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Been sick all week. Wrote this in three hours on a whim -- for some strange reason it's always easier to write when I'm feeling sick (mostly about other people feeling sick, but I take what I can get).

Title: Call Me Anytime**
Fandom: Loveless
Chaarcters: Soubi, Ritsuka
Genre: They talk a lot? No pr0n, although the end is sort of...veering that way. Um.

**If you can think of a title for this story that doesn't give anything away AND doesn't sound like a bad pick-up line, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

( Call Me Anytime )

EDIT: Next Chapter

I've decided to turn this into a series. Expect the tone to vary wildly from chapter to chapter, 'cause there are a lot of different themes in the manga and I want to hit all of them. (Um. A lot of them at least.) Rating / disturbance level may go up as story continues, so if you liked the way this chapter went and don't want to see it ruined, feel free to treat it as a oneshot. That was what it was when I wrote it anyway.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am both drunk and internet famous, at least for the next hour. Lost track of drinks, there was some Molston via beer pong, some Guiness-Baileys-Whiskey, a few more Molstons, some more Guiness, a lot of rum and cokes, and oh! Some vodka. I was at George's party earlier too, hanging with people who make me ashamed to be this sober. Those guys started drinking 6:30 A freaking M. Hardcore, man.

God this party is boring (well obviously, considering I am posting to livejournal). And God, I hate drunk posts. Here, have a book review, maybe it will make me feel better.

( Tripoint, C.J. Cherryh )

Coherancy is asking way too much right now. Right now, I just want to go to sleep.

Hey, a pole-dancing contest! NVM, got to go. Happy St. Patrick's!

1. From today's Dear Abby -

"Dear Abby: After 23 years of what I thought was a happy marriage, I came home and caught my husband, "Wes," in bed having sex with my brother. It was a shock, to say the least."

The husband claims amnesia, saying he was at a bar with the brother when they were given a pill "of unknown origin." The woman loves "Wes" and wants to make the marriage work, but she can't seem to get the picture of her brother....anyway, she can't get it out of her head. What can she do to forget?

Abby reccommends the Straight Spouse Network.

2. So who knows Loveless fic where Soubi cooks for Ritsuka? I've decided I really like the cooking angle because it combines two interesting character details, Soubi's cultural/aesthetic sense and Ritsuka eating really badly most of the time. (Okay, so this is pretty much an OMG SOMEONE FEED THE POOR NEGLECTED CHILD reaction. But canon!)

3. I resent John Stewart for turning my cult show into a major phenomenon, but admit that he and The Daily Show go great together. He and the Oscars, on the other hand... *shakes head* I don't think the Academy Awards have ever had more hype for less entertainment. Hollywood has been taking itself way too seriously lately.

4. And now the real purpose of this post:

R.I.P. Kirby Puckett, still my favorite baseball player (by extension, the Twins are still my favorite team). I was a bit shaken by the domestic abuse allegations following your retirement, but ten years of teen hero worship do not just go away; and of course it's tragic that you died so young (just 44! It's as bad as Douglas Adams or Octavia E. Butler).

fanthology is up and the current theme is "Fairytales." Little Red Riding Hood seems to be a popular one, I wonder why that is. Recs for this theme don't have to include characters from series A pretending to be characters from fairytale B, they can just use fairytale language or themes or be evocative of fairytales in general. Personally I feel that as long as the reccer can justify the rec it's all good.

That said, there are a few stories I wanted to rec to fanthology this week, but didn't because I couldn't bring myself to stretch the theme that far. Instead I'll talk about them here:

The First Death gives Yami no Matsuei a mythological grounding that has pretty much replaced the canon for me. Muraki is living perpetually on the edge of death -- until the paperwork catches up, at least -- and his mother and Tsuzuki were part of an agreement between an angel and a devil... the problem is that the myth is not particularly fairytale-like, and it doesn't show up until more than halfway through the story. If I had to classfy this fic as anything, I'd call it an exceptionally convoluted case fic.
Why you should read it: well reasoned, well plotted, well written and adds to the canon. It's long, but easily keeps the reader's attention since individual chapters are short and varied (here third person POV, here first, here a mission report or journal entry).

Mountains Once More starts with "Once upon a time" and that's where the fairytale similarities end. ^^;; the story, which is Sanzo/Goku (Saiyuki), is framed by another story, but the framing story is a parable not a fairytale. I couldn't have recced this in any case, as Aki's fic is locked and her ff.net account has disappeared.
Why you should read it: It has socially retarded!Sanzo and mature!Goku, which is the way I like the characters to be when they're paired together. In the author's own words, "39 fic which doesn't turn one of the characters into a female or a pedophile."

A Hundred Years Ago is Peter Pan fic written in the style of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, which is written in the style of a fairytale. I'm not sure, but I think that might be one degree of separation too many... also, this fic has been recced by everyone and their grandmother already.
Why you should read it: Exactly captures the style of the original, is twisted and symbolic and, in classic fairytale fashion, slightly surreal. If someone else reccommended this to fanthology I would not bat an eye. Implied onesided Hook/Pan.

Medea Dreams, by Tin for Count Cain, exactly fits the theme, but I liked the postscript better.
Why you should read it: It has that strange quality where even though I didn't particularly like it, one year later I still remember it, and even remember most of the lines. This is probably a better indicator of quality than "like" or "dislike" anyway.

An Evening of Sevens is memlu's breathless Fakir/Ahiru holiday fic that doesn't fit into Princess Tutu's timeline but is just as poignant. Like Mountains Once More, it's framed by a another story, only this time the framing story is a fairytale so you could make a case for this fic counting for the theme, maybe. In fact I might change my mind and rec it if no one else does.
Why you should read it: it's beautiful and soooo romantic. I was iffy on the characterization at first, because the perfect dialogue is a little too perfect for Fakir and Ahiru, but once you get a little further into the story it makes sense, in its own way. You don't need to know anything about Princess Tutu to enjoy this.

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I could really have sworn there were more than this -- more that exactly fit the theme too -- but I don't keep bookmarks and my memory isn't too good, so.

I'll be honest, here. I absolutely do not:
1. have decent taste in music
2. download everything at fst
3. download more than 10% of what's at fst
4. have my harddrive with me. (Technically, I do have the drive, but I've lost the cable that connects it to my laptop.)

With no access to the mp3s themselves, I went hunting through fst's archives and made this list from memory. It's almost entirely arbitrary. ( In no particular order )

Can't remember the rest without harddrive. Woe. My manga is on that drive too.