joudama scribbling

I feel like writing something short and quick, while I'm in-between doing things at work and need a brain refresh.

So, comment drabbles? I like the last drabble thing I did, so I wanna do that again:

1) Pick one of my fics or drabbles, or any other project you happen to know I am/was doing.

2) Request a future or past scene set in that fic-verse with any characters you want.

3) Wait for me to write 500(+/-) words of said scene.

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1. Past, TTYNKAP, Auntie Qian (non-spoiler) Steady Hands and Quick Little Eyes (LJ)

And for anyone who looked at my page lately and wondered about why there was Korean up there now. >XD It's from this song, my new obsession:

Thagirion 2 is over the 8000 9000 word mark!

I'm two scenes away from being done, and my guess is - and giant caveat; I'm usually off - is that it should finish up at around 10,000-11,000 words. Because I'm wordy. XD;; As it is, I'm having to do exposition dumps like whoa to keep the count down. Ararara...

Thagirion 2 is now nearly 7500 words, and has about three scenes left for me to write. I might add in some filler scenes to break up the repetition, but all in all, it's spitting distance from being done.

:DDD

...I have to clean this weekend (ugh) so I don't think I'll get to work on it that much, but I'm chipping away bit by bit every day.

For perspective, though, the last section of HC (which I'm doing after I get Thag2 done), is 12,000 words. And has a very long way to go.

And lol, I'm making myself work on Thag and HC, even though I just got back from a trip to Korea last week, and all the nifty stuff at the Folk Museum made me want to work on AHIH. It did give me some nice details and such to weave into the story, which I think will help make Chochung feel richer. :D

Thagirion 2 is now at 6,800 words, and 13 of the 16 pages it's clocked in at so far are actually all LINEAR. Go, me! I'm going to try to get up to 7,000 words before calling it a night.

I do worry it's a bit boring and repetitive, though - it's all character development and interaction. ^^;;

Currently chipping away at Thagirion; I just added an OC that might stay, even though I'd planned to not name him and write him out. >XD This always just kind of happens once I name OCs - as soon as they get a name, they get a personality, and then BOOM (just look at Park from A Hope in Hell - he's turning into a major character, and he wasn't even supposed to BE a character.

All because I realized there were pacing/repetition issues and I needed to add some filler scenes. ARGH! XD;;;;

ANd the next chapter is 5,400 words so far. AHAHAHA hooboy. Bets on it hitting 20 pages...?

Currently To-Do list:

Thagirion pt 2 (currently 5,000 words)

Harrow Children 3 (currently 12,000 words)

Not expire from overwork *headdesk*

The next chapter of Thagirion is up to 11 pages now. Go, me!

*death*

It's been a long, rough couple months. Here's to hoping I'll be able to get more writing done this summer.

Just wrote a page and a half of Thagirion in the last hour or so. I'm gonna try to write another half page or so before I let my hand rest up.

Winter is over, and my hand is doing a bit better, so I'm trying to get back into writing.

As a life update thing, things have been pretty rough for me the last few months. Aside from the hand injury, I'd also hurt the illiotibial bands in my legs again walking, which put me in pretty bad shape and in lots of pain, and that BEFORE I fell through a broken grate and screwed up my hand.

A doctor finally realized maaaaaaybe it wasn't normal for someone to sprain, dislocate, and injure ligaments and tendons as easily as I did, and suggested I see a rheumatologist, because I might have a very rare collagen disorder. Between that, needing medicine for a stomach problem, and catching a respiratory infection from hell, this meant I was doing the hospital shuffle all January, and went to five different hospitals (one hospital twice) six times total in a span of six weeks, seeing different doctors each time. One of those hospitals was Kyoto University Hospital, because a specialist I was seeing out where I live told me the collagen disorder they thought I had was so rare they couldn't test for it at a local hospital, and I needed to go to a university hospital. ...and when I went, it turned out their specialist in it moved to Kyushu two years ago, so none of them knew anything really about it, and so I'd have to come back after they did research and contacted him and ARGH. ^^;; It was kinda wild that I knew more about it than the doc I saw, but then, I'd done research out the wazoo in English and Japanese because I needed to know what words and terms might come up, because, oh, hey, foreign language. But anyway, I've been kind of preoccupied with whether or not I have that collagen disorder, and where to go from there. So I haven't really be able to focus enough on writing, or felt up to it, since I've just been tired and in pain for a long time now.

So that's the short version of how my life has been going and why I dropped off the planet; how are y'all?

Still alive!

My hand is healing slowly. I haven't been able to do much writing, since my hand still isn't up to par. But I have been starting up a bit, even though it's frustrating to only be able to write a page or so before my hand craps out. :(

OK, this is my fic master list to end all master lists. Everything as I post it will be linked to from this post. So, yeah. The Almighty Master List. Some things aren't linked yet, because I haven't uploaded them to this journal yet. Meh, I'll get to it one of these days. XD

( FF7 )

( FF12 )

( CLAMP )

( Yami no Matsuei )

( Fullmetal Alchemist )

( Metal Gear Solid )

( Grab bag! )

...ye gods. This is where all my time went, isn't it?

And now, for another Kantan Cooking with Jou!

Strawberries and Marshmallow Toast

Toast one side of bread in a toaster oven.

When it's a tiny bit brown, flip it over, and place marshmallows on it.

Toast until the marshmallows are melty and a little brown.

While this is happening, slice some strawberries in half.

Once the toast is ready, stick the strawberries on the toast, and eat. :9

So lately, I've been on this huge Disney kick, and have been watching Disney songs dubbed into other languages on youtube.

Y'all all know "Hellfire" is one of the most fucked up songs Disney has ever done, right?

Well, the Russian, German, Italian and French versions manage to up the ante.

DDDDD:

The Russian version, containing the line "O witch, what are you waiting for? Decide your hell from now: either come to me, or go to the flames":

( Decide your hell. )

The German version, containing the lines "Forgive the sin that I succumbed to her. Destroy Esmerelda, and let her scream in agony" and "Gypsy, be glad! You can still choose me! Otherwise, you're ablaze." DDDDDD:

( Gypsy, be glad! You can still choose me! )

Italian, containing the line: "Be ready, gypsy. I know that you'll return. I'll wait for you in Hell.":

( I'll wait for you in Hell. )

French, with the lines "Hell stains my flesh with the sin of desire," "Heaven must punish me," "May a curtain of flame be her shroud," and "Be mine or my passion will lead you straight to Hell":

( May a curtain of flame be her shroud. )

Hi! I still exist! And was planning to get some writing done and answer back mail and comments from people this winter break!

( Unfortunately... )

The doc has not said how long my arm is going to be splinted and doing a mummy impression, but my guess is, at least a month (it's been a week and a half so far.) :(

Once I can type again, I'm going to get back to work on Thagirion and Harrow Children. ^^;;

Happy Holidays!

Everything wrong with FF13-2 in one picture:

( Remember all those strong female characters from FF13? Yeah. )

They should have called it "Final Fantasy 13-B." Because everything about this game screams "B-team." B-team writers, B-team characters...ugh.

I'm going to informally do NaNoWriMo this year, and my goal is to finish Harrow Children. ^^;;;

Wish me luck, y'all. I haven't been doing much writing because I haven't had much time, but danggit, I'm gonna try to make some. I need to finish SOMETHING, and HC is so dang close. I also want to go back and finish up more of A Hope in Hell, since I finally have my DVD of the King and the Clown again.

...Don't even ask me about TTYNKAP. The next chapter scares me and I've been avoiding it. Also, I need to get back into Chinese more before I tackle it, and I've been doing so much Korean lately that my Chinese-brain has atrophied. Which is why AHIH has priority over it (plus, I want to write more Park. I really like Park a lot for some reason.)

But first, yeah, I want to write more Zack-Tifa angst. >XD;;; Zack is kind of my new chew toy, and I'm not ready to switch over and make Tifa my chew toy, which I'd need for Thagirion.

( A snippit of me using Zack for a chew toy in HC. XD;;; )

I started poking around on some older fic today, since I figured a Thagirion break might be good. So I worked a bit on the next chapter of Harrow Children and on some of A Hope in Hell.

...Part 3 of Harrow Children is already twenty-nine pages long. But the beginning only has 5 pages before it starts fragmenting into incomplete scenes and thumbnail sketches. The the combined last two parts of A Hope in Hell are 30 pages.

Why can I never write anything short? *sob*

Title: And All Our Yesterdays Have Lighted Fools
Fandom: FF7
'Verse: Harrowverse
Notes: This came from a drabble challenge I did on my livejournal/insanejournal/dreamwidth, and as I wrote it, I realized how important it was to the whole Harrowverse, which is why I'm posting it separately (and slightly expanded and cleaned up, heh). This takes place during the FF7 game timeline, and is pretty much one of those big, pivotal moments.

The original prompt challenge was: "Pick one of my fics or drabbles, or any other project you happen to know I am/was doing. Request a future or past scene set in that fic-verse with any characters you want." This specific request was "Harrow Children, past, Zack, Aerith, Sephiroth."

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( Out, out, brief candle. )

Ahahaha, I just split the next section of Thagirion into two chapters.

Realistically, it was the only way to do it so I didn't a) have to truncate a LOT of things or b) end up with one mammothly and disproportionately long middle chapter.

So what was "What is Inside" is now "That Desolate, Arid Place" and "What is Inside."

Ahahaha, why must I plot so much?! ;_;

Yoinked from raisedbymoogles
1) Pick one of my fics or drabbles, or any other project you happen to know I am/was doing.

2) Request a future or past scene set in that fic-verse with any characters you want.

3) Wait for me to write 500(+/-) words of said scene.

Drabbles!
1. "Where One's Responsibilities Lie," future, Vincent finally settles on a name for his pet chocobo. - What You Are
2. ShinraMart, past, Sephiroth, Genesis. - Everything He Hates (LJ)
3. Harrow Children, past, Zack, Aerith, Sephiroth. - And All Our Words Have Lighted Fools (LJ)