The Twelve Kingdoms Forum

New book?! Yay! I'm actually still working on getting all of the printed books into my library. They're a bit pricey to buy from sites I trust and even more expensive from an actual bookstore. I have two so far, Shore of the labyrinth and the Sea God is on its way here (bit of a snafu with the ...

I'm about a quarter of the way through that one, it's good so far but the editor in me just wants to go through it and fix the terrible grammar. Oh, by the way in case you haven't seen it yet or don't know about it, I made another good find on Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDX966J5NrE ...

I don't know if anyone has posted anything on the short stories available other than the links on the site sashinboku or Ranka but I found translations of the ones missing from Sashinboku. It's Hisho No Tori, about an archery target maker making special targets for Youko's coronation. Granted, the ...

Wow! Nice picks! love it! yeah, I could completely see dakota fanning rocking the queen of kyou look, it would be awesome.

I found an abosolutely wonderful Gyousou-centric fic on FFN that follows his life like a series of snapshots up to the point where Taiki bows his head. I just love it, and it needs some love so I'm going to reccommend it.

Title: The Whirlwind King
Author: theicingandcherryontop
http://www ...

with Shouryuu its hard to tell which he looks hotter in; that piratey casual clothes he wears when he's disguised as Fuukan, or the cool kingly hanfu he wears as king of En. Of course, I think the same about Gyousou; he looks cool in armor and in imperial robes!

I hear that! You should google and image search of Hanfu (or Hanfuu) and look at some of the beautiful costumes. I did when i was doing research for the Convenient Queen (because I wanted to get the details right) and I saw so many of them that I thought "gosh! it would be so fun to try that on in ...

Hm... I was thinking for Youko maybe... Kiera Knightley, she might be able to pull off red-head if she tried it. Or maybe Scarlett Johansen but in her earlier years like Pre-Girl With A Pearl Earring. I don't see many movies so i'm not too good with younger actresses or actors. Maybe that kid from ...

If you don't mind watching live action drama's and have the time to invest heavily, there's an asian drama version of the Romance of Three Kingdoms that was completed in 2010 (I think) that is well worth watching. You won't be sorry, it's really well done, but very very long. I'd reccommend taking ...

I agree, one of the things that makes this stand out as a show in general is the fact that the characters in them all grow and change which makes them more interesting. One of my favorite things about the series is the level of detail that the writer puts into the world and all of the people that ...

Nothing to do with the old (and rather forgettable) Sega console. No what i'm talking here is... if you were going to film a live series of the Twelve Kingdoms, who would you pick as the perfect actors to play the charactors?

I want to stick my oar in the water right away and point out my two top ...

Since I'm the one making most of the reccommendations anyway I'm just going to go ahead and commit the ultimate an gauche behavior (though with some of the things I've seen on the rare occassions I can stomach watching reality television, perhaps I'm not so bad after all) and pimp my own fic.

It's ...

It posted at An Archive of Our Own.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/565912

I didn't know where else to put this but in the same anthology that Dreaming of Paradise is featured in is another story (that's only half-translated into english) where the king of En Shouryuu and a prince of the other long-ruling royal family in... Sou(?) run into each other in Ryuu when they're ...

I found a really good one with Youko and Rakushun that kept them in-character and it also featured the Sou royal family.
Title: Era Of Red Happiness
Author: Anonymous
http://archiveofourown.org/works/541022

And there's a super heart-wrenchingly good (and quite cannonical too!) multi-chapter fic of ...

Oh, I got it! There must have been a delay, thanks so much!

It's hard to play Us and Them when They ARE Us, I agree. I'll post the first chapter on an Archive of Our Own soon.

*big woogly eyes* Teh generosity... you haz it! I'll eagerly await your pm!

I wrote the story partly for the, I guess you might call it, political and diplomatic manuevering. In "The Convenient Queen" The kingdom of Tai teeters on a knife-edge balance between civil war and a very fragile peace. Taiki and Gyousou were located, but the rightful king is held suspended in ...

kinda jealous right now. Where did you find the tracks or did you actually purchase the cd?

I meticulously did my research this time. With TPoS,TDT I more or less had just watched the anime googled a little bit to get the names straight (I couldn't find a copy of the book The Shore in Twilight, The Sky and Daybreak!) and started writing. With The convenient Queen i had actually read the ...

I love the song ruika, I have it on my youtube playlist. Interesting point although I hope people wouldn't be rude to each other. I think the more lax standards of formality allow a greater measure of affection to develop naturally between people. When one must always be conscious of the line of ...

Then I totally had his death confused with another person. ((chagrined)) My mistake, I should go back and rewatch those episodes. But I can see your point, now days the attitude about social niceties is a lot more lax than it was in older days (across the board). Two hundred years ago, if you called ...

Funny it was partly due to this topic post and partly due to a dream I had that made me write another 12K fanfic. It thought the question about a "vacant" throne was an interesting one, and one that certainly applied to the situation in Tai. It made me wonder... what if due to a circumstance a rule ...

I often sort of wonder if the people who did the TV show didn't somehow end up feeling like Asano was redundant after a while. They had a foil for Youko's spinelessness problem in the form of Sugimoto, sometimes the way he died just makes me feel like "they must have gotten tired of trying to find a ...