[Yami no Matsuei] Hisoka/Tsuzuki drabble for Nestra

[thuviaptarth]

and the rain    the rain quiet as a heartbeat    mist closes its hand on him    he curls up safe as a bird or a baby or a stone    safe as a worm in the heart of a white, white rose    petals shiver and shudder and crisp    blackening from invisible flame    he can hear the roses screaming    (they sound like children)    he could always hear them screaming    (I didn't I didn't I don't want to)    rain blurs the world clammy-cold

      the warmth is gone before he realizes someone is touching his face

the world clears

      idiot, hisoka says. i'm right here.

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I am full of complaints. (idiot.)

You know, as adorable and Mary Sue-ish and woobie-ish as Tsuzuki is, I think I might love Hisoka just as much, that dry, sarcastic part of him that covers up so much.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I wanted to write you something sweeter, but I was just not in the right mood.

Hisoka is my favorite, which means sometimes I forget how much I adore Tsuzuki.

For a while, Saiyuki, Gravitation and YnM had me convinced "idiot" was a common term of affection in anime.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

safe as a bird or a baby or a stone

I really like your writing style.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

(That was super-restrained cause I did not want to go all fangrrl squee and embarrass myself and everyone else. But really, nearly every time I read one of your drabbles or stories I'm knocked out.)

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

*preens*

I was going to say that hearing on this was particularly welcome because I wasn't sure it escaped the genre of embarrassing high school lit magazine prose poems, but, really, there's always something I'm worried about, so comments are always welcome.

Well, confirmation of the high school lit magazine thing wouldn't be exactly *welcome*, but I'd rather know and be saved the embarrassment next time around.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I thought it was lovely. And the emotional weight, and reassurance, and loadedness of the last half-dozen words is quite something, especially when put against the lyrical pain of safe as a worm in the heart of a white, white rose.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

:) The white rose is a canon reference, but I'm glad it works without context.

*cough* I don't want to be the person who never stops pestering people to try things they're just not interested in, but--you can Netflix Descendants of Darkness. Or at least the first three discs. (It's a 4-disc series and they were missing the last when I checked.)

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

The white rose is a canon reference, but I'm glad it works without context.

Well, duh! and it worked fine -- white as emblem of purity, and it made me think of Blake's "Rose, thou art sick," too.

you can Netflix Descendants of Darkness. Or at least the first three discs. (It's a 4-disc series and they were missing the last when I checked.)

Oooooooooooh. Yet another reason to try Netflix -- I think we might just cancel the cable altogether and spend the money on Netflix instead (a lot cheaper, too). -- Please don't hesitate to recommend stuff -- even if it's something I've never heard of, I like hearing you write about new things and I'm pretty much game to try anything once, or even a couple times (it took at least 2-3 tries for me to get really into AtS, after all).

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I must have gotten confused; I thought you'd posted on Netflixing something recently, which is why I mentioned it. They do have Disc 4 now, which is good, since it's the best one (but partly because of the way the others lead up to it).

I think you'd like this one, once you got over some of the silliness of the genre conventions, and especially once it gets going; like a lot of manga and anime, it starts out silly and gets darker deeper in.

I am ridiculously attached to the central couple in this one.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I think you'd like this one, once you got over some of the silliness of the genre conventions, and especially once it gets going; like a lot of manga and anime, it starts out silly and gets darker deeper in.

Hee, well, you've certainly hit my kinks on everything you've recommended in this genre so far.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

it

is

ynm meets e e cummings

i can hear
my heart breaking

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

But it's happy!

Well, it has a happy ending. And nobody dies.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I would quasi-classify this as a poem, except after the Narrative Writing class kerfluffle on the boundary between prose poem and poem and prose I don't even want to go there.

This is lovely; the rhythm, the delicate use of repetition...and I don't have the faintest idea of the source.

*waits patiently to see more drabbles of mysterious fandoms* :-)

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

It's not poetry because I don't know how to write poetry.

Thank you!

You don't have Netflix, do you? I shall ponder how to get you episodes. Don't buy the manga, it's a mess. It's worth checking out for the obsessed because it has extra backstory and some storylines that weren't animated, but the anime is much better.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

It's not poetry because I don't know how to write poetry.
You could have fooled me. :-)

Alas, I am indeed not Netflix-enabled. I hope to change that at some point in the future, but it may not be soon.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I have a really hard time hearing poetic meter. Unsurprisingly, I suck at determining musical beats, too.

Unrelated to that, this Angelfic (http://melymbrosia.gatefiction.com/buffy/remembering-amnesia.html) should be spoiler-safe for you. A little self-indulgent, but I still like some of the imagery.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I don't care if it's self-indulgent. *adoration* *veneration* Oh my. *weeps for Wesley*

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid to exhale and lose this feeling, see the words blow away. Wow.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

I like this a lot. Dreamy, and a well-placed Hisoka. =)

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh. Wow. That is absolutely lovely.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[soragamieru.livejournal.com]

safe as a worm

Mm, I ended up rereading this seven times just to bask in it. I don't suppose the rain outside my window hurt...

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

Yesterday, it was pretty sunny out where I am. But I was in a rainy mood.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Sweet.

[untrue-accounts.livejournal.com]

Thanks!