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Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

Well... Some people have issues on which I simply choose to not comment on because they are as stupid as they are useless. (the issues, I mean.) Some people need to get their heads out of their crapholes, do pardon the language.

Lately I've had trouble with writing even the stories whose plotlines have long since been set out in my head and worked on to perfection. Whatever I start, I just can't find my way with words anymore. It has never hit me this hard before.
When you feel up to par and are willing to share... I'll be already waiting impatiently for it.

I'm guessing part of the problems could be because a select group of people play multiple characters. Hence, they grow OOC since it's IS hard to keep them all in character. Also, this way, the variations are lost and all the wonderful possibilities and reactions that otherwise could be something thrilling to look forward to just don't happen and a part of the magic is lost. (Whooo, lookie there. I went all purple-prosey on the spot.)

There are times when I can ramble on and on and not say anything worthy, and then I have days when all I'm willing to contribute to this world are short sentences, if not monosyllabic words.

It's all Bakura's fault. He slept through all the big excitement and wasted a wonderful chance of taking over the world.
A body-snatching clone at that. :D Maybe I'll take a look at it once I can force myself to get more active in the fandom again. Occultism is good in that sense. You can do crazy stuff and back it up with efficiency.
I can imagine that. Things unknown are good for investigation. And examination. *snicker*

I don't scare that easily, don't worry. ~.^

Oh, worry not about it! I can handle it. If you feel the need to go all 1337 is perfectly justified, then by all means~

That is one way to look at Noa, but it's only the outer shell, the face he chooses to show to the outside world. Like a mask; much like the one Bakura used to wear in the canon. They both have been fucked over, each in his own special way and that's what makes them such wonderful characters to work with.
I'm still working on him, but here I was referring more to myself (I think?). All means necessary with Noa actually DOES mean 'all means necessary'.

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Granted, on the "issues" topic. Except I'm the outrageously rude American, right? So I feel somehow divinely inspired to go over and try to turn them from their villainous idiotic ways so as to fill the earth with SMART idiots. And don't worry about the language. You hear far worse just walking down the street here. *Sigh*

Oh dear, lack of words sounds like this mythical "Writer's block" people complain to me about. How terrible... I wish I could give you words in that case, because it would probably be most gratifying for me in the end when I sit down with a nice big stack of paper covered in text...ahhhh...
Ooh, but when I can find a way to share, I intend to. ^_^ I'll just have to find a way that doesn't put it up before the eyse of others as long as there's still a chance I could surprise the comm with it. (The comm members...well...half of them read my normal journal at times, too. I couldn't risk it there.)

Oh yes, I couldn't agree more on playing multiple characters. I avoided it because I felt bad that I was controlling and limiting the plot...clearly others don't share my sentiments... *sigh* But I still feel bad for them because they have to devote so much more time and effort to running something that's less interesting. I feel sorry for them, and what's worse, I can't just come in and take over for them and give them a rest, because they've developed so many little things, and plot anal-ness...and...I just can't follow that. Not to mention I don't really WANT to. I like drifting in the shadows and picking out people I like to talk to... (And yours wasn't nearly as purple prosey as my stuff is. It's the truth.)

Bah. Either long sentences or monosyllabism are fine here. I'm just happy for the company. I enjoy this, you know. (Mad english major, me. ^_~)

yes, it IS all Bakura's fault...*sigh* (Really, i got suckered into a trip, and I thought I told everyone. I'm so sorry. Really it's MY fault...)
Oh and occultism? You have no idea. I made a little drabblet on "the ghost in the machine" idea. Noa's like the freakin' embodiment of THAT. But if anyone's being taken apart, it's Bakura, and by Noa at that. They're both a little nasty and sadistic to eachother, but it's a sort of fight, the way I see it. (Not "dominance" since I usually hate having to deal with all the seme/uke stereotypes, but more of a fight to see who can manipulate whom the best.)

My hair scares ALL.

7H4N|< J00. ^_~

Ah yes, well put. Bakura's lashing back though, and Noa was supposedly "redeemed" or cheesily won over, so...what can we do with that?
"All means necessary" with a guy who wants to live forever because he's going to get "devoured' if he dies, and totally have no revenge abilities takes on new levels. You think Noa can top that? (Er...you can take that last sentence any way you want. I'm curious enough not to be as revulsed as usual.)

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

Ah, the glorious duty of making the world a better place! I stopped bothering with that a while ago.

I'm hoping it will pass along with the environment change. Which also might mean that this is the last time we talk in a month or so. Y__Y
E-mail, maybe?

I think it's the wish to control all. Maybe in the beginning it was out of fear that the plot wouldn't move anywhere as well as worry that there wouldn't be enough players. And with time, they just grew used to it and thought nothing of it, and now they feel quite possessive of their characters and don't want anyone 'from the side' use the things they've built up, which is also the reason I deleted Noa's journal instead of handing it over to Silver. That one rule outraged me at the time. That and the fact that there wasn't all that much to work from, so I saw no point in keeping it around for those few dozens of lines.
Personally, I think that if anyone wants to play a previously dropped character it's a common logic and courtesy to start a new journal instead of taking over the old RPer's one. At least that is how I've seen this issue handled in other RP communities.

I'm quite glad to hear that my prose has lost most of its purple. (Then again, I'm not sure it ever had excessive amounts of it to begin with.)

See, there are two ways I can go - either I ramble or say nothing. Lately, I've been trying to find a middle ground. But an invitation to ramble is always more than welcome. :D

Oh, don't be so harsh on yourself. Things happen that we can't control. It's all a part of real life.
It would always be that way, too, and I doubt they'd like it any other way. (Ah, yes. That part of the word. Or rather, its meaning. I see no reason for the person who came out winning one evening, couldn't end up losing the other. Life is all about the ups and downs, right? Manipulation games? Count me in right there.)

Try me.
\/\/3|_C0|\/|3. :D (Ohgods, Noa would have the time of his life doing this. xD)

Twist it and bring it all under. Or above, depending wich position you look at it from. While he might be "won over", it was only Mokuba who saw it and Yami who semi-saw it. But who's to say that he didn't just withdraw at a strategically important point in time when he realised his future possibilities.
I think, yes, he can. A data creature that can life for as long as there are ways to create substitute bodies comes damned close to immortality, and if that doesn't do the trick, then he can suft through anything electronic and keep himself forever alive in a, say, old computer or some such thing that would be considered old-fashioned in any given time in future. (Usually, there is more than one way, one meaning I give to words, but only one I tend to really expand on.)

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Bah, well, it's not like I'm any good at making the world a better place myself. *snicker*

Email would be fine if you'd like. *blink*
sweet_jumpin_jillybeans@yahoo.com

Mm, perhaps. I prefer not to see it so badly--all they want to do is keep it going, and as the one person who was left behind in the last bit of business and elft talking to myself through four characters, I can't blame them for wanting to keep the plot going. I see it as this, most peopel there, like me, are first-time-RP-ers. Now, while I have five years worth of work in fanfiction and mad observation of people around me, they might not exactly grasp all the stuff right away, or realize the effects of what they're doing, but...they're getting better, aren't they? Even if things mess up, everyone's benefitting by learning something. I can't tell you how much dialogue-study I've done using the RP in places where people actually do interact with entirely seperate people. If you see the contrast, too, it's amazingly instructive. *grin*
I don't blame you for deleting the Noa journal--you freed yourself up to, anyway, by giving him an easy cover story. You didn't need to hand him off. And besides...it's tremendously difficult to properly play someone else's character translation. Sometimes I wish I could help them out more, but I know despite never playing the characters properly, I'm not on enough to play a character involved in their main storyline. it'd slow them all down.

Nobody does purple prose quite like those gifted in purple to begin with. (Oh noes! The real reason for my Mariku playing comes to light!)

That wasn't just an invitation to ramble--you can say whatever you please as long as you like. *smile* I don't mind at all. ^_^

Well they might nto like it any other way if you just forced them into change. It'd have to be a gradual opening to the point where you say "see? Isn't this nicer?" And part of you will always miss having the control, anyway. I know I sometimes miss playing four characters, and I admit it freely. It's more bittersweet.
And I prefer being hard on myself rather than being hard on other people. It's better to be patient (or try to be) and remember you're not so different...at least in my case, I think.

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*grin* See? That's the sort of stuff I would have loved. It's the most fun in the world to play the villains properly, I think. I can't see what's so good about all those dime-a-dozen heroes. The Villain drives the plot, and thus is always the more crucial character to develop if given the two...at least in my opinion.
And the immortality thing is what Bakura needs--that's one thing nobody realizes in how I play him. he's terribly religious in his own way. He's scared to die withotu taking the pharaoh down with him. He has to live forever...
I think he'd like having Noa around even on that note. ^_~
And Ryou makes organic bodies...
(And double entendres are MOST of the fun of playing Mariku, don't you know that? And Bakura's last entry was a sonnet that had three different meanings for the word "vale" alone. I LIVE off side meanings, darling!)

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

I think the world has its special charm the way it is right now. Otherwise we wouldn't be living here.

Email is also more private and has lesser chance of someone uninvited happening onto important and super-secret plot twists and turns. lightrobber4ever@yahoo.com is mine. Feel free to hit up a message - no matter how long - any time. =D

Well, from the brief glimpses I've thrown in there lately, they are, indeed, getting better. In that horrible spiralling-downwards way. In the last few years I've been observing other RP communities with the intentions to maybe join in at some point and what I see there is radically different and high quality.
*snicker* Then again... maybe I've only been shown the best parts, leaving the ugly well concealed from foreign eyes.

My issue with almost everything is that I tend to lost interest fast if there's nothing interesting going on. And sometimes even if there is.

I've seen sickening examples of the purple and know for sure that I still have ways to go to reach that kind of level. Of course, who's to say that a purple-tinted sentence or two doesn't slip by and into my writing every now and then?

And here we are, both reassuring the other over and over again that ramble-or-not is a okay, and all we really do is just switch around the words. Since it's already a fact, let's close this subject and move onto something else, shall we? :D

That would clearly depend on the kind of person we're talking about. Of course, I can do both, but I lack the patience as an observer to deal with clear cases of insane crazy when they come my way. And I can be overly harsh as well as lenient as a leader, and at the most improper times to boot.

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And in my opinion as well. Most of the heroic persons are just annoying. They are all cut out the same, like goddamn cardboard figures. Sickening to a point.
Oh, they have too many things in common, don't they? Both have been trapped in an inanimate object, both are mere souls and neither can really die unless the whole world doesn't go down along with them.

Ah, the subtle fun of wordplay that not everyone understands until it smacks them square in the face, and some even then remain unaware. Of course, not being and English expert, my possibilities are slightly limited in this language, but I find it to be a nice pastime. Like writing haiku. I'm sure Noa would find some irony in that.

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps that explains what the moon's for, in that case?

Oh dear...you really shouldn't tell me there's no length restriction. *laughs nervously*
but...this at least means I can send you the glorinous drabblets, right?

Mm, I can't say much there. *shrug* I haven't been in other places either, and I'm usually less of a pairing nazi...but I have to admit, I have a softer spot for anyone who doesn't force me to write yaoi, at this point. And I'm still a fanficcist foremost, and probably always will be, no matter how much fun I have playing my two characters. It's just simpler for me. RPing is too much like an experiment, and besides, even if I DO scrw up everything, those people might just "solve" it without a thought, or worse yet, try to "redeem" Bakura.
Still...seeing other people's thoughts that way is deliciously intimate and instructive in an ever so slightly voyeuristic way. (Though I still skip over the sappy bits every chance I get. I don't need the sex ed after all.)

well yeah, but they also didn't play with your character, so it's understandable...though Fox-sama claims she was just ready to start when you left, and I do believe her there. *shrug* If nothing's going on, I usually find something to do to occupy myself, or screw up other people. Villain-playing is nice that way.

Bakura's entire journal is purple at times. *snicker* But he'd be the type to do it just to brag, so...I feel I can get away with it? Outlets, after all. *grin*

Right. Subject closed to all canoodling, roundabout words already. *snicker* Sorry about that.

Ah yes, well, everyone has "open mouth, insert foot" moments, so to speak, but I just like apologizing for them profusely...
then when I'm nasty as a villain later, peopel automatically soften it, true, which isn't so good, but I prefer being background than being a clear cut leader. I like to think people enjoy themselves when I'm NOT around, and I take pleasure congratulating myself for introducing them. I'd make a very poor leader. I don't have nearly enough organization for that.

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Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

It could be the moon, indeed.

Does it scare you? Does it make you feel uncomfortable? Do you want to talk about it? *grin*
That you can do without a doubt.

Fiction also demands you to work with other characters on your own. No one's stopping by to tell you, "Oh you did that and that wrong." It's more... liberating. I've been rather nosy on a few occasions myself, taking time to wade throug all possible communities, some - upon request. And one thing I saw everywhere is that, it's more than just possible to screw up a character that's VERY easy to play, depending on the person who takes him/her up.

If she were 'going to', she should have said a word. Just a day or so before I left I was chatting with her and Pearl and while we did talk about the RP, nothing was mentioned.
People need to talk things out first, or at least say that they'd like some character interaction so that we can get together and discuss things. Personally, I don't appreciate being jumped at with a ready plot and having to hear, "HOMGZ!!! LET'S PLAY IT THIS WAY!11!!"
During my one-on-one RP period there was a girl with whom I could spend hours planning even the smallest things before we typed up a log. Every smallest detail was thought out, every possible responses were, too. And hey, it was even more fun than spontaneously coming up with stuff.

Even the most rotten-to-the-core characters need their little outlets. Noa, on the other hand would rather store things in some secret dark corner or other.

Don't mention it. Can happen to anyone.

Seeing how I'm chaos incarnate, I don't make that good of a leader either. I'm more of that background force that manipulates the group from the shadows to the point where I could be the leader, but I don't carry the title.

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This is one of reasons I liked DOMA arc. Yami finally broke down. And Amelda with his suicide-murder attempt was just the icing on the cake. I finally saw some real emotion there.
If villains could be this easily sorted out and defeated in real life...
I guess I know why so many people don't like DOMA arc and call it's characters a joke -- they still believe that the world could be so clean-cut and sugary sweet if they try really hard. Which is a lie. No one wants to see the ugly side of life, but just because of that it won't disappear anywhere.
That's why they're made to work together. I remember there was this one fic Pearl and I started working on together a while ago. It dealt with a comeback of the Virtual World and taking control over people who were spending a lot of time in front of computers and whatnot. In the end, Noa left the world in Kaiba's skin (and killed Mokuba while he was at it), Bakura and Malik took over the world with his aid and together they made a nice happy trinity and brought about a new order and lots of destruction. It's a truly glorious idea and I'd like to expand on it more, but alas! Pearl is busy with her life and ficwriting has no place in it at the moment.

Loquaciousness one

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Or it could simply be an orbital lump of cheese. You never know with plothole instabilities as of late...

I don't talk, I babble. Especially under the influence of Vault compounded with waking up at the mythical 4:30 am...

Ah yes, but I never know whether or not I screw up or not, because my ego is salved at all angles. *giggle* Sometimes I wish they'd truth!abuse me a little more, but nobody ever does...maybe they're afraid I'll explode and go all Bakura 3X on their asses...
I just generally think things through and try to form rounded personalities out of weird fragments and hints of things. All characters are "translations" after all. you can never REALLY have the original if you want to acheive "real person" depth. (Actually I think you can never really have the original even then, but that's just me.)

Maybe that lack of mentioning implies surprise!buttsexdrama? I can't say really. I'm just the outside eyes on this whole thing, I guess. I really don't know much of what ahppened between you three after all, I can only guess and half-psychoanalyze, and I'm ALWAYS rather apt to find some mistake there one way or another.
...
I'm a bit different. I don't like discussing at all. I like coming up with total spontenaiety. And if I were to be approached by someone with a basic plot idea, I'd find it stifling unless I initiated it. I'd comment on the subject out of courtesy, and possibly leave some outline of what's planned, but...I prefer spontaneous interactions. So many of Bakura's plans have been foiled so far by the lack of synch...but...that's what his character is. It's appropriate. and Marik's similar because he doesn't have the real social ability to connect more than just disfocusedly with anythign that doesn't relate to Malik, or to himself.
Fox-sama came to me to ask about their roles in the next arc, even, and I hope I wasn't harsh with her (probably rambly, more likely.) but I said pretty much the same thing then. You can't SCHEDULE Bakura.
*shrug* So...while I love and jump at the opportunity to discuss overall where the characters go, and their traits, and their possible interactions, I don't like being set in just one road, really. I like having multiple possibilities open, and I like choosing the paths granted on the spot. That's one of the beuties of the comment structure. you always have time to think and choose before you start, and guess in advance, and plan in advance...and then be delighted if it turns out differently than you expected!
*suddenly realizes she's rambling* Er...sorry. A little...gleeful there, maybe...but...that's how I treat the thing.

Planning out all possible things is fine for a two-person RP. That's more of a co-writing project, though. You can afford to be so intimate and share all the details when two peopel do it. When you work as a villain, though, in a large group, you HAVE to hide your cards, sometimes. And especially hide when you shuffle them with the cheat-deck up your sleeve. You can't afford to inadvertantly tip people off. *sheepish shrug* I've done tandem-ficcing before too, and yes, it's fun to co-plan, but again, I've found the occasional frustration of misunderstandings and the out-of-sync sort of way an RP comm works to be...singular. That might eb the best way to explain it. There's nothing else quite like it, and it really forces you to be innovative, and throw yourself entirely into your character. *shrug* I rather like it, even in the frustrations. I always learn something from it...

(To Be Continued)

Loquaciousness too. (buh?)

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! That's not exactly what I meant by "vent." Er...let me try again. Bakura vents at times, but he never puts up anything he hasn't carefully gone through beforehand. (He has a "cold anger" as opposed to Marik's "hot anger"...sort of...)
Whenever I play him, I really have to juggle. He has all his outer faces, and intents and manipulations through his intended words, and he has to hide his real goals beneath that, withotu me leaving a trace. I have to pull up about three different thought processes any time I play him. I don't think anyone other than myself could possibly decode every single thing Bakura's doing. They just can't see it because the very fact I've "translated" him, and they have their own "translations" and their own expectations let me get away with too much. If I revealed my cards to Fox-sama, so to speak, or to anyone else, the change of thinking would be dramatic, whether they meant it or not. It would alter their playing.
It's rather like complicated physics in a way--observing things at times changes what they are and how things react around them?
Bakura has his outlet, yes, but he too hides most of what he is. (Dark matter theory indeed.) He's rotton to the core, but you don't expect peopel you meet to be rotton to the core to start, do you? Even when you meet them, you begin to point out to yourself the "good" traits in them. Most people like to believe the best of others. And that trait, in my fellow players, will always soften, or even block entirely, the sheer evil of Bakura's intentions.
*sheepish smile* Can we say "mindgames"?

*grins suddenly* Ah...if my last comment on my feelings of RP-plotting didn't just convince you that you are in fact "neutral/evil" compared to my "chaotic/evil", I will eat my hat. (...I don't own any hats. O_o)

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Ah yes, Atem shows that deep down he has a dark side making him worthy of his pseudonym... And Amelda I enjoyed immensely. (Did I mention I really wasn't very fond of Kaiba until recently? I actually depsised him.)

I know, I know. If villains were so easily put aside, what would we have to worry about? I can't see WHY people would be so stupid as to focus on heroes. A REAL plot needs a good villain. None of this watered down "repentance" business. True, you can redeem characters, but usually there's a cost, and usually, they don't jsut assimilate in. Marik shows that when I play him. He's redeemed, but you don't see him really as a part of Yugi's little cheerleading group. He doesn't magically become Yugi's ally and fight against all consequent evil as a united force. He's into his own thing.

I liked the Doma arc, too, but I'm not sure if I ever saw what happened to Dartz in the end. Chances are, they redeemed him. (bleh.) And I still found the whole Evil!Mai thing rather about as unresolved and unsatisfying as the Bakura=Zorc thing. She was finally starting to show some confusing and blurring of her lines as a character, and I don't think they ever really resolved it! That annoyed the Hell out of me.

Hahaha! As much fun as that dark little ensemble sounds. You have to have a balance. Heroes have to win sometimes as well, or your villains become boring. Conflict is what makes a plot. That holds true for both sides. You have to have equally powerful Heroes and Villains. Anything less turns the piece into something less than its full potential. All the better, are fics with more than good and evil sides. The more views and alliances and personal wars you bring in, generally, the more interesting the piece. (Though there is such a thing as overdoing it: soap operas prove that.)
I'd still like to see the piece, but speaking very carefully, you might want to still give your villains in their glorious rampage, a bit of a challenge someplace. I LOVE evil rampages and all, but there's always a last minute hero to face the dragon, and provide hope and held-breaths...

(bwuh?) I don't know either.

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

Cheese? Don't let Pearl hear that, she'll rip it down and chew it up and burp in your face. She's a cheesefreak like that.

Babbling is also fine. The more you babble, the more information I get. Imagine the coincidence?

Having read all that and having lost all coherent train of thought (because it's past midnight and because I put all of myself into that rather lengthy email I sent you...) I have to say that I agree with a lot of that.
And did I ever claim to not be a 'neutral/evil'? My memory escapes me at this late hour. (And don't ever, under any circumstances, let me bake you a cake!hat. That stuff can easily turn quite lethal in my hands.)

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(I stood by during the rampant Kaiba!pairings because there was practically no one that could be a perfect match for him until Amelda came into the game. And the Wheeler!Mutt has always disgusted me without a reason. I don't understand what the crazy fangirls see in him. *shrug*)

There is also such a thing as fake redeeming. They can pretend they've changed when in reality they're just keeping low and waiting for another chance at backstabbing because this time it would be more painful since it was a supposed friend doing it.
It's good that at least some characters are getting a realistic handling.

Oh yes, they did, indeed, redeem him. He became all nice and shiny. Here I have to mention another one of my epic fics in which he, even after that event, remains a manipulating bastard that has some bats in the attic when things come to certain subjects. Or objects, I should say, as it's about some certain people.
In any case, they left a lot of loose ends there. Which is a shame. The characters could have done with a little bit more depth.

Oh, that one was not about balance. Or it was. As opposed to the happy plot of YGO.
It was set in the 'Years have passed. Everyone's moved on with their lives. Yuugi is no longer saving the world every day.' time. It had a shapeshifter!Noa, some rather interesting love triangles, though there was no love to speak of, and Noa almost getting overthrown.
By Bakura and Malik, no less. With Seto and Amelda (and Ryou, to some extent) taking on the good side and trying to stop them all three.
I might take on writing that piece on my own if I get in the mood and Pearl is still nowhere to be seen.
Ack! So many epic things planned, so little time, so little inspiration at the moment... *shakes head*

Re: (bwuh?) I don't know either.

[nightmares-rod.livejournal.com]

If I don't get there first, you mean. ^_^ I love cheese too.

Ah, so you want information, eh? I can provide the most useless information in the world quite readily--it's called three years of going ot state tournaments in quiz bowl plus too much reading.

Having put rather no effort at all into that rather lengthy reply I sent you back (writing doesn't take a lot out of me--hence why up to four hours of any given day of mine might be spent on such) I reply that should you make me a cake!hat, it must be Urahara's hat, and I'll need a set of sandals and a black kimono, and a fan. And a black cat that turns into a sultry woman ninja thing.

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(Ah it's a shame you missed the days when MOG and Fyredra did the pairing. They made it really lovely. Smoking hot, and awkward all at the same time. It was lovely...
I haven't the heart to hate puppyshippers, because I really don't care much abotu most pairings. I get ideas, but I don't really go militant about them. *shrug*)

Ahhh, yes. Bakura would do so if he could, but he has too much pride for it. And Mariku's too hooked to Malik to even try to resist. (Not to mention, Mariku's the uke. *sweatdrop* SO...yeah...incentives not to, again.)

*grins impishly* I am abruptly and utterly charmed by the fact that you call your long fics "epic fics" as well...And I'd very much like to see the shiny as I said. And if you can't find Pearl, nor get her attention, perhaps I could serve as an idea muse? A bouncing board?

And I'd like to hear the interesting love triangles for sure...
I am inspiration incarnate. *sticks out tongue*

Re: (bwuh?) I don't know either.

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. Same here. *le gasp* Looks like we have a competition here.

Well, why not? For the las three years I have barely read anything of decent quality, have gone nowhere and been so locked away from the world that it makes me wonder how the hell I managed to exist.

I can make the hat and be the woman ninja thing, but I refuse getting a cat and sewing you a kimono. The paper fan, however, I can supply you with with relative ease.

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(I've seen different approaches to it and quite honestly? I've hated them all. I see absolutely nothing that would keep them together. I think it's the only pair in this fandom that I'm quite adamantly against. Though I'm not going around yelling about it and attacking random puppyshippers about it. [Even the ship's name makes me cringe in disgust.])

See? My Bakura wouldn't hesitate to use it. "You bought my pretense and let me close? Too bad for you, you die now, ktnxbai." And them? I can see them as perfectly functioning on their own, given the right circumstance and set of mind. Either that, or they'd bring each other down somewhere along the way of the run for world domination.

Well, they kind of are epic. Either made of epic fail or that and the fact they might never get finished. A never-ending tale of sorts, so to speak. I could dig up that one and send you the shards we've produced toghether. We had a lot of things already planned, but they were a little bit crackish and that's not really the kind of thing I'd go for in that kind of fic. Of course... I think it was planned as a crack!fic in the beginning, but the plot took charge and quickly spun to its own wishes.

Well, the main center of attention would be Noa-disguised-as-Seto X Amelda X real Seto (would the real Seto Kaiba please stand up, please stand up... erm, yes.).
And Noa X Ryou-in-Amelda's-body (X Bakura) with the latter not so much involved.
Somehow... I do not doubt that.

Re: Continuation of my loquaciousness...

[lightrobber.livejournal.com]

...and by "suft" I meant "surf"
although... "sift through" is also a valid way of putting it in this case.