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OH!OH!OH!!! Silver Diamond fic!! Trust Your Eyes by baka_neko made me purr in pleasure....I love my flist. XD

Also, apparently the theme for April at fst is "singles." Some cool sounding singles have been uploaded so far such as Impossible Phone-call: Euphie to Lelouch (As the summary states: "This single is from Euphie to Lelouch, for the final three episodes of season one, or that phonecall Lelouch might have expected." The thing is I don't even watch this show--Code Geass--but it intrigued me. XD) and Be Sweet: Ichinose Takumi (an FST about Takumi (from Nana)? I'm glad not everyone loves to hate him so...) among many others I've got open on tabs that I'll eventually download...probably...

And to end with utter pointlessness...

How I read the headline "Sabres blow by Pens to clinch No. 1 seed in East": "Sabres blow by Penis..."

Did a WTF? double-take, realized my mistake, laughed, and kept going...

This weekend has been quite full of great fangirling. First, H2. Then today I finally decide to tackle the pile of Nana manga I've been running into in the living room...and boy am I glad I did. Wow. Read up to volume 11 (okay, it was more like skimming some parts and reading some parts but this manga is just full of words and I'll eventually go back and read the whole thing, every word) and...it's so damn good! GAH! I want more, but I'm trying to keep myself from remembering that there's two more volumes out that I don't have. ;_; I love how complex and individual each character is. I love how people do the wrong things and know they're doing the wrong things but can't help it because that's the way they are and it all sucks...you know, like real life. *sighs*

Then I downloaded various things from bl_recs and reading them. Very ho-hum (especially after Nana), but there was one that I liked because it was a BL ghost story with powerful and tragic yearning called So wa Reirei no Yukini Mai by Ishihara Satoru (can be downloaded here if you are a member of the comm).

Then I read two excellent fics. The first was a rec by svz_insanity, a Veela!Draco H/D fic called A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished by Mirabella. Damn funny! Draco is so damn snarky it's adorable. Then I was poking around the author's site and came upon A Crown of Hollow Stars, a beautifully written Star Wars Obi-Wan/Anakin and Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon fic. It drips with such tense feelings, such sadness and longing and finally despair and anger. I love how Anakin sees so clearly, especially at the end.

And now I will go and read the PoT doujinshi I had read and lost last week, which I had been searching all over the damn place for, but finally found in the stupidest place possible. Ah, what a lovely Sunday...

I was so damn tired on Monday that I decided that watching a movie was a great way to do something fannish and be off my feet for a couple of hours. I chose to watch Nana. Well...that was a brilliant choice, because it was a pretty good movie. More importantly, it made me want to read the manga.

As movie adaptations of long-running series go, it was pretty good. It had the usual problems with having to compress x volumes of story into a movie, but I could forgive them because it was more or less coherent and enjoyable for me, being completely unfamiliar with the series. I don't know how a major fan would react, though. It helped that the music kicked ass. ^__^ The one thing that drove me batty was the way live-action Japanese dramas set up scenes of great tenderness or great fantasy. They are very stiff. I used to watch a lot of Japanese dramas, and they had the same problem. I don't know if it's just the style they like, or they just suck, but it really bothers me. :P

So, I do own the first five volumes of the manga. I just never got around to reading them. The movie made me interested enough in the characters that when I got home I skimmed them. It was interesting seeing the differences in plot and character. I am very happy to say that the manga is far more complex and, well, just better. The character's have more facets to them (esp the secondary characters, who are not very well-developed in the movie), and their interactions are a lot more complicated and engrossing. The plot, it goes without saying, is much more involved and...better (I need a bigger vocabulary ^_^;).

In any case, I also bought the November Cookie to get the extra, a little charm with a white dog and black cat because it's too damn cute! It was worth the 400 yen! XD

To celebrate finding a new series to follow (now I have to pick up the rest of the volumes...where does all my money go?), I uploaded Nana music. I vaguely remember seeing links to the songs earlier this month, but I think they need to be shared more!

First the Black Stones song that I kept hearing in music stores, then in the theatre before the movie, then in the movie several times...I think I've been brainwashed into loving this song:

Glamorous Sky

It helps that Nakashima Mika sings it. I love that voice. ^__^

And the Trap Nest songs. Endless Story is used perfectly as BGM for some scenes. I don't remember where the hell Journey is used, but they are both very nice songs:

Endless Story
Journey

And as a bonus, the bestest song from the Love for Nana tribute album I was all ga-ga over a while back:

Give Me All of Your Love!! by Tommy Heavenly 6