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( And I'm babbly and have a poll. This is me, after all. Oh, and a book idea that would probably be challenged in libraries if it was ever published. )

( Icon )

I know I've got a fair amount of JDrama watchers who belong to JDrama-related communities on my flist.

I have a sudden urge to have some Mei-Chan no Shitsuji icons. Where do I find really good Mei-chan icons? (Specifically Mei the character... I love Rihito and Kento and the rest, but I'm looking for Mei.)

Snagged from random surfing on Dreamwidth.

Never Will I Ever meme: Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Heavy emphasis on the attempt to write.

Oh, and it helps that I'm familiar with the fandom.

So the fic masterpost for

genderbendbb is up. One of the fics is mine.

Which is missing an artist (since we don't have many fanartists in Kamen Rider Kiva fandom).

I used Horikita Maki (HanaKimi, AtaDan) as a face for my female Wataru (technically speaking, I probably should have used Jeong Ryeo Won, the pb for Questing, but I goofed up).

Anyway, if you're into long genderbend fics (15000+ words), the list is here.

I hope Toei settles on how to spell Phillip/Phillipe's name soon. After the Fangaia/Fangaire/Fangire debacle, I'm refraining from changing my spelling for a few weeks.

"But," you say, "You're not writing W/Double fanfics!"

Actually, I'm up to 4 as of this post.

Um. Yeah.

ETA: Um. It really helps if wordpress doesn't lose half of the newest fic... fixed.

I think, at nearly 200 fics, it's safe to say that Ghostly, my new fanfic archive is open for business!

And to celebrate (though I feel a bit presumptuous), I created feeds for it on LJ and DW. (Sorry about the html, but I couldn't quite get it to show the feed correctly on LJ.) The feed itself is at http://ghostly.estirose.net/feed for those who want to add that to google reader or another RSS reader.

The syndicated accounts pick up the title and excerpt, which should cover everything except the quirky warning system that I have on it.

ETA: I've tried to cover a lot of fic ground with this archive, even though I'm not anywhere near adding all the fics in. The oldest fic in the archive is from 1989; the newest was written a few hours ago. It's got some classic stuff and stuff off of estirose and estirise. It's even got some stuff that I don't think I've really posted on LJ/DW.

So yes, I'm really proud.

Gacked from

mariko_azrael:

If you read this, even if we don't speak often, please leave a comment to this post with a memory you have of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad. Once you've left a comment, post this little paragraph on your journal and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you. Any 'verse, point in canon or random encounter between you and me is welcome.

Happy birthday,

tptigger!

This is Taiga, in foster care. Spoilers 30+

( Finding the Right Home )

11 icons from Kamen Rider W 1 under cut.
( Icons! )

As the subject says, PRDT, set White Universe. Anton's POV.

( Helping from the shadows )

The Art of Sushi and Ryuunosuke
by Estirose
c 2009

Takeru sat back and watched as Genta taught Ryuunosuke the fine art of making Sushi. Or rather, tried to teach Ryuunosuke the fine art of making sushi.

Ryuunosuke was many things; a fine actor, a great fighter, an honorable samurai. But while he wasn't on Mako's level, Ryuunosuke was no great cook. Still, Genta was trying, and Ryuunosuke, if a bit flaily, was doing his best to follow Genta's lead.

Takeru firmly believed that Ryuunosuke could do anything he wanted if he put his mind to it. Ryuunosuke had the drive, and the dramatic personality to go with it.

But as Ryuunosuke dropped the sushi he was working on, Takeru could do nothing but smile a small, private smile.

I thought of doing a poll for this, but it seemed too... limited.

Anyway, Ghostly (the new archive) is so far going great! I love the plugins Wordpress has. There are some minor flaws (Categories are for the most part in alphabetical order, but if you clicked on one of the tags at the end of the post, the stories wouldn't be in order; the front page needs work). But I'm looking forward to putting together a whole archive that includes things like story notes, Character pages, and so on.

Of course, now that I'm catching up on archiving, I'm facing a slight problem.
( How to do warnings )

I need to recover from a rather bad 24 hours. I need 3-4 fic prompts. Right now I could probably write angstfic better than happyfic, and my stranger fic universe s better than plain canon. But toss me fic concepts, and I'll try to write something in response.

(If I don't get requests, I'm apt to write Kiva mpreg and fics about strange Watarus.)

Okay, sometimes the person that's really good at searching google comes up with a blank. A frustrating blank.

I'm looking for 5mm dice. I can find hordes of D6es (the common 6-sided dice used in board games), but not any of the others (such as D4s, D10s, D12s, and D20s).

Anybody know who sells these? I know they exist!

( Because not everybody is interested in this sort of thing )

☆EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY MEME☆

1. Pick up to 10 OTPs.
2. Describe them in 15 words or less
3. Have your flist guess the OTP.

~~1. She's a genius and probably the reason he has that degree.~~ (Tommy/Hayley, guessed by tptigger, madkrazyghetto, and alexissteele)
2. One faithfully wishes for the other to come home.
3. Together, they race for a cure for him.
4. Two shy youngsters change the world, in ways they didn't expect.
5. She stole his heart and his life.
~~6. One of them has talent and an ego to match; the other is just unlucky.~~ (Kagami/Tendou, guessed by lazulisong)
~~7. It doesn't matter what world the other comes from, just that love comes.~~ (Trip/Katie, guessed by tptigger)

Kind of "What would happen if Mio somehow got pregnant in CFUD". I'd love for it to be a round robin, but I have a suspicion that I would have about as much luck as the last two I tried to start.

( Fic )

This is probably sheepage.

Anyway, of all the fics I've written, which one would you want a DVD-style commentary on?

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

For some reason I want to convert Darksword Adventures to D20. Unfortunately, my copy of said book died, I can't find a torrent of it, and there seem to be no ebook sites that sell it.

(If you're unfamiliar, it's based on the Darksword trilogy books and features a world where everybody has magic and those who don't, die. What I mostly remember about the game is that you only had x amount of points at 1st level, and you could burn through them *floating* like most everybody in the stories did, much less doing anything useful.)

( More ponderings )

I wanted to see if I could make decent icons from a source I found for the 1986-1987 American TV series Starman. I think they didn't turn out too badly. (Here is an example screencap.)

21 icons, taken from episodes 1 and 9, Scott-centric because I just ended up iconing him the most.

( Icons! )

RPSHIPSMEME

I shortened the list for Kamendressing (I included only my Watarus, not my Mio, my two Taigas, or Nozomi), and wished that I could include some of my other RP characters (Kenzaki from Crossing_Lost, Marie Brown from newdawnrpg, and Trent from Chele's last rp), but I'm not playing them anymore.

Um yeah. I wrote Shinkenger fic. Chiaki focus. Ep 1-3 spoilers. Rated 8+.

Summary: Chiaki didn't choose to be a samurai.

( So not )

So, I read the manga, or what I could find scanlated of it. It's different from the series, definitely. Especially, in... certain aspects.

So, I give you this Kento-centric fic that has spoilers for volumes 1 and 2.

( Saving the innocent )

19 icons for "Oretachi no Tenshi da! No Angel No Luck".

( With a poll because it's me )
( Icons! )

Snagged from

anatari

( Meme )

( Feelgood meme link )

Getting far ahead of myself, as usual. But considering ebooks for "Late Bloomer". So, for those who use ebooks/ebook software, what do you use?

[Poll #1423356]

Those of you who have hung about me know that I wrote a novel(la) for NaNoWriMo last year. It's called "Late Bloomer" and I'm currently on rough-draft revisions. (I need a beta reader, but the trick will be finding one that wants to work on a novella.) I've made the decision to publish via the Lulu POD service. I'm also looking at publishing a related book of short stories in that universe. I will also need a beta reader for it.

( Reasons )

So, I'm pondering doing another thing for

ship_manifesto.

( poll )

Here's... well, almost the last of the ficspam. I've got one to post tomorrow, though, because I forgot I'd written it. This one is a future-set NS Tomorrow People piece, featuring Adam.

( Together, rescuing )

I thought one of these might as well be a completely new fandom, so here's a little fic for Mei-chan no Shitsuji (Mei-chan's Butler). It's set early on in the series.

( What she cannot have )

"Paradise Lost" is

amazonstorm's universe, but she granted me permission a while ago to play in it. This is set in that universe, where the Fangire are triumphant and Wataru is a prisoner.

( Time to go home )

I believe firmly that a very large amount of people write D&D-based fic at some point in their lives. Here is mine. This one is rather short, but maybe someday I'll come play more in it. It's based on a second-edition module written by, I believe, Monte Cook.

( Idiots )

When I needed an image of Aya for OCChallenge, I chose to use Miyazawa Arisa (aka Nozomi from Kamen Rider Blade). Aya herself is an OC, one of those dreaded "child of a canon character" characters.

This fic is set post that story, when Aya and Noboru have established a home. This story retains the early-series "Fangaire" spelling of the "Boxed In" universe.

( Babies )

This particular fic was inspired by... way too much reading of government code sections. And probably too many random facts.

( Government Code )

For my very first NaNoWriMo, I wrote "Discovering the Sun", which was a Kamen Rider Kabuto AU. I think it's one of my most-read fics. It's unfortunate that I haven't been inspired to work on it much. Like last year, it's one of my ficspam fics.

( Discovering )