your nightly report, boring but present

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
Isaac Asimov
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1. So... watching late anime again. Had an excellent InuYasha episode. Trigun and Cowboy Bebop both seem to have stopped airing. This distresses me; I was hoping to see some Bebop repeats.

'Reign' is on right now. I have the volume down way low and am not watching. I passionately dislike the animation style and character design for this show. I can't get past the look of the characters enough to bother with learning the plot.

2. My Netflix DVD of Ranma 1/2 came in today. It was of one of my favorite moments from the manga-- when Ryouga learns that technique (shishi hokodan?) that relies on depression-ki. And then Ranma and he fight and get into a pissing contest about who can be more depressed... Ryouga wins that, but barely. Still, it's hard to be more pathetic than Ryouga. Probably why he's my favorite character. ^-^

3. I'm now watching the second half of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim just for the commercials. That's sad. Then again, I'm also on the comp so it's not like that's all I'm doing. Which would be really sad.

I should be sleeping. I want to read Ranma/Akane fic.

4. The picto-grams next to the reset and on/off buttons on the outside of the computer box irritate me. I generally disapprove of pictograms on principle, but I admit in things like labeling car-door window controls, they are spacially efficient. However, why is it necessary to have them on the outside of a computer? There's acres of white plastic space on which to write the three letter word 'OFF', or even, :gasp: the five letter word 'RESET'. And honestly, it's not like an illiterate person would have any use for a computer anyway. And if its some sor tof international standard business... they failed. I don't understand the visual relation between two arrows & a circle and "reset" as a word.

5. I started a Ranma 1/2 fanfic tonight. the DVd got me in the mood. It began with the idea of the girl-type Ranma kissing the boy-type Ranma on the mouth to transfer something from her essence to his, something to do with the curse.

I didn't write that scene.

I started with a scene about kissing and jealousy and the Ranma/Akane/Ryouga triangle. As soon as I figure out a plot, I'll work that other scene into it somehow.

6. I found out that the author of one of my new most favorite Hermione/Draco fanfics, Into The Dark, has a livejournal. Whee.

7. I thought of the end of Buffy and B/S several times today, and almost cried in the car when Coldplay's "The Scientist" came on, which reminded me of John/Aeryn of Farscape, and their deaths, which reminded me of Spike's death, and all these deaths of my favorite characters was almost enough to do me in.
I didn't cry, though. But I really tried, you understand.
I also thought of B/S and Spike while I was making dinner for myself. Microwave pre-made Ravioli, not that has anything to do with Spike. I got sad, then happy, then sad again.

My show's over. My ship is over. I'm now reduced to Harry Potter fanfic, and actually enjoyng it.

Five years from now I'll still be whining that Buffy's ended.

Fuck it, I only had two years with that show! I needed more!

fic for later

more stuff to read later for HP fic:

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=937161

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=704244

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=492520


Also, weird AU cowboy bebop:

http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1383017

ship thought

Ok. I understand, on a rational level, that most Draco/Hermione fics are OOC. All we've seen in cannon is that Draco is a jerk. I get that, and I'm willing to suspend my belief for the sake of romance. This is why I can enjoy D/Hermione fics, and I suppose as much of the Draco/Harry fics are dark & twisted as are fluffy. Probably more. The whole enemies attract business. It works for D/Hr, works for D/Harry, and could probably work for D/Ron. I don't get the Draco/Ginny fic though. It's too much of a stretch for me.

HELP HELP HELP!!!

I need technical help. BADLY.

For some reason, my Windows Media Player for XP is working incorrectly. The sound is all wrong... it seems like there's a layer of static/white noise that's making the sounds echo weirdly. It makes every vid I play sound horrible, and barely discernable.

Any ideas?

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On another note, I put up 3 BTVS icons.

Faye/Spike analysis, for Cowboy Bebop fanfic

"If wishes were fishes we'd all have a nice fry."
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So not long ago I was emailing Unknown Mercenary about his/her Bebop fanfic 'Fallen Searphim', which I had enjoyed reading. We chatted about the possibilities Faye/Spike versus Faye/Julia, and what works in fanfic and what doesn't.

I realized I could take a good part of my last email and put it up here as a general analysis of Faye & Spike as a possible pairing. I also make some comparisons to Spuffy pairing, how FxS is similar and different.

Who knows, might interest some of you.

( Faye+Spike analysis, spoilers for whole SERIES and very mild spoilers for FILM )

Hellsing, baby!

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
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I just watched episode 13 of Hellsing. That's the final one.

Now I need fic like a crack!willow needs magic. And if I can't find a Buffy/Hellsing crossover, I think I might just die right now.

Hellsing is... Hellsing. It's KICK ASS. It's not the best anime I've ever seen; in every category it comes close to the best but falls just short of ultimate. Still, it's v. v. cool. Mostly violent, with this small tweaking of parody that raises its head with bizarre things like a "four-poster coffin" or overly stylized art on the dark & stormy night backgrounds. In two particular episodes it had more cursing and most creative uses for the word "fuck" than I've ever heard in anime before, but it made total sense at the time and I loved the character who was spouting it. At moments it can be highly sexually suggestive, but only for a particular scene and not just for the sake of fan-service (except for Seras Victoria's bust, which is entirely fan-service).

My favorite character is definitely Integra Hellsing. I loved her backstory with Alucard... that was a cool episode.

I want to read some great Integra/Alucard fic now; there's a lot of unresolved sexual tension there to mine. But then again, I'm not sure any I/A smut would be worth reading, because one of the great things about watching them on screen is that you know that Integra will never let him have her. No matter how much UST she wouldn't let it happen, she's frankly too cool for that, and I like her character's strength too much to want to read a fic where she breaks down and becomes the stereotypical female. So I'm in a bind.

I think I'll go read anyway.

If I were going to write a BtVS/Hellsing crossover, I'd say that Alucard was not just a vampire but a great sorcerer too, which would explain all his weird shit. He could be, like, the boogieman.

And dude... did that insane Vatican character not look exactly like a psychotic Vash the Stampede on steroids?

I found a Hellsing MessageBoard: http://vampirehouse.suddenlaunch2.com/index.cgi


EDIT 1: Oh, and to think of all the possible Hihglander crossovers?! It makes me weep to know that this show will never air on Cartoon Network, even at 1 am.

EDIT 2: You know, there's a lot of layers to the ethics in this show. If I had the time, I'd write an essay comparing the morality of Vampires in Hellsing to Vampires in BuffyTVS. It'd be 20 pages.

EDIT 3: It's as I expected. There's only about 230 Hellsing fics on ff.net, and most of them suck dead rotten eggs. There is a decent one here, though.