I Want I Lover I Don't Have To Love

[redbrunja]

Today:

–enderxenocide  and I got nostalgic at dinner about fanon!Draco. (You know, the traitor/spy/morally ambigious/auror/shades of gray one.) It turns out we were reading the same fics, only she was reading the Draco/Harry ones, and I was all about the Ginny/Draco. (For a time, I liked Hermione/Draco, and then read some excellent Snape/Hermione, and holy fuck, it's no surprise I took to Kakashi/Sakura like a fish to water.)

–went to anime club, and watched the end of the XXXholic movie. The animation was strange. Yuko is badass. I find the boy amusing and already know I would be shipping Yuko and this universe's version of Mori (from Ouran).

–XXXHolic and Claymore are in the same to-read browser window.

–fani  linked to this in a 'truth is stranger than fiction way' and... I wanna write it. Don't you think it would be a fabulous novel? Like, you could write a series of interconnected short stories, from different perspective - cheating husband, bitter wife, a slice of life from one of the girls who use their bodies to entrap these men yet has a boyfriend who thinks you're a secretary.... *plotbunnies* Wouldn't that be a fantastically interesting? If I didn't think I'd fail at Japanese culture/mores/voice, I so would.

–Does anyone have good icons of girls with laptops? Or typewriters?

–#169 does seem like the perfect man. I have no idea where he's from, though. Also, Kerowyn secret for the win!

–Total word on #162. Ruby's new body is hotter than hell (I used to kinda watch Wildfire at the gym, on hot girl + horses merits) and I remain convinced that they're totally fucking already. (She answered the door in her underwear. Come one. That was a totally hark back to the freaking pilot, plus. answered the door. in her panties.)

–does anyone have a copy of "Sister" by She Wants Revenge that the could upload?

–and maybe the pilot of "The Fringe" because the place I usually get my television has dead links for that one.
 

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I have an unnatural love for Tsubasa that far exceeds it's actually quality, though it does have some extremely good points. Honestly, I'd just speed read Tsubasa while reading xxxHolic. Though, you might ask Cho how the more recent xxxHolic volumes read not also reading Tsubasa, just to see. even at it's slow points, I do think Tsubasa is good, I just doubt the series as a whole is something you'd like more than passingly. (You might like their Magic Knight Rayearth, though, even though the series is a bit on the sparse side.0

Icon is from Apothecarius Argentum. I've only read (and posted on) the first volume so far, but it's pretty good. Shoujo romance, interesting auto-angst-he comes from a tribe of assassins who ingest poison from birth until their skin and blood become poison. Her father "bought" him as a child to be her taste tester-she's the princess and heir- because he could taste the poison but not die from it. She thought he was just a friend they found for her (they were about 11 and 8 at this time) and tried to free him from the dungeon they kept him in when he wasn't with her, but she kissed him and almost died from it. this got him put on trial for execution, but she freed him for real, and "exiled" him so they couldn't kill him. What made it stand out to me is that, instead of becoming angry and bitter towards the kingdom and doing the "I hate everything but love you" bit, he stayed in the woods nearby and became and apothecary so he could use his breeding to heal people, but is still convincingly someone who was raised to be a badass assassin, and she learned everything she could about survival and detecting poisonings and assassination attempts, so that no one else would have to constantly have his life on the life for her again. And she can back it up with both brains and skill.