THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

Because I've been doing a lot of that these days. |D

No, I'm not actually moving journals or anything. Or at least not my personal journal. I rather like this one.

However, after last night's sleep-induced spam (I should totally follow rhap_chan 's rule to never post after 3AM, fff) , I realized I don't do writing-related ramblings nearly as often as I'd like And that's mostly because I don't want to bother my f-list even more so than I already do, haha. Really, I think only a few of my LJ friends are interested in writing (as a hobby in general, that is) and would actually understand/relate to/care about my rants. That and, well, put up with my merciless spam and my shameless egocentricity.

And then I suddenly thought of a perfect journal name, too, and so it was decided: afictionada will be my writing ramblings journal! ♥

Seriously, perfect, perfect username and I was surprised it wasn't taken already. It's a pun with the Spanish word aficionado (a person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a usually fervently pursued interest or activity) inflected as a female noun and, well, fiction, of course. I love my brain sometimes. ♥

So, if you're curious about what goes through my mind as I write my stuff, my random plotbunnies or the things I'm actually planning to work on in the near future - and given you can handle the spam, of course |DD - feel free to add it! It will probably be semi-locked, for the sake of keeping my original ideas known only to my trusty people. Not that I think they're actually worth stealing but, hey, it never hurts to take safety measures.

ALSO. I'm going to need some writing-related icons. Oh wise f-list of mine, can you point me to a few~? ♥

ffffffff 31_days . why do you make it clow/yuuko month and inspire me to write just when everyone is doing nanowrimo and they neglect yoooooouuuuuu?

i mean. the top two posts in the comm are mine. same pairing. same lameness. i feel like a dirty spammer, eeeeeeee.

and now i'm spamming the flist, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~ /spams like a dirty spammer

also, i'm not capitalizing words. you know what this means? i'm up and blogging too late in the night again. but i had to fiiiiiinish this because eeeeeeeeee it's clow/yuuko moooooonth~~~~~~~~ ♥

/goes to sleep now, promise

Just a while ago, I was listening to I Can't Decide and my grandmother came in to tell me she loved the song~~!

... I can't stop laughing now.

MAY SHE NEVER ASK WHAT THE LYRICS MEAN. GOD, THE LYRICS. THIS IS MY "I AM RAGING MAD AND WANT TO KILL SOMEONE YET CYNICALLY PRETEND TO BE FINE AND CHEERY" SONG FOR A REASON. XD

Seriously, though. Can't stop laughing.

Re: I watched Inuyasha - Kanketsu-hen episode 08.

;____________;

JDSDJFKJFL GODDAMN I SWEAR I CRIED A RIVER ALL OVER AGAIN. THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY KIKYOU DEATHS I CAN TAKE. And trust me, if we count the manga and the anime, she dies a whole lot.

BUT SERIOUSLY. WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO LOOK ALL PEACEFUL AND JFGJDKLJDL CUTE WHEN SHE'S DYING, WHYYYYYYY. MY POOR HEART. ;_____;

As for the episode itself, well. It was rushed as always, but when you're trying to fit 30+ manga volumes into 26 anime episodes, it's pretty understandable. The important parts were kept, though, and Kikyou's final chapter was animated panel by panel - they even threw in a new scene that wasn't originally in the manga, so Kikyou could say goodbye to her little sister who actually looks decades older than her. Ahaha what's with me and the dead ladies who never age.

... also, now that I think about it. Kikyou once said that Time doesn't move for the dead. Which bears an odd resemblance to a certain witch I know. DAMN YOU, OHKAWA, STOP SMOKING CRACK DRINKING TEA WITH THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY FANDOMS. DDDX

A-and. I know it's been forever and this would be the most time-consuming canon-review of the history of ever, but. I kind of want to play as Kikyou again. SOMEONE GIVE ME INUYASHA CHARACTERS TO PLAY AGAINST, RIGHT NOW. Especially Naraku. I know I'm a sucker for villains with emotional motives, but. But. DAMMIT I CRIED WHEN HE DIED. Even though he kinda killed my favorite character ahaha I'm so fucked up. Also, have I mentioned he has a dazzling evil smile~?

Oh, well. Guess I'll have to settle with fic, unless my ~*~awesome f-list~*~ provides me a nice little cast~ /stares at certain people

ETA: OMG WTF SOMEONE RESERVED KAGOME AT DISCEDO A WHILE AFTER I POSTED THIS ENTRY. IT'S A SIIIIIIIGN.

Commenting as I watch it so I won't break from the habit! /o/

( Cut for possible spoilers )

So basically I loved the episode, though the ending got me icon-facing at the Doctor. You've gone too far, Mr. Time Lord Victorious.

BUT YAY, THE MASTER. :DDDDDDDDD

M-my internet.

IT LIVES~! ♥♥♥

And to celebrate this great feat, I come with xxxHOLiC 193 comments~! Yeah, yeah, I'm still reading this thing.

( Cut for spoilers~ )

GUISE, GUISE.

I JUST MADE MY MOM WATCH THE FIRST EPISODE OF NEW WHO WITH ME.

AND NOW SHE WANTS TO WATCH THE REST.

8DDDDDDDDD;;

BE PROUD OF ME, MY FELLOW WHO GEEKS.

- Comment with the character's personality traits that you think are also mine;
-You can comment only on the ones whose canon you know, or according to the way you see them through our interactions;
- \o/
- ???
- PROFIT.

I. Currently played:
1. Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHOLiC/TRC)
2. (Clone) Princess Sakura (TRC)
3. Mokona Soel Modoki (TRC)
4. Jack Sparrow (PotC)
5. Enma Ai (Jigoku Shoujo)
6. Nakuru Akizuki/Ruby Moon (CCS)
7. Renge Houshakuji (Ouran)

II. Previously played:
1. Sakura Kinomoto (CCS)
2. Clow Reed (... er. CLAMP)
3. Kikyou (Inuyasha)

III. Played at Fourth Wall Event:
1. Himawari Kunogi (xxxHOLiC)

I can see things in common between three of my muses there. 8DDD; I don't think I have anything in common with teeny!Sakura, though. ALSO, I DON'T CARE IF WE'VE NEVER PLAYED TOGETHER. DO EEEEET. /o/

/goes back to writing

I think the spirit of NaNoWriMo has caught up with me or something! Over the course of one week, I've written all of three fics - and even though it doesn't sound like a lot, it's more than I sometimes write in a whole month, so yeah. DO NOT RAIN ON MY PARADE. :|

All three of them were of the cheesy/angsty/cheesy angst variety, though, so I'm. Pretty sick of that at the moment. 8DD; AND IT DOESN'T HELP THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE SUGGESTED ANGSTY PROMPTS, EITHER, SO I'M STUCK WITH A LOT OF THAT. But I still want to write silly/lulzy fic for those two, and I've been struck by one of my sudden bolts of inspiration again and I got a few ideas, so yay! ♥

... except now I can't seem to make up my mind about which one to write first, either. |DDD; Oddly enough, one of the fics I'm in the mood for writing is pretty bittersweet, sob.There's no escaping, is there?

ANYWAY. HELP ME, F-LIST KENOBI. Pick a number from 1 to 3, and that will be the one I write first. There's silly!fic, crack!fic and angst!fic there, but I'm not telling you which one is which. RANDOM IS THE WAY TO GO. :DDDb

Maybe by the end of this week, the gigantenormous list of doom can downsize to double digits! Double digits would be nice. *__*''

/off to do homework in the meantime

Todavia no he logrado terminar tu regalo, así que te vas a quedar con un dibujo terriblemente mal hecho en unos tantos minutos Suppi borracho y una Nakuru ev0l ~*~completamente inocente~*~ mientras lo hago. Prontito lo tendrás. ;;

Que tengas un gran día y que comas muchos dulces y que te diviertas mucho y que todos tus deseos se conviertan en realidad. Pero solo porque no eres Clow y no debes tener ningun deseo peligroso, ¿verdad? Te adoro muchísimo. ♥♥♥

Y como dice la tradición, mis mensajes son siempre muy cortitos. |DDD AL ESPAÑOL NO LE GUSTAN LAS RUBYS. ;_;

Sob, why is it that just when I decide to catch up on my gigantenormous fic writing project, half the prompt list for 31_days reminds me of the pairing I'm supposed to be writing for? DDDDDDX

jfdklsjfkd idk. Combining prompts is go? AND MAYBE THAT WILL MOTIVATE ME TO ACTUALLY WRITE A FIC A DAY. yeah right

Also, CLAMP. Give me my ability to write silly/lulzy fic back. Seriously, your over the top ways killed it. And most of the fics I already have ideas for are either angsty, cheesy or cheesy angst. Bittersweet at most. WHERE IS THE LULZ, I NEED THE LULZ.

/goes back to writing

hi f-list how have you been

I was browsing through my old fandoms the other day (the other day = when TRC ended) and I came to realize Yuu Watase is probably the mangaka that has disappointed me the least. And by that I mean there's very, very little disappointment there.

I mean. While she pretty much only writes Shoujo and that's not my favorite kind of story, she manages to write an interesting (yet not overly convoluted) overarching plot that keeps me hooked. Plus, she has a gorgeous drawing style, and yet manages to deliver her monthly chapters without any delay or neverending breaks (HELLO CLAMP). And she may have gotten carried away with Fushigi Yuugi, but the rest of her series are neither too long not too short; they're just the right size, really.

And on a more selfish note, SHE GIVES ME FANSERVICE. :| I mean, in Fushigi Yuugi, my OTP was pretty much the main villain and one of his "assistants", so obviously the story wasn't focused on them-- yet when the series ended, these series of novels were realeased, featuring the group of villains and elaborating on their past. It gets even better with Ayashi no Ceres, as my OTP is similar to Clow/Yuuko - in the sense that They Started It All and yet Rarely Show Up In the actual story. But then they got a shiny one-shot just for them and it features their past together and it's jfklsdjflks drop-dead gorgeous and full of shiny fanservice and it makes Ruby very happy, oh yes it does. *A* ♥♥♥

And since I very recently found the scans, I'll be nice and share~! SO GO DOWNLOAD AND READ IT. IT'S PRETTY SHORT AND BEAUTIFUL AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THE ACTUAL MANGA TO UNDERSTAND IT AND IF YOU DON'T I'LL BE SAD THAT NO ONE EVER READS MY RECS. emotional blackmail what is that Also, the Ruby appeal factor (aka angst, tragedy and death) only comes later and there's barely a vague reference to it in the one-shot, so it's mostly cheesy happy. :DDb AND AND. Here's Ayashi no Ceres' theme song, too, for those music lovers out there. It's absolutely gorgeous, too. ♥

Aaaaand while I'm at it, I'll make a public announcement and sell my soul to CLAMP. That is to say, if they ever give me a shiny one-shot like that and it actually tells us what the fuck was up with Clow and Yuuko (and possibly FWR), I swear I'll read every single series they've ever written and every single series they have yet to write/finish, back to back. HOWEVER, here's the fine print: they have to do it exactly like that Ayashi no Ceres one-shot, with the exact same kind of fanservice. If you wanna know what kind of ~special fanservice~ this is, go download it. 8DDDb

So, yeah. YOU CAN STILL BUY A FAN BACK, CLAMP. JUST PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT. :DDb

To make up for the crappy real life post from before, here's some happy roleplay stuff~! ♥

First and foremost, I GOT MY WATANUKI AT DISCEDO~~! ♥♥♥ And yes, my cheerfulness might come off as weird to anyone who knows how much I dislike this whole xxxHOLiC Rou deal, but. This is the cute and flaily and adorable and I wanted to say "not!stupid" but this is Clow-people we're talking about here so less-stupid Watanuki that I've always loved, so I'm haaaaaappy~! Although I'll admit, playing against a post-Yuuko!death Watanuki might've been a fun experience, if only for the awkward tiemz. Clearly, I don't put my characters through enough torture. |DD

Still in Disco news, I'm surprised at the sheer amount of people who have replied to my permissions post! I mean, I expected a few characters, yes, but the permissions form was kinda longish and I'm pretty much the only one benefitting from it, so players didn't really have all that much motivation to reply. Despite all that, I think we're down to 40-50 characters so far-- that's a friggin' lot of people enabling my metagaming o__o! Waah, discedians are so nice and helpful! ;; ♥

As for Con-chan, OMFG WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE AMAZING NPC'S XDDD? Really, "The Fangirl", "The Cosplayer", "The Parents"-- if you've ever been to an anime convention, you know these are all very realistic "characters" prone to show up at any given time. Fun plottings must be plotted~~ And I still say we need a Renge over there; she'd pwn the Fangirl NPC anytime.

Also, I was very pleasantly surprised to find doumeki playing Touya over there! /waves at Sherri~ And of course, now I'm tempted to bring in either Nakuru or Sakura because I'VE NEVER PLAYED AGAINST A TOUYA AS EITHER OF THEM AND THAT IS PLAIN SACRILEGIOUS. It's kinda funny how I claim I'll leave CLAMP fandom, yet I keep getting the urge to play old school!CLAMP characters WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. DDDDX /enables ~certain people~ in the f-list to join tiny but growing CLAMP cast~~~~

Aaaaand last but certainly not least, MIDIAN FOURTHWALL THINGY IS COMING, EEEEEEEE~~~ I still need to make that other post to work out the last details and stuff, I know, but I'm being lazy. |DDD I'LL TRY TO GET TO IT LATER TONIGHT, PROMISE.

/happily scampers off~~

Dear body,

Are we done being sick now? Really, it's been a week already, and I'm getting pretty tired of the on-and-off sickness. Getting better from that cold/sore throat only to be struck with killing stomach aches right afterward is especially annoying, you know. What's next? More fever? Migraines?

I am utterly amused to see my medication has opium in it, though-- in very, very small doses, yes, but still. And it kind of tastes like alcohol, too. I suppose there's a reason why they warn you to not take more than 160 drops a day. |DDD ...hmmm.

Ah, well. At least today I feel well enough to actually sit upright for longer than an hour. That's progress! /o/

/drags self to do some long due catching up with everything ever

No love because, really, I don't wanna kill you,

~Ruby

So, while on MSN last night, I had this interesting exchange with Lau. AND NOW I KNOW HER ~*~REAL NAME~*~

(01:33) Ruby: I'M SEME HERE. =|
(01:34) Laura: WELL TOO BAD. I'VE TOLD YOU A MILLION TIMES I'M NOT UKE
(01:34) Ruby: YOU'RE. LESS!SEME, THEN.
(01:34) Laura: I'm not seme either. SEME AND UKE HAVE NO MEANING TO ME
(01:35) Laura: I'M LAU PERIOD
(01:35) Ruby: OKAY THEN YOU'RE JUST TOPPABLE.
(01:35) Laura: ... see, *that* makes sense to me XD
(01:35) Ruby: ... Lau Period. XD;
(01:35) Laura: ...........................................
(01:35) Laura: CLEARLY IT IS BEDTIME FOR ME ALREADY

I was LOL'ing at that for the rest of the night, too. AND YES, I'M EVIL FOR POSTING THIS AND I DON'T CARE. ♥

Also, on a slightly unrelated note, I went to bed after three in the morning, got up at nine-something and feel oddly awake despite having had little sleep. I do not understand my body. :o

What I do understand is that I'm getting a fever from my sore throat. Yeeeeeey.

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ALSO, GUYS. I feel like writing, but I'm too lazy to work on the longer fics I have in mind, so. Pick a number from 1-108 so I can go drabble-happy, will you? ♥

I don't want to jynx it, buuuut it seems the love of my life has returned-- STABLE INTERNET, HOW I MISSED YOU. ♥

So yeah, that means I should probably be working on those 157454585 very late tags, but. I have this hangover-like headache. Which is weird because I totally did not drink at all yesterday. Idk. If I can get drunk on sugar, can I get a hangover from it, too? I have been eating a lot of sweets for the past couple of days, hmmm...

BUT I'LL BE A RESPONSIBLE RUBY. I'll get to those tags first while I have internet, then go work on everything else I want to do-- namely finish my comic strip and go write some. That monster list is not getting any smaller and CLAMP is not making me any more inspired, so I might as well kick my laziness in the butt and actually write down the fics I already have ideas for. Like. Later tonight or tomorrow. Who needs studying for tests, anyway?

/trots off to happy procrastination land

And as promised, here's a rambly post on my not-so-first impressions.

Warning: there is capslock of RAEG behind the cut. And then some capslock of fangirlese. Try and guess why before you click. |DD

( Cut for length, hardly for spoilers. )

... oh, wow. This turned out to be longer than I expected. :o

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME
In before QUIT TALKING ABOUT CLAMP ALREADY-- it gets annoying, I know. But yeah, go wild~! /o/

Also, to make this post less spammish and while we're telling people stuff. There's this certain cast at discedo that is pretty lulzy and that I'm unintentionally(?) building CR with, and since I keep catching random episodes on TV, I decided to watch their canon for the hell of it.

So, yeah. Ruby is watching Avatar. I know a few people on my f-list will be shocked/thrilled/amused/wtf but whatever. At least it doesn't break my brain and I already know how it ends, so I can't get too terribly disappointed. \o\

Comments to come when I get further into the series~