Beware: The Chibis Have Taken Control!

No, the one I'm using isn't mine. zoicite rocks and is so much better at icons than me. But that's OK. ^_^ I still enjoy making them, anyway.

Fic news: Someone's got a shirt off and that's about the extent of it. I suck. And just for that, I'll give you a new icon.


Gavin Creel as Prometheus, Prometheus Bound
My other favorite line. I wish it wasn't so text-busy, though. Damned quote being too long. :-P *grumbles* Shame I don't remember how to do an animated icon. Can't find the program I used to use. *sigh*

You've all heard me squealing and blushing for years at the very thought of writing sex. Well... I've become aware (thanks to all my Hair stories) that I'd like to get over that. The problem is two-fold:

1) I have no practical experience. I am not a gay man, nor am I ever likely to be one. Therefore, everything I know about gay sex I've gleaned from other first or (more likely) second-hand accounts. That makes me extremely uncomfortable. I don't like feeling under-knowledged about a subject for which I intend to write.

2) I promised Nuriko a loooooooong time ago that out of love for him, he and Tasuki would get my first lemon. Then I realized that it would have to happen towards the end of OB (if not as an epilogue O_o) and my rewrite on that SOB has seriously stymied my efforts.

...Which, as it turns out, has been a really convenient excuse.

( Cut for babbling about erectile writing dysfunction and THE HAIR TOUR!! )

Nuriko: O. M. G--.

Tasuki: Did... did I really just read that right?

Nuriko: *nodnod* *wobble eyes* *glomps the fic author*

R-chan: *blush* *bluuuuuuush* *BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH* *little voice* I'll try, OK? That's all I'm promising.

Nuriko: I don't care. I'll take it!

R-chan: *twitch* Fine. Then help a girl out! Stop talking at each other and start sexing each other up, already!

Nuriko: *twitch* I'm trying!

Tasuki: *sweatdrop* Um... yeah. This one's my bad. I'll work on it.

Nuriko/R-chan: *sweatrain*

Edit: And... 2 1/2 hours later, I still have no paper, I have almost 2000 words of FY fic... and still no sex. O_o;;; At least I've gotten them through the talking and they seem to be ready to get down to business. Now if only I wasn't too bloody exhausted to type. Neeeeeeed sleeeeeeep. *thud*

So... I was really in the mood to sew tonight. I have a patchwork corduroy skirt that I've been working on forever (that wouldn't actually take me so long to finish if I actually sat down and did it), that I'd actually like to get done sometime before the winter is over. As it is, my waist has decreased an inch or three since I initially measured myself for it and I'm not sure where that's going to leave me when all is said and done. *twitch* Anyway, I finally sat down and starting piecing together the last of my patches so I could trim the seams, repin them and finish the other half of the French seams. And on my third to last row... I broke the needle on my sewing machine.

D:

Noooooooooooooo.

Damn. It.

Of course, Brother doesn't answer their phones at 8:30 PM on a Sunday night (though, goodness knows why, right?) and I'm sure no one's going to be in tomorrow because it's President's day.

Double damn it.

And what's more, I'm sure it can't be that hard to swap out the needle on a sewing machine. In fact, my Uncle probably even knows how to do it... it's just that I'm too embarrassed that I broke it in the first place to even ask him. >.<;;;

So, now I find myself in this quandary of wanting to engage in a creative pursuit and being denied my first choice. I'd like to give my hands a break from knitting because I'm getting some mild finger cramps, so that's out. I wouldn't mind writing, but my mind has been in a constant state of flub this month and on top of that I'm having fandom ADD. Not. Good. :-P

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions of any kind? Is it cheating to use a 15_minute_fic word when I'm the mod who's been posting them this month? ^_^ Maybe it's time to try out my favorite song meme, again...

Nuriko: *growls* Or you could just, you know... work on Part 5 like you started to do last week.

R-chan: *ponders* Noooooo... I don't think I want to do that.

Nuriko: *fumes*

Claude: *scowls*

Tasuki: *twitches at Claude* What the hell's your problem, anyway? You might actually get sex sometime this millenium.

Claude: At the rate she's going and where she left me stalled in the two Hair fics she's "working" on? Not likely.

Nuriko: *walks over and slumps down next to Claude* Join the club, pal.

Claude: F. M. L.

Georgie and Kelly: *startled* *twitch* *snerts* *in unison* OMG, Uncle Claude that was fucking awesome! *giggle madly*

Claude: *sigh*

O_O Yeah... I'm pretty sure this had no point. Movingonnow. Later!

Edit -- 9:37 PM -- *scowls at Nuriko* You win.

Nuriko: O_O Really?

R-chan: *sigh* Really. You and Tasuki may even see a little action in this chapter if I can maintain motivation long enough to get you there.

Nuriko: *fistpump* YES!!! :D :D

*deep breath* OK, everyone. As I've slowly been posting all of my older fics to the new fanfic community (rchan_fic), it has occurred to me that it's been a while since I worked on OB. And I've been feeling a mite nostalgic this week...

So, here we go. ^_^ Initial starting word count on Part 5 is 8,694.

Away we go!

Still obsessing over Hair, but at least I got another part of OB done before churning out yet more ficcage for it, right? ^_^

Huge thanks, again, to Yanagi-sen for beta-reading! ^_^

Fandom: Fushigi Yuugi
Pairing: Tasuki x Nuriko, hints of Nuriko + Hotohori
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: This part -- 15,291. Initial count, 8,359. O_O Good grief. Again.
Warnings: Slash. Not mine. Don't sue.

Summary: "They took you in when you had nothing. They gave you a life you could be proud of. They gave you the opportunity to make something of yourself. Now that this chance has come, accepting it is the only way you can repay them." So begins Nuriko's journey to the capital of Konan. What awaits her on her travels, the people she will meet and the things she will learn about herself, they will change her life forever.

( Odds that this will all fit in one post this time...? )

9045 / 13782 words. 66% done!

Damn it. After 4 hours, that's it?? O_O *falls over* Only another measly 5%?

Brain... you suck.

11:41 PM

9649 / 13942 words. 69% done!

I feel like I'm slogging uphill through mud. O_O I now have the headache Hotohori is claiming. -.-;;; Don't ask.

Well... the cast is officially in London. I cry. I cry a lot.

But... this picture gives me hope. They'll never be Will Swenson and Gavin Creel, but if Kyle Riabko and Ace Young are willing to do this... I feel a small spark of hope?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! I feel like I just cheated on someone! *runs away and hides*

Edit -- 11:14 AM -- *little voice* On the other hand, I finally beat down that formerly unwritten part of Chapter 4 of OB that was giving me such agita and moved on to the actual rewrite of that part. *unsure but game smile* 4205 words so far, 3841 of which are completely new scenes. No laziness for me this time!

Starting word count on Chapter 4: 8,359

4205 / 12349 words. 34% done!

Away we go...?

Just keeping track of progress. I'd like to finish this chapter before New Years. ^_^ I think it's doable. *opens up MS Word and goes back to plugging away at Chapter 3*

On another note, it amazes me that I'm just over halfway through this thing and it's already almost 7000 words longer than it was when I started. O_o;;;

11619 / 16647 words. 70% done!

5:15 PM -- Making progress, slowly but surely. I finally got to rework that ridiculous scene where Nuriko gets beat up by the lords of the Court when they return from Taiitsu-kun's place. That scene has always bothered me, because even if Nuriko were distraught, if he'd even flung out an arm, he could have taken out half the people attacking him. O_o;;; Of course, the only obvious answers were to remove the scene entirely... or to have it happen because Nuriko decided that he deserved it and didn't want to fight back. Eh-heh... Gomen ne, Nuriko... I was supposed to be removing angst, wasn't I?

13579 / 17678 words. 77% done!

Oh my G-d, Oh my G-d. *flails* *flubs* The next section has an "Arigato gozaimus" and a "Daijabou". *wince* For goodness sake, they're not even spelled right! *falls over* May G-d save me from fangirl Japanese. I knew not what I was doing. -.-;;;

Just a quick update, because I'm impressed that I'm maintaining this level of inspiration. ^_~ The remaining 2 1/3 pages of the old Chapter 2 are now rewritten... 8 pages later. O_o;;; Good grief. I've gotten wordy in my old age. *sheepish grin*

Original number of words to be rewritten in the combined end of Chapter 2 + Chapter 3: 9,960
Total written for today: 1,436

6049 / 13936 words. 43% done!

And the night is still young. ^_^ I'll update you again if I write more later. Just gonna take a break to get a snack and put on warmer socks. *waves*

Tee-hee. ^_^ Now that ARBAON is packaged off to the beta and I can't do another thing with it until I get it back (which won't be for a while), I have turned to other projects. Two scenes, and nearly 2000 words, into Chapter 3 (which is actually the last 1/3 of the original chapter 2 + chapter 3) and I realized something rather funny. So far, I have kept nothing of this original section. O_o;;; In the first two chapters, there were parts I rewrote completely, parts I left alone completely, and parts that I mixed old and new... but I don't think there were any spots that I had completely scrapped 2 1/2 pages and rewritten them. *laughs* Then again... of all the parts of OB I had written before, this entire section (the first trip to Taiitsukun's) was one that I liked the least. One might even say I hated it. It was not good writing, it was very choppy and I didn't take the time I should have to try to fix it. Hopefully this will come out better. ^_^

*waves* Ja ne!

((Actual word count to be posted when I'm actually done working for the night.))

Eiji: You know... I don't know whether to be grateful or insulted that rewatching PoT is making her fic for FY. Didn't she owe us a sequel?

Oishi: Well, Eiji, whether she did or not... I think the answer is that you should be grateful. I hear that Nuriko's already started therapy again.

Fuji: *nodnod* It really is pathetic. I almost feel bad for the man. He was walking around earlier mumbling in disbelief, "Miaka is a yaoi fangirl? Not that it doesn't make things easier, but really... What the hell? Where was that written in the manga?" I was torn between giggling at him and pinching his cheeks for being so cute.

Eiji: *sweatdrop* Perhaps we should introduce her to Emi and Noriko?

Oishi: *blush*

Inui: *eg* Ii data...

Oishi: And where the hell did you come from?

Eiji: *impishly* Perhaps from the icon one entry down?

Fuji: *sagely* Inui is everywhere...