i. I've a few dreamwidth invite codes sitting around collecting dust. If anyone would like them, leave a note (and your email.) ♥

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ii. Oh, KinKi. KinKi. Why are you so awesome? C-can someone come flail with me about the KinKiyou DVD? Because I---

a;lsdkjfdsf I have no words.

So much love for them, for this tour. For their music and Koichi's stupid monomanes (stefano domenicali! stefano domenicali! oh, koichi, you f1 freak) and Tsuyoshi's moments of utter dorkery (one, two, one two three four!) and Domoto Mitsuko and MA, MA, those dance competitions, and all the behind the scenes and the documentaries and the butt-rubbing, wtf, and KinKi's lamely charming pep talks and the set lists and their singing (HAVE THEY EVER SOUNDED THIS GOOD? HOW ARE THEY SO GOOD?) and -- that swordfight, and Koichi's fail with the bow and arrow and they're both twelve-years-old, I swear; that swordfight and Tsuyoshi going out into the city and buying this cheap little toy bow and arrow for Koichi and Koichi's utter glee and alskdfa;ldsf KinKi, KinKi, never leave me. ♥ A-and the 'tayori ni shitemasse'--the dancing and --

Guys. Guys, I am going crazy with incoherent love for this concert DVD--

(Tsuyoshi makes Koichi imitate a flamingo. With sound effects.)

---seriously, come flail with me, please?

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iii. Also. I do not understand why there is no Howl's Moving Castle AU for JE. Koichi is Sophie, of course, because he's about as ossan as you can get; and also, a clean freak. And Nagase's Howl, because Nagase's never grown up, his heart the most childlike, I think, in JE. And Tsuyoshi as Calcifer, except he'd be more water spirit than fire demon, and Tsuyoshi would be sarcastic and make smartass comments and enter into a Secret Contract with ossan!Koichi, and, and MA as Markl--

And Nagase's terribly preoccupied with Akihabara fashion and struts around in flannel and nerdy glasses, and Tsuyoshi makes snide comments at him and Nagase whines about the abuse and Koichi would be all: YOU GUYS LIVE IN A PIGSTY D: WHAT. WHAT. WHERE ARE YOU BROOMS. WHERE ARE YOUR MOPS. and there would be epic spring cleaning and Akiyama as the freaking Turnip-head, following Koichi around everywhere and WHY IS NO ONE WRITING THIS?

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iv. I have midterrrrmmmmms. Some one stop me.

i. Watched the KinKiyou version of Mou Kimi Igai Aisenai and it's just absolutely gorgeous. The stage and the lights and their voices, the entire simplicity of it all, that purity of emotion, the way their voices lilt up during that one part. I don't normally watch concert DVDs; but this, this--this is like when they did Anniversary at FNS in '05: it's not about the glittery costumes or the backdancers or the fanservice, it's not about them being idols or being Johnny's. It's about them trying to express something perhaps inexpressible, but trying anyway because that's what music does; it's about them forgetting themselves in that expression; it's about the way Tsuyoshi keeps doing that "come hither" motion with his arm and the Koichi's hand rises up when he has to hit the high notes; it's about the quiet piano in the background and the way their voices rise above that, harmonizing; it's about the very genuine way the song touches your heart; it's--

It's a love song.

It's really, truly a love song: not warm and not dreamy and not even very happy, despite the lyrics. It's sort of sad, in that vague way all KinKi songs are. The lyrics, of course, promise happiness forever, "even when the world ends"; but there's also a sort of loneliness in it, in the title itself, that "I can't love anyone else but you." There's something terribly wistful about it, a quiet sort of despair, and KinKi express that so well: that devotion, that wistfulness, that loneliness, that hope. It's a love song despite and not because of, which is a little like love sometimes; and I think that's what makes this song, this rendition, so beautiful.

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ii. I'm biased, of course. Mou Kimi Igai Aisenai was the theme song to tenshi ga kieta machi, and--

Well, we all know how I feel about that. :|

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iii. Um. All that aside, I am frothing at the mouth about fracturedtales. I haven't written sasusaku in so long, I think I've entirely forgotten how. D:

So if anyone had anything they wanted to see in a sasusaku fic (like vampire!AU or researchers-at-CERN!AU or music-conservatory!AU or ballet!AU or, good grief, farmer!AU), or any thoughts on why we ship them, or any meta-y questions you'd like to ask to jumpstart me (ie if sakura gave sasuke yarn and knitting needles, what would sasuke knit for her?), or any obnoxiously random prompts like river spirits + tanabata festivals + super mario 64 + keylime yoghurt--

That'd be really awesome.

(No, seriously, like, please. D:)

Procrastinating on real fics.

Post the first line of a story here, and I'll write the next five. No context or prompts, just a line, and if I don't twig who it is then you'll get something slightly surreal back!

(Prompt away! And by "the next five," I probably mean "the rest of it." I have control issues like that.)

or

Give me a pairing, a fandom, an au. I'll write you the story tell you how it'd work out.

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Multiple requests are fine. You're welcome to ask for one, or both, of the memes. Usual caveats apply.

♥

If--if anyone wants to talk about tenshi ga kieta machi, or wants translations of it--

--I'll be here.

BAWLING.

A meta thought on fanfic: it's interesting to see how it's evolved. I was digging through MSR X-files classics the other days (it's such a huge fandom, and of such an iconic pair; the fics are bound to be oldie goodies)--and the style of those fics read just like some published novel. Straight-forward sentences and lots of world-building. It's very...toned down, perhaps. It's very different from something out of, say, Merlin or SGA. I don't know if the writers in the fandom are different in personalities or if it's just how fanfic has grown. Present-tense is a lot more prevalent in current fic. Something out of Merlin seems to have more snark (and it's not differences in the characters, because Mulder wasn't lacking in snark.) Current fic doesn't seem to bother so much with background--and you see a lot more one-shots (though the word count remains in the tens or hundreds of thousands, but they're not chaptered.) And current fic often begin more often in media res. There's just more immediacy to current fic, and there doesn't seem to be as much a need to narrate everything; we skip around a lot more, we leave some points only lightly sketched and attend to other points with excruciatingly fine detail, lots of poetry and metaphoric turns of phrases. Current fic seems to draw a lot more on canon--it assume that emotional baggage, and not to explain it.

Um. Right.

With how I'm spamming the f-list with JE, a few of you should at least be curious about how impossibly pretty these boys are as girls.

title: la cosa nostra
rating: pg-13
pairing: nagase/koichi
summary: There's a road trip. There're guns. And the boys are boys.
notes: mafia!au redux. So letsgetfunkasy said: YOU SHOULD WRITE A SEQUEL TO THAT MAFIA AU and I said: HAHAHA, NO and then this six thousand word nightmare happened. D: The prompt was: "Nagase and Koichi are given a week off, they go on vacation aaand find themselves being pursued by people. with guns. trying to kill them dead." Um. It--sort of turned out like that. Still very non-linear.

(The extortion cases are easy.)

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And then a few thoughts on it:

( notes: blah blah blah )

Most of the f-list probably have no interest in this, because I've never actually formally pimped JE. But, seriously, you guys: it's made of sparkly awesome. These boys are like real-life shoujo characters, all pretty and dorky and gay for each other. ♥

Um. I just wanted to get this out of my system before I go back to fractured_tales .

title: death to the french is italy's cry
rating: pg-13
pairing: nagase/koichi
summary: mafia!au
notes: written for the je au ficcathon here. the prompt was 'Kinki Kids, Jounetsu PV verse. Let there be mafia, Nagase as Ayumi's favorite henchman, Koichi as the driver with only a shaky notion of what's going on.' non-linear format.

(No one in la cosca really knows how Nagase became sotto capo.)

Also. This is probably the most brilliant PV I've ever seen. Just. Hey! Minna, genki kai? is crackity cracked crack of the highest order. I can't even explain the awesome, except it break fourth walls and it has the most hassled thief and the most irritable detective/yakuza everrrrrrr. I can't stop smiling through it all. :D

I hate college applications. HATE.

There's some really sappy saying about how cheering other people up cheers you up too, (but this is actually just an exercise in procrastination), so meme-redux:

Tell me the title of a story I never wrote, and I'll tell you what it's about. (Maybe I will write it too.)

Please?

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PS: BUMP OF CHICKEN. I've never felt this way about any band before, ever. HOW ARE THEY SO AWESOME? HOW?

Practice drabbles for gokusen ii from various themes on 31_days. I think everyone on the f-list should watch this jdrama, if not for the plot (and I don't know why you would watch it for the plot as, really, there isn't much of one), then at least for the pretty, pretty boys and their angsty, angsty love. The heart and soul of the show is very much Akame (1), I think--at least as much as cheesy lines like: "Minna-san! Let's run into the fading colors of the setting sun!"

(1) When I say "Akame", I mean things like:
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