Karekano RABU RABU Redux

I have somehow managed, over the course of the last few days to become reinfatuated with the wonderfulness that is Karekano/ His and Her Circumstances. 'Tis ultimately a futile exercise, in a way, since I have no way of getting my hands on the manga volumes upwards of volume 11. And there are 21 in total. (Don't really think that Ma'll allow me to order the Tokyopop version from the US..). Arrrrgh.

But!

ACTUAL GOOD KAREKANO FIC EXISTS to heal these wounds!

Perfect Blue. Short and sweet. Asapin, Arima and Yukino on the school roof.

Good Together. Author's Summary: Asaba Hideaki finds the perfect boy and tries to put him back together

Oh man. Beautiful, beautiful fic about the two boys in Karekano, throughout the happenings of the manga- with the added twist of unrequited love on Asapin's part. The fact that it closely follows the manga also makes it feel like you're reading additional bonus scenes and the writing itself is good enough that it doesn't feel like the author is needlessly rehashing events from the manga.
I like how the story avoids the usual in love triangle situations- that you end up disliking one or the other person, because Yukino and Arima just fit together as a couple, though in a different way that Asaba and Arima would...but to ignore Yukino would be impossible, especially since she played such an instrumental part in getting Arima to open up in the first place.
The fic also shows more of Asapin's daily life, the stuff that gets hinted about in the manga, or hardly mentioned.
But the main clincher of this is the portrayal or the Asaba/Arima friendship. Oh man. I don't want to spoil anything but the later chapters left me positively breathless and if this is even remotely near to what happens in the manga, I will die when I get my hands on it one day. Omg. It just is that Arima is basically so horribly, fundamentally screwed up and Asaba's always there, for all the times that Arima doesn't want Yukino to know about his weaknesses, because he loves her so much that he is too scared to crack in front of her and yet ahhh the emotional retardedery when he deals with Asaba ...*flails* It's just all so heartstabbingly sad, although the ending is hopeful and quietly happy and oh god I'm getting tears in my eyes from thinking of it now ;__;

I know I probably am not doing this story justice with this craptacular summary/blather...Just. Read it and poke me afterwards and SQUEE with me goddammit! (Read it on Tuesday and man, certain scenes whirred around in my brain for the rest of the week...)

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Also! Was inspired to image-google some pics, photoshop-fu them and thus- ICONS. Feel free to snag at will~ ♥

Preview! (lyrics from Blackbud's "Heartbeat"... a song I have been obsessively listening to for the last few days)

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Music pimpage

Have been listening to certain songs quite, ah, often these past few days, figured I'd share the love~

(Ganked off fst, flist and etc)

Man Man- "Van Helsing Boombox" Took a few times to get used to it, but damn, tis catchy~ The lyrics intrigued me to the extent that I actually sat down and typed them out(okay I wanted to sing-along correctly too, whut)

Blackbud- "Heartbeat" Song du jour. Like the singer's voice and how the chorus just ups the ante and is rockin' :D. Is slightly similar to Muse? Except with less shrill guitar-actionz, I guess...

Kanye West- "Jesus Walks" Okay, am mostly not so much with the Hip Hop/RnB aspect of things... unless it's Reggaeton or Dancehall and ...ALRIGHT I DO LIKE SOME) ...Umm anyways. This song is nifty, got it from the Jarhead OST- love the beat of the drums in this one mixed the chorus bits and yeah. Clickity-click.

Badly Drawn Boy- Another Devil Dies Heh from Jesus to the Devil now. Ignore the first 40 secs or so of this song, the real stuff starts after the crowd sound and tinkly piano. Love Badly Drawn Boy ever since I saw "About a Boy", must get around to buying the album...nice song, this is ♥

Semisonic- Completely Pleased This is one of these sweet songs that hide their utter dirtyness unless you really listen to the lyircs :3 Love the guitar in the chorus and this is just a lovely song to be mellow to~

Enjoy~

*looks at Dorm-listings in Vienna*

...*flails*


....*send help meee email to cousin*


.....*cue nightmarish visions of having to stay in dinky 8sqm rooms with hallway toilets and showers*



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.......*realizes that she needs to sign-up for Uni Wien uh, SOON*




*goes to play PS2 BAD THINGS WILL BE ADRESSED WHEN COUSIN REPLIES LALALALA*