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THINK POSITIVE MEME

Since it looks like other people are starting to think about it, and since I always seem to take forever on this kind of thing, I'd like to open this post for Yule Requests. Sort of the same deal as before with my birthday mathoms, give me a character/characters and some sort of prompt, and come the end of December I'll give you something, without any promises about what it'll be. You might get a new icon, or a drabble, or a sketch or a full-out picture or story, but you'll have SOMETHING for your stocking come Yule-time.

If you are reading this, you are welcome to ask for something, even if we've never talked before.

Fandoms I'm currently most interested in are:
Saiunkoku Monogatari,
Doctrine of Labyrinths,
Digital Devil Saga, and
Persona 3 (not FES)
Though feel free to poke me about...basically anything else you can think of? Just ask. :) Worst case is I'll ask for a different prompt.

I'll leave this post stickied at the top of my journal until December too, in case you want to come back to it later.

/Edit:Also! Nano. I think I'm going to try it this year. If you're interested, you can comment over here to see what I manage.

Because I'm having a shitty week, and am inclined to be self-indulgent; and also, am actually really curious what people would say:

What do you think are the 'trademarks' of my work? What kinds of looks or mistakes or quirks stand out to you when you think of my pictures? What would make you think a pic was by me, if you saw it without attribution?

You can see my pictures at my journal--essentially every post is art--if you want to look through them.

Comment, and I'll do the same for your fic/art! Because it's interesting to see which overarching themes and styles stand out to your viewers. <3

I feel sort of weirdly in-between fandoms, lately. Not all that interested anymore in my previous big fandoms, but not in love with something new yet either. So! Clearly, it's time to appeal to the great god Internets.

Poll #2264 New Fandom Horizons
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

I would read/look at mitsu's stuff if she wrote/drew for the following fandoms

I would also, myself, write/draw for the following:

I wish Mitsu would do fic/art for the following fandoms:

I also think Mitsu should take a look at the following movie/series/game/whatever:

Ticky?

In light of all the recent feminist rage, I want something positive about female-ness.

So! Let's have drabbles. Give me a character (male or female) and something hot/awesome/fun/empowering about women, and I'll give you a drabble/drawble.

Alternatively! Rec me something awesome, centered on a female character, and I'll return the favor!

Heeroluva asked me for Kyuubi!Naruto protecting an unconscious Sasuke, for her Live Long and Marry commission. I happily provide, and this marks the end of my obligations until the end of September! *happy dance*

( Kyuubi Fanart, semi-worksafe? Non-erotic nudity )

/Edit: (Appended because I don't want to flood my journal with memes)Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award in no particular order. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own. (Honestly, you're not obliged. Tagging is not fun.) Note: this was really hard; there could have been a lot more people on this list, cause my Flist is rockin. <3
laylah, because she is just kind of relentlessly cool.
mahokiwi, because her art is strong in all of the areas mine isn't, and it's a treat to look at.
sister_coyote, because she was the writer that made me believe again that women in fiction could not suck.
mithrigil Because she puts so much smart into her work; it's not what I want to do with my fandom stuff? But I always think its so cool that she does it.
puella_nerdii, because her cosplay is wow. Anyone who can pull off both Misa-misa and Hisoka has my respect. :Db
ciceqi, because no one does creepy-and-wrong like she does.
white_aster, because somehow she ALWAYS knows about the cool stuff first. It's amazing.
miko_no_da, because I love what she does with plot.
chichiri_no_da, cause she's one of the, like, two other people in the Saimono fandom with me! Yay!
calligraph, because her feedback always leaves me grinning like an idiot.

Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. August 3 is actually a really hopping date. O.O

Events:
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.

1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.

Births:
1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1902 - Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944)
1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer (Super smash brothers GO!)

Deaths:
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)

Holiday:
Niger - Independence Day.

So, an obscure gaming fandom and a 15-year-old manga fandom walk into a bar... :D

Posting a bit early, since we'll have house-guests this weekend and I may not have time on the actual day. <3 And I'm double-posting, since the two seemed to go so well together. (Awww!) puella_nerdii wanted Heat/Subaru, "Let it burn", which...kind of implied? But hopefully she'll like it anyway:



And mithrigil wanted a character from Tokyo Babylon or X/1999 Junkyard-style. :D
( Hokuto said ME! ME ME ME! I'll DO THAT PROMPT!!! )

So! Laylah's post reminded me: it is almost exactly a month before my birthday! And I will be really busy this coming month, so I'm asking now:

I'm giving out presents to people for my birthday, this year. Give me a prompt and/or a character/pairing/fandom, and I will give you something. It may be fic, or art, or icons, or drabbles/drawbles, or a song, or something else, but I will give you something relating to what you asked for on August 3.

Because fandom is fantastic. <3

Been sort of off my draw again recently. So what better thing to do than take sketch requests? Fandoms I've done before are in tags, but if you want something you don't see there you can still ask, though I make no promises about that. You can ask for multiple prompts; I'll take prompts until tomorrow at midnight or people stop leaving them, whichever is first.

Kiwi put up a meme that looked really fun, and I couldn't help myself. I'm really really going to write those papers now, no really. :D The meme looked like this:

1. Pick a fictional character that you like
2. Draw him/her in what you wore today.

( hippy!argilla, worksafe )

Stolen from essentially everyone on the internet, also known as "See mitsu procrastinate on writing that s/z/c/ tentacle!frot she's supposed to post today".

You're supposed to post a list of female characters that you love, that people in fandom tend to hate on. But. So, the thing is? It really annoys me when people hate on characters, even ones I don't personally much like. And I just stop listening to people who do that. But I'm willing to assume that someone hates any character, so we'll just go with it, ok? :D

1. Aeris. Because she goes into battle in a pink sundress and hiking boots, and spends most of the game as your healing-magic girl but gets to save the day at the end. I like that she can be a girl without sacrificing her personal power.

2. Elena. Because she's little and blonde and cute and Reno fucks with her no more than he would Rude or Tseng. <3 Also, the need to prove herself she's usually written with. *Squirm* Which. Kind of undermines that power I like so much about her, but also is a really nice flaw as far as they go, and gives lots of excuses for showing off her awesome.

3. Hawkeye. Loyalty!kink ftmfw. Also gunkink and dogtags. Unf.

4. Galadriel. Because she told feanor to fuck off, got her OWN kingdom and consort, and gave her hair to a dwarf instead. And had people arguing over whether she was more beautiful than her granddaughter.

5.Garnet. Because she's so intent on living her own life that she cuts herself off from all of these other things she might have had, and it's kind of gorgeous and kind of tragic and she's just so smart and self-contained and just... wonderful. *who me? crush? whut?*

6.Argilla. HELLO THERE DID I MENTION GUNKINK? O.O Also facial scars and pink lipstick.

7. Koucho. Y'know, that prostitute/underworld lord/big-sister figure to the MC in Saimono? The one who gave Shuurei makeup when she left and told her to wear it as "war paint" and that once she's put it on she can't cry no matter what? Yeah. THAT koucho. *desperately wants yuri for her*

8. Mitsuru-sempai. alskdjfaljsd "Amazing as always.<3" Because she's classy and strong and beautiful and good at everything without being a bitch about it and doesn't seem to quite get interacting with other people and her boys are so helplessly in love with her and just. SHE'S WONDERFUL, OK? She just IS.

9. Rukia. Because she's little and dark and takes no shit from anyone and will fight to the death for a friend and was ready to die during her execution and loves her brother and can't draw and still feels so ridiculously guilty over Kaien and forces Orihime to be strong and Ichigo to be smart and Renji to get a clue and just. Is so human and imperfect and beautiful in spite of it.

10. Maya from "The Traveler". Because she swordfights and pulls insane super-spy tricks and slips undercover and works alone and doesn't like her job or want her training, but has them anyway.


Overall, I seem to have it bad for characters for whom femininity is a pleasure and a pride rather than a sign of oppression, characters who can be powerful without having to make themselves masculine.

1.The prompts for this one were so much crack! O.O *whimper*

2. This post, and the saimono one, will be first a list of the prompts for when the time comes to write them out further, but here, I'm giving each prompt a one-line "this is the story where ________happens" summary. The summary may or may not match what actually gets written, and I probably won't write anything else for every prompt. Here goes.


( Which one is that again? )

1. So many of these prompts are stupidly, wonderfully obvious...for characters that didn't get sorted for them. *evil grin* I can tell already that this challenge is going to be awesome. <3

2. This post, and the bleach one, will be first a list of the prompts for when the time comes to write them out further, but here, I'm giving each prompt a one-line "this is the story where ________happens" summary. The summary may or may not match what actually gets written, and I probably won't write anything else for every prompt. Here goes.


( Which one is that again? )

telesilla has brought the testimonials meme over from LJ.

I usually try to avoid memes, but this one... Well. I'm actually just really really curious about what (if anything) people would say. *shrug-grin*

I think I'm stalling on my fanarts because it seems so important (as it does with gifts) to get them perfect. It are problem.

Can I ask you loves for some prompts for quick-sketch!pictures, drabble-meme style? I'm game for pretty much anything, fandom-wise; if I don't know the fandom, I can look it up, right?

Stolen from Laylah, that meme where you post five songs from your playlist that all start with the same letter. She gave me "C".

Plastic Bertrand: Ca Plane Pour Moi
From Askerian, over on LJ. This is one of my happy silly songs, not so much for anything in the lyrics as for the adorably 1950's-ish "woo-oo-o-oo!" that gets thrown in with the chorus. ♥

Arrogant Worms- Canada's Really Big
"We're larger than Malasia, Almost as big as Asia! We're bigger than Australia and it's a Continent!" I have Canada-envy. It's a sad sad thing. *lol*

Evanescence: Cloud Nine
I'm always a little embarrassed that I like this band. This song is kinda creepy and wicked.
If you want to live, let live
if you want to go, let go
I'm never gonna be your sweet, sweet surrender

Suwabe Junichi- Cross with You
Image song for Atobe Keigo from Prince of Tennis. I love how petulant and yet sexy the singer makes this.

Angel Sanctuary- Cruel Tactics
No lyrics. I love how creepy and discordant it is.