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rionaleonhart

These Are My Clothes, Which I Normally Wear On Me.

Jul 03, 2009 20:39

apiphile has had what I think is a rather lovely idea: write out a poem and leave it lying around for strangers to find. The poem, Poem For The Person Who Finds This Poem, is here, if you'd like to get involved yourself ( Read more... )

silent hill, derren brown, iji, top gear, crossovers, merlin, weird pairings, pokémon, death note, dn angel, fanfiction, whoctor do and other anagrams, poetry, fanfiction (really this time), hetalia, kingdom hearts

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futuresoon July 3 2009, 20:07:32 UTC

ALL OF THE HETALIA ONES ARE BRILLIANT. BRILLIANT, I SAY. But the last one makes me go oh ;_; WHY SO SAD, HISTORY.

...I think I shall go do this 1sentence thing myself, now. (But only with your modified not-following-any-of-their-silly-rules stylings.)

rionaleonhart July 3 2009, 21:21:02 UTC

ALL OF THE HETALIA ONES ARE WRITTEN WITH YOU IN MIND. Seriously, half the reason I post about Hetalia at all is because of you. Almost nobody on my flist watches it, but your enthusiasm makes up for the lack of other fans!

I'm glad you enjoyed them! (And I am looking forward to reading yours.)

futuresoon July 3 2009, 21:22:22 UTC

:DDDD CLEARLY I SHALL HAVE TO TALK MORE ABOUT IT, THEN. (Which is obviously why all my 1sentence fics are about Zuko, what.)

rionaleonhart July 4 2009, 10:01:16 UTC

Nobody - nobody has claimed Germany/Italy for 1sentence.

Should I give it a go?

futuresoon July 4 2009, 16:41:16 UTC

YES. YES YOU SHOULD.

rionaleonhart July 5 2009, 12:18:50 UTC

Oh, dear. The problem with writing Hetalia fanfiction, it turns out: massive amounts of guilt.

There's always going to be a certain degree of trivialisation of war in anything related to Hetalia, but I'm afraid that this sentence for prompt 36 ('Sordid') may cross a line:

All these years of war, Germany thinks, tilting his head back in the shower, and still Italy has somehow remained so innocent.

Do you think I should get rid of it?

(I should have thought more carefully about my choice of prompt set, really, because I cannot think of any way of filling this prompt without venturing into areas I'd prefer to stay away from.)

futuresoon July 5 2009, 16:10:52 UTC

I see nothing wrong with it--it's true, after all. Certainly the Hetalia fandom would have no objections to it whatsoever. Still, if you really have a problem with it, you're the one who's writing the darn thing--you have control over which ones you keep and which ones you don't. Follow your instincts.

rionaleonhart July 5 2009, 16:19:07 UTC

Hmmm. I think what I was really afraid of was having people feel I was going 'OH, MAN, THIS HORRIBLE EVENT IN YOUR FAMILY'S PAST WOULD MAKE A GREAT PREMISE FOR A ONE-SENTENCE FIC', but I suppose people for whom the war had painful personal consequences probably aren't watching Hetalia.

futuresoon July 5 2009, 16:27:59 UTC

Proooobably not, no. It's strange, really--I have pretty much no problems with the series whatsoever, and my family was almost unaffected by WWII (okay, my granddad was in it, but he was just a technician or something and I never heard any stories about it from him), so is that why I'm okay with it? If I had Polish relatives or my granddad had seen the camps, would I not be able to enjoy the series? I don't know. It's strange.

rionaleonhart July 5 2009, 15:23:45 UTC

Also, do you know whether we ever see Italy drunk in canon?

I appear to have seventeen sentences so far, so, er, I suppose I'm actually doing this. (And only one is from Italy's point of view. Am I naturally drawn towards Germany, or do I just have trouble adopting Italy's persona? I suspect both.)

futuresoon July 5 2009, 16:17:12 UTC

Hmmmmm. Offhand, I can't remember any instances of it (or anyone besides England and France, really). Drunk!Italy is...sort of terrifying to contemplate.

I have twenty, and I think we're using the same prompt set. (It is very very hard to write from Italy's perspective, I think. I've seen it done...uh...maybe two or three times? Germany's thought processes seem much, much easier to untangle. And you may just be drawn towards Germany anyway, since he's your boyfriend favorite.

rionaleonhart July 5 2009, 16:25:07 UTC

You're doing it in the 'lol who needs rules' way, rather than an actual set for 1sentence, aren't you? (YOU SHOULD ALSO DO AN ACTUAL SET FOR 1sentence. BECAUSE THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.)

(since he's your boyfriend

Oh, how I wish I MEAN

UM

SOMETHING NOT INSANE)

futuresoon July 5 2009, 16:38:09 UTC

'Lol who needs rules' is the best way of describing it, yes. Although really the only rule that I'm breaking is use of multiple sentences; it didn't take very long for me to realize that 'any character or series I feel like' actually meant 'yup, just Zuko'. Maybe I will do an actual set for Hetalia? Or maybe I will not.

THERE IS NO SHAME IN THIS, GERMANY WOULD PROBABLY MAKE A VERY ACCEPTABLE BOYFRIEND. Polite! Pays attention to you, but not too much! Totally fails at romance, but in an oddly romantic way! HIS BEING A FICTIONAL PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT OF A COUNTRY IS IN NO WAY A DEAL-BREAKER. His being a taken fictional physical embodiment of a country might be, though.

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