how i'm spending my four day weekend

It all started with an FST for the fanfic Pianissimo Butterfly by Angrybee. The music intrigued me so I downloaded it, but I was going to pass on the fic (I don't read Gravitation fic). After a couple of days, I thought I'd skip around and read a bit of the fic out of curiousity. The Ryuichi POV was interesting, but as Ryuichi isn't a character I'm really into that didn't immediately suck me in. What did end up intriguing me in was the way the author characterized Ryuichi. He's pretty fucked up, but not in the normal way. Love how Kumagoro is front and center, in his world. Her writing in general was also very very compelling. I was pulled into the fic and it didn't let me go to the end. I don't think some of the characters were very IC, but in the end the fic made me not care whether they were or not. They were alive and I needed to know what would happen. And being weak on romantic sap, how could I not love anything with the lines, "Kiss me, and kiss me, and kiss me. Let's make a new forever, together. Kiss me until they throw us out of the park for indecency."? And then I listened to the FST and was blown away by how it really fit the fic.

After that I had the bug to read more Gravitation fanfic. Like I stated before I don't read fanfic in that fandom, so it was daunting in that I didn't know where to start and the fandom is a good size. After reading many unsatisfying ones, I did manage to find some I really enjoyed.

( my short list )

It'd been a while since I'd done extensive fanfic reading in an anime/manga fandom in English. I'd forgotten the extent of fangirl Japanese abuse. Some perfectly decent fics were absolutely ruined for me by overuse of fangirl Japanese. ;_; I can tolerate a certain amount in a fic (I'd think you'd have to, to be able to read in the English fandom), but...*shudders* In one case, what got me was when an author bothered to put in a note that the characters are actually talking in Japanese when talking to each other (they were overseas), YET STILL THREW IN FANGIRL JAPANESE IN THEIR DIALOG! The illogic of it just annoyed the shit out of me. I know, I know, it's just rampant in any English fandom like this, but...sometimes I have to let out my annoyanace! GAH! I guess this is why I don't go looking around English fandom that much. :P

Thank god not that many Japanese PoT writers have the urge to make Ryoma talk in "English." If I had to read fic after fic of absolutely awful English in otherwise perfectly fine Japanese fics that would probably drive me nuts, too. I can see them messing up longer passages, but it puzzles me at how even a simple sentence could be garbled so badly. After all, most of these authors must have taken some English in school at some point.

things to do on a rainy day

It's raining. It's been raining off and on the past week. I hate rain. *sighs*

In any case, saw Yakitate episodes 49-53 today. ( Some thoughts. )

Does anyone have the current opening and closing for Yakitate, Promise by Tia and Re:Start by Surface?

One benefit of having two computers is one can be hooked up to the TV to watch anime, and the other can be used to do something else. While I was watching Yakitate I was scanning in a doujinshi. I don't know how people can just sit there scanning stuff in. It's so tedious. :P

And for something completely different, is anyone following the Black Cat anime? I've only seen the first three episodes and I'm curious as to how it's going. I swear I need to pick up the rest of the manga. *sighs*