Under a clear blue sky

YOU GOT TO FINISH BBE!!!!! *threatens you* Don't ever let you forced into other things! (But yay for Doppelkopf - me loves it.)
And that pic is... TEH CUTENESS!!!! Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatt-chaaaaan!! *Jun-like fangirlscream*

Haha. Take your time. xD I'm already waiting. But don't let that pressure you. ^^
By the way, I have an idea for your gift ficcie. I'm just still searching for a plot. xDDD~ Stupid me...

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Yeah, it's not like I don't try to, it just doesn't... happen. oO

Thanks! XD That's cause Matt is just like that! :3

Hmmm, I'm trying. ^^;
At least you have an idea. ^^ And I may have a kinda plot, but I'm lacking the talent at the moment! XD

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Fight it!! xD

Matt is such an emo. But we love him anyways, ne? <3

Darling, you cannot have no talent. you`re one of those people who are just blessed with talent. *pokes you*

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I try, but it doesn't work, dammit! XD

I seriously believe he was one of the first hardcore emos ever to appear on TV! XD Oh, how we love him. :3

OMG! *blushes* Dammit, you're just to nice! *hugs* Now you flattered me into action or something! XD

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Oh yeah, he was hardcore indeed. xD But a lovable hardcore meo. <3

It's just the truth. xD But I'm happy to hear that it makes you feel better. :3

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I mean EMO. Jeez, me and my typos. 'meo' sounds like a cat. xD

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"meo" actually sounds cooler than "emo"! <3 Hehe... XD

Awww... :3

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That's so cute, love him <3

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Thanks. <3

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An error in the Matrix!! Didn't we have this whole "getting things done" (or rather "not getting things done") conversation a while back already...? XD

Yamato! <3 Awwww, he's adorable! And I really like your coloring :)

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Yeah, well, I guess we are just like that... XD

Yay! *hands you an imaginary cookie* Somehow I'm surprised people still remember Digimon...

Thank you! XD *hugs* You're too kind. <3

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Guess you're right, probably XD

^____^ *munches on cookie* You know, I was like, 'so what, why shouldn't they?', and then suddenly it hit me and oh my gosh, it's pretty "old" already, isn't it? Funny thing is, I didn't even watch it at first, got into it thanks to my best friend who was kinda obsessed with it back then. And I still remember it 'cause sis dug it up again recently and developed somewhat of an addiction to it (the girl's 23 1/2 btw, for heaven's sake! Oh well... ;)) No, I guess I'd remember either way (Ich sage nur: Kinderserien XD) ^^

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Of course I am! XD

Yeah, it is pretty old! XD And I watched it when I was eleven... ^^; And I loved it but all my friends hated it so I had to keep it secret! XD And now recently a friend and I had a discussion how much we loved Digimon, and well, now I got back to watching it. (Yay, for YouTube! :D) And well, I have to admit I still love it. <3 And now I'm kinda obsessed myself. *coughs* *g* (And there's absolutely nothing wrong with watching it even if you're 23! XD) (Genau! Kinderserien sind die besten! :D)

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Never said anything of the opposite... Come on, as if you could ever possibly be wrong! ;)

Oh, I'm VERY familiar with that, absolutely NOBODY in my class was into Manga/Anime back then. Then again, I don't really mind keeping such things to myself all that much, but still, I always thought it really did suck that you couldn't even mention anything at all, just one single word even, on the subject of it less you wanted confused/disgusted faces. You don't have to like it, but that's just plain stupid I think! :( (Not on the slightest ^^ There just seem to be an awful lot of people out there who apparently do think so... just think of all those guys feeling guilty over liking Drake & Josh, I was really surprised by all the fuss they kept making about it... ?.?)

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Haha, you have to watch out that it doesn't get to my head, if you're telling those things! XD

Yep, I mean even now very little of my RL friends (read: one) know how much I'm into slash for example. XD I don't if I'd have a problem telling them though. Oh, and one of my friends recently rambled about how much she hated when "those fangirls" said that the characters from Kingdom Hearts were gay, and I was like "Oh really, but they hint at it pretty much..." and then she got bitchy and I figured I'd better not tell her that I'm "one of those fangirls". (I also suspect she'd get a stroke if she knew I was writing Drake & Josh fanfics.) But now I'm wondering if that makes me... pathetic? XD
(I wonder why, I mean, there is a reason that I liked ths film/TV show when I was younger, and they are the same reasons I still like them! XD But I can say that most of the people I know admit that they're watching Drake & Josh and Spongebob and stuff. ^^)

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You know, I just realized for the first time that nearly all my closest friends know about my love for slash... funny how I never noticed before, I'd never have thought that there's so many "insiders" (okay, only four, but still, I think it's pretty much for my standards). I didn't come out and just simply tell them, it was more like a matter of giving and/or not denying certain hints, I guess... except for my sis, who walked up to me one day and downright asked me if I was familiar with the term yaoi and if I ever read something of the sorts before and so on... turns out she's into slash, too, but when she bombarded me with these questions I thought for sure I'd drop dead at first LOL (she was the first to ever approach me about it head on ^^;) Since then I got a little more relaxed about it, but I still don't see a reason to go around boasting that I like slash. First of all, I don't think that's of anyone's concern really, and second, I picked up certain signals from certain people... and I didn't like them one bit (the signals, not the people - although by giving off those, they also lost a certain amount of my respect, they made me so angry!). However for me, not telling those people about my being "one of those fangirls" isn't about some form of cowardice or being pathetic, I'm not afraid of them being disgusted with me and quitting friendship or something equally childish - to put it Bilbo's way: "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." (or maybe the opposite, you never can tell...) - but I just don't think they'd ever be able to understand given their obvious ignorance, and so I opt to just keep quiet and keep it to myself.
(Same here! XD Though I don't think Spongebob really counts, somebody just declared it "KULT" one of those days and then like all of a sudden everybody was- oh, sorry, HAD of course ALWAYS been watching it... -_- But most of my RL friends are pretty open about such things as well (best friend only wears comic socks and despises people who wear plain white socks with a passion XD)

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Hmm, yeah four is pretty much. :) But I'm quite content with the one I have! XD I think actually talking about slash is way funnier than just chatting about it in forums and such. ^^ You get funny stares! XD
And now that I think about it, I guess most of my friends know that I like yaoi, they just don't know I like slash. Which is kinda funny. My friends all like shonen-ai/yaoi themselves (they introduced me to it! They were all drooling over X cause it was so gay), but somehow they hate it when "those fangirls" slash characters of who they swear they're not gay! Uhm, yeah... o.O? I guess they've changed somehow...
I'm not afraid of something like that either, I just don't bother to tell them. ^^ And I don't think that everyone know everything about me, so I guess it's okay! XD
(I have to admit it, I don't like Spongebob! XD I mean, I don't hate it either, it's just that well... I watch it when I'm bored or something but I still don't like it. XD Even after it was "OMG KULT!!" ain't I a non-comformst? ;) (The socks thing actually is pretty cool! XD)

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Oh, believe me, I'd be perfectly happy without any of my RL friends knowing, I don't mind them being aware of it (anymore, since the only person I ever really worried about finding out was sis who turns out to be one of those fangirls herself - and a much more ferocious one at that, I might add XD - was the first to ever approach me about it... and that turned out pretty well, I'd say :), it's just that I don't really get anything from their being an 'insider' on my 'secret'... 'cause 'cept for sis and first her, now mutual friend of the both of us, none of my confidantes is into slash/yaoi. Sis and friend are just a tad bit too 'forceful' in their adoration of it, so usually I try to keep away from them if they are in one of their yaoi induced seizures o.O; Thus, I'm still stuck with forums... -_- Not that I'm complaining, I'm really grateful for them, especially since you get to know lots of great people (like you for instance :D)... however, I think it'd be so cool sometimes, having at least ONE RL bud who likes yaoi, too, it's just like you said: We do it all for the funny stares! ;)

Hope you don't mind me being so blunt about it, but what the hell's wrong with those friends of yours? I mean, they definitely point liking yaoi and X (it's simply X-cellent (... um. Yeah, sorry 'bout that... -_-;) ^^, I'm not much of a Clamp fan, but that series and Tokyo Babylon of course... *le sigh*), but how about some (artistic) freedom of thought and imagination? Moreover, it's not only slash/yaoi fans who break free from canon, there's gotta be tons of het pairings that are not even remotely hinted at in the series out there as well, and I don't see how portraying certain characters as gay is any different than making them hetero. After all, who gets to have the last word in in the matter? If it's just not their cup of tea, that's perfectly alright, nobody forces them to, but that's no reason for being that anal about other's uptakes on the subject and not being able to tolerate their respective opinion. I dunno, it just doesn't make ANY sense to me... ?-?
(YAY, another member to join our humble club of Spongebob-defiance!! :D Me, I wouldn't go as far as to actually call it hate, I watched a couple episodes after returning from the "Studienfahrt" last fall so as to be able to make myself a picture of it and surprising as it sounds, it wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated, but still... I just don't like it and I think that all this hype is way over the top! That's what annoys me the most, all those mindless morons lost in worship of a sponge of all things... sounds almost funny like this, though... XD)

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Hmm, yeah, true. I guess it doesn't really matter if your friends know or not, if you don't want to or can talk about it with them.
Uhm, and what's this "forceful" supposed to mean? o.o;
Yeah, forums are cool. :) And it's a fantastic place to get to know nice people! XDD (I just have to steal your statement: Like you! :D)

Uhm, no, I don't mind you being so "blunt" about it, cause it's exactly what I think. It's just... I really don't get it. But I wonder about it often and I have two main theories (actually I've more, but I'm too lazy to type them down... ^^;) and they're both are absolutely childish.

First: They liked all this yaoi stuff when they were younger. I mean we all started reading manga when we were about... 12? And that was when they just thought yaoi was "cool" cause it was new and something they didn't know until then, and of course it shocked people, that was quite funny too. (I guess that's why I started liking it as well, or at least something simliar to that, I can't really remember. Or maybe I just loved how sad it was, I'm all for tragedies.) But then they "grew up" and... then I don't really know? Changed their minds? I don't know... Uhm, we could now assume that they know think that all that "slash/yaoi" stuff is childish cause they liked it when they were younger. (Yes, I know I'm not making much sense here...)

Second: This has to be the stupidest and at the same time the most likely theory. Well, where to start? Not long ago they were friends with a girl who absolutely loathed yaoi/slash and told everyone how disgusting she thought it was. Then they had a stupid argument with her (about something really, really stupid, I can't even remember) and started hating her. Then this ex-friend started LOVING yaoi and I guess then they just started hating it along with her. Uhm... did you understand that? I don't know if I explained it well enough...

Talk about childish? It's not making ANY sense to me either, really. @_@

(YEAH! That makes two of us! XD One should tell them that they worship a sponge, maybe they'd understand how funny they act! XD I mean, I don't care who watches Spongebob, it just seems strange to me...)

And please ignore if my English is off today. School's making me stupid...

Oh, and that I don't forget it, Tokyo Babylon has to be one of the most tragic manga in existence.

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I meant, they just tend to kinda get carried away with their fangirly-ness... I know there's a LOT of (fangirl) people who are like that, and that's okay, I actually rather like myself a bit of that kind of behavior when conversing with people via the net and so on (if it isn't overdone, that is, think along the lines of "OMG XXX I LUV XXX isnt he amzin he s amazin ishe not?he's mine an i gonna mary him on day blah blah blah..." X( which is just plain annoying and perfectly disgusting!)... however, I don't need to actually EXPERIENCE it first hand, getting jostled and jolted around in a fit of pure, unadulterated and uninhibited fangirl-squeafest o.O;;; Believe me, it's gets reeeally frightening and pretty scary sometimes...
Yay for forums :D (... at least they safe- kind of lol)

Well, whatever the reasons and whether they're childish or not, the being fine with yaoi yet loathing slash thing still stays pretty much a mystery to me... though if it really IS your second guess and they now hate yaoi as well, it might at least explain that much, though it's rather stupid and very silly regardless :(

(tried that once, didn't work... ah well, if it makes them happy *shrugs* I don't care XD)

Hey, you read the stuff I wrote last, er, night? ;) ... enough said...

Oh yeah, that it is, and the continuation in X makes it all the more tragic...

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That kind of fangirly-ness is just annoying. :( I try to avoid it whenever I can.

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever understand it.

What stuff? @_@

*sighs* Yeah, the drama... ;__;

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