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Have you got any idea how difficult it is to get a good image of a sprig of mistletoe? Seriously. Try looking on Google, over half the hits you get for "mistletoe" are actually images of holly. I even tried in Italian, no luck. I'm no plant expert myself and even I know the basics of the age-old kissing tradition:
✔ white berries✘ red berries
✔ rounded leaves✘ pointy leaves
✔ mistletoe✘ holly

See? Idiot-proof. I suppose if it's just for the sake of a snog it wouldn't matter if it was a cabbage, but I want to do this properly. So I went and yanked this nice little image from Subeta (of all places) and now that we're all set we can start!


multi-fandom kiss under the mistletoe
Prompt me any two characters from a fandom of mine and I will write you a ficlet in which they kiss under the mistletoe.


Clicky for a list of fandoms. )
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No more memeage. Sadness. Now I have to start thinking of what to post again. Man, this is hard. I don't even have new episodes to talk about... I did watch Togainu no Chi, not too brilliant so far but I'm giving it one more episode to impress me. Bakuman's still the best show of the season so far. Also finally finished Maid-sama: not too bad, all just as planned. I hate Hinata thought, the two idiot protagonists have enough problems getting together without him getting in the way too.

What else? Urgh, I don't know, I want to write something but I have no idea what. The commeentfic fest is great, but I kind of want to take a break from all things Merlin for a while. Especially since I decided to go ahead with that idea for a Merlin challenge fic comm, I just need to sort out all the boring organization details and recruit a couple more mods. It's gonna be brilliant.

But yeah, I could do with a breather before that. Only I don't really know what to write, I'm not into any other communities for other fandoms and all my plot bunnies are Merlin-related. Well, apart from that SPN RPF prompt, but that's more like an outline for a big bang challenge than a bunny. IDK WHAT TO WRITE! ALSO IDK WHAT TO WATCH. TV shows, not anime, I have too much anime on my watchlist already. But I don't feel like watching anime. So yeah... It's one of those days.
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Okay, now that my ehpeek literary endeavour is done, I can return to the usual memeage. I think I'll do two of these every day from now on, since they're long overdue and I'm getting bored. WTF short attention spam.
But before that let me tell you about this season's anime, or at least those I watched so far. Kind of spoilery, but it's just the first episode of each series anyway. But first some random linkage.



There's more behind-the-scenes videos from HBO and I think it's the first time I've been so interested in an elevator.

Plus Colin and Bradley are being ridiculously adorable, again. My favourite part is Colin saying "dragonfruit" and Bradley snorting with laughter. So much love.

And the 2 minutes trailer for the SPN anime. Engrish Carry On, some interesting action scenes, Dean looks like Tristan from Yu-Gi-Oh but I'll try to overlook that for the sake of more monster hunting.



Autumn 2010 anime
(or, having big-name seiyuu and sparkles won't redeem your crappy series)
((in some sort of order from awesum to crap))

Cut because I'm verbose. )



Day 21 - A pairing you like and no one else understands why?

Ciel/Finny from Kuroshitsuji. Originally created because I was growing tired of Sebastian/Ciel, especially with creepy!pedo!stalking!abusive!Sebby, but the more I think about it the more I wish someone had written it. They seem like they'd be adorable together. Finny is fiercely attached to Ciel, I could totally see him going all protective if his master was in danger. Sebastian would have nothing on an enraged Finny.
The sad thing is, the Kuroshitsuji fandom is in a sad, sad state. Here's some stats from The Pit. About 3,000 Kuroshitsuji fics (all ratings), 2,300 in English. Out of those, how many with Finny? 36. Thirty-six. And this is Finny, someone who's been around since chapter 1, fairly relevant to the plot, has been to a greater or lesser degree in every story arc. TA grand-total of two of these fics (both one-shots) are Finny/Ciel. I be sad. Okay, I'm at fault too because the only Kuro fic I wrote was Ciel/Sebby too, but I'm still complaining.


Day 22 - A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?

Roy/Ed from FMA. First thing, it gets in the way of my OTPs. Second thing I don't really see the chemistry there. They're probably the most popular pairings in the fandom but I'd rather stay clear of them. And then the age difference really turns me off, there's like 15 years between them and Ed is in his teens. I don't really want to think of Roy as a child molester, plus there's the unfortunate implications that come with abuse of power since Roy is Ed's superior in the military.
So, uh, no. Part of why I love FMA but won't get into the fandom, I don't like most of their favourite pairings. Likewise with Ed/Al, at least they're of an age but ick. They're one couple where I love them together, I love their interaction, but as friends. Yep, sometimes my slash goggles fail me.
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❧ My SPN marathon is going really well - been watching an episode a day and I just reached the halfway point. Can't see I'm much impressed with S3 so far, though, and knowing how it ends is killing me.

❧ The plans to re-watch Merlin have instead sadly stopped. Woe. At least I have my picspam. (Which degenerated into a huge MONSTER. Lately I have problems restraining myself, or maybe it's just this fandom that has such a terrible effect on me.)

❧ Out of the Summer anime, I like Ookami-san best. And I wasn't even planning to watch it at first. (It just goes to show, trailers and summaries are not to be relied upon. It was the same with BakaTest.) Also, the ED is awesome. Akazukin-chan Goyoujin~

❧ The Autumn anime lineup looks promising. I need to finish some older series before the new anime start. That is, hoping the new anime won't be full of fail...

❧ I'd watch Katanagatari now (it's really weird but kinda interesting, plus now I'm used to 40 min episodes) but I have to wake up early tomorrow. Remedial maths lesson again - if anything, self, think of the money! Not that I have a very urgent need for money, but I need to think I'm doing this for some reason. Sure it's not because I love the kid.

❧ At any rate his exam is at the end of August, so just a couple of weeks more. I need to start thinking about my own exams too, I had a look at September's schedule and started reading the book on Galois theory. Urrgh.

Oh right, can't forget about videogames. I'm kind of excited about Pokémon - new game coming out and all - I'm more old school myself, but my brother just got SoulSilver and I'm tempted to hijack it. Plus I saw THIS earlier on DA, and it's AWESOME.

❧ Also, Professor Layton 3, soon. We still don't have a title, but I'll bear with whatever stupid translation they bestow unto us. More puzzles! More Layton! More tea! I'm quite pleased at the sudden onset of cold weather. I can't remember being able to have my afternoon tea in August, much less sleep under the covers. I approve of this.

❧ And Basara. Oh gods, Basara. I don't know how it could possibly have happened. I mean, I got into it knowing that Masamune/Yukimura was kind of a big deal with the fandom, but in the end Yukimura's seiyuu is Souichirou Hoshi. I've hated him ever since Gundam SEED, because of Kira, and Yukimura is too much like Kira for me to care about him. Or Oyakata-sama, for that matter. Luckily Masamune (and other weird people I approve of) steal the scene most of the time, so I was cool with that.
Until last episode (5th episode of Season 2), then it hit me like a sack full of bricks. Masamune and Kojuurou! THEY ARE MEANT TO BE!
It's so obvious, I can't understand why I haven't been shipping them like BURNING ever since the first episode. Part of the fandom does, of course, and not a small one from what I gather. I don't understand why my slash goggles failed me. Not just that, I didn't even have a single ship in the fandom. Strange. It happens, but usually I consider all possible permutations of characters before giving up.

I was looking for something completely unrelated but Wikipedia tells me that "The fish is considered to be a lucky symbol in Italy."
Bwuh?

❧ Re-reading the entry's title, I think it's clear that I'm a lying liar who lies.

❧ Whoops, forgot to add: Autumn anime + Gundam + Masamune. There's also the issue of the Gundam 00 movie. I'll probably have to watch it (my brother's been talking about it ever since it was announced) but I'm not really looking forward to it. For me, Gundam 00 ended with episode 23 of Season 1. The most I can say about the new movie is, hey, Lockon's got two Haro! Except he's not Lockon, so...
Yeah, Masamune was relevant. Masamune reminds me a lot of Lockon, especially in episode 23. This might have a lot to do with my obsession.

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