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We finally have a couch. The cat is overjoyed, and has spent most of the past day curling up in the corners of it (when he hasn't been exercising his newly learned ability to open the door to the under-the-eaves storage area, a space he finds both intimidating and fascinating).
Meanwhile, I'm sore all over because I clotheslined myself on a building scaffold while running yesterday. Seriously, I ran dead into it at about mid-torso height and slammed backwards onto the sidewalk like something out of a three stooges movie. It is possibly the stupidest egregiously clumsy thing I've ever done in public.
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seanchai and I have started watching Full Metal Alchemist as one of our nightly watching-things shows (after a long run of Starsky & Hutch, culminating in the episode where a criminal uses voodoo dolls to make them have sex, which I am not making up). Western fandom has failed to provide me with much in the way of fic, so I've been reminded of how much I like Old School yaoi fandom, doujinshis, etc. *grins* K2 company are totally my new favorite doujinshi circle, with their pretty art and men who have actual muscles and PG-13-to-R-rated sex (explicit doujinshi sex is often more laughable than hot, alas. Especially my favorite old skool doujinshi trope, the glowing cone of light!).
FMA, alas, is another example of the majority of a fandom not sharing my pairing kinks, such that I look at it and go "why does no one write [x insanely slashy pairing]?" Oh, HughesxRoy fic, why do you barely exist? Why is all the fic Roy-slash RoyxEd? More importantly, why is all the long fic RoyxEd? I want me some uke!Roy, damnit! Perferably in an epic-length piece of angst and violence-filled (but with a happy ending) melodrama where the author has done far too much research into Medieval and Renaissance alchemy.
Also, on a partially related note, wouldn't a steampunk novel where WWI was fought using alchemy be cool? Serious Paraclesian, Hemetic, Emerald Tablet-influenced alchemy, with possibly an ongoing divide in the academic alchemical community between the chemists & metallurgists and the people who worship Hermes Trismegistus? And salamanders? Like those Mercedes Lackey books about elemental magic, only, you know, grounded in actual historical research.
Meanwhile, I'm sore all over because I clotheslined myself on a building scaffold while running yesterday. Seriously, I ran dead into it at about mid-torso height and slammed backwards onto the sidewalk like something out of a three stooges movie. It is possibly the stupidest egregiously clumsy thing I've ever done in public.
seanchai and I have started watching Full Metal Alchemist as one of our nightly watching-things shows (after a long run of Starsky & Hutch, culminating in the episode where a criminal uses voodoo dolls to make them have sex, which I am not making up). Western fandom has failed to provide me with much in the way of fic, so I've been reminded of how much I like Old School yaoi fandom, doujinshis, etc. *grins* K2 company are totally my new favorite doujinshi circle, with their pretty art and men who have actual muscles and PG-13-to-R-rated sex (explicit doujinshi sex is often more laughable than hot, alas. Especially my favorite old skool doujinshi trope, the glowing cone of light!).FMA, alas, is another example of the majority of a fandom not sharing my pairing kinks, such that I look at it and go "why does no one write [x insanely slashy pairing]?" Oh, HughesxRoy fic, why do you barely exist? Why is all the fic Roy-slash RoyxEd? More importantly, why is all the long fic RoyxEd? I want me some uke!Roy, damnit! Perferably in an epic-length piece of angst and violence-filled (but with a happy ending) melodrama where the author has done far too much research into Medieval and Renaissance alchemy.
Also, on a partially related note, wouldn't a steampunk novel where WWI was fought using alchemy be cool? Serious Paraclesian, Hemetic, Emerald Tablet-influenced alchemy, with possibly an ongoing divide in the academic alchemical community between the chemists & metallurgists and the people who worship Hermes Trismegistus? And salamanders? Like those Mercedes Lackey books about elemental magic, only, you know, grounded in actual historical research.
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Oh, anime fandom. SGA can't touch your crack.
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I remember this ("Earth, Clay, Death" by
In the shameless self-promotion department, I wrote a widely assorted stack of stuff. (Including some Roy/Ed. Sorry. But also some Hughes/Roy, though I kept meaning to write more.) Arcana Viscera spoils through the end of the series (I don't know how far in you are) but is one of the best things I've written.
Is all. Enjoy your Finally, More Angst!
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The ending of the series is disliked/considered WTFy by enough fans that I was at least partially spoiled for it just by seeing people bitch on fanficrants. Plus, before I started watching I made sure to spoil myself thoroughly for both show and manga (well, the manga was more incidental, in that we said, "the ending of the show is really random -- I bet the manga's still on going and there isn't a real ending yet, so that had to quickly make something up," and then checked), because we needed to know what episode Hughes died in so we'd know which episodes to not watch.
My pet theory is that Roy is going to try to bring him back with alchemy in the manga, since Father needs five alchemists who've opened the gate to use as pawns for his Mysterious Evil Scheme and the series thus far only has four of them.
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Try this site; http://www.branchandroot.net/archive/?cat=3
She does much uke!Roy fics.
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Also, BadBadWrong Kimblee/Roy dubcon set during the Ishballan war.
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If you're up for other anime along the lines of FMA, you should check out D.Gray-man. DGM is....all types of awesome. 103 epis, but it got the axe. *grumpy* but it kinda wraps up while leaving the option for an OVA.
....i am so shutting up. >D i'm trying to balance my Japanese fandoms with the marvel and it's proving interesting. Tony and Steve aren't letting me go :\