Fading Lights

Earlier today I read the end of A Charmed Guide, wildforce71's lovely Power Rangers Samurai/Charmed crossover. The end filled me with fluffy feelings and turned into a comment conversation. ( Spoilers! )

Somehow this turned into pondering how the Samurai bloodlines would continue if the Samurai Rangers inter-marry. Like, do they have to have two children each to make sure that there's one for each element? What if they have an odd number of children? Does that mean the kid gets whatever element they affiliate with, and the other parent's bloodline is screwed? Does the kid somehow get both? How does that work?

From here my thoughts degraded into picturing Antonio and Jayden talking about kids. And since in My Little Corner of the Fandom(TM) not only can two men have genetically-created babies together, but Triforia has had the technology for male pregnancy for ages, I started thinking of Antonio explaining this. And the look on Jayden's face when he does.

And now I'm trying to decide which one of them would be the one to carry the baby. And possibly considering actually writing this scene. And maybe even about one of them actually being pregnant.

.....

Can I blame wildforce71?

Today's main thoughts:

I miss you.

Happy birthday, Kim. I love you. ♥

Found this on Fanfic Flamingo today:



And now it occurs to me ... *does* the PR fandom have a Hogwarts AU? o.O I know we've got Harry Potter crossovers, but ... I don't recall seeing one anywhere. Of if we do, it wasn't worth noting.

Anyone have one to share? Or suggestions for/desire to make one?

I ... have a problem.

I mean, I kind of knew I did, but I'm getting exasperated with myself now.

( Cue writer/fangirl whining. )

I dunno. I guess I just feel like I'm in danger of going over the top? And that's probably a bad thing, and I feel like someone should talk me out of it? x.x

( Meme snagged from sailorsol, because I need destractions like WOAH. )

I'm debating claiming a couple of prompts for queer_fest. There's a couple of Power Rangers and Harry Potter prompts that interest me, and one for Fullmetal Alchemist. -Grins at starlit_purple- Point of fact, there's one for PR that's already in my plans for the future of Promises, so I keep eyeing it. Still not entirely sure if I will, though. I'm waiting to talk myself into it or be talked into it by someone else.

Also, rivulet027 and her Love Bingo Card have reminded me that I desperately want someone to make me Antonio/Jayden videos to Tonight I love You, by the Latency (my theme for them ♥), and the Boyce Avenue version of Teenage Dream. (RevolutionChick made a *gorgeous* Tommmy/Kimberly version of it. ♥)

In the meantime, I'm off to watch Megaforce because it has more Troy. And I'm falling in love with him. And may be plotting fic about him being secretly from Mirinoi, because I can.

This article is pretty much everything I've ever thought about being part of a fandom, and why I love fandom in general. ♥

Two Decades in Fandom: A Non-BNF Old-Timer’s Ranting Advice for the General Fan

I actually managed to write something for Bright Skies! ... But then I couldn't make it fit. -_-;;; My only prompts left are Birthday and Holiday, which I *technically* already wrote for, but I don't think they fit with the way the story is now. I'll still keep them as side stories, but I'm trying to get the ending to flow better. Which lead me to re-reading and editing.

Don't worry, it's not a full re-write. (I promise!) I'm just trying to fix minor typos and things that I've noticed, and breaking up the chapters that really should have been made into two separate ones. A lot of them are already fixed on the Archive of Our Own version, but I wanted to fix/edit the Fanfiction.net version, too. Which lead into the debate of whether I should fix what I've posted on LiveJournal, and exactly how I should go about it.

So I made a poll! (Which unfortunately can only be found at LiveJournal, because I don't have a paid Dreamwidth account. -Sulks-)

Can you believe I first posted Bright Skies in March of 2008? I had it almost finished by December of the same year, except for the last couple chapters. I've been trying to end this damn thing for *four years*. x.x

Then after two days of glaring and swearing at Bright Skies, I decided to finally get off my butt and finish my master post for all my fanfics. Obviously this isn't it. I changed my LiveJournal layout too, 'cause I was getting bored with it.

Going through old entries was a bit depressing, especially over the past year. A lot's changed - not all of it bad, but not all of it good, either. I know it's the past, and all I can do is move forward from here, but it still left me a little sad.

( Especially reading comments from psyco_chick32. )

Ironically somewhere between sorting old journal entries and editing Bright Skies and ADSoR, I found this vid.

At first it made me think of the beginning of Bright Skies, but it sort of fits how I'm feeling at the moment, too. The vid itself is gorgeous, but probably won't make any sense to anyone who hasn't seen/knows Final Fantasy VII. (Particularly if you don't know anything about Advent Children or Crisis Core.) But it's still pretty, and the song is lovely in a very bittersweet way.

I posted something on the Power Rangers Facebook page a few minutes ago. It's something I've been thinking about over the past few days. I'm a little afraid they'll take it down though since it's not ... well, it doesn't exactly fit the image they project over there. Unfortunately I couldn't think of anywhere else to send it, and it was something I really wanted to do.

But just in case, I'm posting it here as well.

( Thank you. )

Also, I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but rosabelle found this article, and starlit_purple linked it to me. It's written by one of the people who knew psyco_chick32 personally, talking about her life and who she was. It's beautiful. ♥

In Memoriam

I don't know if she would remember this, but starandrea told me something once that seems very appropriate right now, for all of us.


I love and adore you, and I will tell you every time I think of it, not because I think you don't know, but because it's so much more worthwhile a remark than so many of the things we fill our days with, you know? ♥ ♥ ♥


One of the things I keep thinking is that I can't tell psyco_chick32 'I love you! Oyasumi nasai! ♥' when we sign off Yahoo anymore. And that breaks my heart all over again.

I love you, all of you. Your friendship has made me a better writer, and a better person. And every time I end a comment with a '♥' or 'I love you', it's because I want you to know that. Because I mean it, and I don't say things I don't mean.

Love. ♥