Bits and bites

[yuuago]

☆ Ahh I saw the first wild rose blossoms of summer. :) I should go in the woods some time this weekend, maybe see if I can find more. Perhaps I will even see some deer if I go at the right time of day. Who knows!

☆ raremaleslashex is closing signups June 02, so if you've been thinking about that exchange... get your signup in so that I can stalk your request, haaa. I have my eye on one that looks REALLY interesting, but I don't know if I could be capable of writing it. (But maybe I should try to write a treat anyway?)

☆ parallelsfic is in the nom stages from now until the 15th, and signups open on June 16th. This one is a fanwork exchange for rare/small fandoms from Asian sources. Minimum is 500 words. It requires 4 offers, though, and that's the hard part - even if I can partition enough time to participate, I'm unsure if I have enough fandoms to do this one.

☆ I just realized that I have 12 poem drafts in the digital wip folder. Uh. I should... work on some of those. This weekend. I guess. And hopefully finish at least one or two. xD Rundown: 7 are NiF, 2 are DWGL, 1 is original, and 2 are devotional. And I think I might have some SSSS in the works as well? But those are in the physical wip folder, not the digital one, so who knows. щ(◉Д◉щ)

Comments

[greatandgrey]

I think it's even 4 requests and offers, unless if I read something wrong. Maybe some canon recs? :) Interstella 5555 is around 65 minutes long and the movie is basically all set to the album Discovery by Daft Punk. The whole movie can be watched on YouTube.

There's also Beast King GoLion, which eventually became Voltron: Defender of the Universe when it was edited into English. All 52 episodes are on Crunchyroll, so you don't need any knowledge of any other Voltron to know this one, and I don't believe there's any sequel to it.

(And the other two I was thinking of requesting/offering are a little harder to find. XD Unless if you have a VHS player and I can send you my copy of Giant Robo, which is about 6-7 episodes as I recall.)

Best of luck on the poems! :D

[yuuago]

Ah, yes, it's 4 and 4. But requests are not the difficult part. xD Coming up with things I can write, though... more difficult. ;)

Hmm, I might have to watch Interstella 5555 at some point...!

[seerofrage]

I was encouraged to send you canon recs for Parallels, if that's cool? :'D
(If you're already set for Parallels, maybe something will catch your interest just to check out later?)

ACCA 13-ku Kansatsu-ka (ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.) - 12 episodes, available on Crunchryoll; because I'm bad at summarising this one, the blurb on Crunchyroll: "ACCA" is a giant unified syndicate residing in a kingdom split into 13 autonomous regions. ACCA was formed back when there was threat of a coup d'etat, and it has continued to protect the peace of civilians for almost one hundred years.
Jean Otus, the vice-chairman of the inspections department at ACCA headquarters, is one of the most cunning men in the syndicate's history with the nickname "Jean the Cigarette Peddler."
Whimsically puffing his cigarettes, he wanders through the 13 districts, checking to see if there is any foul play afoot.
Meanwhile, Jean is monitored by gazes, threatening rumors, and... snack time. Jean's quiet everyday life slowly gets swallowed up into the world's conspiracies!
This one's interesting, and there's a few really interesting twists, and lots of loyalty between Jean and his best friend <3

Prince of Stride: Alternative - 12 episodes, available on Funimation; stride is a fictional sport that's kind of like track with a little dash of parkour, and this is about a couple of high school freshman who revive their school's stride club and form a team, learning to work together and becoming close friends with a lot of people! It's a lot of fun!

Kiznaiver - 12 episodes, available on Crunchyroll; a group of students are forced into the Kiznaiver program, which causes them to share each other's pain amongst them all. They go through trials as part of the program and become unlikely friends along the way! Gets kind of intense at some points, and is very emotional :'D

Cheer Danshi!! (Cheer Boys!!) - 12 episodes, available on Funimation; two college students decide to start a male cheerleading club at their university, and slowly their member count grows and they become a really supportive little family! It's cute!

Ballroom e Youkoso (Welcome to the Ballroom) - 24 episodes, should be able to find on YouTube; a guy walks past a dance studio and watches the dancer inside, falling in love with the sport and trying it out for himself. Along the way he meets a lot of interesting people and makes friends (and rivals!), and grows a lot! The style is a little different, but it's a lovely story <3

19 Days by Old Xian - Chinese BL manhua that's still updating, about 240 pages so far, translated by and found on the tumblr yaoi-blcd (they've got a couple other translation projects they're working on too! This is just the only one in the tagset/that I'm familiar with :'D); the first fifty pages are a series of illustrations (and some comic panels) about a character who disappeared during the first few days of high school showing up a few years later at his crush's apartment/dorm, and the rest is the story during their last year of middle school that happened before that, involving two other guys as well. There are a lot of comedic and sweet parts, but it also gets a lil intense at some points, with a couple of the characters having ties to shady groups and another getting roped into some Bad stuff :'D

It's late, and I don't think I'm the best at summarising stuffs, ahah. But yeah! Some recs for you :'D

[yuuago]

Ahh thank you! <3 Looking forward to checking these out. :)