[ Fruits Basket, Gravitation ]
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Fruits Basket - 1 Fanfic
Gravitation - 9 Fanfics
- Fruits Basket - Ayame's New Customer by Geoduck - EAG pointed this one out the other day and I read because it was short and I'd read Geoduck's other fics, which are always so incredibly wrong but so incredibly funny, and this one... was no different. I can't say anything about it because it has spoilers for Furuba manga chapter 97, but I will say that Ayame is the best character ever. And that literally nearly choked on my Jolly Rancher candy at a line about halfway through. This is the kind of funny ficlet I wanted after chapter 97, a perfect utilization of it. ♥ (No pairings, spoiler warning.)
- Gravitation - After That by Hawk Cloud - An adorably cute dialogue fic that I read on a whim (I think it was on someone's favorites page or something?) that was cute enough that it made me want to check out the rest of the author's work (and, errr, yes, well, I kind of went overboard with that >_>) because... well, it's hard to explain. It's basically Yuki wants sex, Shuuichi wants to talk about their relationship, Yuki is cranky, but not mean, Shuuichi is cute, etc. It's hard to describe something like that. But it made me laugh in several places, the writing sparkled and it was an interesting little excerise in that you could still tell what was going on despite it being a dialogue-only fic. Plus, it's Yuki's version of nice. I <3 Yuki's version of nice when it's done right. XD (YukixShuuichi.)
- Gravitation - Spin by Hawk Clowd - I'd only read one of the author's fics before, a short little thing that was cute, but I wasn't sure what to expect of something longer. But, the summary read as Tatsuha is staying in Tokyo over his summer break from school and ends up living his dream... Sort of. and I have a THING about Tatsuha staying with Eiri for awhile because Uesugi brothers interaction rarely fails to make me sparkle/be amused, so I said, okay, I'll give this one a shot. And... there is nothing I don't love about this fic. 1) It's funny and all the stuff that was supposed to make me laugh did. There's a moment in chapter four when Shuuichi and Tatsuha are returning from NG Studios that literally forced me to stop reading for a good minute and a half because I had to just laugh. 2) It actually writes the Ryuuichi/Tatsuha relationship in a way that was both interesting and hit the right notes for me, which is rare. Admittedly, I don't read a lot of the pairing because it's not the one that calls to me the strongest, but... X-parrot's fics were the only other ones that I ever really liked for this pairing, ones that deal with the way Ryuuichi uses his personality to keep people away, the way Tatsuha needs to move from fangirl to actual person with Ryuuichi, etc.
3) One of my new favorite conversations between Eiri and Tatsuha, where Eiri was actually sorta-kinda being a big brother. (Plus, the opening of that conversation amuses me so much: "You don't have to tell me, of course. I don't care what you do," Eiri told him, turning dials on the machine until he finally managed to turn it on. "But, as the elder brother, it is supposed to be in my job description." / "Shuichi put you up to this?" / "Yes." / Tatsuha sighed. "Thought so.") It's an awkward as hell conversation, but I think that's part of what I adore about it. 4) The characterization just hit all the right spots for me... not to mention nothing really felt glossed over, none of those little moments that I love so much. (Shuuichi and Tatsuha at the vending machine at work when Tohma comes up behind them, Eiri bitching about Shuuichi's singing all the time, Tatsuha's snarking that Eiri is so whipped, Eiri and Tatsuha's conversation about the godawful coffee, Tatsuha fighting dirty when Eiri sits on him, etc.) And... just... it all fit together in that one, cohesive whole, I guess? Nothing felt random or out of place or put there just for the sake of padding, it all sort of became part of a larger story. I just... I could go on about this fic, but just go read it. It's one of those stories that was so much what I wanted out of Gravi fic that I'm over the moon for it. ♥ (Some Yuki/Shuuichi, some Ryuuichi/Tatsuha.)
- Gravitation - Untitled by Hawk Clowd - The summary of this fic reads as: Eiri wakes up in the bed of a strange woman... (one shot) I almost let this deter me from reading the fic, especially with the way the story started out, but... well, hell, do NOT let this story deter you, because the end is just... I dissolve into giggles every time I think about it. Just... it was an odd little story until about halfway through and then it was just... heeheeheee! ....which is a bad rec because I can't describe why I laughed so much over this fic, just... just... go read it. And be horribly giggly over it with me. Just as the author intended. XD (Errrr. Not saying.)
- Gravitation - The Emergency by Hawk Clowd - You know what I love about this story? Besides that it's well-written, funny, and has sparkling characterization? That it's one of those random little cracktastic (in the best way possible) ideas that flit through author's heads and actually executed really well. It's not too long or too short, it just takes the premise and runs with it, creating one of those situations where... I could just SEE this in the series. Just enough jokes to keep me sparkling/laughing the entire way, but not so many that they overrun each other and... oh, for some reason the ending just utterly cracks me up. Plus, I mentioned Teh Funneh, right? This totally has that. (I also ♥ Yuki going into charming mode to get Shuuichi out of a jam with fangirls cornering him and you can just FEEL the aggrivation underneath the mask, despite the fangirls swooning. That was done perfectly. XD) (YukixShuuichi.)
- Gravitation - Sweet by Hawk Clowd - Awww. I'm a happy ball of fluff now. I don't care if it's fluffy, because it's done in such a way that they're not OOC and because Yuki was Yuki and Shuuichi was Shuuichi and because the writing was actually really sparkly and the dialogue was really fun and it was one of those slightly fluffier fics that was... it was believable, so I found myself going, "Awwwww." at it instead of looking for the nearest garbage can to retch in. Plus, I just like the way Yuki is irritable for the entire first half of the fic. XD (YukixShuuichi.)
- Gravitation - Experiment by Hawk Clowd - I realize that it's kind of tacky to rec nearly everything an author writes, especially on a story that's just over 500 words, but... what the hell. I'm going to do it anyway. And I found myself really liking this story because... in some ways, I could relate, I could almost feel myself in Yuki's place. Who of us hasn't been in one of those grooves where we write and write, thinking it's the kind of writing we've always wanted to do, that it's intense and engaging and good, only to be broken out of that state of mind and find that it's not nearly as good as we thought it was? Even in such a short work, I could practically feel that journey with Yuki. Also? The last few lines of this one really kind of get me. (Some light YukixShuuichi.)
- Gravitation - The Consquences of Failure by Hawk Clowd - I admit, it makes my fangirl heart sink a little to think of Tohma and Mika being married in this kind of situation, for anything less than because they loved each other, but it's not a passionless marraige, either. And it's well-written and something I could see happening, that Tohma is approaching the relationship... because Mika is what he wants, even if it's somewhere between a good arrangement and real love. And Mika... she's interesting here, strong and yet still vulnerable in her own way (if that's the word to use), and there's some really fun stuff with Tohma and Noriko just being silly friends as they try to break into the Uesugi household. I liked the story. (Some Tohma/Mika.)
- Gravitation - Playing House by Hawk Clowd - I admit, this fic starts out a little... *waves hand* like it's a parody or just a really odd story. Yuki with four kids? Who are spending the weekend with him for Father's Day? But once I got past the concept, this story is written so much like the author's other work that I just got swept up in the story because it was just so amusing. All the little details of the kids and the smooth flow to the conversation, without the author ever feeling like she's stopping to info dump on us... I mean, Yuki and Shuuichi's conversation about his kids is done wonderfully, because it tells us the background info we (and Shuuichi) need to know, also serves to make sense plot-wise, since Shuuichi had no clue previously, but it's also just an enjoyable scene to read, because her Yuki/Shuuichi dynamic is excellent. Also? Meeting the kids and their mothers? Excellent. I laugh so much. Seriously. I mean, I feel like I should hate the idea of Yuki with a bunch of kids who are visiting because it would so easily turn into something cliche, but when I read the first three chapters of this... I enjoyed the hell out of it and found myself desperately wishing for more. I also laughed really, really hard at the conversation with Namiko. ♥ (YukixShuuichi.)
- Gravitation - Learning to Fly by Hawk Clowd - *happy, happy sigh* Another story that... wasn't hugely long, but took just enough time with the concept it had that it felt like a genuinely complete, nicely long story. I love that. Not to mention it had gorgeous Yuki characterization in that... he cared and he worried, but he did it in a sort of Yuki way. Shuuichi gets it into his head that he wants to 'fly', that the best way to do this is to jump out of a plane and Yuki is less than thrilled with the idea. And then proceeds to reaction in a very Yuki-like way when Shuuichi doesn't really let go of the idea and Shuuich is... well, Shuuichi. Much like "Spin", this story covers all those little moments in the story that it needed to really make the story come alive and make it feel full-fledged, rather than something anemic or, alternately, too close and focusing on unimportant details. The story just sails right along, the pacing just really grand, and the characterization sparkling, especially Shuuichi managing to drag Yuki along to the first session of his skydiving lessons. Just... it's hard to explain, but the level of details of the writing was so much like the anime itself, the way there were all these little things in there, but it wasn't overly cluttered. The way Yuki was jealous and growly in that sort of Yuki way and the way Shuuichi was a little hyper or a little silly or a little overreactionary or a little stubborn or whatever. ....augh, man, this rec sucks. Okay. Good writing. Good characterization. Good plot. Good details. FUNNY STUFF HAPPENS. I totally go over the moon for the fic. You go read it now. There. Rec over and done with. (YukixShuuichi.)
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Date: 2004-11-01 05:57 pm (UTC)There are so many good writers there, it'd be awesome if we could count you in amongst them, hehehehe ~a trophy~
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Date: 2004-11-01 07:02 pm (UTC)I'm thinking I may actually stop lurking at the meet and join the ranks sometime after NaNoWriMo dies away. Poke me about it then. :P