Hey, it's me

Thanks to bronzetigress I have learned that there is New Prince of Tennis chapters! It looks like it'll be similar to the current Eyeshield 21 'all star' arc, which is fine by me. I get to see all the favorites battling together against a new foe - high schoolers!

Best part: even though Akutsu left the Yamabuki team prior to Nationals, he's playing in this all star camp. (It's post-nationals, but before the school year ends. Probably a summer break camp.) I've only seen him and Sengoku so far from Yamabuki, but wherever Akutsu is, Dan isn't usually far behind... and hopefully my PoT muse won't be far behind that!

*dance of joy*

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Rating: PG-13
Parts: 1/1
Notes: This fic sprang out of my head, fully formed, looking at the chapter end page of the Yamabuki arc in the manga, where Yuuki is waving at Akutsu from behind the tree. I had to stop writing the fic I had just started to write this one. Sometimes the muse can be demanding! Thanks to bronzetigress, who is a BETA MAX!

Summary: It was the little changes Yuuki saw in Jin that made her glad about Taichi's presence in his life.

( Little Changes )

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Rating: PG-13
Parts: 1/1
Genre: high school, outsider pov, feisty!Dan.
Notes: bronzetigress makes my English speaking good. Written in English-style with first names first.

Summary: It was like a horror story version of Beauty and the Beast, and it would probably end with finding Dan’s bones buried in the school garden.

( Kei Sagara Versus the Beast )

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Rating: PG-13
Part: 1/1
Notes: Thanks to bronzetigress for the beta. Title coincidentally similar to my recently posted OP fic, but the similarities most definitely end there.
Summary: Akutsu worried if Dan was happy eating.

( Notes from a Love Story )

Lemmed from suzvoy, as who better to lem from?

The last lines of my last twenty-five fics, each line linking to the fic it's from.

Twenty five is a big number! It might actually stretch me back into SV...

( 25 Happily Ever Afters )
This gets me back all the way to May 9, 2007. Six SPN, 2 SGA, 4 PoT, and 13 OP. I remember when I used to write a story a week during my Buffy days. Now we're stretching back a year and a half to get 25 stories.

This bunch includes my foray into SPN, which is a very scary place to visit, and 1/2 of my SGA fics. H.M.S. Atlantis is probably one of my favorite fics of all time and it's included here. Yay.

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To keep it real - not that my head is rooted in reality - I had a dream last night where I, while waiting in cluster-lines outside a building, was having a lively debate with con-people about how Jesus is the biggest Mary Sue of Mary Suenation. If you go with the theory that the Bible is a work of fiction, I can so see that this is true. He's got all sorts of neat powers, comes back from the dead, and all the smart good-side people think he is teh shizzle. The only thing missing is the sparkles.

The big boss went and got himself married on Friday, so all the little bosses are gone, too, with the wedding festivities, and thus I have no work at work to work on. Naturally, I'm bored out of my skull!

I've been puttering away at my new PoT AkuDan fic, and though I have all the parts in my head, it's taking effort to translate them to the page and making me keep stop writing after I get to a line break for a break (get that?). I'm at one of those breaks now and am inflicting myself on lj.

What I should really do, and probably will do next, is type up the newest in the line of mini-transcripts (transcriptlings? transcriptettes?) I've been getting lately. Less than $50 a pop, but still Money! Whee!

I got another new video game at home, since I finished F.E.A.R. It's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, a stealth game, who's main character Sam Fisher is voiced by IRONSIDE. I think I love the game just for that reason. I didn't recognize any of the other voice actors' names in the credits, although whoever plays Lambert sounds familiar (Don Jordan, who has a huge IMDB list and that's prolly why). Apparently, our favorite Dennis Haybert will voice Lambert for the 2d game in the series and try to sell me allstate insurance at the same time.

Title: Home
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Notes: Futurefic. Hugs on bronzetigress for the beta.
Summary: The apartment is small, a single room with a bath, a closet, and a fold-out couch.

( Home )

Title: Waiting
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Dan x Akutsu (yes, you read that right)
Rating: R
Note: Futurefic
Summary: Akutsu knows that Dan loves him but isn’t waiting to be loved in return.

( Waiting )

I am all sad. PoT manga has ended this week. It was a very addicting sports manga that wasn't about anything more than Tennis - unless you count all the BL that was handed to the slashers on a rainbow racket. More Nationals OVAs will still be forthcoming, and since the anime is somewhat different from the manga on purpose via the manga-ka's direction, so that can be looked forward to (as long as there's subbers still working on it) and tenimyu has just reached Nationals as well. So, not all PoT is gone. Still, the manga ending means no more real new story. Sniff sniff.

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Thank you for the beta (twice!) bronzetigress, even though this isn't your fandom.

Summary: “It has nothing to do with you. You just haven’t found the one who’ll stay with you no matter what. That’s the one you deserve.”

( Dan's Girlfriend )

I've watched the Bring It On-athon. All four movies in a row. Cheer!

I've watched every single Tenimyu, both subbed and unsubbed, available. First and Second cast still rawk my sawks. And I'm learning Japanese very slowly. Kanpai!

I've watched the Oxygen movie Husband for Hire. Cute!

I've watched the Hallmark movie The Good Witch. Meh!

I've watched the first episode of Rocket Boys unsubbed. Lol!

I've watched Kimeru MVs. Giggle!

I've watched too much and the long weekend isn't over with yet. Ded!


eta: learning Japanese

I'm pretty good at picking up languages, especially written ones. I learned two full years of Spanish in less than a school year back in junior high. Since I started watching a lot of anime, I've been trying to pick up on Japanese and am finding that using romanji makes it relatively easy. I've got a list next to me now of words that have cropped up regularly in tenimyu and am simply memorizing them as I go along. Having romanji versions and English versions of tenimyu songs helps, too.

Except that, romanji won't do me any good with learning to read it! I'm gonna have to get some Kana books (and then Kanji) and really learn this language if I want to be able to read all the nummy doujinshi out there. I'm too lazy to get myself enrolled in a class, especially since I'd have to drive out to PNC which would be a Pain N the Carcass. Any recommendations from self-taught people as books to buy?

Looking for a TENNIS beta for another AkuDan fic. Fic is seven pages long. Turnaround is hopefully before the end of the month, if possible. Please comment if you're willing. (marcasita? garryowen? Anyone?)

Title: Playing Tennis with You
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Akutsu x Dan
Rated: PG-13
Notes: Thank you, marcasita, for the superquick and great beta. Any other mistakes people see are my own.
Notes2: Based on anime episode 89.
Summary: "Taichi," Akutsu pushed off the retaining wall to meet him, "what the hell are you doing here?"

( Playing Tennis with You )

Got to see the Prince of Tennis live action movie. I didn't like the kid they got to play Echizen. I understand why they picked him; they wanted someone who actually looked like a 7th grader. Still, the Echizen in the movie looked like a thousand miles of bad road the whole time, whereas he's supposed to look simply bored.

Otherwise, not too bad of a flick. I kept expecting them to break into song, though, since most of the cast was from the musicals. All in all, a pleasant way to waste a Sunday night.

Sharing the AkuDan love.

AI

*happy sigh*

Prince of Tennis Fic
Pairing: AkuDan
Rating: PG
Part 1/1
Notes: Sometimes, it hits you that they're only fifteen and twelve/thirteen years old, and in middle school, and I like to believe that innocence still is the sweetest form of falling in love.

Summary: Dan meant nothing more than a pet that demanded attention.

( Liking Him That Way )

So, I got myself a plot for that OP fic. Three plots, actually, I just have to pick one that makes the most sense with their location and what will be doable for me to write.

Akutsu: What about me, woman?
Me: What about you?
Akutsu: You have to finish my story first.
Me: You snooze, you lose.
Akutsu: Kawamura's on the phone already. And there are pictures, damn it.
Me: It's girly to get all emotional over pictures.
Akutsu: You're the one who came up with this plot! And it's not girly, it's a prop to point out the obvious.
Me: If it's so obvious, why aren't you and Dan Taichi all cute and first-time-in-lovey-dovey?
Akustu: I don't do cute. Or lovey-dovey.
Me: You would with Dan. Admit it, you liiike him. You want to hoooold him.
Akutsu: Shut up.
Me: You want to kiiisssss him.
Akutsu: Shut up! I don't! Get away from me!
Me: You so do. You want to hold him, and kiss him, and protect him, and love him--
Akutsu: I'm not listening to you. Piss off and die.
Me: Just you wait. You'll be singing a different tune when I return to your story tomorrow.
Akutsu: Fuck.
Me: Mwahaha.

Title: Brave Stupidity
Pairing: Akutsu/Dan
Rated: PG-13
Spoilers: post-Vs.Yamabuki Arc
Notes: Love to garryowen who looked over this even though she's at work.
Dedicated to ranmaru, because we're not crazy for loving this pairing.

Summary: Akutsu wanted to dump him in the nearest trash bin. He also wanted to wrap Dan in cotton to keep him safe. The conflicting feelings were annoying.

( Brave Stupidity )

Title: The Love Bug
Rating: PG
Pairings: MomoxEchizen, EijixOishi, InuixKaidoh, TezukaxFuji, DanxAkutsu (for ranmaru)
Notes: I'm nearing the end of the anime, so I figure I'd better get my PoT fics out of my head before my interest is caught by something else.

( He might have caught the disease already... )

Just how hilarious do I find it that Mother Oishi told Momo and Kaidoh to stop fighting in one scene, then in the next scene he was sitting between them and thus separating the two bad children. Bwa!