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Jul. 22nd, 2015 09:18 amIf all goes according to plan, I'll finish the Yostsuba&! AU Ganondorf/Bowser fic this evening.
I'm basing the house where Ganondorf lives with Link on a house in Shimokitazawa (a western suburb of Tokyo) where I housesat for a friend of a friend for about two months during the summer of 2010. This house happens to have the same basic layout as the house in the Yostsuba&! manga, which is also the same basic layout as the narrator's house in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which is also the same basic layout of probably every prefab single-family house in suburban Japan.
On the first floor there's a small bathroom, dining room/kitchen, living room, and utility room, and on the second floor there's a larger bathroom, bedroom, smaller bedroom, study, and laundry balcony. There's no front yard to speak of, and the backyard that wraps around to one side of the house is tiny, but there's an alleyway running between all the houses on the block that kids or cats or drunk college students can use to take shortcuts.
The houses are small and close to each other, and everyone is all up in everyone else's business. I really like that style of spatial arrangement. Because the houses are designed to be open to the outside air at their back and sides, there's very little privacy, and people can just drop by whenever they feel like it. When I lived in one of these houses, young kids and older people came over all the time. It annoyed the crap out of me at first, but I got used to it.
I miss living in Japan, but I also love living in America. I wish I could do both at the same time.
I'm basing the house where Ganondorf lives with Link on a house in Shimokitazawa (a western suburb of Tokyo) where I housesat for a friend of a friend for about two months during the summer of 2010. This house happens to have the same basic layout as the house in the Yostsuba&! manga, which is also the same basic layout as the narrator's house in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which is also the same basic layout of probably every prefab single-family house in suburban Japan.
On the first floor there's a small bathroom, dining room/kitchen, living room, and utility room, and on the second floor there's a larger bathroom, bedroom, smaller bedroom, study, and laundry balcony. There's no front yard to speak of, and the backyard that wraps around to one side of the house is tiny, but there's an alleyway running between all the houses on the block that kids or cats or drunk college students can use to take shortcuts.
The houses are small and close to each other, and everyone is all up in everyone else's business. I really like that style of spatial arrangement. Because the houses are designed to be open to the outside air at their back and sides, there's very little privacy, and people can just drop by whenever they feel like it. When I lived in one of these houses, young kids and older people came over all the time. It annoyed the crap out of me at first, but I got used to it.
I miss living in Japan, but I also love living in America. I wish I could do both at the same time.
