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Hi, I'm BORED STUPID. I can't manage being upright for more than an hour at a stretch before I go "...lying down now" (yay, side effects) and need to be distracted, especially since the Magic 5% of common sense that saves me from being a complete idiot is telling me I need to stay home tomorrow (I went out to buy groceries, and it was a MISTAKE; I should have ordered another pizza and had the food come to me).

So! Because I can't manage anything that requires "upright" and all of my big fic projects require more thinking than me headachey brain (yay, side effects) can manage but I'm also, yeah, BORED STUPID, one comment drabbles! (I have a laptop, which is why I'm online at all--it goes into the bed with me. :D )

Give me a prompt and I'll write a one-comment drabble.* Any fandom or 'verse I've written for is OK (I'll even entertain crossovers XD ). It will ONLY be one comment, though, even if I have to beat it with a stick.

So, yeah. Give me something to amuse myself with. I will also cheerfully accept drabbles people write for me, because yeah, I am down for the count.

* Until I get tired and have to stop. Which may be at any moment.

ETA:

Drabble One: Love Advice (FF7, TTYNKAP: Jie, Reno, Auntie Qian. Prompt: First heartbreak from love and Auntie Qian dispenses her advice on the matter) [LJ]

Drabble Two: Sage Advice (FF7:CC, Sephiroth and Genesis. Prompt: Boots, "keep them on".) [LJ]

Drabble Three: Accessory Advice (FF7: Tifa and Aerith. Prompt: Aeris and Tifa discuss Cloud.)

Drabble Four: General Advice (FF7, Puppyverse: Cloud and Sephiroth. Prompt: Seph helping Cloud out so he can get into SOLDIER) [LJ]

Drabble Five: Naming Advice (FF12/KH: Cid and Balthier. Prompt: the best way to name airships.)

Drabble Six: Play Advice (FF7, HC!verse: Zack and Marlene. Prompt: Zack is a big dork who plays Power Rangers.)

Drabble Seven: Health Advice (FF7:CC: Zack and Sephiroth. Prompt: Recuperation)

Drabble Eight: Life Advice (FF7, Puppyverse: Sephiroth, Zack, and Cloud. Prompt: Zack decides that he and Cloud need to take Sephiroth out to do something normal, possibly without actually informing either of them before hand.)

Title: The Things You Never Knew About People - Roadtrip, pt 2
Status: 9/12 (plus two epilogues)
Fandom: FF7
Rating: PG
Summary: Oh, I just told them to fuck their moms.
A/N: This was too long to be one post, oh man.

Part One

( Roadtrip, pt 2 )

Title: The Things You Never Knew About People - Roadtrip
Status: 9/12 (plus two epilogues)
Fandom: FF7
Rating: PG
Word count: 14700-ish
Summary: Oh, I just told them to fuck their moms.
A/N: Look at me; I'm making up shit on the Wutai continent! XD Also, "Visgradian (Standard)" is English (I went back to edit the earlier chapters to retcon that in)--as I'm doing more with Gaia, I'm filling in pieces of things, like the way I've shamelessly made up stuff on Wutai. One of those things was naming the continents on Gaia, and Visgrad is the continent that Midgar is on. It comes from a mix of "Asgard" and "Visgrid," the plain where the battle before Ragnorak occurs. :D I won't touch much on it in this fic, but it has and will show up in other series and stories that I'm working on now--internal consistency FTW.

As for Wutai, here's what I made up for this fic, and it's also internal canon for all my fic. :D There are five provinces in Wutai, thus the 'Wu' in 'Wutai'--it's 'five' in Chinese (and I spent a LOT of time on the Chinese wiki, yo). The 'wu' in 'wuzi', however, is a different 'wu' character, and it's like 'hanzi', where the 'han' refers to the Han Chinese. The 'wu' refers to the Wu people. Also, the 'wu' for the Wu clan is a different character. Don't think about it too hard. >XD;; But the big thing for this fic is the locations. I researched, yo. I'm not gonna spill out everything, but any of y'all interested, you can either wait for the Author's Notes Ultimania on names, which will come out when chapter 10 is done...or do a search on Diyu and Taohuayuan (Táohūayuán). :D

Oh, and I'd advise going back and reading chapter 7, just because this takes off right where Chapter 7 ended.

...oh, god, now I have to write chapter ten. D:

( Chapter 9 - Roadtrip, part 1 )

Part 2

It does, yo.

But luckily, I cross-post, so yay, cut and paste!


*death*

Because I am bound and determined to finish the next chapter of TTYNKAP soon and I've been all "Music!!" since I got a new iPod...

I'd been wanting to do this for a while, but couldn't because of computer issues, but now everything is happy and shiny and I have music again and I'm working a bit on TTYKNAP every day now, upload hoooo~!

( Soundtrack here! )

I haven't been in the mood to write fic much lately, because I think I killed myself doing kinkfest, and my fic-brain needed a rest. Plus, I've been stuck with some small details of TTYNKAP for a while (like, names and stuff) and I needed to plot out some history and other such things before I could proceed. So I started working on the Author's Notes to TTYNKAP, because I figure, everything going into this fic ought to get explained. LOL, I want my hard word acknowledged, dammit. XD

A lot of what I've written is spoiler, which is why I'm posting the AN in pieces/subsections: only when something is no longer spoiler will I be explaining it. So I'm sitting on a bunch of them, and will be until after chapter 10 (that chapter is going to be the biggie. Oh my.) Some will have to wait until after the fic is done. *g* But as long as they were getting, I figured in pieces was better than dumping it on you all at once.

So, without further ado, the first of the author's notes, and this is due to change at any moment just because I might figure something out later (translation, I welcome your thoughts.) :D

( The Geography and Brief History of Wutai, aka 'Why the hell does Midgar have signs in characters?' )

Nope, this is not the post with the notes. Why? Because right now, it is full of massive spoilers. Rather, this is going to be the masterlist, because it's getting to be too long for people to really want to read at one sitting, and I think it'd work better as separate posts. Especially since some stuff I can post and have it not be spoilery, and I can post notes after some chapters to give background.

Also, I think entirely too much. Because holy hell, the length of these notes. *death*

Joudama Explains It All: TTYNKAP edition

I. The Naming of Cats Things is a Serious Matter
II. Light and Shadow: the 'lost' scenes
III. A Brief History of Gaia: Wutai
IV: The World of the Wutai Clans, aka "'Don Corneo'?! The hell?!"
V: The Psychology of Reno, aka "Not Your Average Thug"

I can go ahead and post part three now, if any one is interested--it's actually completely non-spoiler. Imagine that. >XD

Title: Gong zuo [Get A Job]
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: R for language
Notes: I found a site that had some examples from a book in China called "100 Things Parents Should NOT to Say to Their Kids," and once I stopped cracking up, promptly stole the best lines for Jie's mom to say, because YES. >XD Part of why I was laughing so hard was because I could see her saying every single one of them, especially, "Don't worry. No one saw us."

...God, I love Jie's mom. I make no bones about this. Of all the OC's I've ever created for anything, she is, by far and hands down, my favorite. I love her in all her surly, sullen, short-tempered, bad-parent glory.

Also, "Tsai" is romanized in pinyin as "Cai," but all the people with that name I know go by "Tsai," and so "Cai" looks funny to me. So, yeah. But then, "Tseng" should be "Ceng," so hey. Precedent!

Status: 8/14 (including epilogue in two parts)
Summary: It was never a good sign, when she stopped hitting and started smiling.
Master link to all previous chapters

( Di ba hua - Gong zuo [Chapter eight: get a job] )

Chapter 9: Roadtrip | TTYKNAP master list

All the drabbles I've done lately, all conveniently in one place.

I still want to write more, though--I've been feeling a bit drabble-ish lately. Whee!

For cephy:
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Prompt: "Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"

( But We Have Sharp Teeth )

Fandom: FF7
Prompt: Reno and coffee

( Wanna Cup? )

Writen for cephy, then ported over to finalfanasy100:
Fandom: FF7
Prompt: First Meeting

( What That Guy Needs. )

For ciceqi, originally posted on her journal (but edited and renamed here)
Fandom: FF7

( Scheherazade )

From lj:
For twins_eternal:
Fandom: FF7, TTYNKAPverse
Prompt: Reno + a member of Avalanche (preferably Yuffie), who finds out he can speak Wutai, or that he knows someone who's Wutai.

( What's In a Name? )

Title: Serious
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: R for bad language and violence (it's the Turks, yo)
Notes: Yeah, so, don't expect the next chapter to be out this quick--vacation is over and I'm back in school full-time, plus working, plus looking for a job before my visa expires. Yay! *death* I'm not going to have time to write seriously until the end of March, if I'm lucky, but I promise I'll keep plugging away bit by bit when I have any free time at all. But, um, yeah. Things go back to a trickle for a bit. Yeah. ^^;; Sorry!
Status: 7/14 - Halfway done!
Summary: You could tell, the exact moment when Reno got serious.

( Chapter 7 - Serious )

Chapter 8: Get A Job | TTYKNAP master list

Yay, the masterlist for all the chapters in The Things You Never Knew About People.

Title: The Things You Never Knew About People
Fandom: Final Fantasy 7, Turkfic [Reno backstory]
Fic Summary: You'd be amazed, really, the things you never knew about people.

1 - Flawless
Elena likes horror flicks, Rude has a sweet tooth, and Reno, well, Reno is a rather cunning linguist.
status: complete; 2,044 words

2 - 笨蛋 Ben dan [Stupid Egg]
In the end, the first words they figured out together were "stupid" and "ben dan."
status: complete; 803 words

3 - Half
He was surprised to learn he didn't know half so much as he thought.
status: complete; 1,834 words

4 - 花炮 Hua pao [Things That Go Boom]
Reno really likes things that go boom.
status: complete; 8,739 words

5 - Orders
Orders are orders.
status: complete; 4,306 words

6 - 注音 Zhu yin [Bopomofo]
His stupid is infecting the other!
status: complete; 5,870 words

7 - Serious
You could tell, the exact moment when Reno got serious.
status: complete; 10,208 words

8 - 工作 Gong zuo [Get A Job]
It was never a good sign, when she stopped hitting and started smiling.
status: complete; 10,106 words

9 - Roadtrip
Oh, I just told them to fuck their moms.
status: complete; 14,635 words

10 - 失去 Shi qu [Losing It All]
You're gonna have to start calling me 'ge-ge.'
status: *fingers in ears LALALA I CANT HEAR YOU LALALA*

11 - Revenge
Sometimes, it's personal.
status: in progress

12 - 潛龍 Qian long [The Hidden Dragon]
Not everyone has ShinRa backing, and bullets are expensive.
status: editing

Epilogue - Noodles
He had no high hopes for Reno's idea of "cooking."
status: complete, but y'all aren't seeing it any time soon. XD

尾聲 Weisheng - 回來 Hui lai [Going Back]
He had to go and be a nosy bastard.
status: in progress


Omake!

Weaknesses - The drabble that inadvertently started this whole thing. I wrote it as a drabble for writerzilch, and later we were chatting about it, and about what other things that you never knew about the Turks, and it was all downhill from there. XD
The Things That Never Happened to People - Pretty much like the name implies, five things that never happened, but if they had, would have changed the course of things completely.
The Author's Notes - In which joudama proves herself an anal-retentive nerd of the highest caliber.

Title: Zhu yin [bopomofo]
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: PG-13 for language
Notes: As with the last flashback chapter, Wutai dialogue is in italics. Likewise, there are some grammar mistakes; those are intentional because Jie and Reno are still in the process of learning their respective second languages, and speaking from experience, when you're upset or nervous, your skillz go to shit. Yeah. XD Oh, and remember the joke from before, motorcycles are stupid because they say "ben" [stupid] >XD

Also, according to the timelines I looked up online, around now is when the war with Wutai is starting. It's important to know, but not something easy to work into the story, since this is done from Reno's POV, and Reno is only about ten--he just doesn't think about the fact that a war is happening, because he's ten and a slum kid, so it has no real bearing, yet, on his life. Yet.

And! Bopomofo does actually exist; it's a system used in Taiwan for teaching little kids Mandarin, and used before they start learning characters. If your comp can see it, the "Wutai" chapter name under the cut has the bopomofo under it, above the romanization. See why Reno had no idea what to make of romanized Wutai?

Status: 6/12 (plus epilogue in two parts)
Summary: Jie's mom really owed him big for this.

( Di liu hua - Zhu yin [Chapter six: Bopomofo] )

Chapter 7: Serious | TTYKNAP master list

Title: Orders
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: R for bad language
Notes: *d00d*, I had fun with this chapter. >XD
Status: 5/12 (plus epilogue in two parts)
Summary: Orders are orders.

( Chapter Five - Orders )

Chapter 6: Bopomofo | TTYKNAP master list

Title: Hua pao [things that go boom]
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: PG-13 for language
Notes: So, Reno is in the process of learning Wutai at this point. Being in the process, he doesn't understand everything. To show this, along with all the language switching, all dialogue in Wutai will be in italics. When Reno doesn't understand, since this is Reno-POV, the words he doesn't understand will be in unitalicized "Wutai". Ie: "I xihuan blow shit up." So the italics, Reno understands, the non-italicized, he doesn't. OK? (And please to be excusing any language goofs I made) ...and yes, I am a language geek. Heh. ^^;; Inversely? Jie is learning Standard (English). Sometimes he can't manage it. When he gives up and says something in Wutai it the middle of a sentence, it'll be italicized. If Reno knows the word, it'll be translated into English; if no, it'll be in Wutai.

With one exception, where I'm leaving something in Wutai that Reno understands in Wutai. Basically, the joke doesn't translate otherwise. All you need to remember is ben means "stupid." >XD

Reno's name in the Chinese version of FF7 is "Lei Nuo," and Jie's mom, unable to really get a good grasp on his name due to extreme lack of Standard ability at this point, calls him by that. And speaking of, the English "translations" of the Chinese chapter names are by no means exact. I'm just playing around with them because I can. XD


...Also, OMFG, 22 pages. WTFBBQ.

Status: 4/12 (plus epilogue in two parts)
Summary: Reno really likes things that go boom.

( Di si hua - Hua pao [Chapter four: Things That Go Boom] )

Chapter 5: Orders | TTYKNAP master list

Title: Half
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: PG-13 for language
Status: 3/12 (plus epilogue in two parts)
Summary: He was surprised to learn he didn't know half so much as he thought.


( Chapter 3: Half )

Chapter 4: Things That Go Boom | TTYKNAP master list

Title: The Things You Never Knew About People
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: PG-13 for language, even though the main charas aren't that old yet. >XDDD
Notes: "Ben dan" is pronounced like "bun dahn," only, you know, not. ^^; And Reno's name in the Chinese version of FF7 is 雷諾, Lei Nuo, which will get used from time to time.
Status: 2/12 (plus epilogue in two parts)
Summary: In the end, the first words they figured out together were "stupid" and "ben dan."

( Di er hua: Ben dan [Chapter 2: Stupid Egg] )

Chapter 3: Half | TTYKNAP master list

Title: The Things You Never Knew About People
Author: joudama
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: PG for language
Status: 1/12 (14 if you consider the epilogue in two parts)
Fic Summary: You'd be amazed, the things you never knew about people.
Chapter Summary: Elena likes horror flicks, Rude has a sweet tooth, and Reno, well, Reno is a cunning linguist.

( Chapter 1: Flawless )

Chapter 2: Stupid Egg | TTYKNAP master list