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School starts tomorrow for a majority of the young ones out there, and for a brief - very, very brief - moment, it makes me a bit wistful. High school was hell for parts, but it was kind of fun too. You never knew when someone was going to throw a pizza into your hair, a frisbee at your face, a football into your back, or slip over mannoyaise, lettuce peels, and water. Oh, and would it matter if your tea cup spilled ALL OVER you in the middle of chemistry class because of some idiot boy and then be forced to swear like a dirty sailor and lose all the composure you've painstakingly gathered over the years?

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Goodness. I had really forgotten about all that. And here I was missing it.

By the way - I had forgotten how fun it was to read humour fics. Angst/Drama/Action is good and all, but sometimes, humour is all you want. *giggles* If you've never heard Freya and Amarant (from FFIX) discuss Amarant's love life, you haven't read a proper silly FFIX fic.

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I don't usually laugh wholeheartedly at a fic with my hand plastered over them to prevent the giggles from escaping, but I've been dragged through the engine!

Rhianwen. Her fics have me rolling on the ground (only metaphorically of course, because even this cliche has not escaped her sharp humour) convulsing. It's not just the characterization; it's her self-insertions and dead spot-ons of certain trends in different fandoms, like the love for Lina/Zel pairing in SlayersFandom, when it's pretty obvious that Lina/Zel will never happen in this reality. Or the peculiar love for Aeris/Sephiroth in a good chunk of the fandom, when I always thought that killing her by puncturing her chest with his masumune was pretty much a good way of ending any affections between the two. Or the fact that... well, read it yourselves. There's everything from FFVII to Chrono Trigger to Pong (for real) to Harry Potter to Slayers to more.

The writing isn't inordinately spectactular, but her humor more than made up for it. (To me at least.) ~_^