Oh god, I am not going to even start this essay until, like, 3am, am I? Why am so unmotivated! Why do I not want to do anything! I suck at life. Woooooooe. The new album by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is pretty great, though.

Time wasters?

radiofreebanri has the new chapter of Reload up, in case you are like me and totally manage to miss the post until someone else links it. Translation on the second page of comments. Awwww, Goku.

Cropped Scan Theatre (YnM) books 6, 7 and 8.

Awesome, awesome Saiyuki meta about the mahjong game in the Kamisama arc by ranith. Why is mahjong so complicated? I tried to teach myself how to play once, and I got lost about two rules in. ...I'm awesome at the solitaire version, though. I can kick Yahoo!games ass, WHAT.

2000 Words on the Theme of Love by harukami. Saiyuki, PG-ish, several pairings and gen, very lovely.

Wake Up by Viridian. NC-17, Sanzo/Goku and Gojyo/Hakkai, long Saiyuki reincarnation story with lovely characterization and plot and very, very good.

I adore reincarnation stories; they're so many ways to do them, and so many different places and times to set them, and... yes. Awesome. The current crack-fic!AU running in my head stars Sanzo and Gojyo's female reincarnations, set in a future/space-opera/cyberpunk world that I am very vague on the details of because who cares, it's just an excuse for porn anyway, and Sanzo is some sort of mechanic, mainly so she can carry around wrenches and wear leather tube-tops ala Winry from Full Metal Alchemist and have attractively placed grease smears high on her cheekbones.

...obviously I tell you people these things because I have no interest in retaining any dignity, ever.

Progress made on the essay in the last five hours: absolutely none! And now I think I'm going to waste more time by going to have dinner.

Title: Hungry
Author: Brigdh
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for vague m/m interaction
Spoilers: Not really.
Summary: "I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, / hunting for you." Goku/Sanzo.
Notes: Written for the 'five senses' challenge at stagesoflove. Titles taken from 'I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair' by Pablo Neruda.

( Just reposting the drabbles so I can send them to the communities, whut )

Your Hot Heart. Sanzo/Goku, PG, part 4 for the 'five senses' challenge at stagesoflove.

Breeding Lilacs. Konzen/Tenpou/Kenren, G, part 4 for the 'five stages of love' challenge at stagesoflove.

Also, I swear I will finish up the drabble meme I did soon. Seriously.

I was at a used book store a few weeks ago, and picked up a book I'd been meaning to read for a while. I got around to starting it yesterday, when it looked like the most interesting thing in my to-be-read pile.

I open it up, and the first paragraph is, "Monkey never dies. He keeps coming back to help us in times of trouble, just as he helped Tripitaka through the dangers of the first journey to the west, to bring Buddhism to China."

And the main character is, apparently, a reincarnation of Monkey.

You guys, Saiyuki is stalking me!

Title: Between the Sheets (Spare the Rod Remix)
Author: Brigdh
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 for m/m/m sex.
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Sanzo lets Hakkai and Gojyo work out their worries. Sanzo/Hakkai/Gojyo.
Notes: Written for Remix IV: I Know What You Did Last Remix. ranalore wrote the original story, When He Comes. More notes here. (Seperate post so that I can crosspost this to a community).


( Between the Sheets: Spare the Rod Remix )

Yes! I've been wanting to do the drabble meme again for a while now- I think the last time I did it was back in June- but I just haven't had enough time. But now? Now I do! I mean, I've got stagesoflove and yaoi_challenge, but they leave me plenty of free time for one meme, especially since I have no papers due for quite some time.

So request something and I will write it for you! Any characters, any pairings, any fandoms, any prompt, as long as I know them.

It's International Saiyuki week! So change your default icon to something Saiyuki-related and post about why you love it.

In honor of the event, I'm posting a paper I wrote last week for the final of my fairy tales class. The assignment was to write about a modern retelling of a fairy tale or folk tale; guess what I chose. I feel compelled to point out that this was mostly written in the middle of the night and directed towards people who have never heard of manga, but feel free to point out anything I missed. ETA: Burial Arc spoilers! I forgot to warn for that, since I doubt my professor cares about finding out what happens.

( Saiyuki essay )

Because I live to provide amusement for you all. Or 'cause I need something to do while I wait for a program to download, whichever.

Sex Ed by harukami. Saiyuki, R. Sanzo/Goku, but it's really about how Hakkai and Gojyo play matchmaker.
The rest would have been history, except that Sanzo, in a large fuck you to Right Action, had refused to do anything about it. Or say anything about it. Or arrange for the two of them to share a room, even.
Sanzo was clearly okay with this decision he'd made to avoid actually having a relationship with Goku. Goku, on the basis that Sanzo was okay with it, was also okay with it.
Hakkai (who had been attempting to hook those two up for about three years now, morals be damned) and Gojyo (who was of the opinion that Cherry-chan might be a bit less inclined to ventilate Gojyo's head if he got laid once in a while), however, were not okay with this.

Ink Blots by harukami. Saiyuki, G. I read this a while ago, and I forget if I recced it or not, but I'm doing it again because it's so funny. What the ikkou see in an ink blot.

Three and Autumn Gold by edonohana. Saiyuki, PG. The first two parts of a "Five Incarnations That Never Happened" series. Wonderful, lovely AUs that are genius takes off of canon.

stagesoflove recs! I meant to do this sooner, but I had to wait for everyone to get in their last piece, and then I forgot about it.
Lemon Scents and Cigarettes by tad_coast. Saiyuki, Hakkai/Gojyo, R. A very lovely and sad take on the pairing.
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Crowley/Aziraphale by airlia_vega. Good Omens, G. A cute, funny series, with footnotes!
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Hisoka/Muraki/Tsuzuki by p_zeitgeist. Yami no Matsuei, R. Oh my God. I cannot believe that this pairing works so well. It's creepy and fucked up and weird and just right. Go read!
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Simon/River by redshoeson. Firefly, G. A nice, delicate take on the Crazy Space Incest.
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Kenren/Tenpou/Konzen by elizacake. Saiyuki Gaiden, R. Because who doesn't love this threesome? Also Konzen and waterlilies is the best image ever.
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love-crumbs by ranalore. Wild Adapter, Kubota/Tokitoh, PG. This is the fic that made me change from "Wild Adapter, I read that, it was interesting" to "I love these characters so much". You have to read this; it is perfect.
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campfuckudie threads:
Gojyo and Yumichika (a shinigami from Bleach) body-switch. The next day, they get drunk and make out to see if it cures them (hey, it works sometimes). Hakkai is Not Pleased, leading to the funniest thread ever.
Sanzo holds 'So You Were Locked in a Cage' therapy. It kills me that Goku wasn't around to join in.
Yaone comes to camp! Be especially sure to read her thread with Ishida; it's great.
Swift comes to camp (from Wraethu). And immediately hits on Rue. Good times.

Uploaded these for a friend the other day, sharing the links with anyone who'd like:

Saiyuki Gaiden Volume One
Saiyuki Gaiden Volume Two
Latest Chapters

Also, can anyone point me to the translations to chapters 20 and 21? Those would be the latest two chapters; ( Cut for spoilers ) I know translations exist, because I've read them, I just can't remember where.

I've yet to write one word of any of the papers I have due next week, but I have finished the last stage!

We Are Pain and What Cures Pain, Both- Saiyuki, R, Sanzo/Gojyo/Hakkai/Goku, 5/5.

I'll make a single post of these and put them up in the fic communities in a little while, but uh, what fic communities should I use? I don't really follow any of them. Rana already recommend saiyukiyaoi, but does anyone else have any thoughts?