Day off whoooooo~!

[candyland]

Work is crazy, but I still like it. Days off are glorious to the degree of over nine thousand.

Sister is at work. Having the house to myself is utterly fantastic. Rather wish sister would CLEAN HER STUFF OUT OF THE GODDAMN FAMILY ROOM so I could have some space to work out, though. I think Mom might be discussing that with her soon.

Three firetrucks and two ambulances sped by with lights flashing and sirens sounding while I was out earlier. Wonder what happened. Hope it's not too serious, although with that much rescue personnel, it probably is.

Quietly plotting fanfics for four fandoms: Layton (I'M SURE THERE IS MUCH SURPRISE AT THIS), Coraline, Zodiac PI, and Up. Also entertaining a small idea for DC/MK, which is nice because I miss that fandom a lot ;3;

On a semi-related note, killing off a main character in a fanfic apparently doesn't happen very often in the Pokemon fandom. Here, would you all like to see my new collection? It's the e-bricks that were thrown at my head with praise written on them XD *loves fandom*

rhap_chan? I GOT THE BOOKS! YOU ARE LOVE AND ADORATION! THANK YOU!

I will start them as soon as I have finished reading Good Omens. I started it yesterday. Congratulations, Misters Pratchett and Gaiman. You officially had me at the line "Secondly, the Earth's a Libra."

*saunters vaguely downwards*

Comments

[pleonasm]

\o/

I love Good Omens. I hope you fic that book. Because it's freaking awesome.

And I'm glad you got them~!!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

This book is HILARIOUS and I'm loving it so far (even though I'm all of...thirty-five pages in or thereabouts). If I write fic for it...wow, that might be a challenge @_@

*squeezes you until your eyes pop out!*

... *puts your eyes back in*

[pleonasm]

It's one of my favorite books ever. <3

I was going to make a joke about CLAMP, but then you gave my eyes back. Yay!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing why so many people like it :3 I think I'm going to have to read more by Misters Gaiman and Pratchett ♥ Although I already read and loved Coraline.

:O What CLAMP joke?

[pleonasm]

"American Gods" is another really good one by Neil Gaiman. I pretty much adore everything the two of them write, though. ♥

About how now I could be a CLAMP character since I was missing an eyeball out of ~love.~

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I think next will be Discworld and The Graveyard Book. I want to read pretty much everything of theirs, if it's all as good as this!

I, err...d-don't get it? :S My experience with CLAMP is currently more the old-school stuff ^^;;

[pleonasm]

Those are awesome. All of them. I basically read the Discworld series on a revolving basis. By the time I finish the series I'm ready to pick up the first book again.

..........Never mind then. <3

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I'll be starting with Monstrous Regiment and seeing where I go from there ^o^ At the rate I'm going, I don't think Good Omens will take too long!

I was soured on xxHolic (and Tsubasa by association) when someone popped onto AIM and without so much as asking went into this ginormous spoiler and OMG WHAT A SURPRISE THAT WAS and then seemed all surprised when I got pissed off. So getting myself to read either of those series has been a very slow work in progress since that point.

[pleonasm]

Monstrous Regiment is my favorite one of all of Discworld so I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Dude, I totally don't blame you. I got spoiled for tons and tons of it before I finally gave up on keeping only with the English release and started reading scanlations. And I still don't know that I like Tsubasa. I just read it because it crosses with xH.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Some of the good folks in the Layton Skype chat said that it was a good one to start on. And I did glance at my local library listings--they have about two-thirds of the series there, which is nice :D

I tend to not mind spoilers, but having warning that they're coming is essential so I can decide if I want them or not. Not "OMG THIS HAPPENED AND IT'S SO SURPRISING AND...why are you mad?"

At some point I'll probably make myself plow through them. I was a die-hard CLAMP fan in the early days--CCS, MKR, etc. I'm actually rediscovering a few of the series that I missed the first time around, which is fun!

[pleonasm]

Awesome! ♥ And the best part about DW is that you don't necessarily have to read it in order... you just get more of the in-jokes if you do.

......TRC and xH are many, many times darker than CCS or MKR. If you've just read the beginning of TRC, you might not believe this. But after they leave the Wacky Races world, the plot gets way serious. And depressing. And violent. And bloody. And complicated.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Yup! Man, I'm remembering why I used to read so much when I was younger. This is fun! I'm considering leaving the comp and going to pop in a movie (must have background noise) and curling up in bed to read until my eyes fall out :D

I like dark. I really do--when I started in fandom, I was actually primarily an angst writer, if a laughably awful one. Blah, I need to just sit down and plow through it. If a manga grabs my attention, I can read a lot really fast.

...and I do have a secondary motivation, which is 100fandomhell. I'm sort of running out of fandoms XD So I'm slowing down a bit on the writing and starting to read/watch more stuff XD It's turning out rather fun!

[pleonasm]

I love it when a good book does that.

/is actually reading Pratchet nao

I marathoned about 60 chapters in the course of a weekend to get caught up with the Japanese release, and brain-breaking did not begin to cover it. I'm still trying to put it together in my thoughts... which is why I've been rereading it and twittering it on the way so I can keep everything straight.

I'm shocked that you of all people are running out of fandoms. I have about 90 and I know you share half of them.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

The first time I read Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar trilogy? I read three books in three days. A book a day. My teachers were not terribly pleased with me XD If a book sucks me in, I might not put it down again. See also: Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey.

Whatcha reading?

The other night I read through all of Zodiac PI, and next on my list was supposed to be Wish. I'll get on Tsubasa and XH soon...ish. I hope.

There are things I know that I haven't written for yet, but a lot of it is that I just don't have an idea for that particular fandom. Granted, when I started the challenge my main fandom was Detective Conan, and I didn't post a fic for it until well into the thirties XD

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ffffff I used to do that in high school all the time. I've read the Heralds, too. I remember enjoying it, vaguely.

"The Wee Free Men." It was Pratchett's first attempt at Discworld for young adults, but it's pretty great as a novel in its own right.

Wish is really cute. Zodiac PI I am unfamiliar with.

I sort of wanted to do 100fandomhell, but I want to reuse the fics I've already written lol. And if I do that, actually, I'll only need to write like 20 more so there isn't as much point.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I read a bunch of Valdemar books in high school. Should write a fic for those too *laugh* But yeah, right now I'm trying to decide what movie to pop in while I read.

Zodiac PI is a four-volume shoujo mystery series with a bit of a magic element to it. It's enjoyable enough :3

Sadly, that's actually one of the rules of the challenge. You can't use anything you wrote before you started. You can, however, use fics that are being written for other challenges. Both my Detective Conan AND my Magic Kaito fic for 100fandomhell pulled double duty and were also in my fanfic100 set.

[pleonasm]

I think I've seen Zodiac on the shelves, but Cardcaptor Sakura is my definitive magical girl series... I have a hard time cheating on it lol.

I know, it's depressing! I don't think I could come up with that many fandoms I haven't written in yet. fffff

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Of the magical girl series, I would have to say that CCS is my favorite. But I do have loyalties to Sailor Moon, as it was my first :3

I will say this, though. Writing a fic for some fandoms for the challenge has later prompted me to write more for that given fandom, to varying degrees. See also: Rule of Rose, Pokemon, Fatal Frame, and PROFESSOR LAYTON.

[pleonasm]

Sailor Moon was my first too. ♥ Sometimes I think about rewatching it. And then I realize that the dub was awful.

I Layton all the time, though. ♥ Writing something different can definitely read to a fandom revival, though.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

*can has all of Sailor Moon, subbed and uncut* :3 I thought the dub had (more or less) decent voice acting, but the editing and writing was fairly atrocious.

I highly doubt that anything I write will lead to a fandom revival XD But it's a nice dream~

[pleonasm]

I can't stand Usagi's voice. Or the name changes. Or the "cousins." I can remember enjoying all of it when I was little, though!

A personal fandom revival, then. <3

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it was great, but it had a few good points to it. Like starting an entire generation on anime ^o^ I always feel like I should defend certain dubs by saying, "Yes, they sucked, but it's because of this series that a generation got into fandom."

Or a fandom entrance, since a lot of the fandoms I've written for are ones I had never written for before XD

[pleonasm]

Oh, definitely. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth now, but it was a fabulous introduction to anime. I watched that and Pokemon and Cardcaptors.

It's a wonder I ever got into anything cool lol.

Which is always an awesome thing! \o/

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

DC/MK misses you too, Candy. Or at least _I_ do...

[tsugumiwinters.livejournal.com]

Seconded on both accounts. =D

Come back to DC/MK soon, Candy-chan! We all miss you! ^_^

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

*SQUEEZES YOU* Thank you, hon!

I'm going to try. Got an idea, will attempt to write it and see where it goes. Might even be a bit long, whoo! ^o^

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

llajsd;flasdjfj *meeeeeelts and adores you* I-I'm just a puddle on your shoes now, don't mind me, nothing to see here, move along move along... *starts singing All-American Rejects*

I'm going to write this one idea I have. It might even wind up being sort of long. We'll see how it goes!

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Long is lovely, but I also like your shorts... ... Oh God, that sounds ENTIRELY wrong...

*mops up puddle of Candy, as the big chibi eyes staring from said puddle are kind of freaky*

[gomath02.livejournal.com]

So the corner outside my window at work sees a ton of fire-truck traffic (say that three times fast!) and I thought of that when I read your post. I'm obviously not working hard today.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Huh...wonder why that is. Do you work near a fire house? :D

We don't usually have that much around for emergency stuff, except for the occasional cop car or three chasing down speeders. And even if there are fire trucks or ambulances, they usually just have lights flashing, not the sirens going. That's why it sort of struck me. It's very unusual for my area @_@

[rjblum.livejournal.com]

Per "what do I do with my life"...when you don't know what to do, do nothing....usually works the best for me as sometimes I'm my own worst enemy. And how's your dad? Happy work is going well - knew it would & glad you made the change! Love.