i am functionally illiterate
in japanese. it is very frustrating.
this is really cool yo. i. don't even know how to describe it. i don't know enough about dance, but. it's amazing. their movements are so clean ( Read more... )
this is really cool yo. i. don't even know how to describe it. i don't know enough about dance, but. it's amazing. their movements are so clean ( Read more... )
Koki half-smiled at Pi. "You don't hate Countdown. You hate getting ready for Countdown. That's different. Countdown's not about the costumes or the personalities or even all the high muckety-mucks running around. It's about the rush of being up on a stage, knowing that thousands of people want to see you. That you make people happy, just by being there and singing for them. It's not a bad way to start a new year if you ask me."
Silence returned to the little room. Then, as if they had discussed it, they both got up to return to their respective dressing rooms. People would be looking for them.
Hours later, everyone was lined up backstage, waiting for the intro. There were too many people all crammed in the wings; it was too warm, too cramped, too loud. Everyone was on the brink of snapping. Then the announcer's voiced pierced the dull roar of the dome. Suddenly, a rush of sound that seemed big enough to fill the world. Thousands of people waiting just to see them. Pi let the wave of emotion wash over him. Adrenaline, nerves, excitement, and pure joy. Riding the high, he looked around and caught Koki's eye, winking at him. Koki threw him his best gansta sign and turned back to his group. Pi laughed and bounced a few times, preparing for his entrance.
Not a bad way to start a new year.
/fail...I'm so sorry, I'm sure this just got worse and worse as I went, but I'm tired, so I'm not changing anything. And I even managed to not put in your line right. Go me!
Next time, go easy on me and give me people in the same group!
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glkdhglagjl/agjka;fja;ljh;lhgldskfjda;jl;kgj
trying!to!find!sanity!in!the!insanity!Pi is my favorite Pi of all, I think. :)
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I have a grin on my face now that the Cheshire Cat would be envious of. Thank you for telling me (and liking it!).
I think that's my favorite Pi too.
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first and foremost. You. You got Yamapi and Koki into a supply closet backstage for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with sex. This may be a fandom first.
Not to mention the pins and scissors, feathers and glitter constantly being pushed onto your body for no apparent reason. Yamapi assumed that it was for costuming purposes, but he could never be sure.
XDDDDDDDDD sometimes costume lackeys people do it just to get back at them for the boys giving them flack about costumes they didn't design.
I also love the idea of juniors flying out of doorways without notice. of course, in my head, they have wings (and attack motherbird defending territory style), but. it's still a funny mental image.
Do Not Disturb
...who the hell would ever think that makes sense backstage? not just Pi, but. people would totally open the door just to see what was inside.
now i want jin/koki to see what it was that koki shouldn't have told Jin.
It's not a bad way to start a new year if you ask me
aww, i love your koki.
Suddenly, a rush of sound that seemed big enough to fill the world. Thousands of people waiting just to see them. Pi let the wave of emotion wash over him. Adrenaline, nerves, excitement, and pure joy.
i liked this could i could feel the rush of sound, that rumble of a crowd so that it's more like feeling than hearing. And then i could also get the rush of excitement. it's a great paragraph. If this bit wasn't juxtaposed with the bit before, it wouldn't have worked nearly so well.
by the way, you are posting this over on hizashikage. like. now. you do not get a say in the matter.
You know prompts are just for inspiration. You can do with them what you want, or choose not to use them at all, or whatever.
If they were in the same group, where would the challenge be? Also, it's not like Yamapi and Koki have never interacted ever, you know. They went to the same high school. There was that period special thing with the bad wigs. One of them could have that uncanny ability to run into people they know in a busy city by chance.
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Bringing a little good clean fun into fandom, one laboriously produced fic at a time. And if that's not a cumbersome motto, I don't know what is.
sometimes costume lackeys people do it just to get back at them for the boys giving them flack about costumes they didn't design
Exactly. I would think that after a while it would all start to blur for him, and the costume designers would be like, "Hey, he looks dazed, let's see what we can put on him for laughs!" They can sense it, like lions with wounded gazelles.
In my mind juniors are very very bouncy. I can totally see them doing backflips through open doorways and launching each other into the hall in some weird leapfrog style, just because they can. But I really like your image too. Maybe they're like baby birds learning how to fly, and up in some corner Takki (dressed as a motherly bald eagle) is ready to swoop down and save them if someone looks at them wrong.
Pi isn't the best at thinking through all of his plans. Though I wonder if maybe people are very attuned to those signs at the jimusho for fear of going in a room that gets them fired. But yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. But then, neither does Countdown.
You know, I didn't even think of Koki having told Jin something. I was thinking that Jin knew that Pi ran off during Countdown, and he had told all of KAT-TUN, so Koki had put it all together: look for a weird sign saying that they shouldn't go in, and that must be Pi. But I like your version better. That's the line that you can use for the shiritori.
Koki's such a teddy bear. :D
I'm so glad you liked this. Your line was so wonderfully evocative, and I write so much less dreamily and more...boringly. I'm glad it worked. And I'm glad it worked with all the previous stuff.
Yeth mathter.
WELL YOU COULD HAVE LET ME KNOW!!! I had no idea if there was much, if any, interaction. Same high school? That opens up so many possibilities.
And of course, there is always the 'they happen to be together heaven only knows why,' but I appear to be terrible at that.
You make all that writing worth it. XDDDDDDDD
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And if that's not a cumbersome motto, I don't know what is.
It also acronyms badly: BaLGCFiF OLPFaaT.
They can sense it, like lions with wounded gazelles.
AND THE MONKEYS INSTINCTIVELY KNOW: WE CAN WIN!!
...sorry. that reference was not directed at you.
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takki. dressed as a motherly. bald. eagle.
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
dear lord, that mental images. he's got loony-tunes style cartoon wings, and a babushka on his bleached hair.
it doesn't make a lot of sense. But then, neither does Countdown.
i can't argue with logic like that.
you have to use the end in shiritori yo. it's in the name. Shiri=end (ok, well, butt), tori=take.
I DON'T SEE IT UP THERE YET. I AM WAITING YO.
there is always the 'they happen to be together heaven only knows why,'
you know. they have a term for that. it's called 'deus ex machina,' and it's a wonderful thing.
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*blink blink* Um...ok? You know you're going to have to explain that to me.
he's got loony-tunes style cartoon wings, and a babushka on his bleached hair.
HAHAHAHA! This is the beginning of crackfic if I ever saw it!
i can't argue with logic like that.
*feels pleased with self* :D
Oh fine. Exploit my lack of knowledge about Japanese. I guess now it'll just have to be spinoff fic that you write. There. Happy now?
But it hasn't been edited yet! And besides, it's just a tiny drabble. I feel like it needs a partner to go up. So now you definitely have to write that spinoff.
they have a term for that. it's called 'deus ex machina,'
That is not the term for it! Deus ex machina is when a god drops in at the end of a play and fixes all the problems. The method you're espousing is called dramatic license or convenience. And yeah, it's a wonderful thing, but I still seem to be incapable of doing it.
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it is. we understand the importance of overly cutesy acronyms.
I forsee this potentially taking a very long time, for very little gain. So. do you know the manga Ranma 1/2? It's about a boy who fell into a magic spring in china, and now turns into a girl when he gets splashed with cold water (and back into a boy with hot water). This kind of thing happens with several other characters as well, only since they fell into different springs, they turn into other things. Sometime, when Ranma, Mousse (who turns into a duck), and Ryoga (who turns into a baby black pig) are going up this mountain (i can't remember why), and these monkeys lived there. Earlier, the monkeys had made an appearance, with this episode's badguys on the same mountain, and it had a panel that said "And the monkeys instinctively know. These are fierce beasts. We cannot beat them' and you could see their battle auras, and they were indeed fierce beasts, so the monkeys didn't try. But with Ranma, Ryoga, and Mousse, you see their battle auras (a girl, a duck, and a baby black pig), and the caption said 'And the monkeys instinctively know. We can win!!' or something like that.
if you see it, then you should write it~
you haven't stumped me on the ficmeme. you don't get to make me write things. :P which is really a blatant hint to go try to stump me. i had so much fun guessing.
you broke a comment box, it is not tiny. stick it through a spell check, and post it up. YOU DO NOT GET A SAY IN THIS. POST. POST.
Deus ex machina can be used for any convenient plot device. yeah, it started with the god falling in at the end, but the use has been expanded.
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Amen.
I think you've told me about this before, but I'm glad you re-explained it, because I wouldn't have remembered on name alone.
hahahahaha I love it! I'm going to have to use that in a conversation someday (whereby having to explain it to Moose, who will then use it back on me).
Speaking of Moose, he was talking with a Chinese friend of his, and he (Moose) ended up using/explaining the word yakuza to his friend. The friend then looked at him and said, "How do you know this when I don't even know this! I'm the Asian here!" I told Moose that it's not like he's Japanese or anything. Allowances can be made. But it was amusing nonetheless.
You saw it first. You're the one who came up with this concept. And now I suppose I might go and do that guessing thing. Though I'm at a total disadvantage because you can narrow it down to only the ones that I have read.
It is too tiny. It's like juniors. They don't exist in singles, they only exist as groups of 2 or more.
Really? I thought it had been expanded to convenient solutions for endings, but not as a set-up for something.
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yes. the phrase itself is 'the monkeys instinctively know' and then you can taylor your response (these are fierce beasts vs we can win!) based upon the situation.
For me, it's a mental image. a stillframe. no fic.
to clarify, if you pull commentfic, it has to have been reposted in an entry (and not a comment to an entry), or i had to have linked to the original comment in an entry in anamuan. And then anything posted to hizashikage is game.
...it is not tiny. ANYTHING THAT BREAKS A COMMENTBOX IS full length.
oh. hmmm. i don't know.
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This will be epic, no doubt.
I can't see anything more than your
I was going off of stuff on hizashikage, because I'm really bad about keeping track of anything else in comments. *needs to learn how to use the memory function*
It is tiny!! I just checked, and for the first time, I have written something under 1000 words! It's 978, so it needs a friend that you write for it.
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i feel this is not a complete thought?
lol. the point was that comments were not allowed.
no. see, that is called 'progress' not 'tiny.' 978 is longer than most everything I've ever written ever. And only 22 words short of most challenge fic entries. it's a full fic yo. it can make friends with the other things on the journal.
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