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[thuviaptarth]

• By way of giandujakiss:
  
  cupidsbow has announced the Moving Words and Pictures Flashfic challenge, for people to write fic to vids that inspire them.
  
  
• By way of everybody:
  
  Name a fandom you know I know and I'll tell you:
  
  1. The first character I first fell in love with
  2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
  3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
  4. The character I love that everyone else hates
  5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
  6. The character I would shag anytime
  7. The character I'd want to be like
  8. The character I'd slap
  9. A pairing that I love
  10. A pairing that I despise
  

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

X/1999!

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

1. The first character I first fell in love with
Subaru

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
Kamui. I wanted to wring his neck for the entire first half of the series.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
Seishiro. Well, my friends don't tend to love him. But fandom is all over him.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates
Do people hate any of them? Do people hate Satsuki? I adore her.

5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
n/a

6. The character I would shag anytime
Subaru.

7. The character I'd want to be like
Karen is a little too self-sacrificing for me, but I think she is probably the most emotional mature of the lot.

8. The character I'd slap
Seishiro.

9. A pairing that I love
Subaru/Kamui. Karen/Seiichiro Aoki, but only as non-adulterous UST.

10. A pairing that I despise
I don't think I despise any of them, except when people insist on giving Subaru/Seishiro a happy ending.

[oyceter]

Kamui. I wanted to wring his neck for the entire first half of the series.

As did we all!

I don't quite see the appeal of Seishiro either. I like the angsty love of sakura DOOM, but um.... insane murderer!

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I think it is part of the "He's an asshole (or insane vicious serial killer, whatever) to everyone but ME, because love tames him!" trope, which doesn't appeal to me much in general, and particularly not when the assholitude/serial killing isn't noticeably scaled down even by love.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Kamui. I wanted to wring his neck for the entire first half of the series.
Does anyone not want to wring his neck for the entire first half the series?

I have been reading the manga now that my library has it, and am tempted to rewatch the anime. I think it might improve the second time around, especially given my new fondness for CLAMP. (Also, I'd probably just skip the first 8 or 9 episodes.)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I think number nine is the gorgeous Subaru episode.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought it was ten. I would definitely watch that one.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

The anime does a much better job introducing the characters, although not as good a job developing them.

I really love the anime Subaru introduction.