Good Christ it's December already, where has this year gone and how can it be possible that I'm finishing it in exactly the same place I was last year - no job, no money, and not much hope of getting either any time soon? Am I really totally surplus to requirements? Isn't there any way I can break out this ridiculous rut of nothingness I've ended up in?

This is, however, not going to be an emo post of emo - that was just me reflecting that honestly, this situation I'm in is fucking ridiculous and fucking tedious. What I actually wanted to do today was do another fandom pairing meme where I get to rant about what I do and don't like about various Weiss Kreuz pairings.

The meme itself asks for a list of fourteen different pairings - they can be from anywhere - and asks for opinions about each of them. I decided to challenge myself and try and do the whole thing with Weiss Kreuz pairings, because I Like Weiss Kreuz and also I don't really have strong opinions on pairings for any other series, unless you count the fact that I don't really get any pairing for Death Note except just maybe Near/Mello as a rival ship with lots of fighting for top and Mello usually losing because his inferiority complex re: Near has to remain ever-present, and I also think that School Days would have ended a lot more happily and left me feeling a lot less RAGE-ful if Kotonoha and Sekai had ditched the jerk and got it on together. Even so I can't really say I ship those pairings.

So, as this meme has no title either, I've made one up. This meme is now known to me as:

Oh Christ, it's the Revenge of the Pairings Meme.

Note that throughout this post I will be using 'Aya' to refer to Original Recipe Aya - that is, the female one. If I mention pairing someone with Aya, I mean the female one with the boobs and all. Her brother already has a perfectly serviceable name of his own - Ran - so, for the sake of clarity, I will be referring to him as Ran.

Six Pairings I Like:
1. Youji/Ken
2. Schuldig/Ken
3. Ken/Omi
4. Omi/Ouka
5. Ken/Yuriko
6. Ran/Ken*

Three Ships I've Abandoned:
7. Youji/Omi
8. Crawford/Schuldig
9. Youji/Ran

Three Ships I've Never Liked:
10. Omi/Nagi
11. Schuldig/Youji
12. Ran/Sakura

Two Ships That Have Piqued My Interest:
13. Omi/Aya
14. Ken/Nagi

* As regards Ran/Ken, my fondness for the pairing when it's done well comes with the sadly-for-the-state-of-the-fandom MASSIVE RIDER that Ran and Ken both have to remain IC. I don't like Ken the lovestruck, tearful uberuke who needs Aya to protect him, I don't like Ran being deeply masterful but amazingly tender, I don't like it when the story portrays their wub as sew deep and sew twu, and so very Hollywood. Consequently while I like the idea of them together I hate the fanon interpretation of the pairing, and 98% of the fics about it, which often looks like hatred from the outside.

( The Questions Are A Secret. )

Now, wasn't that better than yet another entry of Emo? I thought it was better. And now I am going to eat and sleep, because I only got 4 hours' sleep and, though I may be trying to hide it, I'm not doing very well today mentally.

Also, does anybody have any damn idea what text I could put on this icon? (ETA: Yes, rokesmith did. Thanks to him for that.) I've wracked my brains for hours and I just can't think of anything. I'll consider more or less anything at this point - single words, lyrics quotes, quasi-profound statements, you name it. Just as long as it has something to do with Youji and Ken and yes, they have been doing exactly what it looks like they're doing if the scanned page I saw was any indication of the rest of the doujin. Needless to say, I would rather like this doujin myself. Oh baby.