Red Threads

Infinite Gravity
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Started: April 27th
Final chapter posted: November 21st

It feels like it's been forever. *blinks* I guess now I have no excuse not to revise and post that other fic. >.> And to get rid of all these notebooks that are cluttering up the place.

( on fanstuff and fandom (I am conflicted) )

If your car breaks down under warranty, or you have the right kind of insurance, they give you a courtesy car while it's being fixed. So if you have to send your computer away to be mended, shouldn't they give you a courtesy laptop?

In entirely unrelated news, note to self: next time, research it before you write it. Some of this stuff I can fix, but I think a couple of things are going to have to remain under the artistic licence umbrella >.>

djsak;fdjlskfhdasjlkfd dude I finished the obon fic. No doubt tomorrow I will hate it, because inevitably I try for 'subtle' and end up with 'brick to the head', and then I will look up all the things that I scribbled on a napkin to research later, and hate it some more because it's all wrong and the sea is too far away or something, but right now I have finished it and it is done. And I have writer's cramp. -.-;;

Look, the last time I finished something was like. July. These are milestones, damn it. >.>

Volume 17 arrived today~ The translation's a bit awkward in places, and they've switched the names back to Japanese order, but at this point I kind of almost know it by heart anyway. Hikaru ♥ They need to bring these out faster!

I'm using up the last of my annual leave on long weekends because there are so many deadline weeks coming up, so today is for writing fic. :3

...did I really manage not to post at all in October? o.O

....it's a very strange feeling to be sifting through ffn recs in search of decent fic you haven't already read, and find one of your own old, crappy fics that you wrote in 2003 before you'd even finished the whole series. o.o;

...no computer problems today. *crosses fingers*

Work problems are another matter. Discovered that I made two completely moronic oversights last week, and now I'm wondering what the hell I was on. And whether I had an episode I just didn't notice - my memory is hazy, which might back that up, but it's pretty borderline. I wish I could discuss this with my manager, but she's on leave. :|

...it just took me 3 tries to boot my laptop. fjlasbhdjaskl fuck. Halfway through the Windows startup screen it went bluescreen for like .25 of a second and died, the hard drive made a worrying noise, and it tried to start up again. Same thing happened, then the third time it started up as normal. This is something of a worry. Current plan: finish updating backups, do a virus scan and a hard drive scan, cross fingers and pray. On the one hand, at least I could actually afford a new computer right now. On the other hand, I refuse to get anything Vista ever - this thing was supposed to last me until they'd ironed the bugs out of Windows 7. Ironically, I spent a lot of last week trying to convince myself that I didn't actually need a netbook. I guess that's the backup plan, then...

fhdsaldjs someone get me a tissue. Titanic was just on and I am weeeeaaak to tragic romance. Sobbing like a baby for the last ten minutes, god. I haven't cried this hard in years. >.>

I feel like I should blame someone for my Hikaru no Go obsession re-appearing, but I suspect it is my own damn fault anyway. Vague fic ideas are sloshing around, but I am currently beating them back with a stick in favour of the slightly less vague Ryuusei AU which no one will read, because I appear to be shipping something both incredibly random and completely unheard of which given my previous track record with distractions can have only one result, really.

...but right now I have to go wash my face and post chapter 7 of Infinite Gravity.

fdhsalchdjas lol. I've been watching Starforce, finally - I kept seeing fics and art and videos around, and it looked kind of cool, but I swore I wasn't going to touch it until I finished Infinite Gravity because I have enough unfinished WIPs as it is. So now I've been watching it, and I was actually bizarrely disappointed because it's actually nothing like the vague impression I'd built up from the fics and art and videos. XD I was expecting awesome space cadet stuff, and it turned out to be... well, something like a less cool AU EXE-verse. Halfway through the first season I'd talked myself into starting a space cadet AU fic, and then I started on the second season and suddenly it turned into Yu-Gi-Oh. Lost civilisations, ancient weapons, sideways hair...

Bly: *shows up*
Chiya: OMG it's Yami Bakura O_O;

Three months spent writing this damn story and when I finally come to upload it, FF.net's uploader is down. *headdesk* And this is progress; it wouldn't let me log in at all yesterday.

lololol my life XD

Three months, nineteen chapters, five notebooks, and four pens later, and I finally just finished my story.

Now I get to type all 70,000-odd words of it up, but right now I am just going to enjoy this feeling. This blank, stunned 4:30am feeling.

From annkiri: the WIP meme: post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.

1. Just like a real heart, Riku had told her once, and now Kairi understood what he'd meant.

2. It watches the Thirteenth – its master, it thinks, with a feeling that it can almost identify as pride – as he slumps in the wake of the dissolving Shadows, hood falling back from pale hair, and it knows, again, that there is something it has lost forever.

3. Teito's mouth drops open in dismay – there are toothmarks in the cover and everything! - but the Bishop only taps Burupya once on the head before setting him back into Teito's waiting hands.

4. Shinra had a corporate horror of damaging cadets, but the moment they'd put you through training you were expected to earn the gil they paid you.

5. He'd even braved Medical once, almost hoping he was about to go unstable and take out half the HQ in the fallout, only to be told as usual that there was nothing wrong with him physically.

6. As certain as he was that he could feel X's eyes on his back, when he turned at the door X was already gone.

7. Sensor ghosts danced in his vision as he collapsed to his knees, unable to hold himself upright, and the last thing he saw as Netto forcibly logged him out was the grim set of Blues' mouth as he ripped through the rogue Navi like an avenging demon.

aaaaaaah the Dead Fantasy guy released parts III and IV and holy shit *_* Most Awesome Fanmade Thing Ever or Most Awesome Fanmade Thing Ever?

...yeah, IV is coming close but II is still my favourite :D

I've been meaning to address this for a while - or, more broadly, the entire issue of the welfare-to-work process, because every time I see articles like this, or about whichever latest set of unemployment figures are out, I see misconceptions and misrepresentations. I also see a lot of comments from members of the public and people recently made redundant who don't seem to understand what's out there or available to them, but that's a separate - and bigger! - post in its own right.

For now, I want to talk about the fraud investigations, and ( a bit of background on the industry... )

I. I think I just broke 60,000 words. This is officially a novel. Or. Would be if it wasn't stupid fanfiction. fjdks;afhdsjkomgwhat.

But! The end is in sight! I just wrote the second of the scenes that I've been waiting weeks for, and now they're about to figure out who the bad guy is, and then it can be endgame tiem. Finally.

...of course, then I have to type it all up. lol.

fdaslfhdasjfkadsl don't look now but I think I may have just spent 5 solid hours writing. My pen, which was a brand new pen that I got two weeks ago, ran out halfway through. I-it was the good part, okay.

...which is to say that after 50,000 words and a whole lot of AUGH WHY ME, I have finally, finally got my characters together. ♥ I'm sure I'll hate it in the morning (especially since it seems to be 1am crap I have work) but right now I am.... wrung out and shaking. Uh. Well, now it's onwards to the rest of the plot and an ending!

*falls over*

snatched from... a whole lot of people.

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to Anyone who wants to can post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

( lololol )

...that Back From Holiday feeling is always crap. :/ Have gained +1 suntan, and my fic is still kicking my ass.

( pics etc under the cut... )

fjdsklafhdjaslf this fic is kicking my ass. *counts*

1. 32 pages 110-120 words per page, depending which bloody notebook - I'm on my 3rd. :|
2. 31 pages
3. 32 pages
4. 34 pages
5. 31 pages
6. 48 pages
7. 53 pages

...so even at a very conservative estimate and allowing for everything that's scribbled out, that's well over 25,000 words with no end in sight and still no fdhska;fdjks title. And starting tomorrow I have 5 days of holiday, and I am taking my multiple notebooks but not the computer, and I am going to make a damn good attempt at finishing this thing. Because even at that point I will still have to type it all up oh god.

I need a name for this fic. Since, you know, I just worked out an estimate that puts it around 27,000 words so far, all longhand. I'm on my third notebook here. And it still doesn't have a name.

Anyone have any awesome ideas? Broad themes are change, growth, evolution, etc.

*goes off to hunt through random poetry*