Not... canon wingfic?

[louiselux]

yasuragi has some highly intriguing Saiyuki scans up from the next month's Zero Sum, here.  I say, ooh!

xsmoonshine asked me five questions. See answers below! 



1. What do you see when you look out the window?

The window I look out of most is the kitchen window. Because it's in the basement I see some ferns, a big swathe of baby's tears, the back of our garden bench and the terrace it sits on and a clump of little pink flowers that hang down, which I can never remember the name of.

2. Describe your ideal day off?

I get up at about 9. A nice lie in for me but still leaving lots of morning to play in. I, or we, seeing as M will be there too, have a fried egg on a potato cake, yum. Then a variety of things would happen. We would go to an enormous car boot sale (junk sale) and pick up all kinds of interesting crap, such as melamine and ceramics and folding bicycles, smurfs and junk jewellery etc. By then it would be lunch time, which would be a coffee frescata from Costa Coffee and a hot goats cheese panini sandwich. In the afternoon we'd go on a slow walk around some favourite or new bits of London looking at buildings, stopping off to play a few rounds of air hockey somewhere, then nip into a few comic shops and bookshops before rounding the day off with a couple of cocktails and then M would cook taglietelle with asparagus and we'd open a bottle of wine and sit in the garden with friends and watch bats. Somehow I want to fit in a swim and sauna, but am not sure where. Possibly before the car boot sale.

3. What skill would you like to learn given time and resources?

Right now I'd like to learn Japanese. I'd also love to learn to sing and to play the piano and the guitar properly.

4. What fictional (book/tv/anime/manga/whatever) special power or object would you really like to have, and what would you do with it?

I'd like a transporting device so I could beam myself about instantly. I'm really starting to resent commuting. 

5. There is a scary, scary thing lurking in your room. What is it? =D

It's a giant ant.

In the spirit of the meme, if you'd like me to probe your innermost thoughts and desires,  leave me a comment. 

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'm game.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Okay, these may be very random as I've just got up. :)

1) If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
2) Where is your favourite place to write?
3) Name a childrens story that had a lasting effect on you.
4) What is it about the medieval world that draws you?
5) What's your favourite smell?

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

Hummm *copies and pastes*

[tgreywords.livejournal.com]

Go for it! :D

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

1) What is your most loved possession?
2) What is it about manga that you love?
3) What's your favourite taste?
4) If you could travel to any time period, which one would you choose?
5) What's it got in its pocketses?

[tgreywords.livejournal.com]

1.) I'm going with physical possession here. Normally I would say my mind/creative impulse because it allows me to craft the most amazing stories. But in the physical realm, it's my laptop. My greatest tool and most fierce weapon; providing me with a stable place to keep my fictions and dreams. Never has let me down.
2.) What I love about manga in general is that there is magic in it. Anything can happen; there is beauty in the world; and there are horrifying experiences; but between them, our imaginations can take us to amazing places. And manga really brings out some of the most interesting and thought-provoking visions. And these images stay with you, they lodge in you, haunt your dreams, waking thoughts, and so few things have that kind of impact.
3.) Chocolate covered cherries.
4.) Heian Era Japan. The clothes! The intrigue! The courtly politics! The angst!
5.) Ishida Akira

[runcible.livejournal.com]

Go ahead. :)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

1) Crowley or Aziraphale?
2) If you were going to be a Mary Sue, what would your name be?
3) There is a scary, scary thing lurking in your room. What is it?
4) Your one desert island novel is...
5) Which artist do you admire the most?

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Ask me anything!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

1) Tell me your fandom history.
2) Gojyo or Hakkai?
3) A piece of music that's very important to you
4) What's good about where you live?
5) What do you see looking out of your front door?

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Sure, hit me.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

1) If you could make one fictional creature or person exist in real life, who or what would it be?
2) Do you own brightly coloured clothes?
3) Describe your favourite restaurant/place to eat
4) What's your favourite childrens story?
5) If you were, by some heinous magic, trapped in a manga universe for the rest of your life, which one would you choose it to be?

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

1. Oh, that's so tough, isn't it? Just picking one. Probably Batman. Shut up.

2. Yes. But not many.

3. Someplace casual, but where the food is very good. Tex-mex for preference. But I like all kinds of food and places to eat-- nice restaurants are really my great weakness, and I even like chains like the Olive Garden (which is denigrated by all sorts of people in the US as not being 'real' Italian, which, you know, I know.)

4. Oh, that's a tough call. I really like the folk tale Nagi tells Omi in stagesoflove about the clever peasant girl who becomes Tzarina, but that's not really a children's story. The Phantom Tollbooth has always been very special to me.

5. Manga universe? Ouch, that's a toughie. Probably Fruits Basket (though I'm not sure I'd want to meet the Sohmas) or Gravitation, where a novelist and J-Pop star coming out together is No Big Deal and just boosts sales. Manga universes are dangerous places to be.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Batman - that's so sweet! Heehee. And of course he would be a force for good.

Oh, you like the Phantom Tollbooth! I love that too and am the proud owner of a shiny new copy, as I think it must've recently come back into print in the UK. It just made so much sense to me as a kid.

Mmm, yes I can see the attraction of Gravitation and at least there'd be no threat of imminent death or torture from any sort of magical beast or killer monk.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, Superman would be too much power. Batman at his core is normal. And I think it's only fair that one fucked-up kid gets to fight crime and do good. Yeah, I'm a dork.

I am slightly scandalized that it went out of print in the UK! I don't think it's ever gone out of print here, they just re-cover it every once in a while. It's the one book I got my nephew that was an unqualified hit.

Yeah. The only threat in Gravitation seems to be rapists and they seem to target pretty young men. Which is still bad, but safer for me. XD Plus I could read Yuki's books. And buy Nittle Grasper albums.

[akisawana.livejournal.com]

Knock yourself out.
(Not really, plzthx)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

1. What's the best thing about the town where you live?
2. What is your earliest memory?
3. If money was no problem, where would you visit right now?
4. You're having a party and you can only invite famous people - who would be there?
5. How do you take your coffee?