Squee!

fairest1, I got your package! Thank you so much!

Also, a reminder to all, February 1 marks the opening of halfamoon , which already has some great fic and vids posted:



Go celebrate the hot badass chicks.

I want to pimp out this grea Anya fic, which I didn't totally understand but which was incredibly awesome:

Chiaroscuro (Anya)

'The sunlight was reflected and redoubled in his eyes. He stared her down. With a slight smirk on his lips, he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Stay alive, Anyanka. Until next time."

He walked away whistling. The tune stayed stuck in her head for the better part of the next year. '

What is most impressive is not only the sense of time and history with the fic, but the author's fantastic precision of language.

Also, two Naruto recs:

Control

This is heartbreakingly plausible and a perfect example of Sakura and Naruto not being able to win for losing. And I don't really have an example to show how well written this is, because the whole fic is a series of little examples that build up to something heart-rendingly tragic.

At Least Sakura Was Never Called A Sack Of Potatoes

 Okay, whoever said that Tite Kubo was better at giving the ladies their due than Kishimoto lied like a lying rug woven of lies.

FYI: I'm almost (please god) at the end of the Rescue Rukia arc.

Manga Thoughts

Soul Eater:

On Stein: Okay, I have had two questions about Stein that are pivotal to my understanding of the character that it took me until recently to figure out the answer to.

The questions were, 'does Stein like nice people?' and 'is STEIN a nice person (beneath the mad scientist)?

When ( spoilers )

Bleach:

On the hello, there, lesbian subtext front: ( spoilers )

What is that guys hand doing? Never mind, I don't want to know.

I never want to hear the phrase 'what spiritual power!' ever, ever again. Unless I'm playing the Bleach drinking game and thus taking a shot.

Also, on the subject of something totally rageful:

Let me get this straight, ( more spoilers )

Bitch, no.