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fannish5: Name 5 characters whose wardrobe you would love to have.
1. Gokudera! (KHR) Especially back in daily life arc when he dressed in those beach print tees like he was undercover as a 63-year-old uncle from Miami with a beer gut. I won't lie, that and the wide selection of wannabe punk jewellery is basically my favourite idea of a wardrobe. I can do without the exploding punk hooker and the recent construction-worker-in-da-club outfits, though.
2. Bianchi (KHR) - who dresses basically like Gokudera except +1 classy and -45 skull motifs, which can only be to the good.
3. Not a character, but shh: I want a selection from the AU spreads for Bleach. I still say Kubo Tite should stop writing Bleach and do fashion ... although I'll tentatively admit that Bleach is looking up a bit lately.
4. Kyoko (KHR) gets dressed in ludicrously girly stuff, like this puffy black skirt, and this pink hoodie-dress thing (a bit longer though, or with tights, jeez, and under the assumption that you don't need to have both your legs dislocated to wear it), that I desire fiercely. And she likes Lal's gorilla shoulder pad, which I feel is a great indicator of taste.
5. Picking Andy from The Devil Wears Prada is an easy answer - that movie is *for* staring at an NY high fashion parade, but there you are. The opening montage alone...!
My ideal wardrobe: man in his 60s VS pubescent boy VS (Lawyer) Barbie. No wonder my mother always used to get that tragic look in her eyes through my teenage years, until she got used to it. XD
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A while ago, fannish5 had the question "If you could erase five characters from any fandom, who would you choose?" and - no. You can't take out a character that way, generally it destroys entire themes of the series! Even if a character sucks, their relationships can be fun. I can't even get rid of someone like Honda in Yuugiou (not that I want to), who is so much a side character. There'd be no one to love Jounouchi in a manly-punching way! The sweetness of how gentle/respectful Jounouchi is with the Yuugis would be lost without the contrast! Who would stalk Bakura? And there can never be enough motorbike fanservice, damn it.
Anyway, it got me thinking about characters I dislike, and it looks like I tend to hate characters I shouldn't. E.g. (lots of KHR rambling!)
- used to hate Dino because though his love for his men is supposed to motivate him more than anything, it hasn't been shown in ages. TYL Dino shows not the least strain from his famiglia being in a war, and even Varia arc Dino spent all his time sticking up for the Vongola without even a throwaway line about 'well, I've picked our side, even if we go down with them' (except for in a novel story. Good on ya, tie-in novel author.). He just shows up to smirk like he knows what he's talking about. But Dino was fun in the vs. Daisy chapter, so now I'm rather okay with him.
- hate Colonnello for sticking Lal in a terrible relationship. Uh oh, I'm one of those fans!
- Basil. I don't even know why. Possibly for the same reasons other people hate the KHR girls, which sucks of me, but ... I can see you acting cute, kid, it's not working.
- don't hate Gokudera's mum, exactly, but I wish I didn't think she had the self-preservation instinct of a brick - a SAD brick, and I DO hate that she is an angel of goodness and light and Gokudera's angst rather than a very young woman (SHE LOOKS ABOUT 12) with a lot of love for a child she never sees and possibly for a man who doesn't even seem to acknowledge her after a certain point, and a lot of talent, and a lot of loss. Drives me nuts. I'm going to have to write a pretend-original story or something so this hot mess of a character in my head can do something. She could've been fascinating, amazing, miserable, but what it comes down to is that she could be more.
There are characters I should hate, like Glo freaking Xinia and M.M. They are disgusting and yet I. I don't know. I'm fond of them in a poke-at way. Byakuran has moved up the list now that he's not dead boring. Still disgusted by Iris, though, like I'm supposed to be, and Ginger Bread is perhaps forever an asshole. (Even so, removing gross villains rather defeats the idea behind villainy in a story.)
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We're trying to move out of our flat and find a new one. This is how the flat-hunt makes me feel:
It could be wearing sack-cloth and ashes, and yea, there could be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth, but overall the Dog of Bad Ideas sums up my feelings pretty well.
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And last but not least, BREAKING NEWS: Keanu Reeves has been alive since 1847!
I LOL'd greatly. This is now also my pet theory (though I will admit to reservations about the moon landing).
1. Gokudera! (KHR) Especially back in daily life arc when he dressed in those beach print tees like he was undercover as a 63-year-old uncle from Miami with a beer gut. I won't lie, that and the wide selection of wannabe punk jewellery is basically my favourite idea of a wardrobe. I can do without the exploding punk hooker and the recent construction-worker-in-da-club outfits, though.
2. Bianchi (KHR) - who dresses basically like Gokudera except +1 classy and -45 skull motifs, which can only be to the good.
3. Not a character, but shh: I want a selection from the AU spreads for Bleach. I still say Kubo Tite should stop writing Bleach and do fashion ... although I'll tentatively admit that Bleach is looking up a bit lately.
4. Kyoko (KHR) gets dressed in ludicrously girly stuff, like this puffy black skirt, and this pink hoodie-dress thing (a bit longer though, or with tights, jeez, and under the assumption that you don't need to have both your legs dislocated to wear it), that I desire fiercely. And she likes Lal's gorilla shoulder pad, which I feel is a great indicator of taste.
5. Picking Andy from The Devil Wears Prada is an easy answer - that movie is *for* staring at an NY high fashion parade, but there you are. The opening montage alone...!
My ideal wardrobe: man in his 60s VS pubescent boy VS (Lawyer) Barbie. No wonder my mother always used to get that tragic look in her eyes through my teenage years, until she got used to it. XD
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A while ago, fannish5 had the question "If you could erase five characters from any fandom, who would you choose?" and - no. You can't take out a character that way, generally it destroys entire themes of the series! Even if a character sucks, their relationships can be fun. I can't even get rid of someone like Honda in Yuugiou (not that I want to), who is so much a side character. There'd be no one to love Jounouchi in a manly-punching way! The sweetness of how gentle/respectful Jounouchi is with the Yuugis would be lost without the contrast! Who would stalk Bakura? And there can never be enough motorbike fanservice, damn it.
Anyway, it got me thinking about characters I dislike, and it looks like I tend to hate characters I shouldn't. E.g. (lots of KHR rambling!)
- used to hate Dino because though his love for his men is supposed to motivate him more than anything, it hasn't been shown in ages. TYL Dino shows not the least strain from his famiglia being in a war, and even Varia arc Dino spent all his time sticking up for the Vongola without even a throwaway line about 'well, I've picked our side, even if we go down with them' (except for in a novel story. Good on ya, tie-in novel author.). He just shows up to smirk like he knows what he's talking about. But Dino was fun in the vs. Daisy chapter, so now I'm rather okay with him.
- hate Colonnello for sticking Lal in a terrible relationship. Uh oh, I'm one of those fans!
- Basil. I don't even know why. Possibly for the same reasons other people hate the KHR girls, which sucks of me, but ... I can see you acting cute, kid, it's not working.
- don't hate Gokudera's mum, exactly, but I wish I didn't think she had the self-preservation instinct of a brick - a SAD brick, and I DO hate that she is an angel of goodness and light and Gokudera's angst rather than a very young woman (SHE LOOKS ABOUT 12) with a lot of love for a child she never sees and possibly for a man who doesn't even seem to acknowledge her after a certain point, and a lot of talent, and a lot of loss. Drives me nuts. I'm going to have to write a pretend-original story or something so this hot mess of a character in my head can do something. She could've been fascinating, amazing, miserable, but what it comes down to is that she could be more.
There are characters I should hate, like Glo freaking Xinia and M.M. They are disgusting and yet I. I don't know. I'm fond of them in a poke-at way. Byakuran has moved up the list now that he's not dead boring. Still disgusted by Iris, though, like I'm supposed to be, and Ginger Bread is perhaps forever an asshole. (Even so, removing gross villains rather defeats the idea behind villainy in a story.)
*
We're trying to move out of our flat and find a new one. This is how the flat-hunt makes me feel:
It could be wearing sack-cloth and ashes, and yea, there could be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth, but overall the Dog of Bad Ideas sums up my feelings pretty well.
*
And last but not least, BREAKING NEWS: Keanu Reeves has been alive since 1847!
I LOL'd greatly. This is now also my pet theory (though I will admit to reservations about the moon landing).