There's Nowhere To Flee For Your Life

Shibboleth is a great word.

Rooks by Sheerwater (download here) is totally an Uchiha Itachi song.

I See Red by Ur Huh Her (download here) is totally a Haruno Sakura song.

I've been meaning to do the last couple fannish5  :

Five characters that replaced departing characters, and whether you considered each a gain or a loss.

1.) Tara. While I think Tara is awesome and I really loved her from the whole 'lesbian on primetime' factor and how nonchalant they were about that relationship, I kinda adored Oz, and personally connected more with the 'cool musician falls for pretty geek girl' storyline than the lesbian witches one. Loss. (...and bellzooks will be burning me at the stake shortly...)

2.) Wesley. While Doyle was possibly the best person for Cordelia, ever, his death was kinda awesome in that it gave her visions which resulted in even more awesome character development from her, and lead to Wesley having a FANTASTIC and realistic character arc. (Seriously, think about who he was introduced as, and who he became.)

3.) Whoever ends up replacing Zach. The cluster fuck that was him being written off the show automatically means that whoever replaces him won't be as awesome. Loss.

4.) Tori. The fact that they didn't do more with Billy was bad, but the fact that they wrote him off in a way that made me hate everyone in that love triangle... is actually par for the course with BSG. Anyway, back to the point, Billy was awesome and Tori is an evil Cylon who killed Cally in order to fuck the Chief. Die, bitch.

5.) Zach. Despite his few cute moments, he was nowhere near as perfect for Lane as Dave (aka, Seth Cohen with a guitar. I mean, freaking Seth Cohen.)

Name your five favorite fanfic tropes. (Assume that these are tropes written well.)

1.) Two characters being ordered to work together on something, and UST leading to RST results.

2.) One character, while sleeping in the same bed as another, cuddles and/or fondles the other in a way they would never do at this point in this fic if they were awake.

3.) Sex making things MORE complicated, not less.

4.) Sex occurring before one or both of the participants is in love/knows they're in love.

5.) The guy falling in love and knowing he's in love before the girl.

I Can Go To Great Lengths To Avoid Schoolwork

feilyn  mentioned the Orochimaru cameo in the Sasuke/Itachi fight, and I had to reread (30 minutes of my life I'll never get back). I did, however, notice something hilarious. Itachi? Paints his toenails. Yeah.

Naruto meme gacked from the_sun_is_up :

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And now, A Naruto Shipping Meme: Crack Edition.

(Actually, this is a time when I really like Naruto's nice big cast. Because you jut can't do memes like this with Saiyuki, and it would be damn hard with Avatar.)

Name six ships you love:
1. Kakashi/Kushina
2. Temari/Gaara
3. Itachi/Anko
4. Karin/Seigetsu
5. Sakura/Gaara
6. Sakura/Kakashi

Name three ships you used to like but don't anymore:
7. Deidara/Sakura
8. Anko/Ikibi
9. Hinata/Kiba

Name three ships you don't like:
10. Temari/Kankarou
11. Iruka/Kakashi
12. Kakashi/Sasuke

Name two ships that have piqued your interest
13. Pein/Konan
14. Anko/Orochimaru

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I mentioned a while ago doing this for Avatar:

Name six ships you love:
1. Zuko/Katara
2. Suki/Sokka
3. Mai/Ty Lee/Azula
4. Sokka/Katara
5. Iroh/Jun
6. Pakkun/Kanna

Name three ships you used to like but don't anymore:
7. Toph/Aang
8. Toph/Sokka
9. Aang/Katara

Name three ships you don't like:
10. Katara/Aang
11. Mai/Zuko
12. Toph/Aang

Name two ships that have piqued your interest
13. Haru/Azula
14. Hama/Kanna

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Princess Without A Crown, Stumbling In & Falling Down

Okay, I'm really enjoying my fiction textbooks (short, short stories, a very readable book on writing) but my textbook has the WORST attitude about genre writing. When he uses examples of bad writing, he flat-out calls in 'genre writing' instead of 'bad writing' and acts like being plot-driven leads to all writing ills.

Also, I'm going to be fic-spamming tonight, since I have some free time and have a couple fics that I owe people and never posted. And then enderxenocide  showed me a Saiyuki vid last night, which made me think about INLYA, and when I looked at what I'd written, I had more than I'd initially thought I did.

Fic: "I Never Loved You Anyway - Chapter Four" [Yaone x Gojyo]

I Never Loved You Anyway” – Chapter Four

(You Remind Me Of Me, prompt 23)

Fandom: Saiyuki
Rating: PG-13
Author: redbrunja
Characters: Gojyo & Yaone.
Author’s Note: Written for un_love_you. Much love to my beta, pzb.
Summary: “There should be someone getting her to smile- she was too pretty for somber to be her default expression.” In the game of love, some lines you cross, some lines you leap over, and some lines require playing hopscotch with the rules. (Yaone x Gojyo)

(previous chapters can be found here and here.)



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Fic: "Home"

Title: Home
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Written for my cinco de mayo meme - and yeah, I do know it's September. For yukiwiththeawesome.
Characters: Ed x Winry
Summary: "Amestris didn’t have Christmas."

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Fic: "Future"

Title: Future
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Saiyuki
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Written for my cinco de mayo meme - and yeah, I do know it's September. For cornerofmadness .
Characters: Yaone
Summary: Yaone knows what her future holds.


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Title: Days For The Dead
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Saiyuki
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Written for my cinco de mayo meme - and yeah, I do know it's September. For smillaraaq .
Characters: Hakkai and Gojyo
Summery: Neither of them ever forget.

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Fic: "Summer Solstice"

Title: Summer Solstice
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Avatar
Rating: R
Author's Note: AU. Written for my cinco de mayo meme - and yeah, I do know it's September. For renegadekitsune  - the dresses better be hot.
Characters: Katara, Zuko.
Summary: "Aang defeated the Fire Lord. They still lost."


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