[#057] I know I said I wouldn't rec in this journal....

Mar 04, 2011 21:20

i. ...But for the sake of reccing Cyn fic? Breaking that unspoken rule for this! House of Cards by melonpaan. IT'S LOVE SHUFFLE FIC. Guys, guys. It's fic I didn't even know I wanted. You know, you get to the end of a drama, occasionally you think to yourself, man, i think we need more. I never really thought that for Love Shuffle until Cyn dangled little bits and pieces of this fic in front of me. I suddenly wanted more from these characters that I had so adored (particularly Oujiro/Kairi who are my OTP for that drama, no question). What she ended up doing was taking the 4 pairs and mix/matched them, and wrote what their possible futures are. Some work, most don't, and the majority is so heart-breaking. It is seriously a huge rec for those that have seen the drama. If you don't read this and just see the characters, I'd be utterly surprised. Cyn captures them so well.

ii. Speaking of fic, the fanfic meme that's been going around. (The first question anyway.)


If you had to delete all but five of your stories, which five would you keep and why? (Or ten if you're more prolific.)
Ten because I've written quite a bit (I really need to get around to making a master ficlist already. oye.):

How to Make a Kato Shigeaki (Ryo/Shige, PG-13). Whenever I have one of these lists (of favorite stuff I write), this one is hands-down always on them. Even though I probably don't re-read this one as much as the others I'll likely list here. Mainly because I am so fucking attached to it. It was the first year of je_holiday and really the first time I'd written for someone that wasn't a friend, so I was worried for days and days regarding this fic. Re-reading it again and again. Badgering friends whether it was good or not. So when it came out better than I'd expected, I was in such relief.

Lines (Shige, Jin/Ryo/Yamapi, PG). I will forever be proud of the Shige essay I wrote at the beginning of this fic. It just sounds like something Shige would write, and just that thought makes me extremely happy I could possibly even think that about my own writing. Even though I was emo around the time of writing this, looking back, I didn't do half bad by this. But I will always say this fic's shining point is the essay.

Dance Dance Dance (Jin/Sawajiri Erika, PG-13). It's funny. I pulled all the links first before writing up my comments and half of my favorite fics that I've written are Jin-centric (and well, in one case 1/6th of the fic). I think that's because I feel that Jin's the easiest for me to write. idk what it is. For this fic, I just really, really liked it. I remember how much work I put into it and for such a rare-pair.

Temporarily Complicated (Maki/Massu, G). This fic's shining point (in a manner of speaking) is its format. I'm actually amazed at myself for the fact that the first third of this fic was written first with arbitrary numbers used, then the rest written hours later. I had to seriously make sure the numbers corresponded right, that the fic flowed even if it went numerically in order--which it did--and all sorts of things. But most of all, I'm just glad that even if it's chronically out of order (ala 500 days of Summer--even though I wrote this way before I saw the movie), it still flows so well. ♥

4 AUs Where Jin Gets What He Wants and 1 That's Reality (Part 1) (Jin, LOTS OF OTHER CHARACTERS, PG-13). Shit, this fic. Do I really have to say why I'd save it? First of all, THREE PARTS. I've never written a fic so long. Plus it didn't take me too much time (okay, mild lie as I did have to ask for an extension for Hols), but once I got the idea, I ran with it. And what I got was a fic I am so utterly proud of. I love all four of the AUs, the characters I made up, the situations Jin was put in. All of it.

Welcome to Heartbreak (Kame/Shige, PG-13). This fic is one that somehow ninjas its way onto random people's rec lists. But I'm not surprised because I really love it too. It kind of took me by surprise actually, because holy shit, how does Kame/Shige even frigging work, but I like what I came up with.

One Step at a Time (Kozue/Takuma (Sore wa Totsuzen Arashi no You ni), PG). The only non-JE (well, non-JE in that it's a drama) fic. But I wouldn't want this deleted because there's only so many Sore wa Totsuzen, Arashi no You ni fic out there, and I would NOT want to delete one of two contributions that I've found. lol (Okay, so I just really am happy I managed to write Sore wa... fic. :D)

Quest for the Magic Forest (Part 1) (KAT-TUN, PG). AHAHAHA. No way would I delete this. The ridiculousness that is this fantasy-AU. The random moments of tongue-in-cheek. Just all the magic, period. Fantasy's one of my favorite genres after all! The fact that I came up with this just from watching the "Lips" PV. And well... it was fun to write. It was ALL I COULD THINK OF for a whole weekend. I blame Nikki.

Assignment (Jin/Aragaki Yui, PG). Sigh, this. I don't know how to really articulate why I love this fic. Other than, if you all noticed, most of my favorite fics are fics I wrote for others. lol I wonder what that says about me. XDDD But anyway, I worried like nobody's business over this one, because it was for Peyton. Who I adore and who I wanted to get fic that she would like as well. And...I think I accomplished that with this one.

Cigarette (Jin/Yamapi, PG). LASTLY this one. It's funny that I choose this because I remember being all reluctant thinking this was good, but Cyn and Nikki kept hella badgering me. lol That said, I still don't think it's amazing. Will probably never think it is, but I will still think that it was a really good practice of silent talking, so to speak anyway.

iii. And lastly, I watched two movies yesterday that just need to be spoken about.

Norwegian Wood: I WAS SO ANNOYED BY THIS MOVIE. Okay, so I've read the book by Haruki Murakami. It is by far not one of my favorite novels, but I definitely didn't think it was bad by any accounts. So I was actually kind of excited for this movie. I wanted to see how Watanabe's story would be portrayed, how shit would go down, as you could say. Except what we got was kind of a mess. I'm seriously about to reread the novel to see how the fuck shit went, because I don't remember it being so ...I don't know, CONFUSING. That was probably my biggest issue: the way the scenes went from one thing to the next with no indication of time, progression, or growth. When did so and so happen? Why did so and so happen? I don't know. The movie didn't GIVE ME ANYTHING. ://// Plus, I have to comment on the actress choices because Rinko as Naoko seemed too old and the girl who played Midori seemed too young! It was really rather confusing. And I talked to Reen about this, but they really decided to cut back on fucking backstories. Midori's. Reiko's. Even though it isn't too necessary, Kidzuki's was also missing. I just. There could've been SO many different ways to show us this novel and make it interesting. Make it so that, even though these characters are hard to connect to sometimes--I feel anyway--we can still understand. But we didn't/couldn't get that from this. And don't even get me started on the awkwardness of certain scenes. And the inappropriate music. The only shining factor in this, I think, was Matsuken. He was pretty damn good as Watanabe, even though at points, his face aggravated me. But regardless, he worked so well.

On a random note, I seem to see Tamayama Tetsuji in SO MANY THINGS, but always fail to recognize him until I wiki something and realize, oh shit, he was in this too?! And he was also really awesome as smarmy Nagasawa. I kind of loved him.

after Norwegian Wood.'>
Beck: On the other hand, Beck was fucking amazing. I cannot even begin to tell you guys how good this movie was. Even thinking about it makes me tear up a little, because talk about a movie that you can connect with. Ohmyfuckinggod. Okay, first of all, A+ acting in this from all sorts of people. Some names: Sato Takeru, MIZUSHIMA HIRO who I just say OMG I MISS YOU, PLEASE RETURN TO MY SCREEN, Mukai Osamu, Nakamura Aoi, Kiritani Kenta and Kutsuna Shiori. They make up the main cast and they are all so bloody brilliant. First of all, Mizushima Hiro and Kutsuna Shiori alternating between English/Japanese was FABULOUS. She definitely had a stronger grasp of English--you could hear it in her accent--but it was so nice to not here much stammering or whatever. It was so fluid and I have to give props to the casting people because, brilliant fucking choice.

Sato Takeru really does well in roles where he's trying to find himself. (Read: Q10 which I seriously want MORE OF, damnit) But really, the thing that took most of my breath away would be the whole idea of the movie. "It Was Really a Mediocre Life... Until I Met That Man." I don't know, maybe it just pulls at me because I love that idea. That there's this one person who can change your life without them realizing it. And you really see how Koyuki (that was Sato's character) was pulled into enjoying his life through music/through the guitar. How finally finding that thing to express himself, to throw himself into made him such a stronger character. He stopped looking down at the floor.

And yes, while I would've loved to hear a voice to "Moon Beams", at the same time, I don't think they could've made it more perfect. I DO STILL WANT THAT SONG WITH VOCALS BECAUSE I THINK I WOULD LOVE IT SO MUCH. *________________* All in all, the movie was A++. I could say so much, but I'll keep it short (ish). It is seriously worth a watch. It is so fucking good.

mizushima hiro, het is okay guys, norwegian wood, love shuffle, reccing those who deserve it, i'm pimping my own stuff, movie, cyn didn't make me, beck

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