Standing on the Rooftops

So it's been forever. No particular comments to make about that; I just don't spend as much time online as I used to. For the last few months, I've been loosely following daily months, some months moreso than others. I thought I'd break silence here and just post the few fanfiction writings that have cropped up. There's not a great deal, and it's not all amazingly good or long, but I kind of felt like putting it up.

I've been doing a lot of writing and development work lately, though some of that development is for more productive projects than others. XD Anyway, here they are; I'm alive; etc etc.

Fandom: Fushigi Yuugi
Character: Miboshi
Warnings: Disjointed violence
Comments: Miboshi's first spiritual transfer. This is the fic I wanted to write in a much longer form, but for which I could never get the midget to cooperate with me.

( May 6: metempsychotic break )


Fandom: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3
Characters: Masaomi, Hinoe, and Atsumori
Comments: This prompt was impossible to make any coherent sense of. The whole ficlet is written around the prompt. Hinoe is getting along just fine in the modern world.

( May 24: blue, like an orange )


Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Characters: Taki + cheerleaders
Comments: Taki is great. That is all.

( May 28: Casanova in Hell )


Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Characters: Nagare and Tatsumi
Comments: Just a ficlet. Nagare finds out the truth.

( June 11: ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends )


Fandom: Eyeshield 21
Characters: Monta, Sena, and Musashi
Comments: I think the contrast between Monta's declarations of what constitutes manliness and Musashi's personification of the same are hilarious.

( July 01: Real men wear pink )


Fandom: Odin Sphere
Characters: Mercedes and Ingway
Warnings: Spoilers for the Mercedes vs. Darkova Bad End
Comments: I'm fairly happy with this, really. It expresses my thoughts on Ingway's perception of his and Mercedes' relationship.

( July 03: Everybody knows the frog gets the girl in the end. )


Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Characters: Nagare
Warnings: Nothing explicit, but this mostly concerns Nagare and Yatonogami. Tread with caution.
Comments: I like some of the phrasing in here, but I think some of it devolves into cliche. I just wrote it today, so I don't think my opinion is settled.

( August 13: Let loose your moorings, ride waves of ecstasy )

I've been wanting to spread some music around for ages and have pretty much just been looking for an excuse. Snagged from zannechaos. Reply and I'll give you a letter and you have to find ten songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal.

I got A, so here're some songs and some rambling. The song title will link you to Megaupload pages, while the source will link you to lyrics. These are in MP3 and MPEG formats; between WinAmp and Windows Media Player, I think they should all play.

( A-chan's rambling music fannishness, GO! )

All right, that's all. ^^ Anyone who gets any of these, feel free to tell me what you thought; I love talking music.

So I'm safe in to Tennessee, and my goodness this state is pretty. Nice weather for the middle of July, a swimming pool, my own room... Just lovely.

But on a more inspired note, I saw POTC Dead Man's Chest for the second time today, and it seemed as good a subject to update my LJ with as any.

( Spoilers, spoilers, under this LJ cu~~ut... )

So a friend and I were talking at work tonight about Hiruma and the Devil Bats and certain psychological conditions, and then this struck, complete with title, and I knew I had to write it as soon as I got home.

My first attempt at Eyeshield 21 fic, quickly written pretty much as it came. No particular warnings or spoilers or pairings; just Mamori musing about Hiruma and the state of the team. Set post-Death March, and after a particular plot event, but only one I've heard about, not one I've actually read, so heck if I know what chapter it's for.

( Sympathy For the Devil )

Spotted at eag's.

Go to wikipedia, look up your birthday (not including year), choose three events, two births and one death that occured on that day, and then post them.

August 6th

3 Events
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1862 - American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.

2 Births
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born film director, writer, producer, and actor

1 Death
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)

In actual news, I've gotten my laptop (a clunky but serviceable thing I'm hoping to get the top of painted), and there are discussions underway for plans to move to North Carolina, or all places, and I'm invited. My own room, a winter with actual cold... There are some issues that need working out first, but I'm hoping we can get those done, because it sounds awesome.

[Insert requisite, "Wow, it's been forever," schpiel here.]

Okay, with that out of the way, I think I want to buy a laptop when I get my (very, very healthy) income tax return. There are computers around here, but I've been getting less and less time on them, so something of my own to cart around would be very nice.

All the more so since Bomber-kun's sister and I are developing a big fat fanfic project that I just realized today I have a perfect webspace for that I'm not doing much with. *kisses to eag*

For anyone who's curious, it will be a large scale crossover between Fushigi Yuugi (which you all know what is, I assume) and Harukanaru Toki no Naka De 3, a Japan-only dating sim for the PS2 by Koei, the people who haven't yet brought America the somewhat better known Angelique. For an idea of why we chose to cross it over with FY, have a bit of synopsis of the Harutoki games:

"[Main character] is a regular Japanese school girl minding her own damn business when she and two of her friends get dropped into a strange, magical version of ancient Japan. Her two friends and six others become her hachiyou, in four pairs to represent each of the four gods. Together, these nine must blah blah save the world, blah blah love love."

This is Rizvern, the Genbu of Earth member of the group. He's the last survivor of a village that was burned down because they were weird and blond and considered to be demonic. Does he remind you of anyone? You won't be the only one.

I was introduced to this game and it's fantastically amusing set of characters by my co-author in this endeavor. She didn't much care for the earlier Harutoki games, as they're sticklers for that dating game concept of compatibility, in spectacularly anal-retentive fashion. Harutoki 3's love-love endings, however, in a departure from the norm, are far more about the paths you take and the things you say, rather than what sort of flower you give the object of your affection. It's also the first in the series where the main character fights at her companions' side, and also the first to give you a regular female party member (that isn't the main character, that is), who also has a possible ending you can pursue.

I'll edit in my lovely co-author's short summary later, as I don't have it on me right at the moment. I'll say this much to start: The early part of the story will involve the Harutoki 3 cast in a post-series bookworld. There won't exactly be LOADS of familiar faces early on, although we're incooporating enough to not completely drive off the much larger group of fans that we have any chance of getting to read this. In Harutoki 3, however, the main character aquires the ability to time travel. It will be getting quite a lot of exercise.

Anyway, that's what I've been up to. ^_^ I've also got a new fantasy idea to develop, which is nice, as original story ideas are hard for me to come by. Argh, world-building, thou art my baaaaane!

Icon meme ganked from shotagoddess I'm taking less because I have a lot of really funny replies (I don't have enough icons for that), and more because I'm hoping to spread it around so more people with more icons take it. Can I tag people? I tag shoiryu because she's really funny, tiamatschild because a) her characters seem to be so talkative in her head and b) I always marvel at how natural she can make every pairing she writes seem, no matter how strange. I also tag anyone with more than twenty icons (most of my friend's list, as far as I can tell) that feels like forging through their icons to find some hilarity.

Make a list of all the people/characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc.

-A-chan x Arios: A-chan is me, and I only wish I were that lucky.
-Rei Hino x Saaganatsu: ...Um. Well, she can do excorcisms, right? And she'd certainly sense him coming. I imagine it would get very unpleasant, very quickly.
-Sara Lee x Suzuno: Er, Sara Lee is an original character that probably no one reading this but C-chan or Hime-san know about, but I can't imagine what tender inclinations Sara Lee would have to develop for this to work.
-Terazuma x Wakaba: Totally! I'm all about the awkward Hajime-chan love.

So, tomorrow night I'll be leaving for Baltimore and Ota-Kon. I'll be gone for a week, not that I update this thing that regularly anymore in any case. I shall try to make a con report when I get back. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time/finances/drive to come up with any kind of cos-play thing, so I don't have any nice, "Look for the ______," statements. Ah, well. Remind me, friend's list: is anyone else going to this thing?

So, anyone around here going to Otakon in August? We're discussing and starting to make plans for it. C-chan's thinking about doing some artwork for it, and I told her I'd ask around and find out if there was anyone on my friend's list going who might want a picture of anything in particular. So, anyone want some fanart? I'm sure she'd be willing to haggle about prices. Here's her DeviantArt site, for those that would like some samples of her work.

On an entirely unrelated note, SQUEE. There are so many movies coming out this winter I'll be wanting to see...