some brief but intense fangirling

I feel terribly left out. What is this Episode III mania that has infected everyone??? All of a sudden all my friends are making plans on going as soon as possible (even skipping out on work), the local TV stations have features with total geeks who play SW Trivial Pursuit like it's the most fascinating thing on earth, every single day the newspapers have an article on it...since I won't be able to go anytime soon (and still remember the pain of the disappointment of *winces* Episode I), I will just have to make my own excitement! I will fangirl! Hard!

First off, beri beri naisu Yukikaze fanart. XD

code_renegade has a beautiful layout featuring a gorgeous pic of a very minor pairing. *_* Stunning! I must find doujinshi by this artist! Doesn't matter that the RyoKai pairing is just too weird for me! The art calls to me!!

An amazing lyric book for the FMA Roy Mustang FST had me going O_o. Each song had the lyrics with an image from the anime as a background. Hope the music is good, too.

Speaking of FMA, finally bothered to find out when the movie is coming out. July 23, huh. Wonder when the rest of us will be able to see it? I am trying not to expect like super duper great things (just mostly great things) from it, since being terribly let down sucks (ref: see above). :P

On, and back to FSTs, I downloaded the Macross character FSTs with mini FSTs for the three main characters. Wow, I haven't seen Macross in forever. I know I did see some of Robotech ages ago, but I only really remember seeing the original Japanese anime in college. Ah, I love that anime. Even with Minmay in it. And I love many of the songs from it, in all it's glorious eighties-ness...damn, I need to go dig up the soundtrack. ^_^

And more fanfic goodness (this time drabbles) from tomomichi. Some favs:

• PoT, Tezuka/Ryoma, Theme/word: as close to a date as you can manage"


• PoT, Eiji and Kaidoh, Theme/word: BORDER COLLIES


• KKM, Yuuri/Wolfram, Theme: Marital relations


• Sex Pistols, Kunimasa/Norio, Theme/word: plastic rose


• xxxHOLIC, Watanuki/Doumeki, Theme/word: good luck charm

Speaking of fanfics, been going through the FujiRyo Ring and checking out all lots of sites. Found a couple of interesting fanfic sites, but nothing that wowed me. Why is good FujiRyo so damn hard to find? *sighs*

...and--I guess I'm done for now. I really need to reply to comments...someday...

Mirage - The sea he could not return to

Just the short prologue bit from Gunjou (Ultramarine), the side story from the Hojo POV. I really liked the short scene and have been punting around the translation for a while. Just can't get the flow of the original, but oh well. ^_^;

( The sea he could not return to )