Quick Update with a few bits of deadfic
Feb. 11th, 2009 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm finally starting to feel better, physically. Yay, me!
The downside of feeling better? I was doing beta work while sick. Now, when I beta it means I make private LJ entries to check how the fic looks and to read it over and sometimesI make corrections here, sometimes in the original file. When I'm sick, apparently I just copy/paste randomly from one to the other as I correct and leave myself with a huge mess to untangle. \o/ \o/ \o/
So for today, I will be untangling and then submitting.
WHICH REMINDS ME!
You still have one more day to write and submit for both ohmiya is my valentineღ AND this year i'm giving ❤FIVESOME CHOCOLATES❤ to all my friends.
It only has to be 500 words and it doesn't have to be porn! Heck, for fivesomeaday I don't think it even has to be gay (not any gayer than Arashi normally is, I mean) it can probably just be friendship antics and boy-cuddles. And I bring this up because 1: There are prizes, 2: It's not mod-judged, it's voter judged so you can't say 'only their friends will win' (they would shank their lj friends in their sleep if they could get to most of them) and 3: I am sick of reading my own stuff--please give me something better to read. Even if you don't think you can win, you can still enter (see point three) and you might surprise yourself. Seriously--most people are not good judges when it comes to their own writing.
I...guess it's hate meme time again? I don't understand hate memes.
I'm in a boy-band fandom, for pity's sake. I like the music. I got into it because of the music (I stayed for the retarded antics and the cheerful gay!). The music is upbeat and makes me feel good. The band I follow (the most, anyway) is made up of people whose on-screen personalities I enjoy (and feel are not that drastically different from who they really are--them, just exaggerated). Watching them, buying their cds, talking to other people about the dumb stuff they do, makes me happy. I just don't understand why somebody would want to ruin the fandom and the band for themselves by focusing on stuff they don't like. Locked lj ranting and occasional bouts of public bitchery are one thing but...hate meme?
I am not one of the fandom cool kids.
ETA: After talking to my twin--I don't really get love meme's, either. It's not going to fix or change anything.
BUT! I do think that if you're going to post in either you should have a great sock puppet account name like
pi_in_my_pants. It's funny on a all my twelve-year-old levels.
(Ps. You can friend me, defriend me, and ask me to defriend you; I won't ever get mad. I don't friend back a lot because I have issues. But if you talk to me enough, and pop up in discussions I'm following, who knows what could happen! You could end up stuck with a total flake that you have to defriend!)
Enough of that! Have some snippet-y bits that I couldn't turn into fic!
Chocolate Making Fivesome That Just Didn't Make It
"Oh-chan and I will work shirtless," Nino volunteered.
"No," said Sho immediately. "You two would give each other chocolate nipples just to be gross."
"Nino-chan and I will do it, then," Aiba said enthusiastically, whipping his apron off over his head.
"NO," said Sho. "You two would give each other chocolate nipples just to be traumatic."
"Romantic?" asked Ohno.
Jun hit him.
...and the Ohmiya thing where I forgot entirely about Valentine's Day.
Strange Love
Ohno knew that he and Nino were strange. Not so much that he and Nino were strange, but that the two of them together were somehow…not normal.
"What are you thinking about, Oh-chan?" Nino asked.
"Hm?" Ohno kissed Nino's temple and then, because Nino's hair was always so soft when it wasn't full of hairspray and gel, brought his fingers up and carded through the ink-dark strands. "We're weird," he said.
Nino snorted, not looking up from his game. "Did you just figure that out?" he asked pleasantly.
"No," Ohno said and he propped his chin on Nino's shoulder so that he had a better view of Nino's pixilated character running around with a big sword. They weren't so much sitting on Nino's couch as they were tangled up together on it. Ohno was propped in the corner with Nino lying heavy in his arms, his back to Ohno's chest. Ohno was pretty sure that he and Nino had started the day with their legs stretched out along the cushions but as the sunlight had tracked around the room they'd drawn in together, their ankles crossing over each other's, knees bumping together. Against his heels, Ohno could feel where the curve of Nino's butt met the sofa surface. He tightened the arm still wrapped around Nino's waist. "I was just thinking about that time when you were fifteen and we snuck out of the dorms to go kissing in the dance studio."
"Plenty of horny fifteen-year-olds sneak out to go kissing in weird places," Nino said matter-of-factly. "And I was sixteen, anyhow."
Ohno quit playing with Nino's hair to poke at the touch screen. "It was May, you were fifteen."
Nino's character followed Ohno's finger off a cliff. Nino hit the back of his hand with the stylus. "My birthday was only a few weeks away, so it's more like I was sixteen. Anyway," Nino restarted his game, "how does that make us weird? Not that we aren't, I mean."
"Well, we'd only just met two hours before that."
"An hour and a half and we'd known each other for longer than that," Nino disagreed.
"Met properly," Ohno corrected. "With names and talking to each other. And then an hour and a half later we were necking in the studio."
"Necking," Nino repeated. "Who the hell says that anymore? It's called 'making out', Oh-chan."
"It was necking." Ohno had meant to sound firm but just the words brought back the memory in full force. The way the dusty sunlight had filtered through the windows, the way Nino had caught his breath as Ohno had kissed the pulse fluttering just under his ear, the scent and sound of the two of them, teenagers, kissing boys for the first time. He skimmed his lips over Nino's jaw, nuzzling at his neck as his head tipped to the side to give him better access. "I like your neck."
Nino sighed and Ohno heard the DS drop just before Nino's hands came back and up and buried themselves in Ohno's hair. "Well, one of us should," he said distractedly.
PS. Re: Arashi's new song 'Season'. I played it for the kids and Ed. Right around sixteen seconds in to it Ed looks at me. About ten seconds after that he asks me if Arashi is trying to rickroll us.
I really love my husband some days. And later he asked if we could re-watch episode one of Uta no Oniisan because he wanted to see Ohno run around screaming again. I lucked out, people.
The downside of feeling better? I was doing beta work while sick. Now, when I beta it means I make private LJ entries to check how the fic looks and to read it over and sometimesI make corrections here, sometimes in the original file. When I'm sick, apparently I just copy/paste randomly from one to the other as I correct and leave myself with a huge mess to untangle. \o/ \o/ \o/
So for today, I will be untangling and then submitting.
WHICH REMINDS ME!
You still have one more day to write and submit for both ohmiya is my valentineღ AND this year i'm giving ❤FIVESOME CHOCOLATES❤ to all my friends.
It only has to be 500 words and it doesn't have to be porn! Heck, for fivesomeaday I don't think it even has to be gay (not any gayer than Arashi normally is, I mean) it can probably just be friendship antics and boy-cuddles. And I bring this up because 1: There are prizes, 2: It's not mod-judged, it's voter judged so you can't say 'only their friends will win' (they would shank their lj friends in their sleep if they could get to most of them) and 3: I am sick of reading my own stuff--please give me something better to read. Even if you don't think you can win, you can still enter (see point three) and you might surprise yourself. Seriously--most people are not good judges when it comes to their own writing.
I...guess it's hate meme time again? I don't understand hate memes.
I'm in a boy-band fandom, for pity's sake. I like the music. I got into it because of the music (I stayed for the retarded antics and the cheerful gay!). The music is upbeat and makes me feel good. The band I follow (the most, anyway) is made up of people whose on-screen personalities I enjoy (and feel are not that drastically different from who they really are--them, just exaggerated). Watching them, buying their cds, talking to other people about the dumb stuff they do, makes me happy. I just don't understand why somebody would want to ruin the fandom and the band for themselves by focusing on stuff they don't like. Locked lj ranting and occasional bouts of public bitchery are one thing but...hate meme?
I am not one of the fandom cool kids.
ETA: After talking to my twin--I don't really get love meme's, either. It's not going to fix or change anything.
BUT! I do think that if you're going to post in either you should have a great sock puppet account name like
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
(Ps. You can friend me, defriend me, and ask me to defriend you; I won't ever get mad. I don't friend back a lot because I have issues. But if you talk to me enough, and pop up in discussions I'm following, who knows what could happen! You could end up stuck with a total flake that you have to defriend!)
Enough of that! Have some snippet-y bits that I couldn't turn into fic!
Chocolate Making Fivesome That Just Didn't Make It
"Oh-chan and I will work shirtless," Nino volunteered.
"No," said Sho immediately. "You two would give each other chocolate nipples just to be gross."
"Nino-chan and I will do it, then," Aiba said enthusiastically, whipping his apron off over his head.
"NO," said Sho. "You two would give each other chocolate nipples just to be traumatic."
"Romantic?" asked Ohno.
Jun hit him.
...and the Ohmiya thing where I forgot entirely about Valentine's Day.
Strange Love
Ohno knew that he and Nino were strange. Not so much that he and Nino were strange, but that the two of them together were somehow…not normal.
"What are you thinking about, Oh-chan?" Nino asked.
"Hm?" Ohno kissed Nino's temple and then, because Nino's hair was always so soft when it wasn't full of hairspray and gel, brought his fingers up and carded through the ink-dark strands. "We're weird," he said.
Nino snorted, not looking up from his game. "Did you just figure that out?" he asked pleasantly.
"No," Ohno said and he propped his chin on Nino's shoulder so that he had a better view of Nino's pixilated character running around with a big sword. They weren't so much sitting on Nino's couch as they were tangled up together on it. Ohno was propped in the corner with Nino lying heavy in his arms, his back to Ohno's chest. Ohno was pretty sure that he and Nino had started the day with their legs stretched out along the cushions but as the sunlight had tracked around the room they'd drawn in together, their ankles crossing over each other's, knees bumping together. Against his heels, Ohno could feel where the curve of Nino's butt met the sofa surface. He tightened the arm still wrapped around Nino's waist. "I was just thinking about that time when you were fifteen and we snuck out of the dorms to go kissing in the dance studio."
"Plenty of horny fifteen-year-olds sneak out to go kissing in weird places," Nino said matter-of-factly. "And I was sixteen, anyhow."
Ohno quit playing with Nino's hair to poke at the touch screen. "It was May, you were fifteen."
Nino's character followed Ohno's finger off a cliff. Nino hit the back of his hand with the stylus. "My birthday was only a few weeks away, so it's more like I was sixteen. Anyway," Nino restarted his game, "how does that make us weird? Not that we aren't, I mean."
"Well, we'd only just met two hours before that."
"An hour and a half and we'd known each other for longer than that," Nino disagreed.
"Met properly," Ohno corrected. "With names and talking to each other. And then an hour and a half later we were necking in the studio."
"Necking," Nino repeated. "Who the hell says that anymore? It's called 'making out', Oh-chan."
"It was necking." Ohno had meant to sound firm but just the words brought back the memory in full force. The way the dusty sunlight had filtered through the windows, the way Nino had caught his breath as Ohno had kissed the pulse fluttering just under his ear, the scent and sound of the two of them, teenagers, kissing boys for the first time. He skimmed his lips over Nino's jaw, nuzzling at his neck as his head tipped to the side to give him better access. "I like your neck."
Nino sighed and Ohno heard the DS drop just before Nino's hands came back and up and buried themselves in Ohno's hair. "Well, one of us should," he said distractedly.
PS. Re: Arashi's new song 'Season'. I played it for the kids and Ed. Right around sixteen seconds in to it Ed looks at me. About ten seconds after that he asks me if Arashi is trying to rickroll us.
I really love my husband some days. And later he asked if we could re-watch episode one of Uta no Oniisan because he wanted to see Ohno run around screaming again. I lucked out, people.
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Date: 2009-02-11 03:33 pm (UTC)And I totally agree with you on the hate meme thing, we don't need the hate, just the love, right?
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:07 pm (UTC)I'm not actually a huge fandom joiner so I don't even need the love--I just need Arashi to keep rocking their nerd sweaters and being stupidly squishy for each other. I am a simple woman with simple needs.
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Date: 2009-02-11 03:36 pm (UTC)Also your stories were lovely. :)
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Date: 2009-02-11 04:13 pm (UTC)(Also: Plz to be expecting a pm or something from me tonight or tommorrow. You'd have it now except I'm a c/p retard.)
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Date: 2009-02-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(Oh seriously? I'll be on the lookout! :D)
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Date: 2009-02-11 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-12 03:36 am (UTC)(KAT-TUN. XD. I LOVE YOU FOREVER.)
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Date: 2009-02-12 05:22 am (UTC)(I feel bad for always poking fun at KAT-TUN but they make it SO. EASY. I am a horrible, horrible person, yes I am. *stoned*)
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-11 06:26 pm (UTC)I don't mind hate memes? I think sometimes, people need to just say what they've bottled up anonymously and move on, but the personal attacks are just retarded. The whole thing is retarded, I guess. XD
I love those drabble! You could have totally ended the last drabble with a cheesy ending paragraph, 'and that was how ohmiya spent valetine's day by making out on a sofa'.
Your husband!! XD
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:38 am (UTC)See, I get the need to vent and I understand the need to bitch but I don't get the personal attacks. I don't get the desire to gather them in one place because it just makes it all sort of...worse. I love things like fandom wank, things that focus on specific incidents of idiocy, though. Everybody is a moron sometime--I just think it all goes better if everybody's got a name.
...they didn't spend it making out on the sofa. They spent it having sex on the floor next to it.
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Date: 2009-02-12 05:11 am (UTC)Yeah, the name dropping is plain mean. :/ Fandom can be an ass.
A++ would rent the movie.
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:42 pm (UTC)Nino's fandom is Ohno's ass.
It's going to be a world-wide theatrical release. I'm going to see it twice.
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Date: 2009-02-12 04:27 pm (UTC)I'd like to join Ohno's ass fandom. Do is it require an annual fee of minivans??
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Date: 2009-02-15 01:47 pm (UTC)I paid my membership fees in bread and bread-based products. You have to sign a contract that says you will never touch his ass without direct permission from Nino, though.
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Date: 2009-02-11 06:58 pm (UTC)I don't really get hate-memes either. :/ I mean, I can understand why people would want to let off steam and that's not unhealthy, but the problem with a hate meme is (apart from the people who go there just so that they can hate a bit, because apparently they consider it to be fun, which is just weird) that people might go there to let off steam about one issue, but then, because everything is in the open, they'll see other issues there and people hating on other people, and then they get even angrier or more depressed, which I'd say is completely counter-intuitive to the original idea of getting rid of your anger...
Most rational people in fandom don't seem to understand hate-memes either, though, so both of us seem to be in pretty good company. ^^"
(Also, hello! I occasionally lurk around your journal because I like reading your entries! ^___^ We've talked to each other before, though, so I hope my comment doesn't come out of the blue completely. ^^")
And I'm so, so excited about Ohmiya-a-day and the fivesome challenge! *___*
Sadly I don't think I'll be participating in the fivesome challenge, because the fic I'd originally started for that is being a bitch and refusing to be finished in time for the challenge (I currently have about seven scenes planned in detail, of which about six are at least 1,000 words long, and I haven't even started on the porn yet which, if it gets anything near as bad as my first orgy fic, might end up around 10,000 words again), but I'll definitely do Ohmiya-a-day, just for the fun of writing it. ^-^
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:58 am (UTC)Hate meme: YES. THIS. EXACTLY. Thank you for having the brain I wish I had.
(I know! I wrote Chinen and Miyagawa because you were awesome enough to put the idea into my head. My brain broke a little but it was worth it! Plus, you hang out at Becky's and spam her so that I can jump in and talk at you! I find you to be somewhat of the awesome.)
\o/ Fic! Fic, fic, fic! \o/ I am so happy! Fic!
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Date: 2009-02-12 11:14 pm (UTC)*dying* YES, PLEASE! *______________*
T-though now that I'm imagining it, for some very strange reason the thing that pops into my head immediately is the "Dr. Frank N. Furter creates Rocky" scene from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is ...bizarre, to say the least. (Especially since I'm imagining Jun as Frank N. Furter, complete with surgical scrubs and pink rubber gloves... ^^")
Also, I had to look up magic-shell chocolate, because I didn't know it - and now I really wish we had it here! :(
I know! I wrote Chinen and Miyagawa because you were awesome enough to put the idea into my head. My brain broke a little but it was worth it!
:D :D :D :D :D THE WORLD NEEDS MORE CRACK, SAYS I! :D :D :D :D :D
A-and me? Awesome? Definitely not true, but thank you! ^-^ (Especially since you're more awesome than me, proven by the fact that you're the carrot that the mods of Ohmiya-a-day are dangling before us other
donkeysfangirls. ;P)I'm really anticipating the fics to come! *____* I hope a lot of people participated!
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Date: 2009-02-15 06:05 am (UTC)Magic Shell is cool, but not actually that tasty.
Re: Contest Mods. I think I'm the stick part of the enticement. As in 'we broke her--we can do it to the rest of you!'. A-and maybe they're going to kneecap everybody if they don't browbeat their friends into it.
There are some good fics out there! I am gorging myself on them!
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Date: 2009-02-11 07:24 pm (UTC)In any case, there is probably scientific proof that amount of a fan's cooliness is inversely proportional to the amount of retarded antics she watches, divided by the number of memes she feels compelled to join in on, and then multiplied by some intensely complicated "awesome factor", the determination of which involves both personal awesomeness and the amount of awesome fic produced.
...There is likely no such proof, but I just explained it so nerdily that it probably counts as proof now. Anyway, I didn't think I could possibly get MORE excited about the Valentine's challenges, but you've somehow managed it. *___*b
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:40 am (UTC)Every day closer to fic is a day for building excitement! Fic that I didn't write! \o/
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Date: 2009-02-11 07:41 pm (UTC)And hate memes, I don't get them either. Mostly because if I hate a particular band/person, I don't spend time on researching hateful information about them.
Your husband! Yes, you lucked out. =D
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:42 am (UTC)I totally did! He just watches in bemusement as I turn our kids into Arashi fans.
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Date: 2009-02-11 08:14 pm (UTC)Well for the Ohmiya porn, of course.
But mostly for the rickrolling comment. I've been thinking that ever since I heard Season the first time. I just thought I was the only one.
Also, Ohmiya porn! ♥
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:43 am (UTC)Rickrolling--I thought I was the only one hearing it...that's why I made Ed listen to it! Damn, we're awesome!
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Date: 2009-02-12 02:25 am (UTC)I'm glad you're feeling better, sorry about the trouble you had to go through to beta read! I'm really looking forward to the contest turnout though. Prooobably not going to get any sleep that night, whenever the entries will be posted.
Your deadfic is too amazing, please cease calling them deadfic as that has a negative connotation. Instead may I humbly suggest just calling them regular drabbles; none of us will know ever the difference.
Man, need to get myself a JE-tolerant boy, too. At least we'll always have something to talk about over the dinner table. ("On a scale of 1 to 10, how gay would you rate this pictures," which then leads to a healthy debate on the issue.)
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:53 am (UTC)Every time there is a contest or important deadline, I manage to find a way to break my fic somehow. If I were a super hero, it would be my special attack move. (You should look forward to it--I think you're totally going to take it.)
They're deadfic. If I don't call them that I'll keep them in my documents and poke at them and get all >.< when they refuse to work.
JE-tolerant boy! I had to pick him up from work today and we spent half the ride home talking about how Ohno rarely smiles even on Arashi's regular shows (as relates to Kenta and his smile) and then we talked about the Ojii-san thing, Sho's haircut, and how he thinks Aiba looked like a girl with his recent perm. It was rather awesome.
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:16 am (UTC)DRABBLES! ♥ Oh god, these made my night. Chocolate nipples, dying. :DDD
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:45 am (UTC)♥ They'd chocolate nipple each other just for your amusement. (I bet they'd do it on television if they could because they'd find it hilarious, too.)
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Date: 2009-02-12 06:14 am (UTC)Oh hate memes. Sometimes I look at them out of some masochistic sense of seeing how stupid people can be on the internets, but it's really unproductive. I can understand wanting to vent about things that irritate, but why bother wasting energy on hating something? That requires as much energy as loving something, which I'd rather devote to my rainbow band and lovely corner of rainbow fandom. Indifference is the real antithesis to love, right?
...okay, that was random, in any case you are a cool kid, and I enjoy swinging by this corner of fandom to read what you post. ^__^
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:45 pm (UTC)I'll look at the hate memes but all the personal attacks just. ARG. Like you, I'd really rather just play with the rainbows. And play the 'guess whose hand is where' game. (lolz I almost typed 'gaymes')
*waves* I am nothing if not random! I enjoy you swinging by!
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Date: 2009-02-12 08:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-12 03:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-12 10:54 am (UTC)D-Does my whopping immaturity show when I say that I like looking through hate memes for the stupid sometimes? *sheepish* I definitely hear you though, that it's a waste of fandom energy. If only they would spend it on writing fics! >:
And your husband is awesome. T^Tb Tell him we love him too (if that doesn't creep him out eheh).
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:55 pm (UTC)Did you miss my pi-in-my-pants comment? Immaturity, I has it! I like the STUPID parts of things like hate memes. And I totally agree with the 'arg, fandom Japanese!' comments (which I know people will grow out of using--I did and my shame will never, ever end. It's fun!) and the random spam about different JE boys. That stuff is fun because it's either not meant seriously or it's obviously just an annoyance. It's the HATE that I don't like. Classic older-twin/middle child/mommy behavior on my part, I think. I like things peaceful and happy.
And DAMN STRAIGHT. They could be writing us fics! It doesn't even have to be ARASHI fic. I'll take stuff for any of their dramas, too. (Seriously, Mimura? Seriously?)
I told him this before he left for work and his reply was '...okay.' He's very unphased by my online life. I think it's all the gay porn.
(I'm cool by association! I have people like you on my f-list! AWESOME people!)
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Date: 2009-02-13 05:00 am (UTC)True, the hate really can get ridiculous sometimes. Honestly, people could just avoid the things they don't like! Yet they continue to torture themselves by following those same things almost religiously. :/ Also, that pi-in-my-pants comment made me laugh. |D;
HAHAHA Mimura, oh that boy. He has such a super crush on Tarou omg. XDD The smile he has when he sees Tarou already screams, YOU ARE MY SUNSHIIIINE, MY ONLY SUNSHIIIIINE. Otsukare on the fics you've submitted for the challenges. ♥♥
Awwwww. Your hubby is seriously the dream husband I've always wanted. ;o; I mean, I've dated guys who tolerated my brand of crazy, which is probably the most I could ask for already, but to join in the crazy... that's so much win.
(You're totally cool on your own, woman! If we were all My Little Ponies, you'd be the silver pony with a rainbow-colored mane that flowed like silk. *beams*)
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Date: 2009-02-15 06:00 am (UTC)Ed is a total geek. I'm going to turn my softsubs for Mei-chan into hardsubs and see what he makes of it. I think he'll get a kick out of it. Also: Find Nana hot.
(You know what that thing about My Little Ponies made me think? That if Nino were a pony the little mark on his flank would be a hand on an ass. Inside of a heart. Ohno's would be a fish.)
ILU, Akiko. You make me happy. ♥
Also: Your icon is cute.
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Date: 2009-02-12 09:21 pm (UTC)I avoided the hate meme. :| Mostly because I saw it ~20 times on my flist and got very annoyed
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Date: 2009-02-15 05:56 am (UTC)(Ohmiya are cute on their own! They lend themselves well to couch-groping antics.)