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egad, it's dusty here

THEORETICALLY I still have this journal, don't I.

Hi everyone I'm working on those fic prompts people gave me like a week ago orz orz orz I AM LIKE THE MOST EASILY-DISTRACTED THING IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER AND A DAY.

So I have a new schedule at work! I am now 8:30 - 5 (as opposed to 9 to 5:30), but it is ... surprisingly difficult to adjust to even just a half-hour, because I am a terrible nightowl and if it were up to me, I'd go to bed at two and wake up at ten every day. Okay, that's a lie. More like go to bed at two and wake up at nine-thirty and even then that'd be pushing it, one way or the other. On the other hand, getting home half an hour earlier is completely A-OK with me.

My June feels like it was incredibly jam-packed, even though in retrospect, I didn't ... do that much? I saw my aunt and uncle for dinner, I went up and harassed

harukami and

mackzazzle and the Laser-Eyed Super-Smart Cat Of Doom for a weekend, I ... did ... other things ... ? Watched Doctor Who and started Life on Mars and went to the Freemont Solstice Parade and there are things I am so forgetting. Somewhere.

And then 4th of July weekend, while everyone and their grandmother was at AX,

zinjadu and I combined our magical planning powers and got

theladyfeylene up for a long weekend. :D In our truest fashion, we had adventures in the sense of her plane got in early, we had the wrong phone number, her cell had died, and I proved myself to be the most oblivious person in the world. (No, really. APPARENTLY someone can be yelling my name and waving at me and I will still walk right past them until they are in my face going HI! >_>a On top of the hilarity of Haru and I missing each other for nearly half an hour at the ferry, when I was flopped on the bench behind her and she was pacing in front of the exit and NEITHER OF US THOUGHT TO ACTUALLY LOOK AROUND sob, I think this probably bodes poorly for me if I ever go somewhere to meet people.) We got mobbed by squealing ravers on the bus, discovered a fantastic new Japanese resturant in the ID, and there was a lot of just hanging out and watching Top Gear.

Somewhere in me I have an essay on the ending of Doctor Who season four and inherent tragedy and characters, but it's not going anywhere right now.

Instead, I will say that I really like Junjou Romantica/Egoist/Terrorist and I like sunny days when the weather is still cool, and HEY YOU SEATTLE FOLKS I know that Jessie is arranging things but you guys should totally come see WALL•E with me because I didn't get to when everyone else went and it looks so cute and I hate going to movies by myself, I'm so lame ;;. Okay? Okay. :|b

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SUMMARIES, SWEET. :Db E-even if I don't really like the cliche of PLOT DEVICE MOVING IN, I'll wait to see how this rolls, first. Thank you for the summaries! \o/

I can't get over the fact that Usagi named Takahiro and Manami's kid "Mahiro" (same kanji and everything). Will their second child be Takanami? XDD

I wonder if the Summer 2008 issue will have a Romantica chapter in it. And while we're at it, what magazine do I need to stalk for Egoist/Terrorist chapters? >_>; The printing schedule is so annoying.

... well, it's not like Akikawa Yayoi's fans seem to NOTICE that every single seme in the author's novels seems to be "Akihiko," even if the uke went from Takahiro to Misaki. XD

(Mahiro is kind of a cute name, though. I like it.)

What's wrong with it? All I know is that it's published in one of the Asuka offshoots, but that's about it. o_oa

It runs "once in a blue moon" (how one of my scanner friends put it) and the different series run in different magazines, from what I heard? As in, Romantica is in Ciel Tres Tres, but Egoist/Terrorist are in some other magazine. :X Of course, she hasn't written anything other than Romantica in a while. (Unless you count that super short valentine's chapter for Egoist, which was SO SHORT it hardly even counted. >O )

No, no, the Egoist books have Nowaki as a seme! :D And I'm sure if Akikawa Yayoi ever writes a Junai Terrorist series, it will feature Miyabi Yoh as the seme, with Nakatsuki Shinobu as the uke XD

I do wonder how Usagi would know about them though. He barely even interacts with Nowaki*, I can see him having chats about relationships with Hiroki's boss XDD

*(VERY EVIDENT FROM THE NOVELS, because while Hiro is a bit more uke than "in real life," Nowaki is a lot more RAPIST XO )

... that is TRAGIC, sob. :( (Also a bit confusing, so I'm glad that they compile everything for the volumes, because I would hate to have to go chasing after three separate series just to get the whole Junjou set. >:) And as much as I love Romantica, Egoist is my favorite. Sob.

Oh, you're right! But those are relatively new! I bet the fans were a bit shocked! XD (Interestingly, the Junai Egoist dramas have Inoue Kazuhiko voicing a "Professor Tanaka" instead of Miyabi, I wonder if this was something that got changed later on?)

And, well. Hiroki canonically is a blabbermouth when drunk, and apparently Usagi is still friendly with the Kamijou parents, so. WHO KNOWS, maybe they meet occasionally and Usagi gets Hiroki drunk for material. Sob. (Also, maybe I misinterpreted the dramas, but I didn't get the impression that Junai!Nowaki was more rapist? Have you heard the dramas? Am I nuts? HELP ME. XD)

Yeah, Hiroki is soooooooo out of it when drunk XDD That's the best part of the Junai novels, the little comics at the beginning and the end. In the third one, Hiroki's all drunk (while Usagi is dead tired and wants him to leave, of course), and Hiroki starts saying how Nowaki's not as nice/good as Usagi wrote him, and then he goes on about how in love he is, and OH, AKIHIKO WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND. Which pisses Usagi off so much, that he starts prodding Hiro for more infos XD "Did I tell you about when he went abroad?" "Nope." "It's a long story." "Do tell."

That actually surprised me a bit, that Hiroki wouldn't mention in an entire year that Nowaki was gone. >_>;;; and that Usagi didn't notice.

ANYWAY, the rapist parts. I think it was volume 2 or 3, not sure which one, but Hiroki is hanging out with Akihiko a lot and confiding in him. Nowaki gets SUPER JEALOUS and thinks that Hiroki is gonna leave him for Akihiko that he rapes Hiroki. :X Hiroki shouts "stop" and "it hurts" and everything. And there was no lube involved. I know this for a fact, because they actually talk about lube in the novels (vs. in the manga where we're supposed to assume that all proper preparations took place). Of course Nowaki regrets it immediately after that, so he disappears.
Hiroki of course forgives him almost immediately, so he decides to track Nowaki down (a couple of days later). Nowaki immediately apologizes, but Hiroki says, "No, don't worry about it, it was kind of my fault too."

Maybe I should download the novels just so I can find the exact quote, but yeah. >( That pissed me off a lot. And that's when I decided that Usagi doesn't know Nowaki at all.

Oh, they have those bits in the dramas, too -- they're pretty hilarious. XD Oh Hiroki, you try so hard, and yet you're kind of adorably fail. XD

... that must be in v3, unless they condensed the Junai dramas more than I thought they had; Akihiko doesn't get mentioned at all in the first two volumes, and they're kind of with the cliches, sure, but not necessarily of the rapist-seme/raped-uke style.

Honestly, the Junai series is a lot more heavy with the cliches and tropes -- Usagi-daitentei isn't exactly being his most creative or sensitive with them. >_> And I would imagine Hiroki probably pitched a fit at the idea, because you know he reads those, even as he's going "kldjaourioa;er" at him and Nowaki being characters in an Akikawa Yayoi novel.

Yeah. XD Although if you go by the drama CDs, Nowaki reads them too. (Erm... I forget which one, but I think it was an extra CD possibly based off some official DJs. Hiroki was listening to the Romantica drama CD, Nowaki asks what it is and recognizes the author as one of Usagi's pen names. And then shows that he knows the contents as well as Hiroki XD)
Heck, one of the novel comics shows Nowaki accepting the delivery of 99 Junai Egoist books (Hiroki's attempt at making the series unavailable), I can't imagine him not reading even one. XDD Although Nowaki also says that he gave one of them to a nurse at the hospital, and she replied that she'd already read it -- "it's a pretty popular series."

Yeah, the cliches are what made it hard to read the Junai Romantica ones. Egoist was still sort of okay, possibly because I like the characters more, but I could call nearly all the events in the first Romantica volume. Classical love story misunderstandings and whatnot. I can only assume that Usagi-daitentei uses his BL novels as stress relief, and that his REAL novels are absolute masterpieces of literary work. :X

Oh, I remember that bit! Poor Nowaki, he was so confused at the shipments of books that came to his doorstep. XD (And I can't really imagine that HE'D be pleased with the idea that he'd ever rape Hiroki; it's probably a good thing Hiroki's boyfriend and childhood friend don't seem to interact much.)

I think that's actually what they say at one point? Usagi mentions how the BL novels are just his fantasies and such, and I would imagine they're a lot easier to write than the books where he won those two prestigious literary awards whose names I have totally blanked on. Sob.

THE KIKUKAWA AWARD, wasn't it?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Nowaki would get very upset if he read that. Possibly tell Hiro-san that he would NEVER, EVER, EVER do that. And then maybe he'd have a chat with Usami-san, all smiles and stuff. :D :D :D "Please don't write something like that about me again, or I will kill you in your sleep."
Which only helps to perpetuate the negative image Usagi has of him. Because, really? What few interactions they do have seem to be Nowaki acting irrationally for NO REASON. Unless Usagi knows that Hiroki was in love with him, it would be really out of the blue.

Kikukawa and then Naomori? Maybe? Hell if I can remember, seriously. XD

OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD I can only think of three times that we see Nowaki and Usagi interact -- when Nowaki tells Usagi he'll take Hiroki, when he drags Hiroki off after the whole name thing, and then the "uchi no Hiro-san" line. (Pffft.) I WOULD suspect that Usagi remains oblivious to Hiroki's old feelings as Takahiro was for his, but there's also Hiroki's whole "being loose-lipped" thing, so it wouldn't surprise me if it slipped out in passing then.

... and the daitentei's ego is not a small thing either, even if he's not in the Egoist story, so. WHO REALLY KNOWS. I'd be scared of a pleasantly-dangerous Nowaki, though. Just a feeling. :|b

That's actually one thing that bothers me in the series, is how they can be SO perceptive of one thing, yet absolutely ignorant of another. Takahiro is shown as a perpetual idiot, so I'm fine with him being oblivious to Usagi's feelings, but Usagi seems to be able to read people pretty well. And he's been with Akihiko since they were ten, I have a hard time believing he never once suspected. :/ (And as much as Hiroki wants to believe he was hiding his feelings very well, I'd venture to say he was maybe even a bit OBVIOUS, since everybody ELSE could figure it out. >_> )

Yeah, I think a seriously pissed Nowaki would be veeery scary. Considering how he almost beat Miyagi up for almost!kissing Hiroki. :X

My suspicion is that Akihiko knew -- maybe not back when they were young (I doubt Hiroki himself got it till he was a bit older), but certainly as time went on. But at the same time, HE was also hopelessly in love with Takahiro, and Usagi's also not the sort who'd really put himself into that situation? Like, accepting Hiroki's feelings would give him distraction/solace from Takahiro's obliviousness, but ... Usagi's not the sort who'd DO that. I feel like he knew, wasn't interested, and the one time they slept together just confirmed that for him. And BEING Usagi-daitentei, who doesn't respond like normal people would, he just said nothing.

Nowaki was very cool in that scene. ... I feel like a ridiculous fangirl for saying it, but he WAS.

Yeah, I'd probably say that Usagi knew, decided it was best to ignore it, and left it at that. He was probably secretly happy that Hiroki found somebody else.

It's probably also a good thing that Hiroki and Nowaki got together before Usagi and Misaki did, because that would probably just been an extra sort of heartache for Hiroki. >_> Now he can just be happy for Usagi. (If he was happy for Shinoda, then I'm sure he's happy for Usagi.)

Hey, did you think it was strange that Takahiro and Usagi were best friends for 10+ years but Misaki had never met Usagi even once?

NOWAKI IS ALWAYS COOL. I love the chapter in vol 8, where Nowaki actually stands up for himself against Hiroki XDD

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