More fic recs?

Now that I've finished both the series and the movie of Fullmetal Alchemist, I'm ready for FMA fic. Bring it on! But only the REALLY GOOD STUFF.

Remember, I don't give a damn about pairings, and I dislike introspective nazel-gazing stuff that's basically an extended emo character study although most fanfic writers and readers seem not to share this. I like stuff that manages to nail character without being emo about it, and tend to eye AU fic suspiciously. Funny is a bonus, as is plot that doesn't focus solely on romantic relationships if I wanted to read a romance novel, I would be reading a romance novel.


And now I go to bed and await your recs with anticipation.

Africa Letters

Now that I'm working at the library's reference desk on weekends periodically again, I'ma ttempting again to make more headway on the letters from Africa.

For those who've tuned in late and don't know, my parents and I lived in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania for two years when I was a kid, while Dad was doing the research that would eventually become his Ph.D. Mom wrote a bunch of letters home to both sets of grandparents, and one of my ongoing projects is to get them typed in so I can make copies of them and we don't have to worry about the airmail paper they're written on deteriorating any further.

I've got a special filter set up for them, although membership is open - if you want to read the letters, let me know and I'll add you. If you don't know if you're on the filter, I've just posted two letters - check and see if you can see them, or hit the tag below and see if any of the eltters actually come up. :D

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Head over to manga_talk for a link to a new academic journal on manga, anime, and other Japanese pop-culture-inspired fan things.

Manga covers for 2005

Here's a montage of 49 of the top 50 manga (plus one novel - Vampire Hunter D) covers (I couldn't find #29 on Amazon.com, so there's a white space marking its place). I have no OMG WOW insights, but a couple of observations.

List from Love Manga, where David loves crunching numbers. :D This is from the direct-sales market - comic book stores - and not bookstores. (which is interesting in reference to the number of shoujo series in the top 50, I think, since the market at comic stores tends to be more male and bookstores more female. We'll see how it looks when David posts the bookstore list. :D)

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Meme time

I am a lemming. :D Seen in several places already, most recently chibi_nasu

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

You can post anonymously, if you like. :D

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