[fic post] If You Never Fight, You'll Never Win

Jan 29, 2009 18:36

So yeah. Been missing in action since Monday. Somehow I caught strep throat, so I didn't want to eat/drink anything 'cause my throat hurt so bad, I couldn't sleep for two days, and I nearly collapsed each time I tried to get out of bed. Turns out I was severely dehydrated, which means I now have to carry water with me everywhere. If my friend hadn' ( Read more... )

ouran, pairing -- kyouya/haruhi, !fic, rating -- [g], contest entry

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hooves February 5 2009, 09:53:46 UTC
Replying to this really quick before I have to start my car and get dressed and leave for work. There's something about getting up at 4:00am to do this that...should be illegal. In my opinion. =P

I agree completely about writing in another language. I think we could learn something from that! Well, "we" being a general, "we the people". And by "that", I mean becoming more precise with our writing. Even though I'm one of those "vague" writers sometimes, other times I'll admit I've confused people by not being precise enough. (Though sometimes I just want people to think.)

Eh, my little fandom. ♥ I needs love because it never gets enough. And and and uhh... CrunchyRoll used to have it, but....ugh. The manga's in several languages (none of them English, and I personally own and love the French version, but there is one in Spanish).

Ah, I'll ask some people where you might be able to find the anime to watch. ♥ I'm burning the series to DVD for a friend. (You can download it online, but the series is about 5 gigs. It took me forever to download it (slow internet at the time), but if you want me to find it for you, I could do that. Just let me know. =]

And...and yes! [Sticks flag into the ground at the top of a hill and lets the wind blow her hair around!] I WILL JOIN YOUR QUEST! W-wait, do those puppy eyes look like Tamaki's? o_O

=DDD Also, do you mind if I friend-add you since you're so interesting and awesome?

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treeflamingo February 7 2009, 20:20:35 UTC
Yays! Friend away! *bounces* I love getting new friends.

So there's an official translation of the manga into Spanish? I'll have to see if I can get my hands on it. I'll probably stick with the manga to start with, simply because I haven't had the time to actually watch anime lately. Oh hey, have you seen Revolutionary Girl Utena? RoV seems like it's got some themes in common with Utena. ::shrug:: Associative conversation FTW.

No, my puppy dog eyes do not look like Tamaki's. Puppy dog eyes, in my belief, should be large and mournful and shiny. It makes me wonder what kind of puppies they have in Japan, that their puppy dog eyes are so small. *scratches head*

There's something to be said, I think, for both precision and vague-ness in writing. My personal favorite style is to use extremely precise language to describe (in the paint-brush sense, in the sense that a kite string can describe an arc across the sky) a vague-ish scene heavy with implication and light on certainty. But I have read writers who do a truly marvelous job with using subtlety and vagueness and nuance and nebulousness in every aspect of their writing, and I have read writers who leave almost nothing to the imagination and still captivate their readers. ::shrug:: It's the great appeal of art, I think, that so many different methods can be used by so many different hands to accomplish the same general purpose.

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hooves February 7 2009, 20:34:11 UTC
Will do!

Utena was inspired by RoV!

Yeah, I wondered at his puppy-dog eyes, too. But they were cute in their own way (ie: a very disturbing way) so I tried not to think about it.

[Heavy with implication and light on certainty]

That...that is an awesome way to describe that. And yes, writing is definitely an art, so that makes us (writers) artists; therefore, we have our own style, and no style is right or wrong. (Supposedly; that is the theory.)

♥ Also, what do you go by? Everyone just calls me Manna. =]

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treeflamingo February 13 2009, 02:37:56 UTC
Hah! There you go then. I win at discovering obvious lineages between fandoms?

Yep, that's my theory. The only way art can be "wrong" is if it touches nobody at all. Or if it's seriously ugly. :[

On the internets, I generally just go by treeflamingo. I've got the same handle basically everywhere. ::shrug:: It simplifies things.

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