Bands: Tokio Hotel: Fan fiction: Tayla Fyredancer

WAAAAAH!!!! I'm sorry!! I was gone for so long... Did ya miss me??? No? Ah, well XD Okay, today I will be reviewing... *drumroll* Tayla Fyredancer, on Tokio Hotel Fiction. Before I begin, I'm just gonna give you some background on this PARTICULAR fan fiction site. First, Tokio Hotel is a german pop-rock group which consists of twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz (Bill sings, Tom plays guitar), Georg Listing (bass), and Gustav Schafer (drums). These four boys have been wildly successful all over Europe and the rest of the world as well (not so much in the rest of the world as in Europe, but most countries have a fairly large fan-base nonetheless). Now, you may also want some background on the nature of my particular quirk when it comes to this band. As you will know, if you've read my other posts, I mostly read yaoi and shounen-ai (also known as slash, and gay sex and/or romance stories). As you may have guessed, this extends to Tokio Hotel as well. Just for the record, I'm well aware that these four boys are not gay, and that my obsession with them BEING gay is kinda strange. There is a particular genre for Tokio Hotel fics called "twincest." In other words, incest between twins. This is partially because many of their songs speak of forbidden love, and because of certain things the twins have said during interviews (that they can't live without the other, etc.). It's also a product of Bill and Tom being gorgeous, and, despite being identical twins, looking nothing alike (their styles are so different that they don't look the same anymore). Now, back to Tayla Fyredancer. She writes some of the most AMAZING fics I've ever read. Most of her fics are AU (Alternate Universe) so you don't even need to know Tokio Hotel to read her fics (I suggest you look them up, though - they're awesome XD). I have two favorite series' by her. One is a post apocalypse sci-fi, where there are a few safe areas in which humans live, and the rest are dominated by demons. Bill is a college student who has felt like something has been missing his whole life, but he doesn't know what. Bill, in this fic, is supremely gay. When a man shows up who he feels an instant connection with, he immediately assumes that his person must be his soulmate, the one person who was missing from his life. He finds out later (after the wild drunken sex, of course XD) that Tom, his "soulmate" is actually his twin brother, a demon. Instead of Bill recoiling in disgust, he figures "Hey, what the hell; I usually do my own thing anyway. No one can tell me not to - they don't know who Tom is." (Bill's demon side was never quite quashed, even when living among humans.) And so, the wild story of Bill and Tom, Nephilim twins, goes on. My other favorite story by Fyredancer-san is of a slightly different nature. In it, Simone and Gordon Trumper (as previously stated, Simone is the twins' mother. Gordon is their step-father) are traveling minstrels. Gordon plays guitar and Simone paints, and they sell her paintings and Gordon plays with a band. One day, when they were nearing the end of their last caravan route (they had planned to settle down at SOME point, after all), they smell smoke. They start to leave the area, but then they hear a scream. They rush to see what's wrong, and find soldiers killing a man with fox ears. They rush to the man's aide, and he tells them that he has kits, and that his name is Jorg Kaulitz. He asks them to take care of the kits. They then see a woman ushering the kits out the back door of the small cottage - a woman without fox ears. They mark where the kits were going, and hear the woman scream. They wait until the soldiers seem to be gone, then rush after the kits. They take them in, hoping that adopting the kits will be a good move, and the rest, you'll have to read for yourself. Fyredancer's unique ideas blend with stereotypic tropes in a way that makes them seem new and amazingly interesting. Her grammar is always impeccable, and she writes with a certain fluidity that I've rarely seen anywhere else. Her stories show a remarkable amount of creativity. I would recommend her to anyone who asked for a book or story to read.

Anime: FanFiction: Lomonaaeren

Hellowses ^-^ Today, I'd like to talk about one of my favorite Harry Potter fan fiction writers, Lomonaaeren. She writes mostly Drarry (HarryxDraco) slash, but don't let that keep you from her. Yes, she writes something that most people don't support for the Harry Potter fandom (I myself have to remind myself when I'm reading it that just because it's not cannon, it doesn't make it bad), but she writes it in such a way that one forgets that it's not cannon, at least while one is reading it XD She also writes gen occasionally, and has some very good AU-in-line-with-cannon fics. At present, she's posting for her Drarry fic "Anarchy as Art" more often than her other stuff. Anarchy as Art takes place after the war; Harry did not marry Ginny in this. Apart from Harry not marrying and having kids with Ginny, everything else happened according to cannon. Malfoy, Harry knows, is a thief who brews illegal potions and teaches others to work the same way he does. However, with Malfoy's generous donations to the Ministry and St. Mungo's, as well as his flawless public manners and face, no one believes Harry. They all think he's just obsessed with Malfoy. Harry's an auror, and his boss is a nightmare. He believes in paperwork to the nth degree, and refuses to believe a series of telling events simply because Harry might be biased. Add to all that the sexual tension of Malfoy trying to make Harry fall in love with him and come to the dark side, and you have a fic that's just begging for Harry Potter lovers everywhere to read it XD

Anime: Another

Yo! Tsukiko here again, this time to talk about the anime Another *shivers* First, show of hands, who's heard of it? *no one puts up their hand* O~kay, I figured that XD  Now, I just wanna say that any spoilers I give will be from the first episode, so don't fret about me giving too much away ^_~ First of all, it is NOT for the faint of heart. It's categorized as horror and school life, but I think there's a little bit of suspense-thriller thrown in there as well. However, if you don't like those genres, don't let that tear you away from this wonderful scare-fest. It's set in the town of Yomiyama (which can be written several ways in Japanese kanji, but I'm not going to get into that here), where, in Yomiyama North High School, class 9-3, there is a curse. A curse that does what, you might ask? Now, here's where the story gets a bit confusing. The one thing we definitely know throughout the anime so far, is the story that started the curse. Just so you get a feel for the anime, I'll tell you the story of how the curse began... Twenty six years before the start of the anime, there was a girl called Misaki in class 9-3. She was well liked by everyone, because she was smart, kind, and good at sports (sounds like a perfect person, right?). But then, she died. Everyone in the class was devastated, including the teacher, until one day, a boy stood up in class and said "She's not dead; she's right there!" and pointed at Misaki's empty desk. For the rest of that year, everyone acted as though Misaki were there, and they even put a chair for her in that year's picture. But it didn't stop there... and that's where I (and the beginning credits of the first episode of Another) end my narrative XD To sum up, Another is a wonderful anime filled with suspense, gore, horror, death, and everything else that comes with being a ninth grade student XD

FanFiction.net: Good Writers?

HELLO!! Today, I'll be talking about one of my favorite writers on FanFiction.net, elarielf (who I call "Elari-san"). Alright, now, Elari-san mostly writes for Code Geass (which, if you don't know what it's about, I suggest you watch. It's a BRILLIANT anime). Elari-san writes some yaoi (mostly one-shots), some shounen-ai (occaisional one-shots, with mostly multi-chapter fics otherwise), and some gen (mostly multi-chapter fics). At present, she's writing Snapshots, which is a wonderful AU story where Lelouch is several years older than Suzaku. In this world, Lelouch escaped his father without Nunnally, to live on his own. He found an apartment across from Genbu Kururugi and his son, Suzaku, and ended up as Suzaku's baby sitter. Suzaku ends up falling in love with Lelouch, and Lelouch with Suzaku, and Lelouch must protect the virtue of mini!Zaku as he grows up (but it's more drama than comedy). At present, there are about two hundred chapters in Snapshots. But don't let that scare you ;) Elari-san's writing is compelling and well written, with almost no grammatical mistakes (yes, I'm a grammar nazi XD). If you haven't yet read Elari-san's work, I suggest you check her out. Even if you don't read Snapshots, she has several other fics she's working on, all of which are brilliant. She's in the middle of gen fic, Turning Points, right now, as well as the companion fic to Snapshots, Retouched Negatives. Both are just as good as Snapshots, though I won't go into detail about them. For those two, you'll have to read them yourself ^_~

FIRST POST!!

HELLOWSES!! First post, and today's topic is...*drumroll* THIS BLOG!! *silence* Yes, I know: anticlimactic XD So, basically, this blog will be a diary of sorts for me to get out my thoughts on whatever anime I'm watching, or on how my lolita sewing projects are going, and my thoughts on the fanfics I'm reading. It's boring to write where no one can respond, because that's like talking to yourself. So, voila! Blog! XD (Yes, my reason for the blog really is that idiotic XD) I'll be posting links to certain fanfics I really liked, and talking about the latest chapters, and about the latest animes that I've been watching. I generally only watch ongoing animes (sometimes, if I get bored, I'll find one that's completed), so you'll be getting reviews on the latest ones ^-^ So, here we go ^-^