Yaoi Invasion

As the title suggests, Yaoi, or at least Shounen-Ai, has suddenly decided to invade my life.

For those ignorant people out there, Shounen-Ai literally translates to Boy Love. It's the name for any anime or manga that has romance between two males. Similarly, Yaoi, is the extreme version of this: In short, Yaoi equals gay porn. Lots of fun.

Now, there are some people out there who are dubbed as 'Yaoi Fangirls'. These people (Yeah, I'm talking about you, Furry) enjoy pairing nearly every male in a series with every other male, just to see hot smut ensue. I am quite pleased to announce that I am not a Yaoi Fangirl. Just like some people pair every girl in a series with every guy, just for the Hentai (straight porn), and I don't.

I like to have proof that the pairings I support might actually happen, or could happen, if the series happens to be finished or something. I'll admit to liking a couple of Crack Pairings, but I'm aware that they're just that: Crack. I don't expect to see them happen in the series, and they're usually between minor character, so there's room to improvise on their circumstances and personality.

Anyway, my point is, I'm a bit of a picky shipper. There are only two Yaoi pairings (apart from somewhat minor ones from little series' that've read/watched) I actually support: Sebastian X Ciel from Kuroshitsuji, and SasoDei from Naruto.

And, of course, Devil's Canvas has me obsessing over Sebastian X Ciel, while Sarah has got me playing a Naruto game which is rekindling my love for SasoDei. As I'm completely stuck on my SebaCiel fic 'Scarlet String', I decided to start a SasoDei fic called 'Smile For the Camera'. I'll probably stick it up on deviantART, or perhaps fanfiction.net if I feel it's good enough.

Well, now I'm being distracted by Sarah's new Zombie game, so I'm going to go watch her shoot reanimated corpses.

Ja ne~!

Dokugan Ryuu

I'm going to be staying with a friend for the next month, and seeing as I'll actually have this thing called a life for that time, posts might become a little less frequent (I don't imagine I'll ever manage to post two a day while I'm there).

Either way, I meant to write this yesterday, but I was too tired and distracted by packing. I still need to finish packing, but I'll only do that once I know dad's nearly ready to go, seeing as I don't want to be without my laptop longer than I have to be.

Anyway, back onto the point of this blog, which is my writing. I don't know why, but my love for the Young Samurai series smacked me in the face yesterday, so I went and finished the third book, which I gave up on after one of my favourite characters apparently kicked the bucket. Thankfully, I found out yesterday that he survived. And I proved with this book, yet again, that I have a thing for the bad guys (more specifically the ones with tough pasts), when I fell head-over-heels for the ultimate bad guy of the story: Dragon Eye. (Yes, I know I'm hopeless, thank you. I blame my mothering instincts and my 'Saving People' thing. It's stupid, and it's probably going to break my heart a good couple of times, but what can I do?)

The ending of the third book still annoyed me, but not too much that I don't want to read the fourth, so I'm planning on getting that soon, but in the mean time, I'll settle on writing my three Young Samurai fanfics. One's based on the supposed death of my favourite character, and my persona, Setari, getting revenge for it. Lots of fun to write, and it's a bit of a song fic, in that it's got this song in it:

The Best Is Yet To Come

I totally fell in love with that song after Furry sent it to me. Gaelic is such a beautiful language~... I'm determined to learn it, along with Japanese and possibly Old English, before I die. But yeah, that fic is called 'Retribution', for obvious reasons (I'm not usually very inventive with my fic titles) and I may or may not shove it up on deviantART once I'm done (It's a self insert, so I probably won't put it on fanfiction.net).

The next I've done barely any work on at all, but it's called 'Apprentices' and it's based on how totally pissed off some of the parents (one in particular, really) in the series make me. His son is working so goddamn fucking hard for his approval, and he can't even be fucking bothered to say 'Well done' once in a fucking while. Stupid prat. Ahem, yes. As you can see, bad parenting is one of the few things that can get me well and truely riled up. Personally, I think shouting at your children qualifies as abuse, let alone everything else that parents do in the name of 'discipline' (which is a stupid word and concept, really, but I won't go into that.)

Moving on, before I get too pissed off: Apprentices was also inspired by this Naruto fic I found on deviantART a very long time ago, and am still in love with. It's a NaruHina, and in fact, Naruto and Hinata are about the only characters from Naruto that feature in the story for more than one chapter. But the OCs in it are awesome and spectacularly well made, and everything else from the backstory, to the OCs' pasts, to all the tiny little details, is beautifully crafted. I'd very much like to see a sequal, but I don't know if that'll happen...

Two Halves

But yeah, the way it inspired Apprentices is that one of the main themes of the story is Naruto and Hinata being 'partner trained'. The concept is simple; they're trained to fight together like a team so flawless they fight like they can read each others minds. I love this concept and intend to kidnap it for my Apprentices fic, though really, the credit for the idea has to go to the author of Two Halves, or at least, whoever gave them the idea, if it isn't theirs.

The last is a hopeless self-insert. It doesn't have a title yet, but I'm sure I think of one eventually. I'm not entirely sure that the timing lines up, but I don't care. The basic plot of the fic is that my persona, Tari, took care of Dragon Eye when he was seriously injured. One thing led to another and then he up and leaves without a trace and Tari finds out she's pregnant. Fun. Twelve years later, Kaida and Ryuutaro (if you're familiar with the Japanese language and Japanese names, then you'll surely be able to see why I picked those names. Teehee.) head to the Niten Ichi Ryu to train as Samurai (Oh, hurrhurrhurr, Dragon Eye would just hate that, wouldn't he?). It really is a bit of a wish-fullfillment fic, as it's main point is that Dragon Eye gets 'healed' by Tari and his kids.

Yes, I'm aware I'm hopeless, and that bad guys don't get 'saved' that easily, but shoosh. A girl can dream. I even have a couple of fics planned out where Tari saves Voldemort for cripes sake. Dragon Eye is, as awesome a bad guy as he is, still a step down from Voldemort's ruthlessly crazy evilness.

On a related note not related at all note; I've been looking for pictures of Smallpox scars on the internet, but all I can find is pictures of Smallpox itself. I know what Smallpox looks like, thank you, Google. It's gross and disgusting and I want to know what the scars look like. So if you know any good pictures of smallpox scars on the internet (and by good I mean not so blurry or small that you can't actually see the scars), please lemme know because it's been bothering the hell out of me.

Anyway. Now that I'm done ranting about all that shit, I need to get packing.

I'll try to keep posting something every day, but no promises (to all you non-existant readers out there. Ha).

Ja ne~!

The Devil's Canvas

Well, this post is going to be a little more related to writing than my last, but to be fair, I wrote the other one when I'd been up for over 20 hours and I still can't be sure exactly what I was thinking.

Anyway, the main point of this post is yet again for me to expound upon the virtues of a certain fanfic that I've been addicted to. Unlike Twin Vice, however, this one is heavy on romance and drama and there's a certain thriller-ish quality to some of the more recent chapters. The Devil's Canvas is a Kuroshitsuji fanfic (if you haven't seen it, do so. It's weird and awesome and kinda creepy, but all the more awesome for it), and a Ciel X Sebastian fic. Ciel X Sebastian is my OTYP (Official Top Yaoi Pairing). I simply adore the sort of twisted bond and fight for dominance they have in the anime (I really do need to read the manga), and that's without any explicit romance. I shiver at the thought of what an experienced writer could do with them in a romantic setting: which is exactly what Akiru-chan has done.

The Devil's Canvas

It's an AU fanfic, and it really has been beautifully planned to bring out the best qualities of the relationship shown in the anime, with Sebastian dragging Ciel down into his dark little world and Ciel finding, to his surprise, that he rather likes it there. I can't really say much more about the fic without giving away spoilers or repeating myself, but if you've watched Kuroshitsuji (and if you haven't, go watch it now), then The Devil's Canvas is definately worth a read.

Well, now I have a sort of plan, I suppose: once I'm done watching Once Piece, I need to watch the Kuroshitsuji II, and read the Kuroshitsuji manga. After that, I need to catch up with the Fairy Tail anime, and get back to the Fairy Tail manga. (Is it just me, or did they leave Gildarts out of the 'Who might be the strongest in Fairy Tail' in the anime? I remember Natsu mentioning him, but when I rewatched the anime, he didn't. So was it just in the manga?) After that I really need to catch up with the Naruto anime and the Bleach anime, and I still haven't managed to watch the ending of the original FMA anime, and I wanna do that before I read the manga, and then I'm going to watch the new anime.

Hahah. I wonder if I'll even manage to catch up with all the anime and manga I want to watch/read? I doubt it, but a girl can hope, right? Haha...

And suddenly, I feel like working on Scarlet String (which is a Ciel X Sebastian fic I've been trying to write), even though I've been stuck on one bit for months now...

Oh well, either way. I need to watch more One Piece now~

Ja ne~!

Hormones

WARNING! MILD ONE PIECE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR EP 310! DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T READ IT!

Well, today has been realitvely interesting. There were some pretty damned good bits, and some pretty fucking bad bits, and over all, they kind of balenced each other out. I can't really say what most of it has got to with writing though, but oh well, I don't care.

First, I am incredibly proud to say, I just hit the 310 mark in Once Piece. HELL YEAH! And Lucci deserves to be beaten with his own severed arms and hung from his own guts, preferably off a marine flagpole. Maybe we should set his back on fire too! Another thing that the recent episodes have done (besides making bawl uncontrolably, swear at the top of my lungs and laugh hysterically for ages) is make me consider adding both Luffy and Zoro to my One Piece harem. (I did warn you that some of my fics were shameless self-inserts. But don't worry, I won't subject anyone on the internet to reading that crap unless they specifically ask for it. It's purely wish-fulfillment) Seriously, I wanted to kiss Luffy after he set the marine flag on fire (or had Usopp set the flag on fire. Meh. Details, details.), and after he kicked Lucci's ass into next week. AND CHIBI LUFFY IS SO GODDAMN KYUTE, I'M GONNA DIE~! (Mild 'Despicable Me' referance there)

And oh, my god, the end of episode 310 is so sweet and sad and I've been bawling my eyes out for ages! >.< I'm crying so much right now. I probably should have seen it coming, but I didn't and it made me cry so bad, and now I don't care that I'm shattered and haven't slept for 21 hours, I'm going to watch more One Piece.

Though, I have to admit, some of my fangirling can be put down to hormones. My period is due, and the really big clue was when I burst into tears over trying to put a new SIM card in my phone. Ok, I have a phobia of talking to people over the phone, especially foreign people who don't make any sense when you just want to get something that should be simple out of the way.

Finally, I just want to say that my adoration of merfolk has been rekindled, and I just want to say: GazettE (It's a J-rock band. Look 'em up. They're pure smex.) would make awesome mermen. Comepletely awesome. Haven't worked out what kind of merpeople they'd be, but I'll work on it~!

Well, I'm gonna watch more One Piece until I fall asleep on my keyboard~!

Ja ne~!

Twin Vice

Well, I managed to sleep through the entire day today. I went to sleep sometime around ten in the morning, and woke up around ten in the evening. Joy. And on top of that, my dreams were seriously weird. Can't remember them well, but they woke me several times during the night day.

I suppose I can only blame myself. Right before I went to sleep I noticed that this Harry Potter fanfic that I'm addicted to had just been updated, and I tried to read it even though I was falling asleep on my keyboard already. This fic I'm talking about is one hundred percent amazing. It's like... Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes meets Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a good healthy dosing of Skulduggery Pleasant on top. Basically it's awesome, whacky, hilarious and addictive. You should definately check it out if you've got time.

Twin Vice: Paranormal Detectives

The other most awesomely amazing thing about that fic, beyond all the obvious awesomeness that comes from it being about the Weasley Twins, is that it always inspires me to write one of my little original plot bunnies. It started with the random thought that a seventh son of a seventh son would have a fucking huge family. So I found a good family tree maker on the internet and got to work.

Well, so far, it's got about 85 people on it.

The main character, the seventh son of a seventh son, is called Taye. Taye Seith Morgan. He also happens to be a thrice blessed child: Not only is he the seventh son of a seventh son, he was born at midnight on Samhain (All Hallows Eve, or Halloween to all you conformists/christians out there), and he also happened to be born on a Ley Gate (A place where two or more Ley Lines converge). This makes him way more than just innately magical. He's practically bursting with magic which happens to spill out of him at some rather inopportune moments. (You do not want to see Taye throw a tantrum. He might just flatten a city or two.)

Other than Taye, there are two main characters. Both are his cousins, and most of the story ideas I've had for him revolve around family get-togethers or camps of somesort that they all end up going to. First, there's Rosine, who's the daughter of Taye's youngest uncle, and his wife, who is a seventh daughter. Rosine happens to be a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, which, though doesn't make her quite as magical as Taye, gives her the power to see the spirits of the dead, and the auras of the living.

Then there's Mirana. There is absolutely nothing magical about her. She can't see ghosts, or the many fantastical creatures that Taye can. She can't see any of the magical places that Taye can either, until she actually steps inside them. She is completely and utterly not magical, but without her, Taye and Rosine would sit safely at home not having any adventures at all, and then there wouldn't be a story to write. The one thing that's worth noting about Mirana is that she is so not magical, that magic doesn't affect her. A Pixie can't hex her, nor can a ghost possess her, a Marsh Wriath couldn't lead her astray, and the Banshee's cry does absolutely fuck all to her, expect annoying the hell out of her.

Well, if you read all that, then you're a saint and you deserve a cookie. Here's a link to the family tree, if you're interested:

Morgan Family Tree

Oh, yes. Some of the people there have pictures (which you'll see if you select them), which I made on this very awesome Face Maker I found on deviantART. I use it for nearly all things like that (I've got some Naruto Next Gen. OCs that I created with that faceamker, too).

Face Maker

Well, that's about all I've got to say at the moment, I think. Oh! No, one last thing: As you'll find out if you get a good way into Twin Vice, May 9th is now the official Re-Fredding day. Basically, a day dedicated to Fred Weasley being alive. Either reborn, or he never died, your choice. Do something for it! A picture, a fic, a poem, whatever. Anything. (Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I want to do something...) If you do do anything for Re-Fredding Day, comment with a link, cause I wanna see!

Now I'm pretty sure that really is all for now, so...

Ja ne~!

Think Write

Ooh, look at that, two posts today. I hope this isn't going to end up as one of those things that starts so well, and then just flops after a week or so. I don't want this blog to flop. (Although, I suppose it technically isn't the same day anymore, seeing as it's one in the morning. And I still haven't had dinner yet. Hurr.)

I'm really just writing because I just stumbled across this really interesting site called 'Think Write' (I find that an amusing little pun). It's a little confusing, as there doesn't seem to be any sort of 'welcome' page or 'rule' page or anything. This is especially vexing if you're like me and have had a fear of being, or doing something, wrong drilled into you by school. Still, it's interesting enough that I'm gonna give it a go, and live with the embarrassment (which is another thing I really can't cope with. There are things that happened to me a decade ago that I'm still dwelling on) if I do happen to do something 'wrong'.

Think Write

There's a link if you're interested. It's quite a simple site, in terms of layout, but if you find any sort of page thats there to welcome new members, for gods sake please let me know, ok?

I have a feeling that my time on Think Write will probably be one of those 'going strong for a week then taking a nosedive into the pavement' kind of things, but we'll see. I suppose... a good thing that has come of this is that Think Write has a 'Your Website' section on the account page, so now there's a link to this blog floating around out there. Who knows, I might actually get some people subscribing/following my blog, and then I won't be talking to thin air anymore! That'd be nice. I almost feel like a dork writing all this like there's someone reading it. Haha...

I might link to this blog on dA (deviantART) as well. More links can't hurt, after all.

Ja ne!

The Sea

Really, everything I'm working on at the moment seems to come back to the sea.

First off; I've been watching One Piece rather obsessively for the last few weeks, and when I'm not watching it, I'm listening to the opening and ending music. And of course, One Piece is all about pirates. Pirates. Yes, I'm in love. When I'm waiting for an episode to load, I'm usually busy writing One Piece fanfiction (I did warn you I was obsessed with the stuff), or reading One Piece fanfiction.

This here is the only One Piece fanfiction I've actually put up on the internet. Surprisingly, this one isn't a self-insert. (Most of the ones that are are still being written, that's why)

Defensive Flowers

As for the stuff I've been reading on fanfiction.net... let me just warn you, that I've managed to fall in love with the pairing NamiXPaulie. One of my favourite One Piece fanfictions that I've managed to find is a NamiXPaulie (In fact, there are about three I've found, all by the same person).

Stop, Thief!

There's also a SanjiXNami fic I've found that I adore. I don't really like the pairing (Sanji's way too good for Nami, in my opinion, but I may be a little biased. Heh.), but the story is so damned good that I don't care about the SanjiXNami theme.

Deadline

Ok, now that I've gotten the One Piece obsession out of my system (for now), the other thing I'm working on, whenever I can, what with my One Piece obsession taking so much of my time, is my Fairy Tail's Fairytales. As you might know from my last post, Fairy Tail currently holds the prestigeous title of my favourite anime. It is plain awesome! And I had a random idea a while ago to write some fairytales with the Fairy Tail cast. Of course, because I barely remember my old Grimm's Fairytales book, I decided to use the classic Disney movies as my inspiration. Because the Disney classics are made of awesome, and I'm sure I'll still be watching them when I'm old and wrinkly.

So yeah, Disney classics have a very strong romantic theme, which suits me just fine. So I picked all my favourite pairings from Fairy Tail and worked out which fairytale would suit that pairing.

Fairy Tail's Fairytales

As you can see by the authors comments on that, I've already finished one, and started two others. Beauty and the Beast is being a regular bitch, so the one I'm focusing on at the moment is (surprise, surprise) The Little Mermaid. Hence how all that rambling about Fairy Tail links back to the sea.

Anyway, my One Piece episode is probably done loading now, so...

Ja ne~!

Beginnings

Well, this is my first blog post. Everyone leap and flail in cheer! Ha.

I suppose what I should really say is a little overview of where I am right now in my writing... well, here goes nothing, and I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into a hermit's life.

First off, I think I should warn any readers that I am addicted to fanfiction like you wouldn't believe. I first got into fanfiction via Naruto (If you don't know what that is, get out from under that rock where you've been hiding and google it.), and I still believe that the Naruto cast are the most flexible characters I've ever read about. It's unbelievably easy to pick them up and thrust them into a completely different world, like ours (the number of Naruto High School fics out there is scary), or a fairy tale type theme, or even a futuristic space-age style fic.

Anyway, I'm rambling. This here is a list of my most prominent fandom obsessions:
Favourite anime/manga fandom: Naruto
Favourite anime: Fairy Tail
Favourite manga: Fruits Basket
Favourite book fandom: Harry Potter
Favourite TV seires fandom: Merlin

That is by no means the limit to my favourite fandoms, but it's the bare basics, I suppose. I'm sure you'll find out about the rest in due time.

Another little warning: I am a romance writer, first and foremost. I enjoy writing fantasy, magic themes stories, but romance will always be what I enjoy writing most. I'm an obsessive shipper (How do you even spell that in this context?), and a lot of my fics are shameless self inserts. It's sad, but true. There's usually at least (at least) one guy in any fandom I write for that I end up head-over-heels for.

Moving on from fandom. Although it does make up the majority of the unfinished fics littering my laptop, I do have a good number of original story ideas floating around, the most prominent of which being TRG. It's a huge idea; I've got a pretty good idea that it'll be five books long, and I've got the plot for each book at least roughly outlined (The first and fifth books mostly, the rest are still slightly fuzzy). And it's about the only original story I've actually started writing properly.

After that, I've got several other ideas fermenting in my brain, like a post-apocalyptic story, an Alice In Wonderland themed story, a time-travel story, and a were-folk story (were as in waerewolf). There's also another couple of little ideas, but I won't go into that now, or we'll be here all day.

Well, I suppose that's all for now.

Ja ne (means 'see you' in Japanese)