I think I should address the 'who are you?'/'what do you like?' questions, courtesy of Beecubed. So, the right thing to do is to introduce myself here, right?
Yay, getting to know grac!
Thanks for putting your little introduction up here. It's great to know more about my fellow fic buddies. ^__-
1. Tell something about yourself
I'm from Malaysia. My first language is English and subsequently, my national language and then only my own mother tongue and dialects. My facility in English may be attributed to well-written fanfic, my lack of is plain carelessness so please forgive my patchy language skills.
Malaysia! I have a Malaysian friend and she's awesome so I have no choice but to generalise and believe that you are too. Not that you have to prove yourself... coz in my books, grac is already awesome
Patchy language skills? I have yet to see that...
Literally, almost everything I know about life, I learned in fanfic. More often than not, I would not even have read the book, or watched the movie, nor listened to the music- but I would love the fandom based on the fanfic alone. (That, and cute girls help)
Wow, seriously? What makes you so attracted to fanfics? I mean, I don't think I would ever be able to sit through some fics if it weren't for the fandom involved... >.<
That's really interesting... hmmm.
I have certainly tried in the past. But no other fandom except H!P has actually inspired me to post them up.
H!P for the win.
I can't really name any one- so here are the types I like:
a) Well-written ones: I love properly crafted words that can invoke emotions and spark imaginations and any writer that can do it well, gets my eternal admiration.
I agree; although, well-written ones without any heart aren't necessarily good by default. I prefer a story with a big heart to one that's simply well-written
If a story can showcase the best of both, then obviously, that's the ultimate combination.
On the flip side, I value comedy and entertainment, so the funny ones, even the wildly implausible, gets my love. 'Another day at H!P' falls under this category.
I love my comedy too. Ah~, that's a fic I've heard about quite a few times. Never got around to reading it, but you've just reminded me to physically add it to my readîng list. Thanks! ^__^
In recent months, I've been fixating on Ishikawa-san for some reason, she has an incredibly rich personality and uncomplicated layers. If I really had to name one favorite member, she would be it.
*nods head furiously*I’m so glad we have another Charmy fan here. Yatta! <333
And your attraction to her isn’t just because of ‘some reason’, she truly is awesome, and only the awesome can recognise her awesomeness (because as they say, it takes one to know one
). I won’t go into details now, but you’ll find all my (mostly older xD) raving posts about her in her fabulous thread @ Chuuch.
I think if I just got to know Takahashi-san better, I could just be endlessly fascinated. Really do need references for her- any advice?
Hmmmm… I don’t have any in particular, not in the way I could point you to a gazillion references for Charmy. But my impression of Ai-chan has been built through a lot of member interviews (what do you think of so and so member…), Hello!Morning, Haromoni and guest appearances on shows. Oh, and DVD magazines. But that doesn’t really help, does it? Aha. >.<
I see Ai-chan as somebody extremely modest, rather shy and kooky and friendly with everybody; but she is a focused and determined individual, rather stubborn in her pursuit of greatness and has very high expectations of herself (and thus, easily frustrated when she doesn’t meet them). She’s a born performer on stage, where she can let go and almost become ‘somebody else.’ She’s a lot more than that (e.g. very mysterious, likes to hit people, quite sensitive etc.), but that’s the kind of description I’d give if somebody asked me to describe Ai-chan. I don’t know about anybody else ^^;
I can’t wait to read more of your character studies, am SO happy you just updated with a Charmy one, and am off to read it properly and make a comment.