I had an odd little weekend that by Sunday had turned into me walking through Sears yelling,

    “Why have we got Pikachu socks but not Deathscythe socks?!?!”

    In any sense, this odd state of mind was affected even more when I sat down to read my three favorite Gundam Wing fanfics (which I crammed onto 21 pages at 8.5 font…). I haven’t read too many Gundam fanfics, but all the ones I have stumbled across have been yaoi. At this point I’m not really sure what the people who don’t like yaoi spend their time reading…

    This yaoi stuff seems to bother a lot of people, but I’ve read enough romance novels that it doesn’t really get to me much. Actually, I usually start reading it and wind up laughing so hard I forget what the plot was! (In other words: Embrace the funny stuff in life whether it’s supposed to be funny or not!)

    Anime seems to be a breeding ground for yaoi (oh my, look at that comment!). And with Gundam Wing it’s a little predictable: Quatre’s with Trowa, Duo’s with Heero, and Wufei… Well, one of the fanfics I like has Wufei hooked up with Duo (an odd but interesting combination…).

    I love the stuff that has Heero hooked up with Duo. The authors get so very jealous. Sure, they didn’t create the characters, but as authors they’re taking the characters and making them their own temporarily. So why hook the two up? Just sit down and read a fanfic and look at it lightheartedly. If Duo and Heero are a couple, somehow the author is going to get jealous and jab it into the plot.

    “Oh! Heero doesn’t love Duo enough! Duo needs to leave Heero! Heero doesn’t respect Duo enough!” I’ve already shown what I think they’re like as a couple in a previous ramble so I won’t go on again, but oh! such an entertaining topic!

    Then, of course, there’s Quatre and Trowa. Poor Quatre, no matter what he does he’s picked on. And Trowa, no matter what he does, he’s still wearing white pants…

    I bet if they were/are a couple (note how I’m not adding in my opinion on the subject here!) an evening at the Winner-Barton house would be thoroughly entertaining. They’d spend hours playing at the Playstation2 and then go down to the basement where there’d be a big roller rink and watch “Boogie Nights.”

    Nah, that’s not right… That sounds more like something I would do…

    No, I think Trowa would be out souping up the Heavyarms with the subwoofers that Quatre swiped from Duo. Quatre wouldn’t realize this until Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff” came blasting through the house. Quatre, who had been sharpening some more pencils, would storm out and try to walk to where the Gundam would be blasting, but being such a tiny pilot and the subwoofers being so big, he’d be vibrated away… (Meanwhile, Rashid runs in and steals all the sharpened pencils muttering that he needs start buying pens instead.)

    Once he finally made it to the Heavyarms, he’d look up to see Trowa half hanging out of the cockpit.

    “What are you doing now?”

    “Tinkering!” would be the muffled reply from within. Quatre would smack his forehead thinking of all the money going down the drain known as the Gundam (kind of like a boat: a hole in the water in which one pours money).

    “Look!” Trowa would say, jumping down to the ground, grinning from ear to ear,

    “I have a black light now!”

    Most people are bothered immensely by yaoi writing, but I find it totally entertaining. One must not look at life seriously or one will find themselves turning into a Gundam pilot! (Oh wait, that wouldn’t be so bad, would it?) Nah, the next time you stumble across something rather graphic that you find disturbing, think of how darkly funny it all is! I mean, really, Heero would have killed Duo a long time ago for swiping his corduroys!