rainbowlounge | Writers' Salon!

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to

rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.

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I'm going to tell you. I don't care how embarrassing it isssssss.

I love trashy action anime. It's not on my interests lists as a joke. I genuinely love it. I have two favorites.

/Black Lagoon/ which involves people dancing on boats while killing each other and gets so meta I don't get some of the jokes and I've seen the whole thing through about five times.

And /Weiss Kreuz/ which is one of the worst things ever put on film. I mean, there is NOTHING right with that show. It was a vanity project for a voice actor. And it's just... you could not be that bad on purpose if you tried. Ever.

Here's the thing. I am 50% responsible for one of the longest Weiss Kreuz fanfics ever written. Why's a long story in and of itself. Short version: I sublimate my romantic feelings in odd ways.

I had more fun doing that than I had writing anything else ever in my life. Because you know what I wrote? Pages and pages of the characters, oh, say, sitting around the table and eating chocolate while chit-chatting about how to kill each other. Also not a joke. I will send you the scene if you want it.

They never got much characterization on screen. I had to get them into some downtime to establish the personalities they didn't have. Also, I thought it was funny.

Afterwards, I tried for years to make myself not want to write that anymore. I was going to be a serious writer! Really! Although, every so often, I would scratch bits of assassiny outlines and then hide them under my bed in shame.

/Jealous of Roses/ comes from one of those outlines. But, it also has influence from /Black Lagoon/. See, I cry at the end of /Second Barrage/. Every time. I honestly wonder if the story arc concluded there isn't some sort of splodey killy commentary on the nature of love. Not spoiling but it's moving in the strangest way.

And also JoR is meta as all getout. There are references to late 90's action anime through the whole damn thing, beyond the fact, it's identifiable as Weiss Kreuz if you know about how I set up and maintain parodies/pastiches/being a jerk. Step one is start gender swapping. Somewhat disappointed to live in a society where that works so damn well, but anyway.

The main cast would be Schwartz. You know, the bad guys who had a shot in hell at being interesting. And managed to hot the neighbors' car instead.

I am still friends with people who read the fanfic in question, and when I send them JoR installments, it's with the note: "Warning: Vaginas" (the only women in Weiss Kruez are canon fodder)

Siebenkas has no equivalent character. He does however have his own goddamn essay: http://rainbowlounge.dreamwidth.org/20490.html because... I really have no idea the hell he's doing sometimes.

OH my friend Kaitlin almost showed me Black Lagoon yesterday, but I got distracted by SciFi's Alice. Next time I go to her house I will get her to show it to me because it sounds FAB. And I would love to see that scene. In fact I think you should post that scene. Because I would LOVE to see how Zephyr and Pip would murder everyone else sekritly. With parrots.

And Seb's just all, "uh-huh. Sure. You'll just wake up dead one morning see if you don't."

Seb is doing his own thing. I've had characters do that (JOY) and I just... just go with it. Seriously. Let them do it, it makes your life better.

Quick note about /Black Lagoon/. There's some, ah, forcible strip-bowling in /Second Barrage/. And the OVA (Roberta's Blood Trail): keep in mind for a second I'm ambivalent come warnings when I say this but TRIGGER WARNING.

It hurts to watch, but it's good. (And the director started dicking with the plotline from the manga so the cannon is debatable at this point but ANYWAY...)

Also I have to be a snob and suggest subtitles. The script for the dub is inaccurate to the point of causing confusion.

Ahem. Fangirl mode: disengaged.

I know right where the sitting around the table scene is. Do you want an intro for it or should I just send it as is for maximum surprise? Erm, it's also about ten years old >_>;.

I'm really REALLY not used to characters doing that at all. It's unnerving at times, but it's oddly endearing too. I'm trying to get used to it, I swears.

I generally dislike dubs; the only one I prefer to the subbed version is Howl's Moving Castle and that's because the male lead doesn't quiiiiiite understand that Howl is a giant drama queen and plays him straight at inopportune moments (green slime, anyone?)

ANYTHING. Whatever you choose.

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