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[not_hathor]

Mother's Day weekend was bittersweet. The sweet consisted of being reminded that it had been one year since bringing Belldandy home, receiving a rosebush from husband and child, and spending most of that day with MY mother (and father and daughter). The bitter? Going with my husband to the cemetery the day before to visit the grave-sites of HIS mother and half-brother, and learning that My Dad has prostate cancer. Yes, I know that Prostate cancer is one of the more easily treated and survivable of the lot.... but my dad is 77, has diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems.

Daughter is having boy problems again.... it's complicated. For a while she and the Out-of-State Scumsucker from the January/February soap opera tried to patch things up, his mother got into the act and offered to pay for Daughter to fly out there and go to OoSSs' high school Prom, but that fell through... then one of her 'friends-who-happens-to-be-a-boy' from Anime Club started liking Daughter... a LOT. Poor kid was almost crying on my shoulder, 'cause she DOES like him, as a friend; wants to keep him as a friend, doesn't want to give him false hope; and now he's asked her to double date with another couple from Anime CLUB to OUR prom. I can sympathize; I went through something similar my Junior year in college, during which it seemed like every time I turned around one of my male classmates whom I considered a friend was professing an interest in 'getting closer'...

Well, enough angst. My right foot, badly sprained just before Easter, seems to be healing properly, although not yet up to par. Still limping a bit, especially when tired, and it aches at odd intervals. The doctor told me it generally takes 4-6 weeks, and I know I've pushed it a bit.

There's a fanfic fandom meme making the rounds: Choose a character from the posted list of fandoms, and I'll tell you three things about him/her/it from my personal fanon/fanfiction. I've hesitated because I've written so little, in only a few fandoms, and I'm not sure if anything I come up with will make ANY sense, especially since I tend to blend my fanons in weird ways (multi-fandom crossovers, anyone?) But.....

Here goes: Real Ghostbusters
AirWolf
Highlander
StarGate SG:1
Yu-Gi-Oh! (not GX)
Brokeback Mountain

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[imagines.livejournal.com]

What do you think about Ryou?

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Heya, kat! Ryou is easy, considering he's one of my fav's...

Three (or more)Totally non-canon details about Ryou Bakura, according to my fanfiction Yu-Gi-Oh universe:

1. Ryou was born in Egypt, while his parents were on an archeological dig outside of Memphis.

2. Ryou's mother was British (Welsh, actually) and he spent a good bit of his early childhood at his maternal grandparents' home. He has fond memories of Grand-dad Pwyll and 'Uncle Jamie', but not-so-fond memories of his grandmother, 'the shrivel-hearted harridan', to quote Lft. Jamieson (formerly of U.N.I.T.).

3. He is quite fond of Mokuba in an older-brotherly way, possibly because he misses Amane; Ryou and Mokuba both belong to Kendo Club at their seperate schools and at least once a month the clubs have joint meetings.

4. Ryou joined the Kendo club on the recommendation of his therapist, who thought it would be good for him. To his surprise, Ryou discovered that he enjoys learning Japanese Swordsmanship very much and is actually quite good at it for a beginner.

[imagines.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like your ideas of him! I don't know anyone else who thinks his mom was British. ^^ And I'd never thought of how he might interact with Mokuba...I don't know if I've ever written them into the same scene. o.O But that would be cool.

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Hiya! One of the first YGO fanfiction stories I ever read mentioned 'Ryou's British mother' and it stuck with me because I am *such* an Anglophile, and I love the accent from the Funimation/4kids dub.... Unfortunately it seems to be "uncool" in YGO fandom to admit to liking the dub.

5) When Mokuba talks Seto into sponsoring a Halloween Charity Ball, Ryou attends costumed as Jareth the Goblin King from "Labyrinth", which Moukuba thinks is 'totally wicked' and asks if the Goblin King has come to take his big brother away. At this point, Mokuba knows that there is some quarrel between Ryou and Seto, and is hoping to get his best friend and his nii-sama to 'kiss and make up'; needless to say, it's NOT that simple!

-Mary

[imagines.livejournal.com]

I think the stigma of dub-liking has lessed somewhat, with YGO:TAS appearing and all. Because if you say dub-likers aren't cool, then you're saying LittleKuriboh isn't cool, and that? That's just not cool, man. XD I love Ryou in any form, and I love Bristish accents, so Brit!Ryou makes me very happy.

5) HI I LOVE YOU. :D:D I've been waiting for Labyrinth to come in at the library; apparently many people want to see it right now. I want to see pretty David Bowie!~ And I expect I'll want to draw goblin!Ryou after seeing it, no. 8D

[imagines.livejournal.com]

*now >->;