then there are blackbirds

Awesome A:TLA things:

» white_lotus's Lunar New Year Exchange has begun posting! Things I've consumed & enjoyed so far:
+ stitch me the fabric of fall, creepy/awesome Ursa fic!
+ Waiting to Spark, sweet and believable and complicated Katara/Zuko.
+ Isobel, an awesome Toph and Azula vid!
+ The Grace That It Takes, adorable Sokka/Suki! ♥

And some awesome non-A:TLA things:

» gyzym: rumor has it, the first Glee-related gleeface I've had in a long while. SANTANA ♥

» Cities of You is an awesome art project based on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities! Check it out. :)

Since I was craving a bit of mindless movie tonight and vaguely remembered enjoying a couple iterations of Fast & the Furious, I decided I'd give Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift a shot. BAD IDEA. It was mindless all right, but it also really annoyed me. See also: white boy protag is THE MOST BORING CHARACTER OF ALL, WHY IS HE THE FUCKING PROTAG-- except duh, he's the only white main character (I see you, Hollywood logic). -.-;;;;;; Also, he was totally the least impressive driver before he got ~schooled~. Seriously, I would have happily watched a movie about Neela-learns-to-drive, or Twinkie entering the drift scene, or the epic bad romance between angstball D.K. and hotass sit-back-and-make-popcorn man Han (Sung Kang ilu!)¹, and I am cranky that none of these were the movie that was actually made.

Otoh I appear to be committing the bad romance fic² in my head at this very moment, so. *hands* (Should've known to kick myself into writing process via getting cranky, heh.) Er, anybody up for beta when it's done?

1. Okay, so I ended up watching for the epic bad romance, but a more central and less subtextual version would have been nice.
2. INSTEAD OF WHITE LOTUS, WHICH I STILL NEED TO ACCOMPLISH. WOES.

Since I went show-marathoning yesterday (twice), I figured I'd finally tackle the list of things I have watched & flailed about over the last few months!

( Mononoke )

( Tumbling )

( Coffee Prince )

( My Name Is Kim Sam Soon )

» eta; STILL BRAINLESS APPARENTLY, I FORGOT TO ADD ( NATSUME YUUJINCHOU )

And that brings us to last night's marathons!

( Ayakashi )

( Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales )

Sigh! I meant to play catch-up the last couple of days but alas, I was pressed into surprise!babysitting and will be outbound in <12 hours. I will have my laptop with me while I'm away, but 10-day roadtrip means that internet time will likely be scarce/nonexistent.

Things that will be postponed until I get back:
+ eastasianfandomgiftbag stalking
+ Tumbling fest
+ icon posts
+ new fandom flail (eta; see also GLORIOUS COFFEE PRINCE ICONS OF GLORIOUS!!)
+ A:TLA fic
+ the shiny-spamroll

I hope everybody celebrating today had a good Christmas, and that everyone else had a good Sunday! ♥

Love meme at littlebutfierce's! Thanks to everyone who commented on my thread. ♥

Also, thanks to yesterday's late-night music video exchangery OF DOOM¹, this song has been semi-appropriately stuck in my head all day:



1. *eyes noldo*

(No, I still haven't watched One Piece, though I confess the limiting factors are basically canon volume and the length of my to-watch list.)

1. So I spent the entirety of Thanksgiving weekend either fooding or IN FOOD COMA, & am still not out of the latter. @____@

2. Now that Kaleidoscope reveals are out, I can say that I wrote ties that bind! (Natsume Yuujinchou, Hinoe/Reiko, gen.) If this was non-obvious it was only because of all the BRAND-NEW FANDOM FLAILING at littlebutfierce & sarashina! *showers hearts upon* Also, epic flaily hearts to dhobikikutti, littlebutfierce, and redsnake05 for my gifts, which I am still gleefacing about!

Finally, you guys should all run to the masterlist of Kaleidoscope works and check out all the shiny, shiny things people made (and the shiny fandoms)! And/or make more shiny things, if you are so inclined, now that the Kaleidoscope Treats collection is reopened for submissions!

And now there is homework I should probably try to accomplish, but all I would like to do is sleep.

I am not allowed to read anything until I'm done with this paper, but in the meantime: &hearts &hearts &hearts &hearts &hearts *ANTICIPATORY GLEEFACE*

There will be feedback when I can get around to it, I promise!

We've got three open pinch-hits over at dark_agenda! Anybody familiar with the following fandoms &/or know somebody who is?

• 十二国記 | Juuni Kokki | Twelve Kingdoms
  
• 青い花 | Aoi Hana | Sweet Blue Flowers
  
• NO.6（ナンバー・シックス） | No. 6 (anime)
  
• Epic of Gilgamesh
  
• Dragon of the Lost Sea - Laurence Yep
  
• Static Shock
  
• サイレン- | Psyren
  
• 東海道HISAME | Toukaidou Hisame
  
• 姑獲鳥の夏 | Ubume no Natsu | Summer of the Ubume - Kyōgoku Natsuhiko

Any/all signal-boosting appreciated! &hearts

Naturally, as end-of-semester trudges inexorably closer, I am on the internets MOAR! Who knew. :P

-- of course, I still do not have the brain to say anything beyond KALEIDOSCOPE, YAYS!!! at the moment (doers of darkness, y'all are awesome &hearts), but, you know. In the meantime: have a couple icons, just because! (Look, Alek Wek and Jasika Nicole are gorgeous, okay? Check out these photos!)

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Since I'm apparently stuck on procrastinating via music videos right now, I might as well share, right?? ;P Just the gateways, though, or we'll ALL be here all day!

Honey L Days (thanks, Tumbling, for introducing me to emo dudebro crack):


K-pop mashup of amazeface (not disclosing the number of times I've rewatched this):


And, not a music video, but reposting because TODDLER GQMF SWAGGER NEVER GETS OLD: