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It's been a long time since I translated anything. And it's been even longer time since I translated something from Harry Potter fandom. In fact, it was a year last week. Wow. I wouldn't have guessed my crisis would last so long. Maybe it's symbolic, this week everything worked out. Even if not the best way it could, but it's finally done and there is no need to worry about ifs and might-have-beens.

To celebrate this memorable event, I decided to start translating again. I don't know if I am capable enough and I don't know if I wouldn't jack it in (I hope not! I've already asked for permission to translate The Story so it would be a shame if I didn't finish it off. Please pretend you don't know I started translating Five Loves and never completed it, ok?). I won't tell you which story I picked because you would read it in English and I'd have less readers later ^^ Let's call it "The Story". I think I will post information about progress of my translation here - maybe if you scolded me that I was slow and lazy bitch, I'd finish it sooner ^^

Anyway, besides watching caramell dansen videos on youtube (omg it has even Mononoke version!), I began reading Harry Potter fanfiction again. It's best way how to find something good to translate, you know ^^ So I bring you some recs. I can tell you The Story is sort of Harry/Draco (it's a shame that Drarry is one of my OTPs and I've never translated a fanfic with this pairing) so the recs' pairings are pretty much obvious.

At first, I'd like to recommend two fics written by Maya. Dark Side of Light is a very dark and disturbing story set in post-war world. But forget about Rowling's picnics in the woods and friendly bickering in Forbidden Forest. This story is completely different. If you're susceptible to depression, don't read it. It's all written as dialogue-only and thanks to this it's even more chilling than it would be if it were described in complex sentences. The story takes place in Azkaban where Draco is imprisoned and Harry comes to see him.
The other Maya's story is Coda to an Epilogue: Twenty Years Later, Or The Kids Are All Right. As the title says, it's DH-compliant and definitely not a dark story. In fact, you'll be laughing hard when reading some parts, I promise. Harry goes to Durmstrang to save his kids who are lost in school sewers. If you don't love Scorpius and Al after reading this, you will never love them.

Well, umm, I know I've already recced Four Moments of Mourning, but I can't help myself. It's so good you just have to read it.

In the end, something that is not Drarry. It wouldn't be me if I didn't rec a Snupin fic, would it? Busaikko's Here, where the world is quiet is, sadly, another sad story in today's batch. But it's not chilling like Dark Side is, it's just full of sadness at the end. And in the middle. Well, it's all sad but in a good way. I don't want to spoil you anything so I'll just say it's another post-war story.

Here are my recs of Kyou Kara Maou related stuff. If you know about anything that could be posted here, let me know, I am hungry for good fics.

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This post contains my recommendations of Death Note related fanfictions, amvs, flash videos, doujinshi, art, etc. Enjoy and let me know if you know anything else that should be mentioned here. Any discussion is welcome.

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Few days ago, I finished wathing Death Note. It was the biggest disappointment in my anime life 'cause I was ready to announce that it was one of the best anime I've ever seen – until the 25th episode. In this moment they should have stop, no more episodes needed. But they didn't and episodes 26-37 are crap. Mello or Near are not to blame, just the authors who took the characters and warped their personalities (Matsuda is naïve but not mentally disturbed to behave like this, for god's sake). Before the 25, there was tension and confusion and twisted logic that made sense in the end; after the 25 there was only twisted logic and feeling "Are they kidding? It couldn’t be like that. I don't believe in what they are all doing."

But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to say that Death Note reminded me why I've started reading slash/shounen-ai/yaoi in the first place. As justthefic stated in her essay Virgulectics - The Slash Is Where It's At, slash means tension. I totally agree and Death Note is exemplary (although it is not shounen-ai nor yaoi). The tension between L and Light is almost visible and their dialogs, their mind games send shivers down my spine. I couldn't take my eyes of them 'cause any glance, any pause, any comment could have a special meaning that could kill one of them. And then I found A Tithe to Hell, a story by ningenfucker. While reading, I could only stare, bite my finger as Ryuuzaki often does, and then couldn’t sleep and while sleeping dreaming of them, still seeing that scene with knife, hearing "Kami" and "Kira" at the same time and sorry Nifredil, Loveless will have to waint until January 'cause I've hanged myself with rope made of Shinigami's diary.

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I should warn you, the story is NC-17 with warnings for: knife/bloodplay, excessive eyerolling, bad metaphoric comparisons of L to fish, amphibians, birds, monkeys, insects, cave dwellers, and fungi, ridiculous amounts of cuddling, and cake as a plot device (these are the author's words *smirk*).