Okay, before I reply to this in an orderly fashion...
"SUBSTITUTION." That's the word. THAT is like, my personal NUMBER ONE KINK. (Ahem, right alongside voyeurism/command.) I agree about threesomes. I've only written one, but it wasn't actually fucked up (for once)...just like, uh, angsty/lots of position changes/AMAZING REGENERATIVE ERECTIONS LULZ. But I love the idea of physical intimacy becoming an act that is so very corporeal, and yet causes (complex) desire for others to swim even deeper in their own psychological trauma because they can't deal with desire for another person on that level. Some twisted manifestation of half-met lust and FEELINGS. Ahem. Well. ... At least in Gundam Wing. ANYWAY. Not gonna lie--I write A LOT of fucked up porn.
ANYWAY, those costumes are fantastic! Dude, I think I've actually seen that Edgar before, when I was googling Edgar cosplay images as I made my own costume. I'm hoping next year to do something better, but it was mad fun this year. We had such a good time. The general response to me was not so much, "Oh, you're Edgar!" (though [personal profile] deadcellredux got a lot of exuberant FFVI fans who recognized Locke); the response to me was, "OMG LOVE THE DAMASK YOU SEWED ONTO YOUR SHOULDER ARMOR. CAN I TAKE YOUR PICTURE? OH AND UH...WAIT, WHO ARE YOU?" LULZ. Shoulda brought that chainsaw. That's fantastic that you're Edgar AND an engineer. I don't even have the LUXURIANT TRESSES, love of SUMPTUOUS FIGARIAN FABRICS, or SMOOTH SKILLZ WITH TEH ESPER LADIES to back me up in convincing people I'm Edgar. ^_^
Yes, the Gundam Wing death wish theme is SO PREVALENT. And you have to wonder: is the willingness to self-destruct some unconscious desire to commit suicide? I feel like they each have their own approach to death: Duo, ironically, calls himself death, but he doesn't want to die; I feel like Wufei doesn't think about death so much as vengeance and honor; Quatre is just, "UM, IF I HAVE TO DIE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, THEN I WI-- HOLD UP ZERO SYSTEM!QUATRE SAYS YOU NEED STEP THE FUCK BACK;" Heero is indifferent until a certain point, but probably has an unconscious death wish since, to me, he's an emotional person who's been repressed to the point of disturbing; and Trowa is...Trowa. In some way, I almost feel like when Trowa says he wants to be more like Heero because he's strong (and this is the fangirl talking), he really means he wishes his emotions arrived as steadily as Heero's, even though Heero is so staunch and single-minded because he's been trained that way. Heero waking up to his humanity and will over the duration of the series is incredible. LOVE THIS SERIES TO AN EMBARRASSING DEGREE. And now without shame, I will continue rambling-typing about it.
Awkward make-outs. Hell yes. UST consummated. Awkward make-outs in Italy or France is what I feel IN MY PANTS. I mean, one thing that is such a major issue with the ROAD TRIP OF AWKZ is that they are basically like, totally doing this without orders, without ANYTHING directing them except Heero's (emotionally stunted) conscience and Trowa's complicity. They're not terrorists so much as...searching. And c'mon now, TURNING POINT OF HUMANITY=ASS SEX SOMEWHERE IN MARSEILLES. Okay. Kidding...ahemsortof. But really...yeah. So many dots and so much unspoken communication. CANNOT DEAL. It makes me WILDLY curious about how Trowa feels about the possibility of Heero dying...I feel like it'd be mostly confusion, but that's a fun (oft-depressing) concept to play with. I myself wrote an out of control (Depeche Mode...YEAH) songfic about that imaginary scene of them talking while driving. It's sort of painful and old, but I have a strange fondness for it. I've written a lot of weird fucking shit for this pairing; I just love it so much.
Re: DxR...Yeah. I mean, unless you're writing Dorothy as a relic of war (which can totally work, of course), she's forced to change in a post-war world. I like the idea that Relena's kindness cripples her, but she can't deny its efficacy since she's the one who's the war relic. And yeah, I'm actually working on it tonight/right now...there's a lot of obnoxious imagery to do with flower petals and blood. As is my M.O. Fail.
P.S. Nice icon. Yes, please. I attempted to write that pairing recently, and now I'm totally into it. Recs?
WOW. EPIC COMMENT CONVO. I haven't talked about GW this much in years. I am so excited. ^_^
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"SUBSTITUTION." That's the word. THAT is like, my personal NUMBER ONE KINK. (Ahem, right alongside voyeurism/command.) I agree about threesomes. I've only written one, but it wasn't actually fucked up (for once)...just like, uh, angsty/lots of position changes/AMAZING REGENERATIVE ERECTIONS LULZ. But I love the idea of physical intimacy becoming an act that is so very corporeal, and yet causes (complex) desire for others to swim even deeper in their own psychological trauma because they can't deal with desire for another person on that level. Some twisted manifestation of half-met lust and FEELINGS. Ahem. Well. ... At least in Gundam Wing. ANYWAY. Not gonna lie--I write A LOT of fucked up porn.
ANYWAY, those costumes are fantastic! Dude, I think I've actually seen that Edgar before, when I was googling Edgar cosplay images as I made my own costume. I'm hoping next year to do something
better, but it was mad fun this year. We had such a good time. The general response to me was not so much, "Oh, you're Edgar!" (though [personal profile] deadcellredux got a lot of exuberant FFVI fans who recognized Locke); the response to me was, "OMG LOVE THE DAMASK YOU SEWED ONTO YOUR SHOULDER ARMOR. CAN I TAKE YOUR PICTURE? OH AND UH...WAIT, WHO ARE YOU?" LULZ. Shoulda brought that chainsaw. That's fantastic that you're Edgar AND an engineer. I don't even have the LUXURIANT TRESSES, love of SUMPTUOUS FIGARIAN FABRICS, or SMOOTH SKILLZ WITH TEH ESPER LADIES to back me up in convincing people I'm Edgar. ^_^
Yes, the Gundam Wing death wish theme is SO PREVALENT. And you have to wonder: is the willingness to self-destruct some unconscious desire to commit suicide? I feel like they each have their own approach to death: Duo, ironically, calls himself death, but he doesn't want to die; I feel like Wufei doesn't think about death so much as vengeance and honor; Quatre is just, "UM, IF I HAVE TO DIE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, THEN I WI-- HOLD UP ZERO SYSTEM!QUATRE SAYS YOU NEED STEP THE FUCK BACK;" Heero is indifferent until a certain point, but probably has an unconscious death wish since, to me, he's an emotional person who's been repressed to the point of disturbing; and Trowa is...Trowa. In some way, I almost feel like when Trowa says he wants to be more like Heero because he's strong (and this is the fangirl talking), he really means he wishes his emotions arrived as steadily as Heero's, even though Heero is so staunch and single-minded because he's been trained that way. Heero waking up to his humanity and will over the duration of the series is incredible. LOVE THIS SERIES TO AN EMBARRASSING DEGREE. And now without shame, I will continue rambling-typing about it.
Awkward make-outs. Hell yes. UST consummated. Awkward make-outs in Italy or France is what I feel IN MY PANTS. I mean, one thing that is such a major issue with the ROAD TRIP OF AWKZ is that they are basically like, totally doing this without orders, without ANYTHING directing them except Heero's (emotionally stunted) conscience and Trowa's complicity. They're not terrorists so much as...searching. And c'mon now, TURNING POINT OF HUMANITY=ASS SEX SOMEWHERE IN MARSEILLES. Okay. Kidding...ahemsortof. But really...yeah. So many dots and so much unspoken communication. CANNOT DEAL. It makes me WILDLY curious about how Trowa feels about the possibility of Heero dying...I feel like it'd be mostly confusion, but that's a fun (oft-depressing) concept to play with. I myself wrote an out of control (Depeche Mode...YEAH) songfic about that imaginary scene of them talking while driving. It's sort of painful and old, but I have a strange fondness for it. I've written a lot of weird fucking shit for this pairing; I just love it so much.
Re: DxR...Yeah. I mean, unless you're writing Dorothy as a relic of war (which can totally work, of course), she's forced to change in a post-war world. I like the idea that Relena's kindness cripples her, but she can't deny its efficacy since she's the one who's the war relic. And yeah, I'm actually working on it tonight/right now...there's a lot of obnoxious imagery to do with flower petals and blood. As is my M.O. Fail.
P.S. Nice icon. Yes, please. I attempted to write that pairing recently, and now I'm totally into it. Recs?
WOW. EPIC COMMENT CONVO. I haven't talked about GW this much in years. I am so excited. ^_^
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