memememing!

[xparrot]

I've been seeing this meme floating around the flist, and have been wondering how I'd do at it myself. Considering how many times I suspect I've reused the same turn of phrase, not to mention I was reformatting my page recently and realized I had entirely forgotten writing one story on there...well, we'll see.

A-- go to my fics and pick out a line or two from one of my stories.
B-- I will respond with which story I think it's from.
C-- points and a drabble to anyone who stumps me

I trust the gentle reader not to pick something too ridiculously vague. But your call.

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahh, what'd they do to v.1? I've never seen the original (TP is so erratic, sometimes they're quite good, sometimes they're pretty bad, but it's often hard to tell unless one knows what it should be. I've heard they messed up Petshop of Horrors too, but again don't know how...)

Ah yes I should've remembered! - just been a while since I read it, I've been reading them as they come out. ^^; Maybe I'll reread this weekend.

Is the manga not finished yet? I thought it was complete...? I tend to like canon pairings, especially in shoujo, and I'm kind of fond of the twins, but...doesn't make me *squee* the way the Satoshi-Daisuke stuff does (not to mention I'm all 'Dark? Who's Dark? Oh, yeah, the pretty boy, whatever - but Daisuke's so adorable!')

[lazulisong.livejournal.com]

well, mostly they made it so that they used the American naming conventions (sorry, I blocked most of it out in self-defense) -- which wouldn't be too bad but the subplot with the twins in the first few volumes depends on Daisuke starting by calling them both Harada and moving to call Riku by her first name. AND he calls Satoshi Satoshi and Satoshi calls him Daisuke, which makes my little purist heart weep and cry and bleed. I do remember they mistranslated part of the Satoshi's Day omake in volume three, though.

The manga ISN'T finished, she's been putting out chapters like, two times a year and driving us nuts. ;_____; Also, it was the rest of the Dark and Daisuke and the Twins and their Retarded Double Date, which does not interest me. Volume 11 just came out in Japan.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

ack! Yeah, naming changes would make me twitch, were I aware of them. That's a pointlessly annoying alteration (take it in the original Satoshi and Daisuke are on a surname-basis?) (...still not as bad as Viz's SJ, which has taken to translating "nii-sama" as "Kaiba". Umm. That's their surname. The little brother would not be calling his beloved big brother by their surname >__>)

Ohhh, that explains why the translated DNAngel suddenly started coming out a lot slower, if they've almost caught up. Ahh why can't shoujo come out more like SJ? a chapter a week is much more my speed!