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Focus on a Fan: ShinigamiMailJeevas, aka Alexhliel from MangaBullet and DA!

1/8/2014

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As part of this blog, I promised to highlight those Death Note fans who scattered when MangaBullet went down.
Welcome to our monthly Focus on a Fan feature!

The rest of this entry is given over to, and penned by, Alexhliel! 

I am Alexhliel, and most of you will recognize that name from MB or Deviant Art. Otherwise I am known as ShinigamiMailJeevas. I guess that kind of confuses people, but by the time I started to make a name as Shinigami the other accounts had already been created and had my work on them. And well, I was not about to pay to change the old name.

I might also have to tell you that my mind goes in about a thousand directions at once so if things seem a bit jumbled here, they probably are :D

So, about me and what I have been up too. Not much to be honest. My life still revolves around “work days” and “days off” and I am still trying to move out of my state. At this point I am going to accept the fact that I either need to win the lotto or deal with being up to my eyeballs in debt—or I'm never going to leave.

I don’t have much to tell about how things have been going other than that. Everything is sort of just the same as it has been. Crappy health. Still struggling with weight. And would generally be happier becoming a hermit with my Mello, MelMat, with internet access so I can buy and watch my anime online. >_> That makes my life sound so boring.

While I miss the MangaBullet community, I am happy that there is at least a few small places we can gather again. I can be a bit of a lurker, mainly because I don’t do well in social situations and come across a bit cold and awkward. Though people who know me personally know I can be...a bit of a dork.

Example: I sent this to my lovely Mello on Valentine's Day.

Be my Bacon Valentine gift
Recently I have been into watching anime more than anything else. I finally finished watching Gintama after a few years of waiting for the subtitles to catch up. It is, and has remained, my favorite anime. Don't get me wrong, I love Death Note and my OTP will always be Mello/Matt. But my favorite anime is Gintama. That is an absolutely insane anime. It has comedy, samurai, aliens, slice of life, great fight scenes and is just generally awesome. I would also like to mention my second favorite anime is Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin), though the manga for that is much more involved and doesn’t have the unwanted bonus of animators trying to add more romantic undertones. The soundtrack for both are well worth buying as well.

Randomly, has anyone seen the show The Walking Dead?

I love zombies (not enough to, you know, meet them personally) and this show is freaking epic. Its the rare kind that gets better every season instead of backtracking. Even if you are not a fan of zombies, you will like this. Unless you cant handle a little gore...then you might not want to watch it.

But this is what I have been caught up on recently when not writing.

As for fanfiction, I am still very much attached to Death Note. The M's have forever engrained themselves in my brain and wont be leaving anytime soon. I am currently flopping back and forth between more than five multi-chaptered stories. Zombies, the crazy house, werewolves, Stargate crossover (I know, bad bad me with the cross over...but I'm only using the universe not the characters. Heh) and Mello as FBI. I have my plate full and cant seem to focus on just one of them to finish.

On top of that my mind has been going over the ideas I have for novels I hope to get published. Including turning “Radio Nowhere”, my zombie fic, into original work at some point. So I am a bit crazed right now.

Look out world, you will soon be flooded with what I call horror novels :D

The only thing other than my Mello that keeps me sane during all this is.....music! It is my secret weapon when writing. A simple word or phrase can change my mood, and in turn my stories, so easily it is almost scarey. I however, can't write without it.

Anyone can skip this part if you really are not into music. I will just ramble on about a few bands that have really impressed me this year by having me buy the entire album. When it comes to music I am rather picky, and even when I say I love a band generally I will only like a few songs per album. These bands I bought the entire albums, not a single song disliked. And for me that is a feat.

Lacuna Coil. That bands last two albums have been pure genius. And the most recent one has spawned two multi chapter death Note fic ideas. Neither of them are warm and fluffy either.

Starset— their sound is described a “cinematic rock”, and I guess it is. The way the music melds with their vocals really just make me want to close my eyes and feel the songs. Not quite sure what I want to write to them just yet but it wont be anything fluffy.

One last band I have to praise is Digital Daggers. They did a “reimaginations” EP, which was basically a cover EP of older and well known songs. On it was “Aquarius”. You know the original, “Age of Aquarius” by The 5th Dimension? I rather dislike the original, and was about to skip over it, but I love digital Daggers so I gave it a shot. I am so glad I did. The melody is hauntingly beautiful. This song spawned a rather unique Death Note idea-but that is all I will say at this time.

Well now all of that is out of the way, I guess it is time to close this. It's been fun :)

I mainly reside on my Fanfiction.net account “ShinigamiMailJeevas” but should something happen to that I also have an account of the same name on Archive of our Own. I am just too lazy to deal with HTML codes to update....

  • Fanfiction: ShinigamiMailJeevas
  • AO3: ShinigamiMailJeevas
  • DeviantArt (not really here anymore but I left my artwork up): Alexhliel

If you'd like to feature in Focus on a Fan, then please let me know via the contact form on this site. It would be great to know where we can find the old gang!


14 Comments
Matti
1/8/2014 12:15:31

This was fabulous! Thank you for doing this, Alexhliel!

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Alexhliel
1/8/2014 14:32:06

Ah thank you. I wasn't sure if this was any good or not XD

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Matti
1/8/2014 15:23:54

Yes, it was that! :)

MelMat
3/8/2014 10:34:53

You are so egg-cellent my dearest! (dork mode activated) *haha* The ramblings of such a beautiful mind at work here. <3

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Alexhliel
3/8/2014 14:10:45

…."egg-cellent" really? Hahaha. :D But thank you <3

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Matti
14/9/2015 20:05:51

Erm, Melmat emailed me at the time to ask me to edit 'ramblings' into a lovelier word, as she accidentally posted it whilst trying to think of one herself.

But I'd messed up my coding, so didn't GET the email until September 2015. Bit late.

However, I think 'ramblings' IS a very lovely word. It's not derogatory towards you. She meant it in the best sense ever. Plus to 'ramble' is to meander along actually viewing the world in all its greatness. Able to be and to ponder, not to rush by unable to take in anything.

It's a word for Pooh, not Rabbit.

Politically charged as well, that old word 'rambling'. The quietest, most unobtrusive way for the working classes to ensure that none amongst the elite erode their ancient rights of access to the land. All hail the IRL ramblers. We can't say they gave us the world, but they certainly maintained our grasp upon it.

TL;DR Can't edit comments; don't want to; Melmat is wrong about 'rambling' being bad, even in this context; and you didn't ramble anyway in the above. But I just did. Bye!

BrookeStardust link
3/8/2014 11:27:33

Cutie! I am glad that things are going well despite being stuck in your state. Totally going to check out the music recommendations you posted!

I am loving these revisiting of friends! The best!

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Alexhliel
3/8/2014 14:11:26

Yay! I hope you like the music. I spend so much money on it yearly… XD

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Miyamashi
3/8/2014 12:19:02

Awww, nice. :) It was nice to see a bit "behind the scenes" of one of the old crowd. Thanks for the write-up!

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Alexhliel
3/8/2014 14:12:36

(I almost typed my name wrong hahahaah) Thank you :)

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orangepunch
3/8/2014 15:41:55

OOH. I remember radio nowhere. You must've started posting it just before things went down. I disappeared for a bit after that, but I remember that one. Like I was hooked from the opening chapter but when things went down it was only a few chapters in. I'm assuming there is much more to it now? I'll have to go and find it.

It's funny that as far as fan fiction goes you really only like writing Death Note...I'm not a huge fan of reading fan fiction outside of DN! XD I guess it's just a thing. Dunno...

You authored some of my favorite DN stories back in the day. Your output is still at insane levels it seems...I don't know how you manage to write so much.

I'm going to have to check out some of the music you talked about.

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Alexhliel
3/8/2014 21:14:22

I honestly don't remember how many chapters I had out before MB went down. RN is completed at 39 chapters though :) It still needs a lot of work in my opinion but I have been forbidden by MelMat to change anything haha. It is posted on both Ao3 and FFN.

Well funny thing is I have been writing fiction for years before Death Note, even for other anime. Now I'm stuck between wanting to try my books and wanting to write DN, so instead i'm not writing at all at the moment. It's frustrating.

Ah, thank you :) I'm glad you liked my stuff. I miss all the writers that used to be in the fandom…

And you should. Most of those MelMat likes and she is hard to please when it comes to me recommending music XD

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Kinofdragons
3/8/2014 16:34:19

It's nice to hear what you're up to. I think that Radio Nowhere would make an awesome book and I wish you luck in that. I'll put it on my to-do list to check out the music recs. :)

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Alexhliel
3/8/2014 21:06:58

Thank you, I hope RN will too. I really struggled with not putting my entire playlist up here XD I cut out more than a few songs/artists…heh.

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