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I’ve been typing away recently, quite fervently updating my LiveJournal whenever I can. It feels good having a place where you can just tell what’s been on your mind, what you’ve been doing. It’s liberating.

So anyway, if you’re interested in what I’m up to, take a look over at Meiyo @ LiveJournal.

It’s been a while, but today I recorded YUI’s TOKYO on a whim. Maybe I’ll record a better version in the near future. Subtitles are available in English and Japanese.

MP3

Meiyo has been feeling a bit under the weather lately, which is why there haven’t been any updates, but there are many songs on the to-record list, including Jewel’s “Foolish Games”, Katou Izumi’s「好きだから」(suki dakara), and an original Meiyo translation of the latter, baptised “because i love you”.

Stay tuned, everyone! :)

So… enough tweaking and editing has been done!

On to launching the site, I’d say :-)

Meiyo x

Something ‘happened’ one and a half weeks ago and it set off a flurry of ponderings for me. The fact that I realised it had happened before—only not with the same kind of force—was one of the things that amazed me most, because I never expected it to be able to happen.

Let me explain. :)

I was celebrating the existence of lazy days—one I believed I really deserved after a really busy week, full of studying for my first imperative programming exam and also creating a Mandelbrot applet at the same time (which is really cool by the way)—by scavenging FanFiction.net and FictionPress.com for some good stories. I was in need of a superbly well written piece of romance, preferably with some kind of action or adventure to compliment it.

It really depends on my mood whether I check the amount of chapters and, most importantly, the amount of reviews or whether I scurry through the favourite stories of my favourite authors to find the gems, and this time it was the latter. And thus I stumbled upon a Bleach fanfic, called Odalisque by Tituba3. I think now is appropriate to mention that Ichigo and Rukia are by far my all-time favourite anime couple and I haven’t even seen or read Bleach in its entirety. They just fit together brilliantly. Needless to say, I love them and I love reading about them, and if anyone can recommend another good story about them, send me a message :P

Anyway, the book… it’s brilliant, I tell you. The characters are truly in-character and the plot is thick and well thought out. Almost everyone, but especially Ichigo and Rukia sprout some of the most hilariously brilliant things I have ever read. And despite the fact that, halfway, the story turns very, very M-rated, it’s still brilliant. I’ll be honest in saying the lemons are also very, very well written. So I found myself hooked.

But alas, the day passed along quickly and I had only worked my way through half of the chapters—she’s written a total of 45, and all of them are blissfully long (the very reason I refer to it as a ‘book’, instead of just a story, cause as the author herself pointed out: “If this fic were a TV series, with 12 episodes per season, it’d be well into the third season. Something to think about.”)—before my parents said I was spending too much time with my nose pressed against the computer screen.

And throughout the following week, I tried to continue reading whenever I could. Unfortunately, I also let slip in my annoying habit of skipping ahead a few chapters—because sometimes I can’t handle the tension and need to know what’s going to happen or when a certain conflict is going to be solved—and then skipping back so I can actually read the whole thing chronologically—(the fact that I went back to continue reading where I had left off only stresses the quality of the story).

But the thing was, which is also the reason for my post, whenever I wasn’t reading, the time I had to concentrate on finishing yet another Java applet (this time one that allows you to play the game Reversi) and on studying for yet another exam, I felt weird. Butterflies were swirling in my stomach and created a slightly disturbing feel of longing to continue reading. It was just like being in love.

Literally.

It was the exact same feeling I’ve only felt a couple of times before now, and those times I was near someone I was interested in romantically. This time it was just as strong or maybe even stronger than the strongest of those previous times, so strong it almost made me feel sick.

I realise this is slightly weird, which is why I’m doubting whether I should post it at all, but I was wondering… I’m probably not the only one who experiences something like this sometimes, right? I mean, I know people can be a huge fan of films and books and all that stuff, but this is simply different…

Because, as I said, technically it’s not the first time. I’ve experienced the same thing (not as forecful) when reading Harry Potter all those years back (what was I? 11?), and also when reading one of the most brilliant and longest Harry Potter fanfictions by Cassandra Claire (which I, thank God, collected, put in a PDF, and printed before they were taken offline), and again when stumbling across Velf’s Spirited Away fanfiction, and later on her continuation of Fullmetal Alchemist. But I never really thought about it.

So, apparently, yes, you can fall and be in love with a story. Of course, it’s love on a whole different level and of a completely different kind, but to me, it still is love.

These kind of stories (or well written romance in general) also make me wish I had already found someone to love and to be loved in return, but alas.

Just wanted to share this :) Let me know what you think, even if you think I’m completely bonkers.