Hey, remember when my posts had coherence? No?

[puella_nerdii]

Good news, mostly: Am back on campus!

Good news, definitely: I think the grad school interview went well, knock wood -- at any rate, the program feels like the right one for me, and I can only hope that the faculty agrees.

Less good news: The internet is not working in my apartment. wryyyyy.

Amusing news: really there were many amusing things

Comments

[twistedsheets10]

America, was what I was about to say, but then I remember he fails in BDSM.

er, England? Hisoka?

(oh btw Vol. 12 of yami is out and there will be scanlations soon, I think)

[puella_nerdii]

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeah he kinda does. *facepalm*

England's is plague, which Mith came up with but which is...pretty much perfect. I think the last time he used it was with Japan.

Hisoka's is sakura, once he and Tsuzuki work through enough of their Considerable Issues to give BDSM a go. (They get there, eventually! It just takes a while. Also, Hisoka's almost always the top when they play, at least at first, but he'll use it if he just can't keep the scene going, I think.)

(I know! I have seen some of the redone art, and it is very pretty! Eeeee.)

[twistedsheets10]

Hahaha. Reading ellenel13's comments, oh man, I'm sure England had a hell of a time explaining how BDSM goes. And America is just "this doesn't make any sense..."

(ahaha. YAY! I wanna buy it so the publishers may rethink publishing it AGAIN. ♥)

[puella_nerdii]

Mith and I have had that fic drafted for months. We need to actually edit and polish it. *facepalm, again*

(Oh god I hope so. Is she drawing new chapters, do you know? I can't imagine why she'd redraw all of volume 12 otherwise, but.)

[twistedsheets10]

Ah, I recall that. One day, perhaps. XD

(Well, I think that depends if the sales for this volume goes well. But at least we KNOW she's drawing again.)

Does Muraki or Oriya have a safe word, do you think?

[puella_nerdii]

Stupid backlog.

(Yeah! And I like the new style, actually, especially the shikigami redesigns.)

Oriya almost certainly does. Muraki actually might, though I think it's one of those "for use with Oriya only" things. I'd have to think about what the words in question actually are, though.

[digiphantom]

Outta curiosity, why is it that America fails at BDSM in your head? I see the reasoning but what's your reasoning, have you ever explained it in a post? Cause you say it like you're alluding to something! I'm beginning to wonder if there's a Why America's Arn't Kinky strip I've missed. xD

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...BTW Idon'tthinkwe'vetalkedbefore...

Hi!
I like your stuff! Sorry if this post sounds eerie and defensive, I just wanna see what you have to say!

hi! I have written you an essay!

[puella_nerdii]

I have talked about it before at some length, though I think it's in the comments to a post rather than in a post itself. I think I've talked on it about pyrrhiccomedy's journal, too.) The America I write fails at BDSM because he's not good at the kind of conscientiousness and negotiation that BDSM requires. You have to be capable of pretty frank self-assessment if you want to make BDSM work, and America's, well, not always so good at that. You also need to be really attuned to your partners -- what they need, what they want, how they feel -- and it has to be genuine empathy and not just you deciding what your partners want based on how you think they should be reacting or feeling. America is not good at this kind of empathy, to say the least; he's still really set on doing things /his/ way. The idea of wanting to be hurt is also a little strange to him, I think; he's definitely had his share of fast rough sex, but it's never been premeditated, and BDSM calls attention to a kind of intentionality of pain that America's uncomfortable with. He's a