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I've been feeling playlisty recently, so a few weeks ago I did a Twitter meme where I asked people for prompts for 5-song playlistlets about things we both liked, which I would make in the next week.

...it has now been almonst a month, but on the other hand almost every playlist on this list has more than 5 songs in it, so really it was an equal-opportunity lie!

clones (star wars) for

bluestalking - I uh for sure had this one ready to go already, mostly with songs siphoned off from the playlist for my clone amateur oral historian character from our last tabletop campaign

bash for

jothra - relatedly, the playlist for my clone amateur oral historian character from our last tabletop campaign

wild theatrical productions for

evewithanapple - I was not sure whether this prompt meant 'songs from wild theatrical productions' or 'the mood of creating/experiencing a wild theatrical production', so I attempted to do the second with the first? please note that 'wild' is not a condemnation, some of these are from productions I think are legitimately delightful and some from productions I sincerely believe are terrible

Kay for

aella_irene - this was surprisingly difficult, the only thing in my personal feelings about Sir Kay that for sure I feel like I captured was my strong belief that he spends his entire life annoyed and stressed

Russian Doll for

aberration - this is another one I definitely had cued up and ready to go already

the Iron Bull (Dragon Age) for

agonistes - the Land Down Under here represents Ferelden

bog bodies -

shati forbade me from using Zombie by The Cranberries in this playlist, which, technically, I did not

UNIONS! -

happydork is lucky this playlist was not composed entirely of Daniel Kahn songs

True Pretenses by Rose Lerner for

sophia_sol - this one was so much fun to do AND coincidentally also gave me an excuse to use another Daniel Kahn song >.>

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me for

pseudo_tsuga - an attempt at conveying the Mood of this great work without using any actual songs from the show

Princess Tutu - ok YOU guys all know that my personal playlist for this is LENGTHY, but the person who requested it is my roommate M and we've just finished watching S1, so I had to leave off more than half the things I would put on it until a later date when they will make sense >.>

Twelve Kingdoms for

izilen - another playlist I have had ready to go for years just waiting for someone to ask me about it

the specific emotion of yankumi pretending that shin rescued her from the scary gang member she just beat up for

esmenet - this is indeed a very specific delightful emotion which I did my best to capture!

trapped in an inn for

nextian - a mediocre playlist for a great prompt, I would LOVE more suggestions for songs that express the feeling of 'I'm been stuck for a week in this place with a bunch of people I don't like OH WAIT no nevermind I love them now'

Feel free to chime in with a.) song suggestions for any of these playlists or b.) more prompts, I am always looking to grow my music collection and I continue to find playlisting a pleasant and soothing activity.

In addition to my awesome Yuletide fic, I also got an awesome Yuletide treat! Solve for XX is an awesome ficlet that continues to assuage my constant craving for YANKUMI TEACHING DELINQUENT GIRLS:

Kumiko blanched. This was a teacher's worst nightmare.

As usual, I am working my way through the rest of the archive VERY SLOWLY, often backwards and in reverse (one gets such a feeling of accomplishment working up from the Zs, the letters go so much more quickly than the top of the alphabet ...) I am also continuing to work my way through December meme posts! For the 21 I was supposed to write about Georgette Heyer for

bookblather.

It's kind of hard for me to remember that I only read my first Georgette Heyer book towards around the end of college -- she's such solid comfort reading for me now that I feel like I have been reading her books FOREVER. My favorite Heyers (Cotillion, Talisman Ring, Sylvester, The Unknown Ajax, Frederica, etc.) are pretty much guaranteed mood pick-me-ups for me; they're light and frothy and ridiculous and it's impossible to be stressed while reading them. Everything is charming and nothing hurts!

...that said, I mean, for all her books are sweet as spun-sugar candy on toast, Georgette Heyer was not a nice lady. She was classist and anti-Semitic as hell, and probably racist too, although since I don't think I've ever encountered a non-white person in any of her books that fact is not as immediately evident. But who can ever forget all those charming plots along the lines of "well, this terrible thing would be OK if it happened to that kind of girl, but it can't happen to our heroine, she has CLASS?" I have also discovered that even in times of great stress I can only read so many Georgette Heyer books at a time, otherwise I start to feel a level of simmering irritation with all these cheerful and charming aristocrats who don't do anything. WHATEVER, DUDES! GET A JOB!

That said, it's still nice to know that I have a bunch of unread Heyers yet to discover for next time a period of great stress comes around and I just want to be reading about a bunch of cheerful and charming aristocrats who don't do anything. A Civil Contract, Cousin Kate and The Nonesuch are top of my current list, but for the moment I am saving them in the metaphorical literary freezer as Emergency Heyer.

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/401106.html

Parallels! I received Assessment, a super charming Gokusen fic about Yankumi and DELINQUENT GIRL GANGS, which has been the wish of my heart since my Gokusen reread earlier this year.

It was not a good day to try to go straight, Kasanoda Ayaka thought as she leaned over her fallen friend Kibayashi Kaori.

And I wrote Alterations, which is ... another Capital Scandal fic. YOU'RE ALL SHOCKED. It's about Yeong Ran and Choi Hak Hee postcanon, and if you don't know who Choi Hak Hee is, that's OK, because I totally didn't know her name until I desperately went searching for "Na Yeo Kyung's mother" on dramawiki sites.

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/388818.html

moonyazu9 asked me for my Top Five Sidekicks.

. . . which turned out to be harder than I thought. I mean - what exactly defines a sidekick? If you're talking about superheroes it's easy enough, but after that things get foggy. In a way, I think 'sidekick' is more of a headspace than anything else. If you have a character who thinks of themselves, their primary role, as follower/helper to another character, okay, they're a sidekick. But the stories I tend to have the most respect for are the ones where you can tell that everyone's a protagonist in their own head - you know, the way most people are.

So for this one I've tried to pick characters where their sidekick status is both pretty incontestable, and says something interesting about the trope.

( This is cut for length. )

So those are some of my thoughts on sidekicks! I would be extremely interested to hear any of your thoughts on the topic.

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/240466.html

Ahhhh these are all ridiculous and I don't know why I'm even reposting them, but: icon drabbles from here!

( For aamalie - Capital Scandal )

( For futuresoon - Gokusen )

( For izilen - Gokusen )

( For dictator_duck - Washington rap )

( For blacksheep91 - Javert/Rent crossover )

( For shati the terrifying - Utena/Middleman crossover )

( For hafl - Junichiro Koizumi RPF I don't even )

( For ceitfianna - Nellie Bly RPF )

( For genarti - Pumpkin Scissors )

( For pseudo_tsuga - Doctor Who )

All I have to say is that when I get stuck on the subway without a book, I can't hold myself accountable for what happens. Written in an hour, largely (as aforementioned) on the subway.

Title: Dirty Dancing
Fandom: Gokusen
Characters: Yankumi, Shin, Ucchi, Shiori, Kuma, Noda, Minami
Rating: Despite the icon, cool for kids
Summary: A CAREFREE DANCE PARTY. Set sometime between graduation and the specials, but no actual spoilers
Word Count: 875

( Technically, it's probably dancing )

Posting about Kiha earlier today reminded me I've been meaning to do an icon-dump! Of . . . icons probably nobody but me will find useful. OH WELL.

( Gokusen - 33 icons, mostly Yankumi's ridiculous faces )

( Legend of the First King's Four Gods - 44 icons, mostly various people's ridiculous faces )

( A few random injokey crossover Utena icons )

"So Becca, what did you do this weekend?"
"I read all fifteen volumes of Gokusen!"
"What else did you do this weekend?"
". . . reread some of my favorite bits of the fifteen volumes of Gokusen?"

There is a reason that I try to limit the amount of manga I read online. The reason is this: once I start, if it's good, I CAN'T STOP. And then all of a sudden there is no more, and I cry, and then inflict my enormous amounts of love on the internet in picspam form.

- okay that last doesn't always happen. BUT IT IS HAPPENING TODAY.

Basically if you had told me a week ago that my new obsession would be a Plucky Teacher Inspires Delinquents story, I would probably have been sort of dubious. But that is because I had not yet encountered the glory that is YAMAGUCHI KUMIKO.

People who have Kumiko burst unexpectedly into their lives often find themselves . . . kind of bemused.

Who is she?

JUST A PASSING HOMEROOM TEACHER.

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