The golden apples fell, one by one

Oh yeah, also been working on "The Heart's Silhouette," "Big long 'fic #1," a "Shadows and Twilight" spin-off starring Nana, and glanced at "Serenity."

Geh. ¬_¬;;;

I just thought "Falling Into You" would be easier to finish. >_____<;;;; Shows how much *I* know!

ARRRRRGGGGH.

"Falling into You" can't work in the actual manga universe because I was counting on being able to skew certain events in the timeline in my favor but since Minoru is 12 in Chobits and certain people died two years before that it totally screws everything up! >_____<;;;;;;

So I'm Tsubasa-ing it and putting it in alternate Angelic Layer world. MWAHAHAHA. ¬_¬;

This is what I get for 'shipping a six year old and an eighteen year old, isn't it?

So, did some writing recently. Finished up "Through Glass" finally. Gaaaah. How OLD is that thing? Really. >____<

At any rate, it's done and just as crappy as I remember, but still, done is a good thing.

It gave me enormous amounts of trouble being uploaded to the website. Somehow Geocities' uploader managed to add extra consonants and then switched to adding extra vowels. -___-;;;; I don't understand? And yet, it was perfectly fine on Yahoo Groups??? Anyways, uploaded it around thirty times before I finally reformatted it by adding a space before all the lines beginning with "-" and that seemed to do the trick. The Hell???

Anyways, am rather pleased with "Consequence" though that's a lousy name. But Sesshorin is good for the soul, 'kay. Feel like I shouldn't have used a star analogy AGAIN but we'll all just have to live with it.

"Shadows and Twilight" is also done and . . . twenty-three pages long. >___< I don't know if all the filler stuff is adding to or detracting from the original scenes. Probably detracting. I had to put in there, tho'. 'Fic was not self-explanatory enough by any means without it. Hopefully Anna and Yoh are in-character enough. I'm not sufficiently divorced from the 'fic to look at it objectively yet. Blargh.

Ehhh, trying to go through my backlog of 'fics in-progress. "Colour of Kyo" is probably next on the hit list. We'll see.

I just got this in my e-mail box from ff.net with regard to "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream":

hey, know why you haven't got a single review? i mean well, before i did... it's because no one's intereted with your stupid, good for nothing or rather, fuckin worthless, damn it lame, specially for mental, fic!

Oh, booo hooo. It sort of hurts because I'm ridiculously sensitive like that, but on the other hand, it's just so ridiculous that I have to poke fun at it right now (and rant a little). ^__^

All right, for starters, I might take this a little more seriously if 1)You knew how to use Capital Letters at the beginning of your sentences 2)You could spell "interested" 3)You either appended apostrophes to the end and beginning of "fuckin" and "specially" or learned, once again, how to spell, or 4)You had anything worthwhile at all to say in this flame.

There's such a thing as constructive criticism. Ever heard of it? Apparently not.

Now then, grammatical problems aside, I think the "lamest" part of this whole thing is that this person, who goes by "flame" (Oh, how original! Let me commend you on the amount of thought that went into THAT name!) seems to have signed up today for the SOLE purpose of flaming me (or perhaps numerous others - who knows?). I find it absolutely hysterical that someone would go to the trouble of getting an account just to harass other people. That seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to for someone who can't even take the time to write a flame deserving of the title. I mean, when you can leave anonymous reviews, what's the point of GETTING AN ACCOUNT?

You might be a little braver and at least leave an e-mail address (real or otherwise). Not that I would ever e-mail you, but I would give you props for not being a yellow-bellied, lily-livered coward. Now you're that ON TOP of being a moron too. Congratulations.

Eh, the flame stays up because it amuses me, I refuse to be the kind of person that only lets the good posts stay up, and hey, "To Sleep" has a review now! Since it was the only one that DIDN'T, I don't particularly mind.

I don't know how these 'fics are popping out from nowhere, but apparently they are. Finished another SorataxArashi yesterday, or rather, ArashixSorata - "Come the Rain." Very angsty. I like it. ^___^ I even did quite a bit more revision on it than is typical for me because I wanted it to read better than "Idyll."

It's sort of disturbing at all three of my X 'fics so far are that pairing and they all begin with "C." It's not intentional, I swear!

Other unintentional trends I've noticed in my writing of late - lots of angst, death, pregnancies (the sheer number of pregnancies is really scary - 4 off the top of my head o_O;;;;), and random smut. One has to wonder exactly what my subconscious is thinking. ¬_¬ Well, lots and lots of random sex *would* lead to pregnancy (or worse), but still . . .

I'm hopeful I'll get most of the Mankin 'fic done soon, since, looking at it, I don't actually have that much left to do. It's the ending that's the really annoying part. That, and I STILL don't know what Anna's chant is! >____<

I'm almost done my part for the Trip-T'Pol round robin - it's really a bit of a breeze to write. I'm good with random scenes - it's linking them together that I have issues with. Heh, good thing someone else gets to write the next part!

Mmm, that's it for right now. I expect something else will be done within the next week. I'm determined to get all these one-parters out of the way so I'll have nothing left to work on but the series!

"Pianissimo" has finally surpassed "Make Believe" in the number of reviews on ff.net. o_O; And here I thought the smut would remain tied forever. And apparently "Pianissimo" makes people cry. ^^;;; Ah well, I suppose it could. Emotional response is good, anyway. ^___^;

Hmmm, now there's a challenge - write something that makes YOU, yourself, cry! I wonder if that's possible for me. o_O; Not that I don't cry easily and all, but could I actually BRING MYSELF to tears? Maybe if the writing is really, REALLY bad. LOL. XD

I think I'll write up something for the Sesshoumaru Hero21 contest. And it WILL be SessxRin DESPITE everything! And in canon too!! I think I like sneaking around canon when I can. ^^;;;;

But yes, computer problems and lack of MSWord aside (see tokyofish for details, something will get written and finished, or maybe just finished, as planned. I have two days left, after all, before my self-imposed deadline is *technically* up (It should actually be up already since I meant 'by Monday" - if I wanted to be a real stinker, I could extend the deadline to Saturday - but I don't particularly).

Gakk. Finished the Princess Tutu 'fic (yes, another one, hush you).

Am working on-off on Trip-T'pol, Mankin, Robin, SorataxArashi, and maybe the Lodoss 'fic. Was being productive yesterday, is too hot in this room for that now. ¬_¬ Might write more tonight.

The Fakia 'fic was 'orrible. Originally I envisioned it as a short little "interlude" (the original title - I went through "Transitory" and, Drosselmeyer-forbid, "Mutability" >_< before settling on "Idyll" - which I am STILL not 100% satisfied with, but then, I'm not altogether pleased with the actual 'fic either, soo . . .) with Fakia, some introspection, some mist, a dream, swan maidens (it was supposed to be less thinky-talky and more dreamy-feely and angsty in a *better* way), Ahiru shows up - bam, boom, done - but then I saw episode 20 and had to work that in, then 21 and had to work around, and 22 . . . which I ignored as having no relevance. So, anyway *kicks it* it's done and that's that. I can't do any more with it anyway since my copy of the "Poetic Edda" is at my apartment.

I made as many improvements as I could looking over it yesterday, anyway. It was disjointed (more than my things usually are) and too long (which I just left) and I redid my Ahiru quotes to match the actual translation instead of off the top of my head . . . But really, the structure altogether collapsed, though there are still moments where you can connect the end to the beginning and vice-versa . . . I think I may have gone overboard on the self-references. -_-;;;;

It's very organic . . . sort of like a creeping vine. It sprouts and crawls and meets an obstacle and crawls over and seems to have no end in sight. Like I said. No structure. It's barely even self-contained. ¬_¬

My favorite part is the last bit at the end, though. I guess that's because I wrote it right after the beginning. ^^;;;;;;

I've actually been *gasp* *shock* writing the past few days.

Making slow progress on WHR 'fic (as in, wrote the end, still need to write the middle), will do something with Shaman King 'fic soon, spat out 7 pages of Princess Tutu Fakia-centric 'fic (and it's due to have a sequel *ahem*), and have been seriously contemplating developing some kind of a plot for the Sesshoumaru-Rin.

Oh yes, and I've been eyeing the Trip-T'Pol (now decidedly AU thanks to the season finale) 'fic as well as two more which popped out of nowhere (Gah! Get back, you!). Also signed up for a part in a Round Robin. ^^;;;

Princess Tutu will probably get a long backstory 'fic from me because my brain is susceptible to the self-generated scenarios it keeps feeding me. >_<

And there's the SorataxArashi one that keeps saying, "I'm a one-parter . . . I'll be a breeze to write . . . I'm depressing as all get-out - WRITE ME, DAMMIT!" Um.

Plus, I've been watching "Record of Lodoss War: CotHK" so I might have to write that fanfic I was working on ages ago, just as a reaction to the fact that I HATE Deedo's new character design. >____< Uh-huh.

Oh, and "IAL: SB" scene. <_< Zami, be good!

Yup, yup. Nothing new here. -_-;;;;;

Something's definitely going to be done this week. There's no escaping productivity when it hits. All bets are on Fakia . . . XDXDXD

Added some previews and updated some others for the hell of it. Haven't been writing much, but Mankin 'fic is still making progress as well as other things. Have written more than is now posted, but if I put the rest up you would know the endings . . . so I refrain from doing so. 'Kay? It is to be hoped that once Finals are safely behind me I will go temporarily insane and fall into a writing frenzy. Uh . . . let's wait and see.

Someone reviewed four or five of my 'fics on ff.net all in one go. Such nice people. ^_^

Meant to write this earlier: Witch Hunter Robin 'fic is seven pages and counting. I think I'm a bit more than halfway. No idea how to end the damn thing, tho'. "A Family Affair" is eleven with no end in sight.

"Shadows and Twilight is ALSO seven pages so far and the ending is also up for grabs. Hmm.

Am bound and determined to finish one of them sometime soon.

I have to go do some actual work now.