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[sailorkitty]

I’m Kitty. I’ve been around internet fandom since around 2000, but I only really started having a presence around last year.

My interests revolve mainly around Japan, world history, older shoujo manga, and pre 1950’s literature. Classics and Boys’ Own books are all my forte, as are a few underground comics. I adore hierarchies and boarding school/military settings, and uniforms are some of my favourite things in the world. I also really love history!

Most of what I write is shorter works of fiction, 300-1000 words long, though I’ve been known to write longer works. You’ll also find the occasional cultural/historical tidbit hanging around this blog, alongside links to interesting recipes and articles.

Current fandoms are Donna Barr comics (Desert Peach + Stinz). I'm not as much of a gamer as I used to be, but I still enjoy some select RPGs like the Persona series or Pokemon.

My Ao3 account is located here. Not all of my works are on Ao3.

Transformative Works Policy

-If you decide to remix any fics or create icons/banners/podfic/art whatever, feel free to do so, but please let me know about it. --

-Please do not repost f-locked or comm-locked fic.

-I adore comments on everything, no matter how long ago it was posted.

My Fandoms
(Rec posts ahoy. If you want to read/watch them legally, just let me know and I'll tell you where to find them.)

Enemy at the Door

Colditz

Desert Peach

Stinz

Pandora's Choice

History Write-ups

Adopted 18th Century Noblemen

Saragarhi - 21 Sikhs

Babe - A sporty babe

Born in time for WWI, follows dream of piracy

Nazi Titanic & The Gay Resistance 

18th Century Composer + Polish WWII Soldier

18th Century Lady + Common-law married Christians

Fanfiction

Comments

[fadedwings]

I tend to write shorter fics too...and am aiming to write at least one longfic this year. Last year I wrote one a little over 8k, this year I'm aiming for 10k. Good luck on your writing :)

[sailorkitty]

Good luck yourself! :) 8 K is good and close to the goal! (I got up to 5K, ^^;;)

[mithun]

Interesting! What older shoujo manga do you like? I don't think I've read any shoujo, although I've read one of the Korean equivalent (Bride of the Water God, which I love intensely).

[sailorkitty]

Ohh! Please tell me more about it :) I'm always up for new comics!

There's a lot of them. Mainly, I love the tropes and cliches and art style that comes up(History! Melodrama! Floffy dresses! Bell-Bottom pants! Fucked-up relationships! Uncontrolled Iddy, because it's for kids so who cares!), so it's hard to select any favourites. 'Please Save My Earth' is probably the closest to 'normal' - It's a sci-fi series about reincarnation. Kaze To Ki No Uta is the original shounen-ai/yaoi manga, and it is refreshingly free from many, many yaoi cliches - The main inspiration is gothic and 19th century novels, boarding school films of the 1960's, and Jean Genet. It's filled with complicated family stories and twisted desires.

On the lighter side of that coin, there's 'Tooma no Shinzou' which takes inspiration from similar sources and themes, but operates on a smaller scale time-wise and is more heavily inspired by the Boarding School novel tradition. It's a very down-to-earth story about learning to love and love oneself. (KazeKi is more of a Bildungsroman that happens to feature similar things). Also, 'the Poe Clan' about a pair of immortal vampire boys living through the 19th century.

Tezuka even got in on the fun with a short story about Chopin and a Swedish girl called 'Rune'(!!!!), 'Niji no prelude'. Features crossdressing girl, pretty melodramatic prose, and Poland, while also being grounded in historic events (Rare for a Tezuka manga not set in Japan) It's short, but I love it so much.

Patalliro! is a meta-ish parody manga that plays with a lot of cliches. Plot is 'Eric Cartman runs a country', with the help of a gay MI6 agent with pretty boyfriend to parody all the BL tropes. Also has a very early example of Mpreg(Which is Not My Kink, but it amuses me that the author went there before the internet did).

'Pandora's Choice' is not technically retro, but it covers so many of the vintage shoujo tropes/cliches while also being very accurate in it's setting, and has a very 'Jane Eyre' feel to it. It chronicles a fucked-up gothic family in a gothic mansion, the main character being the half-Chinese daughter of an unhappy drunk. (The author is American/Korean, but published it on a Korean platform)

[mithun]

Fucked-up relationships!
gothic and 19th century novels
complicated family stories and twisted desires
a fucked-up gothic family in a gothic mansion

Mmm, these sound good...

Bride of the Water God is, eh, it's the kind of romance people complain about when they complain about romances. Asshole male lead, nicer rival who doesn't get the girl, love triangles upon love triangles, plots that would be solved immediately if people just talked to each other, etc. It works for me because I'm a raccoon and love triangles are my trash. :3

[sailorkitty]

Hmm, sounds like iddy fun! :D I looked it up, the art is really pretty. Looks like it was done in a more traditional style then most manwha nowadays, I appriciate traditional :) The ink is seriously pretty.

(I can't say a damn thing given how deeply I enjoyed Sunao no Shiro, lol. Melodrama up the wazoo and pining galore, and a plot that turns kinda dumb if you think about it more than six hours.)

[spikedluv]

Hi! Good luck with Fandom 5K if you decide to enter that challenge!

[sailorkitty]

Hello! And thank you :)

[magicaltwister]

Hi, I like your fanfictions! Enemy at the Door seems really interesting, I'll have to watch it sometime. Have you ever watched It Happened Here? It's an alternate history film that's about what a Nazi-occupied Britain would be like.

I also share your interest in boarding schools/military settings, despite never having any experiences in them. Uniforms are also a fascination of mine.

[sailorkitty]

Hello. That's nice of you to say - I'm not so active right now, unfortunately. But bluespirit and kateoftheangels may be of interest to you, since they both produce fic for history-based fandoms. historium is also a good community, and if you're looking for people to follow, addme_fandom is a great place to start.

It Happened Here sounds interesting, I'll keep an eye out for it.

[magicaltwister]

Thank you very much for the recommendations! By the way, what's your favourite pre-1950's literature? I'm a sucker for books that explore the past in a genuine way, so books that old appeal to me.