I’m hoping to write more, but for now, I want to share a round-up of of my fills for the threesentenceficathon so far! Plus one fill-fail that I still posted to AO3 separate from the ficathon because I liked it.

In writing/posting order:

• Pokémon (Main Games), Azelf/Darkrai, for the prompt raining down upon the earth


• Pokémon (Main Games), Cyrus/Dawn, for the prompt You're a just ruler / Covered in mud, you look ridiculous [AO3]


• A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of the Fairies, for the prompt service rendered [AO3]


• Pokémon (Main Games), Cyrus/Dawn, for the prompt any protagonist/any evil team leader, Who's gonna tell me the truth, when you blew in with the winds of fate / And told me I reformed you? [AO3]


• Digimon Survive, Ryo & Kunemon, for the prompt how did you survive? [AO3]


• Pokémon (Main Games), Cyrus, for the prompt Cyrus/Dawn, And you've been gone so long, you missed everything / The world can change in a day if you go away [AO3]


• Ace Attorney, Iris/Dahlia, for the prompt I love you but I don't like you [AO3]


• Scum Villain, LBH & System + LBH/SQQ, for the prompt Meng Mo and the System switch mind palaces [AO3]

I meant to write this entry nearly a month ago, but I’m only getting around to it now, oops.

This year, I successfully completed iddyiddybangbang for the first time. This was fairly special to me for multiple reasons! ( self-indulgent musings beneath the cut )

Today, I bring a pair of memes!

► The first is taken from tinkaton:

Title Tag Game Rules: write out any fic titles you have that are based off of lyrics, list what songs they're from, and tag some writers.

In reverse chronological order: ( beneath the cut )

► This next meme isn't taken from any one particular person; I’ve seen all over my flist lately.

Rules: go to your AO3 account and find the following:

( beneath the cut )

Reading: Books-wise, I’m a bit less than halfway through The Burning Stone by Kate Elliot. It is… a project. Oh, and I’m also slowly working through Copper Coins in tandem with the cnovel thread bookclub over at FFA. In terms of manga, I just read the first volume of Lovesick Ellie this morning, which was an absolute delight.
Listening: Still High Rollers: Aerois! I took a break back in December to catch up on Fic Clique, my beloved, but then I went back on the Aerois train, and it’s one of the reasons why I’m making this update now.
Playing: Nothing since my replay of Karma’s route in Cinderella Phenomenon last weekend. Though I did buy a copy of Evermore a couple of days ago, so maybe that soon?
Watching: Mostly just journaling videos on Youtube. I’ve also been slowly, slowly watching Pluto with my brother at the pace of one episode a week and have been enjoying it thoroughly <3
Writing: I think I’ve slowed down on the Three Sentence Ficathon fills, so nothing actively, technically.

I have such a long list of things I want to make entries about (most Snowflake Challenge-related, but not all), which is honestly kind of a delightful problem to have, considering the usual state of affairs! Today, I think I’m going to tackle a general media round-up, starting with that rapidfire version that I sometimes use (seen above), and then talking about all the little media-I’m-consuming-related things that I’ve been wanting to cover.

► It’s been a good long while* since I talked about my progress with High Rollers: Aerois! Like I mentioned above, I’ve reached episode 15, “The Ironwick Mystery”. (as in, I listened to the very first few minutes of part one this morning while doing the dishes).

*I just checked, and apparently the last time I made an update, I was six episodes in. So I’ve literally doubled my episode count since the last time I recorded my ongoing thoughts and reactions!
( spoilers beneath the cut )

► In my last post, I mentioned that there was something I wanted to comment on in regards to Karma’s non-Lucette interpersonal relationships in Cinderella Phenomenon. ( beneath the cut )

► Finally, another update listing my fills for the threesentenceficathon:

• Cinderella Phenomenon, Klaude/Lucette, for the prompt any, any, only bought this dress so you could take it off


• Cinderella Phenomenon, Lucette & Glaceon, for the prompt any non-Pokémon fandom, any, Pokémon trainer AU


• Aladdin, Jafar/Jasmine, for the prompt Aladdin, Jasmine/Jafar, AU where it's mutual

—Which may also be the last one? I’ve definitely slowed down, in any case.

My fic writing year in review for 2023. Another short one, this year. ( beneath the cut )

What the subject line says!

( beneath the cut )

I've seen this meme floating around on my flist, and decided that I wanted to do it as well.

List your top fanfic on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.
( beneath the cut )

► I’ve been (slowly) making my way through Crisis Core. Right now, I’m at the point where( cut for spoilers/length )

► I know I haven’t really been talking about Liar! Uncover the Truth here (mainly because I haven’t had much to say), but I played through the last one standing’s lover’s route about a week ago, and I had thoughts. ( spoilers for the final liars / who the last one standing was )

► I’d been planning on doing the 6th and 7th Uncover the Truth liars’ lover’s routes after I finished with that one, but then Liar! Office Deception decided to celebrate its release with 1) ten tickets per day until 9 June, and 2) a very tempting reward (which, if my eyes did not deceive me, includes Azusa!) if you finished the 6th liar of Office Deception before 15 June, so… I started paying that instead.

I’m finishing up the 3rd liar now, and… I kind of love it? Possibly even more than Uncover the Truth. The main character is a dream. The only downside is that there are three potential liars that I’m already really attached to as people (as opposed to having only one I really loved/hoped wouldn’t turn out to be a terrible person in Uncover the Truth). Hopefully one of them will be the last one standing, and none of them will turn out to have done something unforgivable.

► Some fic I've written since I last did a round-up:

• Concealed [AO3] (Fire Emblem: Awakening, Tharja/f!Robin, 1.1K)
• The Intervention [AO3] (Dragon Friends, Bobby & Freezo & Philge, 1.1K)

► Yesterday, I got the good ending in Mystic Messenger’s April Fool’s Event. ( spoilers )

► I’ve started poking around in the Mystic Messenger fandom, and… it feels very young? Some of it is in ways that are very nostalgia-inducing (people giggling about something being their first fic, or their first try at smut, or other cute-but-naive-sounding comments in the summaries), but others are very...alien to me. ( brief digression/criticism )

The abundance of “baby’s first fic” or “baby’s first fandom” syndrome does mean that the overall fic quality… does leave something to be desired;;; I have found some pieces that I unabashedly like, but overall, most things that I’ve enjoyed, I’ve enjoyed with caveats. On the bright side, this does make me more confident about anything I may contribute to the fandom in the future? ^^;;;;

The fanart, on the other hand, is really great! I’ve actually been poking around on tumblr a bit because of it— mostly just looking up fanart. Here’s some of my favorite pieces:

• comic of the first first Seven phone call in the prologue— probably my favorite thing from this whole batch
• comic of another Seven phone call (from Jaehee’s route, I think)
• Seven tickling the MC
• comic of Seven teaching Yoosung Arabic...in a very Seven-esque way;;;
• various moments from Seven’s route, days 7-8
• mini-comics with MC/all the LIs
• mini-Seven/MC comic, vague spoilers for his route
• Zen & a crossdressing Seven on Tinder
• Seven + constellations portrait
• Seven & a kitty <3

Also, these two text posts are both so true.

► I haven’t been keeping up very well with sharing fic links for the things I’ve written “since my last post”— mainly because all of my last few posts since I last wrote something have been a Mystic Messenger emotions train, and I didn’t want to distract from that.

Links:

• Entomophobia | AO3 Link (Fire Emblem: Awakening, Gaius/Lissa, <1K)
• Of England | AO3 Link (Crossover - Chronicles of Narnia / Lord of the Rings, Susan/Goldberry, 4K)

► Still making my way through all of Yoosung’s Endings in Mystic Messenger. Since my last update, I’ve gotten Bad Ending 01, Bad Ending 02, and the Normal Ending. ( cut for spoilers )

► It’s… already been a few days since Chocolate Box authors were revealed, haha, but I wanted to share what I wrote! I wrote a few fics, but nothing longer than 1K. For Harry Potter, I wrote a Lucius/Narcissa fic and a Tom/Ginny, pre-Harry/Ginny fic. The former was my assignment. I also wrote Emma Woodhouse/Harriet Smith for Jane Austen’s Emma and Lucina/Severa for Fire Emblem: Awakening. (In unrelated news, I now have a new FE:A ship. :P)

► Speaking of which… between writing Fire Emblem: Awakening fic for Chocolate Box and receiving it, I got struck by the urge to replay the game. So that’s what I’m doing now. I’ve just finished Chapter 14. ( cut for spoilers and length )

►My big brother and I have started watching Wolf’s Rain together! God, it’s been ages since I’ve watched this anime— well over a decade, I think. We never finished it— we only knew it through renting a disc or two from Hastings. (I remember it as being only one volume— the first one. My big brother remembers watching the first two volumes. He has the better memory, so I’m tempted to defer to him.)

Speaking of which, I’d forgotten… pretty much everything about it? I remembered that the main characters were wolves, and that their human forms were illusions, and I had very clear memories of them standing on those pipes in the first city talking to one another, and a few bits of memory about how Kiba was re: Cheza, but that was about it. I’d even forgotten about some of the main characters! Kiba and Tsume I remembered pretty decently, but Hige and Toboe kind of blended together for me— I remembered there was a character who was the “youngest”, and I kind of remembered Hige’s character design, so when he showed up I went, “oh, he must be the youngest.”

One thing that strikes me: I remember when I was a kid, I was very focused on the “ooo, pretty boys!” bit, but now I’m very much focused on the fact that they’re wolves and that the human form is just an illusion. I just find it such an interesting concept? And I love the moments where it shows what’s happening underneath the illusion so much. ♥

We just finished up episode 8 tonight, and I’m cautiously intrigued by where this is all going. Post-apocalyptic futures with wolves, yess. ♥