in tenisu, Zero % means LOVE

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There really is no way to catalogue the myriad ways in which today sucks completely, so I won't even try.

Instead, here are all the things that make today not suck:

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[curia_regis]

I will stay away from the stuff that looks like anime.

But *hugs* for the rest of your day.

[bookshop]

heee, there's actually only a bit that's anime-centric, just the hikago fic i mentioned and the fact that if you squint, shirota/yanagi is a (really bad) stand-in for my prince of tennis otp, because they played their parts in the musicals. (yes, prince of tennis has musicals).

the rest of this post is mostly j-pop oriented. which is to say that if you can get beyond your confusion and want links or recs, or to have your nose shoved into Akame, the most wonderful RPS pairing ever ever that ever wore matching rings, were inseparable from childhood, and posed semi-nude for countless photoshoots before angstily and tearily parting ways and SEPARATING TO DIFFERENT CONTINENTS IN AN ENDLESS SHROUD OF MYSTERY AND HEARTACHE, I WILL BE HAPPY TO HELP. as i'm sure will half my friends list at this point asdjf.

[curia_regis]

hmm. i'm going to regret this but... yes please. :)

A ROUGH/RAMBLY HOW TO INTRO TO KAT-TUN AND JE

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okay, the following is really rough and confusing BUT NECESSARY TO YOUR HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING. :D

1) DOWNLOAD THE NEW ALBUM that trembles linked to here. both discs. listen incessantly.

this is KAT-TUN's first full album apart from a release of Greatest Hits since their official "debut" last year. KAT-TUN is made up of 6 members - the initials of the band are the initials of their names: Kazuya Kamenashi, (Kame), Akanishi Jin (just Jin), Taguchi Junnosuke (Taguchi or Jun or Junno), Tegomi Koki (just Koki), Ueda Tatsuya (Ueda), and Nakamaru Yuichi (Maru).

2) Read everything on this thread and follow all of Starla's links.

3) Watch Nobuta Wo Produce (which, actually, really really really REALLY should be #1 on this list, because apart from the fact that it is, like, instant gateway into the abyss of JE fandom, it is, hands-down, THE most amazing thing you will ever, ever, ever watch in your entire life. I'm not even joking. This show (which aired in fall 2005 and is only 10 eps long, and which I have uploaded all of in hardsubbed

[mirabellawotr]

Oh my god, I read Extent of Denial. It was so, so, so gloriously awful. I went through the whole thing in a state of awe, going "OH MY GOD CAN IT GET WORSE," and it ALWAYS DID.

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GOD IT WAS SO GOOD. THE FISHNET. SO MUCH FISHNET. AND ASSHOLE!WAYA!!!! AND SADJFK;LASD THE PARTS AT THE BEACH WITH THE LOTION AND TOUYA GOING "BUT YOU HAVE THE SUN IN YOUR EYES" ASLDJFLSK;ADJFSD;SDLKDSDS;LFJ AND THE BOYFRIEND. GOD. I WANTED THE BOYFRIEND TO GO PSYCHO AND LIKE TRY TO KILL THEM, AND I WAS VAGUELY BAFFLED WHEN THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.

GOD IT WAS SO SWEET AND STUPID AND GRAND *___*

[mirabellawotr]

I WAS CONVINCED THERE WOULD BE EX-BOYFRIEND NONCON AND THE HEALING POWER OF COCK. I THINK THE AUTHOR JUST GOT TIRED OF WRITING BEFORE SHE GOT AROUND TO IT.

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i KNOW. i can't believe she put out 33 chapters in 6 months. i was so completely impressed, AND I READ LIKE THE WHOLE LAST HALF THINKING IT MIGHT NOT BE COMPLETE AND I SERIOUSLY WOULD HAVE SMASHED MY MONITOR OR SOMETHING IF I HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO FINISH. :(

[missitar]

I would love to give the new KAT-TUN album a try, although I have to admit I'm not quite sure where I should go to download it! (I feel terrible constantly having to rely on you for this, but I still have no sense of the general geography of J-fandom and where they keep their media downloads. If you want, you can give me links and survival instructions instead of mp3 files.)

[bookshop]

kattunlove is the general source for all things kat-tun and they almost always have the news and the downloads before anyone else. i'm pretty sure in this case jin_daily does too.

I'll go ahead and upload it to my KAT-TUN folder too.

[missitar]

Thank you so much! I'll join and download momentarily (read: as soon as I buckle down and get my homework done). Hopefully this means the end of my having to bother you.

[anyotherknight]

PLEASE TO BE WRITING SOME UEDA/KAIDOU BONDING. OR ANY TENIPURI/JE CROSSOVER.

The best would be a SME/JE/TeniPuri crossover, with all of Super Junior added into the mix so HeeChul, Atobe and Jin could try to out-diva each other, Taka and Hankyung could bond over recipes, Eeteuk/Kame/Tezuka would have tea-and-Valium parties ... The sheer backstory would kill us all. Clearly a result of the Tezuka Zone.

The best thing about RyoDa is that they never really hated each other - Ryo went hilariously off-script during Shounen Club and Princess actually retaliated by saying he'd NEVER want to grow up to be like "Nishikido" on a later episode, and later-later, that they got along, like, 0% Then they both made up by reading letters to each other in front of thousands of people and a Ryo began to chase Uebo around the stage for groping

[anyotherknight]

...I'd make less of an ass of myself if I stopped reading my flist at one am. Sorry. D:

[bookshop]

Nonsense!

[anyotherknight]

But then you'll start making meta posts and commenting on the state of the music industry and generally being a tin-hat type.

On second thought, do that. Join me.

[samenashi]

UM AJA SOMEONE JUST OFFERED TO WRITE ONE OF MY RYODA PROMPTS JKFLAJDKLFDJSKF

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GOD I HOPE I HAVE THEM FRIENDED

[samenashi]

God wtf how awkward if they see this, I will look retarded! My curse.

[samenashi]

Okay you don't, I am safe.