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... so, like, does anyone want ficlets from me? I haven't been writing nearly as much as I'd like to on my own, and think maybe a bit of jumpstarting (or, at least, Inspiration) from anyone on the flist interested might be good. ^^; I'm cheap! I'm easy! Suggest a fandom/pairing/whatever that I'm familiar with, and I'll go for it!
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--we now return you to your regularly-scheduled entry!--
You know, I think the thing about me is not so much that I hate going out -- I love going out and going places and hanging out with people. With me, my major problem is that I need the motivation to actually get going in the first place. XD; It's like a ball rolling down a hill -- it'll just SIT there with no inclination of movement, but if you give it a slight push, whoosh! there it goes!
Which is to say I went out shopping with folks today and I now have a "perfect" outfit for September when Serenity is finally released on NOT SPECIAL PREVIEW. Uh. The thingy that means for all general audiences which I should know, but actually don't. I really don't watch movies in the theater that often, aha. But really, the best part of it is that this is stuff I would wear normally, so hell! All the better!
(... I actually went shopping for clothes today. o_O For fun, rather than the fact that they're threadbare and falling off me. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO! And there was JEWELRY TOO OH MY GOD.)
Anyway, so. Switching to strange fandom occurences -- I managed to acquire a BL drama that had Miyata Kouki in it (I have a new fangirl crush♥ it's just that he always sounds so cute, even when he speaks normally♥), Bara no Namae. And while it's the typical AH IYA *SQUISH SQUISH* at parts, there was a "villain" whose name was pronounced strangely -- "ra ruruna" or something along those lines -- which struck me because it was a female villain, and everyone knows that Girls Don't Exist In The Land Of The Gay.
HOWEVER, when I actually paid attention to when they were talking about the monster female thingy, I realized that ra ruruna was how they were pronouncing La Llorona.
Now, I know the Japanese are big fans of taking other mythologies and twisting them accordingly to whatever their story needs, but OH MY GOD. I first encountered the La Llorona (the weeping woman) legend in a book of old Texas folkstories when I was ... um. In elementary school, I believe. (Later research shows it's more of a Mexican/Texas border story, but hey.) And it, along with the story of Bloody Mary, was one of the very few from my childhood that still give me the chills today. The website in particular has a "teaser" that shows a child playing by the riverbank -- when I first found it, I had to click away really fast because, uh. I lived in one of those places where everyone, if you went far back enough, has a creek in their backyards.
Don't go down to the river, child
Don't go there alone
For the sobbing woman, wet and wild
Might claim you for her own.
In all versions, it basically goes that a woman drowns her children for love of a man who abandoned her, and in remorse, drowns herself, forever wandering riverbanks sobbing and searching for her children; unattended kids are in danger of being pulled down to join her forever. The above verse is quoted from a poem/song I haven't read in over ten years, but I can still remember that chorus vividly.
And yes! Yes, I was a superstitious kid, and it freaked the hell out of me, imagining some water-logged green-skinned putrid-eyed woman with twigs and leaves in her hair appearing out of the water and yanking me down. (I had a really horrific image of her as a child, in that uniquely exaggerated way all childhood terrors of mine were.) It's probably too much to say that my apathy towards swimming stems from that, but I know I sure as hell don't like the idea (still!) of going down by running water by myself.
... it's been YEARS since I thought of that story, till I listened to that stupid drama and paid attention to what they were actually SAYING, in the plotty parts. XD; And wow, that, uh, makes the whole part at the end where the La Llorona is killed that much creepier, when it was just sort of funny before. XD; Probably every other fangirl who acquired it is going on about YEI SLASH YEI GHEI, and as for me?
AIEEEEEEEEE DON'T GO DOWN TO THE RIVER BY YOURSELF!
--it would explain, though, why so many of them had powers/weird things surrounding water. BECAUSE YAH HAHA LA LLORONA.
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--we now return you to your regularly-scheduled entry!--
You know, I think the thing about me is not so much that I hate going out -- I love going out and going places and hanging out with people. With me, my major problem is that I need the motivation to actually get going in the first place. XD; It's like a ball rolling down a hill -- it'll just SIT there with no inclination of movement, but if you give it a slight push, whoosh! there it goes!
Which is to say I went out shopping with folks today and I now have a "perfect" outfit for September when Serenity is finally released on NOT SPECIAL PREVIEW. Uh. The thingy that means for all general audiences which I should know, but actually don't. I really don't watch movies in the theater that often, aha. But really, the best part of it is that this is stuff I would wear normally, so hell! All the better!
(... I actually went shopping for clothes today. o_O For fun, rather than the fact that they're threadbare and falling off me. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO! And there was JEWELRY TOO OH MY GOD.)
Anyway, so. Switching to strange fandom occurences -- I managed to acquire a BL drama that had Miyata Kouki in it (I have a new fangirl crush♥ it's just that he always sounds so cute, even when he speaks normally♥), Bara no Namae. And while it's the typical AH IYA *SQUISH SQUISH* at parts, there was a "villain" whose name was pronounced strangely -- "ra ruruna" or something along those lines -- which struck me because it was a female villain, and everyone knows that Girls Don't Exist In The Land Of The Gay.
HOWEVER, when I actually paid attention to when they were talking about the monster female thingy, I realized that ra ruruna was how they were pronouncing La Llorona.
Now, I know the Japanese are big fans of taking other mythologies and twisting them accordingly to whatever their story needs, but OH MY GOD. I first encountered the La Llorona (the weeping woman) legend in a book of old Texas folkstories when I was ... um. In elementary school, I believe. (Later research shows it's more of a Mexican/Texas border story, but hey.) And it, along with the story of Bloody Mary, was one of the very few from my childhood that still give me the chills today. The website in particular has a "teaser" that shows a child playing by the riverbank -- when I first found it, I had to click away really fast because, uh. I lived in one of those places where everyone, if you went far back enough, has a creek in their backyards.
Don't go down to the river, child
Don't go there alone
For the sobbing woman, wet and wild
Might claim you for her own.
In all versions, it basically goes that a woman drowns her children for love of a man who abandoned her, and in remorse, drowns herself, forever wandering riverbanks sobbing and searching for her children; unattended kids are in danger of being pulled down to join her forever. The above verse is quoted from a poem/song I haven't read in over ten years, but I can still remember that chorus vividly.
And yes! Yes, I was a superstitious kid, and it freaked the hell out of me, imagining some water-logged green-skinned putrid-eyed woman with twigs and leaves in her hair appearing out of the water and yanking me down. (I had a really horrific image of her as a child, in that uniquely exaggerated way all childhood terrors of mine were.) It's probably too much to say that my apathy towards swimming stems from that, but I know I sure as hell don't like the idea (still!) of going down by running water by myself.
... it's been YEARS since I thought of that story, till I listened to that stupid drama and paid attention to what they were actually SAYING, in the plotty parts. XD; And wow, that, uh, makes the whole part at the end where the La Llorona is killed that much creepier, when it was just sort of funny before. XD; Probably every other fangirl who acquired it is going on about YEI SLASH YEI GHEI, and as for me?
AIEEEEEEEEE DON'T GO DOWN TO THE RIVER BY YOURSELF!
--it would explain, though, why so many of them had powers/weird things surrounding water. BECAUSE YAH HAHA LA LLORONA.
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