Streetfighting Nazi Hookers!

[lukon_idein]

Today's German exam is brought to you by the letters W, T and F. Holy fuck on a sled! I just finished the first draft of my take-home German exam and it is totally fucking incomprehensible. Or rather, it makes sense (mostly) in English, but whether it actually represents what the German author was trying to say is another story. All I know is that I valiantly resisted the temptation to translate "Arbeitermädel" as 'working girl' since its prostitutional connotation is not what the text is calling for here. (Wait, does anyone know the adjectival form of prostitute? My dictionary doesn't have one). Since the article was paralytically dull, it really did need prostitutes to liven it up. And I can think of no other way of translating "Strassenkämpfen" than 'street fighting' which its parts literally mean. What else can it bloody be? Oh wait, I left out crossdressing, since it does say something about them wearing men's clothes. So that should really be Crossdressing Streetfighting Nazi Hookers. It needs an 'in', though. Like "Crossdressing Streetfighting Nazi Hookers in Space." I'm surprised that's not already in the Troma catalog somewhere. Sigh. Cleary I've gone mental.

On a happier note, My Quest Is Over At Last! Woohoo!! What quest, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. For many a year now I've been searching for one, only one, mind you, Yami No Matsuei Tsuzuki/Muraki story that actually captures the flavor of their relationship in any way even close to canon. It's got to be ugly, not consensual and without pretense of fluffy-bunny love. And last night, in a fit of German-induced agony, my wandering mind (and fingers) at last found their way, purely by accident, to Break the Horizon by Roo. It contains the following brilliant exchange:

"'I hate you,' he finally whispered.

Muraki stilled. 'No, beloved. You hate yourself. I’m just your reflection.'"

MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA. So evil. So true. So perfect. YIPPEE!! So my quest is finally ended. I should be sad, but I'm not. It's just so satisfying to finally find that one fic that I craved but could never bring myself to write, but knew, deep down inside, was out there somewhere. (Therapy is coming soon, I swear).

And as a special bonus prize, I even came across a delightful little nestegg of Shigure (from Fruits Basket) fic. I had long since given up even looking for Shigure fic, cuz he's like the oldest (or near enough) of the Sohma clan, and we all know that if you're over nineteen in anime you might as well start popping the Geritol. Anyway, some dear sweet lovey, calling herself Lishy the Po, apparently felt he needed some lovin' and set him up with Kyo. I'm not always a big fan of high school boy with older man scenario but this was done SOOOOOOOO well that I cannot complain at all. It left me with nice warm fuzzies that have lasted all day, and may well last the rest of the week. For the curious the fics can be found here.

Soooo, um, yeah. School work? What school work? I was even distracted while reading an article about frontier forts in colonial Argentina by the fact that one of the keywords was "bodily torment" which immediately got me to thinking about one of my recent anime rentals - Yugo the Negotiator. If you like your bishies fried, stabbed, drugged, frozen and served up on toast, then this anime is for you! Mmmmmmmm. And, as an added bonus, it was actually set in contemporary earth (or thereabouts) and there are no giant robots, troubled high school girls, magic powers or kung fu fighting panda bears anywhere to be seen. Not that those things are bad, but it is sometimes nice to get a more reality-based story that still has hot, tortured bishies in it. Well, one at least. It is damned yummy. My one complaint is that our here is so self-contained that you don't get to know him very well, aside from his near-fanatical determination to get the job done. A little more back story would have been nice. But still, it was great and he looks adorable sleeping on his pool table. And there was some interesting commentary on how well-researched the animation was, which I thought was pretty cool.

Well, I should probably get back to work now. Gotta iron out some rough spots in my translation and read something about gender in colonial Maryland or some such nonsense. Damn, I am blowing off this semester WAY too much.

OH, and it's official, I'M GOING TO INDONESIA!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

Comments

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Poor Shigure, no high school girls for him? I've always thought that he was in a threeway with Ayame and Hatori.

There is no way you can do Tzuski and Muraki and have it be fluffy and canon. Muraki is messed up. He likes non-con way too much.

[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

Well, in the abovementioned collection of stories Shigure does have a completely randy, bisexual past that does include a longterm Ayame/Hitori threesome - in fact that's how Kyo ends up getting involved with him in the first place - he accidentatlly witnesses the 3 of them together, and can't stop thinking about it, eventually confronts Shigure, who, of course, never passes up an opportunity for sex, and they get it on. But as the story goes on, it turns sweet and they end up actually falling in love. Total mushy sappiness, and no high school girls for Shigure anymore - poor boy, but he doesn't seem to mind. Probably OOC, but I didn't mind for once, cuz I got to see lots of Shi-chan, and that's all I wanted. :)

Yeah, Muraki is demented, Tsuzuki's got serious issues and together they do NOT equal Fluffy Bunnies. Which is why I get mad when I see these two together and somehow they end up in love (excuse me while I go dry heave). Maybe I never looked hard enough, but whenever I finally (after skipping endless Hisoka/Muraki stories) found one, it usually started with a sort of non-con scenario, but then Tsuzuki would either a) be rescued or b) realize he had feelings for Muraki (who would turn out to be not such a bad guy after all). Excuse me? I don't think so!! So I was very happy that this story left them both just as fucked up (or possibly more) at the end as at the beginning, and they seemed, to me anyway, to stay very in character the whole way through.

Yikes! Sorry for the rant. I'll shut up now. Lovely icon, btw!

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

I can see that scenario with the threesome leading to something else. I never got the sense that it was a love match, but more fun and games with the three of them. That and with all of them being Sohmas and male there is a safety you don't get any other way. I loved Shigure, he is such a charming and manipulative little shit.

I quit reading YnM fanfiction for the reasons you listed. I think Tsuzuki's got feelings for Muraki, its just that those feeling are hatred, loathing, disgust and fear. One of the other issues I have had with it is that they have Hisoka and Tsuzuki just jumping into bed. er no, considering both their histories sexual and otherwise opening up and being emotionally or physically intimate would be a long slow process. Not to mention in a lot of ways Hisoka is still 16 and needs to grow past that. I do see them together and love the pairing its just not one that is going to be fast to develop.

Thanks, its one of my favorite scenes in the anime because it shows such tenderness on Tsuzuki's part and its the first time Hisoka really lets go and trusts himself to be safe and comforted.

[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

I agree - those three do seem to be more about the fun and games. And yes, Shigure is a manipulative bastard, but I'm a sucker for those puppy dog eyes. :)

Your assessment of Tsuzuki/Hisoka is spot on - there is no easy way for them to get together, and fics usually like to cut to the chase. Can't be done here. And yes, Hisoka really does need to grow up - I generally lose patience when reading fics about him. I just want to smack him and tell him to chill the hell out. (Yes, I'm a total bitch.) And really, as can be seen in your icon, no one does those two better than canon, anyway.

(Now why can't I put this much thought and energy into my freakin' homework???)

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Shigure is my favorite sohma though I have a serious soft spot for Momaji, but that is more maternal. His mother needs to be bitch slapped in the next century. Shigure just has such charm its almost impossible to resist even when you know you are being suckered.

I would love to write YnM fic, but I am very aware of my shortcomings and I honestly do not think I could pull it off in a way that would be true to the characters. I did one small drabble and that was enough to make me nervous as hell.

[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

Yes, there a lot of bad parents it seems in Fruits Baskets. Well, bad or dead. I'd still love my kid even if he turned into an animal every time I hugged him. (Okay, easy to say now - if it actually happened I'd probably freak the fuck out!

Yeah, after reading a bunch of terrible YnM stories, I pretty much concluded it was too hard and never attempted myself either. But I'm sure you'd be great - you are very sensitive to issues of characterization so I'd trust you. :)

And on a strange side note, I checked out the youtube link that dentelle_noir had on her site to a Ouran High School Host Club AMV, and several of the follow-up suggestion links were to YnM AMVs. So apparently Youtube is reading my livejournal now. ARRRGGGHHHH. The world has gotten way too creepy for me lately! All Cookies Must Die!!!! (Except fresh chocolate chip ones, perhaps.)

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Fruits Basket is not the place to hang out if you are looking for good, well adjusted parents. I have a kid so I can honestly say with pretty solid conviction that it wouldn't matter for me. Everyone has their issues, you learn to work around them.

*blushes* Thank you for the compliment, I would turn it back on you and say the same.

Ouran to YnM now that's a process that would make your brain need to be rebooted. Both are great series, but very different in terms of emotional impact and content.

[dentelle-noir.livejournal.com]

Bishies..flayed? Burned? on a stick? *runs to find fluffy bunnies as a sheild* To each their own...I'll stick to the tooth-decaying fluff, kthx.

As for anime, you are right. No anime chara ever ages past 25. It just doesn't happen. And even if I writer DARES to change those numbers, as readers we just don't think of them in that light. It's like the 11th comandment: Thou shalt not age bishonen realistically.

[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

Well, not actually flayed. That would be icky. :P But, yes, I do admit to liking to see my boys get a bit roughed up, and then, due to their sheer kick-assery, they win triumphantly in the end. Or, in Yugo's case, win quietly and sneakily in the end. Besides, you thrashed quite a few of our lovelies in Wilderness, so you can't say that you never stray outside of Bunnyville. ;)

And I do like my share of tooth-rottingly sweet stories (such as the Shigure/Kyo ones I was talking about). I need variety I guess. Comes from being a gemini - there're always two of us to please!

One of the reasons I like gw500 so much is that the writers there really seem to embrace the characters at any age - and they portray them well at any age. It is so refreshing. There do seem to be a number of us over-25ers in the community. Actually, I was threatening to make a t-shirt for us 30-something fangirls recently.

One of my random pet age peeves is Goku from Saiyuki who is listed as being "around 18", has a mental age of somewhere around 14, but there was that whole thing about being chained inside a mountain for 500 years. How does that not make him 518????? I mean, at a certain point superage is cool and instead of old and creepy, right - it works for vampires, so why not Goku? Why does everyone insist he is young? Innocent, perhaps, but not young.

Oooh, and now that I start looking at ages in character profiles, Tsuzuki is listed as 26 - except for the fact that he's been dead for nearly a century (if memory serves) and spent a number of years of his life in some sort of age-defying coma. What up?? (So much fic-fodder there that no one seems to take advantage of!) Oh well. Still, at least he still gets to be "26" and a main character. Pretty unusual. Guess you get special dispensation when you're dead and trapped in a supernatural non-aging body. :)

Well, I'd better stop before this turns into a rant. (And one that has no consistent point to make, I notice.) Thanks for stopping by!

[dentelle-noir.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOH! *THAT* kind of bishonen whumping! I was pictuting grotesques murders and NCS by a main villain chara, not like...Butt-kickery and vengence! I'm a big Bruce Willas fan, I'm okay with THAT.

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[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

Yeah - not grotesque or NCS. But the interesting thing about Yugo is that since he's trying to negotiate with bad guys he never tries to harm them, just reason with them. For some reason they all seem to want to stop him from doing this, and it generally involves them being very mean to him - he then stoically endures all they throw at him and then manipulates them into doing what he wanted in the first place. It's pretty cool. And he's such a normal, harmless looking guy, so it's always satisfying when he can somehow walk 30 miles in 40-degree-below-zero weather or survive being staked out in the sun in the middle of the desert. He's basically like a brick wall that everyone tries (and fails) to break down.

Actually, come to think of it, I wrote my very first GW story (Interrogation) because I was craving a good Trowa!whumping and couldn't find one. Everybody whumps Duo, but Trowa? Not so much. :( I'm sure this isn't healthy...!

[dentelle-noir.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Cathy in Accounting!!! That was SUCH a great fic... anyway, yeah... I HAD something smart to say, but I'm too giggle remembering that fic! It was just so enjoyable!

[(Anonymous)]

INDONESIA!!!! Remember - I toldf you I'd meet you there!!

- Edrie
(One of the Broken Toys)

[lukon-idein.livejournal.com]

Dude! You tracked down my dumbass blog!! You ROCK! I'd totally love to see you in Indonesia - we're supposed to be staying on a pretty big boat, so I'm sure there'd be room for you!! I'll even buy you your own vat o' sunscreen. :P