Been a while since I've just done fandom babble!

[candyland]

Accomplishments for the last few days have consisted of a whole lot of reading and writing. Oh, and five hours of work. After the last couple of weeks, though, where I was nudging towards overtime (a big no-no at my place of employment), it's sort of nice to have a week where I get to relax.

On the reading front, I went back and re-read a whole bunch of marsdejathoris' fics on her ff-dot-net account. Her DC/MK stuff is fantastic, and so is her Danny Phantom stuff ♥

I am also currently sort of getting hooked on Special A. Started it on lwyn's rec a while ago, read through the first thirty-ish chapters (that's all that was up), and then nothing new appeared for a while. Suddenly I go back and BAM there's the entire manga. I've only got another twenty-ish chapters to read. It's shoujo-licious! And I feel like I should be ashamed of using that as a positive thing.

But eh, some of my first fandoms were things like Furuba and Cardcaptor Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth. I'm still a fan of Ye Olde School CLAMP Stuffe. If I like it, I'll read it, regardless of genre. If I really like it, I'll write stories in which odd things happen to the characters.

Which reminds me that the final volume of Furuba will be out in another week and a half or so, if I'm remembering my dates correctly. I have every intention of going and getting it, and then reading the whole series from top to bottom. I am looking forward to it, even if the series has become synonymous with "starting off creative, clever, and interesting, and descending into stereotypical shoujo melodrama somewhere around the halfway point."

We do, indeed, call it Furuba Syndrome. (See also: Ouran High School Host Club, which is next on my list of things that I need to catch up on reading. I'm only eight chapters behind, so that won't take long at all.)


The next six months or so come bearing no less than four video games I want to get.

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is FINALLY coming out in August (I already have my copy reserved at GameStop, whee puzzles!). Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is out in September. Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks has an '09 release date, but considering that Phantom Hourglass was pushed back about six months, I'm not holding my breath. And finally, Ace Attorney Investigations is scheduled for January of 2010.

And while I'm thinking about LoZ, this is very amusing. As are the responses.


...aaaaaaand put 3K+ on that DC/MK Fic In Which I Do Evil Things to Kaito. Barely scratched the surface of the whole idea. I might start skipping around a bit. Write the scenes that are the clearest first, and then link them together. Including the scene that sort of wrote itself in my head last night while I was trying to fall asleep. I'm sure all the writers on my f-list know exactly what I'm talking about there.

Still, it was a very pretty scene :3c

Comments

[pleonasm]

Furuba syndrome... Maybe that's why I quit reading it.

What do you call it when a mahou seinen series like Tsubasa does the same thing?

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

We still call it Furuba Syndrome. It's sort of our all-encompassing term because to us, Furuba is the prime example of a series that crossed genres because of its originality and characters and then just dropped the ball.

So Tsubasa was hit by it as well? This is not helping me in my question to make myself sit down and start reading Tsubasa and Holic ^^;;

[pleonasm]

You might want to stick with xH, if you think you can ignore weird plot threads that come in and out at random. It's not impossible to read xH by itself, just somewhat difficult.

[lwyn.livejournal.com]

hehhhh SA.... sad part is... I still have yet to read the ending... *partly doesnt want to*

OH! read/watch black lagoon. Kelly and I can't get enough of it,plus if you know who people are, it will be easier for you to understand her fic I'm focring her to write lol *is so evil*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

It's on my list. I just kind of get the feeling that the whole experience would be, I dunno...incomplete? I'll think on it. In the meantime, I finish SA and hopefully appease my gooey shoujo fanside.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I am eight chapters away from the end :3c

I'll look into it. It seems like with every series I finish, my list gets longer *laugh* But first, I MUST FINISH SA! *VICTORY POSE*

[pleonasm]

Enjoy the gooey shoujo.~ Sounds like a plan to me.

[lwyn.livejournal.com]

YES! and I will someday... when I get the mangas.... TT^TT Oh, Mitsuwa... how I miss thee

[kaitodoushi.livejournal.com]

It's shoujo-licious! And I feel like I should be ashamed of using that as a positive thing.

You should 8| Shoujo-licious is never a good thing!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

*kicks you in the face with my mind*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Almost there and lasjdflakj *adoration*

M-Mitsuwa... *misses the ramen and stuffs and you!lady* TT^TT

[lwyn.livejournal.com]

gah!!! don't say anything!!! I dun wanna know!!!! X_X

yeah, we had the best times...

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

It is gooey like the black bitch-flavored tar that is my chewy center :B

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Th-the best thing we have around here is a Chinese buffet, which doesn't have tasty miso ramen. B-but I could eat with chopsticks so you can laugh at me? OH! We do have HuHot!

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

:) Why thank you very much! :) Compliments make Ellens happy. Your work is very good, too, I've been known to come back and read your DC stuff when I'm bored at work...

[whitetigergp.livejournal.com]

Yay for new KH game! As for Zelda, I'm not too sure I wanna play it just yet, the whole train makes it like weird. That and my dad drives trains all day long :P But I have read that Zelda comic, I think its on mangafox.com And finally, evil things to Kaito? *gasp* now I wanna read it really badly XD. Ok going back to making a new icon now, I've put my drawings off a lot this summer. Must balance games, artwork, and writings >.

[starswing.livejournal.com]

... This is going to be incredibly random, but as I am known to occasionally be incredibly random, I'm terribly sorry, but you may become a victim of my incredibly random-- yes.

Anyway, hello! My name is Kia, and I came here via an urge to read Kaito/Aoko on ff.net and I followed the trail of fish, more or less. And you do seem like an awesome person, and always nice to meet a fellow writer, so I hope you don't mind if I friend you!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you, lady! *sends you lots of e-glomps and shiny silver cyber-donuts*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

kaitodoushi is really looking forward to the KH game because she loves Roxas, and the game is supposed to be all about Roxas!

I agree with a comment someone made about the new LoZ. It seems like as of late, they're just putting a mystical-sounding word in front of a noun to get a game title. Phantom Hourglass. Twilight Princess. Spirit Tracks. If the next game isn't Ghost Pants, I want my money back!

The joke about the manga, though, was that this mom didn't get that the manga was printed in the Japanese format and was warning people that it was "defective." I've read some of the LoZ manga as well. Fun, silly stuff!

Yes. Evil things >D First part of it is done, and the second part is well underway. It...looks like this might be a semi-long one. YAY!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Hey, I like random, and I also like meeting new people! Drive-by randoming is aces z(^o^)b Nice to meet you! Glad you like my stories, adore the metaphor, and friendings are as awesome as random stuff!

...also, your icon. I might steals it :3c

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, donuts....

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

...my kingdom for a Simpsons icon right now *laugh*

[starswing.livejournal.com]

Oho, it is an awesome icon, isn't it? ♥

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE AN UP ICON AND IT FEATURES DUG.

I ADORE YOU TIMES TEN NOW ♥

[starswing.livejournal.com]

I ALSO HAVE A KEVIN

BECAUSE THAT MOVIE WAS ADORABLE.

BUT ADORATION IS ALSO LOVELY ♥