I set out last night to decide if Jules would have a middle name and what it would be (he would, and I think Jules Gabriel de Ferrier sounds nice) and ended up spending several hours researching random stuff. Specifically, conventions of French naming and address, then family coats of arms (which are impossible to research for fictional characters, by the way). God I'm a loser. :> I did, however, learn (vaguely mentioned, but it was on several websites) that there was a high-class Ferrier family in Normandy at some point in history. FTW.

(And I'm not even DONE with this researching solely because KazeKi got me interested thing yet! I still want to learn more about attitudes toward homosexuality and sex back then. Also, tea. Historically accurate fanfic and RP is good, yes?)

Also, meme:
Reply to this entry and I will make you a few icons based on your interests, and then post this to your journal to make your friends icons as well!

(P.S. I may have to surrender to Lady Gaga. I don't think her music is very good, but damn is it catchy.)

This links have been passed around quite a bit, but here's another reminder of some simple, cheap, and fun ways we can help Haiti.


From the Internet, with Love ❤.

The organizer of this is donating $5 for everyone who makes a sign in support and takes a picture of it!



And here you can get icons and profile layouts as a reward for donations!

hypergalaxy hypergalaxy hypergalaxy

I made a graphics community when I was musing about it a few months ago, but I just now decided to actually use it. I'm making it a dumping ground for all of my fandom creative endeavours, though, so my personal journal can just be for actual journal sorts of things, and graphics/fic/fanmixes can go to hypergalaxy.

Feel free to follow it, since I won't be linking to new posts in my personal journal. I will be posting in the appropriate fandom communities, so you can just keep an eye on those, if you want.

And... I think that's it! I'm still not done with the profile, but other than that it's pretty much set up. If anyone has tips for running such a community (probably not, since I'm not setting out to be a prolific iconer or anything, I've just been making a lot of crap lately) then do tell me. Tips for making better stuff, would be great, too!

Regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas, I hope your day is or was a wonderful one~!

And just for arsellic (and anyone else who wants to see me play with Blingee, I guess).
( Jules is a Christmas pedo~ )

Do I just want to use an icon of Jules in a wedding dress? Probably.

I spent a good chunk of today reading song lyrics for FST purposes. This Rosemariné/Jules FST is now as long as the Serge/Gilbert portion of my last FST and it doesn't feel done yet. 8Db?

Right, anyway, hit me up for this meme:
Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

It is a cold day and I am cold. Also, I woke up less than five hours ago and am already contemplating hibernating until finals are over bedtime. /cuddles into awesomely furry bathrobe instead.

Poll #1497400 Also for the hell of it, have a poll that I may or may not listen to
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

What anime should I watch during winter break?

If I made a pimp post for... something, would you care?

surprise!
a holiday treat meme

popkitty61: I'M SO BORED
battour: WRITE FANFIC
popkitty61: FINE
popkitty61: I'LL DO IT HERE
battour: JULES AND ROSEMARINE
battour: MORNING AFTER
battour: GO
popkitty61: AND CAPSLOCK EVERYTHING
battour: AWESOME

And this was her masterpiece:
( So yeah. )

You know, it occurs to me that this could be written seriously and not be half bad. Not that I am voluteering.

1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random" or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days.
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.

( I'd buy it. )

Oh btw you can get $3 of free mp3 credit on Amazon.

popkitty61: OKAY I'LL MAKE A DRESSING ROOM
battour: FINE WHATEVER

And thus, it was born. Run, don't walk to laconblade for all of your oldschool shoujo dressing room RP needs. Join with an existing roleplaying account and do awesome things, or make a new roleplaying account (I know I did 8|) and do awesome things.


Also, today I talked about Rosemarine/Jules with everyone I know, including who tops:
battour: I LIKE IT BOTH WAYS 8|;;;
jellies: that works too
battour: they can have sex twice?
jellies: or alternate depending on the day
jellies: they totally have a WHO-TOPS-WHEN calendar
popkitty61: JULES IT'S MONDAY BEND OVER
popkitty61: NO BB IT'S TUESDAY, YOU BEND OVER

Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

And jellies gave me Kaze to Ki no Uta, Gunslinger Girl, and Persona.

( Yup. )

As I'm sure everyone on my flist has heard me rambling on far too much about, I made a FST for Kaze to Ki no Uta. I'm posting it right here right now, so I'll shut up about it now.

If you've wandered here from outside the fandom, Kaze to Ki no Uta is a 1976 manga series by the extremely influential shoujo mangaka Keiko Takemiya. It was one of the first boy's love series and (to the best of my knowledge) the first BL to include explicit sexual content. If you're interested in finding out more, I've put up a fairly long overview (including pretty pictures!) right here. There are sparkles.

For my fandom buddies, I'm sure this needs no introduction.

So! Beneath the cut, you will find 36 songs in three parts -- a "disc" for Serge/Gilbert, one for the flashback volumes, and one for... everybody else. There are also six (hopefully) lulzy songs, and covers, too, if you're into that. Enough to keep you busy for a few hours, at least!

There are spoilers in the "I can't read Japanese so I only kind of know what happens" sort of way. You can consider that a warning if my character interpretations turn out to be wrong, too.

Thanks to rusalkai, daisychain0, tabimendou, and popkitty61 for giving me song suggestions and/or letting me bounce ideas off of them! ilu guys. ♥


( I thought we all were the children of God? )

So I'm looking through various responses to Toward the Terra episode 12, and I can't find any that say, "you know, that was really really gay".

So I'm going to say it. That was really really gay. Consider this the massively undermentioned reason why you should watch this series. (Because you can find tons of people talking about the plot and stuff.)

( There is nothing not gay about this. )

This would be an random thoughts post about 10-12, but... gratuitous screenshots are more important.

Oh, Nina grew up! That was exciting!

The Classic ShoujoKink Meme

Request porn! Write porn! Go go go go!!!

Because Viz is occasionally awesome, they've started an online seinen manga magazine of sorts. They've got a few series from the Japanese magazine Ikki and are posting them, one chapter a month, on SigIkki.com. (And may I add that their online manga reader is fantastic!) While seinen manga isn't always my thing, I fully support the idea of free, legal manga online and since a lot of manga are up to their fourth chapter now, I checked everything out. There's a wide range in quality, from epic win to eh whatever, but it's definitely worth checking out overall. There are plans to publish several of the series in graphic novel form (and Children of the Sea volume 1 has already been released) but Viz has said that publication will depend on online popularity.

It may be restricted to North America or the USA; I'm not entirely sure. If it is, I'm sorry.

For the shounen fans, they're doing the same thing for Shonen Sunday.

( This probably requires a cut. )

Memememe~

~ Leave me a comment saying SOMETHING RANDOM, AS LONG AS IT'S IN CAPS.
~ I'll respond by asking you five (or so) questions so I can get to know you better.
~ Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
~ Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

mymorphine asked me:

( omg questions )

and rusalkai asked me:

( the best part about this is that I can finally spell rusalkai )

Look what I got in the mail today. ♥



It's got art from a bunch of different Keiko Takemiya series, not just KazeKi.

( My only camera is the one that's part of my computer, but here, have some crappy pictures! )

Also relevant to interests, etc.: daisychain0 just made a Kaze to Ki no Uta community, alias windandtrees. Let's make this fandom happen, guys~

Warning: nekkid people!
Also, spoilers. Not for the thing at the end that everyone's seen on Wikipedia, for some things in the middle that you probably could have guessed.

Kaze to Ki no Uta is my favorite manga and this is why you should read it.

Some background info: Once upon a time (aka the 1970s) in a land far away (Japan, of course) there were a bunch of amazing women who wrote tons of kickass shoujo manga. Since the genre was so new, they tried out a lot of wacky things. One of them, Keiko Takemiya (of To Terra... fame), was interested in writing a story about gay men. At first she was looking into doing something realistic, but movies like the French This Special Friendship and the German Death in Venice as well as the opinion of roommate Moto Hagio that realistic gay men were boring (seriously), made her go the dramatic romance novel-ish route instead. (I should point out that Moto Hagio was the first mangaka to do a proper BL series, but Takemiya couldn't get her stuff published for years, encouraged Hagio, and illustrated the first male/male kiss in shoujo manga, so I feel like they're tied as the first BL mangaka.)

ANYWAY, when Takemiya eventually debuted Kaze to Ki no Uta (The Poem of the Wind and Trees) in Shoujo Comic magazine, millions of teenage girls all over Japan, who are now your mothers' ages, by the way, swooned, cried, and fangirled, and they've never stopped since.

( And now, with pictures! )