the better part of me

I aten't dead.

I wrote a fic. "Finally finished" is more accurate, but either way, ficness has occurred.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11371526/1/
http://archiveofourown.org/works/4312500

There is more to be said, but it will have to wait. Hopefully not too long.

Hopped on to check out the ol' flist and this meme over at csi_tokyo3 caught my eye.

"What are three stories/storylines that you never quite got around to writing or got halfway through and just stopped?"

1) Due Process. One of Neo-Queen Serenity's Senshi is being held prisoner on an alien world. She escapes with the help of another imprisoned soldier.

2) Blood Red. Standard Pluto/Endymion fare, set in Crystal Tokyo.

3) Waltz for Venus. Aphrodite is the top matchmaker on Venus until she falls in love with one of her targets, a general from Earth.

I have an entire notebook full of spare ideas I'll probably never get to, but these are the ones I actually started. I still hold out hope that I'll someday pick them up again, but it's most likely never going to happen.

I wrote this fic months ago, but it slipped through the cracks and was forgotten until just recently. I'm still not happy with the title and I'm not sure about the ending... I was certain there needed to be some sort of clarifying statement between the last two lines, but then I decided maybe I was being too heavyhanded and it might actually work better without the extra verbage. Does it?

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Title: Beyond Measure
Fandom: Sailormoon (PGSM)
Characters: Nephrite, Motoki
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst (shocking, I know)
Setting: Toward the end of the series, while Nephrite is human and working at Crown

Summary: Nephrite finds it difficult to adjust to a world he never wanted to belong to, a world that seems to reject him as much as he rejects it. Fortunately, he is not as alone as he thinks.

( he could have been free )

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I just spent the last two hours furiously typing like I'd never typed before. Curse my predisposition to handwritten first-drafts! Even cutting way down on reconsideration and editing time, my yuletide story was still 15 minutes late. >.< Happily, when I went to the admin comm to see if I was screwed, I read that they'd extended the upload deadline for an extra hour. Hoorah! :D

Of course, now I reread my assignment email and I'm worried my recipient isn't going to like my story. I keep thinking, "I should've written it this way or that way instead..." Argh. Too late now. Done is done and it is as it is. At least it's REALLY FREAKING LONG, maybe that will count for something?

But yay! Done!

Yuletide fic: DONE
Holiday cards: SENT
.moon gift exchange gift: SENT
Christmas shopping: DONE

I have a few presents left to wrap and label, but other than that, I'm in good shape for the holidays. :D I'll make some additional posts about stuff after I've iced my wrists. x_x

Another overdue fic, but at least this one hasn't been posted anywhere before. I just sat on it forever during the editing stage. ^^; Thanks to dark_branwen for beta-reading.

I still don't know where to submit these things besides FF.net. :\

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Title: An Honest Proposal
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry/Ginny
Rating: G
Genre: Romance/Fluff
Setting: Post-Series

Summary: Sometimes, the perfect moment comes all on its own.

( It should've happened somewhere else )

On my way home from work this evening, the thoughts running through my head went something like this: "Gosh, work was busy today. I didn't have a chance to squeeze in any writing time. I can't wait to get home and do that."

I was about halfway down the stairs when I realized what that means.

...zomg yay.

:D

Just a silly little thought that hit me tonight while I was watching PGSM. xD

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Title: Otherside
Fandom: Sailormoon
Rating: PG (language)
Genre: Comedy/Crackfic
Setting: Canon timeline

( What is this place? )

My Cloverfield fic seems to have gone over well. I got six glowing reviews on FF.net, more than almost any other story in the (tiny) category. :3 Now I just have to get in the habit of responding to reviews, which never really became customary in the Sailormoon fandom but seems to be everywhere else. ^^;

I really do have a gift for fanfiction. Whether that gift will also apply to original fiction remains to be seen.

And now for some memes I got tagged on and hadn't gotten around to doing. They have tag instructions, but if you get tagged and don't want to do it, no biggie.

from vayleen

The Handwritten Meme

1) your handle/name/username
2) left or right handed?
3) favourite letters to write
4) least favourite characters to write
5) write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
6) tag 5 people



from yellowallamanda

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I write a handwritten first draft of almost everything before typing it.

2. I know I'm lucky not to be one, but I can't stop wanting to be a BNF. -_-

3. My favorite sound in the world is the wind in the leaves.

4. There are certain words I really, really like for no evident reason. I intend to make a list someday. Two that come to mind at the moment are "planet" and "weapon."

5. I love having long hair, but I'm too lazy to do anything with it. Most often I just braid it to have it out of the way.

6. I love the smells of the various seasons. Not the items associated with each season, but the scents of the seasons themselves. My favorites are autumn and fall.

7. I'm a very lonely person, but I don't let myself feel it most of the time.

I tag a bunch of the new folks on my flist:

lexie_b
lunarkitten
sd_segara
ryou_lover15
serasaturn
tesh_chan
lunapitty

from preshrunken

1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your favorite song.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your lj with the answers to these questions. (Or leave a comment. Say if you want it screened)
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask others in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.

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1.) What's the one biggest regret you have?
That would be a tie between not saying "no" when he told me he considered me his girlfriend and asked if I felt the same way, and Otakon 2005.

2.) If you had to write for one fandom for the rest of your life, which one would it be and why?
If it's allowed, my own. >3 I've had a canon in my head for the past fourteen years that I'm constantly making up stories for. Someday it'll be a book. If that doesn't count, though, I'd have to go with Sailormoon. It's still the fandom I'm most inspired by, even though I'm ready to move on to other things now. I wouldn't enjoy being stuck in one fandom forever, but if I had to, I could write Sailormoon indefinitely.

3.) Who is your role model?
Ehee... if I have one, it's probably sache. ^^;;; All hail the mighty Fic Bitch? ahem >.> *hides* I'm sure there's someone else, but no one's coming to mind at the moment ^^;;;
(ETA: You know, the more I think about it, the more I think I don't really have a role model. There are people I admire, certainly, and would love to be more like, but I don't attempt to pattern my life off theirs or anything.)

4.) Do you have any weird quirks? What are they?
Mmm... I read the same favorite books over and over instead of checking out new ones. I go to the movies all by myself and it doesn't bother me in the least. I wear the same necklace almost every day. I haven't watched/read at least a third of the anime/manga I own. Sometimes I drive and drive in no particular direction just for the heck of it. And I find it incredibly difficult to convince my brain that the online buddy I'm meeting and their virtual persona are one and the same person.

5.) If you had to pick a movie to describe you or your life, which one would it be?
For the first eighteen years or so, that would be Never Been Kissed. God, that's dreadful to say. I saw that movie once and could never watch it again. Too much of a reminder of things I don't want to think about. When it comes to my 20s, however, there really isn't a good match. But I plan to write one. :3

(damn lol_meme lyrics shift...)

(Gotta admit, though, every time I hear that song I can't stop imagining a SM henshin/attack vid set to it. xD)

Well, I think I can say with certainty that sm_monthly just isn't going to happen. It's a pity, because I've been having a lot more fun with Silver Millennium ideas lately and I had really hoped to complete this month, but I'm so far behind now and not motivated enough to catch up. :\ (Plus, I really liked the last two ficlets I posted and I didn't get any comments on them. ;P Yes, an attention whore is me.) Sucks, but there it is. I just have too much going on right now.

On another note, I have a couple of fast bento lunches to share. ^^

( see 'em )

I need three more lunches to finish off this run of night shifts, I'm hoping to get them all together tomorrow afternoon.

It's been insanely cold here lately. I kind of miss the peaceful, overcast, snowy days of Christmastime. The days do seem to be getting longer, though, I saw some pre-dawn light before falling asleep this morning and a bit of dusk after waking up.

Tonight is my last night shift in this rotation. Tomorrow I'm off to my hometown, I've missed the holidays and a couple of birthdays and need to catch up with the people up there. Unfortunately that means half a day of sleep tomorrow, ugh. I've had a hard time waking up these past few days, so that isn't going to be fun.

I'm still aiming to finish the new main page and default theme for .moon in time for the site's secondary birthday this weekend, but as I've spent the past few days doing large amounts of nothing and now I'm going to be out of town, I don't know if that's going to happen. But at least I'm getting a few things done, even if they're not the things I really should be doing.

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for sm_monthly, January (Silver Millennium), Day 2 (Fireworks)

Title: Sparked Interest
Fandom: Sailormoon
Rating: G
Genre: Romance-y?
Setting: Silver Millennium

( when I was a child )