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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

Ultimate Fanfic Trope Showdown from ellimists. (Thanks suzume!)

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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

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.

Got a new Yahtzee card for 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 yuletide thanks to D's reminder. Yay~ (Still can't believe Yuletide is already here)

Merry Christmas!

yuletide fics have been revealed! I received a lovely Magic Kaito story.

La Cage Éclipse (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!



GetYourWordsOut: Year Ten!
Pledges & Requirements | GYWO.net

Writing communities~. This one is an AU challenge from whole_new_world. :D

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.

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Cleaned up the tags a bit on DW. Multilevel tags! o/ Though now they won't match the LJ ones...

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 )

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!

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.

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 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