Kanna-Ophelia: I'm married to gibbon_plinth, which makes me the luckiest woman in the world ♥, although we've returned to a country that doesn't recognise our marriage. I collect fashion and ball jointed dolls, have been known to reborn baby dolls myself, and read practically anything.

I've been out of fandom a while now, and I'm only recently coming back, so most of my earlier entires are privated as a personal record. Fandoms I care about: Malory Towers/St Clare's, BSG/Caprica, Ranma, Utena, Sailormoon, Azumanga Daioh, Harry Potter, ST:DS9, Elder Scrolls, Pokemon, the Hunger Games. I tend to come down on the saffic side of the fandom equation, as in real life.

No one needs my permission to friend or defriend or comment. Just please play nice.

Hi, NPT writer, and thank you so much for offering one of my fandoms! I'm really excited about this challenge, and really excited to see what you write for me. All four requests are things I'd really like to see, so I'm an easy sell. :) I love f/f relationship-wise, and I always always love gen, but you needn't be afraid to include m/m and m/f either, or poly relationships. I love characterisation and plottiness and humour and  creativity and love for the canon and, oh, pretty much everything.

If you do go for sexual content, I really don't like anything that isn't clearly consensual. I'm pretty vanilla, and I'm particularly left cold by strap-ons or other toys. It's probably a good place to point out that I'm definitely happy with gen or fade-to-black.  Some of the canons I've asked for are pretty violent, but I don't like explicit gore or torture porn, either (I just cover my eyes or skim *g*),

I hope you enjoy my requests - I've tried to make them as multi-optioned as possible. They pretty much cover everything, but if you're a bit lost and looking for clues as to what I'd like, I've put some fandom-specific stuff under the cut.

If you're looking for what I write, some of it is on AO3 here, and more on ffnet here. I don't know how much it will help, as the only thing I'm requesting that I've actually written in is Utena, although I've written some Caprica, which is sort-of BSG. :)

( The Hunger Games - Any )


( Battlestar Galactica - D'Anna Biers )

( Revolutionary Girl Utena - Juri )

( The Silmarillion - Luthien )


Thank you again! I hope you are as excited as I am.

I never posted pictures of my Pullips, did I? Not that they are Pullip herself - I started out wanting the whole family, but now I am resigned to the fact that I have a wishlist of Dals a million miles long and  Pullip and the boys don't really get on it. Byul... Well, we'll get to the problem of Byul.

I was always convinced I hated Pullips. It turns out, I was right at the time, because the first year or two of releases were deeply hideous. The newer ones, though, are gorgeous. Even if every second one of them is Alive in Wonderland. Okay, though, some of their Alices I actually quite want.

( Bad phone pic - but incredibly cute dolls )


To start off with - I love them and love them, I love their design. I love the way Pink-chan's fluffy pink magical girlness (and her look of deep resentment at having to wear something so ridiculous) looks next to the insanity of Byul, who is apparently going shopping with a gas mask, dog tags, and a parasol to ward off acid rain. But I have major reservations about the quality control.

( Crap quality control )

Now, the Byul problem.

Her mouth is hideous.  I can see where they were going with "shy and delicate", as opposed to Pullips's Mackie Barbie permasmile and Dal's ferocious I-hate-everyone pout, but it's just ugly. It's a shame, because Byul often has the best outfits. But having seen it in person, now, no dice. Love my Rhiannon to death, despite being really annoyed by her flaws, but I'm glad her gas mask coveres her mouth and I'm sticking to Dal from now on.

I think the cutest thing about Dal is her "Do not WANT expression." She looks so deeply resentful at being dressed as a ballerina, or a sailor girl, or puppy, or a lolita, or a vampire, or a vocaloid, or a rock star, or whatever the hell they choose to put her in, and it kills me.

Ah. It seems like the Blyton Society is up in arms that anyone could be offended by anything they ever said, ever, and have chosen to come to my personal journal to express their outrage.

Again, I will reiterate that anyone can post here without permission - as long as they play nice. It's the only rule, and it's not exactly a draconian one. Sadly, some of my new visitors seem to have trouble understanding it.

Lovely romantic Bill and Clarissa icon used intentionally. ^_^

Every time I consider joining the Blyton Society, I read a few  threads and remember that I'm really not welcome there. No one is welcome there unless they assume that the only children who read books are white (and only know other white people), middle-class (and definitely non-traveller), straight (and from 100% straight families and communities), cisgendered, think racist stereotypes are just smashing, and are never, ever are giggly or distracted by characters being named common crude words for penises and vaginas, because they are just too pure to notice.

Every single time I read anything there, I end up stressed and depressed. It makes me feel that the wider fandom doesn't attract people because they are magical in spite of the signs-of-their-times racism, sexism and classism, which I'd always assumed, but because of their attitudes.

Finally got around to uploading my Caprica story to saffic. I really want to find the time to plot and write a sequel to that one - Caprica left so many questions and so much potential unanswered, and I really want to tell their stories, Clarice and Lacey in particular.

Title: Apotheosis 2.0
Pairing: Clarice/Head!Mar-Beth, other implied pairings
Summary: Apotheosis lies in ruins, and Clarice Willow is in danger of straying from her true path - until God sends her an angel to guide her steps.

I've been working on cross-archiving stories - moving things only on one archive to Archive of Our Own, and moving yuletide stories on to ff.net, just as extra backup. Not for reviews, because AO3 seems to have no culture of feedback - but then, fandom in general has far less of a culture of feedback than it used to. I really miss mailing lists and alwaysbeing confident I'd get 50+ reviews for any story in a decent sized fandom if I posted it to the right places, and something near that taking in ff.net as well for obscure fandoms. I'll never be one of the people who get excited about views, because how do you know they didn't hate it? But I do know those days are gone for good, unless you're actually a BNF. I'm trying to train myself to see kudos as as good as reviews - at least it means someone read and liked. And trying to remember that some of my gushiest reviewers really weren't very nice people.

It's been an interesting experience, because while checking for typos (no matter how many times I'm beta'd, they always sneak in) I've been rereading stories, some of which I've forgotten even writing, and maybe it's a good thing for my self-esteem, because -

- I've found I can enjoy my own writing. I was expecting just to cringe but, yeah. I guess it's because I write what I want to read, so it's an easy sell. But it's a happy thing.

My main problem is trying to remember which archives I used, especially for stuff that didn't meet ff.net's TOS. ff.net, Skyhawke (briefly - never liked it much, Ficwad, FFOS (which I think is dead and gone), Fiction Alley, but surely there were others... and some fandom-specific archives and comms that I'm not convinced I posted the stories I submitted to anywhere else. Gah. Difficult.

I've made it to work two days this week. That's progress, I guess. I just don't feel like I'll ever feel better right now. But I am trying so hard to resume a normal life, and I really am making progress.

Good things: I didn't default in the Magical Girls challenge. I did have to write it in basically one go without much editing, which is not ideal, but I'd been planning it before I became ill and I am happy with it anyway, at least I'm happy with the plot and characterisation. I hope the recipient will like it. And I got an adorable Sailormoon/Jem crossover in return.

I LOVE; the Hunger Games movie, such perfect casting, we've seen it twice already. My boss, having discovered through HG that I am a Battle Royale novelverse fan, is lending me lots of Japanese horror novels. And I am looking forward to The Avengers - we just finally watched Iron Man II and oh so fun. I'd say I adore Marvel movies, but then I remember Daredevil and Electra and have to heavily qualify it.

My brothers (who are three now, as one has what seems to be a pretty permanent boyfriend) got me this for Christmas, and I'm spending some of the money my in-laws gave me for my birthday on this. Yeah, new obsession. They have even driven bjds off my radar. 

And best of all, I have the loveliest wife in the whole world.

I've been off work sick for quite a while - my latest certificate runs out tomorrow, and I'm a bit scared of starting work again, but I can't stay away forever even if I do feel ill - so I have been reading my heart out, when not feeling too ill. A lot of it has involved started to read manga again after a long break, because it's easily digested when you're unwell. I haven't read much manga since we left the UK - I really only started again when the new Sailor V and Sailormoon translations/editions came out - and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it.

I've especially started reading scanlations again, because they can sit on my ereader and are all nice and light and portable for reading in bed. I've been reading a mixture of stuff, but particularly enjoying Maria-sama ga Miteru - it's just different enough from the anime to be worth reading, and Marimite is so lovely when you need comfort reading, so soft and gentle. I really wish I could read the light novels.

Currently breezing through Wife and Wife/fu~fu. It's really making me happy, because, except for the occaisional josei short, most of the yuri and shoujo-ai out there seems to be about schoolgirls. Now, I don't mind this always - Malory Towers fan, after all - but sometimes I just want to read about grownups, you know? Grownups who will stay lesbian, which I'm never sure of in the schoolgirl stuff. The first time I found a josei yuri story which actually had clubs and social groups and mentoring and some depiction of an actual lesbian community, I couldn't believe it.

Wife and Wife is totally adorably sweet, nice and g-rated, and it's a slice-of-life thing about a committed couple - soft butch/soft femme, too, the configuration I always find it easiest to identify with - moving in together and establishing their lives. Like Marimite, not much happens, but while in Marimite not much happens in a very angsty high-drama way, Wife and Wife is just the sweetest and lovingest and happiest. And - just look at them.



Adorable. I really recommend this one. :)

Onii-sama e - well, I saw the first couple of episodes of the anime a long long time ago, on a sixth generation VCR copy, and I've wanted it ever since. The manga is so pretty, and I became very deeply involved in it.

Then I hit the final chapters.

You suck, Onii-same e. I want my time back. And that's all I have to say.

Any other suggestions for scanlated happiness? It doesn't have to be f/f, although i do like that, just anything fun. Nothing H, though, I am incredibly prudish when it comes to pictures. :)

Do I go anime style with SQ Labs heads (bodies yet to be determined):



or complete my Angelsdoll Kpop girl group? (I already have Hyang, the rapper. And yeah. For all the fandom scares me and I'm a bit old for it so I tend to keep it pretty quiet - huge Kpop fan.).





There's kind of a distinctly different style involved in the two choices.:) But they are all so very beautiful, and I love both kinds madly.