Life and Times of Teh Asuka

Still mildly writer's-blocked, oh joy.

I don't feel like doing a review of this week's naruto chapter yet; maybe later today or tomorrow... As for One Piece OOOO ACE I did not expect that. I'm interested in his character now and I think it's the first time since he popped up in the series that I even found him more than vaguely interesting. Yay for familial bonds. (strangely it means right now I ship him with Luffy a little less. oh self. XD)

Posted the first chapter of Newtype on ffnet, though I must have changed maybe two words here and there from the version on LJ.



Teamwork-related question... Is there any missing scene you wish I had written (or even just referenced)? (except from the porny ones. >__>) that means plz give me prompts, guyz. .____.

Sprite fight!





And, there's a third one but it's still being worked on and maybe a fourth. Wahhh I want to know how it ends! D:

It's so cool. Bwee. X3



I'm working on the Teamwork Suna sidefic at the moment. I needed them to be grumpy for the next scene, but of course Sasuke just had to be contrary.

"--Oi! Kakashi-sensei! You bed thief!"

"My old bones need the support," Kakashi replied. "More than a strapping young man like you does, right?"

Sasuke snorted, vaguely amused when Naruto predictably shuddered.

"Don't say 'strapping' with that voice! Yuck."

Kakashi's eye curved with deceptively harmless merriment. "But 'strapping' is a compliment."

Naruto flattened himself against the farthest wall to get as far from Kakashi as he could without leaving the room, the white of his eyes showing.

Sasuke tilted his head and inquire mildly, "He's a little young for you, isn't he?"

And then he goes and gets into a teasing match with freaking KAKASHI. For the record I hate writing Kakashi. So now I'm all "argh is it ooc? It's ooc isn't it. Isn't it? No, even if they said it they wouldn't say it like that..." DX

Is there no end to the things you'd be ready to do just to thwart me, you little pest? Ah, if I didn't love you... XD;

You know, a couple years ago, I tried to read One Piece. The pictures were way too cartoonish and exaggerated for me, the main character was a total retard, and the storyline seemed totally stupid.

Then maldoror_gw started writing Zoro/Sanji.

Curse her.

So I tried again.

The art style is still horribly exaggerated and cartoonish to the point that it fucks anatomy rules sideways in the ear with astounding regularity. The main character is still a total retard. The storyline is still full of "oh, RIGHT, like this is in any way, shape or form, believable or likely." And on top of that, the quality of the scans I found is so horrendous I can't tell what's going on sometimes, the translations are awkward, and I had to download it chapter after chapter (there's 436 of them) because no one was thoughtful enough to make batches, or if they did I can't find them. And on top of THAT, two of the main cast -- Usopp of the Pointy Nose and Chopper the chibi-reindeer doctor -- have such a ridiculous character design and concept I want to cringe and bitchsap them into oblivion.

I'm on chapter 322.

I can't put it down.

Usopp and Chopper's stories made me cry. Fuckers. Sanji's story made me cry even worse because he's prettier. I love Zoro, and Nami, and Robin, and yes, even the main character, even despite his particularly spectacular shounen-hero-retardation. I keep grinning like a loon and cheering every time they manage to somehow save the day when it wasn't saveable. At all. Ever. We think Naruto's got a jesus-complex? HAH. Luffy is a walking Deus ex Machina. And yet it still makes me happy.

I don't even care about pairings and who's with who and what the fuck ever, because they're a crew and they trust and love each other and they all fit even when they're squabbling and I'm lapping it up and they all should have a friendly orgy. (but not Chopper because he's a baby. ;_;)

And the ludicruously ugly is still ugly. But even though the body proportions might be fucked in the ear regularly, the sense of dynamic movement makes it feel good, baby.

I feel dirty.

*goes and reads another chapter*