Once a Stranger

Man trying to gather up some old Seishirou/Subarub & other TB/X fanfics rec for runespoor7 is so depressing. So many sites and journals have been taken down. Even the stuff I rounded up on delicious (which is typically stuff from 2007 only) has half of it MIA. :(

I hate it when people delete their own fanfics. I really, really do.

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!)

Icons I made lately (and not so lately)

Avatar x4
BSG x16
CLAMP x18
ASOIAF x5
Miscellaneous x6
Gifts x11


( goodies! )

if you want comment & credit. Concrit always welcome.

So... errr I made a Seishirou/Subaru FST. (on megaupload, also available on sendspace).

I'm not sure why I did because I'm not very good with music knowledge, and it makes me even more embarrassed to post than I ever was at a fic, but hey! now that I've gone through all that trouble, I better post it.

Anyway, it's the first time I posted something through megaupload so tell me if something doesn't work right.

I think i did some very stupid messing out with my last entry. Should teach me to try for friend locked entry. Obviously exibitionnism is the way to go for me *snickers* well agent420 could you check it ? I'm not sure if you got my answer to your comment there because of that mess.

Shortish fic posted at togakushishrine in answer to Link's challenge. It's only a small version of what I wanted to write, but s'okay, I'll write SeishirouxTorhu another day >_>

Anyway, following a discussion with Lin, I have named my Muse :

Linoleum Rose: You should write "comedish" fics more often, then. X3
DameEtrangere: I'm tributary to my Muse, i follow where she goes :p
Linoleum Rose: XD Ah, I understand.
DameEtrangere: and usually my Muse is angsty
Linoleum Rose: XDD Who's your Muse?
DameEtrangere: dunno, never gave it a name
Linoleum Rose: Mmmhm, I see.
DameEtrangere: those times it's Seishirou and Subaru
DameEtrangere: maybe i should call her Seisu
Linoleum Rose: XD Yesh!
Linoleum Rose: Seisu!

So Seisu it is. I hope knowing her name will help when doing summoning incantations...

On other topic I have now very pretty Dornish earrings. They giggle like joy under the sun when i walk. I want to get pretty multi-coloured skirts to go with them. With them on I'll go and try to seduce the Red Viper. And his girlfriend. I love Dornish culture. And it's all thanks to generalblossom because she's such a darling !

( Hugo Awards )

And one more for Bujold. That's what, her sixth ? *is amused* Well, Paladins of Souls isn't her worst novel, and was very interesting on some aspect (original female character for one) and compared with Harry Potter, my, it's a very worthy books :p (could never forgive Harry Potter for snatching GRRM's well deserved Hugo award for A storm of sword which JK Rowling never even went to recieve)

And a happy (belated) birthday to arethusa2

Only two exams left tomorrow.

Crackful RP threads between Seishirou, Syaoran, Sakura and Kero-chan at Clamp 1999

found from hiragizawa

( 100 questions for X )

People post about Seishirou at togakushishrine ! Now !

EDIT : ( that FMA quizz )

*yawns* I'm really starting to be very bad at updating my LJ.
Yesterday I was at a friend's birthday. It was very nice hearing news of hear when she invited me to it, as it's been a long time I hadn't seen her, and i really like her. She goes back to my Buffy fandom days, and she's really a sweet girl. I made a chocolate cake and went to the party. We weren't many people, but it was okay.
I must lend her Tokyo Babylon, as she's a fan of X TV ^_^

I'm still 99% to downloading totally Matantai Loki Ragnarock 17-20 *sighs* It's been three days !

On good news side, I finally got to borrow the Noir animes to someone ! Much happiness, it's been a long time I wanted to get them. Also got the Combination mangas from Isabelle. ^_^

I had that strange reaction of jealousy when finding out about newest X community creation x_100 : that "hey, WE're doing the fanfic challenges thing already !" O_o wow... loose it Ete, shineko's right in saying it's a very different kind of concept. No reason to get all competitive ! ^_^ It's funny, it's been so long I hadn't had that kind of strong rivalry reflexe. Makes me all nostalgic of my childhood days with my sister... if you see what I mean ;)
I'm usually not a very jealous person. Envious, yes, but seldom jealous. (jealous is more about possessivity, wanting to keep what's yours from anyone else's hands. Envy is about wanting and desiring what is others').

Oh... and posted a small snippet at togakushishrine for the previous switching sides challenge. And the lattest challenge we made with tamchronin has been very succesful already, yay ! (say 100 words only and everyone goes out of the woods ^_^)

From this post by thamiris, applying to X :

( pairings )

*coughs*

X fandom is being a little bit wanky. Check rabid_sxkers to know what i mean.

Amid all the chaos and mayhem, tamchronin just created a new X community, because I was whining to her about the lack of warm, welcoming, active X fanfic community like tsukimineshrineis for the CCS fandom. So if you're interested in a community where we will discuss the mangas and animes in a friendly atmosphere, where the mods will organize character analysis, fanfic challenge on a regular basis, and fic recs... go to togakushishrine.
We're aware there's quite a few X communities already. But, being new to the fandom, i find them rather hard to get into. There's a feeling of weariness at the manga, I guess, oldies think everything has been done, and every comments have been made already. So it degenarates in ship wars, character bashing, and blaming Clamp for not having put any new stuff in a while.
Well, i'm new to it, so I have plenty of new things to say, I hope i'm not the only one who still finds a lot of fasinating things into X and wants to talk about. I hope this place can be it. Join it if you're interested.

PS : made a new icon here because I mpve twisted, depressing pairings, damnit ! Love's not only hugs and puppies.

and another wallpaper. I blame the person who asked us for songs that reminded us of Seishirou x Subaru on the seixsub LJ.

I'm starting to make even more X/TB icons than I can use. What can I say, I'm bored...
And now, after Calderon and Issa, I'm quoting the Poetic Edda. I'm really a geek ^_^





I do blame it on my fascination and identification with the twelveth card of the tarot. I do.
It's usually the card I associate with freedom, which is paradoxical, because it's the card of freedom from within, by opposition with the fifteenth card, which is outer freedom (ability to do whatever you want and no give a damn of consequences) but slavery to your own pulsion. The Hanged Man is the sacrified god, it's a very strange arcane... it's the card of the medium, the intermediary, caught between heavens and earth, it's the card of reversal, paradoxes. How can you be trapped and yet free, bound and yet powerful, helpless and yet serene ? It's something about the inner dignity of man. About that fundamental part of yourself that noone can touch unless you let them. And at the same time, it's a card of sacrifice, selflessness, abnegation... but it's not so much about giving in to others as it is about giving to yourself. Myself to myself, that's the key. A perfect balance of self, neither passivity nor action, neither acceptance nor refusal, something between, freedom as a state of being by giving all of yourself, accepting all of yourself. And then what binds the hanged man isn't a chain anymore, because ties bind both way, and it is being linked to the Axis Mundi, therefore to the whole world. And there's power here, power rooted in what binds people together.

More Photoshop fun. I'm not entirely happy with this one's composition but this is the best I can do.