ng is a babe. Just in case y'all didn't already know that. She should be worshipped and given stuff and stuff. *nodnods*

Mind you, it's a pity that meteor couldn't find its way over in time to coincide with us meeting, which was the /plan/. Tsk. Such unreliability. And we went to Oriental City and it was... pretty, as ever, and got drawn as if by a really huge magnet into the bookshop, which rocks. And which was full of illustration books for different Gundams, so i had to search out the Gundam Wing one which featured these strange plasticine-y models, like playmobil dolls, of the characters (Heero looked /bad/. bad bad.) and try and explain the different mecha to her, and my m4d l0v of all things shinkindousenki gundam Wing related. Which is difficult when you're being laughed at. ^_^

On a strange note of serendipity, i bought the cute clamp manga book thing i've been meaning to buy since... uh... last time i went to Oriental City. I was feeling shown up by ng's superior clamp-buying 5k1ll5, you see. ^_^ And it turned out to be 'Lawful Drug' - Gouhou Drug - which some random selectsmart test had told me was my ideal clamp manga and which i had thence heard none of. Wierd, huh?

Now all i have to do is find some translations of the bloody thing... it doesn't even merit a mention on anipike, you know that? *sulk*

I also got vol. 10 of yami no matsuei, after embarrasedly asking the nice man if he had any Angel Sanctuary, YnM or DNAngel since I really can't read enough kanji to survive in that bookshop. I can't read /any/ kanji, actually. Damn.

Pity it was vol. 10, really, considering that i've only found translations of volumes 1-5.

But i /did/ eventually get volume summaries, and realised quite why i knew i would love YnM - it's so gay! gaygaygaygaygay! *claps, goes fangirlie* God i love it. All of my Quatre-love has whooshed over to Hisoka, because he's so darn key-ute. And Tsuzuki is great. great great great. And, yeah. I /like/ YnM.

Oh, and as if to confirm my highly embarrasing fangirlie status, i bought pocky. Mind you, it was nice pocky. Mmm, pocky.

Somebody shoot me. Please.

...oh, and angie is damn, damn cool. In case i hadn't already mentioned that.

ahem.

Angie, have I mentioned recently that I love you?

*bouncebounce* UTENA! *bouncebounce*

(for the uninitiated, angie just burnt me a few discs of utena and i am thereof happy. happy happy. so happy that i'm restricting myself to very short paragraphs. because long paragraphs are essentially counter-revolutionary. long parentheses, however, are not.)

And is it just me, or is Utena /all/ about the incest and the lesbianism? I mean, miki and kozue - twincest. Anthy and... uhh, her brother, whatever he's called - you say comfort, i say bigbrothercest. Thingywhatshernamethepopularone and touga - yet /more/ bigbrothercest. Yay! And then obviously with the juri-sempai and... that girl, yeah, her. And yet again with the utena and anthy.

You may notice a definite Anthy bias. I /like/ Anthy. She's great.

Anyway, yeah, wow. Utena. Damn cool. And the lyrics of the songs! I /need/ those. And then i need to learn how to rip them from mp3 to cd, because i'm not very bright and it's probably beyond spartacus' (*pats comp*) capabilities. (Spartacus, because he's very Spartan for being able to survive on 8mb of free space for so long, as he did before we found more stuff to delete. And because, hey, Spartacus. good name. Crucifixion, don'tchaknow. And gladiatorial combat.)

And mmm, nice rose/prince/jewellery imagery stuff going on. And... ohh, i'm madly in love with SKUtena.

And my writing style has, therefore, taken a strange step for the worse, with my basic grasp of names flown out the window like a once-trapped fly with sense. Because it does that.

helicon, late evening. Harpy has, for once, deigned to come in and sit at the kitchen table, watching Hilde stack instant ramen packets in the cupboard. After a period of comfortable silence, Xu wanders in.

Xu: Hilde, tell Duo that his bottom drawer is not a good place to hide things he thinks it's funny to keep from me.

Hilde: Alright.

Xu: Oh, Harpy, you're here. For once. Got bored of RL?

Harpy: I felt it was my duty to for once appear in a musefic. Just, you know, so you guys don't forget I exist. Which I'd hate you to do.

Xu: Fair enough.

Seifer: *appears from lounge* Hey, Harpy, you notice the way those fangirlies were gnawing on pocky in Utena? You're /just/ /like/ /them/.

Hilde: .../I/ like pocky.

Seifer: There we go.

Hilde: What's that supposed to mean?

Harpy: *raises hand* Me. Headache. Mild for now. Must not be exacerbated. Or I'll fic you two together and Make You Like It.

The two draw apart from each other, glaring.

Seifer: But we're... the opposite sex. That's not like you.

Harpy: I'll have you know I started out in het fanfiction. I was on /mailing/ /lists/. *thinks* ...which I don't think I've ever unsubscribed from. God bless the nomail option. And I may never have posted fic, but I sure wrote it. So stop bickering or it'll be aishiteru!zutto, church marriages, songfics with interspersed quotes and all within a background-free crossover.

Xu: I love those threats. They change every time.

Harpy: Originality, babes. Either got it or you don't. Anyway, I have to keep order in this place somehow, don't I?

Duo enters following the oh-so-alluring smell of instant ramen. He plugs the laptop in at the nearest socket and sets it up on the table.

Duo: We're not SBs, are we?

Harpy: SBs? Stupid bitches? If that, yes.

Xu: Soul Bonds. Some people who write fic have them.

Harpy: God, no. Physically impossible for me to soul bond with y'all, for one. Or is it spiritually? And what would have happened to /me/ when cbSquall killed Squall? You're almost-GFs, and you deal with the heteronyms, and you have the freedom of helicon, when you can bitch all you like, and you act like you when I scene you but I choose the scene, and I set the fics in which I write you. Although I blame you for most of them.

Duo: So you're doing this?

Harpy: Why ask me? Ask your prostate gland.

...and my prayers are answered!

In case you're wondering, that was the gouhou drug info prayer. Not any of the other ones. Still, the gods of the internet appear to have successfully maneuvered their hands around in its copious ass, and granted me to power to find a gouhou drug site! With character info!

...I'm gonna go off and write a gushing fangirlie letter to the site designer now. Yes, that's just what I'll do...