Hey everyone! I'll be at Fanime this weekend cosplaying as Maya Fey. If you're going too, I hope to see you there. :D I don't have any plans just yet (just hoping I won't get bored). I finally got myself a smartphone, so feel free to tweet me to get into contact with me, or call/send me a text. If you also have a smartphone, I'm using WhatsApp, so you can text me with that too. (Free texting!) It seems to be a fairly cool app. I recommend it if you don't have a texting plan. :3

To everyone else, I'll still be around, though probably even more unresponsive than usual.

Despite Fanime being tomorrow (Day 0 started today even), I'm still not done with my cosplay. :'( I finished the outside purple jacket thing, but the inside I'm still in the process of sewing. I'm just about done with the bow, but I still need to thread her necklace... I really should have started earlier than this week! I have work tomorrow, so I won't get to the convention until the afternoon. Probably leaving early since I know I'll still be tired from work too.

...gotta rush out of the house now to buy some last minute supplies. Just realized I don't have hooks for my bow, ahhhh.

Title: Bittersweet Sweetness Part 24
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,647
Summary: Instead of receiving a brooch that dresses him in an assassin's clothes, Sun receives a trinket that switches his consciousness around with Judgment's. Now, Judgment must find out the mystery behind the Death Knight in Sun's stead. Problem is, imitating Sun's poor swordsmanship is no easy feat, and who knew what Sun was doing with Judgment's body in the meantime? Alternate telling of the end of volume 1 of the novels.
Notes: I really wish it worked out so that this section was in Judgment's POV. This is too close to the novels for my preference, but I tried to write things a little differently.

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Oh look it's not a fic post for once. I've been really bad at blogging and leaving comments. I actually don't have the next part of Bittersweet Sweetness done for this week because I haven't had too much alone time to write... D: So for anyone who's waiting for it... the wait will be a bit longer than usual.

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! I got flooded by so many, both in person and online. ♥ Haha, it makes turning older feel marginally better (I don't want to turn older!!) As for gifts, Arc send me a really cool bone necklace that arrived with perfect timing. I also received cute art from gem2niki and Elphie. Rykatu in the first one, and Sun in the second one~ :D (Rykatu is so cute!). My brother bought me Minecraft and is bent on stealing what little free time I have. I bought myself a smartphone! Finally saying goodbye to my 4 year old phone! Quite exciting! I just received it today and still need to tinker around a lot more to figure my way around. If anyone has any suggestions for apps I should get, let me know. :D

I've watched quite a few movies with friends in these past few weeks~. Random movie talk under the cut!

( Hunger Games, Avengers, Dark Shadows )

I've been meaning to ramble off about current anime I'm following this season, but I've mostly fallen 1~2 weeks behind every series. But here's what I'm following. No blurbs. I've been slapping random screencaps of stuff I'm watching all over tumblr if anyone's interested. :3;;

New this season: Eureka seveN AO, Kimi to Boku s2, Ginga e Kickoff!, Hiiro no Kakera, Kuroko no Basket, Uchuu Kyoudai

Started watching but haven't gotten far (maybe watching?): Shirokuma Cafe, Sakamichi no Apollon

Plan on checking out: Accel World

Continuing from previous season: Hunter x Hunter, SKET Dance

Maybe dropping: Area no Kishi (it hasn't been animated in a very interesting way...I'm super behind with the anime now.)

My need to finish list is still the same as previous season's. When will I ever finish watching those series...

Out of the new series, my favorite is Ginga e Kickoff at the moment! It's so cute and I look forward to new episodes a whole lot.

Title: Bittersweet Sweetness Part 23
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 2,119
Summary: Instead of receiving a brooch that dresses him in an assassin's clothes, Sun receives a trinket that switches his consciousness around with Judgment's. Now, Judgment must find out the mystery behind the Death Knight in Sun's stead. Problem is, imitating Sun's poor swordsmanship is no easy feat, and who knew what Sun was doing with Judgment's body in the meantime? Alternate telling of the end of volume 1 of the novels.
Notes: Even though I wanted to aim for weekly updates, I somehow did not get around to finishing this part until just an hour ago. A day late! I wanted more leeway than that! Also, as a warning, the beginning paragraphs of this part might destroy your image of Judgment. XD;; This part is also much longer than my plans. I was trying to aim for 1200 words or so per part. Complete and utter failure with that! Still, I quite like how this part turned out. ;)

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Title: Hametsu; Ruin and Salvation
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Words: 4,480
Summary: AU, high fantasy. Tezuka/Ryoma. There existed many races in the land of Zenkoku, one of which was the mamono, a cruel and heartless race that was born to rule. However, they had one fatal weakness -- their hametsu, a single person they could not bring themselves to harm. Some said a mamono's hametsu was their downfall and never wished to meet them, while others claimed the opposite, that they could not live without their hametsu. But really, Ryoma understood none of this.
Notes: Written for xiahwase for funpotexchange in March. The concept of hametsu was inspired by Yu Wo's novel, GOD. I had a very epic idea... but my execution is not epic at all. OTL. People will never be able to tell that I was actually planning on writing Sanada/Ryoma and Yukimura/Ryoma with how this turned out, hahaha, because they don't even show up in the fic. Perhaps this is better for all characters involved. XD;
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Title: Bittersweet Sweetness Part 22
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,907
Summary: Instead of receiving a brooch that dresses him in an assassin's clothes, Sun receives a trinket that switches his consciousness around with Judgment's. Now, Judgment must find out the mystery behind the Death Knight in Sun's stead. Problem is, imitating Sun's poor swordsmanship is no easy feat, and who knew what Sun was doing with Judgment's body in the meantime? Alternate telling of the end of volume 1 of the novels.
Notes: Another week, another update. Writing Grisia is fun. I want some pie. XD

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I posted my exchange fic for xiahwase over at funpotexchange. Will be archiving it here in this journal too, probably within the week! Would love any feedback about the fic~

♥ Hametsu; Ruin and Salvation (Prince of Tennis, Tezuka/Ryoma, 4,480 words)
AU, high fantasy. There existed many races in the land of Zenkoku, one of which was the mamono, a cruel and heartless race that was born to rule. However, they had one fatal weakness -- their hametsu, a single person they could not bring themselves to harm. Some said a mamono's hametsu was their downfall and never wished to meet them, while others claimed the opposite, that they could not live without their hametsu. But really, Ryoma understood none of this.

( some thoughts behind writing the fic )

I still have a lot more fics from other people to read and comment on. So many stories went up around the same time! So many amazing fics and artwork!

I'm also very behind with a lot of online stuff, including TCG and fanbook. Busy week ahead of me though, so my responses will still be slow. The aim is still a May 5th release for Colors though!

Title: Bittersweet Sweetness Part 21
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 1,851
Summary: Instead of receiving a brooch that dresses him in an assassin's clothes, Sun receives a trinket that switches his consciousness around with Judgment's. Now, Judgment must find out the mystery behind the Death Knight in Sun's stead. Problem is, imitating Sun's poor swordsmanship is no easy feat, and who knew what Sun was doing with Judgment's body in the meantime? Alternate telling of the end of volume 1 of the novels.
Notes: This was originally supposed to be from Grisia's POV and was slated to be part 18... haha, that didn't work out at all! *rewrites*

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I received an awesome fic for funpotexchange! :D Thank you for the lovely fic! Fic about Liladent Krauser, humorous misunderstandings, and language barriers! :DDD

♥ The not-so dream of getting scouted by satsu_basu
The frustration of finding out someone is getting scouted... And how quickly it changes when they realize it's not for pro. Characters include Kirihara Akaya, Liliadent Krauser, Echizen Ryoma~

I finished writing part 21 of Bittersweet Sweetness! \o/ I'm going to try for...somewhat regular updates, so I tossed the next part into my scheduled LJ posts. The post will magically appear next Tuesday (hopefully with the right formatting). XD;; My goal is to continue writing and hopefully stock up on a lot more chapters so we don't have ridiculous dry-spells... and meanwhile, I'll be working on some other fics too. I'm hoping I can at least finish something before Tuesday, but we'll see...

After reading chapter 176 of Bakuman, the last chapter, I'm in dire need of an epilogue. The ending was touching (Dreams and Reality! 10 years later!), but I really missed the rest of the cast. So I think I will write an epilogue that includes the rest of the cast. My next fic project. ;) It better be a oneshot, and I better finish it in one go. Man, I was so off with my version of "10 years later" when I wrote these two fics around the time chapter 24~25 was out. But gosh, I didn't think the series would actually cover 10 years! For 750words yesterday, I slapped down words in a frenzy, mostly just ideas for the Bakuman fic. 750 words of random snippets and ideas... OTL. How is all this going to come together?

I've been trying to write with 750words, a site where the goal is to write 750 words a day. You earn points and badges for writing daily, with points going back to 0 if you break your streak. I've been failing pretty hard, only writing a day here and there. My longest streak so far is two days. >__> The problem with my use of the site is that I write and need to go back and fill in details and description, but once a day ends, the words are then frozen... so I can't go back and add in details. I haven't been able to log most of my words because I end up needing to finish the rest in my own word documents. I suppose the site will be nice to use for slapping down ideas... it's supposed to be like free writing.

750words is pretty cool in that it keeps track of how long it takes you to reach 750 words, how long you spent actually typing, your words per minute, how many times you get distracted... it also gives a rating for the writing (so far, the next part of Bittersweet Sweetness is rated G! XDDD) and 750words tells me that it mostly concerns Religion (haha, it's really not, but I can see why...), with the mood being "upset". XDD The most frequently used word is "his" (orz), followed by "he" and "Adair"... I'm pretty amused because when I wrote Lessons in Demeanor, 750words told me it mostly concerned Religion and Food. XD; I suppose Legend of Sun Knight fics would mostly be analyzed as concerning Religion with how much I throw around the phrase "God of Light"...

I'm not done with part 21 of Bittersweet Sweetness yet, but the words are going to be frozen in less than twenty minutes. =/

I've been skimming over some of my old fics... I really should finish some of my older WIPs... leaving them hanging is such a bad feeling. I might try to poke at one of them along with Bittersweet Sweetness. Need to review canon though...

Aside from fic writing... BAKUMAN HAS ENDED! ;____; I will be very emotional when I read the last chapter, chapter 176. It's great that the series came to its natural ending though, and the series ended on a high note! ♥ Events in the series mirrored real events quite a lot! Aaaand I am so proud of all the characters, omg. They came so far. I'm also very impressed with how Ohba and Obata saw this story through to the end without losing the focus of the story.

edit: Oh? I think the old LJ-cuts are back! I hope it's permanent. :3