Blustery cold day today, which meant having to bundle up good -- and endure a parade of people asking me if I was cold and watching their bewilderment when I told them it wasn't really bugging me.
Still trying to figure out what's up with LoudTwitter and it's a bit worrisome, though of course you can follow my Tweets at:
https://twitter.com/MatrixRefugee.
Back to watching Bleach, with more "Hey, It's That Voice" moments: Batou's VA from GitS:AC as both a Soul Reaper and a Bount. Also Orihime sounds like a slightly less helium-esque (and therefore less hard on me sensitive ears) version of Mikuru in "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya". Unfortunately the credits have been chopped out of the streaming vids I'm watching, but I think that's Crispin Freeman as the leader of the Bounts, which prompted me to say, "Does Crispin Freeman always voice vampire-like critters??" And I'm starting to think I've heard Uryuu's VA somewhere else, but I can't place it. I'm rather fond of Uryuu, maybe because he pasted my least favorite character, though it took a Heroic BSOD to accomplish it, maybe because he seems to get a lot of unwarranted hatred and part of me wants to tip the balance in the poor Quincey's favor. It's hard for me to hate a guy who can *sew by hand* and also is (or was) a crack shot with a bow and arrow.
Also drafted good-sized chunks of several longer YnM fics: I seem to have taken on another YnM fic archetype that requires delicate execution and that's the "redeeming Muraki" idea. Yeah. While I believe *anyone* can be redeemed if they let go of what they've done wrong and admit to their guilt and try to do right, it's a hard sell with this guy because he's so perverse and he clearly enjoys being perverse (though I don't doubt he has his moments when he can't meet his own gaze in a mirror, knowing he's looking at a total monster...). But it dawned on me that there's one thing that might cause him to at least scale back some of his wrong-doing, especially if someone really held his heels over the fire, and so I decided to run with it. I can't say more, but it does tie in with the "He Who Hunts Monsters" plot I've been toying with as well, or at least one take on it. I have a much, much darker angle on it, but I cannot bear to write it *that* way, since the darker rendering involves one character having to decide which he values more: preserving the new family and the new world he's found, or destroying the man who destroyed the world he'd lost, and how he finds that he can't have it both ways.
I also decided to remix "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and, ah, extend it past the fade to black. Yes, that version will be going on the InsaneJournal, though it's nowhere near finished, since like Neil Gaiman writing "Tastings", I keep getting embarrassed with it and putting it aside. It'll be finished when I stop being embarrassed with it.
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