I don't usually make "useless" posts, but i had an IRL conversation with one of my friends today about Naruto, and it was every bit as embarrassing as i always thought it would be. All their names sound stupid spoken out loud. I couldn't even say "Madara" without it sounding like "Mud'ra." i was like READ 500 YOU FOOL, because he liked naruto for a long time (kankuro/kiba, gack) and then stopped at the Kage summit.
He wanted me to explain Sasuke's "I could kill EVERYONE!" decision, and I uh, tried my best.
This is what happens when you keep your fandom obsessions locked in the mental basement like a horrible secret, but i wanted to flail to someone in real life. >_> and he was like So what pairing to do you write?
"UH THE FRINGIEST OF FRINGE INTERESTS," i replied, or something like it. He didn't even know who Shisui was.
Not that I should have, you know, expected him to. "He's, uh, Itachi's best friend that he drowned for the mangekyou sharingan," I replied.
But how do you say MANGEKYOU SHARINGAN out loud and not have it sound stupid? There are lot of syllables there, guys. Just try it, right now.
And yesterday, in a fit of inspiration, I typed out the beginning scene of a sequel to A Guidebook for the Newly Dead, called Water for Whispering, and it's like, exciting! lookin' at you,
ronsard. wanna to beta again, eh eh hint hint?