For years now the knowledge that there was one Twelve Kingdoms book I could never read because there was no English translation has been a constant sad awareness in my mental peripheral vision. (In some cases also my physical peripheral vision, due to
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Oh hey so I guess I should do my Kaleidoscope reveal! Not that my identity was ever really all that secret, given that there were two people who requested and offered Twelve Kingdoms fic in Kaleidoscope, and I was one of them and writing fic for the other one.

But still, for completionism's sake: I wrote Era of Red Happiness for
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Hahaha, while I think the Fullmetal Alchemist ballroom dance fic probably still counts as the most self-indulgent thing I have ever written, this definitely comes a close second.

It was worth writing either way though because it prompted izilen to make some BEAUTIFUL YOKO/RAKUSHUN ARTWORK to illustrate it which you should all go see RIGHT NOW and ( Read more... )

A few things:

1. Much to my surprise and delight,
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I have been watching and reading an EPIC TON of shojo recently (more posts on that to come, probably!) so to balance that out, I thought, "I feel like taking a break to watch something kind of creepy for a change! I guess I'll watch Shiki, that seems interestingly atmospheric."

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I have not forgotten about my Top Fives! littledust asked me for my Top Five BFF moments in fiction, which is a NIGH-IMPOSSIBLE REQUEST. So, fair warning: I am going to blatantly cheat. I am also going to babble a lot about dorky feelings. Stoic types who are embarrassed by this may wish to turn back here! I won't hold it against you.

( Top five totally platonic BFF moments in fiction! And then a few more. Because I can. HUGE SPOILERS for Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Great Escape, Kamikaze Girls, Otherland, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Twelve Kingdoms; minor spoilers for The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Princess Tutu, Twentieth Century Boys, Chronicles of Chrestomanci )

I have a confession to make: my current fictional crush spends most of his time as a giant anthropomorphic rat. LOOK he's a totally awesome rat, okay! He is overcoming prejudice against being a giant anthropomorphic rat to attend the best university in fantasyland! He can cheerfully discourse on legal, architectural, and socioeconomic ( Read more... )

Writing about Fuyumi Ono's The Vast Spread of the Seas is going to be a little hard for me because I simultaneously was a little disappointed in it, and loved it passionately. My feelings are sometimes complicated!

To recap: this is the third book in the Twelve Kingdoms series which I am following with extreme interest. The Vast Spread of the ( Read more... )

It's Saturday! I am in my office doing work! The reason for this is that this upcoming week is the Big Conference of Epicness that my entire job revolves around, which means that today I am frantically printing out all the lists of Things I Need to Do And Places I Need To Be. In other words, this is basically a notice of absence - I may be ( Read more... )

So while I was reading Monster Blood Tattoo I was thinking that I was a little bit sick of teenaged protagonists and their fantasy coming-of-age tales . . . and then I read the first of Fuyumi Ono's Twelve Kingdoms books, Sea of Shadows, and I was like "I TAKE IT ALL BACK, COMING OF AGE IS AWESOME!" OR MAYBE it is just that this book is awesome ( Read more... )