it's the tea
1. Newest inspiration is in the form of tea. Not only does it help clear my congestion somewhat, but when the last remains of liquid evaporate under the lamplight, the dregs are left black and gritty. They look thick and powdery. So black it reminds me of dried blood. Teacups now litter my desk.
2. Got some things from Amazon. The Foster's Home season 1 DVD, the Angelic Layer box set (what? don't judge, man, don't judge), and the HanaKimi artbook. I haven't had an opportunity to rip open my DVDs just yet (this is a good thing, actually, because if I do I'll marathon through them without any regard whatsoever to things that I'm supposed to be doing), but I took a quick look at the artbook. It's quite impressive. I love how Hisaya-sensei's art evolved throughout the 23 volumes of HanaKimi. I love watching that, the evolution of art through a long series. I never was able to see it with Angel Sanctuary--the art there is pretty stable, which is not a bad thing as Angel Sanctuary art makes my mouth go dry--but such a thing is blatantly obvious in a series such as Count Cain. Partly because Yuki Kaori took such a long break on it to work on Angel Sanctuary, and by the time she returned to it her art was already developed--it reached the stage where in my opinion it actually looked like what it was meant to look like--and partly because it was still developing even at Count Cain's end. I've noticed differences in the angles and amount of detail. For instance, I've thought Cain's hair towards the end of the Godchild arc was more spiky than usual. (Course, I would look really long at any picture of Cain, wouldn't I. XD) And I thought the wrinkles on clothing were becoming even more elaborate than ever. Kaori-sensei does have that characteristic of putting excessive wrinkles on characters' shirtfronts--I use to think it was incongruously subpar with the other, more realistic aspects of her art, but now I think it's a charming idiosyncrasy.
I love how Nakajo-sensei's art is now. This is probably why I'm so infatuated with Sugar Princess. Her females are more effeminate than ever, their noses are smaller, daintier, their wrists tinnier, slimmer, their hair flatter... It's actually the complete opposite of anti-feminism, I'm thinking. I wouldn't have understood such a thing beforehand, but now I think I do. The ability to make your female characters as girly and cute as they want to be. The ability to be a girl and everything that entails and embrace it like more than a label, more than a classification, but as an identity.
Oh wow.
ALSO, I was thinking that Tennouji Megumi? From 1st dormitory, I think it is? Who sees Mizuki's breasts accidentally when she's disrobing? Is SO highschool!Kurogane. *laughs* Their personality and even the way they look are completely alike.
3. And here I was trying to avoid doing this meme. ^^;; Unfortunately for those of you who are off your rockers like to hear me talk, the only way I think I can do this meme at all is if I shut myself up about what I have to say for these. It's not that I hate a lot of what I write, as you might think, but it's moreso that I don't have enough written to really love my work. Also, what to say about some of these? I'd probably go into long tangents about what I was thinking as I wrote them, or how I was inspired to write them, instead of why I love them etc.
Tagged by tarigwaemir: Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
1. Chinese Red: Part 1 & Part 2 (Boys Next Door)*
2. Fine by degrees, and beautifully less (Hachimitsu to Kuroubaa)
3. Through A Lens Of Spangled Water (Gankutsuou)
4. The Courtship (And Red Silken Scarves) (Harry Potter)
5. Your lips are like a crimson thread (Tsubasa RESERVior CHRoNiCLE)
And the counterpart to the above meme. Most of these are HP fic, not because I read a lot of it (on the contrary, I tend to stay far, far away from reading any HP at all, for my own self-preservation), but because that's honestly where the writers are at. And writers they are. All of these have so affected me by their writing that for at least three months after their first reading I went into a kind of state of shock where I by turns grew inspired, grew inferiority complexes the size of black holes, and then tried to model my own writing after the gem which I had just read, only to come to the rather hopeless realization that I am nothing compared to the real thing--only a pale shadow, a pale comparison, a simple knockoff.
Post a list of your five favorite fics other writers have written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them.
1. Written By Hand by setissma (Harry Potter)
2. Delta by rageprufrock (Harry Potter)
3. 20 Things We Learnt About Kuchiki Rukia (But Only Once She Could Not Disagree) by bravecows (Bleach)
4. And the Discreet Keep Love in Their Back Pockets by yeats (Harry Potter)**
5. That the science of cartography is limited by dorkorific (Harry Potter)***
Victimizing tagging berrygold, clocklike, dev_chieftain, mefiant, and vermillion_days. Apologies if you've already done this meme and I've tagged you anyway, please thwack me on the head. Also, if she doesn't kill me first, milchstrasse needs to do this meme, cos I'd be very interested in what she liked best herself, seeing as all her old!fic is lovin'. (And, belatedly, welcome back, eisenkleid! <3)
*Does this count? I'm not sure. It's unfinished, but if my fic were my babies, then it would have to count, because there's no such thing as half a person. :D
**Protected entry, unfortunately, which I no longer have the privilege to see.
***Broken link, alas.
2. Got some things from Amazon. The Foster's Home season 1 DVD, the Angelic Layer box set (what? don't judge, man, don't judge), and the HanaKimi artbook. I haven't had an opportunity to rip open my DVDs just yet (this is a good thing, actually, because if I do I'll marathon through them without any regard whatsoever to things that I'm supposed to be doing), but I took a quick look at the artbook. It's quite impressive. I love how Hisaya-sensei's art evolved throughout the 23 volumes of HanaKimi. I love watching that, the evolution of art through a long series. I never was able to see it with Angel Sanctuary--the art there is pretty stable, which is not a bad thing as Angel Sanctuary art makes my mouth go dry--but such a thing is blatantly obvious in a series such as Count Cain. Partly because Yuki Kaori took such a long break on it to work on Angel Sanctuary, and by the time she returned to it her art was already developed--it reached the stage where in my opinion it actually looked like what it was meant to look like--and partly because it was still developing even at Count Cain's end. I've noticed differences in the angles and amount of detail. For instance, I've thought Cain's hair towards the end of the Godchild arc was more spiky than usual. (Course, I would look really long at any picture of Cain, wouldn't I. XD) And I thought the wrinkles on clothing were becoming even more elaborate than ever. Kaori-sensei does have that characteristic of putting excessive wrinkles on characters' shirtfronts--I use to think it was incongruously subpar with the other, more realistic aspects of her art, but now I think it's a charming idiosyncrasy.
I love how Nakajo-sensei's art is now. This is probably why I'm so infatuated with Sugar Princess. Her females are more effeminate than ever, their noses are smaller, daintier, their wrists tinnier, slimmer, their hair flatter... It's actually the complete opposite of anti-feminism, I'm thinking. I wouldn't have understood such a thing beforehand, but now I think I do. The ability to make your female characters as girly and cute as they want to be. The ability to be a girl and everything that entails and embrace it like more than a label, more than a classification, but as an identity.
Oh wow.
ALSO, I was thinking that Tennouji Megumi? From 1st dormitory, I think it is? Who sees Mizuki's breasts accidentally when she's disrobing? Is SO highschool!Kurogane. *laughs* Their personality and even the way they look are completely alike.
3. And here I was trying to avoid doing this meme. ^^;; Unfortunately for those of you who are off your rockers like to hear me talk, the only way I think I can do this meme at all is if I shut myself up about what I have to say for these. It's not that I hate a lot of what I write, as you might think, but it's moreso that I don't have enough written to really love my work. Also, what to say about some of these? I'd probably go into long tangents about what I was thinking as I wrote them, or how I was inspired to write them, instead of why I love them etc.
Tagged by tarigwaemir: Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
1. Chinese Red: Part 1 & Part 2 (Boys Next Door)*
2. Fine by degrees, and beautifully less (Hachimitsu to Kuroubaa)
3. Through A Lens Of Spangled Water (Gankutsuou)
4. The Courtship (And Red Silken Scarves) (Harry Potter)
5. Your lips are like a crimson thread (Tsubasa RESERVior CHRoNiCLE)
And the counterpart to the above meme. Most of these are HP fic, not because I read a lot of it (on the contrary, I tend to stay far, far away from reading any HP at all, for my own self-preservation), but because that's honestly where the writers are at. And writers they are. All of these have so affected me by their writing that for at least three months after their first reading I went into a kind of state of shock where I by turns grew inspired, grew inferiority complexes the size of black holes, and then tried to model my own writing after the gem which I had just read, only to come to the rather hopeless realization that I am nothing compared to the real thing--only a pale shadow, a pale comparison, a simple knockoff.
Post a list of your five favorite fics other writers have written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them.
1. Written By Hand by setissma (Harry Potter)
2. Delta by rageprufrock (Harry Potter)
3. 20 Things We Learnt About Kuchiki Rukia (But Only Once She Could Not Disagree) by bravecows (Bleach)
4. And the Discreet Keep Love in Their Back Pockets by yeats (Harry Potter)**
5. That the science of cartography is limited by dorkorific (Harry Potter)***
Victimizing tagging berrygold, clocklike, dev_chieftain, mefiant, and vermillion_days. Apologies if you've already done this meme and I've tagged you anyway, please thwack me on the head. Also, if she doesn't kill me first, milchstrasse needs to do this meme, cos I'd be very interested in what she liked best herself, seeing as all her old!fic is lovin'. (And, belatedly, welcome back, eisenkleid! <3)
*Does this count? I'm not sure. It's unfinished, but if my fic were my babies, then it would have to count, because there's no such thing as half a person. :D
**Protected entry, unfortunately, which I no longer have the privilege to see.
***Broken link, alas.