... I like my cliches. oh yes.

Wah. I'm feeling horribly nostalgic for Hana Yori Dango right now. I'm just in the mood for some shoujo... something new. But really, I wish I hadn't watched HYD two years ago so I can watch it now. Every now and then, I see a story and it's -perfect- for me. I mean... not that it's a good story, even... it's just that it's one of -my- stories. It's like I recognize it having kinship to my own emotional landscape-- like I have pieces of me in these characters, or want to. And it's like... this is rather meta, but it's really emotionally vivid to me. There's definitely something all my favorite love-stories have in common.

I miss my anime obsession, I think... which is just wrong, wrong, wrong.

See, okay. There's this common thread, so much so that I can tell the story of "The Relationship" and it'd be all of their story. Spike & Buffy, Tsukasa & Tsukushi, Shion & Mokuren, Rhett & Scarlet (...okay, I'm sorry, but it fits). It's the story of Halves. Of lost, intensely passionate people who make a lot of mistakes and break each other's hearts over and over, but in the end, for them, there can only be each other or loneliness and heartache.

( So I told my Story of Two Lovers, introduced Him and Her [or Him] and... it's weird... I could almost write it now. So here goes... )