Like a flower blooming. Saiyuki andf Zenki on terrestrial, with nary a sign of my beloved St Seiya in sight. It's a conspiracy, I tell you.

And goodness, I forgot about the things that makes Zenki seem like a sanitized H series. XD

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The LO doujin contest requires digital screentones, so I busied myself the other day to fetch some all over the place. The ones I used were from this page. this just made me go "gyah" at the difficulties - I draw very messily, so laying down the tones on PS7 meant hell.

( now how the heck do I make highlights? XD )

Mood amused Tags: art, bleach, fanart, ogashira, original, others

Because I think the ending sucks.

( [Grantaire & A] To be lovers )

Mood cranky Tags: original

( Oh my GOD, I need a better title )

And yet, when he looked up, there was nothing in the sky but gray.
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What are you dancing? he had asked his grandmother, when she waved her arms softly, gossamer-like, into the air.

A swan, she had replied. She had been a dancer, something, a word he couldn't say anymore for it did not exist. Bai - baile? Dance? Who knows anymore? It has been forever since anyone has even danced.
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He would not say it, for his misplaced loyalty to Les' extended to the man's intimates, and no, he'd rather not involve them in this.
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The cards on the ground, dusted with silt, made him think of dead queens and kings littering at his wake.
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Oh lovely child, on your Christening, my only wish is for everyone to love you throughout life the way they love you now - cherished, worshipped, a small goddess.

Mood blank Tags: original, scenes

( 2 random snippets )

All over coffee. Disjoint sets

During one of their rare talks over coffee, Shirakawa told Ogata about his experiences with go as a child. How he used to play in different go salons, how he joined his school's go club, how he'd lost chances to date because he forgot the time while playing and the girls wouldn't speak to him again. How the children and the old men would smile at him when he played, saying he showed great promise for a little child with big glasses. The fun times as an insei, the friendly rivalries that turn serious when the pro exams approached. And as he said it, Ogata would wear a half-smile, faintly mocking, as if those things were trivial, inconsequential to how he had developed as a go pro.

And what did you do, before you became pro? he'd asked, irritated at Ogata's claim of superiority. Didn't you play at salons, or have fun in your go club? What made you into a go pro?

And Ogata told him, tonelessly, of soba noodles left cold as he replayed game after game of the best players of that time, of staring at a goban for so long that the shape and pattern of the stones burned behind his closed eyelids when he shut them, of his grandfather's distaste when he finally won his first game with no handicap.

That is what made me a pro, Ogata finished, picking up his coffeecup. More coffee? he asked.

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(for osmalic)

"I owe you," A said, as they left the cafe. And he said it carelessly, meaning the cups he'd drank while Grantaire was reading papers, not noticing the thoughtful look that crossed Grantaire's face when he'd said it.

And then Grantaire said, looking off the distance, "Yes, you owe me." And the way he said it told nothing of his thoughts, except A looked at him, sharply, and flushed.

This was the horrible and rambling first scene from pyon-pyon, I mean, S&F (Shallow and Frivolous) unedited. I'll slice off around a third of the words here to make space for scarier events in Saturnina's life when I edit this. Is there some official Novel Editing month I could join? *laughs*

( And people wondered how I managed 50,000 words. )

Mood this is one long fic... Tags: original

First the fic, and then the reasons why I hated it after I wrote it.

( [draft] Night flight )

Mood aggravated Music Bana - Half Pain Tags: original

One in the form of making Henri and the rest of the S'teirans as ghosts created by the spirit of Seika to be its/her/his (Do world spirits have gender? I suppose it should be neuter, nee?) agents of change. I mean, when you think of it, there had to be someone to safeguard the world from destruction, as people are rather wanton in their steady path to entropy. I mean, the world needs to ensure it existence, same as everyone else, only when it is destroyed, so dies everyone else on it. Seems like a good enough reason to make 'ghosts' exist. But then arises the problem, that if they are ghosts, then how come they feel real

The thought came to me because of that FMV from Final Fantasy X, the one for the song Suteki da ne. And it seems like an initial solution to the dilemna of their existence. S'teira is beside an industrialized country (Psynam). Why can't they access the other country? It was not cold as Athelia was in the time of the Changing of the Fortunes. Approach by land proved to be difficult because of the mountain range in between, but what about by sea? Having monsters localized in the area is just too silly to even be mentioned, and reminds me of really old-school "here be monsters" maps. After a while an intrepid explorer would have gotten through by sheer survival instinct and luck and returned to tell the tale of his misadventures. But if it was a place inhabited by monsters, why then does it appear to have a triving city in the middle of it? What, the beasts don't attack S'teirans?

I'm being a mean betareader to my own plot. =_=;

Ghosts that didn't know they were nothing more than figments of the world's whims. Sounds extremely Berkeley-ish.

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The other is to take part in the ghost anthology. Tin, you are the ebil.

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I have to make a story about a girl who suddenly grows wings, but I can't. I'm just out of it.
And that possible story about Leigh and Yuuta of Trinkets and the misanga is too tempting....

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More NaNoWriMo-ness: So far I've listed eight boarders for Tita Trining's boardinghouse. There's Mr. Anal Retentive, Victor, Mr. Torpe/long-suffering best friend Bryan, Mr. Inflamed Nationalist Jose Maria Sioson (call him Jomar!), Mr Playboy Paul, Mr Muscleman/Loyalty Awardee Diether Palanca, Mr. Boy-Next- Door-Everyone's-Friend Christian, Mr. Scary Nerd Raymond, and last, Mr Effeminate Metrosexual/Karate Black Belter Lucas (Lucy for short). I'm considering changing Lucas to Mandrel or Amando, so his nickname would be Mandy; it sounds so much better than Lucy.

And I'm not yet done with the first chapter! Agh!

Kazuki Kato is yet another one of my 'projects', a BL manga-ka. I was careful to choose a name that was not in any list of manga-ka I know. I think that if you google for her, you'll get information about a nature photgrapher (at least the last time I tried). She's my little bit for Falsificatio, a set of fake fansites of Four-cats, and I seriously need to get off my ass and work on it.

Kazuki Kato's my mad, "what-I-would've-been-if-I-was-born-in-Japan-with-any-talent-for making-manga" persona, but what the heck, I'm only a few thousand miles away. :D

Listed manga for Kazuki Kato:
♥ Trinkets
Due owns Trinkets, a store where you can find love unexpectedly if you purchase the right love charm. And since Kazuki Kato is a BL mangaka, that means that for strange reasons, guys are getting cute, girly stuff and then promptly falling into their partner's arms, sometimes literally. (Go Samidare!)
Issues with this everyone sounds like a variation on cheerful uke with strong seme, so I ought to vary that. And it's a bit obvious that Ansel and Cecil is my favorite pair. :D
♥ The Smiling Prince
Jean, Due Ayukawa's brother, is very rich, very friendly, and has a weakness for blondes. These factors leads to trouble as he and his schoolmates face the ins and outs of adolescent love. Cecil and Ansel from Trinkets watch over this madcap high school romance series where Jean can be the only one to know who's his 'prince'.
Issues with this Can't for the life of me make up Jean's friends. Solution: read BL high school romances. But the only series I have falling into that category which does NOT involve a teacher-student romance is - er - Menkui. The rest are one-shots. The Power of Pure Soul, anyone?
♥ Iro-iro wa suki!
The title is supposed to translate to 'Many loves', but I think I got the particle wrong. O_o; A single father, Murasaki, is raising five children named after colors. Kuro, Aoi, Ki, Momo, and Beni were named by their deceased mother who liked sentai anime and named her kids according to the colors of the warrior's suits (what the?!). Of the five it's the 'girly' one, Momo, who doesn't want to be gay!
Issues with this Time. :D Looks like a fun (if slightly madcap) bit of work. Also, I have a perfectly good outline for their lovelives already. Genres covered: sariman, good boy falls for bad boy, hyper boy with smart boy, weirdo with the slightly dumb one, the girly one with a prince, and shota. :D
♥ Eternal Rhapsody
Taeto Hinoki of Trinkets is now grown up, and has become a classical musician. During one of his tours he encounters a small boy with the cheerful demeanor of Yasuke, and follows where he thinks he'll find happiness.
Issues with this I can't come up with a plot, since it's shota. Help!
♥ Sweet like Sugar (?)
What came out from a post by pornkings about naming a child Sugar. The poor kid! He'd be transported into a fantastic world where the very first thing that happens to him is being swamped by a mob. They think he is Sugar from the most popular girl group Candystripers (or Candygals, I'm still deciding). I always think of this as my 'Naoko Takeuchi on crack' manga.
Issues Naming characters? They're named after foodstuffs or endearments, so there's Milk, Muffin, cupcake, Darling etc. The rest of the Candygals are Love, Honey, and Sweet. I think the mysterious masked savior is currently named Green Tea. XD Did I say I was on crack?

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Icon series Samizo Kouhei from Leviathan, a work that I am currently adoring. Story by Eiji Otsuka, art by Yuu Kinutani. Currently scanlated by Band of the Hawks *smiles Berserk smiles* (http://thehawks.org) and available (at least according to the scanlation credits page) at #hawks@wondernet and #omanga@wondernet. This is not a BL manga. XD This serious work deals with the coming of Leviathan, the monster that will announce the coming of the King of Terror - but instead appears a man with the parts from five people - Samizo Kouhei. He reminds me of Griffith of Bereserk, need I say more? Griffith before he fell under the sway of that dratted egg, mayhaps.

( this happens to be one of my favorite parts from the smiling prince, I don't know why )

Mood chipper Music Gackt -Soleil Tags: original, references, tacita