Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you for writing! Apologies for the delay in posting this; RL hit pretty hard last week. Please behold my trimmed standard letter for your reading pleasure, as archived on Dreamwidth and Livejournal.

1. ABOUT ME
2. PREFERENCES
3. FANDOM-SPECIFIC TALK
   i. Nirvana in Fire (琅琊榜)
   ii. Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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I'm making steady progress through Zeni GEBA, and, okay. I figure I'm not quite at the mind-breaking twists yet, so I'm going to sit back for a bit and ponder ( Read more... )

TOMA A;LKJDAFSJ CONGRATULATIONS ON THE BLUE RIBBON AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER. (For those in the dark, the Blue Ribbon Awards are reportedly one of the most prestigious cinematic awards in Japan, though they aren't internationally renowned.)

Also, what is this thing about Arashi taking over Android AU CMs (so to say) in one broadcasting network to ( Read more... )

(The title is a bit misleading, by the way, because this post is actually mostly about Arashi ( Read more... )

Happy holidays and festivals to those who celebrate them or enjoy their benefits! And happy belated birthday, Aiba Masaki, my love!

I have been horribly absent from fandom of late mostly because of the sudden need to watch dramas that had begun this early November. The period can be encapsulated in this: today, I took a look at two caps - two ( Read more... )

I SO SMART, U GAIZ. Know what they say about three points confirming a trend? Yeah. It only took me half a year longer to figure out Arashi's full-length drama guesting pattern since their decade anniversary!

( DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE. Plus, musings on Arashi cross-drama guesting in general. )

Confession: I have this aversion to burning DVDs for storage. There's this constant fear that the DVD would become scratched and unreadable, which is just plain ridiculous given how carefully I store them (and how infrequently I use them). And for unknown some reason I just don't like using the optical drive. (Tsubasa's 1st Tour 23 to 24 concert ( Read more... )

In an effort to cheer myself up due to a stubborn assignment refusing to let itself be written during its eleventh hour earlier today, I went browsing through my Arashi gallery. As I was lingering in Aiba's folder, soaking in his incredible photos - that man is almost criminally beautiful - I moved onto the next picture... to 'SHO-PRETTY-POPOLO' ( Read more... )

I don't know what Jun is doing to Nino here, but I think I like it 8D

Also: EEEEEEEE SHUN + MAO-CHAN + NARIMIYA HIROKI DRAMA OMFG.  With animals!  And okay, romantic comedies aren't exactly my kind of dramas, but Shun and Mao-chan were adorable in HanaDan, and I just have a soft spot for Narimiya Hiroki, so.  (It totally sounds like a romantic ( Read more... )

This is something that occurred to me as I read ( Read more... )