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Perfect Girl Evolution
episode 01
episode 02
episode 03
episode 04
episode 05
Four pretty boys must turn Sunako "Horror Fanatic" Nakahara into a proper lady, or her aunt will make them pay rent XD. I've heard the anime is pretty horrible, but what the heck, in the spirit of the season right?
***
Going through files deciding what I wanted to keep and what I could toss, I found all these things I don't remember writing. o_O; I don't suppose anyone is interested in half-hearted fic commentary?
Dear Light, Death Note
In 3rd grade we had to write a letter to our future selves. Our teacher collected all the letters, put them in her desk drawer, and said she'd mail them to us after ten years. We were told to take it seriously, because in ten years we'd be really disappointed if we got a letter that said "this is stupid" or "I hate this assignment." I thought the assignment was stupid and I hated it, so that's what I wrote (only I used more words), and when I got the letter last year...um. I guess I deserved it?
You can decide how much that has to do with the story, if anything. XD. Innocent Light is, in a lot of ways, a different person from Death Note Light. I tried to imagine what would happen if Light Lite received a letter from his darker self -- would he turn himself in? take himself at his word? -- but in the end all I decided was that I couldn't decide. ^^; so I cheated and made him already evil. Then I tried to salvage a point by implying there was some kind of creepy destined inevitability to this, but really it's all lies.
Fun Extra fact: My mother says my first words were "apple juice" (that is, "apu baba" for "apple bottle" or a bottle filled with apple juice). I don't believe her. What kind of self-absorbed person says Apple Juice before Mama?! I bet she's just forgetting and my real first words were something ordinary and boring.
Anomaly, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
I'd just finished two sci-fi books after like a four month drought (Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold and 10,000 in Ghehena by C.J. Cherryh), so I was thinking sci-fi thoughts. And I was wondering about the Galactic Empire, how much the inhabitants of it really knew about the Alliance or democracy in general. They seem pretty isolated. Most of what I was thinking is in the story, actually, so there's not a lot for me to talk about here. Current events (Iraq) definitely played a part. Although this is not in the story, I decided that a royalist system is probably more suited to interstellar policies than a democratic system. Like, the politics of the "Free Planets Alliance" are probably dominated by one planet, Heneissan, the same way Tokyo dominates the politics of Japan -- only worse, because of the difficulties involved in sending real-time information across light-years. So unless you live on Heneissan, you really aren’t living in a democracy anyway.
I wrote the story at a picnic bench on the third floor balcony of the lab where I was working. Forgot my keys inside and locked myself out. Also, the original plan was to use the group of August 31 days prompts immediately following the one that inspired this story ("i claim kinship with me race and blood") for the Naruto Albanian mountain bandit AU.
Discussion with Tea, Twelve Kingdoms
I hate the title. Wrote this for canis_m -- pretty much when I am unexpectedly friended by someone I admire, not that this happens often, I feel the need to write something of interest to that person. Usually this isn't fanfic, it's a journal entry of some kind, and the addressee is addressed obliquely so that no one can tell how base my motives are. After about a week, the giddiness fades and I don't feel the need to amuse that particular person any more.
Now that that's out of the way, I ship Youko/Rakushun because Rakushun is a giant, earnest dork, which I think is adorable. He is also supremely deferential, always a plus when you have a heroine who is not interested in clinging to a strong man. (Keiki is also a giant earnest non-threatening dork, but he loses by having less on-screen chemistry with Youko. I am completely serious about this.) As for why I wrote this particular story, it's right there in the author's notes: I wanted to square "Youko the capable ruler" with "Youko the 'no more bowing' girl." I think her no-bowing proclamation was stupid. It's completely missing the point: that she is in a different world with different rules.
The twin thing is just a thing. I tried to put twins in my last story too, but they didn't work out. The egg thing is, similarly, just a thing. I'm still hung up over the social aspects of sex in Loveless, too.
Untitled WIP, Twelve Kingdoms
I don't know much about Chinese or Japanese classicism, so I based the story on a very general fairytale template. Barren couple prays for children, gets more than bargained for? Classic. Twelve Kingdoms supports it perfectly. Part of what I like about this series, as I think I've mentioned, is the way characters within it tell each other stories. If I was going to write Twelve Kingdoms fanfic, it was going to center around storytelling. I was reading The Tale of Genji when I wrote this and this is probably what inspired me to spend so much time on the psychology of the main character and his wife.
I still don't think the main character makes sense. He needed to have some defining characteristics, so I made him short, a little slow, prone to violent outbursts, but otherwise content to let his wife call the shots (or so he says). Also, a bit of a showboat. This still feels like a random, inorganic collection of attributes to me, rather than a coherent personality.
I feel really bad about not finishing this. I could tell you what happens, but if I do that I will never write the end, so I'd better not. It involves making up a reason for Ren being in a state of decline. Originally the resolution was going to involve Enki and Shoryu, who would show up in disguise (their identities would be implied so that the audience would pick up on them, but the characters in the story would not). I decided that would be too complicated and changed it something involving Youko only.
My Hero, Hunter x Hunter
This one suffers from boys-club-ism. A lot of Yami no Matsuei fanfic is like this. Whenever a girl shows up, she's evil! Especially if she is doing something that will drive the boys apart. .
The impetus for this story was A Midsummer's Nightmare by Experimental. This is the same Midsummer's Nightmare that inspired After School Activities (what can I say, I really like this fanfic). In this case, I noticed that the author focused on physical surroundings, so that you always have a very clear mental image of the room any two characters occupied at any one time (a strategy I now recognize as having been swiped from Haruki Murakami, but at the time I had no idea). Part of what allowed this complete visualization was that the settings were familiar, in an exaggerated way. The white hospital corridor. The empty warehouse. Things like that. I decided I would pick a familiar setting, and describe it in full atmospheric detail. The scene I picked was the underground dungeon. From there, the rest fell into place.
I've been told the narration is spot-on for Killua. That's an accident. I write journal entries in the same repressed rage humor style.
Just Another Day with Gon, Hunter x Hunter
When in doubt, write Gon-takes-Killua-fishing. It never fails. The first Hunter x Hunter musical, which is totally live action fanfiction, throws in Gon-takes-Killua-fishing at the end, when it needs an awwww! moment. This fanfic -- which was written under a time limit so I couldn't think about things too hard -- also has two of my other favorite Hunter themes: teenage boys being way too strong, and too-strong teenage boys being mothered. Oh! And Killua thinking assassin thoughts. WIN.
I decided Killua would have a perfect sense of time after the main character in Virtual War, which is about teenagers who have been bred to play videogames. In the world of the book, videogames have replaced war as a method for settling international disputes. I recommend this book, it's...exactly what it sounds like. XD
The original ending to this story was Mito saying "Happy Birthday Killua," but I decided that I should work on curbing my Killua-fangirl tendencies, so I changed it to Mito bringing out a coconut cream pie. Coconut cream is my favorite type of pie.
Running Away, Hunter x Hunter
Oh God. It's almost too embarrassing to explain where this comes from. Okay, so porn is illegal in Malaysia. Killua watches pay per view porn at one point in the anime (can't remember if this was in the manga, suspect not). Two boys watching porn together is, as we all know, a perfectly normal heterosexual activity. Did anyone else see those late-night commercials for "Hollywood Hotties" jerk-off videos, which are basically the sex scenes taken out of movies with plots? How about those hyper-sexualized romance novel covers? I was thinking about all these things when I came up with the extremely stupid plot for this one.
Originally I planned a much longer running away sequence, but writing it was too much work. Same strategy here as in Excessive Chain: describe a familiar setting in detail. I picked the no-good bar, with a special guest appearance by the tearful dockside parting. The capital city is pretty much Antiparos, an island in the Greek Cycladies where I was on vacation two years ago.
Ten Things, Hunter x Hunter
Driving force here was the song "anything you can do, I can do better." Basically Killua and Gon get into a cute friendly competitive argument and can't settle on a way to decide it. I spent most of this story worrying over Gon's characterization, which I admit I fail at regularly. Oriadne and bluedelerium's comments helped here. The city is, again, based on Greek island tourist spots. Because my experiences as a tourist are limited XD.
The scene with the old man is totally random. I don't know, I was getting bored by the back and forth dialogue. Plus I couldn't very well write a story about Gon and Killua without reminding everyone of Killua's past as an assassin, could I?
***
Also found, the most Engrishy improvised poem ever XD.
Improvisation #1
A left-field nostalgia trip
Looking downwards into previous
Nothing to do but leaving behind
A face-down take-off
Looking upwards into blindness
Nothing to do but moving past
A deep-fried lung-hack
Looking inward into unhealth
Nothing to do but settling for
A no-ambition dice-roll
Looking outward to uncertainty
Nothing to do but going forward.
Written in under a minute over IM XD.
wheezambu:Perfect Girl Evolution
episode 01
episode 02
episode 03
episode 04
episode 05
Four pretty boys must turn Sunako "Horror Fanatic" Nakahara into a proper lady, or her aunt will make them pay rent XD. I've heard the anime is pretty horrible, but what the heck, in the spirit of the season right?
***
Going through files deciding what I wanted to keep and what I could toss, I found all these things I don't remember writing. o_O; I don't suppose anyone is interested in half-hearted fic commentary?
Dear Light, Death Note
In 3rd grade we had to write a letter to our future selves. Our teacher collected all the letters, put them in her desk drawer, and said she'd mail them to us after ten years. We were told to take it seriously, because in ten years we'd be really disappointed if we got a letter that said "this is stupid" or "I hate this assignment." I thought the assignment was stupid and I hated it, so that's what I wrote (only I used more words), and when I got the letter last year...um. I guess I deserved it?
You can decide how much that has to do with the story, if anything. XD. Innocent Light is, in a lot of ways, a different person from Death Note Light. I tried to imagine what would happen if Light Lite received a letter from his darker self -- would he turn himself in? take himself at his word? -- but in the end all I decided was that I couldn't decide. ^^; so I cheated and made him already evil. Then I tried to salvage a point by implying there was some kind of creepy destined inevitability to this, but really it's all lies.
Fun Extra fact: My mother says my first words were "apple juice" (that is, "apu baba" for "apple bottle" or a bottle filled with apple juice). I don't believe her. What kind of self-absorbed person says Apple Juice before Mama?! I bet she's just forgetting and my real first words were something ordinary and boring.
Anomaly, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
I'd just finished two sci-fi books after like a four month drought (Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold and 10,000 in Ghehena by C.J. Cherryh), so I was thinking sci-fi thoughts. And I was wondering about the Galactic Empire, how much the inhabitants of it really knew about the Alliance or democracy in general. They seem pretty isolated. Most of what I was thinking is in the story, actually, so there's not a lot for me to talk about here. Current events (Iraq) definitely played a part. Although this is not in the story, I decided that a royalist system is probably more suited to interstellar policies than a democratic system. Like, the politics of the "Free Planets Alliance" are probably dominated by one planet, Heneissan, the same way Tokyo dominates the politics of Japan -- only worse, because of the difficulties involved in sending real-time information across light-years. So unless you live on Heneissan, you really aren’t living in a democracy anyway.
I wrote the story at a picnic bench on the third floor balcony of the lab where I was working. Forgot my keys inside and locked myself out. Also, the original plan was to use the group of August 31 days prompts immediately following the one that inspired this story ("i claim kinship with me race and blood") for the Naruto Albanian mountain bandit AU.
Discussion with Tea, Twelve Kingdoms
I hate the title. Wrote this for canis_m -- pretty much when I am unexpectedly friended by someone I admire, not that this happens often, I feel the need to write something of interest to that person. Usually this isn't fanfic, it's a journal entry of some kind, and the addressee is addressed obliquely so that no one can tell how base my motives are. After about a week, the giddiness fades and I don't feel the need to amuse that particular person any more.
Now that that's out of the way, I ship Youko/Rakushun because Rakushun is a giant, earnest dork, which I think is adorable. He is also supremely deferential, always a plus when you have a heroine who is not interested in clinging to a strong man. (Keiki is also a giant earnest non-threatening dork, but he loses by having less on-screen chemistry with Youko. I am completely serious about this.) As for why I wrote this particular story, it's right there in the author's notes: I wanted to square "Youko the capable ruler" with "Youko the 'no more bowing' girl." I think her no-bowing proclamation was stupid. It's completely missing the point: that she is in a different world with different rules.
The twin thing is just a thing. I tried to put twins in my last story too, but they didn't work out. The egg thing is, similarly, just a thing. I'm still hung up over the social aspects of sex in Loveless, too.
Untitled WIP, Twelve Kingdoms
I don't know much about Chinese or Japanese classicism, so I based the story on a very general fairytale template. Barren couple prays for children, gets more than bargained for? Classic. Twelve Kingdoms supports it perfectly. Part of what I like about this series, as I think I've mentioned, is the way characters within it tell each other stories. If I was going to write Twelve Kingdoms fanfic, it was going to center around storytelling. I was reading The Tale of Genji when I wrote this and this is probably what inspired me to spend so much time on the psychology of the main character and his wife.
I still don't think the main character makes sense. He needed to have some defining characteristics, so I made him short, a little slow, prone to violent outbursts, but otherwise content to let his wife call the shots (or so he says). Also, a bit of a showboat. This still feels like a random, inorganic collection of attributes to me, rather than a coherent personality.
I feel really bad about not finishing this. I could tell you what happens, but if I do that I will never write the end, so I'd better not. It involves making up a reason for Ren being in a state of decline. Originally the resolution was going to involve Enki and Shoryu, who would show up in disguise (their identities would be implied so that the audience would pick up on them, but the characters in the story would not). I decided that would be too complicated and changed it something involving Youko only.
My Hero, Hunter x Hunter
This one suffers from boys-club-ism. A lot of Yami no Matsuei fanfic is like this. Whenever a girl shows up, she's evil! Especially if she is doing something that will drive the boys apart. .
The impetus for this story was A Midsummer's Nightmare by Experimental. This is the same Midsummer's Nightmare that inspired After School Activities (what can I say, I really like this fanfic). In this case, I noticed that the author focused on physical surroundings, so that you always have a very clear mental image of the room any two characters occupied at any one time (a strategy I now recognize as having been swiped from Haruki Murakami, but at the time I had no idea). Part of what allowed this complete visualization was that the settings were familiar, in an exaggerated way. The white hospital corridor. The empty warehouse. Things like that. I decided I would pick a familiar setting, and describe it in full atmospheric detail. The scene I picked was the underground dungeon. From there, the rest fell into place.
I've been told the narration is spot-on for Killua. That's an accident. I write journal entries in the same repressed rage humor style.
Just Another Day with Gon, Hunter x Hunter
When in doubt, write Gon-takes-Killua-fishing. It never fails. The first Hunter x Hunter musical, which is totally live action fanfiction, throws in Gon-takes-Killua-fishing at the end, when it needs an awwww! moment. This fanfic -- which was written under a time limit so I couldn't think about things too hard -- also has two of my other favorite Hunter themes: teenage boys being way too strong, and too-strong teenage boys being mothered. Oh! And Killua thinking assassin thoughts. WIN.
I decided Killua would have a perfect sense of time after the main character in Virtual War, which is about teenagers who have been bred to play videogames. In the world of the book, videogames have replaced war as a method for settling international disputes. I recommend this book, it's...exactly what it sounds like. XD
The original ending to this story was Mito saying "Happy Birthday Killua," but I decided that I should work on curbing my Killua-fangirl tendencies, so I changed it to Mito bringing out a coconut cream pie. Coconut cream is my favorite type of pie.
Running Away, Hunter x Hunter
Oh God. It's almost too embarrassing to explain where this comes from. Okay, so porn is illegal in Malaysia. Killua watches pay per view porn at one point in the anime (can't remember if this was in the manga, suspect not). Two boys watching porn together is, as we all know, a perfectly normal heterosexual activity. Did anyone else see those late-night commercials for "Hollywood Hotties" jerk-off videos, which are basically the sex scenes taken out of movies with plots? How about those hyper-sexualized romance novel covers? I was thinking about all these things when I came up with the extremely stupid plot for this one.
Originally I planned a much longer running away sequence, but writing it was too much work. Same strategy here as in Excessive Chain: describe a familiar setting in detail. I picked the no-good bar, with a special guest appearance by the tearful dockside parting. The capital city is pretty much Antiparos, an island in the Greek Cycladies where I was on vacation two years ago.
Ten Things, Hunter x Hunter
Driving force here was the song "anything you can do, I can do better." Basically Killua and Gon get into a cute friendly competitive argument and can't settle on a way to decide it. I spent most of this story worrying over Gon's characterization, which I admit I fail at regularly. Oriadne and bluedelerium's comments helped here. The city is, again, based on Greek island tourist spots. Because my experiences as a tourist are limited XD.
The scene with the old man is totally random. I don't know, I was getting bored by the back and forth dialogue. Plus I couldn't very well write a story about Gon and Killua without reminding everyone of Killua's past as an assassin, could I?
***
Also found, the most Engrishy improvised poem ever XD.
Improvisation #1
A left-field nostalgia trip
Looking downwards into previous
Nothing to do but leaving behind
A face-down take-off
Looking upwards into blindness
Nothing to do but moving past
A deep-fried lung-hack
Looking inward into unhealth
Nothing to do but settling for
A no-ambition dice-roll
Looking outward to uncertainty
Nothing to do but going forward.
Written in under a minute over IM XD.