Fading Lights

I've been playing Harvest Moon: A Tale of Two Towns for the DS lately. Not sure why; sometimes I just get in the mood for Harvest Moon and find myself tied to it for a week or so. This is the first time I've played this particular edition - usually I stick to my beloved Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life - so it's a learning experience. Definitely different from the one I'm used to.

Thoughts so far:

☀ Damn this version is a lot more complicated than I was expecting. o.O
☀ You can play as a boy or a girl, and focus on either raising animals or growing crops. For my first attempt at this, I picked a girl and animals, because they're generally less complicated. I named her Karone (I intend to name the boy version Andros), which has led to fun conversations about trying to get Karone laid.
☀ Upon introducing my character around her new town, I realized that the only marriage candidates I was interested in were the other girls. c.c;;; (I've picked a bachelor since then, but he lives in the other town.*)
☀ To make the larger animals like you (such as cows, sheep, alpaca, wild bears and boars), you talk to them. To make the chickens and smaller wild animals like you, you pick them up and throw them. The chickens get a little red heart over their head when I do it. I laugh every single time. Artyra even wrote me a story about it.
☀ My lamb looks like a pink tribble. It's a fluffy ball with eyes.
☀ There are monsoons. All the other characters kept telling me to stay inside, and any time my character wasn't running or had her fishing pole in the water, the wind was pushing her to the left. It was *hilarious*.

In summary: I LOVE THIS GAME. ♥♥♥

In other news, I've signed up for Rare Pair Fest and PR Femslash Ficathon. Rarepairfest was because I was blackmailed talked into it by rosabelle. I have no idea why I signed up for Femslash. Maybe I'm a sucker for punishment.


* In answer to anyone else who shares rosabelle's immediate question, no, you can't have your girl marry other girls in the Harvest Moon games. This series is about marrying and having a baby and continuing a family legacy as a farmer. ... And apparently farmers can't adopt.

But it's cute, so I'll live with it.

A friend linked me this on Facebook today: Amazon’s Launching A Program To Sell Fanfic. Yeah, You Read That Right.

I'd like to be cautiously optimistic about it, but honestly my head keeps screaming 'Danger Will Robinson, Danger!' (I suspect my head is right.)

Also found this picture on DeviantArt, which totally made me think of Kevin. And now I'm imagining him training in freezing cold water on some mountain retreat because let's face it, he would so do that.

And for my last trick, I give you the last chapter of Promises. I FINALLY FINISHED SOMETHING! -Flails forever-

Promises (Power Rangers Samurai, Chapter 16: A Promise to Love You )
Author/: Tsukino Akume
Fandom/: Power Rangers Samurai
Characters/: Jayden Shiba, Antonio Garcia
Pairings/: pre-Antonio/Jayden
Rating/: K
Disclaimer/: If I owned them, it would not be subtext.
Summary/: Antonio made many promises to Jayden over the years. He never broken any of them. Bright Skies 'verse.
He sensed him before he saw him.

Yes, for the record, I'm already planning out a sequel to this. Still deciding exactly how my version of Samurai will end, but I've got some ideas. Either way, this particular story is *done*.

-Dances-

Snagged from germankitty.

I write like
William Shakespeare

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Whoo! I'll accept that!

They're totally wrong, but whatever.

For anyone interested in what I had analyzed, it's actually the beginnings of a scene that never made it into Promises. ( I liked it a lot, but I couldn't get it to work. -Sulks- )

Title: Breaking Routine
Author: Tsukino Akume
Fandom: Power Rangers Time Force
Pairing/characters: Wes/Eric
Rating: G
Prompt: Wes/Eric The one regret Eric had when leaving prep school was breaking up with Wes. It took him awhile to accept his sexuality and he’d like another chance with Wes, he’s just not sure how to ask.
Summary: Eric has a routine at Bio-Lab. And just like everything else in his life, it all centers around Wes.
"Why is there gourmet coffee being delivered to our break room?"

I am really unhappy with this one. I had SO MANY false starts that just ... died on me. >.< But it's done, I have new ideas for Bright Skies, and all my queer_fest prompts are now done, so I'm not gonna worry about it anymore.

I would probably be more upset about it, but there are offline issues happening right now that I'm worried about. Which I feel a little bad for, but hopefully my muses will come up with something that makes up for this one soon. -Crosses fingers-

Today I spent about two hours working on my first queer_fest story, two more trying to get ideas to continue it, four hours eating pizza* and watching The Sound of Music** with Brother's mom, and then a half hour of furious writing before managing to post on AO3 and link to it from the community two minutes before midnight.

-Pauses to mop brow-

Title: Behind Closed Doors
Author: Tsukino Akume
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/characters: Draco/Harry, Pansy/Hannah
Rating: G
Prompt: any Slytherin, A House that is so devoted to keeping up appearances is... not the most welcoming place to be anything but straight and your assigned gender. On the surface, anyway.
Summary: The fifth year Slytherins return for another year of school and another round of plotting to get Draco and Pansy laid.
There were two welcome speeches one heard upon being sorted into Slytherin House.

Now I have today to finish the next prompt, tomorrow to post it, and then rinse and repeat! Here's hoping the next stories come out better than this one did. >.<


* For some reason I haven't been able to eat pizza lately without getting sick, no matter the toppings, sauce, or brand. But since she was kind enough to order me one, I tried eating *very* small slices of cheese pizza one at a time, and very slowly. We'll see in a few hours if it made a difference.
** I kind of giggled when I first saw what she had on because of the second chapter of Bright Skies (where Wes mentions that Katie kept listening to the soundtrack over and over), but I sat down to watch with her 'cause I haven't seen it in years. I liked it more than I remembered. I'm not usually big on musicals or classics, so it was a bit of a surprise. Behold the manipulative powers of Julie Andrews!
♥♥♥ ETA: rivulet027 TOLD ME ABOUT THIS TODAY!!!! -Flails forever-

In sorting files on my computer last night, I discovered that I lost one of my absolute FAVORITE icons: Wes and Erin Silver Guardian uniforms, both grinning and Wes hugging onto Eric from behind.I know jadetate made it for Angel, but I can't find it anywhere now. ;_; FOUND IT! \0/ (It's the first one. ♥)

On the upside, I found these on Texts from the Morphing Grid and had to share. ^.^

Antonio and Jayden
Kelsey and Chad
Gia and Emma
Wes and Jen (And so true! ♥)
Hunter and Blake (Probably not that funny, but it still made me laugh.)
Katie and Jen
Adam and Justin -Dies-
Casey
Leo

In other news, I am back to attempting my queer_fest prompts.

... I seriously have no idea WTF is going on in this story.

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

It is finally finished! \0/

Somehow I went from playing Final Fantasy VII to randomly working on this. -Shrugs- Whatever. I think it's cute.

Young Love (Power Rangers Samurai, K)
Author/: Tsukino Akume
Fandom/: Power Rangers Samurai
Characters/: Rocky DeSantos, Adam Park, Antonio Garcia, Jayden Shiba
Pairings/: Rocky/Adam, Antonio/Jayden
Rating/: K
Disclaimer/: Seeing as Antonio isn't Rocky and Adam's son in canon (that we know of), it's safe to say they're not mine.
Summary/: Rocky and Adam meet their future son-in-law.
"Remember not to pick on him," Antonio lectured, looking incredibly serious even as he shifted nervously back and forth.

Today I hung out with Brother's mom while she baked and fed me cookies. And then I wrote things. It was awesome.

This chapter may or may not end up with a one-shot side story from Rocky and Adam's point of view, because as awkward and as much fun as it was to write, I keep picturing what was actually happening that Jayden didn't realize.

Promises (Power Rangers Samurai, Chapter 13: A Promise for Support)
Author/: Tsukino Akume
Fandom/: Power Rangers Samurai
Characters/: Jayden Shiba, Antonio
Pairings/: pre-Antonio/Jayden
Rating/: K
Disclaimer/: If I owned them, it would not be subtext.
Summary/: Antonio made many promises to Jayden over the years. He never broken any of them. Bright Skies 'verse.
They'd just finished cleaning the kitchen when Jayden's Samuraizer went off.

This one is technically a repost of a chapter that I'd put up earlier and had to take down, because I decided to have more things happen before it and AO3 was throwing a fit about reordering chapters. But the story has finally caught back up to it, so here it is again. Slightly edited to fit with the current plot.

Promises (Power Rangers Samurai, Chapter 14: A Promise for Truth)
Author/: Tsukino Akume
Fandom/: Power Rangers Samurai
Characters/: Jayden Shiba, Antonio Garcia
Pairings/: pre-Antonio/Jayden
Rating/: K
Disclaimer/: If I owned them, it would not be subtext.
Summary/: Antonio made many promises to Jayden over the years. He never broken any of them. Bright Skies 'verse.
They eventually moved Jayden to his room.

And now I'm off to watch Megaforce!

Today's Random Pairing Thought:

Vida/Kelsey

People would RUN IN FEAR. The sheer amount of adrenaline addiction between them alone would have their teammates constantly booking them for hospital visits.

... Sometimes I think there's something broken in my brain. o.O