A Sciathan Miscellany
Wooooo!
This is gonna be a random post.
I've been to Kilkenny two weekends ago and stayed with farmers in Cork last weekend (which was awesome in many ways).
( Stealing liberally from an e-mail to my family, here is the dirt on Kilkenny, as well as pictures )
This is gonna be a random post.
I've been to Kilkenny two weekends ago and stayed with farmers in Cork last weekend (which was awesome in many ways).
( Stealing liberally from an e-mail to my family, here is the dirt on Kilkenny, as well as pictures )
Please feel free to squeal incoherently with me. :)
*squeals*
It's amazing. Tamaki x Haruhi is not even my #1 favorite Ouran High School Host Club pairing (I like it, but I'm also a faithful Kyouya x Haruhi supporter, even if the ship is practically dead at this point... but yeah, I have my own quirky preferences), but this chapter makes me squee. Eee! ^_^ Haruhi! Tamaki! *^-^*
Host Club is, by virtue of genre alone, a love comedy.
Oh, definitely. I mean, sure, some people want to see characters who don't need love... erm, well. Death Note has a whole bunch of such characters. ^^; But Ouran High School Host Club is all about various forms of love. Most shoujo fans WANT to see love and that's what shoujo is normally about. It's natural, isn't it? ^^; I'm perfectly happy with this sort of development. It was meant to happen at some point, and it looks very nice right now.
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If I bought into this OTP thing (which I don't, because if you can make the character dynamics work, I like it), Tamaki x Haruhi would be it. Really, however, I'm just a very big Tamaki lover, because I find his character to be so incredibly interesting that I think I could try to figure it out and never really succeed. KyouyaxHaruhi intrigues me in a way that its interesting because it seems incomprehensible to me (did that make any sense?), but I have seen fic and such where it does somehow work. In my opinion, Tamaki really either needs to be mediating it or dead for it to happen in terms of character dynamics, however.
I agree, the down with love attitude is awesome...but not in the comedy and romance genre...Death Note can do whatever it wants in that arena because its thriller/action/detective fiction, essentially. That, and I have this core belief that most of the main players - particularly Light - are sociopaths in that series...
But romantic development in Ouran is a foregone conclusion and so I'm a bit mystified as to what this controversy is essentially over...
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*laughs* That's fine, I want to read some long stories, especially because I myself am a drabble writer (and English is my second language, so it's a bit hard for me to write long, detailed stuff)... ^_^;
KyouyaxHaruhi intrigues me in a way that its interesting because it seems incomprehensible to me (did that make any sense?), but I have seen fic and such where it does somehow work. In my opinion, Tamaki really either needs to be mediating it or dead for it to happen in terms of character dynamics, however.
Oh, yeah, I understand. Well, Kyouya and Haruhi are my favorite Ouran High School Host Club characters (along with Mori, whom I don't really ship with anyone at this point), so I guess I just like all sorts of interaction between them, and it's fun to see them as a couple, but... yeah, it's impossible to ignore Tamaki. But that's what makes them interesting, I suppose - you need to think and try hard in order to make them work well, so it's a nice writing challenge. Kind of like that. Which is why I still don't have any Kyouya x Haruhi fics in any language. ^_^;
Death Note can do whatever it wants in that arena because its thriller/action/detective fiction, essentially. That, and I have this core belief that most of the main players - particularly Light - are sociopaths in that series...
Oh, definitely. And Mikami's One True Love is abstract justice. I don't think I can break them up for someone else's sake. ^_^;;; Seriously though, yeah, Death Note deals with other issues, while Ouran High School Host Club is ALL ABOUT love and romance and such things (I think the Host Club part of the title makes that... somewhat... obvious?).
But romantic development in Ouran is a foregone conclusion and so I'm a bit mystified as to what this controversy is essentially over...
Well, this is how I see this logic:
- Ouran High School Host Club is obviously about love. Obviously.
- It's also a parody of shoujo romance as a genre.
- Therefore, as a parody, it must contain some twists.
- Such as 'no real romantic resolution' or 'a strange final canon pairing that nobody expects'.
Kind of like that, yeah. *shrugs*
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Haha... yeah, you do. [points to self] XD Even if I don't really "know" you on the Net or anything, you did say OK that one time I asked to friend you... lol. I like geeky analytical discussion! I can't really contribute to it much, but I like it anyway.
I just wanted to say I agreed completely with your FRoP post, although I'm probably the opposite of you personality-wise (whereas you are "disinclined with romance and fairly ambitious," I am highly, highly inclined toward romance... I think the reason why I like Ouran is that it helps me have a sense of humour about myself, pointing out the cliches and all). I highly doubt that Haruhi is going to turn into a stereotypical shoujo girl as well. Plus TamakixHaruhi seems like the most obvious route- yes, it's cliche, but it's logical (example of "illogical": I can't imagine HaruhixHunny, even with a very able writer), and most of the show is based around twisting shoujo cliches anyway, n'est-ce pas?
Oh, and about not buying into OTP... I choose OT3 [TamakiKyouyaHaruhi] because it kinda-sorta-in a way transfers over to "Death Note." XD
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