{Viral} Clearly hardly anybody thinks I top Simon.

The first half of this amazing Simon/Viral doujin just got posted on yaoi_daily. I've linked this post summarising it before (it's that doujin about Simon and Viral's horribly moe lovechild! ♥) and I am so delighted that I get to see it! When I never thought I would!)

Apparently it was posted and scanlated on 4chan. Clearly 4chan is where it's at.

( reworked safe!html for crossfandom GL art recs )

+ 野良: BEAUTIFUL YGO and Gurren Lagann fanart!: Gurren Lagann fanart tag.

The Rules of Anime. Gurren Lagann, in accordance with the KICK LOGIC TO THE KERB attitude, breaks almost all of them.

Also, unrelated to GL, SOY cosplay.

The World Right Here, a Viral-perspective take on why he began fighting for the humans who wanted to return underground. Fascinating: I haven't actually read any Viral fic before, and this is a great start. *grin* And now I wonder if I'll ever be able to find or read anything as good again. ;) It has a different perspective on what I thought would happen as Kamina City rose to power: I thought that the humans would hunt down the beastmen as the beastmen had hunted them, to keep their city safe. This fic is of the opinion that the humans would leave the beastmen alone. Interesting, and I can see both points. My reasoning for thinking that the humans would hunt down beastmen is that I didn't think the beastmen would so easily leave the humans alone after the fall of Teppelin. I envisioned the beastmen as constantly trying to wrest back dominance.

Despite coming into Gurren Lagann at a time after most of the people I knew had gotten into it, I think I came into it at a perfect time. ♥ Right after everything had been subbed, and after all the fanart and doujin had come out. Sure, I missed the OMG EXCITEMENT over the ending, but I come right after the Japanese subs and right before interest (and condemnation) starts heating up for the dub.

flauta_de_pollo's posts here and here made me realise that this month's Newtype USA had a double-sided Gurren-Lagann poster, so I went and got mine today! It's great, and now I have a Gurren-Lagann pinup, except that Yoko figures prominently (... and I do mean prominently) in just about every picture. In fact, there's a four-page Playboy-esque pin-up sheet that made me go D: NOW IF ONLY I WERE A TEENAGE BOY. Or if it were KAMINA INSTEAD OF YOKO HOW ABOUT THAT

And I love when this post on Gimmy and Darry gets beautifully sidetracked by what's rapidly becoming my favourite CFUD tag-team duo. ♥ Kinon and Rossiu of ALL PEOPLE, GUYS. But as CFUD has shown me before, it can make me ship pairings I never thought I'd ship. I laughed so hard at this ♥ Say, is it creepy to go, "HI, I WOULD LOVE TO FRIEND YOU BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE AN AWESOME RPER. END ♥"

... it is too freaky, isn't it.

This is an absolutely amazing post summarising Simon/Rossiu and Simon/Viral doujin. I laughed so hard. The art is gorgeous, and the summaries are out of this world. But that's because the doujin is out of this world. ;)

I intend to do these slowly and painfully myself, but here in case anyone wants them:

( Series Meme )

( Fandom Character Meme )

( I will one day do this for Rossiu )

Simon/Rossiu and Simon-Rossiu Fanfiction

Sources
+ Fanfiction.net's Gurren Lagann category.
+ The Gurren Lagann Kink Meme: Some fascinating premises, some absolutely amazing writing, and a whole lot of brain-breakage. But in an awesome way. The premise is: anonymously leave a comment with a fic prompt, and someone anonymously writes a fic. There are also some lovely Simon/Rossiu and Rossiu/Simon drabbles there, namely:

[☆ = personal favourite]
- Rossiu/Simon; whispered nothings
- Rossiu/Simon, power issues (post timeskip)
☆ - simon/rossiu/kinon
☆ - Rossiu/Simon, a new way of looking at paperwork

( slightly more rated prompts here )

+ Some Things Forgotten - Simon/Rossiu
+ Mismatch - past Simon/Rossiu, unrequited Rossiu/Simon, Simon/Nia.
+ Escapade - Simon-Rossiu, Simon-Nia: Rossiu covers for Simon. Office!fic, which I have a special fondness for.
+ suzimi's Rossiu Was Straight: one sided Simon/Rossiu, Simon/Nia.
+ What Happens in Adai: Crack!fic: Simon/Rossiu, Simon/Nia, Kinon/Rossiu, Nia/Simon/Kinon/Rossiu

@________@ THIS Viral/Rossiu is OW and non-con and pretty well-written!

ushirogattai
The Simon/Rossiu, Rossiu/Simon Community
(boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!)
+ why Rossiu/Simon is canon +
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There was this post here that asked about whether a Rossiu/Simon community existed. There isn't one yet, but I'd love to make one: the only question is the name.

This post suggested heartvshead, which I thought was okay ~ I wanted something to do with gattai, since the Kamina/Simon and Viral/Simon communities have kept up the trend with gattailove and shukumeigattai respectively.

simonrossiu would be terribly pedesterian, I think. I was going to name it srs but the name is already taken. It would have been Simon/Rossiu/Simon because I can't tell who tops. It's Simon for me, but Rossiu for a whole lot of other people.

Then I read the first comment for this post, and so, if Rossiu's name comes from the word ushiro (後), meaning "behind" - then it should be ushirogattai, no? wiki entry, this discussion and this discussion for backup!

+ Korean Site for Simon/Rossiu
+ HOWLS AT THIS

( Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei's Kamina/Simon Shoutout )

( Genshiken 2's Yoko Shout-Out )

( kamina/viral, simon/viral art )

A dear friend asked me, of Gurren Lagann, "um, what's the show about?"

While I could spend ages (and about a thousand screencaps) expounding, I thought a short summary was in order. It's here in case I ever need to recap it for anyone else.

( Gurren Lagann for Prospective Viewers: Summary of GL Plot to the timeskip )

I understand yafurichao posts raw GL Manga scans, but I haven't yet seen the scanlated Gurren Lagann manga chapters posted or linked on the community.

Gurren Lagann is scanlated by Anime Council.
Anime Council torrent links here.
Please do leave a comment on their website if you can, they're doing good work on this one.

Chapters 1 to 4 follow the anime arc, and Chapter 4 ends and includes with Viral's appearance.
Gurren Lagann Scanlated Manga - Chapters 1-4 (30 MB)
download: mediafire | megaupload

Gurren Lagann Scanlated Manga Chapters 1-3</a> (45 MB)
+ PLUS bonus Scanlated Chapter 1 in Spanish
(because it's fun to see Kamina being called an idiot in two languages!)
download: mediafire

( Preview of Gurren Lagann Scanlated Manga )

( Viral Through the Ages )

.favourite FANFICTION
Gurren Lagann Fanfiction Best-Of

Kamina/Simon
☆ (something new begins) when something ends (PG)

Simon/Viral
☆ Cultural Exchange

.FANART
NOTE: All Japanese fanart site links will not work directly. Links were edited to prevent trackback.
If you wish to view the sites, please replace the "hxxp" in the link with working html.

( Gurren Lagann Fanart - Western fandom )

( Gurren Lagann Japanese Fanart )

( prettiest pass-it-on fanart ever )

I happily follow RPs with Gurren Lagann characters, and here, the app list for spiralhigh_rp indicate that Viral and Leeron aren't yet taken. *grin* I would with so much passionate love adore to play Viral one day. *laughs* Or Leeron. Somebody smart and/or somebody vicious, although it is certainly arguable that Viral is both stupid and vicious. *laughs*

I guess the only thing really standing in my way is (a) the lack of time, and (b) fear that I won't have the time or energy to commit to a RP. Following the RPs I like already takes lots of energy. Such are the demands of work, unfortunately. I know others can make it work, but I don't think I can.

Still, this is my wishlist for a Gurren Lagann RP community (I am totally fine on setting, just the kind of crack I seem to go for):

(1 Allowing applications for both pre-and-post timeskip versions of characters
(2) Allowing applications for both IC and OOC versions of characters
(3) Allowing characters from other series
(4) Crack would be permissible, and there would be lots of XD and OOC and fanart posting and manips and wild and craaaazy stuff. ♥

This sounds like a nightmare gattai-of-love version of CFUD, omg_fandom/omg_maou.

But, you know, in my ideal world, if I had infinite time and an infinite supply of AWESOME PEOPLE, and AWESOME CRACK, THIS WOULD BE BIGGER THAN CFUD! *laughs so hard*.

+ Gurren Lagann DS game ♥ (It is very pretty, IT HAS KAMINA and you are SIMON and your first battle is GATTAI TIME XD)
+ Gurren Lagann Cards
+ Gurren Lagann Merchandise with Nia Bedsheet ♥

Waking up in this shirt? BEST EXPERIENCE OF CHRISTMAS MORNING. ♥

( GL merchandise Acquired )

( GL Merchandise that looks Pretty Darn Good )
Also, ( Prettiest Simon-Nia picture I have EVER seen )

+ Gurren Lagann Merchandise
+ GL Card Game merchandise - the little Boota following my mouse around makes my eyes go @_@
+ More GL merchandise

+ Gainax Online GL Store
+ animesuki GL merchandise forum - GL Keychains!
+ Boota Plushie!

SOME OF MY FAVOURITE GL ICONS:

+ hikkie_heaven's icons - first Kamina icons I want to use!
hodemimes's icons
+ calamit0us's icons
+ ushitora_icons's 94 icons
+ caffeinecritter's has MILLIONS OF ICONS here (some good Nia ones)
+ kawaii_madoushi's GL icons. I like these.

+ EPISODE 17 SUMMARY LINK, which is awesome and I keep having to look at it again.