Balsa is the coolest for ever and ever okay.

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My favorite part of Seirei no Moribito so far—keeping in mind that it's hard to differentiate between 'amazing' and 'slightly more amazing'—is the short period of time where the main characters essentially go undercover-in-plain-sight AS A NUCLEAR FAMILY. Everyone is all domestic together and it's adorable, and meanwhile we all know that they are a badass lady bodyguard and a supposedly-dead prince and a . . . okay, Tanda is still Tanda. BUT APART FROM HIM: sekrit fugitives of awesome!

I am like eight episodes past this part of the plot, but it's still floating around in my head. I love things where awesome amazing famous people hide as/become ordinary people with ordinary lives. All the political stuff is interesting, as are the bits about the water fiend and Nayug & Sagu, but. I have kind of a thing about people being domestic, okay.

I'm glad this anime is based off of novels, because it means that when I've watched all of it I still have some Balsa to hold in reserve for later. It's actually kind of blowing my mind, the concept of a) books that I know for sure are totally lacking in fail which I have not yet read, that are not b) Twelve Kingdoms.

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[littlebutfierce]

When you mentioned this recently I meant to comment to say that I'm watching it too! Though I've only gotten up to episode 3. vi posted about it recently & someone else did a while ago, &... it just takes me a while to get to recs, ahahaha.

I'm enjoying this one so far, though.

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It takes me quite a while to get to recs too! I mean, it took me like five years to follow up on everybody's reccing of A:TLA, and people have been telling me to read/watch this show for at least two years.

(Also, something I keep forgetting to do: asking you for five questions!)

[littlebutfierce]

Oooh, okay, questions!

1. Hermione versus Taki: who wins, & why?
2. Tell me something about a tradition or a quirk or something your family has.
3. What outfit would you wear every single day if you could get away w/it?
4. Tell me about your fic-writing process (anything from idea generation through to finally posting)!
5. If you could magically learn one skill instantly, what would you pick?