five things that make me happy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LOVELIEST naninande! Anna, you are one of my favorite people on the internet. :D Maybe in the world. Don't let life (or yourself!) get you down, because I will squeeze you and roll you around on the floor until you understand and accept how fabulous you are. :D Plus, your legs. ♥

I have been grumpy and antisocial this week and I am determined to get myself out of this mood. Thus I have DLed a bunch of old, favorite UVERworld songs and am listening to them while I tell you about all many of the things that have been making me happy lately.

I HAVE SO MANY OPINIONS, GUYS. But is anyone still on LJ? D: Am I talking into a void? It's okay, I like the sound of my own voice...

1. SHERLOCK - I finally got over my hype aversion to season 2 (I enjoyed season 1, but then it seemed like everyone in the world hopped onto the omg-it's-the-best-thing-EVAR train and I was baffled and annoyed because I am irrational and contrary and, look, it wasn't that good, you guys!! but I digress) and watched episodes 1 and 2. ( Cut for spoilers, I guess? )

2. DOWNTON ABBEY - So I've been on my wicked Georgette Heyer reading kick (I have six of her books checked out from the library right now, lol, on top of the three I bought) and that's really put me in the mood for fandoms involving British aristocracy, apparently. I found some adorable Heyer fics on AO3 (the Cotillion ones are the best ♥) and also started watching Downton Abbey. I'd heard of it only vaguely, in that it was a show people were watching, but then the news did a bit on it just as I was reading an article in Time magazine about it and the planets aligned and I felt like it was a sign. In essence, I was like, what, it's about the British aristocracy? Sign me up! It's actually set in the early 1900s (S1 takes place from the sinking of the Titanic to the start of WWI) rather than the Regency period, and it follows the lives of the aristocratic family as well as the lives of the servants. I'm only five episodes into season 1 but I'm enjoying it. :D Although one bit in episode 1 really came out of nowhere to smack me in the face, though. Wow, unexpected.

3. ONE PIECE - Still reading in my spare time! Currently on chapter 496 right now but have checked out hard copies of the rest of the Sabaody arc so yay. Looking forward to that. I also forgot to yell about it here but omg, Thriller Bark conclusion? RORONOA ZORO. ALL MY FEELINGS, THEY ARE YOURS. OMG. ♥♥♥ (Also, Sanjiii. ZoSaaaaan. SanZoooo. WHATEVER. BOTH.)

4. GEORGETTE HEYER - I will save for another post, because I feel meta coming on... Really, for all that she mostly wrote (hell, defined) one genre (the Regency romance), she actually has great variety in her characters. Surprisingly so, to me, anyway, but maybe I just started with low expectations. I've really enjoyed her female characters a lot!

5. KPOP - Wonder Girls released a new MV in English for a song that will be on the soundtrack of a terrible Teen Nick movie (titled, creatively, The Wonder Girls): The DJ is Mine. I can't decide if I love it or hate it, but I will say that I totally flailed over Yeeun being omg gorgeous but also omg smug when the boy takes her arm and pulls her away. Fuck yeah, her little gloating smirk. Loooooooooooove.

And as long as we're talking about kpop, I will belatedly link to the fics I wrote for sujuexchange!

For lixia84:
All the Lines We Cast
Han Geng/Zhou Mi, R, 19,200 words
Han Geng’s interest in Super Junior M didn’t end when he left and it’s Zhou Mi now, with mixed feelings, who bears the brunt of that interest. They’re no longer bandmates and they were never friends, but they still find themselves tangled together two and some years on.

All of SM’s official and unofficial policies regarding Han Geng couldn’t dictate where Han Geng’s own management put him: Marina Bay Sands was the premiere hotel in Singapore, ritzy and upscale, and so it was almost inevitable that they - being Asian superstars of similar caliber - would end up in the same place.

They were smarter than to risk meeting inside the hotel, though.

For daidetre:
Come On, Rock My World
Siwon/Hankyung/Heechul, PG-13, 3700 words
AU. Heechul is the artistic director and lead singer for Modern SC, your friendly neighborhood high school rock band. Siwon, Hankyung, and Sungmin are the hapless tagalongs who make up the rest of the band.

The chair rocked forward, its front legs meeting the ground. “Yah, I’ve told you! We’re a rock band, not a We Love Jesus band. We’re not going to be singing about love and peace for the world. Do you want to ruin our image? Hankyung, what were you thinking, letting him make our fliers?”

So if anyone is out there still, come hang out with me and talk? :D