Meta Rambles

[redbrunja]

Here are the answers to the meta meme I was going a couple days ago.

And, since I'm going to be washing windows tomorrow, if you have any fannish questions you'd like me to answer, feel free to ask, because I'd enjoy something to ponder while I scrub tomorrow.

For doriche: Suppose you were in Sarah's place. Would you have accepted Jareth's offer to stay with him forever? Why or why not?

Absolutely not.

Sarah totally did the right thing. At the time, the invitation to stay in the Labyrinth was “I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.” Which, you know, was totally hot and all, but completely negates any chance of actually having an equal relationship with the Goblin King. If she (or I) had said yes, Jareth would have almost immediately lost interest, had power over her (or me) and turned the baby into a goblin in three minutes.

However, what I would have done differently is, at the end, I would have noticed the owl and opened the window.

For renegadekitsune: If you were Yaone, who would you date? Hakkai or Gojyo?

Without question, Hakkai.

And I can answer this two ways, with what I think Yaone would do, and what I would do if I had the option of dating Hakkai or Gojyo. So I’ll answer both.

First, I think if all things were equal, Yaone would choose Hakkai. Frankly, those two are much, much more compatible in ways that make life much easier in the long term - they both are polite, neat, and have a similar sense of duty. So I think long-term, they’d live well together, and I think Yaone is smart enough to know that.

She’s look at Hakkai and see someone how is honest, understands her, would do anything to protect her (based on Kanan) and would have a much more approachable exterior than Gojyo does.

Part of this is my OTP talking - I find it intrinsically impossible to write a Hakkai and a Yaone who don’t care about each other, regardless of what else is going on.

Also, I find my Gojyo x Yaone (which, don’t get me wrong, I love love love them) is all about the situation - how does what is going on in their individual lives and/or emotional issues make them see this-and-such in the other person? while Hakkai and Yaone is all about the people - I think Yaone is Hakkai’s second chance with the closest think to indestructible he can get, and I think Hakkai is Yaone’s chance to be with someone who will put her first and go beyond the impossible to keep her safe. That their issues, (suicidal tendencies, belief in their worthlessness, Hakkai’s sense of himself as a monster, Yaone’s violent sense of duty and obligation) are real and valid just makes them more perfect for each other.

Additionally, if I were answering this question as me, I would add that I’m an elitist bitch, and an interesting conversationalist is very high on my list of necessary character traits, so with Gojyo I’d worry that after a while I’d get bored and/or irritated with him. And while I might get irritated with Hakkai from time to time (“Didn’t I warn that cleaning other people’s desk’s without permission will earn you retribution?” *takes out handcuffs*) long-term I think it will work.

However, that’s not to say that Gojyo couldn’t sweep either Yaone or me off our feet, because, I mean, it’s Sha Gojyo.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You must have better belts than I do. All mine are faux-leather plastic things, which I think would chafe a lot. Except for the few I have that are cloth, but one of those itches, iirc.

plus, handcuffs are classic.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

The braided leather kind are the best...the bend quite well. But yes, it would have to be real leather to not chafe.

Oh, handcuffs are classic indeed. Just not always easily accessible. XD That's all I'm saying.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Good to know.

And pzb what kind of girl doesn't care around a pair of handcuffs at all times. tch, tch.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. I'm slipping. ;)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

You truly are.

(better draw some hxy to make up for it)

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Well, I make no promises about timeliness, but I'll see what I can do. XD

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Plz do.

And I suddenly realized after posting my latest that I don't have a hxy naught sex icon. Could I bug you to make another variation of the 'don't touch what's mine' icon? I remember talking about that with you once a long, long time ago...

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember that, but I think I wound up not saving the layered version, but that's no big deal. It'll just be different is all.

What did you want on it?

Oh gods.....so I have time to read this.....shit shit shit.. I knew I should have just gotten up at 5:30 when that anxiety dream woke me up. XD

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

What I'd like, if it's doable, was something along the color of the textless version, but with the same 'Don't Touch What's Mine' text.

Thanks!

And I'm sorry about the anxiety dream - what was going on?

[pzb.livejournal.com]

I shall certainly see what I can do. :D

Eh, because of all of the issues with my teeth, every couple months or so I tend to have dreams about one or two of them falling out and I'm trying desperately to put it/them back in. Last night, it was damn near all of them. And it was one of those weird ones where I thought it was a dream for a moment, then started thinking it was real. Totally sucked ass.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, man that sounds totally sucktastic.

I hate dreams like that. My axiety dreams usually involve being late for work/school or bugs and writhing things, like maggots.

Fun, fun.