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Fri, Feb. 26th, 2010, 03:22 pm
Nominated
(cross posted everywhere)Turns out that my RyoSaku story, February 14, got nominated to participate in a fanfiction contest. (Surprised? Me too. I didn't even know there was such a contest, lol). It's called the Universal Fanfiction Open.
There's a ton of other anime categories aside from POT, and there's quite a bit of POT fics to read and vote for, too. If you enjoyed February 14, and if you care enough to vote, mosey on down to http://www.dotmoon.net/awards/awards_archive.php?year=2009 and check it out. Voting starts March 1, 2010. =)
Note: long and confusing
Well, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles ended. When the series first started, I really liked it. I like Syaoran and Sakura, and the art was great (besides, the anime soundtrack was gorgeous). Also, the premise of Sakura not being able to remember Syaoran, even if he retrieved all of her other memories, really struck a chord in me. How sad, to go through all this crap, and the person you love most in the world will never remember you. So much heartache. I love stuff like that!
(Image purloined from http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-94518/tsubasa-reservoir-chronicle-couples/)
Turns out it didn't go the way I wanted it to, so I stopped following it. Also, it's so damn convoluted and confusing. I don't want to think so hard when I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself, yanno? But it ended, so of course I had to read the last chappie. And now I'm not sure what to make of it.
Since I skipped most of middle to latter half and just read a few chappies here and there, a lot of the significance of the ending is beyond me. I've stalked a few forums and wiki-ed it to understand it better, but even the faithful followers are confused. Oh man. If they don't get it, what hope is there for a casual reader like me?
The ending has been stuck in my head for three days now. THREE days! At first I thought it was crappy, then I thought it was good, then crappy again. I keep vacillating. I want to discuss it with someone so I can finally get it out of my head. Do any of you guys follow Tsubasa? Lemme know!
This is my understanding. Cut for spoilers. Oh, and warning for language, I guess. Not that bad, though.
( Read more... )
Can you see why it's been in my head for three days? Arghhhhh!
Mon, Aug. 17th, 2009, 10:28 am
Impostor alert
I completely forgot that I have a lj too. Well, here's a belated cross post (from my xanga account):
Well, what do you know? There's a horrible little person out there on ff.n impersonating me! I thought I saw it all, what with ppl stealing my ideas and plagiarizing me, but now there's someone leaving nasty little reviews and signing them w/ my name.
I always log in when I review. I never review anonymously. I put a lot of effort into the reviews I write (since I normally dish out constructive criticism too), and I like having a history of reviews in my account. I also never write nasty, hurtful reviews! I'm pretty sure anyone who knows me can vouch for that.
I can't believe someone is trying to sully my good name like this. I'm not particularly outraged (maybe because it hasn't totally sunk in yet). I'm more like struck dumb. Who would do this?
If you happen to see a review by a 'Cinpii' that wasn't logged in, please let me know. I want to keep track of this. Geez, I can't believe $^*# like this actually happens. *shakes head*
Thu, Feb. 19th, 2009, 03:13 pm
February 14
Notes: fandom post. Only interesting if you actually read my fics. And then only interesting if you can stand my inane blather.
On V-day, I posted my latest RyoSaku fic, February 14. I admit, I'm a total review whore. I love reviews! I can't help it. I tell myself that it shouldn't matter, but I still can't suppress the glee I get whenever I receive one. The longer and more in depth the review, the happier I get. What did you like? What could I have improved on? I live for this stuff. I'm always trying to improve, so reviews that are especially thoughtful are like gold to me.
Like I said in previous posts, this fic was two years in the making. That's really nothing compared to some of the other stories I have on my hard drive or have posted, but still. I don't know why I have to let ideas stew for so long before I finally hammer them out. When it came down to it, the majority of Feb 14 was written in two months time (this past Dec and Jan). Sure, some of it was written two years ago, but why couldn't I have written the entire fic two years ago too? Why does it take me so long? Why am I slow in everything? *sigh*
Anyways, minna who are interested can read it at my ff.n account. A lot of love was poured into it, and I hope it shows. My only regret is that the overall impact isn't as strong as I would have liked. When you break the story down into its parts, it is really sweet. Overall though, not so much. It's hard to explain. It's sort of like when you apply products with SPF. Putting on sunblock with SPF 15 and then a foundation with SPF 15 doesn't mean you get a total SPF of 30. You only get the average of the two. I don't think I explained it very well, but this story is like that. Since I put so many sweet moments in there, their individual sweetness doesn't stand out. It just blends in. *head thunk*
Maybe it's just me. I've read it so many times that it doesn't have the same oomph it did as when I was writing it. Maybe with fresh eyes, each of the moments are just as sweet as I had originally intended them to be. It's not like I can unread it, so I guess I'll never know. I am happy with it though. I wouldn't have posted it otherwise.
Title: February 14
Genre: Friendship/Romance
Rating: PG
Summary: [Ryoma x Sakuno. Non-yaoi. Sequel to December 24 and January 14.] No one ever said it was easy being Ryoma's friend. This was a fact that Sakuno could attest to, trapped by the boy she liked but who was completely oblivious to her feelings...
I'm currently working on March 14. No idea if it will be finished in time for next month or not. With the way things are going right now, it doesn't seem likely. I have a vague start and I know what I want to happen, but it's still very much in its infant stage. Suggestions are welcome!
Fri, Jan. 30th, 2009, 02:37 pm
Milestones
Note: Boring, boring, post. Unless you actually read my fics. Then it will only be mildly interesting.
I have a work conference in SF all of next week that I am totally not looking forward to. Since I've done it before, I'm much less apprehensive about it now. Before, going there alone was nerve wracking. Now, not so much. Granted, it will be somewhat fun being on my own, but SF is just too bitterly cold for me to get much enjoyment from being there. Besides, my last work conference ended up w/ me getting royally sick AND getting fed the worst wonton soup in history. Honestly, if the wontons are freezer burned and still icy on the inside, how can you serve that???
*breathe* Enough ranting though. Onto happier things. And what's that, you ask?
I'm writing again!
Well, at least on the fics that interest me the most (and no, it's not Solitude, so don't hold your breath. Even though it's my most popular fic, I find my other series much more interesting. I'm sorry, I can't help it). You may think that the last time I wrote was back in October, but I finished Practically Speaking back in July, so my hiatus was more like half a year. *sweat drop*
Anyways, whenever Christmas rolls around, I think of December 24, which was a fic I wrote about Ryoma's birthday. Back when I was putting on the finishing touches during the editing phase, I had the stupidly ambitious idea of continuing it. Stupid because I didn't have much in the way of ideas. All I knew was that I wanted to explore RyoSaku's friendship, and show how it would gradually evolve into something more. Ambitious because it would be a four part series, all centering on special dates. (Sakuno's birthday on January 14, then Valentine's Day and then White Day).
Somehow, I was able to whip out January 14, but for the life of me, I couldn't come up with much for the next fic. What would RyoSaku do on Valentine's Day? So I just let it sit and hoped that I would have something come the next V-day. Well, that didn't happen. Then Christmas rolled around again, and I realized that I didn't want two years to slip by and have nothing to show for it. I would force myself to write it, damnit!
Surprisingly, each time I worked on it, it got long and longer, and now it's the longest, finished, RyoSaku oneshot I've ever written. Amazing. I don't know if it's because I had all these ideas and I just needed to get it down, or if it had to do w/ me not writing in such a long time and I just had more to say, but I'm thrilled regardless. For the last few years, just having a fic hit 700 words was extremely hard for me, but this fic is almost 5,000. So yah, this is a big thing for me.
Not only that, but this is the first fic I've written where I'm done before the deadline. I am one of those types that barely make it, and am still working on the fic until the very end. I've always been like that. Not so w/ this one. And since it's never happened before, I now have the torture of waiting weeks until I can post it. Ahhh! I want to share it already, damnit. But no, it has to be posted on the correct date. So I'll suck it up.
But! If you wanna see what I got and give me some input/constructive criticism, I sure wouldn't mind emailing it to you. I'll just consider it part of the editing process, instead of cheating. =D
I wasn't going to blog anymore this year, but this was just too whimsical and amusing to pass up. So imagine, there Cin is, in her jammies, eating Baskin Robbins choco ice cream straight from the container, checking her email, when she gets this link to the quiz: How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?
It's so zany and out there, of course she had to click on it.
My original score was 13 kids, but I realized that I do have experience in fighting off swarms. I've played Zelda, and any Zelda vet knows that if you whack a chicken enough times, you get Revenge of the Chickens, where they'll peck you to death, swarm-style. So then my score became 16. Haha, kiddies! Lick my feet! Okay, I was just kidding there.
It's a fun quiz, so feel free to try your hand and then share your score. Just make sure to answer the questions honestly, 'kay? =D And btw, at the end, you don't need to sign up for your score. Just click on the small red link under the big orange sign up button to by pass that. Easy smeazy.
Begin!
So the results of the RyoSaku LiveJournal fanart/fanfic contest I joined way, way back in May are out. Minna who are curious can go here to see who won which award. I myself won Best Kiss, lol. 
(Many thanks to Ames for creating the banner!)
It’s been a long, long time since I last wrote something, so I’m happy to have won an award. When I first got my prompt, I was so jazzed about it. I wrote the ending for it right away. Then the beginning. And then I was stuck. The minimum word length for a contest submission was 1500 words, and I only had like, 700 at the time. It wasn't until the last moment when I thought up what to put in the middle. That’s me, writer procrastinator extraordinaire. I blame my muse. *kicks muse* I posted the story over at ff.n, so if you’d like to read it, go here. Title: Practically Speaking
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: M for mature
Summary: [Ryoma x Sakuno. Non-yaoi.] Rinko wants grandchildren. Ryoma acquiesces. We all know what this means... Sakuno won't know what hit her. Please note the rating! Let me just reiterate the last sentence. Please note the rating! And if you’re related to me, don’t read it. It’ll prolly burn your eyes or something.
It's been crazy busy at work lately. It's just busy at this time of year, period, but my coworker was MIA for a month, so I'm backlogged more than usual. I wanted to blog and tell minna that it was nomination time for the RyoSaku fanfic/fanart contest I participated in. That time has come and gone though. Then it was voting time, and I wanted to blog about that too...
Yah, that didn't happen. The voting poll closed yesterday. Now I'm just waiting for the unveiling of the winners. Since it was an anonymous contest, I'm jumping up and down to see exactly who wrote what. I have my guesses, but still, they're just guesses, and not even very good ones at that. There were a few fics that definitely had my respect. I can't wait to see who wrote them, so I can hunt down the writer and read the rest of her stuff. ^o^ I haven't read good RyoSaku fics in what feels like ages. C'mon already! Let the unveiling begin!
In the meanwhile, those who are curious can go here for the list of nominees. There are some really good fics there, so I was pleasantly surprised to be nominated as well. I don't know, it's just been so long since I've written something. To be commended on my most recent endeavor is really nice.
Bonus points if you can correctly guess which fic is mine before it's all revealed. Which could be... today. Woohoo! Most likely not though, so read on, minna!
RyoSaku L. Squad Productions is at a different domain for the time being. Sorry for the hassle. It'll be back up at www.cinpii.com/ryosaku in a few short months. In the meanwhile, you can find the site at
http://cinpii.technibin.com/ryosaku/
Calling all writers and artists out there! There is a RyoSaku Fanfic / Fanart Exchange & Contest going on at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) _ryosaku. Anyone can join, you don't need to be a member to participate. We only ask that if you do participate, that you actually honor your promise (aka, don't flake out on us). Since it's an exchange, you basically write/draw what another participant wants, and in exchange, you get what you want in return. And since it's also a contest w/ prizes, entries are anonymous. Interesting, ne? So if you think you'd like to join, head on over to http://community.livejournal.com/_ryosaku/31410.html for the official details. I am not a moderator for the exchange/contest, I'm just pimping it out. So yes, that means that if you participate, you have a decent chance of receiving a tailor written RyoSaku fic penned by yours truly. Cool, right? *winks* Hop to it, minna! If you want to join, you only have a few days to do it! Schedule: Sign ups: May 7, 2008 - May 17, 2008
Picking the Prompts: May 19, 2008 - May 31, 2008
Fics/Arts due: July 31, 2008 (That will give us all 2 months to get the projects done)
Posting Begins: August 4, 2008
Awards: September 2008
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