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Snow 9
zerrat
August 16th, 2012
Just finished 2k of plotting/dialogue for that Fang/Lightning fic for Logos. I'm pretty happy with the idea (no angst yay *kicks SWHN and a lot of other fic ideas where it hurts*) and eager to flesh it out. It's a fic along the lines of Worst Birthday Ever, kinda worried it's a little too similar, but other than that I'm looking forward to actually writing it.

SWHN-11 is under construction, as planned, a scene or two needs to be knocked around a bit but should be a fairly straight-forward matter. The, uh, follow-up for AO3 is still languishing in a troubling fashion, I may have to slice the first part off since if I'm not interested or engaged, any reader certainly wouldn't be. I like the concept though.

GDI why so many hard choices.

All this progress, man. Turning my wifi off does wonders, gotta say.

Liv just asked if we can marathon the anime Burst Angel. She clearly has no idea of what she's asking, lol. I can sum up that anime in three words. Explosions. Damsels. Boobs. That anime has no substance at all, but I can't help but love it for all its cheesy bad glory.

That and Meg/Jo is adorable don't hurt me

...and also Code Geass too! She is like on a roll with the anime-catch-up list. This almost makes up for the following text exchange;

Me: This fic is lol
Liv: What are you reading?
Me: No, it's one I am writing XD
Liv: ... Oh Dear.
Me: What?!
Liv: I just got that creeping sensation of doom.

Clearly someone has no faith, haha. I don't think she trusts me, not after all these years of 'watching [you] take interesting and fun characters and melting them'. I think if I say a fic is lol or fun to write, she must wonder, "what are you doing to my favourite characters you abusive monster!!!!!"

I clearly have some not-so-latent hurt/comfort obsession.

Anyone else have weird themes that seem to always crop up in their fics?
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Snow 9
zerrat
March 17th, 2012
I've been thinking of a sequel to SWHN. God damn, self, finish what you started before entertaining these ideas. :/

Also: interesting thoughts on HTM indeed. Quit ear-worming, Jihl, your time hasn't come yet.

Annnnd the fem!Snow/Serah fic. Debating whether I start with fem!Snow going through to canon!XIII (obviously unrelated to XIII-2) or if I do a series of oneshots building up fem!Snow/Serah. Choices. Always choices.

Still very much wishing for the power to think of an idea and then have it magically written.

Administrative Stuff

For the record: I've created a new LJ and will slowly be moving over there. For any who with to remain friends with me, comment below and I'll add you. I guess this is sort of like breyzyyin's reverse f-list cut, in which people are under no obligations to friend the new account.

I will still respond to comments made to this LJ and will still use it, but over time I hope to transfer fully to the new account.

The new account will hopefully give me a chance to refocus what I aimed to do with this original LJ, and will hopefully involve fanfic recs, scan samples and discussions of ongoing comics titles such as Batwoman, Birds of Prey, World's Finest and maybe some older ones like Killing Joke or Knightfall.

...whiiich makes me want to read the reboot of Supergirl but I digress.

Fic archiving will start to move exclusively to AO3 so expect all new material to be posted to that site from this point forward. All ongoing work on FF.net will continue there (so stories such as SWHN will continue to be cross-posted there, however if a sequel eventuates, it will be hosted on AO3).
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Snow 9
zerrat
March 4th, 2012
Current Music:
Isle o' Hags - Banjo-Tooie
A few weeks ago, Liv bought me a copy of my favourite childhood game, one Banjo-Tooie. I'd been casually looking for it in second-hand game shops for a few years now, but never actually found the game. Found plenty, plenty of its predecessor, Kazooie.

But anyway, Liv ordered Tooie off eBay for me. I've not had much of a chance to really play, but so far it's been everything that I remembered. The music is as ear-wormy as ever and while I'm better at some things, dude I have not improved at others. In fact, I think my younger self was better.

Take the boss of Mayhem Temple, one Targitzan. I cannot win. I have no idea how I won as a kid because that shit is hard. Totally loved making Old King Coal (who is apparently not a merry old soul, as luck would have it) my bitch and then stealing his train for further lulz.

Currently up to Witchyworld (lol, I love this themepark. Getting to drive around as an armoured minivan and running over enemies? Yes plz) and I'm kind of frustrated at how few jiggies I've gotten so far. I thought this would be as easy as Kazooie but it looks like I'm wrong. >:

Furthermore I am so not a lateral thinker so puzzles are hard, guys let's ignore how twitchy I get when I watch Liv play Skyward Sword - how the fuck does she just know how to do that shit?! If it were me I'd wander around aimlessly, trying to figure out stuff while she's all BANG BANG done.

Trying to finally clean up two ficlets I wrote a few weeks back, but one is still being as stubborn as ever. I have no idea of how to wrap up the themes and it's pissing me off no matter how I try to play it.
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Snow 9
zerrat
January 30th, 2012

I adore those writing-epiphany moments where you're struggling with this epically difficult scene and it's like a lightbulb goes off.

I've been going about it all wrong. It can't be like what I imagined, because it's not nearly the same stakes or tone! What worked before doesn't have to now - that's why it felt so flat!

Argh why does it always happen just before I sleep, seriously.

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AO3 Invites and Obligatory Male Characters
Spiral!Tidus
zerrat
January 22nd, 2012
Two matters.

1. I got a bunch of invites from AO3 a couple of days ago, so if anyone reading along who wants an AO3 account and doesn't already have one, comment below and I'll work out a way to make sure the invite code finds its way to you.

I love that archive's fan-friendly interface, I think I'd post exclusively there if it had even half the traffic of FF.net.

...which might be why I'm giving out invite codes for the site, shh.

2. As I plot my (hopefully brief) foray into FFI, I keep thinking something. I'm coming up with 'OCs' for this fic, as you kind of have to when you're trying to write about the Warriors of Light, and I know I'm happy about writing about women. I'm also cool with writing about men.

But these days I'm happily plotting the fic out in my head, and I keep having to remind myself - which one is the male character, because you have to have a male character.

I didn't even realize I was doing this until I really sat down and thought about it the other day. I'm trying to put an 'obligatory male character' into a fic that doesn't really need them. Why? Reader appeal? Habit? Sexism on my own part, that an adventure automatically has to have a guy on board?

This is also prevalent in my original stuff, too, that I'm pausing and going, "Wait, so I've got seven major female characters. No male characters. Uhhh...."

Maybe it's the whole Mary Sue thing, that's gotten people (myself among them) scared of writing original female characters. Male variants usually don't get the same level of flack, after all.

In any case, I've now decided that I don't need an obligatory male character that I really don't have an interest in writing. But I'm disappointed in myself that it even came to this, that I ever actually told myself, "so you're going to add a guy, right?"

Screw it. All-female Warriors of Light for the bloody win, guys.
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Snow 9
zerrat
January 18th, 2012

Toying sort-of-seriously with the idea of retelling FFI from the perspective of a female Warrior (those sprites look androgynous to me) and I keep reminding myself - remember what happened with Atlamillia?

And then my brain goes, f!Warrior/f!Thief and then I forget how painful Atlamillia actually was and I feel the itch to characterbuild. I mean, the four warriors of light are pretty much as blank slate as you get.

So technically they'd be OCs and I'm all ':/' about that but idek. I can't exactly do this without them.

Might replay FFI soon, if I decide on this. If. Maybe.

Stop it with the ideas already, brain.

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Update 17/1/2012
Snow 9
zerrat
January 17th, 2012
SWHN-8

5249 / 8000 words. 66% done!

Woot. Just did a cooled-off reread of the scenes thus far and I'm reasonably happy with the pacing/thematic composition and overall introspection. Tomorrow is going to be a bumper work day, so I might just go home and pass out instead of writing.

On the Type-0!fic front, shit has gotten dark and I'm not sure if I want to go down the PTSD route. Currently weighing up ways I might be able to be less bloody heavy-handed.
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Writing Report Card for 2011
Lightning (Unspark)
zerrat
January 15th, 2012
...hooray! This might keep me honest. Might. Perhaps. If I can manage something a month, I should be okay. I think.

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Update 4/1/2012
Snow 9
zerrat
January 4th, 2012
SWHN-08

4181 / 8000 words. 52% done!

Cards are down for Lightning, folks. Back to Fang and her gigantic martyr complex and plethora of cognitive distortions. You two are just so much fun in this fic. My god I think I'll need a bloody holiday after this fic is done.

On the Other Project Fronts:

-HTM is like, begging for a plot rewrite. This is what I get from rereading limyaael's old fantasy/scifi rants. Specifically those on mind control tropes. I feel like I'm 16 again, geez (referring to rereading the rants - not HTM).
-Still have a million or so one-shots I want to do. Psychological Warfare, Perfect Destruction on the Dissidia/Duodecim front, a couple of kink meme fills, also some random stuff that's been inspired by the clusterfuck that is FFXIII-2. And some Sice/Seven from Type-0, though I am so hesitant about doing that because I feel like I need a stronger grip on characterization and context.

Fuck. It's really 2012, isn't it?
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Femmeslash BigBang
Snow 9
zerrat
September 29th, 2011
So, over the past few weeks, I've been debating something. That is, whether or not to take part in the femmeslash_bang this year. The challenge is to write a femslash story of at least 20,000 words, of any fandom, and can be multiple fics. It's a way of spreading the f/f love a little, as it's frightfully under-represented.

Either way, I'd really like to do this, but I guess I don't really trust myself to see it through.

Idea 1. Genderbent!Snow. It'd be an odd mix of always-a-girl!Snow and suddenly-a-girl. As in, think that the real Snow got switched with an AU of himself. The other characters would know guy!Snow, but for Snow herself, she's always been that way. It could open up some interesting possibilities (and I admit, I might actually like Snow/Serah better in this case...)

Idea 2. Steph Brown and Cass Cain in the new DC universe. It'd be a first meeting, Spoiler and Black Bat, and play on what reassures me and frustrates me about DC. Because, no matter how they reboot or devolve into Crises... The important stuff, like old friendships, always seem to find a way back. Steph and Cass' friendship is just one of those things.

Idea 3. Actually write the first arc of Offbeat (Fang/Lightning) and stop procrastinating.
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Snow 9
zerrat
September 9th, 2011
  • Thu, 15:27: Feeling jittery. Cold, or something else?
  • Thu, 15:28: Note to self: outline Kain, Cecil and Rosa post-game fic. Angsting on mountains is not cool, and Cecil and Rosa know this
  • Fri, 06:58: Back at work again today. *sigh*
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Snow 9
zerrat
September 6th, 2011
  • Mon, 16:38: Matchmaker!Snow. It needs to be done like, yesterday.
  • Mon, 20:24: ...I could see him going fail!matchmaker on Hope and Maqui, for silly reasons. Also, Fang and Light? Randomly: Vanille and Yuj?
  • Mon, 20:25: K, you asked about crack, and Vanille/Yuj is one of my crack ships there. Totally random but seems to work in my headcanon. XD
  • Mon, 20:25: Also. I just made the best curry meatballs and lentil rice tonight. Was awesome.
  • Mon, 20:27: Now to work on that friending meme...
  • Mon, 20:28: Also to adapt that fanfic writing meme to fit to readers as well as writers. And maybe artists. Trying to be inclusive here.
  • Mon, 20:30: *loves the new ringtone* Chaos Shrine is one of my favorites.
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Snow 9
zerrat
September 4th, 2011
  • Sat, 13:31: I have had like so much caffeine today so far that I'm shaking
  • Sat, 13:31: Missed this feeling so much
  • Sat, 14:32: *has moar coffee to stave off the Down*
  • Sat, 16:26: *craving pasta and writing fang/lightning oneshot*
  • Sat, 22:29: You know, I have no clue what this fang/lightning fic is about. No plan. Probably not the best way to go about this.
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Snow 9
zerrat
September 2nd, 2011
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Snow 9
zerrat
September 1st, 2011
  • Wed, 17:07: One and a half weeks til the rents go away for a month. Can't wait. :3
  • Wed, 21:02: I've been feeling increasingly anxious as the night has gone on. I feel ill, almost. Or that I'm waiting for something. Failing something.
  • Wed, 21:07: Might be the not-interview tomorrow morning. Where I have to do a test. And call in fake-sick in order to get there at all.
  • Wed, 21:07: ...yeah I'd say that's the cause of my anxiety there. D:
  • Wed, 21:08: Hgngh and that fic is still half done. /hates the world
  • Wed, 21:39: Okay, part three done. Considered doing the 5+1 format, but it seems as though the idea won't suit
  • Wed, 21:39: Annnd that I don't have time but whatever.
  • Wed, 21:41: Lol, this reminds ne of the deadlines at uni. Only, you know, I could sleep off the sleep debt fairly easily. Whereas these days I can't.
  • Thu, 09:06: So, half an hour til my test. Nervous as all hell, left home like an hour early since I didn't want to be late
  • Thu, 09:06: Because the road to this place gets gridlocked at school times, meaning it takes far longer than it should.
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Snow 9
zerrat
August 31st, 2011
  • Tue, 21:25: *still on part 2 of 5 for the Five Things contest* Noooo, why is writing so damn hard these days?
  • Tue, 21:26: I knew this would happen when I started this job, anyhow. >_>; Productivity down the goddamn drain. *sigh*
  • Tue, 22:59: Still slogging through that fic. D: I might leave the last half for tomorrow. Why did I have to pick a tough one?
  • Tue, 23:00: ...because it came with a title, I suppose. Titles are a huge weakness of mine
  • Tue, 23:02: Oh, also got my hair cut for the job exam Thursday. /nervous as all fuck
  • Wed, 06:46: Man, there have just been wankstorms after wankstorms over on fanficrants.
  • Wed, 08:56: Luke just brought out a bunch of eskies and deck chairs out.
  • Wed, 08:59: It is now an even greater mystery as to what those guys actually do in the Dungeon, haha.
  • Wed, 09:35: Because it actually looks fun! :3
  • Wed, 10:42: I work with sexist pigs. -_-;
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Snow2
zerrat
July 3rd, 2011
Current Location:
Australia, Victoria, Wendouree
Current Mood:
Weary

Edits for SWHN seem to be going as planned, hope I get the time to sit down tomorrow and finish the work. All going to plan (aka I see no need for major revisions) the next update will be Wednesday/Thursday night.

Admittedly some parts are weak. That's just going to have to be something I have to deal with.

Can you, Tiz?

I think so. Only one way to find out, though, and that's to get up and do it. I keep telling myself that it'll come, but... A little hard work never killed anyone. Hrm.

Plan is:

August 10 - SWHN-8
September 1 - SWHN-9
September 30 - SWHN-10
October 20 - SWHN-11 (end)

And then onto HTM.

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Spiral!Tidus
zerrat
May 29th, 2011
Snow, Writing, Final Fantasy, Dark Cloud, and... TTGL

"Comment to this post saying 'I like cheese!' and I will list five things I associate with you. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your LJ (or just add a reply back at me). Other people (including me~) can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself."

Association questions from lumati

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Oh FF.net...
Snow 9
zerrat
May 9th, 2011
So apparently editing chapters on FF.net are causing whole stories to go down and vanish. O_o;

*represses compulsive editing nature like crazy*
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Snow 9
zerrat
April 28th, 2011
So yesterday, I had a job interview! Feeling alright about it, though there was some things I reckon I mucked up on. If I do get this job, I probably won't be around much during peak times of internetting (why is this even a concern?) and I won't be able to stay up 'til crazy hours writing in a caffeine-fueled frenzy.

But it would be nice to be off the dole. I'd like to get back a little self-respect. >_>;

My laptop crashed last night, just after I'd finished working on SWHN-6. Had to reboot, but I was sick with fear that my flash drive had corrupted and I would lose all that work. The idea of having to write that chapter again would have made me cry.

FORTUNATELY it didn't. But it gave me incentive to back up my writing files. D:

I'm certain I would have ragequitted the story entirely had that happened. At least for a good half year, anyway.

Considering writing a good chunk of the next chapter in Snow's PoV, just to mix it up a little. Maybe two, three scenes, or 5000 words? I really don't want to tread the same ground as last chapter painfulpainfulpainfulneveragain so that might be a good compromise.

Also I should probably note that I am phenomenally bad at smut, so I'm not really sure what I'm going to do there. D:

Anyhow, I need to do something constructive today, that doesn't involve me spending extended time on the laptop. Maybe do the cleaning rounds of the house, the ironing, go to the gym, job apps and then make tacos for tonight.

HOORAY A PLAN. Let's see if I do any of this. :D

PS. OVER NINE THOOOOOOOOOUSAAAAAAAAAAND! For real, now.
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  • zerrat
    breyzyyin
    21 Nov 2013, 15:50
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    Oh, a Saber fic? Awesome! XD

    ~Randomly: it is good to hear from you again! ♥
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    zerrat
    21 Nov 2013, 01:20
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    *highfives* Yeah, might not be soon (I have to finish my Elementary fic first) but it's getting plotted and I'm excited to write it!
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    zerrat
    21 Nov 2013, 01:14
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    Working on it! ;)
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    breyzyyin
    10 Feb 2013, 13:33
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    Haha, you certainly like to keep busy! XD Good luck! ♥
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    zerrat
    9 Feb 2013, 22:15
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    Lol, between tumblr and Skyping with those clowns, it's really a surprise I get anything done myself! I took a self-imposed exile last weekend in order to get Bait and Switch and Tactical Advantage 2…
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