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sub_divided1. Now that various other fandom challenges have or will soon be wrapping up, does anyone want to claim the next line at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
chain_of_fics?
2. Speaking ofdrabble_trade, I wrote one! I leave it up to you to guess which one.
3. Only a few days left to recommend fantasy-themed fics atfanthology! On a related note, there are no themes for February yet, is anyone willing to sponsor this month?
4. Way behind the crowd, five-indulgent-fic-ideas meme:
Name five totally self-indulgent story ideas. (The fanfic you would write if you didn't care if you had an audience and also had no shame.)
These are all stories I will ACTUALLY NEVER WRITE because they are really, truly, unsalvageably awful. XD; I have plenty of moderately embarrassing ideas, which would sound dumb if I described them but that I harbor hopes of maybe being able to pull off someday. These...are not those ideas.
1. Ryouma is a girl disguised as a boy, obviously because the boys' tennis team is better. Fuji knows but keeps it to himself, Tezuka either doesn't know or doesn't care (probably both), Sakuno still likes him XDXD and the rest, I'm not sure about. Momoshirou/Ryouma, I think Momo catches him -- sorry, her -- changing in the locker room and is overcome by awkward embarrassment, but Ryouma could care less. Eventually the stuttering and avoiding and super special extra care become too annoying, not to mention threaten her disguise, so she confronts him and tells him to knock it off. The climax of the scene is a kiss, which the rest of the team happens to witness. Ryouma's disguise is ruined but the team lets her stay on anyway. (Not that they actually would, but as long as I am being self-indulgent...)
2. Gon and Killua (age 12) wander into a Seigaku practice. Neither has played tennis before but both pick it up in that scary fast way, you know the one I'm talking about. What they lack in form they make up for with nen....this isn't a story, it's an excuse for nen tennis.
3. AU Ginko backstory. Ginko is a to-outward-appearances normal boy living in a village suffering from an unnatural dry spell (not yet a drought but close). The air is heavy with moisture but no clouds will form. Every day the villagers look up from tending the fields, stare into a clear blue sky, and mutter "It looks like it's going to rain." They walk two miles over the mountain to a river that hasn't dried up, and bring back the water in buckets while talking about how it will probably rain tomorrow. Neighbors meet on the paths between fields to swap stories of past summers and all agree that the lack of precipitation can't last. "It's going to rain" becomes a constant refrain. Ginko is the orphan boy no one really thinks about; he's only mentioned in passing.
One day a traveling mushishi comes to the top of a hill overlooking the village. At that instant, a strong wind blows picks up; every mushishi from miles around descends on the village at once; and Ginko's hair goes changes from white to black. The mushishi on the hill is left in slack-jawed astonishment thinking he'd better find the source of the disturbance as soon as possible.
And it begins to pour.
4. The wandering mushishi from the previous story is traveling with his teenaged daughter. The daughter can't see mushi and has no supernatural abilities what-so-ever but bosses Ginko around anyway XD which she can do because she's older, physically stronger, possibly a martial artist? And the daughter of Ginko's master. The three of them wander through the countryside having adventures. Ginko's about nine. THIS IS ANTI-CANONICAL and would make more sense in another series.
5. Here's an old one: Kenshin/Lioness Quartet crossover. Tortall sends a delegation to Japan, maybe to negotiate bulk sword sales? The young prince and/or princess is given permission to come along for diplomatic training; Alanna comes too as a kind of bodyguard-cum-babysitter. And brings her kids. Who end up taking lessons from Kaoru at the dojo, along with the heirs and with Alanna herself who is always looking to learn a new style.
The entire appeal of this is that Alanna, like Kenshin, is a short, red-headed, purple-eyed swordsman. I TOLD YOU IT WAS BAD.
chain_of_fics? 2. Speaking of
drabble_trade, I wrote one! I leave it up to you to guess which one.3. Only a few days left to recommend fantasy-themed fics at
fanthology! On a related note, there are no themes for February yet, is anyone willing to sponsor this month? 4. Way behind the crowd, five-indulgent-fic-ideas meme:
Name five totally self-indulgent story ideas. (The fanfic you would write if you didn't care if you had an audience and also had no shame.)
These are all stories I will ACTUALLY NEVER WRITE because they are really, truly, unsalvageably awful. XD; I have plenty of moderately embarrassing ideas, which would sound dumb if I described them but that I harbor hopes of maybe being able to pull off someday. These...are not those ideas.
1. Ryouma is a girl disguised as a boy, obviously because the boys' tennis team is better. Fuji knows but keeps it to himself, Tezuka either doesn't know or doesn't care (probably both), Sakuno still likes him XDXD and the rest, I'm not sure about. Momoshirou/Ryouma, I think Momo catches him -- sorry, her -- changing in the locker room and is overcome by awkward embarrassment, but Ryouma could care less. Eventually the stuttering and avoiding and super special extra care become too annoying, not to mention threaten her disguise, so she confronts him and tells him to knock it off. The climax of the scene is a kiss, which the rest of the team happens to witness. Ryouma's disguise is ruined but the team lets her stay on anyway. (Not that they actually would, but as long as I am being self-indulgent...)
2. Gon and Killua (age 12) wander into a Seigaku practice. Neither has played tennis before but both pick it up in that scary fast way, you know the one I'm talking about. What they lack in form they make up for with nen....this isn't a story, it's an excuse for nen tennis.
3. AU Ginko backstory. Ginko is a to-outward-appearances normal boy living in a village suffering from an unnatural dry spell (not yet a drought but close). The air is heavy with moisture but no clouds will form. Every day the villagers look up from tending the fields, stare into a clear blue sky, and mutter "It looks like it's going to rain." They walk two miles over the mountain to a river that hasn't dried up, and bring back the water in buckets while talking about how it will probably rain tomorrow. Neighbors meet on the paths between fields to swap stories of past summers and all agree that the lack of precipitation can't last. "It's going to rain" becomes a constant refrain. Ginko is the orphan boy no one really thinks about; he's only mentioned in passing.
One day a traveling mushishi comes to the top of a hill overlooking the village. At that instant, a strong wind blows picks up; every mushishi from miles around descends on the village at once; and Ginko's hair goes changes from white to black. The mushishi on the hill is left in slack-jawed astonishment thinking he'd better find the source of the disturbance as soon as possible.
And it begins to pour.
4. The wandering mushishi from the previous story is traveling with his teenaged daughter. The daughter can't see mushi and has no supernatural abilities what-so-ever but bosses Ginko around anyway XD which she can do because she's older, physically stronger, possibly a martial artist? And the daughter of Ginko's master. The three of them wander through the countryside having adventures. Ginko's about nine. THIS IS ANTI-CANONICAL and would make more sense in another series.
5. Here's an old one: Kenshin/Lioness Quartet crossover. Tortall sends a delegation to Japan, maybe to negotiate bulk sword sales? The young prince and/or princess is given permission to come along for diplomatic training; Alanna comes too as a kind of bodyguard-cum-babysitter. And brings her kids. Who end up taking lessons from Kaoru at the dojo, along with the heirs and with Alanna herself who is always looking to learn a new style.
The entire appeal of this is that Alanna, like Kenshin, is a short, red-headed, purple-eyed swordsman. I TOLD YOU IT WAS BAD.