anything -- but I want to see what kind of things you guys have kicking around your heads, and maybe get something to scribble around with.

Comments

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

1. I actually don't remember. But it was the first lj comm I followed. (And one I forgot to join until they locked commenting to members. :D )

2. I pick up a volume or two of FMA whenever I see it at the library, but I don't actually follow it -- although from what I hear, I should start. I watched a couple episodes of AtLA and then stopped for some reason. I'll pick it back up eventually . . .

3. Shoujo Kakumei Utena is my favourite anime in the world. It has actual symbolism and references that mean something! :D Apart from that, there's the classics like Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Trigun . . . that kind of thing. Oh, and Legend of Galactic Heroes, which is a fantastically long and wonderful OVA series about two different superpowers having giant battles in space. And politics.

As for comics, anything by Naoki Urasawa is fantastic. Sho Fumimura's Sanctuary is also really good, though it's not the kind of thing everyone likes. (There's a really great double-page spread of two men sitting in a living room. And it's actually dramatic, not because they're Yakuza but because they're sitting in this guy's living room. And they bring flowers for his wife, and congratulate his daughter on passing her test at school, how thoughtful of them . . .)

*cough* Anyway. 4. Terrible characterization, and consistently using a word wrong. Imply =/= infer, dammit!

5. IDK . . . does the fact that I love reading about Yakuza count? :D

[turtleyurtle1.livejournal.com]

1.) xD I think it might've been my first followed comm too. But I can't remember.
2.) I don't follow the manga as consistently as I do the new anime FMA:Brotherhood. (Which I think is stunning, and it's what really got me into it). AtLA will always be my go-to, because after I found out the nasty side of HP I fled fandoms like woah. I came back with AtLA and although they can be nasty too (any fandom can) I liked the people more. They do have a bunch of symbolism (Arguably why I shipped the ship I did...haha and arguably why the Korean animators shipped it too) but fans discussed everything, and that was the fun part. Now that it's over, I RP. xD

3. I got nuthin'

4. Fandom/Ship specific tropes/cliches done wrong. I really can't complain about there being fandom specific tropes because I've written a few, and my AtLA ship practically made it a game to do so. (Who can write this scenario, but twist it to make it awesome and fresh?) But I'm so sick of people utterly forgetting the character's voices because they're trying to make something specific work. Or when they write adult characters younger. I guess that's terrible characterization? Dialogue mainly. I once had a reviewer tell me that a dialogue between Roy and Riza from FMA sounded like dialogue between Edward and Winry. Normally I'd be all "Oh. Okay." but Roy and Riza were talking about something that only they knew. So you don't need to be an expert on the fandom to go "Bwuahh? What on earth do you mean?"

5. Yes. Yes it does. My initials are DNA. AND ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO ME.