Title: KAT-TUN Sings In Chest Voice
Author: virdant
Length: ~1600 words; one-shot
Rating: PG
Genre: AU, crack, gen
Pairing: none. SUPER SEKRIT ONE-SIDED MARKET-ANALYST-SAN/TAGUCHI I mean, none. cough.
Summary: “In the interest of increasing your sex appeal, we have decided to have you all sing in chest voice.”
Warning: It's less about KAT-TUN singing in ( Read more... )

Title: Now Twirl: A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.
Author: virdant
Length: ~6500 words.

Now Twirl
A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands
in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.

( 'Talent' agents would scout for young men who fit a certain critera of handsome-whatever was popular at the time. One notable teen star was scouted when his father got into a car accident. The agent spotted him running hysterically after the ambulance, and thought that said boy had good enough looks to market. After he was signed, they 'recorded' him, where they cut and mixed together several takes which sounded passably on tune. Then he would perform his 'song'-in reality just lip-syncing to his own track to an audience of screaming teenage girls. )

Title: Taguchi Got Hot Or: A rudimentary analysis of KAT-TUN’s Music Station Super Live 2012 Performance.
Author: virdant
Length: 4821 words,
Notes: It's 4821 words of maybe 1/8 of my opinions that I've had for years, finally expressed because KAT-TUN's MSte2012 Performance frankly kinda terrifies me.

Taguchi Got HotOr: A rudimentary analysis of KAT-TUN ( Read more... )

Title: We'll End it on Our Terms
Author: virdant
Length: 4,710 words; one-shot
Rating: R
Genre: AU, gen
Pairing: Taguchi/Kamenashi
Summary: Side-story in Hitman!AU. Before Kiritani Shuuji, there was a boy named Kamenashi Kazuya who liked to play pretend.
Warning: Off-screen death, guns, mild gang violence. Implications of: potential mental illness
Notes ( Read more... )

Normally, I try to not write any notes at all. Normally, I don’t say anything about my writing process or anything like that. Mostly because I think my writing should stand on its own, and I always found fandom to be a bit of a test for myself-is my writing good enough to attract people, to get people happy and excited? The answer, of course, ( Read more... )

Title: Real Face
Author: R(E)I: virdant & reiicharu
Length: 3890 words; one-shot
Rating: PG-13
Genre: AU, Dystopia, vampires
Pairing: Kamenashi Kazuya/Taguchi Junnosuke, KAT-TUN, Yamashita Tomohisa
Summary: In a world ruled by Johnny, KAT-TUN struggle to find who they really are.
Warning: Vampires, Dystopia.
Notes: ( Extended Notes under the cut )

Title: Traveler in the Dark
Author: virdant
Length: 5619 words; part of Music of the Spheres 'verse
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen
Pairing: Mentions of Yamapi x OC, mentions of Taguchi x OC
Summary: That night, Kamenashi dreamed again. This time, he was standing in Tokyo Dome, the lights off, a ball clutched in his hand. He felt his arm pull back, felt his ( Read more... )

I wanted to share my birthday present. ♥ And you get the advantage of getting an (airbrushed) image of me.


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Title: A Story You Don't Know
Author: virdant
Length: 500 words; super-short; 5 interconnected drabbles
Rating: R
Genre: Gen, mindfuckery
Pairing: Heavily implied Kamenashi/Taguchi
Summary: “Tell me,” Kame says when it's only the two of them [Kamenashi and Taguchi], sitting on the floor in a dark room. “Am I doing alright?”
Warning: mindfuckery. This ( Read more... )

Title: Did you forget about that, too?
Author: virdant
Length: 1216 words, one-shot
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen / Angst
Pairing: Implied Kamenashi/Taguchi
Summary: Taguchi notices Kame at a brainstorming session for GIRLS, feeling slightly left-out. Taguchi tries to get him to understand that he's still important.
Warning: Implications of group breakups and ( Read more... )