it snows nine months of the year and hails the other three

It appears my fic has been somewhat uncanonized by the release of xxxHOLiC chapter 180. Sorry 'bout that.

The rest of you (other than the wonderful and lovely eoedad, who was my beta) will have to wait a bit to read the fic, but it'll be soon enough, I suppose. :D It'll probably go with my huge fic dump.

Quick thought on holic and trc (finally caught up)

( uh, yeah. spoilers. )

I <3 Watanuki & Doumeki's winter coats. I want one...waah!

And now:

( lol pairing meme! )

finished Tsubasa--I am now caught up.

Wow. Overwhelming. And KuroFai is SO CLOSE to being canon...

And I like real!Syaoran better than clone!Syaoran. It kinda bothers me that they still consider the real Syaoran less real than the old Syaoran, but he takes it really well.

And Fai, I loooove Fai. But I love Kuro more. I love Kuro a lot.

nebulia out.

Okay, I'm so confused right now.

I'm not a hundred percent which Syaoran's which. I get that bad Syaoran ate Fai's eye, but I'm still not sure what's going on. rebekah_ana, can you help me work this out? I'm still kinda confuzzled.

ETA: Okay...so Syaoran's stuck in bad Syaoran's body with bad Syaoran's heart, and bad Syaoran's in good Syaoran's body with good Syaoran's heart? Because right now Syaoran doesn't seem nearly as concerned about Sakura as he usually does, but he's still a nice guy. In bad Sayoran's body. What?

Wait, no, I'm still confused. Any insights, anyone? I'm really tired and right now I just don't get it.

Oh yeah. And Fai? *huggles* And Kuro? *huggles* I loooooove Kuro soooo much--I really think he's my favorite character.

And suddenly TRC goes from Action/romance/some humor/tiny bits of flangst here and there to
ANGST/ANGST/and some more ANGST.

nebulia out.

Right then, my spook_me fic, aside from being a day late is turning into a chapter fic.

Gasp!

I've got to get it done by next Wednesday, so I can devote my life to NaNoWriMo on Thursday, yesplz.

But here it is:

Title: empty as the sky
Fandom:: Rurouni Kenshin
Rating: Let's say...for now, T, for gore-ish stuff, and future language and stuff. I dunno yet, it's still forming in my head.
Summary: Kaoru is on earth to help people let go of the darkness within them. Kenshin is on earth despite the fact that he has come to terms with his own darkness. Together, they discover what it means to really live, and how to let go. [modern AU, KK, zombies and ghosts galore]

( Wait...Undead? )

Here's the first part of it. It's not going to be horror or creepy, like last year's, but it has kind of dark themes. It's more gentle drama than anything else, a bit like "the art of contentment" if anything. But not as strange. Or romantic. Or in present tense. And with more plot.

( empty as the sky )

watching the episode of witch hunter robin with the beared doctor (faith), and he's telling Robin to wrap green onions around her neck for her cold.

And all I can think of are those creepy aliens...

nebulia out.

So I finally moved past my prejudice and got the two RK OVA soundtracks.

Beacause I love ALL the RK music. Though I feel many things about the animated forms of RuroKen, all of them unpleasant, I am exceedingly fond of the music. All of it.

And I have to say the only reason I watched Seisouhen past Kenshin leaving was because the music was so lovely. I really liked Tsuiokuhen's music, too.

Sometimes my unbelievable manga purism scares me. I was hanging out the The Evil Empire's forum for the most tragic manga deaths, and EVERYONE kept mentioning Kenshin. And I couldn't help but grind my teeth. MY Kenshin dies at the ripe old age of 95, surrounded by his many great-great-grandchildren, holding Kaoru's hand and doing the laundry at the same time. Screw realism. If Kenshin can jump four stories in the air and be three feet shorter than Aoshi on all the covers that feature them next to each other, then he can die like I want him to.

Some of the whole manga-is-God thing I think comes from being a book-over-movie purist my entire life. Harry Potter-blech. Eragon-shoot me now. The Chronicles of Narnia was okay but still not good.

There have only been five worthy book-to-movie adaptations ever: Mulan, because it was good, the 1982 Scarlet Pimpernel, because it really captured the essence of the book, the BBC Pride and Prejudice, because it was word-for-word, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, because I thought it did a really great job of cutting down P&P into 2 hours, and it, too captured the essence of the book, and The Lord of the Rings, because it was WONDERFUL.

That's it. Howl's Moving Castle and Children of Men were both great movies in themselves, but so different from the books that I can't even compare the two, and off the top of my head, that's it as far as decent book-to-movies go.

Manga often end up being the same way. Lovely Complex is good, so is Loki, so is Damurai Deeper Kyo (for music and Kyo's very sexy voice actor if nothing else). Trinity Blood actually follows the books pretty well, but it's part of such a huge deal that it almost seems to be part of the canon itself, since there are books, manga, and anime, all covering, for the most part, different things. Ouran was hysterical but still not good enough, though I did like the way it swung HaruTamaki. Live action dramas tend to be okay, simply because they are always very, very different from the manga simply because of their format, and they're always fun and seem to capture the basic essence of the plot, but never try to stick to closely to it.

My favorite anime are actually the ones not based on manga: Samurai 7, Witch Hunter Robin, etc.

My favorite manga, other than Love*Com, seem to make awful anime. Let's not een talk about Angel Sanctuary, and you see how I feel about RK.

I comfort myself by saying that anime (and even movies for that matter) is really simply a giant work of fanon: fanfiction, fanart, AMV, and some original music, usually very good, all pulled together and with the author's permission. Like Les Mis, only Boublil and Schonberg, gods that they are, didn't get permission from Hugo.

And that's that.

nebulia out

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post one sentence (or more) from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favorite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

This definitely isn't everything, but...it's something.

( Rurouni Kenshin, Gokusen, Original )

Was cast as the part of Justina in the play. I'm pretty happy with it, even though I wanted Elisenda. The only problem I have with it is who is actually playing Elisenda--I'd pick almost ANYONE in drama over her, including several guys. She is SUCH a bitch. *sigh* But I'll deal with it. It's mostly set in stone anyway, so that's that.

nebulia out.