2019 in fic

Jan. 4th, 2020 03:40 pm
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It's that time again when I round up all the stuff I've written in the past year and reminisce over it. ;) I've been doing this same fic meme for years, haha. This time, I'm also borrowing some questions from GYWO and taking out some old questions to change things up a bit.

(Previous years: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

fic written in 2019 )


fic meme )
So Fanime happened around a week and a half ago. Was hoping to post more about it but hasn't happened so far (like always lately haha). I was working on a Valentine's Soren cosplay that sucked all of my time. Ended up not quite finished with it, so I just wore my FEH version of Soren to Fanime instead of a new cosplay. I think I haven't posted many photos of that here though! (Hoping to finish Valentine's Soren by AX!)

Here's a cool pic of Almedha and me from the Fire Emblem gathering! So amazing to meet someone cosplaying Soren's mom. :D Definitely the highlight of the gathering for me. Kinda wished I asked the gathering organizer to let us join in with the Awakening parent-child photo (in fact, we could have had an all series parent-child photo, since there were plenty of other parent-child pairs there too from the other games, like Eliwood and Roy, Arvis and Julia)

A mage group pic~

I'm so good at finding the midpoint to stand at lol (also just noticed I'm surrounded by Olivias)

Lots of other cool group pics in the link. :3 I thought the Julia, Lyon, and Veronica cosplayers looked amazing.

Went to some guest panels just for the heck of it (so much easier to get in than panels at AX). They were all in the same room on Sunday so I just sat there for 3 hours, hahaha. Will probably return with some thoughts on the panels. I went there after the gathering and asked the staff at the door if they cleared the room since I wanted to see more than one panel, but they didn't really know if they would or not, ahaha. So I left for a bathroom break and returned to eat my lunch while sitting outside. The guy at the door saw me and asked if I wanted to head in since there would probably be enough room anyway, but I just stayed outside to continue eating (and er turned out to be first in line....?)

Let's play spot the Lucathia? lol

Nobutoshi Canna
Aya Hirano

Hopefully will return with pics of my loot, some pics of cosplayers, thoughts on Music Fest and Masquerade, and other misc stuff. And if not, then just pics of the loot, haha.

Sadly, since I was spending all my time on making the V!Soren cosplay (yet still didn't finish... OTL too hard with a full time job) I didn't get to write much in May. Didn't update or post any fic in May DDDD: There goes my New Years resolution of posting at least one fic update each month. :'D Welp, will try for at least two updates in June then...

Am still poking at several oneshots for the New Horizons collection. Closest to completion is still That Person Now Returned (Grisia reunites with Roland before v1 begins) and That Power Forever Gone (Grisia loses the majority of his magic and thus his sight). But I think I'll be tossing out half of what I've written of That Power Forever Gone, because it's... too mopey? Yeah. Not the characterization I'm going for. It'll be an AU of v8.

Other than New Horizons oneshots, I've also been poking at a Fruits Basket AU oneshot featuring Yuki in university having a random orange cat adopt him. Because. I enjoy so and so turns into a cat fic and can't turn back, but the other person doesn't know. Seems like a perfect AU for Fruits Basket to have someone stuck as an animal. Yuki won't know Kyo in this AU, with Kyo being more like a legend in their family.

Also started planning a Black Clover time travel fic. Not sure if anything will come out of it yet. :3
I'm about 2k in with writing this 5+1 Fukigen na Mononokean fic, which is about 2/5 of the way through, so uh... maybe another 2k will wrap this story up. The writing is so stilted though, ahhhh.

Got up to around 11k (12k? I don't even know anymore) for That Person Now Returned and am still not done OTL. When will I ever finish this story and why is it so long. I should learn to write short, sweet scenes again. What happened to my cute, succinct, 1k oneshots. They're now a thing of the past... I'll be separating this story into parts when I post, to make it easier to revise. -__-

Pfft, as I was writing this post, I went to pull on the Valentine's banner and got Soren!! (*goes to delete the whole paragraph I wrote about not getting Soren.* Just Ike left now ahhh. Gonna train this Soren up right away and feed him tons of dragonflowers~) I've been loving the cute art and fic that have come out of this banner!! ♥ Am also itching to write a fic about Soren but no plunnies have hopped over.

I randomly saw that Astra Lost in Space is getting an anime! Er, I hadn't read or even heard about the series before that news announcement, but when I saw that it's by the author of Sket Dance, I had to check it out. So, I took the plunge and signed up for the Shounen Jump app~, with it's monthly subscription of $1.99 to access older chapters for SJ series. So far, I like the app and definitely feel it's a great idea to have an official source for Shounen Jump series. But after I finish reading all the old chapters, there's probably no reason to continue the subscription if all I'm doing is following the new releases. I've already read through most of the ones I'm interested in... also hit the daily limit of 100 chapters. (Why is there a limit ;__;) We'll see... Anyway.

Astra Lost in Space
I was worried the series was axed, as it's only 5 volumes long, but it was a solid ending, and the plot was well paced. The twists and turns kept coming, and several plot points packed a heavy punch. Shinohara Kenta's story telling has really leveled up since Sket Dance! Astra Lost in Space deals with some heavy themes, yet the overall story is still optimistic with a touch of humor. I love it. :) Looking forward to the anime!

Black Clover
I hit the 100 chapter limit on the SJ app because of this, pfft, so yeah, stuck at chapter 100. The art is really nice, and some characters are less annoying in their manga incarnations. The anime kind of drags things out and overuses certain characters' quirks, but I do like how the anime fills in the blanks with certain things and also gives Yuno some more development. So far, Yuno's been pretty absent in the manga. Am looking forward to reading past where the anime is at. :3
Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown from ellimists. (Thanks [personal profile] suzume!)

results )

Now for some recent anime I caught up with.

Black Clover, Run with the Wind, The Morose Mononokean, My Roommate is a Cat )

Also! SEASONAL SOREN ALT. VALENTINE SOREN ALT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. I never thought this would happen? I mean, I thought that Ike might be the person on the right in this teaser silhouette, or maybe it'd be his father Greil. But even though it wasn't Ike on the right, it was still Ike on the banner. With Soren!!! Seasonal Tellius banner with Soren, ahhhhhh. I had a bunch of orbs saved up to pull for more Legendary Ike merges from January's Legendary/Mythic banner, but I ended up spending them all on the Radiant Dawn Laguz banner, since I really wanted Reyson (who I never got from that banner, but did get later on as a 4* that I promoted right away). I figured I'd only go all in with my orbs with characters that I really liked, and Reyson was one of them. Even though there was a high chance he would be demoted, I still wanted a copy just in case. Anyway, now that he has been demoted to 4*, he's definitely a +10 project.

I also figured that there was very little chance that someone I liked would be on the next seasonal, as IS seems to keep releasing Fate seasonals, who I could do without, and I hoped that we'd get plenty of orbs for the anniversary, which we kind of didn't. So now here we are, with the seasonal I want most of all from this game, and I have no orbs left. OTL I'm sorry, I have failed you Soren. Hoping that orbs from the Tempest Trials will be enough to pull either Soren, or Ike, or both... I'll have to give up on Greil and Mist. ;__; I really wanted to collect all the Tellius seasonals (so far, I've succeeded with having 1 copy each of bridal Sanaki, Halloween Mia, Festival Elincia, and Festival Micaiah). But with a whole banner of Tellius seasonals and no orbs, this is an unlikely feat, haha. So far, my pulls have given me an Adrift Camilla (why, Camilla, you're on plenty of seasonals already. You don't need to show up here!) and a Ninian, who has been merged into my previous Ninian to remove her -atk bane. But eh, her attack is still low even with the merge, so pretty pointless.

This is when I wish Soren were a Tempest Trial unit so I could +10 him with grails, but I feel like ever since the grail system started, they're only putting units they think will be the most enticing as the Tempest Trial rewards, for more incentive to play Aether Raids, I bet. So I doubt we'll be seeing very many guys as the rewards now. Who am I supposed to spend the grails on now?? Eh, for now, I'm probably going with Naesala unless someone else I like better comes along.

I'm also still in disbelief that Soren and Ike showed up together on a Valentine seasonal banner, of all banners. XDDDD

I'll probably cosplay this outfit of Soren's too. :3

On writing p3

Oct. 31st, 2018 10:59 pm
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I've been working on two oneshots for the New Horizons AU collection. They're progressing along well~. The one for the prompt "Alternate Showdown" is around 5k so far, and the one for the prompt "Power Loss" is around 3k. Neither are finished. I expect them to grow a lot more in length. :')

NaNoWriMo is around the corner~. I'm looking forward to the new monsters and quests on 4thewords for it. I won't be doing NaNo entirely, but I'll be aiming for a slightly higher word count than what I've been doing in October. I've done around 450 words per day. Might aim for 1k per day in November. :3 I'm playing wild catch up with my yearly word count. XD I should be able to make it to 30k with no problems! (In fact, I do have more than 30k written, just not published) 50k will be harder but not impossible.
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On writing p2

Oct. 8th, 2018 11:03 pm
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So, this fic about the vice-captains taking care of their captains after they shrink is now around 9k and still not done. :'D Um, hello, Lucathia, isn't this a side chapter to so we can get to know you and A Vice-Captain's Tale? At this rate, the side story might end up the same length as the main fic.

But eh, the main story has an actual story line, while this story is just rambling and snippets.

I've mostly finished writing the story though, so I'm hopeful it won't grow that much. But there's a ton of editing to do, and scenes to flesh out. Maybe it'll be 10k-11k by the time I'm done.

4thewords got an update, but my writing streak broke around then because of a timezone thing. =/ Also, some bugs with being unable to battle monsters (automatic loss after starting the battle) and a pretty laggy editor, so I took a few days off from the site. My trial period is ending soon. I'm going to wait and see if the site settles down to see if I'll continue with them. I can battle monsters again now, and the site seems to work on mobile better than the old version, which is nice. I can tap away at my cell phone~


In FEH news, I've gotten my 4th crown! Feh gets a cute crown to wear~ :D For now, I've managed to squeak into Tier 21 every other week, which are the weeks that the score threshold is a bit lower, since the majority of the whales and players who invested into armors and other high BST units are on the week 1 wave. They're already in Tier 21 when I'm battling to get into Tier 21 with the rest of the Tier 20 people who didn't quite make it.

some more FEH rambling )

On writing

Sep. 24th, 2018 11:17 pm
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Got a new Yahtzee card for [community profile] getyourwordsout (previous round ended :3;; ). Decided to go with just character traits this time to make it easier to write a connected story if I wanted to.



I've started on the extra/crossover chapter of so we can get to know you and A Vice-Captain's Tale. So far, it's 4.7k words. I'm about halfway through. :') After I'm done, I might post it in parts... or just all in one go. XD; I expect the length to be around 8-10k. I signed up for a trial month over at 4thewords.com, and it's been doing wonders for my word count. You basically battle monsters and level up through writing a lot. So I've been typing away without doing much editing (oh boy will I need to edit). A lot of this doesn't even make sense... :'D But it's been interesting seeing what kind of style and content I default to when I'm not planning much or dithering over my prose. And it feels good to just be writing something~

I seemed to have signed up right around when the site is being migrated though and updated to a new version. So I'll have to see if I like the new version after the update to determine if I'll continue with the site. :3;; (They did mention special monsters/quests for NaNoWriMo, which is pretty cool~)

Also, I nominated some fandoms for [community profile] yuletide thanks to D's reminder. Yay~ (Still can't believe Yuletide is already here)

2017 in fic

Jan. 1st, 2018 07:15 pm
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Oh, 2017 ended up being about the same as 2016 in word count. :3;;

(Previous years: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

fics written in 2017 )

fic meme )

Yuletide

Dec. 25th, 2017 06:15 pm
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Merry Christmas!

[community profile] yuletide fics have been revealed! I received a lovely Magic Kaito story.

La Cage Ɖclipse (3547 words) by Anonymous

Kaito receives two tickets for the movie The Scarlet Investigator in the mail.



As for the story I wrote, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out (though there are barely any hits, ahaha). Will be posting the story here on January 1st after author reveals.

On Christmas, Yu Wo posted a snippet from 39 v2 detailing Lesus's choice of the next Judgment Knight. It's a pretty cute story. :D (But what gets to me the most is Lesus going undercover to the selections by having his hair colored blond. He even ties it up!! *flails*)

Do I enjoy imagining Lesus with blond hair? Why yes, I do. Very much. He even tied it up.

With 2018 around the corner, it's official that my word count is pretty sad this year, but I'll be giving my yearly writing goal another run, like always, with a pledge of 150,000 words. One day, one day!

notebook and pen on wooden desktop with GYWO 2018printed in large white letters with a black shadow. under that, writing decathlon in handwritten white letters with a black shadow.

GetYourWordsOut: Year Ten!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net
Wow, has it been forever or what? *dusts off this place* I hope I'll be able to update with a fic sometime, but nothing is really getting finished lately.

I've been working on a AU oneshot featuring amnesic!Grisia from V4 who was never found, so V5+ happen very differently. It's only about 1k so far, but it wants to be much, much longer. :'D We'll see if it ever gets finished, or if it'll go the way of some of my other oneshots that are still sitting around in my folders... Maybe I'll finish 38th Knight Street...

There's also my Yuletide fic I have to finish. Deadline is Dec 18th, ahhhhhhh. (Lucathia, this is not the time to consume a different canon from your recipient's requests. Stop that!)

Fic status aside, I've been in mobile gaming hell. XD; Or heaven. I'm still playing Fire Emblem Heroes a lot, and I started playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp when it was released near the end of November. But then, Tenipuri Rising Beat also came out, so Animal Crossing has taken a backseat to that. Rising Beat, man. It makes me remember why I love Tenipuri so much. <3 I am terrible at rhythm games, but I'm determined to get better at this one. I love Tenipuri character songs (and to this day, I'm amazed at the sheer number of songs for Tenipuri). I never thought there'd be a rhythm game for Tenipuri. It's such a perfect fit, though it amuses me to no end that Tenipuri's latest game is a rhythm game of all things. (I'm still hoping for a new successor to the PS2 game Form the Strongest Team. That was such a fun game. A PS4 game, please!!)
Writing communities~. This one is an AU challenge from [community profile] whole_new_world. :D

[community profile] tic_tac_woe also looks interesting. Mini bingo challenge with end of the world prompts. If I ever manage to finish this AU challenge (signed up with Legend of Sun Knight), I might want to try the Tic Tac Woe challenge next.

Read more... )

Cleaned up the tags a bit on DW. Multilevel tags! o/ Though now they won't match the LJ ones...
SilverMajusaka updated the Chinese translation of My Friend, the Pope (in-training) with chapter 6~. You can read it here. Chikus POV~.

I joined April's Camp NaNoWriMo with 25k as the goal. I like how flexible Camp NaNo is! There are many different types of goals to choose from, such as word count, hours written, pages, etc, and there are writing cabins too. I requested to be in a fanfic cabin with a similar word count goal. :) Time to go camping~

Next chapter that I finish should be A Vice-Captain's Tale, chapter 11. It's finally the Adair chapter!

Now, there was only one person left who hadn't approached me—Vice-Captain Sun, the unofficial leader of the vice-captains. There was no actual leader among us, but everyone knew Adair was it.

By this time, I had already left the training grounds. He was still nowhere in sight.

Where in the world is he?


Got myself some happy dittos! Such a hard time deciding which ones to get. The three original starters are all pretty cute, as were all the eevees. Bulbasaur all the way though! I've been wanting a transformed ditto, but they were very expensive, so I'm happy that the International Pokemon Center got these now. :D Much more affordable~

I hand wrote 20 pages of My Friend, the Pope (in-training) in my Penultimate notebook, and it turned out to be 2.7k when I typed it up. Now I know what it equals to, haha. My handwriting is quite big on these 20 pages. With my smaller, ant-like writing on actual paper, it's about 1k over 2~3 pages. What a big difference. I'm liking handwriting first and then typing things up. It allows me to edit and revise as I'm typing it up and forces me to stop changing things while I'm writing the first draft. o/

Behold, my messy scribbling )

So, lots of Fire Emblem on the horizon, and Heroes just came out. My favorite magic users aren't around (Erk! Lugh!) but even if they were, they'd be low star ranked. XD;; So far, my team is Lilina (5★), Camilla (5★), f!Corrin (4★), and Fae (4★), with Cherche (4★) or Laslow (4★) switched in from time to time. I got lucky on one orb pull and got both Lilina and Camilla from it, my only five stars at the moment. I want some guys on my team though!! The maps seem fairly limited right now. I hope there'll be expansions in the future, including Tellius (come on Soren). With the current maps, I don't think I'll be playing long, and orb availability is limited. I might just keep the orbs I have right now and wait to see if Soren will get released in the future. Too bad, I wanted Merric, Takumi, Lyn, Serra, and Navarre. I have some other 4★ characters too, but I'm reluctant to use them because I would like to level them up to 5★, but it takes so many feathers that it feels impossible. It feels like a waste to keep leveling them past level 20 though, since if I ever upgrade their star level, they go back to level 1.

My friend code )
Have another random snippet. Let's see what I actually manage to finish this coming week. Hm, hm. I'm writing a bit here, a bit there. XD;

As we waited for everyone to gather, I patted my side, checking on my daggers. I had my main pair on me, as well as several spares I could use as throwing daggers to give me a long distance advantage. While the expense would add up, I could use any advantages I could get. I was definitely going to make the mission a success and impress my teacher!

When I finished taking stock of my weapons, a newcomer had joined us, and Ecilan's cheeks were rosy again. So he hadn't managed to completely lock that reaction away. The thought relaxed me just a bit.

"For me?" The newcomer exclaimed. "Ecilan, you're the best!"

The newcomer stepped closer and took the offered cheesecake. Side by side, he was nearly half a head shorter than Ecilan. He wore the robes of a cleric and had a veil that was pushed over his blond hair in favor of the cheesecake, which he was already happily munching on.

Was he Ecilan's friend?


I'm not entirely sure myself how cheesecake is becoming so prominent in this story.
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I'm racing against the clock with work, so of course I'm here to post a snippet. This is from a post-canon oneshot set after A Slice of Wedding Cake~. I expect it to be around 5k~7k of rambling with nothing much happening but these two showing us around different shops. XD I'm about 1/3 of the way there, I think.

"Business looks great!" Blaze exclaimed.

Right as we reached 38th Knight Street, welcomed by a fancy sign that Sun had us decorate together, the long line queuing before us was the first thing I noticed. I followed the meandering line of customers with my eyes. It led right to the doorsteps of Moon's flower shop, Moondrop, a collaboration between Moon and the parents of Judgment's student, Hungri.

Blaze was right. Moon's shop was doing well. I tried counting the number of people in line...

"Want to visit Moon first?" Blaze asked.

There were more than enough people in line to form an entire knight platoon. It would be a long wait. I nodded anyway, since we were already here, and I didn't mind waiting in line. Blaze would be with me, after all.

Blaze strode forward. I walked with him, listening to him chatter away. He really was full of vibrance, always brimming with energy, whereas I was just the opposite. At times, I thought I might fade away. Into the shadows. Into the air. Without anyone noticing. Just like a wisp of cloud. It was more comfortable that way, too, but...

"Blaze..." I called out. He still continued on, my voice too quiet for him to catch. I reached out, tugging on his sleeve. "Blaze!"

He turned. "Huh?"

I pointed at the line.

"That sure is a long line!" he said.

When I still didn't let go of his sleeve, he scratched his head. He looked at me. He looked at the door. He looked at the line. Then he looked back at me, confused. He had likely intended to head straight inside. Maybe even by kicking the door open.

I frowned. "We should line up, too."

"But we're not customers?" Blaze asked.

"We are." I touched the heavy money pouch in my pockets. "And customers should line up."


Goal is to finish 12.5k per month. I'm at 3.8k right now. Hm hm. If I finish this fic and another part of If I Could See You, that might hit the word count. :3; Less than 2 weeks left though!
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2016 in fic

Jan. 1st, 2017 06:57 pm
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I came out with around the same amount of words as 2015. :3;; Still aiming for that ever elusive 150,000 words!

(Previous years: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

fics written in 2016 )

fic meme )
Random snippet from a oneshot I'm working on. Any guesses who it's about? XD Fic is currently at 1.9k. I'm hopeful another 1k will be enough for me to get to the point.

The familiar words washed over me.

Finally.

Finally.

How long I had waited for this moment to arrive.

The world opened up before me.

I unleashed my power and let it travel across his chest, down his body, and to the very edges of his limbs. He was not made like a fighter, but he had seen battle before despite his soft skin. It was there in the strength of his heart and the call of his blood, in the yearning of the elements to be bent by his will. I could make him great.

Silver scales spread to caress his smooth chin and the rest of his lower face. At last, I threaded my power through his hair, and the transformation was complete. He would be pleased with the stealth his new appearance would provide, I was certain.

He looked in the mirror and screamed.

Or not.
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Random snippet

May. 1st, 2016 10:37 pm
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A random snippet from an untitled fic I completely forgot about.
"Your Majesty, what is your command?"

Awaitsun knelt down in front of me on one knee. Because of the curse cast on him, he could only speak through physic magic with the people of the Demon King's Castle. I was one of them, so luckily he could communicate with me. It made commanding the dark knights much simpler.

"You don't have to kneel in front of me," I said. "I'm not the actual Demon King."

Born from wondering what it'd be like to see Adair and Awaitsun interact after the aftermath of V8. :') Might be interesting to explore. *puts on list of plunnies*
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Randomness

Jan. 18th, 2016 02:31 pm
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Am very amused that the official email for the Legend of Sun Knight cell phone game is [email protected]. There's currently an event to send in Chinese New Year art featuring LSK characters. Ends on Jan 29.

A post went up on [livejournal.com profile] getyourwordsout about organizing & tracking writing, and using scene lists to help with that. I realized that I did use a scene list for writing so we can get to know you and a bulleted list for Bittersweet Sweetness, fics I actually finished. There are a lot of random tidbits I'd written of Bittersweet in my notebooks. I should get back into the habit of jotting stuff down more. Of course, now the problem is, I'd written my stuff in five different notebooks. No idea where the 5th notebook is. I did find my plans for Entries in a Holy Knight's Journal and A Vice-Captain's Tale. :'D There's also a scary page labeled "LSK bunnies." Thanks, but I have enough plunnies...

Actually, the first one on the list was "Grisia goes undercover and wins a drinking contest, only to get rescued by Lesus and shut in the dungeon for discipline." Why look at that! I'd actually written it, even though the premise changed a bit. Grisia didn't go undercover for anything, but he did go in disguise. :'D

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