scrapings [Furuba 119, mostly, and thoughts on 12shi instinct]
Paradise Kiss ep. 5 made me happy again. Same issues, but it didn't have the flat, lifeless feel that eps. 3 & 4 had. Also, I give up on my attempt to watch Hana Yori Dango without really attaching to it. It's wonderful. *_* Yay for stories that make me smile.
Trying to decide whether to go off and post more fic backlog on ff.net. Most of what's on my site is older and therefore out of canon, and I'm not sure I feel like dealing with a) what I rememeber of the Pit's irritating format requirements or b) fanpoodle variations on "but you didn't take such and such into account!" Meh. Odds of laziness continuing to prevail over fic-pimping: high. But I think the only story I've actually got on there is the Furuba Christmas one (which still makes me happy, almost two years on, so I'll call that a success ^^).
Not a lot to say about Furuba 119. More answers, but foreshadowed so thoroughly that we sortofkindofmostly knew, and all that was left was the details and the characters going through what we knew they would. I've been reading people's thoughts about Kyo's 'choice' not to grab hold of Kyoko at the risk of revealing himself, and I'm torn about it. I *don't* think he had as much of a choice as he clearly thinks he did--guilt magnifies things all out of proportion, but more importantly, a cursed Sohma *has* to have a completely different set of reflexes than everyone else. Most of them don't have an ingrained sense of physical contact--even with characters like Haru and Rin, who've developed a natural physical intimacy with at least one other person, it's NOT going to be a gut reaction to reach out to catch someone who's falling. Even bearing in mind that people freeze up, I think most people in Kyo's position would probably have an instinct to reach out, aborted by their thought process. Jyuunishi have the instinct to recoil. (This is one of the main reasons why episode 6 of the anime totally doesn't work for me--too much instinctive catching. There're other times in the series where one of the boys will reach out to catch Tohru and I believe it, but that early on I don't believe either of them would have that instinct.)
Kyo's guilt makes sense, and I certainly *don't* think it should just be something that Tohru gets over easily. Regardless of instincts, there was a choice. But it seems like a choice made before his brain really engaged, and by the time he fully realized, the chance was probably gone.
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Current lyrics:
i don't believe you're leaving cause
me and charles manson like the same ice cream
i think it's that girl
and i think there're pieces of me
you've never seen
Trying to decide whether to go off and post more fic backlog on ff.net. Most of what's on my site is older and therefore out of canon, and I'm not sure I feel like dealing with a) what I rememeber of the Pit's irritating format requirements or b) fanpoodle variations on "but you didn't take such and such into account!" Meh. Odds of laziness continuing to prevail over fic-pimping: high. But I think the only story I've actually got on there is the Furuba Christmas one (which still makes me happy, almost two years on, so I'll call that a success ^^).
Not a lot to say about Furuba 119. More answers, but foreshadowed so thoroughly that we sortofkindofmostly knew, and all that was left was the details and the characters going through what we knew they would. I've been reading people's thoughts about Kyo's 'choice' not to grab hold of Kyoko at the risk of revealing himself, and I'm torn about it. I *don't* think he had as much of a choice as he clearly thinks he did--guilt magnifies things all out of proportion, but more importantly, a cursed Sohma *has* to have a completely different set of reflexes than everyone else. Most of them don't have an ingrained sense of physical contact--even with characters like Haru and Rin, who've developed a natural physical intimacy with at least one other person, it's NOT going to be a gut reaction to reach out to catch someone who's falling. Even bearing in mind that people freeze up, I think most people in Kyo's position would probably have an instinct to reach out, aborted by their thought process. Jyuunishi have the instinct to recoil. (This is one of the main reasons why episode 6 of the anime totally doesn't work for me--too much instinctive catching. There're other times in the series where one of the boys will reach out to catch Tohru and I believe it, but that early on I don't believe either of them would have that instinct.)
Kyo's guilt makes sense, and I certainly *don't* think it should just be something that Tohru gets over easily. Regardless of instincts, there was a choice. But it seems like a choice made before his brain really engaged, and by the time he fully realized, the chance was probably gone.
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Current lyrics:
i don't believe you're leaving cause
me and charles manson like the same ice cream
i think it's that girl
and i think there're pieces of me
you've never seen