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[salinea]

Happy belated birthday cteresa ! ♥


I have SHELVES ! I can now buy plenty of books (okay not that it was stopping me before, it was just very hanging about the place in big places)
it's funny how much more home it feels with book-filled shelves. I feel finally at home ♥


Ouran School Host Club is my new crack. I didn't even mean to get into the latest craze that all the cool kids dig, I just picked up that manga called "Host Club : le lycée de la séduction" (yeah that's a horribly cheesy name in case you wonder) and fell in love (okay, i had a vague suspicion it might have been the same stuff)
Anyway, apart from the fact it's good crack, and that the characters are darling, and that I have dozens of flashbacks to other characters about them, I like some of the meta-ish component of the serie. ^_^ And, anyway, you've got to love Haruhi (though i don't like when they make her all girly >_<)


Otherwise, I watched the second season of Kaleido Star (finally!) which was rather dispointing (you were right about that Maya !). Not everything was bad of course, but the themes were so heavy handed (and stoopid, but stoopid !) it was painful, and they forgot to give other characters than Sora and the new characters a point in life. So it appeared that their only drive in life was to support Sora. Gah.


I am horribly bored with work. I almost didn't do anything today. And it wasn't even because I was reading fics. I'm very motivationless lately. Meh.

I did read a couple of good fics I wanted to rec :

Eurydice goes down by bitterfig which is becoming quickly one of my new favourite writer. She's got such a fresh and original take on things.
Anyway this fic is a terrific TonksxLuna which awesome characterization of both Tonks and Luna and several other characters. Highly reccommanded to any Tonks lover.
Summary: AU, post-HBP. Lupin is captured by the Death Eaters. Tonks and Luna Lovegood set out to rescue him. High jinks ensue. Except I don’t write high jinks, so angst and weirdness ensue.

It's not without darkness, but also with humour and has something fairy-talish about it.

(by the way, Maya, bitterfic also just wrote a TohmaxEiri fic, it might be a bit dark for your taste for this pairing, but it's very well written. It made me think of you, so heh ^^)

and The Inescapable Cell by chtonya which is a wonderful Gen piece with Dumbledore and Lucius.
As a story, I wasn't sure where it was going to, but the stunning characterizations made up for it. Especially Lucius'. Good Lucius stories always make my day, and it's very, very rare that I find Lucius hot which was the case there.
The writer apparently writes a lot of Lucius, so I'll have to check up her other fics... especially if there's some LuciusxNarcissa ^_^

Comments

[chaineddove.livejournal.com]

YAY YOU READ OURAN NOW!!! I didn't mean to get into the "cool new thing" either, it just happened.... now you can read my fics? *hopes*

KS season two... blah, well, watching Yuri and Leon have a fencing match on the trapeze was fun *LOL* That's what I have to say about that.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*giggles*
where are you fic ? You wrote a twincest one, right ? I have trouble digging them as couple because they play with it like they do XD (does that make sense ?) but hey, why not.

*giggles* I would like it better if Leon was interesting in any kind of way. I even liked May better than Leon to tell you.
At least the animation of the acts was still pretty >_>;

[chaineddove.livejournal.com]

I didn't like Leon OR May, just the pretty fencing. And Yuri, of course, I loved more than ever.

About the T/E fic, I've already read and reviewed it *lol* For that pairing I like dark or anything else. If it's T/E, chances are I'm happy.

About the Hitachiins: I see them as a couple BECAUSE they play. A somewhat... interesting strategy to put the truth in plain view so that no one thinks of it. But as for my fics, they're not so much always twincest as twin-centric... well.

Between is actually Kaoru/Hikaru, Hikaru/Haruhi (as the series seems to be heading this way). It is saaaaaaaad. It is pretty. It is a piece I am very proud of, actually, and it has a pretty, pretty song to accompany it.

In case you're ever bored, Ordinary Day is just a short drabble thing... featuring 5-year-old twins and tormented nannies. A "just for the hell of it" piece.

The Best Kind of Game is actually the only pure twincest fic I've written. It's cute. And amusing. Not really much more than that. I had fun playing with them.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hehe, I shouldn't dismiss bitterfig's ability to crosspost. She's very good at it XDD

reading now !

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I loved that Dumbledore and Lucius fic. Thanks for the rec!

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

NOw you must watch Ouran anime, you'll like it ^_~

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I have. I do ! ^^

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Your book purchases made me want to indulge in some bday shopping - and got recs for you ;) Yay for the bookshelves btw!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

thumbs up to bday shopping ^^ go ! go !

recs ? I'm all ears ! ^^

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

bday shopping is on hold sort of - but got to indulge in Priviledge of the Sword and Mother Aegypt. That last is a collection of short stories by the definite being-pushed-at-you rec, Kage Baker. One standalone, very funny with a very silly character fantasy novel and a 8 books sf series ( immortal cyborgs with space travelling and secret companies) which I just love! Book 7 is out next month, that is going to be another shopping must :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Kage Baker... noted ^^ thanks

[chthonya]

Thanks for the rec!

As a story, I wasn't sure where it was going to

Yeah, most of my fics develop from an urge to put two or more characters together and see what happens or to explore what they think of each other - so oftentimes the plots are rather subtextual/psychological, if present at all.

Your comment on Lucius/Narcissa made me realise most of my Lucius/Narcissa writing has been in drabble form, and prompted me to categorise it on my del.icio.us page. It's hard for me to draw the line between Narcissa gen and Lucius/Narcissa het, as most of my writing about Narcissa is born of her relationship to Lucius and Draco. But if you're interested, these are links to my Narcissa pieces. The most substantial and canonical is my oneshot 'A Mother's Place', about how Draco didn't go to Durmstrang. And Open Book is probably the best introduction to my Luciusfic.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

'welcome ! I doubt I brought you dozens of readers though ^^

Yeah, most of my fics develop from an urge to put two or more characters together and see what happens or to explore what they think of each other - so oftentimes the plots are rather subtextual/psychological, if present at all.
*nods* Not infrequent in fanfics. But I was left a bit standing at the ending, wondering "that's it ?", that's what I meant.

Thanks for the links ! I've already read (and loved) a Mother's Place. I adore Narcissa and you had a great hang of her voice there. Definitly snobbish and sometimes shallow, but not vapid or weak as sometimes people characterize her (it pisses me off when they do ^_^)
Going to read Open Book now !