karanguni | AND THEY SAID, HAVE WE DONE WITH THE WAR AT LAST?

Twenty days gone and I haven't touched this journal - why? I'LL TELL YOU WHY.

GUNDAM WING. JAsklfasfj. Nignghghhh. I put off picking up this series for so long, and now that I have eaten it whole in the last two weeks, my head has exploded and I want to sacrifice my first-born children to Okiayu Ryutarou and Koyasu Takehito. TREIZE AND ZECHS. Oh god. Can you say happy mindfuck evil best friends fighting wars WARS big machines BANG BANG BANG. I... I need to go get a calculator now. What's five multiplied by six multiplied by thirteen? That number is going to be my One True Integer now, or something. It's so beautiful that I am incapable of writing complete and coherent paragraphs. Oh, oh, Gundamn Wing. I may be ten years too late and then some, but at least I have caught the late train in. \o/

In other words, life actually has re-started. And not in the gawking-at-Okada-in-SP kind of way. Back to school and I haven't touched anything even vaugely fannish outside of GW; I'm doing research papers - general research papers - on polytheism and monotheism that will have my self-completing a, uh, uh, uh, comparative religion course vis-a-vis haunting my local library by the time I'm done. OR SOMETHING. \o/ At least I get to blabber on about an author I love for my literature paper. OH JOY, and fuzzy redlining.

Braaaaaains. So many things to write, so little time. WHERE IS THE PRESSURE. Also, can anyone recommend any good music?

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Oh my god, Gundam Wing! :D I love it!! Except I got into it through fanfic first, it was my first major fic-reading fandom. So I did eventually watch some episodes and stuff like that, maybe also Endless Waltz, I can't remember. . . but I still get confused on the plot. XD I looooooove Gundam Wing, though. I was always a big Duo fan. I'm big into 5x2. Although 13x5 is classic. XD Ahhhh, it's awesome. So much fun being a fan of Gundam Wing. Actually, two of my LJ friends that I don't really talk to anymore used to run Counting For Lunatics, I fantastic but now defunct Gundam Wing site. You can sort of see it via web archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20020611071830/http://dreamwater.org/deathscythe/), and I highly recommend it, because even without most of the images, it's HILARIOUS.

YAY STUDYING RELIGION!! ::is a religion major::

W-what sort of music? This is totally random, but everything Wilson Pickett did is awesome, and everything Sly and the Family Stone did is awesome. I definitely recommend checking out at least the sort of "best of" albums of those two.

ASFHASLKFJLK GOOD A FANDOM PERSON WHO'S BEEN IN THIS GIANT AMAZING WORLD MORE THAN A FEW DAYS *FLIES AT YOU* EEEEEEEE YOU ARE MY FANDOM SOUL MATE, I KNOW IT. akljfsklajfasl I have watched the episodes in Japanese, now I am going to rewatch it all in ENGLISH so I get the plot better (even though it seems to work out in my head, the DETAILS SLIP, and HOW CAN I WRITE FIC WITHOUT THOSE DETAILS OMG). Asjflaksjflaj. Ajslkfjlasjf. AJklfjaklsfjksljfklasjflka. I I I I want to write 5x13x6. Because I am some sort of insane Zechs fan now. I need to get Endless Waltz. Dear godasfjlkasfj. And Wufei. Wufei. Wufei can have my children. I WILL VISIT THAT SITE PRESENTLY.

RELIGIONNN. I'm not a big religious-y person myself, so there's a huge joke there. xD BUT GOD YEY MY TUTOR LIKES MY PROPOSAL, SO ONWARDS INTO THE GENERAL STUDIES SECTION I GO. HEAVE HO.

D: D: D: I AM SAD OF NOT HAVING HEARD OF THESE NAMES BEFORE. I shall investigate immediately! <333333

XD It's so much fun to hear about this stuff again!! I actually recently had a little GW boom and went back and read some fic and stuff. I definitely still know all the characters, and the basic plot (colonies, OZ, gundams), but yeah, the details escape me. I also have chronology confusion! Seriously, it's a confusing show.

But you can totally write fic without the details!! XD I read so many fics where they were all staying in a safehouse together, and then when I watched the show i think they do that, like, once? Or something. But I'd been under the impression that every episode was the five boys together in a safehouse.

WUFEI!! One of the only Japanese words I knew before getting into JE was "onna," thanks to Wufei. My sister and I still shout it at each other occasionally. Also "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT, YOU WEAKINGS!!" And stuff about people being weak because they are women.

I can definitely appreciate a good fic about Zechs and his yards of platinum blond hair, but I was never that into him - and I realize now it's because I was actually 15 when I became a fan. XD So I was all crushing on the boys and not the men!

XD I'm totally not religious either! I've just dedicated four years of my life to studying it! I find it really interesting, though.

They aren't well known, but once you listen to their songs you'll probably recognize a few. Especially Wilson Pickett. Although it may be an American thing, I have a hard time gauging what's a "standard" in other countries, but I think some of his songs definitely will have spread pretty far.

CHRONOLOGY YES. Cramming so much GW into so little time has compressed all the timesplacespeople in my head. xDD Must go and rewatch! REWATCH FAITHFULLY.

From what I've read, fandom seems to really like this safehouse idea! I guess 'cause it's been around a long time, huh? 8D

WUFEI. OH THE BEAUTIFUL, ANGRY, OPPRESSED BOY. I WEEP TEARS OF GLEE AT/FOR HIM.

Ooh, ooh, did you watch the show in English audio or the original Japanese? I went back and watched an ep or two in English, and ajslfaslkjflkasjflkasjf damn it, Zechs' character gets ruined by virtue of the voice actor alone. Koyasu Takehito is - is -- amazingly good at the depth and tone thing, but the English VA (can't remember his name now, Brian something?) took Zechs' character and rippity rip stab stab. ;_;

\o/ RELIGIONS FOR THE WIN. So much fun to study the stuff. (The books and books and photocopying-bills-from-hell worth of stuff. D:)

Mmmmmm, musiccc. Standard outside of America? Well, this here little island tends to broadcast more or less total mainstream pop/R&B/hip hop on the livelier airwaves; but the people themselves can end up listening to a lot of indie stuff, thanks to ye godly interwebs. :D

Ahh, I watched it mainly in English. I definitely remember hearing stuff about how much more attractive his Japanese voice is. But! Remember, I read fanfic and stuff like that before I watched the show, so a lot of my introduction to characters was from looking at pictures and websites and stuff. I was just too young for Zechs.

P.S. Quatre was never my favorite, but OH MY GOD HIS HORDE OF ARABIAN SERVANTS!! Rashid is one of my favorite characters. XD They're hilarious!

Ahhh, I wasn't clear. DX Wilson Pickett's songs are standards in that they're classic - they aren't stuff that gets a lot of radio play, but rather what a DJ might play at a wedding to get people dancing because everyone knows it. He was most popular in the 60s. I have to get to class now, but I'll upload some of his songs later! :D

8D ZECHS IS OLD. Hehehehehe. I don't know why there's more love for him in fandom, really. Makes me think about strange academic things like the movement of fandom and its aging process and and and *shuts up* But, dude. I get the feeling that if GW was remade or reaired now, the character emphasis and fic that'd emerge would have a somewhat different focus. WOW GEEKERY.

YES HAHAHA OMG THEY RISE FROM THE SANDPITS AND WORSHIP HIS TINY LITTLE SHAPE.

:OOOOOO MUSIC! I should do a post soon, and stop withering around. xD

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