this is how i treat a great piece of filipino literature: i use it in fic ^^;

disclaimer: i really, really love this poem (read the full piece here) and i'm sure other people do too and i'm really sorry but i had to do this. the idea's been percolating for so long and tonight it demanded to be poured out.

i know the poem talks about a "she," but when you hear the words "or that he left her aureoled in flame", isn't squalo the first person that comes to mind??

...don't deny it D:


( Dino Cavallone couldn't say that he and Squalo Superbi were friends, exactly. Their families were very closely tied, as all the families connected with the Vongola clan were, and boys of the same age from such families tended to find each other in the same small spaces, whether they liked it or not. )

updated my master list with my three newest reborn fics. there are still quite a few pot fics i haven't listed, but since they were posted before the tagging system, they're a bit of a pain to rummage for. those can wait :3

in the meantime, i spaz a bit about the two latest PoT chapters, because omg. i'm sorry if i'm not all that familiar with the newer characters after shitenhouji (whom i barely recognize, as it is), but RIKKAI!! thank you, sanada and niou especially, for re-establishing yourselves in my life. i am now having niou/atobe fic ideas that i presume the rest of fandom will forgive me for, because it's now soooo damn easy XD

also changed my lj layout. the "blond bombshell" one that nonartisan made for me was gorgeous and it was home for years, but photobucket died on me. so, shifting to a free layout. it's easier and i'm a total klutz when it comes to coding anyway.

hope everyone's doing good!

for mienai_hoshi. i'm sorry, this is probably a very old fic/doujin plot, but it only occurred to me recently and it demanded some ficcing XD;

(hugs len)

( If it was indeed intended to be a scowl, it was the most unsuccessful scowl Dino had ever seen. )

i... lost my first writeup of this. oh well. i hope we can all settle for the crappy rewrite.

i'm sure this is nothing new anyway, but for the sake of the people i've been squeeing to, i'm finally getting it out into the open :D

i'm sure KHR has been compared to other j-media (i dunno the right term for this, it seems to pay tribute to a lot of different j-media by mashing up cliches?) such as one piece, kingdom hearts, etc, and comparisons with the (kinda old) award-winning shounen series Project Arms are unavoidable.

and i suppose it was already apparent to shounen manga aficionadi in the beginning... but for people in the english-speaking fandom who don't read a lot of manga to begin with (such as myself), the resemblances between KHR and PA came as a pleasant surprise.

so, on this post we are going to have a small comparison between some of the main characters of:

and

[images taken from random sources off the web...i'm afraid i was in too much of a hurry to keep track. i'll try to replace these with proper screengrabs sometime, but in the meantime if any of these images was used in your site and credit is in order, please let me know.]

( very rushed writeups. for posterity, mostly. )

ps: i only get to watch Project Arms on local cable on weekends, and i tend to miss episodes if i forget the time/happen to be out of the house.

so i would like to give my love to all the little sisters out there who recap episodes of anime they don't like very much for their big sisters who are out of town for work or just really, really forgetful XD ♥

hi. i've been away ♥

i'm sorry, but i haven't been up to date on what's been going on. and after my next post, i might not post again for a while. it's been difficult to stay online, there's too much to do. if anyone needs me though, feel free to poke me via a PM or LJ. if i can be around, i will be.

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once upon a time, i broached an idea to izkariote about dino from the future wearing his old outfit. um, yeah, this sort of builds on that. also, this fic was written for khursten, who requested dino/romario a loooong time ago.

sorry bb, it's no casablanca, it's nothing explicit and I CAN'T LAY OFF THE ANGST, but HI. IT'S FOR YOUUU :D

ps: this song. i love it. although the lyrics don't quite apply to the scenario (they're bound to apply somewhere. dino/gokudera for example? *NUDGES AGGY*) the melody is just the right kind of despondent i need.

( The true mafia don is someone who doesn't exist. He is the leader of all the things that don't exist; the unseen that makes everything else move. )

taking a break from anime ficcing - this is a short something written for izkariote, based on her Endtimes universe. i haven't had the chance to read everything, but i've enjoyed what i've been able to read so far~

so you remember that meme where you tell your friends which characters remind you of them? pam said that she associates me with maes mordechai so i went "who's maes mordechai?" and she explained, and i said i wanted to write maes fic, so here it is. and here we are XD

not even sure if this is OC hahah but i have pam's permission to post this, so i dare presume it's acceptable ^^ this particular drabble @ pam's writing journal provides a nice introduction to maes and abel mordechai.

and after that lengthy intro...



( It seemed to be a piece of meat, hanging from an enormous hook dangling from the low ceiling. It took Abel a while of staring, and a while of convincing himself he would not be caught spying, before he could make out what it was - )

behold my new fandom XD XD

i'm getting another one of those IF ONLY I CAN DRAW moments. i want to see ayala and araneta-cubao as semes in action. i would fic them if i could, but since i don't know enough about this shiny new thing yet, i'll have to settle for being the unofficial official trainspotter.

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re: KHR: ( i really like this chapter of the manga because... )

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i haven't talked about the new tenipuri manga, but i find there's very little to say. ( although i think i can spare a lame sentence or two... )

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now i really have to turn off the comp. sorry if i haven't been around, things have been... unusually stressful. please leave a message here or email me if i've missed anything i shouldn't have.

i'll keep trying to be more visible!

i am... kind of awed at the number of people who have listed me as yamamoto in their memes. you know, that meme where you say which person in your flist reminds you of which characters, which i am NOT DOING due to constraints placed upon my time and onlineliness.

but as tickled as i am, i would really like an explanation? is it just because i utterly failed at rp-ing him at one point because seriously - never doing that again XD;; i am around such leet rp-ers, i sometimes feel a desperate need for failure nakama...

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and then, i need to be here for pimpage :3 there's stitchedophelia's recent lovely birthday fics (so grateful i have many march-born online friends XD), and caelestin's heartful self-insert birthday fic for theprerogative ♥ i just checked to see if nikki's replied and saw i had a cameo with dino ahahahahah XD XD oh nikki. you pwnz the crack FOREVER PERIOD NO ERASE~

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i'm sure there have been many more pimp-worthy fics since i've been away, i hope to come across them :3 recommendations most welcome!

this is ages late, but khr_undercover reveals are out and it's full of Really Great Fics that everyone should read. hie ye over to the submissions journal and enjoy!

(this is your cue to join me in pretending i didn't just write what i did for this round XD;; i am really very sorry for the lame, but my crack demanded attention. i thought i had it under control but apparently not T_T i actually fear it was offensive. please tell me if it is?)

right now i post my long-delayed and completely useless khr ramble. for posterity, i suppose?

( SPOILERS for khr 232 and 233. )

KHR Undercover fics are up!

try to guess which one is mine? hint: it's the one you'll swear off ever having read - and if you'd written it, you'd disown it and run off to live merrily by yourself in a hermitage at the bottom of the sea.

have fun reading and guessing! in the meantime i run off to live merrily by myself in a hermitage at the bottom of the sea.

guys, no really. someone should write KHR/Doctor Who fic. maybe something along the lines of this brilliant idea.

really. like now :D

a fic exploring the different ways DW could go if different characters could be the doctor and his companion/s would be great also!

four things brought this fic about:

1. Shamal wiki entry: He claims to be infected with 666 diseases that have no effect on him due to the negating effects of each disease; if he has a disease that rapidly decreases body temperature, then he has another one that increases it, and so on.

2. Reborn once mentioned Shamal as the one who helped give birth to him. i forget where and when, but i presume this occurred sometime during the daily life arc?

3. the recent appearance of a (rather hot) shamal lookalike. um, maybe XD it's not related to the events that transpire in this fic, but it was inspiration.

4. i always go overboard with ideas. please avoid this fic if you wish to keep your canon unsullied and devoid of prefabricated angst.

takes place sometime before the Great 10YL Switch. notes at the end.


( It was perhaps the Don's mistake, taking her to him and not to another mafia doctor, just because he knew that when 'Trident Shamal,' the cold-blooded Vongola assassin, was tasked to do something, he always delivered. Somehow Shamal felt that he could not let this one go, not this one. )

i am almost scared to come back to this journal... i've missed so many things.

but i can't miss the spazz for this chapter.

( yet MORE batshit speculation. )

right. need to sleep. there's this thing called work and it's going to start biting my ass in roughly four hours.

i... will... try to catch up somehow with my flist as soon as i can. i'm so sorry T_T

mlina recently wrote an amazingly sensual Bianchi/Lambo fic that i think everyone should read. she's a bit shy about showing it off, but i'm not shy about reccing it :P no one does sexy bianchi quite the way noey does. if you read and liked, please leave a comment! help me encourage her to write more sexyfic :3

half_sleeping is also doing a KHR/Dresden Files crossover that has... inspired me to finally watch the Dresden Files. i've always wanted to see this series and i thought this must be the best time to start. have seen two episodes so far. kye_kestrel has also suggested that i try the books. should do this before vacation ends!

i'm adding two more recs: cleartempest wrote me 8069* for khr_exchange. 8069!! this makes me ridiculously happy. although the author says it's gen, my fangirl mind quickly slid to the gutter. i am not sorry :P~

cartografie wrote an interesting future!yamamoto introspective piece. a bit long, but worth the read. i love stories that appear to have a deeply personal meaning to the author, and this is one of them. the style she chose is different, and quite effective for yamamoto, i think.

in conclusion: i love my fandom and i love my friends list :3 but for now, i gorge on this copy of Gomorra i found quite by accident :) HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!




* - a bit of trivia i learned from the relationship rating form of the stamp_a_hitman comm⁺: yamamoto and mukuro have NEVER interacted in canon. is this true?? i just find this intriguing. the number of possibilities for this pairing has just multiplied by a factor of ∞ >3

⁺ - please rate me if you have the time?

• Other Lives [prince of tennis, inui/yanagi] - written for the yanagi renji fic exchange. i'd just link to the comm version, but since i'm anal and i can't edit that, i've reposted it on my journal XD the idea of renji and inui interacting in alternate universes has been knocking around in my head for a while. i'm happy to have finally gotten it out.
  
  
• A Matter of Timing [prince of tennis, niou/yanagi] - again, written for willow_lotus. comm version is here. my first (and last?) yanagi/niou XD
  
  
• This is our death sentence [katekyou hitman reborn!, yamamoto/hibari] - angst, hibari's pov.

...i really hope i didn't let my recipients down too much. it's my first time actively participating in a holiday fanworks exchange, and i keep feeling like i've done it rong or something T_T it was fun and challenging, though! i want to be able to do this again next year!

the internet ALWAYS wonks out during the holiday season. ALWAYS. on the up side, i hope wonky internet + free time = a little more writing done. at least one more fic before returning to the grind :) allons-y!

written for the first round of the yanagi renji fic exchange. the version posted on the comm is here.

( Yanagi liked to think of himself as someone who lived by plans, rules, traditions, and other solid things. He accepted only facts. And the fact was: he was completely, irrationally, drawn to this guy. )

written for the first round of the yanagi renji fic exchange. the version posted on the comm is here.

( 'Why would you lose me?' The edge in his smile said: /What makes you think I'm yours to lose?/ )

I AM SO HAPPY.

as-yet-anon writer, you have made me very happy. i hope i can find out who you are so i can thank you personally, in addition to reccing your wonderful fic like this ♥

mannnn all the renji exchange fics posted so far are just SO GOOD. i feel so intimidated and SO IN AWE. tenipuri fandom, in case i never said it before - i am grateful that you took me in. i never regretted it for a second.

the raw scans aren't out yet, so this may or may not end up being accurate. i just felt like talking :P

( how is that spelled again...? )

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and for kicks, pimping two crossover (mainly fic) communities:

undyingwill [membership closed] - a KHR/tenipuri crossover community. not much in there yet, but the members writing in it are really talented. i'd love to read more!

shootnserve - a very new slam dunk/tenipuri crossover community. last i heard, there was talk of fuji x fujima. after some thought, i realized that this is quite possibly relevant to my interests >P so - fic plz?

are there any other crossover fic communities that you guys would like to pimp out to me? i'd love to take a look!