The Impala's Trunk

Got my Spring Fluff assignment today, and I spent a solid 5 seconds staring at it, unopened, in my inbox. (Yes, I am a dork about things like this.)

When I opened it, I was pleasantly surprised at the possibilities. Two of the five pairings were on my "Can't Write" list, so that narrowed my choices down some. Now I'm hovering between my two final pairing choices, because I can see merit in writing either.

*consternation*

Both pairings require quite a bit of research on my part, (always a good thing), though one would require a bit more than the other. Choices, choices.

Back at the net cafe (and whee, look at my shiny new icons), but the only available table with a plug was in the smoking area. Sealed room, air conditioning up to full, I think my eyes may start bleeding from the smoke. T_T

Anyway, I'm sure you're all tired of hearing me complain by now, so here, have a pimp to an awesome Fic/Art Exchange coming up:

spring_fluff

There are a /lot/ of sign-ups and a lot of great prompts. I caught myself ogling some of the rare pairs and hoping I get them, lol. Anyway, what are you waiting for? Cut-off is on the 10th, so have at it, kids! XD

Also, I spent last night doodling and I was happy enough with the result to make it my new default icon. Click on the image to view the larger version. :D

Tenipuri Meme!

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Many Thanks and Much Love to:

deetamamushiko (Hugging snowmen rocks my socks! Thanks so much!) XD
jenlan (Thank you so much, sweetie. I hope we remain friends for years and years to come! :3)
soloproject (Babe, you are awesome. Thank you so much for the lovely pic. *waves little Fudo flags*)

Thank you so much for the lovely Christmas cards! :D *hugs all around*

"Open Your Eyes
by: Trinity Helix
Feedback: Everything to trinity_cross@yahoo.com
Website: www.trinityhelix.com
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Characters: Tachibana, Fuji, Shinji, Kamio
Genre: Shounen-Ai, G
Warnings: None
Notes: For happiestwhen. This was my fic for the Tenipuri Fantasy Fest before my old laptop crashed and deleted everything. -_-;; Sorry, luv. This is half a year late but I hope you like it anyway...

Original Prompt: Fuji/Tachibana and Shinji/Kamio: "missing scene"; hospitals change people and... loosen inhibitions...? ;) any rating, angst a plus, no implied tezufuji plz, but other pairings welcome.

( White on white in a sterile room. )

Ben and his parents and I went to the city for lunch, and now I'm using the internet at one of the cafes. I don't think I've ever slept so much in such a short span of time... the weather is wonderful!

I also got to wear my new swimsuit top, but I didn't get it wet at all. I made it halfway down the beach before putting my blanket down on the sand and falling asleep. Ben, of course, has used the time to work out like crazy. Before I passed out, he was doing cartwheels and practicing his capoeira. :P

The good news is that I brought some work with me and actually managed to get stuff done in between falling asleep in random places. My thesis storyboards are now halfway done, and I finally finished my Tenipuri Fantasy Fest fic for Sionnan. (Holy crap, it was due half a year ago. 0______o) Also drew out some preliminary sketches for my illustrated literary project with pixxers, so that was good, too.

Can anyone tell me if this is Fujiwara in the reindeer hat? Because I will die if it is.
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/yoh_s_blog/imgs/b/7/b71f11e4.JPG

(Hallo YOH-santa and Fujiwara-Deer. I DIE NOW KTHNXBAI. KIMMYYYYYYYYYYYY LOOK AT THEMMMMMM!)

Hi, everyone! :) Nori's holding a Fudomine fanfic/fanart contest at Fudomine.org, so please join and help support everyone's favourite underdogs. XD She asked if I would supply an art commish to the winner of the fiction category, so I'll be supplying that plus a grab bag of Tenipuri goodies as well. (The contest runs until late January).

Join here: http://fudomine.org/contest/

Also of note is the fact that I am in the final phase of my thesis this semester (last sem was writing the actual paper, this sem is shooting the stop motion film), which is why I've been incredibly busy. To that extent, I will be going on Hiatus from now 'til December.

If you need me, I can be found at redtrinity@gmail.com and my RL contact info can be accessed through my userinfo.

See you guys in a month! :D

Whee! Finally finished my POT Christmas Card. I'll be going down to the printers tomorrow to get it done and then I'll send out all my cards asap. :) For once, I am not late, lol!


View here: http://www.trinitycross.net/flame/fanart1a/pot27.html

Did this one with markers yet again, and I'm really starting to like that medium. It always comes out so nice and bright. :3

Also made this into a wallpaper (1024x768) for my better half pixxers, but anyone who wants it can have it, too. ^_^
Download it here: http://www.trinitycross.net/flame/fanart0/pot27c.jpg

*hugs everyone* :D

Drawn for Kimmy, because omgitsucksmebackinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. XDDD

Also updating because I put up my Takuma bromides over at Buchou-spotting. Check out the banana in a tux, looking pensive, and being oh-so-cute. XD http://www.trinitycross.net/taku/gallery.html

*sighs* I'm off to Seoul next week, though I'm thinking that now may not be so good a time to visit South Korea. ^_^;; Oh well. Hopefully everything will be all right.

It's my first trip abroad without a companion, so here's hoping I don't do anything stupid and wind up in jail.

Or dead.

Or in North Korea. ^_^;;

No to Nukes~! D:

Extremely, EXTREMELY upset right now.

Finally got the photosets I ordered a while back and I got the wrong Tachibana. The WRONG TACHIBANA.

I love Yoh, but I love him BLONDE, and I would never spend my hard-earned money on his photosets with BLACK, SHORT hair.

ARG. I've been waiting for these for over a month and I get the WRONG TACHIBANA. Of course, I'm sure that the original Takuma Sugawara set I REALLY ordered was probably shipped to some other person already. I already felt stupid enough spending all that money on bits of colored paper, but can you imagine how I feel /now/?? I spent all that money on bits of colored paper that I didn't even WANT.

Ugh.

Dear Yoh,

I take back every single bad thing I said about you and your Tachibana.

Like, seriously.

Love,
Lizz

P.S.
Please to be taking more slutty pictures with your blonde!blonde hair and the second!Kamio. T_____T

I'm a fan of martial arts movies because of two things: 1) It's research for Asian musculature and 2) It's got half-naked men running around. (Okay, maybe the 2nd more than the 1st, but whatever, right? XD)

Anyway, I was rewatching one of my favourite movies this afternoon while having lunch, and I took a bunch of screencaps and wanted to share. XD

The thing about these martial arts movies is that you can't really fake a lot of the stunts. Unlike in Prince of Tennis, where you can get non-athletes to perform the special moves and add in the special effects later, the most you can do with fight scenes is cut frames and do wirework to make it appear faster. However, the actors used still have to be actual martial artists or athletes, because it just looks flat-out fake otherwise.

Real tennis athletes will likewise have very developed forearms, deltoids, biceps, and triceps (the manga!Kaidoh is actually pretty accurate), due to the constant stress of their game play.

In any case, I've taken caps from Star Runner because it had ectomorphs and mesomorphs (two of the three main body types) in various stages of development.


Ectomorph.
This is Bond, the main character. He is a very well-defined ectomorph, as the character he is portraying trains several hours a day, every day. (Note: Look at the definition of his deltoids in the 2nd picture, as well as the width of his biceps and triceps in the third picture.)

(I'm thinking characters like Tezuka, Sengoku, Sanada, Atobe, etc. should have this kind of body type IRL.)

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There's nothing I find more satisfying than waking up to an F-list with not one, not two, but /three/ Fudomine-centric fics.

It's like having a birthday in the middle of June~! XDDD

In any case, go read, love, and snuggle the authors of the following fic:

Title: Slave for a Day
Author: Serenia
Rating: M
Pairings: Tachibana/Tezuka, mild doses of various other crack pairings
Summary: Fudomine needs to raise some funds for repairs to their tennis court, and Shinji comes up with an interesting idea.

Read it here: http://katsstuff.livejournal.com/8122.html

This is /hilarious/. You all MUST read it, because the various people who showed up for the bidding were a crack-tastic surprise. XD

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Title: Never Again
Author: kalamitykat
Rated: PG-13
Status: One-shot.
Summary: Tachibana's thoughts at the end of a school year.

and

Title: Caught in the Act
Author: kalamitykat
Rated: G
Status: One-shot.
Summary: miska158 asked for Kamio/An/Shinji. She got Momo/An/Kamio instead. Don't ask me how.

Read both stories here: http://kalamitykat.livejournal.com/147401.html

The first is sweet and nostlagic and lovely, the second is crack-fun. XDDD

Read, love, and enjoy! :D

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SPREAD THE FUDO LOVE~! :DDDD

Promised Kimmy I'd put up photos of my little plushie harem, and here they are. ^_^ I have others as well, but these are my favourite ones. :D



The Story-In-My-Head goes like this: Tachibana and Kamio decide to open a cafe, and they get Tezuka to be their accountant and occassionally three-way partner. XD (He does this in between bouts of Pillar!sex with Ryoma, who in turn is also sleeping with Fuji, who's cheating on him with his brother.)

*ahem*



Anyway, the only people who go to this cafe are BL couples, hence the Leorio and Kurapika plushies. And also, Kagi from Whistle is their head waiter, simply because he's so hot. And Kamio thinks he looks like Kippei, back when he had long hair. XDDD

The end.

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Obligatory Red Threads pimp: XD


We make custom plushies! We have a sale! Go look--> http://community.livejournal.com/redthreadsdj/6370.html

I've been babbling about Chitose/Tachibana for the past 24 hours, and my little sister Andi wrote me crack.

It is Chitose. And Tachibana. In the playground. When they were 4 years old.

If you do nothing else in your life, read her fic here: http://andhera.livejournal.com/53001.html

And because my little fingers itch to create further crack... Tachibana and Chitose at the playground! XDDD


Click to enlarge! :D

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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

I take back every single bad thing I ever said about Konomi-sensei.

313 chapters later and I'm as in love with his characters as I was in chapter 25 when Tachibana first made his appearance.

Oh /GOD/. Someone please say they've spoiled themselves with 315 so I can fangirl with them? Please? T__________________T


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Also, Red Threads has updated with its latest horde of plushies. Please check them out in the comm!post here: http://community.livejournal.com/redthreadsdj/6442.html

(Plushie Post Includes: Sukisho! Deathnote! Prince of Tennis! Silver Diamond! Hunter x Hunter!)

We've gotten rid of all our backlog and we'll be reopening our custom plushie store this coming Sunday. We also have a pretty big announcement during this time, so please watch for it! :D


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EDIT: I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF.

( CHITOSE ART BEHIND THE CUT. )

I am so, SO weak. XDDD

EDIT 2: T______T

( *gurgles* )

Today was my first day of Jap 10-11, and my brain feels like it's going to bleed/dribble out of my ears.

I have quite a bit of work ahead of me, but I couldn't refrain from taking a few pics of my Tachibana and Kamio custom plushies. And of course the Tezuka plushie demanded /his/ camera time, and of course Fuji pushed his way into it, too... XD

( A Photo!Crack!Fic: In the beginning, there was Dot Toast. )

I've been internet-less for the past three days, and my eyes are blurry and red from staring at the pc the whole day. >_< Making up for lost time? XD

In any case, I'm slowly going through my F-list so please bear with my embarassing lack of comments to all your entries. My DSL providers are entirely to blame.

PIXXERS: I WANT MY BUNNY. *____*

GENIUS 312: WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????

And on that note:



*bites fist*

If I have one goal as an artist, it is to be able to draw boys like Konomi-sensei. Tachibana makes me nosebleed on command, I swear to God.

EDIT: I need to make that an icon. It's too hot to not be my default. T_T

EDIT 2: svz_insanity wrote me Tachibana/Kamio. READ IT BECAUSE SHE IS THE BESTEST DRABBLE-ER EVER. ^_____________^ Go! Go! What are you waiting for??? -->
http://svz-insanity.livejournal.com/299434.html?thread=3427242#t3427242

Andhera .: "Together I want to..."
lizz: "run away with him into the sunset"
Andhera .: You know he has to use ever fibre of self restraint from saying "have sex"
lizz: XDDDDD
lizz: we have filthy minds
lizz: of course, konomi probably meant for him to say "win nationals"
lizz: or something equally boring
lizz: i like our version better
Andhera .: nobody ever thinks of tennis when sweating that profusely
lizz: oh god
Andhera .: it's LIES
Andhera .: if anyone tells you so


...ahh. Fandom, I've missed you so. XD

And also, because I realized that I'd never actually posted it before: New hair under the cut. XD

( I'm cosplaying Soubi at the Red Threads booth on Saturday's LOcon. Hence the hair. )

SPOILERS.

( Holy christ. )

DOWNLOAD IT HERE: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=54D8AE1753F66C18

Why is it that the more I want to see something (i.e. the Prince of Tennis raw this week), the longer it takes for Tokyo Toshokan to show it?

T_____________T

I'm so excited I want to DIE.

So. My brother moved out a couple of weeks ago, and my mother and I have been converting his old room into the computer room bit by bit.

It's nice and spacious and lovely, and it feels great to be working here. There's a proper place for everything, it's right next to my room, and now I never have to go downstairs ever again! (Well, aside from when I need to eat. Hell, I can sleep on my chair. XDDD)

Right. In any case, because I am very happy, I think I should spread the joy. XD So as my first act in my new location, I decided to update my scans page with a bunch've my Tenipuri card scans. (For those of you who don't know, I used to be an obsessive card collector til I realized that I needed to save up to get married and move out. This realization occured recently, like maybe sometime last week. XDDD Lol.)

Anyway, on to the scans!! :D Please note that there are large images beneath the cut.

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( Everything here! :D )

I was checking Tokyo Toshokan every hour since I got home and I /finally/ got the latest chapter of POT (308).

Yes, I cried.

But my god was it worth it. *____*

( Spoilers and images below. )