Fannish answers part 1 of ?

[salinea]

What do you think of the Subaru/Kamui ship?
Much as I'm a die hard Seishirou/Subaru shipper, I'm actually rather fond of Subaru/Kamui, when it's well characterised. (Multishipping FTW). I even wrote a K/S fic once :) and enjoyed a great many well written ones (back in the days when I read a lot of fic for the X fandom). There were some fics I liked a great deal less, but that's because I don't think it's a pairing you can write well by dismissing Seishriou and Fuuma (and Kotori)'s importance to Subaru and Kamui. These people will always be more important to them than each others. But they do have a sweet and very interesting relationship in canon, and there's a great deal of interesting things you can do with that.
To be honest, back in the days, it's one of the rare pairing war I got involved in the slightest bit, and I regret that fact. I hadn't realised at the time the kind of self righteous patronising that went with it :-(

What is your opinion on Chobits?
I read it quite a few years ago and was very much uninmpressed. To this day probably my least favourite CLAMP. I love the fetishist clothing that Freya's got and there were two minor characters whose name and roles I forgot which I was fond of. Otherwise I disliked it a great deal. It was a bit of a creepy manga.

If you've read Tsubasa, what are you expecting out Subaru and Seishirou?
Every little bits make me happy, but I would dearly hope for some sort of conclusion of the hints we were given so far (that seems unlikely at this point, but still :() At the same time, I don't really care that much. To me, the real Subaru and Seishirou, the ones I care about, are in X and Tokyo Babylon.

Why Sansa/Sandor? Hey, that doesn't mean you have to rationalize it, but if you thought of something, well...
It's a kink? Hell, I don't know, I love Sansa and I love Sandor, and I love their interraction, it's got chemistry. It's the classic Beauty & the Beast pairing, innocent girl with tough guy. It's very, very archetypal and it's been done many, many times badly, but GRRM actually knows how to do these things without being problematic, by being more realistic and more aware of the potential squickiness; so it's refreshing.
I always love that kind of pairing when it's well done, really ^_^

THOUGHTS ON TSUBASA!
I don't take Tsubasa seriously. I see it as crackful intercontinuity multicrossover clamp fanfic, ya know? And I like it because I'm a CLAMP fangirl, and I get the references and it's always nice to see the characters I loved in another manga being explored in another way. I also love Kurogane and Fye, and I love their slahsy relationship. Also I adore Yuuko. (And I love XXXHolic much more than I do TRC)
I admit I don't like Syaoran and Sakura much, or care about their own drama. Especially Syaoran, because I really adore CCS!Syaoran, but not so much in TRC; while I find that Sakura still manages to bring out some good stuff in TRC (when she's not in a coma) and I wasn't that crazy about her in CCS.
Another way I like TRC is the "So, that's how Sidereals fight using fate magic", but only Exalted players will get that ^_^ (my head, it is hurting!)

Comments

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Hm. People asks strange questions, don't they? (Because, you know, half of these aren't by me.)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

they do?

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Sometimes. Sometimes they don't.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hehe :3

[shiinabambi.livejournal.com]

I guess I see Tsubasa as something completely different, reading it without reading Tokyo Babylon or X, but I always took it seriously. I guess the cameos can be a bit weird if you already know the characters from elsewhere, but if you see them as their own people, it works.

Then again *spoiler alert* there is a relation to their other canon selves. (I'm not going to go into the details, because I'm not sure how much you've read and I'd feel like a douche spoiling the whole thing.) In some ways I could also see Tsubasa as pulling the entire CLAMP body of work together, not as a cracky crossover fic, but as an even bigger overarching story. It's really quite epic, IMO.

Also, if you haven't caught up....you should. Especially in regards to Syaoran.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm up to date with Tsubasa.
I didn't say I saw the cameo as weird. I said it was one of the thing I liked.

I don't really see what you mean by "pulling the entire clamp body of work" together though.

[shiinabambi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant that having Syaoran and Sakura as the main characters might be weird, but since you're caught up you know that Syaoran at least is an entirely different person, although Sakura might be an alternate universe version of CCS!Sakura, I don't even knowwww. That's actually pretty weird if it is like that, but it's that kind of weirdness that I like about it. So it's fucked up and borderline incestuous. Even better! 8D

I guess I mean that in theory, the canon versions of all those characters still exist in TRC!verse, even though having the group jump in on them would mess with canon something awful. (Maybe that's what's going to happen in X and Clover when they finally continue them, LOL.) It seems like it's an actual sequel to CCS and not just an AU ripoff of it, and I don't know if the other CLAMP canons are going to be there in their canon form, but they're still...out there. Somewhere.

(Okay, so I worded it badly. I still stick with "epic.")

Now I kind of want crossovers with other canons that have a multiverse. TRC/Chrestomanci/Kingdom Hearts/Sliders, anyone?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'll feel better about TRC by thinking of it as a sequel to CCS.

[cloud-wolf.livejournal.com]

Cool answers. I agree. But can you point me in the right direction for X fic? I iz interested.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You can start with leareth's fics, and Firecat's Sakura and Snow (a WIP), two of the oldest quality writers in this fandom. mithrigil is a relatively new quality writer by comparison, check her tag and the epic_is_epic comm which has a novel length fic I haven't finished reading myself. kamuikitten's fics, luminaire's fics, insaneidiot's are good for a more light hearted fare, eternal_nights for short fics, vnilla had good ones too... C and Ari's fics were good too. Oh and tanuki_dono's, sophiap's, puella_nerdii's and arisstenoh's

See also my delicious account: http://delicious.com/etrangere/tbx?page=1 (also with some redundancy)

And mines :)

Communities you wanna check: togakushishrine, seixsub, x2009, x_100, and prophecie.

That should get you started, but I can give you more if you want ;)

[cloud-wolf.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, this will keep me occupied for a long time, I think. Thank you for the thorough answer :D