Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought bravely. And Rhaegar died.

[salinea]

So,

yesterday I finished downloading the 39 episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

That's a download I started up in March, or was it February ?

I'm pretty happy. Now I need the time to watch it.



Fic rec for you : Poppy's Bonfire Spread
Sionnain writes the best Black fics, especially the ones dealing with Bellatrix and smut. This one has Bella and Regulus but no smut whatsoever. However, it's just made me cry and its an absolute delight of darkfic to read.
Go and read it.

For wingblossom who asked me my top five favourite fics of any fandom :
I'm going to pick Tokyo Babylon, because it's easier for me. I often read fics without keeping them, and it's hard to remember which I read and how to compare them. I've been involved in TB deeply and long enough it's one of the few fandom I can do this :

1/ Sakura and Snow, by Nathalie Baan
Because there's very very few people who can write a Subaru I consider totally IC and because that fic spells Subaru as the Hanged Man to me

2/ In My Line of Work tied to Crucify My Love both by Leareth
I'm a sucker for deathfics and sadomasochist smut. Then again, i'm also a sucker for ships seen from the outside and pseu-detective tone

3/ Twilight Incarnadine by Xyn
I just said I was a sucker for deathfics

4/ Northern Light by Kelsey
Deathfics, 3rd take

5/ Anarchy by Ariseishirou
Because that's the other fic with what I consider an IC Subaru

Yeah, those are very conservative choices. That's what made them easy.


I finally finished reading the Warrior Prophet, tome 2 of Prince of Nothing yesterday. Oh look, another hanged man figure, those things turn up everywhere in books. 'Nyway. I'm starting to rather like Achaman. Given how much those books are written for you not to like... errr anyone in it, it's nothing short of miraculous. They're interesting, they're epic... and they're getting heavy handed with the philosophy. But fun. In the way that watching a bloody trainwreck is fun.

Comments

[wingblossom.livejournal.com]

Nice choices! If I were choosing five of my own from the X/TB fandom, I’d probably have both Sakura and Snow and In My Line of Work on the list too. Crucify My Love is good, but I prefer the former: both for the perspective of uninvolved bystanders looking in on the X characters, and also the rough, gritty feel it has – so different from the manga, which makes even the goriest things aesthetic. White Hands and Nukume Dori are great too…ahh, it’s so hard to choose. ^^.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

^^

yeah I really can't pick between the two of these, I just love both of them too much. I adore Crucify because it's got this lovely SM smut and dark fic aura I adore, and it's such a very good characterization of both of them. I adore IMLOW because it's so different, you're right about the grittiness indeed :)

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