Have I told you lately that I love you?
Okay! In light of the fact that I left my specifications (largely) blank, and just in case Yuletide Santa shows up confused in this wilderness, I'd like to say to that person - not only will I be happy with whatever you pick, but I really have no idea what I want. And I love surprises more than anything. That said, hither I attempt to overcome my singular signal-to-noise handicap and vibe with you in the following, likely unhelpful, passages.
If you want to write:
Oofuri! I said wow. One of the few series where I do pretty much love everyone and everything. Like ' Tajima+porn?' and 'Suyama+protein' 'Chiyo+uniforms' and 'Sakaeguchi-toilet paper' 'Takase+laughing' and 'Mihashi+bird mouth' and so forth. No, the list never really ends. I don't think it's really possible to go wrong with this. An Oofuri fic makes my love yours, de facto. I've read zero stories for the series, it's not as though I'm tired of any particular trope or character. You can't go wrong! Don't take that as a challenge! - but then again I'm pretty sure even if you did, you still could not go wrong.
Dead Boy Detectives - Every word in the title is like a key to a door in my heart. Anyway, as you know, this is the one I gave 'details' for - I have no more help. Casefic is a genre I yearn for. Every year (to the best of my fickle memory) I ask for case fiction from one series or another. No joy yet! So this year I'm betting on Edwin and Charles. But now that I think about it... having established themselves as detectives, what do they do these days when they don't have a case? Ah, the fascinating unknown! If you are writing about Dead + Boy + Detectives? Santa, I adore you.
My requests this year are equally divided between 'pure and abiding love' and 'keep trying to imagine despite brain lacking capacity to image and thus am joyously taking the chance to farm out the work for the (possibly belated) sake of my sanity' Beck would be of the latter sort.
This has been a fandom where I've always been very satisfied with canon; Chiba is my favorite character and the series is what it is - more panels of people with their mouths open than any other manga. (I love you Beck!) But then! Volume 25 and the Shingo conciliation. Damnit. And then the umbrella thing. And the Shingo in the street from the late shopping thing, which gives me weird Bleach ideas with that time with Ishida and the clever shopping bag. But I digress. I don't want a story that defenestrates Maho or Koyuki's history with women in general. But then I don't really want an essay about them either. I guess I just want a story about Koyuki and Shingo. They could be waiting for a bus together in uncomfortable silence or Koyuki could be second guessing himself about Shingo's gay vibes (even he would have to doubt whether he would actually notice) or they could jerk each other off on the stairs of some famous landmark or they could have a freakishly, awkwardly upbeat conversation about grandmothers or anything. I can only imagine these things in the vaguest of terms before I get sidetracked by my own resentment, so it's up to you. Help me! It'll be easy! I love you!
I'll spare the essay on my long love-hate relationship with Japanese cinema and how I learned to stop stressing and love Nakadai's awesome crazy eyes. Also, though I keep trying to put forth some sort of coherent reasoning for this, really I must have gone a bit mad with power. Mifune! Nakadai! Sure, I've seen the movies, but I'm kinda skimpy on 'canon' here. What... could they possibly have to say to each other? Maybe nothing. Maybe they said it non-verbally. Maybe they took a rocket to the moon and plotted our demise, and the earth only escaped when one of them had an attack of conscience and struck the other down in a highly ironic sword duel. I dunno. I got nothing, but that tantalizing nothing beat out a lot of fandoms to get requested. You - if you will theorize for my entertainment... I love you.
...
I salute you!
If you want to write:
Oofuri! I said wow. One of the few series where I do pretty much love everyone and everything. Like ' Tajima+porn?' and 'Suyama+protein' 'Chiyo+uniforms' and 'Sakaeguchi-toilet paper' 'Takase+laughing' and 'Mihashi+bird mouth' and so forth. No, the list never really ends. I don't think it's really possible to go wrong with this. An Oofuri fic makes my love yours, de facto. I've read zero stories for the series, it's not as though I'm tired of any particular trope or character. You can't go wrong! Don't take that as a challenge! - but then again I'm pretty sure even if you did, you still could not go wrong.
Dead Boy Detectives - Every word in the title is like a key to a door in my heart. Anyway, as you know, this is the one I gave 'details' for - I have no more help. Casefic is a genre I yearn for. Every year (to the best of my fickle memory) I ask for case fiction from one series or another. No joy yet! So this year I'm betting on Edwin and Charles. But now that I think about it... having established themselves as detectives, what do they do these days when they don't have a case? Ah, the fascinating unknown! If you are writing about Dead + Boy + Detectives? Santa, I adore you.
My requests this year are equally divided between 'pure and abiding love' and 'keep trying to imagine despite brain lacking capacity to image and thus am joyously taking the chance to farm out the work for the (possibly belated) sake of my sanity' Beck would be of the latter sort.
This has been a fandom where I've always been very satisfied with canon; Chiba is my favorite character and the series is what it is - more panels of people with their mouths open than any other manga. (I love you Beck!) But then! Volume 25 and the Shingo conciliation. Damnit. And then the umbrella thing. And the Shingo in the street from the late shopping thing, which gives me weird Bleach ideas with that time with Ishida and the clever shopping bag. But I digress. I don't want a story that defenestrates Maho or Koyuki's history with women in general. But then I don't really want an essay about them either. I guess I just want a story about Koyuki and Shingo. They could be waiting for a bus together in uncomfortable silence or Koyuki could be second guessing himself about Shingo's gay vibes (even he would have to doubt whether he would actually notice) or they could jerk each other off on the stairs of some famous landmark or they could have a freakishly, awkwardly upbeat conversation about grandmothers or anything. I can only imagine these things in the vaguest of terms before I get sidetracked by my own resentment, so it's up to you. Help me! It'll be easy! I love you!
I'll spare the essay on my long love-hate relationship with Japanese cinema and how I learned to stop stressing and love Nakadai's awesome crazy eyes. Also, though I keep trying to put forth some sort of coherent reasoning for this, really I must have gone a bit mad with power. Mifune! Nakadai! Sure, I've seen the movies, but I'm kinda skimpy on 'canon' here. What... could they possibly have to say to each other? Maybe nothing. Maybe they said it non-verbally. Maybe they took a rocket to the moon and plotted our demise, and the earth only escaped when one of them had an attack of conscience and struck the other down in a highly ironic sword duel. I dunno. I got nothing, but that tantalizing nothing beat out a lot of fandoms to get requested. You - if you will theorize for my entertainment... I love you.
...
I salute you!