breaking (non) news

Regarding One Piece: Japanese women want to fool around with Sanji, but marry Zoro.

However, what I feel they missed asking, is how many women want to see Sanji marry Zoro...

(though that was a rather small poll, wasn't it? oh well, amusing on a grey afternoon)

*flail* Syaron! Sakura! WAIT FOR MEEEE!

Okay.

It's convoluted, trippy, confusing and self-referential like whoa - but I still get all fluttery about the end of Tsubasa: Reservoar Chronicle.

Yes, at least read the final volume of Tsubasa, CLAMP's epic mega-crossover story. Aaaaand I'm mighty confuddled

But not, oddly enough, disappointed. I mean, I can kind of see how the threads are interweaving, even if I can't follow each thread exactly (but hey! that's what re-reads are for) and I love the protagonist team in this story. *squishes Syaron, Sakura, Fai and Kuragone*

Clones, cherry blossom petals and all, that was an epic end to a very good series. It leaves a really bittersweet taste too, and I hope that when I finally get my hands on the final volumes of the companion series xxxHolic, I'll be able to keep completely from bawling

Although, alright, one thing bugs me - ( Slight spoiler )

Curse you CLAMP, and your inability to finish X!!!

Ahahaha~ So about those Leandros brothers...

Color me unsurprised that Rob Thurman used to be a fanfic author (slasher even).

What does surprise me a little - though I know her books kinda predate the show - is that she didn't belong to Supernatural fandom, but to some variant of Ghostbusters, according to fandom_wank. Yep, she ended up there

Her books didn't feel as "ficcy" as Havemercy, but there's something about the snappy voices coupled with the utter lack of depth to her badass MOFO characters that remind me about fanfics. The thing is, of course, if you're writing for a series where there already is plenty characterization, a fic that just rehashes all of that gets boring. It's like reading the whole "And they have identical blonde hair and blue-green eyes..." on the second page of every damn Twins of Sweet Valley High book ever
When you lift the characters out of their fic world and have to make them work on their own, however? Then you need some more fleshing out of likes/dislikes and other general personality traits