dreaming on

I was genuinely surprised when I went to go make this list to find that I'd written very little. I didn't bother to sort them by size, so they're collected by fandom:

( List and meme under here. )

I don't feel like writing, playing games, or even really roleplaying. What I feel like doing is making a thousand icons. I must have 5000 textures by now and I want to play with them. I've spent the last few nights making Garnet and Fran icons because why not.

I went around looking for icon challenges/prompts/claims communities that were active and I didn't see any on DW. I contemplated doing some general prompts or bingo cards that don't have a fic-only restriction, but I'm not sure I can visually express more complex prompts: something like "melancholy" is fine (per my genprompt_bingo card) but something like "black is the new black" (per dailyprompt) I have trouble imagining how to express.

A lot of people on my flist are icon-savvy so you might not need icon-making, but I'm still eager to try new things, and choosing which image to icon next is almost the hardest part. So I will make you an icon if you provide me with an image. It'll be a holiday gift to both of us!

1. Up to 3 images to start with, and I will almost certainly provide you with several variations for any given image.


2. Images can be anything, photos, fanart, screencaps, whatever. If it's from a fandom source I don't need to know the fandom, but please tell me what it is / who the character is for my reference!


3. Since the point is playing around I don't need to know the requester either, so stalkers and friends of friends are fine.


4. Images that require coloring (black and white, lineart, manga) are okay, but I don't guarantee awesome.


5. Additional information about what you want from the icon is okay. Icons with text and animated icons I don't promise quality results for.


6. Bonus points if one of your images is for a Tales of, Kingdom Hearts, or Code Geass character, since I want to try those in particular.

Here are some examples!

I've seen this going around and I feel like it! I will probably fill this out myself for any major fandoms no one asks me


Give me a fandom and I will give you:

+ Favorite Female Hero
+ Favorite Male Hero
+ Favorite Female Villain
+ Favorite Male Villain
+ Favorite F/F pairing
+ Favorite M/M pairing
+ Favorite F/M pairing
+ Favorite Friendship
+ Favorite Team
+ Favorite Story Arc

I'm going to make another post later today once all my things are done, about resolutions. But here's a little looking back at my writing.

( Even though I'm the world's most predictable writer, I'm actually pretty pleased with myself, looking at this. )

gdit fine I'll have a Plurk. Stupid universe. Friend if you got 'em.

I've been doing an awesome amount of writing. \o\ Yay for areyougame and 750words! I got two Tales of the Abyss ficthings and one Kingdom Hearts ficthings done at insincere. Tomorrow I have an actual Tales of Vesperia piece due. My first TOV fic. *inexplicably weirded out*

Have a meme. This is a "First game fandom of the year/Last game fandom of the year" meme. But I'm bored, and mostly interested in this part: Tales of Vesperia, last fandom of the year, go!


GAME ★ Tales of Vesperia
( These are a few of my favorite... )

Finally did some writing, even if it wasn't relevant writing (e.g. Another Side chapter). But right now in this sort of slump, any progress is good progress. I'm at around episode 9 of Code Geass right now. Lelouch is so gay It's fun, although I can't take it terribly seriously. First of all, half of it is ridiculous. And second of all, 90% of the official art turns me off. (Either it's T&A exploitation, gheiboy exploitation, or gheigirl T&A exploitation.)


Name a character from any of my fandoms, and I'll tell you every pairing I've ever written them in, read them in, or even just thought about.

Ganked from okroginator. Ask anything you think I might know about, lawl.

Comment and I'll list 7 interests from your profile in a reply. Then you do an entry/comment about what they mean and why you are interested in them. sorceressakemi picked...


1. fucking cows in retrospect
Line from a retarded flash video, featuring an EXTREEEEEME Bugs Bunny parody. It's a lot of cursing and EXTREEEEEMEness, but the last line is "You fuck cows in retrospect!" which is -- such a bizarre and hilarious thing to say, my roommates and I immediately put it into our interests list.

2. sinister ducks
This is another line from something, this time a song called "March of the Sinister Ducks". This song is hilarious and really spreads awareness of the sinister nature of ducks. They'll smirk at your hairstyle, wearing their plaid jackets, and sleep with your wife! Those web-footed fascists even force old ladies to throw them bread, I heard.

3. subaseka
Subaseka is the Japanese shorthand for Subarashiki Kono Sekai/The World Ends With You, everyone's favorite game featuring clones of Kingdom Hearts characters! I like this game because it's very unique in tone and gameplay, and it has a tremendous character evolution story that really connects with me. The music is terrible though.

4. scrapped princess
Awesome, awesome, awesome anime with gorgeous animation. In a fantasy setting (...or is it?), your heroine is Pacifica, the poison who will destroy the world. Her adopted siblings are trying to save her from the hordes of people who want to kill her before she can turn 16 and kill everyone else, but deep down Pacifica isn't sure she should be saved. After all, if she's really supposed to destroy the world... I highly recommend this series to everyone. Everywhere.

5. neku/joshua
From Subaseka, Neku is your main character who starts out the Game hating everyone, and Joshua is his partner for the second week of the game -- an effeminate giggling boy who keeps making sly comments about staring at Neku's ass interspersed with his total manipulative bastardry. While I enjoy their relationship platonically probably more than as a couple, I can't stop enjoying the fact that Square-Enix is clearly aware of and encouraging the fangirl reaction to this pairing.

Also Neku tops, internet.

6. hinamori
Hinamori Momo is a character in Bleach. A bright and cheerful girl who was taken in by the most brilliant con artist in the series. People think Hinamori is a weak-willed idiot for being fooled, but she just picked the wrong guy to fall in love with. :\ But I love her relationships with her friends (Renji and Kira's little ringleader) (Hitsugaya's crush) (Nanao's bookworm buddy) and I love her potential. I played her (truthward) at an RP for several months.

7. megami kouhosei
Megami Kouhosei, Candidate for Goddess, is a manga (the anime is much more bland) series that I was desperately in love with for like 2-3 years. I still have a good number of friends from that fandom -- friends I became really close with, which doesn't seem to happen anymore on the internet and I don't know why.

Anyway, it's a sci-fi series about a boy named Zero who goes to the Goddess Operator Academy to become a Goddess Pilot -- the Goddesses being five giant mecha. But the Goddesses aren't just robots; unknown to most people, they're alive, and they seem to have a strong connection to Zero and his hated rival Hiead. Also, Zero's partner/mysterious spiritual sister is a really hot catgirl.

Tragically, MK was never completed and it looks like the mangaka (D.N.Angel's creator Sugisaki Yukiru) may not pick it up again. Sigh.

So hatefully busy. But don't worry, I'm writing that Luke/Natalia fic~

I bought passes to Penny Arcade Expo. I hesitated, but I was full of resentment for my lame job and when I saw that the first day of PAX this year is my birthday, I said, this is a sign. Screw work.

Is anyone else going to PAX?


Also, MEME FOR NO REASON, stolen from green_and_warty: Comment with a character or pairing, and I'll write one sentence of fic for them.

Maximum of five requests per person, you are encouraged to submit prompts but I suppose not required. I also reserve the right to write more than one sentence if my ideas get too big.

I've encountered a writing lull. You know what that means?
DRABBLE CHALLENGES OPEN.

I'm going to go ahead and limit it to Bleach and Kingdom Hearts fandoms this time around. You can request any character or set of characters or pair of characters, but be warned that I tend to write on the level of hinty genfic 90% of the time.

Format is "Characters/Pairing: prompt", limit 2 requests per person. For example--

Rangiku/Orihime: on a string
Axel+Cid: morning coffee (Another Side)
Rukia: survival instincts

Post below and receive love in the form of 500 words of fic!

Finished prompts, Bleach:
Kira/Hinamori, Her Favorites (fluff)
Ichigo/Orihime, The Christmas Almost-Tragedy (fluff)
Urahara/Yoruichi, Shameless (racy)
Ichigo/Orihime, First-Time Boyfriend (fluff)
Renji/Rukia, Princess (fluff)
Shuuhei/Rangiku, The Promised Moment (fluff)

AU - Investing in the Future - Hinamori+Rangiku, various hints (fun)

Finished prompts, KH:
Sora/Namine, Before the Dawn Breaks (angst)
Cid+Kairi, Lady Friends (fun)

Finished prompts, KH/Bleach:
Demyx+Shuuhei, Nines (fun)

Original, Aria Anima: Cordelia+Aminde, Bridge (atmosphere)

I saw this meme on okroginator's LJ and decided to do it, apparently because I want to make people regret friending me because I hate their OTP. I couldn't help it. It involved pairing discussion, and I am weak to that.


( Pairing meme, Bleach version )

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( Pairing meme, Kingdom Hearts version )