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K ([personal profile] karanguni) wrote2009-02-27 01:20 pm

A few recs to pass the time

While I'm working on a) prompts, b) not getting beheaded by work and c) putting things down on my diary like "take over the world", "write your first short story or novel", "find someone to commission that painting you have in your head" and "de-entrail the neighbours" (guess which are real!), I leave a few recs lying about to compensate for my Paul Bettany-afflicted rabidity. I love inventing new words, god, "rabidity"...


Antique Bakery

I watched two episodes of the anime and was not initially impressed, but by the time I hit the main stride of the series you could not have pried me off of it with a crowbar. It's as though the animators thought, "hey, let's make the first 2 eps really yaoi-cliche-like, and then beat everyone up with the sheer awesomeness of the characterisation for the rest of the anime."

Fools and their Money by treneka - oh jesus. Tachibana's a hard enough character to understand, much less write, and trenaka has him down so perfectly that I weep and roll around in the sugary goodness of her confection. Actually, everyone is brilliant in this piece - Ono is as mild and acidic as he could ever be in canon, Chikage is heart-warming and heart-breaking, and oh, Kanda? I NOW QUOTE:

"Dolce - Doesn't that mean sweet?" Kanda asked, with a quick glare in Tachibana's direction.



Undertow by [livejournal.com profile] devikun. ALjsklfjaskljflasjflasjf lkasjf Tachibana/Ono that I CAN BELIEVE IN. There are not enough braincells left in me to make this rec any more wordy than it already is. Just. Just. Just go clicky and licky or something.



Omikuji by Tenika D. Says "manga only", but really, you can read it with just anime knowledge. Where do I even start? This is a Tachibana/Ono not lead by Ono, not dominated by Ono, and not Tachibana-warping. Tenika D underscores Tachibana's entire attitude to life in this fic, and then blows everything out of the water with the sheer amount of in-character hilarity, poignancy and austerity that she puts in. Everywhere. Like icing. On cupcakes.



Final Fantasy VII

Petronia's stuff. I request that you go read her and read her and read her and read her and then read her again. Shinra-centric!



Ouran

This fic by [livejournal.com profile] mercurial_wit. An OT-everyone, written in the most amazing, accurate and immensely un-melodramatic way you can imagine. You kind of want to read on how Kyouya'd answer the telephone or what Haruhi's make for dinner or how Tamaki's couch might look like in this universe after you finish the fic.



Yeah, um, if anyone had any illusions that I'd finally be writing? *BEAMS!*

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
There... there.. there's got to me more of her doujin work, right? RIGHT? RIGHT?? *WEEPS*

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there are four more but I don't have them. If you find them you should give them to me!

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
When I am done with work tonight, I WILL SEEK AND FIND. *weeps for Ono, and Tachibana, and god, I'm so glad they used the Ono/Tachibana line for the ending of the anime*

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I just want Tachibana to be happy, is that really so much to ask... D:

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
IT'S POSSIBLE, it's possible! At the very least he has Ono to be brilliantly more sad than him. God, he needs to have babies with someone and then shove them all into the other three boys' faces.

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
But Ono's sadness makes Chikage sad, and that is a terrible thing :(

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn these circular relationships. *fiskshake*

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
on that note, my favorite doujinshi is definitely the one with the fangirls. XDD

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHAH, YES. Oh man, Ono just standing there listening, and then all three of them staring at Chikage when they realise how on-character the girl was when she described him as failing to remove the obi. xDDDDDDDDDD

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
though I love the ono/tachibana one for its heart-rendingness even though GOD TACHIBANA JUST BE GAY ALREADY!!!! AGGH

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that all his girlfriends seem to leave him/be left by him is a helpful, potential sign!!!

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he'll get sick of it and also get over his trauma and just magically get hit with the gay stick as he's walking to the bakery!

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*gets Kanda with the gay stick too* Hooray!

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Voksy! I am not sure if this is it, but it may be? RS doesn't work for me, so YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE:

http://rapidshare.com/files/129370309/antique_bakery_doujinshi__english_.zip

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
holy terrible download speed, batman...

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Good things come to those who wait?

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm American, I demand instant gratification.

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
AB is my revenge on you for Baccano or something I guess. PS how's that prompt fic coming? :DDD

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Slowly, since my job!job is writing as well at the moment, but I'll hand him to you with hot pokers or something - there was a pretty sick poem I read that reminded me of Fermet, so... *g*

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't have it on me at the moment, but it involved the eating of hearts and the word "bitter". xD

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeessssssss
....ggh poor czes, I am sorry for enjoying your suffering so much

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee hee; though why he comes to hang out with Maiza, of all people, is anyone's guess but mine.

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Because he's just the right height (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/nallwhitewing/19cy9.jpg)... oh my, it seems I'm going to hell.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHAH I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING.

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
So should Czes, from that angle 8D

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=824e5287b816f37f91b20cc0d07ba4d29a735e74d63423a7

Sadly, not all of them - but two bits I didn't have.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-02 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
*whimpers* God, I want more translations.

[identity profile] voksen.livejournal.com 2009-03-02 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Me tooooo.