#memeity meme

ok friend!!

i scratched my head over this a lot buttt it's gotta be one where natori plays a poor boy in a family, as a teen in the middle of his high school years

he has a sister a year younger than him that he cares about [in a pseudo-not-really-love-interest role]

due to some shenanigans, he finds out that he's actually a son of some rich guy who owes a company, due to some type of shocking dna test. there is an older half brother who's also in the running to take over the company

cue a fish out of water story where natori's protagonist tries to acclimate to a new elitist high school, running around with the rich kids and all that; there's a popular rich kid with a dangerous reputation at the school who offers to show him the ins-and-outs of the new school And also corporate intrigue

the protag, as in these types of stories, runs into an identity crisis as he loses a little more and more of his moral compass in his climb for power etc etc

and at the end of the movie, where he seems to have cast away everything he used to care about for a position as top dog, including betraying his kind-of-but-not-really-new best friend

a Shocking Twist

his younger sister is actually the heiress to the rich family, not natori's protag, and there was a mix up with the dna testing

the protag is so distraught that he doesn't look where he's going, gets hit on the head by a passing basketball, and gets amnesia

Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people

tagged by @chidorinnnnn

Nicknames: lady peony or lp

Zodiac Sign: aries

Height: short and full of spite

Hogwarts House: ravenclaw primary and i wanna say hufflepuff secondary

The last thing I googled: something something train lines from Shibuya??

Favorite Musicians: purity ring, lana del rey, metric, the concept of old fairytale ballads and sea shanties

Song stuck in your head: my bAYBEE you always got the RIGHT WORDS AT THE WRONG TIMEE

Following: its over the hundreds??

Followers: 200~ ish 

Do you get asks?: yes when there are memes to be answered

Amount of sleep: give or take 7 hours, sometimes less

Lucky number: 11 

What you’re wearing: pajamas

Dream job:  asfkjsadfsff something related to stories in some form or another?? otherwise i sit here like

Dream trip: gestures vaguely in the direction of europe 

Instrument: somewhere between two or three, still retaining enough to read music relatively well

Languages: yes okay so *wavy hands* a grand totalll of 2 and a half, where one of them is functional enough to maybe navigate and get food and that’s it

Favorite Songs:

love you back - metric

still - daughter

missing beauty - world order 

calling - the world ends with you/all its variations

Random fact: my inner mind theater flips between 100% mean sarcasm or 100% shoujo cherry blossoms there is no in between which dere am i

Aesthetic: swings between the cute magical girl goals of ribbons and bright patterns and like, aspirational elegance of long-skirted dresses and fitted jackets a la period dramas and gothic romances

(just for clarity’s sake idk if there are any further chapters with them or not but i’m not not saying that there isn’t a chance)

Total number of completed stories: 4 fics 

Total word count: 9,963 Fandoms written in: natsume yuujinchou, stardust

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d predicted? less fic than last year, but more words than i thought there would be, especially the yuletide fic which kept going and going and woosh 

What’s your own favorite story of the year? shadow players, ie that one vaguely exorcist politicking fic for a natsume week prompt. i think there’s more of an ease? comfortableness? with fading in and out from one scene to the next and some of the descriptions seemed to land pretty well in that one 

Did you take any writing risks this year? the small tastes of those CLAMP au ficlets that were just scribbled out without much prior planning...i like how the cinematography stuff in it was expressed and now im badly missing reading CLAMP even as i know i don’t have the emotional fortitude to go through all their heartbreak doomed otp nonsense aGAIn  Do you have any fanfic or ofic goals for the New Year? original fic, and whatever sekrit original projects i could be working on also 

My best story of this year: wow, how can i ever choose *spins wheel* uh...i think that one tokyo-babylon based chapter turned out pretty well, all things considered  

My most popular story of this year: hmm going by hits/kudos/bookmarks, shadow players seems to have the clearest lead Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: idk bird goes here 

Most fun story to write: i did like the chance to jump into a lot of english folktale lore research for my stardust fic, but i also vastly vastly enjoyed the indulgent CLAMP au for their birthdays sometimes you just gotta write seiji bleeding and natori freaking out about it amirite Story with the single sexiest moment: oneday somedayy there will be making out in my fics but this year is not that year 

@akitania​ asked for the dvd commentary meme on this section of notations in a pulmonary vein!!i believe this fic had ended up being written after watching those super special episodes and reading bits of the novel relevant to it and finding out…izaya’s pov on it (shinra as one of his top formative teen experiences!!! shinra being cheerful and egging izaya into helping him hunt cryptids!!! izaya being apathetic towards literally E v e r ything until this one weird guy kept asking him to form a 2-person club and be bffs….to impress a girl) with bonus of shinra still claiming that izaya was an ‘asshole but also my friend’ as adults!!! i don’t know what weird combination of factors was in their storyline but there was a lot of [internal yelling into the void]!!!!!

2 worse people becoming friends and…making each other even worse with their bad ideas… *chinhands*

without further ado, here is the commentary!!

“Orihara-kun?”This was unusual.“What is it?”“Are you doing anything today?”Even more unusual.

the funny thing is, when watching drrr!! you don’t really know that shinra and izaya are friends at all, re: see celty’s surprise that the 2 knew each other when shinra told the story about his scar. and still you get these vague negative-space shaped hints…how izaya calls shinra sometimes, even if it’s not for his job as an informant. how shinra still answers his phone calls (albeit hanging up quickly after). for all the monologuing they do about how they don’t care about individual people (other than the world: izaya;, and celty: shinra) and despite at first glance how they’re really very bad at most individual bonds there’s this weird friendship that they didn’t drop for like…close to a decade…and that means something about both of them, even if it’s badly defined between 2 amoral side characters

i expect that it’s rare for shinra to ever call izaya for something though your guess is as good as mine how many times a day that izaya texts a picture of like…a garbage can or a broken flashing traffic light to shinra and asks him is dis u?

Izaya gets a garbled anecdote about a cat-shaped pillow in an arcade, a trio of delinquents, and a glass bottle placed inconveniently on a sidewalk.

shinra was trying to get a nice present for celty; ie why he didn’t call celty for help. your guess is good as mine what happened between shinra and the delinquents though

A crush of honking noises floats to their ears, mingling with scattered cawing of a swirl of crows.

i just like this line a lot there’s nothing else i have to say about it :DD

“Well,” Shinra starts and runs his fingers through his hair, a bewildered expression on his face as he looks from the roof beneath him to Izaya and back to the roof again.

the nice thing about having a bff from middle school is that they are well aware of all the top five dumbest things you ever did and get to bring it up forever into immortal memory.  izaya got treed by dogs up a telephone pole that one time #iconic, so shinra gets his time to shine here

i didn’t mention it, but tiny middle/high school shinra is sitting on the roof hugging a ginormous orange cat-face-shaped pillow as big as his own torso which is also why he can’t figure out how to climb down by himself without dropping it

i don’t think izaya is willing to help him carry it…at all

“What are you doing?” Shinra hisses.“Are you sure your glasses are still working? Climbing this, of course.”“Why?”“If you can’t get down, I can push you.” The fall wouldn’t do more than break an ankle. Most likely.

tagged by @chidorinnnnn for a moodboard/aesthetic meme?? 

please enjoy whatever this is supposed to be

tagged by the lovely @rinkafushi to list my top 10 songs that im currently listening to

decided to try to challenge myself without using a single anime soundtrack song so here we gooooo

all of these conceivably could be part of your very own leather jacket pink sunglasses wearing femme fatale soundtrack or cool car jams

i. diet mountain dew- lana del rey (bardeli klaus remix) horrible exorcists theme song numero one  

a literal surprise to no one; i do love how the remix seems to have more of a extra sequins gentle glittery bokkeh feel than the original 

ii. the mating game- bitter:sweet (step right up who’s the next contestant in this sweet charade)

a song from my own moulin rouge-esque mix  first heard this when a working on a school assignment in what felt like a millenial ago; it was a shame that i never remembered finding any other groups with a similar sound to this, heady and dizzying and smoother than silk

also have u considered dis: fake-dating au jam? fake-dating au jam

iii. kill! kill! kill!- the pierces (it’s a mystery to me how you keep on slipping in my mind)  a sad makeout song or angry pining?? you decide!!!

iv. touch- miss a  (but before i knew it i found myself in your embrace) sometimes...you just gotta listen to one kpop bop. or two. v. R U Mine - arctic monkeys (5% slower) (R U mine~?)  pining, but on a slightly louder register?? plus crooning vocals over desperate guitars  vi. style- taylor swift (midnight / you come and pick me up no headlights) why is this here  ヽ（・＿・；)ノ  something something nostalgic romanticizing of summer teen romances that never happened with sunsets and dimly glittery stars and girls wandering in woods in fancy dresses

dis is musical comfort food i suppose

vii. roses- carly rae jepsen (cat got your tongue / it’s been forever / have you been good? have you been better?)

melancholy, thoughtful, and flawless lyrics a+++ work

viii. god help the girl- catherine ireton (i’ll play his messages / analyze his intonation / please stop me there i’m even boring myself)

fun, breezy, and sly, with a really fun old-timey rhythm that is still eminently danceable

ix. the wolf- fever ray (eyes black / big holes / needs poison / needs blood) first heard the song in a trailer like 100 years ago, never saw the movie but made an attempt at searching for the song later because it was so haunting

and thought

hello this is absolutely MATOBA SEIJI’S BACKGROUND SONG  ⊙ω⊙ and proceeded to press play on it like x50 times  x. miniskirt- AOA i said there would only be 1 kpop bop on here...i was incorrect

why do i insist on doing these when im half-asleep

write 10 facts about yourself & tag 10 people (more under the cut)