This is one of those fics where I still like the premise, but the execution could use some work. It’s mostly a retelling of the games with a little bit of Skeith’s POV thrown in.
I think if I were to tackle this pairing & subject again, it’d be with a total rewrite instead of a continuation.
Summary: Drinking from the wrong river leaves Sanzo and Hakkai in a rather concerning predicament. It's up to Goku and Gojyo to save the day (if they can get along long enough to do so).
Yet another one-shot collection that never got past one story. Lol. Man. I had a lot of those, but I think this might be the last one? *double checks* Yes! It is. There was one after it, but I renamed it a while ago (the one shot had the same name as the story title, so I just remove the “one shots” part in the summary lol).
I don’t know what to say about this fic. I pretty much forgot that I wrote it, which is kinda funny considering the mpreg plot.
Either way, two more down.
Summary: [A Dog's Life Sequel] The Sanzo Party faced the ultimate hardships and came out victorious, but now they have to get used to life on the road again but now with an extra mouth to feed!
This is what happens when you start a sequel without a plan.
You get one chapter posted and then never update it again. Lol.
Summary: Ryuk takes things into his own hands.
Where do I even start with this one? This is my most popular, hands down, favorited & reviewed fic on FFnet. It still has a good 100 reviews over the next one down on the list (Impromptu Affair, a Batman/Dark Knight fic).
It’s a weird mix of humor and serious topics that blended together into something kinda great? I mostly remember that people loved it & that I had way too much fun with it.
Though my favorite memory of this fic is I updated it after a two year break. Two years passed between chapters nine and ten and I got a ton of reviews after that update.
Heck, I got a review this year on this thing & at least three last year (my favorite marking the 7th Year Anniversary since I last updated lol).
I’ve been tempted to resurrect this thing almost every year.
I might do it yet after I’m done crossposting everything.
I’m still working on crossposting. It’d probably go faster if I wasn’t fixing formatting issues on the old FFnet versions as well. Ha ha ha ha.
Gen Fic, L & Ryuk friendship.
Summary: It always starts with a bored shinigami. What's a world class detective to do with a Death Note?
I distinctly remember this fic because there was a scene in Chapter 5 I thought of first and wanted to write very badly...and after I got to it and wrote it, that’s about when I stopped updating. Lol.
Summary: Zed, Miki & Roya make bread.
Another supposed one-shot collection I edited down to a stand-alone one-shot since that’s all I ever wrote for it. It’s short but cute. Adorable Slice of Life goodness.
Summary: See no Evil. Hear no Evil. Speak no Evil. Do everything you can.
I wrote so much fic for Saiyuki. I forgot just how much there was.
But this fic. After looking it over again I’m amazed I wrote this thing. 3-4k chapters with barely any dialogue. It’s all descriptions and thoughts and it’s...still pretty good.
This was my first time tackling writing characters with disabilities (the plot is that they each are stripped of one of their five senses and have to adapt) and I remember it being a challenge. I’d like to come back to this one at some point if I ever get back into Saiyuki.
Another three down. More to go.
Summary: Kanae loves Saito more than he should.
Hey! A fic written from first person. Wow. I forgot I had any of those.
Generator Gawl is one of my all time favorite anime series and it’s sort of criminal I’ve only written one fic for it. I clearly had intentions to, because this fic (since I posted it in 2006 until today) used to be called “Generate” and was a “One-Shot” Collection. That only had one fic (*whisper* Not much of a collection).
Either way, it is a great little bittersweet piece and I still think it’s pretty good.
You want to know the downfall of slow burn fics? When you don't finish them you never get to the romance you’d been slow burning. Lol. To be fair, I think this was meant to be a Gen Fic but I can pinpoint the moment I changed my mind and wanted it to be (at least one-sided) Count D x Leon. If I were to finish it now, it would definitely have ended with that pairing.
Pet Shop of Horrors was a long time fav series (*hugs her copies of the manga and my one OVA dvd*) and I *adored* Count D and Leon’s relationship.
If I ever sat down and reread the series, I would probably come back and finish this one, old or not.
Summary: Tag Fic. Shinigami’s Wrath, Nimblnymph, GreyLiliy and Redbrunja. The Saiyuki boys are snowed in and bored, what's a team to do but to resort to telling stories?
As I continue moving all my fanfiction over from FFnet to AO3, I'm realizing why I never did this before.
On the bright side, I finally sucked it up & just started renaming One-Shot collections that never got past one story. Lol. I added a note with the original title & intent though, just in case someone goes looking for an old fic and doesn't find it.
Or clicks on what they think is a new fic. Same old.
In other news, my current AO3 Statistics page Word Count is (as of this post) 1,466,154 and I'm not even a third through my FFnet fics.
This turned out so much fun.
Maj, the last of my Trivia Fic winners, wanted BakuDeku as Hades & Persephone and at first it gave me some trouble because pining Kacchan is a subject that escapes me (Deku was requested as Persephone).
I still don’t know how to write pining Kacchan, but Aggressive Deku never lets me down.
#This also turned out longer #than it was supposed to #but whatever. #I doubt anyone cares. Lol.
Bakugou Katsuki x Midoriya Izuku, Sort of.
Summary: A moment of relaxation and play turns to terror when emotions grow too strong and Katsuki can’t stop.
Well, I finally wrote something where I felt kinda obligated to add the "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat" tag.
I have no idea how I feel about this fic. Lol. It was a request and I think it turned out pretty well, but it also reminds me I have no idea how to rate things. It's kinda intense but it's not really that graphic, so I guess "M" is a good fit.
I think this is my first straight up one-on-one death fic, though.
Anyway, long story short: This is one of the side prizes for that Fic Trivia Question thing I did where the winner got a fic request. The requester was Kady and they asked for Katsuki putting his hand down Izuku’s throat and choking him to death.
Summary:Waking up used to bring Shouto dread, but now he looks forward to it every time the sun rises on her beautiful face.
Disaster Bi Momo answered the trivia question first & was the big winner! She asked for some sweet, morning domestic TodoMomo and I have provided.
#TodoMomo #This is so freaking fluffy #I can't believe I wrote it. #Look at it. #So cute.
I really, really need to stop staying up so late.
Or I should say, I need to learn to write down notes & quick plot points instead of staying up to write what's in my head as a finished product while it's still there because despite being happy with what I finish, I need sleep and it's getting to the point it's not worth it.
Summary: Izuku hadn’t been aware that unbidden praise from Kacchan would have such an effect on his composure, but after a compliment or two from Kacchan, he sure knows now! Izuku’s not sure his heart (or self control) can take it if Kacchan keeps being so nice.
I'm in the middle of an E rated sequel to this fic with the same theme, so I figured I should share the original that inspired it all and made me headcanon that Deku has a Praise Kink (I'm not even fond of that trope...I don't know what I'm doing with myself or where this came from...).
I wrote fluff and T-rated Praise Kink.
Enjoy the first part. It’s so weird writing something so fluffy. Lol.
#This is so freaking fluffy for me. #It's a miracle.
While I'm doing all this crossposting, I'm also trying to clean up my old fics on FFnet to make them a little more uniform (using the same system for notes on each page, making sure the line breaks are there since a lot were destroyed when FFnet updated their system a long while back and it removed all the symbols I had been using as line breaks).
And it's made me realize I get bothered by little things & anxiety continues to not be my friend.
Like one-shot collections. I'm staring at the next item on the list and it's a one-shot collection--with one work in it.
Part of me wants to rename it & post it as a proper one-shot, even if it's like 10 years later (I would note that I did it of course, on both AO3 and the original).
But the archival part of my brain is "This is what you first posted it as, this is what it should stay."
The truth is, on FFnet, one-shot collections were a lot easier. I could group everything together nice and neatly in one place.
But on AO3, it's much more advantageous to split them all out into separate works due to tagging. Sort of. Like, I still enjoyed putting "Challenges" together in a single work/story (like when I did Huxloween) since they're related despite the different subjects...up until I remember series exist and would do the same thing but still keep all the one-shots to be neatly labeled with their own appropriate tags.
I'm feeling chatty today. So you get to see the ramble.
Summary: Cho Gonou is dead, but Cho Hakkai lives. Cho Hakkai is a demon.
I think of all the Saiyuki fanfics I've written, this one continues to be my favorite. I spent about a year on it from July 2006 to July 2007 and I'm still happy with it. Some of the writing is still rough, but I remember being adventurous with this one. I had a full supporting cast of original characters as I fleshed out the town they visited, I had some character study with Hakkai & Sanzo, it had a distinct start, middle, and ending--it's just nice to look back on all around.
And it reminds me how much I shipped Hakkai & Sanzo back in the day. Lol. This fic is Gen, but if I'd written it today, there would have been some romance added. In fact, I did sort of head that direction. The (sadly unfinished) direct sequel to this fic I started was going to be the "Get together" portion of the story. Ha ha.
Summary: Goku and Sanzo have a quiet chat in the rain.
The worst flagging system known to man hit everything but what it was intended to target.
That last one ticks me off the most because I saw a literal uptick in Spam Bot followers and fake accounts after the Purge. It's infuriating.
The worst part of all of this is Tumblr already had content filtering. I used it. All the time. The issue with the site wasn't the adult content, it was bots not flagging their posts and having them show up in Safe Mode.
I'm sure that there was an issue with illegal content as well, but that's the thing--it was illegal. You delete just that with an actual team of people who can look at the content for themselves.
But clearly that's too expensive, or something.
I am aware that much of this is a decision really based on ad revenue (not wanting to be near adult content) or their app store status, but it's still grating. They said the adult content would be allowed to stay and now they're taking that back. People are upset and rightfully so.
The end point, is that if Tumblr wants to make money, ads aren't the way to do it. Or at least not ads the way they're using it. All of this really makes me miss Project Wonderful. It was the only Ad distribution & revenue site that I adored because everything was submitted by artists, writers and content creators. I was proud to display ads for all of those things & I bought ads myself. It was great.
And of course there's the subscription model, which Dreamwidth and Deviant Art uses. Here's the thing, Tumblr: If I like your site, I'm happy to pay a little to help keep it running and so others can use it for free.
But I'm not happy with you right now.
I hope you have some common sense and take back the NSFW ban, but I doubt it.
Each post is like it's own little mini forum full of life.
I just read an amazing Hawks/Endeavor series and I was only able to because the Author Orphaned it instead of deleting it.
Every time I see a "This has been deleted. Sorry!" message in my AO3 bookmarks I instantly regret that I didn't keep better notes in my bookmarks to figure out what fic was lost or that I didn't download a copy of it.
"Bad" fics, unfinished fics, great fics that were removed from peer pressure--I feel an ache in my chest every time I see one disappear. It always feels like such a loss to see stories and literature disappear, even if it only had one reader.
I've started to get better about saving copies of fanfics I really love, but there's such a long back log of bookmarks (on AO3 and my old internet browsers) that I'm not sure I'd ever get through all of them. Heh.
Summary: Katsuki came to the Omega Shelter as Kirishima’s moral support. He wasn’t looking for a mate nor licensed to claim a mate from there. It should have been a quick, boring trip.
But then he ran into Deku—someone he hadn’t seen in close to eight years—in that same Shelter for Abused Omega. Walking away alone had never been an option.
I actually had to hunt down the original post I made announcing this one. I couldn't find it for a minute because it'd been buried behind a bunch of other posts.
Also it's insane that I've written (as of this crosspost) 88k for this fic by itself since the end of June. Or that I've updated it nearly consistently.
A/B/O was a mistake. *wheeze* I’ve fallen in the hole and can’t get out.
Long story short I was getting tired of all the angst in Debauchery (I mean, I love it, but even I get burned out on it folks) and want to write something happier. Or at least work on something that has a little more satisfying and uplifting moments anyway.
Enjoy the angst & fluff fest that is this fic.
#I'm going to sleep. #This first chapter is 6k. #It's a monster compared to my usual chapter length. XD #Ha ha ha ha.#Enjoy.
Summary: All for One is a cruel master, but Kurogiri serves him as best as he can—no matter what the circumstances. However, his Master’s latest punishment may push Kurogiri to his limits.
A gift fic for the amazing rothinsel!
She wanted some Kurogiri love (specifically Kurogiri x AfO) and I..ended up not really doing that. This went in it’s own direction, so I technically owe her some love for the actual prompt, but it was fun to play with the characters for a one shot first as a warm up.