Keithan

(I know I just dumped more than 200k words of Merlin/Arthur recs just some days back, I'm on a rec-ing roll! Erm. >.< That was bad.) I'm really tired, but anyway...

Maybe you've read this before, but it's 1x4!! :P I've been meaning to rec the first one since forever but every time I actually sit down and try to post anything coherent, what comes out is a ridiculous amount of flailing and squeeing. So I've given up, really, on actual, helpful recs, so I'll just get on with it. Everyone knows 1x4 is my OTP, and also, how hard that actually is if I can count on one hand, or barely two, the fics that come out of the pairing, and when I asked for recs, the same fics are mentioned. It doesn't help that GW is really an old fandom. Maybe the rarity of the pairing makes me ship them so hard just to make up for the lack of attention it has, and I can be as excited as I am over a single drabble as though I'm given a thousand words to read. So just imagine my excitement over this:


( On to ~31.5k words of Heero/Quatre, and yes you read that right... :P )

akjdf;aklsdjfakl!!! OMG! You guys, it's my OTP!!!

Allow me a moment to be ridiculously happy over such a thing. ♥x♥♥♥♥x♥

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All right, back to normal. :P It's mid-July already, how fast time flies. That little step back from fandom I said before will have to be a large step now (and will soon have to be turning your back on it for some months. LJ makes it hard to do. When I didn't have one, it's so easy to step back and unwillingly drown in RL--also, as a result, I spit out fics like, once a year?) Will hopefully be able to be strict about this. Discipline with time has never been my strong point--really, really not my strong point--but if there's a time for me to be absolutely strict about it, it's now.

I'm trying not to flail over a shounen ai manga, but I'm seriously failing. I don't know what brought this sudden curiosity and urge to read yaoi/shounen ai mangas--except for one time, I really haven't done so before. My first real encounter with yaoi (besides from fics though) is Junjou Romantica, and that was more than a year ago, I think, when I was curious enough to at least try my very first yaoi anime (even if I've been reading slash ever since I was introduced to fanfiction). I was laughing out loud by the end of the first episode and continued on until I finished the whole thing and it was really amusing and had me laughing many, many times. The main couple is funny, Egoist (favorite!) broke my heart (I swear they did!) before they sewed it back together again, and Terrorist just makes me melt and I wanted to see more of them. I then discovered it has a manga, and that was it. My whole encounter with yaoi anime/manga can be really contained in nutshell.

Over the weekend though, by some odd urging from nowhere, I searched for m/m manga recs--yaoi/shounen ai doesn't matter, my delicate sensibilities are no longer so delicate, but I'd rather have a story to read though. I enjoyed those that I read and the most recent one I read had me flailing and aww-ing enough so that I'd want to put them down here for me to remember those that I really enjoyed.

( Yaoi/Shounen Ai Manga - 6 )

RL has been busy for the past week or two, so jumping on reading mangas is probably my long-awaited rest. bryonylj, I'm still toying with the 2x4 idea and the prompt, but as you can see, I am easily distracted. :P

It's a few days before the 25th. So a Happy Christmas to all who are celebrating! Enjoy the holidays everyone. :)

Just letting time pass by and  trying to clear my mind, because there's one piece of work that's hanging unfinished and Wufei won't talk to me and I'm not satisfied with it, and it's all I can do short of tearing my hair out in frustration. I think it's all over the place and I don't know what to do. I don't like it and maybe ranting about it will make me pinpoint what exactly is wrong. It's nearly done--I think everything is there, though it's not exactly coming together and it's just a simple fic. This is the first time I've felt like this about a simple fic. Usually, I'd leave fics alone, and sometimes it takes months before I'm finally satisfied with something, and maybe that's all I need--to step back and come back with a fresh set of eyes. The thing is, I don't want it to take months, because that would sort of defeat the purpose of pushing myself to write in the first place. Help? *sigh*

I'm really sorry caerfree , I know I said I'd have it done this week, but I don't want to give you something half-baked. To make up for it, here are two 1x4 recs. They're nothing new and chances are, you've already read them anyway, but re-reads are good too (especially for a pairing as rare as 1x4). :P

♥ Heero/Quatre ♥

January Thaw by tb_ll57
You think you might be all that’s keeping him anchored in sanity. You wish you weren’t, because you’re already anticipating having to leave him behind.
-This was a surprise find some time ago. It's short but it's just lovely.

The Cabby by Dulin
Trowa Barton is a cab driver and the witness of a long distance love.
-This is actually one of my favorites.

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Now I miss GW. Anyone care to rec me some not-too-long GW fics? Heero/Quatre is a given, but since that's rare, hm, some Wufei/Relena, Trowa/Relena (is there even?), Duo/Wufei, Duo/Zechs, Duo/Quatre, Heero/Trowa?

More for my reference than anything else (since I'm sure most people have probably read these anyway and are more well-read in fandom than I will ever be). I haven't done much serious reading in any fandom for so long especially during the busy hell which is the past year. But I've just read these lately, and they're perfect and I'm like a kid with a shiny new toy. And since I have an LJ now, so, recs (and rambles), why the hell not? I might as well share.


( Prince of Tennis - 4 )

( Hana Kimi - 2 )

( Fullmetal Alchemist - 2 )

( Gundam Wing - 2 )