Was I potty-trained too early...
Oct. 29th, 2007 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiOr am I just slightly OCD? If I was going Freudian, I'd think I'd be stuck in the phallic (vaginal? No, probably a misdirected phallic...) stage, if any. (Anyone who is staring at this and going "huh?" if obviously on the wrong blog, and should probably leave immediately before they read a post and get their little ears singed off.)
Okay, here's the deal. I was driving along on my way home from work, and I saw It. A manhole cover. Not just any manhole cover, either. It was a casualty of line-painting on the roadway, and had a yellow stripe running straight down the middle of it. This in and of itself isn't odd. I'm sure lots of those things end up painted in the course of things. What got to me is that the stripe was perpendicular to the line it it had been painted as part of. I kid you not. Obviously someone had pulled the cover off and then put it back on, not caring where they dropped it. The damned thing was driving me insane! It still is. I had an incredibly strong urge to go and fix it, never mind that this was late-afternoon traffic, those things are heavy, and it's just a bloody line.I mean, I'm strong, but not that strong!
And. It's. Just. A. Bloody. LINE.
I must be insane.
In other news, BanMan is flowing again. Sort of. As well as anything that takes weeks to accomplish can flow, that is. It didn't take any drastic blood-flow initiatives, thankfully. Three posts should wind down episode one, if I keep to 2/3 per post. The "Robin" arc might not have to wait that long at all. Now, to think of a name...
And because I feel like rambling, I read an awesome fic today and shall proceed to pimp it like TayYam on Vanburen. It was Frog Prince, by Vash's Girl, and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know you have GOT to read on. Well, if you don't mind spoilers, anyway.
I'm sure we all know That Couple. You know the people. One is an absolute asshole, and treats the other like dirt: no friends because Asshole is easily made jealous, no time for anything but Asshole because some people are just that self-centered, and no real attention paid to the other half of what is in theory a "relationship". And the poor Bottom... just goes along with it, thrilled to be granted whatever crumbs of affection are presented and happily tossing everything away at a single phone call. And every time Bottom finally gets up some guts to put an end to things... Asshole says "I'm sorry". And, as in the game, it's back to the beginning they go. These are the people where you're pretty sure Asshole isn't physically abusive, but only because that would entail some emotional commitment. In other words, Asshole doesn't even care enough to slap Bottom around.
In Frog Prince, Riku is a platonic (heterosexual) Asshole, and Sora is the desperately in love with him (homosexual) Bottom. Some of the way Riku pushes Sora around is Sora's fault, because he could stand up for himself. But as anyone who's been there can say, it's not that easy. What is it about Riku that he has to very nearly kill Sora in one way or another before realizing the error of his ways? After which he inevitably angsts. (See Riku. See Riku angst. Angst, Riku, angst!) The story begins when Sora finally works up the nerve to severe their friendship and actually manages to stick to it. Unfortunately, as with most such relationships, he does love Riku, and as Riku continues to make a... well, ass out of himself over this, they really start to dig down deep in their relationship. Sort of like lancing a boil, actually. In the meantime, when he's not angsting over Riku and Riku's very pointed heterosexuality (damn, is all I have to say), Sora manages to start to get his life in order. Sort of. Of course, it can't be that simple.
The pairings are Riku/Sora and Squall/Sora (yes, Sora is such an uke in this one it's amazing. I do loves my top!Sora, but he's just so adorable on bottom..!), and I'm not really sure how it'll go. It wouldn't be unusual for an author to have Riku discover deeply hidden homosexual urges. Especially not after the way he obsesses over Sora so much. On the other hand... Squall deserves some cuddling too, and I don't see anyone around to get him happily paired off with. Or just for him to lay. = / Squall's... Well, not a sweetheart, because that would be so OOC it'd be insane, but VG does a good job of giving him depth without too much dialogue, actions, facial expressions... most of the things authors take for granted, that is. And Riku really is Asshole, but he does seem to care about Sora. This is one story where I wouldn't mind seeing Sora end up with the leather-clad hunk of manmea- er, Squall. I don't see it going that way, but I've been wrong before.
Selphie, as always, is adorable. I want to squishie her all up!
Ahem. Okay, I think my rambling diatribe for the day is complete. ^^; I don't do this often, but it's therapeutic, isn't it? OH! One last thing.
What song's stuck in your head right now? (Chorus or sticky line only please.) Mine is:
Wow. That felt good too. A bit close to home, but you know what? That's what music is about. And now, I'm off to discover Wizardrock. :D Well, and bathe. But that's also what music is for.
What's this sound? I think I heard small minds and little ears burning away.
ETA: I swear I wasn't on any sort of high when I wrote this. (sweatdrop)
Okay, here's the deal. I was driving along on my way home from work, and I saw It. A manhole cover. Not just any manhole cover, either. It was a casualty of line-painting on the roadway, and had a yellow stripe running straight down the middle of it. This in and of itself isn't odd. I'm sure lots of those things end up painted in the course of things. What got to me is that the stripe was perpendicular to the line it it had been painted as part of. I kid you not. Obviously someone had pulled the cover off and then put it back on, not caring where they dropped it. The damned thing was driving me insane! It still is. I had an incredibly strong urge to go and fix it, never mind that this was late-afternoon traffic, those things are heavy, and it's just a bloody line.I mean, I'm strong, but not that strong!
And. It's. Just. A. Bloody. LINE.
I must be insane.
In other news, BanMan is flowing again. Sort of. As well as anything that takes weeks to accomplish can flow, that is. It didn't take any drastic blood-flow initiatives, thankfully. Three posts should wind down episode one, if I keep to 2/3 per post. The "Robin" arc might not have to wait that long at all. Now, to think of a name...
And because I feel like rambling, I read an awesome fic today and shall proceed to pimp it like TayYam on Vanburen. It was Frog Prince, by Vash's Girl, and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know you have GOT to read on. Well, if you don't mind spoilers, anyway.
I'm sure we all know That Couple. You know the people. One is an absolute asshole, and treats the other like dirt: no friends because Asshole is easily made jealous, no time for anything but Asshole because some people are just that self-centered, and no real attention paid to the other half of what is in theory a "relationship". And the poor Bottom... just goes along with it, thrilled to be granted whatever crumbs of affection are presented and happily tossing everything away at a single phone call. And every time Bottom finally gets up some guts to put an end to things... Asshole says "I'm sorry". And, as in the game, it's back to the beginning they go. These are the people where you're pretty sure Asshole isn't physically abusive, but only because that would entail some emotional commitment. In other words, Asshole doesn't even care enough to slap Bottom around.
In Frog Prince, Riku is a platonic (heterosexual) Asshole, and Sora is the desperately in love with him (homosexual) Bottom. Some of the way Riku pushes Sora around is Sora's fault, because he could stand up for himself. But as anyone who's been there can say, it's not that easy. What is it about Riku that he has to very nearly kill Sora in one way or another before realizing the error of his ways? After which he inevitably angsts. (See Riku. See Riku angst. Angst, Riku, angst!) The story begins when Sora finally works up the nerve to severe their friendship and actually manages to stick to it. Unfortunately, as with most such relationships, he does love Riku, and as Riku continues to make a... well, ass out of himself over this, they really start to dig down deep in their relationship. Sort of like lancing a boil, actually. In the meantime, when he's not angsting over Riku and Riku's very pointed heterosexuality (damn, is all I have to say), Sora manages to start to get his life in order. Sort of. Of course, it can't be that simple.
The pairings are Riku/Sora and Squall/Sora (yes, Sora is such an uke in this one it's amazing. I do loves my top!Sora, but he's just so adorable on bottom..!), and I'm not really sure how it'll go. It wouldn't be unusual for an author to have Riku discover deeply hidden homosexual urges. Especially not after the way he obsesses over Sora so much. On the other hand... Squall deserves some cuddling too, and I don't see anyone around to get him happily paired off with. Or just for him to lay. = / Squall's... Well, not a sweetheart, because that would be so OOC it'd be insane, but VG does a good job of giving him depth without too much dialogue, actions, facial expressions... most of the things authors take for granted, that is. And Riku really is Asshole, but he does seem to care about Sora. This is one story where I wouldn't mind seeing Sora end up with the leather-clad hunk of manmea- er, Squall. I don't see it going that way, but I've been wrong before.
Selphie, as always, is adorable. I want to squishie her all up!
Ahem. Okay, I think my rambling diatribe for the day is complete. ^^; I don't do this often, but it's therapeutic, isn't it? OH! One last thing.
What song's stuck in your head right now? (Chorus or sticky line only please.) Mine is:
Father's a name you haven't earned yet
You're just a child with a temper
Haven't you heard don't hit a lady? (Uke? XD)
Kicking your ass would be a pleasure
Wow. That felt good too. A bit close to home, but you know what? That's what music is about. And now, I'm off to discover Wizardrock. :D Well, and bathe. But that's also what music is for.
What's this sound? I think I heard small minds and little ears burning away.
ETA: I swear I wasn't on any sort of high when I wrote this. (sweatdrop)
O.o'
Date: 2007-11-01 11:08 pm (UTC)Anyway, cute thread but I wanted to talk to you about something and I have no idea how to send you a message (dumb, I know). Everytime I pull up my messages it doesn't give me the option to compose. Anyways, I was going to reply under your fic, hopefully to lure you into a state where you believed your ego was about to be stroked but I decided that would be too cruel. So anyways, this is what I wanted to tell you. Do you remember that Ishtar rocker fic we started drafting but never finished- er, started? Let's pick it up again. I'm actually sitting here at work writing poetry (which, I haven't done forever) and it got me to thinking. I'm working on a piece I'm going to call, "A State of Abstraction". C'mon, let's write it! Anything to get Yuujel into leather pants and a feather boa... a bright yellow one. =)
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Date: 2007-11-02 01:08 am (UTC)Japanese:
Nee, kanashimi wa sou, kanashimi wa
Onaji muki ja nakute
Boku rashiku sou, kimi rashiku
Tada yozora o mitsumeru
Azayaka ni moyu Ah-- Mabayui puraimu ga
Ima, hohoemikaeshita ano hi to chigau iro de...
English Translation:
Hey, sadness is, that's right, sadness is
Not in the same direction
Like myself, that's right, like yourself
We simply gaze at the night sky
The dazzling prime, Ah-- That sprouts vividly
Smiled back at me just now, in a different color from that day...
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Date: 2007-11-02 01:10 am (UTC)