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I got one vote for Anomaly and one for my favorite Death Note fic. Since I don’t have a favorite (lies! it’s I'm Your Greatest Fan), Anomaly it is.

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When I am very very very stressed and want to do something mindless, I make icon bases. Not icons, just bases. They sit on my computer and I don't do anything with them. But! Today! Today I'm going to put the ones that most need text up and, ala telophase, ask for suggestions.

( 15 + 21 + 4 + 5 = 45 icons )

If you want to use any of these as-is, go ahead. If you want to modify any of these youself, go ahead -- but please comment with the result, because I'd like to see it.

<3 my brother, he’s one of the few people I can talk with “seriously” about anime/manga and not feel embarrassed. Usually these conversations end in either mumbles or giggling or a hasty change of subject. XDDD although aside from CLAMP our circles don’t really intersect:

Him: If it can’t be described as “fantasy”, “romance”, “comedy”, or “shoujo” I don’t want to hear about it. Also, I HATE space series and anything with a pop/techno soundtrack.
Me: Ummm.

We’re in Montreal right now, having already been through Windsor, Toronto, and Kingston. That is, like, a LOT of driving but fortunately I have always been able to read in the car. Confession: I'm reading Memoirs of a Geisha mostly for iserlohn’s “Annrose” drabble challenge. XD;;; I was going to save it for the end of the summer, but given that Annrose (Legend of the Galactic Heroes) is pretty much a glorified bedmate? Seemed appropriate.

(iserlohn, btw, is brilliant. The name is brilliant, the point system is brilliant, and the people are so brilliant that reading them makes me want to give up the internet and become a hermit and never write again. ^^;; I can never entirely shake this feeling, but I can ignore it just long enough to hit the “post” button.

Speaking of : four drabbles @ iserlohn, “Annrose” challenge.)

The thing is, I started typing this fic 9:00pm yesterday thinking I could finish it in three hours (for the August 11 31_days prompt I claim proud kinship with your race and blood). Unfortunately it is now 7:04 am August 12 (and really, I knew I wasn't going to make it when the first sentence in my notebook turned into four paragraphs on the computer). I dunno, maybe I'll post for man or astroman instead? Because hey, there's outer space! Close enough. We'll see how I feel about it when I haven't been up for 30 hours straight.

Title: Anomaly
Series: Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Genre: Bad science fiction with political overtones

LOGH fans, before/if you read this I must warn you: THERE ARE NO RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERS. ONLY ORIGINAL.

( Remember: I claim proud kinship with your race and blood. That part's important. )


In case anyone is wondering, here is the beginning of what I would have been using for man or astoman if I wasn't spending the rest of today (August 12) packing my stuff and cleaning out the appartment (AHHHHH).

Series: Hikago

***
Reiishi approaches him after the match with congratulations, and to ask how he developed his extrodinary presense of mind at such a young age.

"Playing you, I sensed an enormous mental pressure. It was as if I came against a crushing force, and I felt I'd be swept away -- literally flattened. I've experienced such things before, but never from anyone with less than ten years of professional experience."

"Really?" Hikaru said. "I didn't notice."
***

>_< the idea is that developing the ability to block out a voice in his own head has given Hikaru scary amounts of concentration, which fazes his oppenents in much the same way Touya's intensity fazed Hikaru at first. It's appropriate to the theme because astroman = space man = New Type = human with extrodinary mental powers. Man vs Astroman, yes? =_= or maybe I just need more sleep.

Finished that Death Note fic -- Theoretically. Light VS L, old skool style. What I would most like to know is, are the parentheses too much? They were a temporary measure until I decided I liked them. Now I'm afraid they've taken over the fic.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes, courtesy of sesame_seed. Her summary is a thing of beauty, and also she is a saint/pimp for offering the episodes for download, so leave her a comment! Chrissy, I got past my initial hesitation and now I am eagerly awaiting the next installment. I just hope it won’t have any actual combat in it. (I love this series, really I do. But it’s about genius military strategists and their strategies aren’t really genius, more like translations into space of standard 18th century troop formations. This didn’t bother me when I was reading the manga since I was free to skim or skip, but sitting down to watch twenty minutes of adequacy? Or, if it isn’t Yang or Siegfried or Reinhard on screen, incompetence? I want to yell at my computer screen, outer space has three dimensions! Use them, you morons! …fortunately the space battles aren’t really the point.)

Victorian Romance Emma manga and anime, courtesy of octopedingue. Come on, laugh at the title with me! Emma has no relation to Jane Austen’s Emma except that they live in approximately the same time period and deal with approximately the same subject (romance). You should skip the anime and download the manga, which is ten million times better. The manga moves faster, is more uniquely drawn, and best of all does not make the main love interest into an uninteresting wussy boy. Instead he’s an irresponsible wussy boy, haha. But endearing! Mostly, though, my love goes to Prince Hakim in all of his stock exotic, oversexed oriental, spoiled aristocrat, opium-addict glory.

• darkeyewolf has plotbunnies up for adoption! Good ones, too -- I almost feel like writng Hikaru/Sai now. Almost.

But, but. Ryoma’s bilingualism? I dunno, man. Lots of people are bilingual. In fact why don’t I make a poll:
[Poll #541725]

XD I’ll feel really stupid if everyone says no. In any case we can probably say he spoke Japanese at home, or else he’d have had a much harder time with the move. (With his mother, since Nanjiroh's Japanese would only have been good for tennis terms and insults (and only because "there aren't as many good insults in English"), probably.)

I was looking around my harddrive for new icons to upload, and found this:



Haha inside joke with falxumbra. She’s coming to see me this weekend! Rock on!!