kokoro no yoroi

eider has already posted and I've posted on y!gallery, but I want to cover all bases! It's been a long time, but tis the season and we couldn't resist! Proudly presenting the Odessa Castle Advent Calendar 2009!

For those who might not remember the old bishink calendars, each number on the image will go live with a holiday treat on the corresponding day, starting December 1st and going right up through December 24th. What will be behind each door? Festive Fanfic? Frosty Fanart? Other Holiday goodies? Check in every day to find out!

But you don't have to wait until tomorrow to get started. We've also compiled a list of the best of Christmases Past to tide you over in the meantime.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and enjoy our smorgasbord of yuletide treats!

Headspace. Bar. Late evening.

( do I even remember how to work one of these things? )

Last night I wanted to play some game. Something cool and awesome! Something that would make me write fanfic! something with characters I could love and worlds I could devour and details to sniff out and tiny fiddly gameplay and oh, everything. But I looked at all the games we had and realized that what I didn't want was a replay. No matter how old and dear (and they are all very dear) I did not want to take the SeeD exam again, or march in the ShinRa parade, or jump up and down Babel tower.

I was put-out, to say the least.

Until Joy checked in the proverbial biscuit barrel and declared that we might, maybe, have $40 worth of fun-money left from weekly budgeting.

which just so happens to be the going price these days for a copy of Dissidia.

Of gameplay plot etc, I will say nothing, only that it really isn't well-suited to the PSP, and should have been a real console game. (Joy says this makes me sound old. I think it makes me sound like someone with very cramped thumbs.) It is very much gorgeous and frustrating by turns.

But it's worth it all for the feeling of walking up on a Sunday morning and knowing you have to get to a word file right now.

Cloud and Squall, doing what Cloud and Squall do best. No spoilers, but a few fond and wistful references to my first Final Fantasy slashfic ever. Assuredly not work safe.

Very rough-cut, and I will clean it for y! posting once I've played more than one tiny fraction of the game, so I can make sure I don't have any contradictions. Dispensers of spoilers in the comments will be shot at dawn.

( Trading Blows )

for your consideration:



Restored, and lacking a number of tertiary elements like shrines, dollstuff, advent calendar pages, fanart, and a few select stories which we stuffed in black plastic bags and buried in an undisclosed location, never to be seen again.

It will sit as it is; we're done with it. It's a slice of time, and a good one, but we've got other things to do. Now that we've cleaned it up, we can leave it alone.

And I need not be ashamed, praised be god, so long as your majesty is an honest man.

Not only have I just uploaded some more fic to y-gallery, but I also made a big fancy graphic to go with it.

( lookitlookit! )

We've gotten a lot of emails about our old fic. Until we sort out what to post again and what to keep buried in the basement forever, we've got a y-gallery club for Bishonenink fic.

Comment on the profile with any old fic you'd like to see posted again. ^_^ If it's horrible terrible sticky ghastly YYH fic, I eeeeh, can't promise anything, but as long as it doesn't make me want to move to Tunisia and take up a career as a goat, it's likely to be posted again.

Please spread the word on this one, guys, I'm no longer in the usual channels and I think, astonishingly enough, people might actually want to know about it.

Who wants some cheezy wedding fic? that's right, you do!

ahahaha the worst of it is, I'm not even ashamed a little bit.

eider and I are trying to shift our tactics, in the interest of trying to figure out how to have fun on the internet again. In that course there is this:

http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/club/8339/

We will be posting original stories and relevant art here, with what I hope is regularity. It will contain stories designed especially for y!gallery, and for once it'll be writing of mine that you can talk about publicly as soon as you read it. >_> I don't really expect it to take off for a bit, but it's an outlet we both seriously need.

I've only got one chapter of a story up there now, and it's pretty rusty even after being cleaned, since it's a very old premise. I ran out of pre-existing prose before the end of the chapter though, so further installments, I hope, will not be so fudgey.

tl;dr: we made a club. It is full of handsome boys and indulgent shippy-ness and porn. Your support would be met with gratitude and also a massive uptick in how much stuff we produce for you to read there.

HAY I MADED SOME ARTS.

http://yaoi.y-gallery.net/view/560839/

Not terribly work safe, for all that I DREW it at work. >_> aheh. Which explains why when I drew him I did him with THE WRONG DANG EYEBALL MISSING I swear I can't believe that. Guardian Angels has the wrong profile pic of him up and I thought it was a little odd but I checked there and yeah. grrft. But it's flipped now, and still looks sorta okay I think.

the last submission to the y!gallery xenogears club was in July of last year, so I had to do something. Next maybe I will draw Billy! But if my backwards trend continues, that big green bow might wind up on his ass.

Dear Dreamwidth:

Hey, thanks so much for turning my entire friendslist into a fucking wasteland.

Yeah, that's real awesome. Thanks a fucking ton.

no love and plz DIAF,

Me.

...there are piratey lawyerthings going on over in courtroomdance. I'm just sayin'.

I couldn't find a place that was the PW:AA fandom I wanted, so I made one.

courtroomdance

please join, and encourage others to do the same.

PHOENIX WRIGHT TAKARAZUKA DVD: GET.

:D :D :D :D :D :D


We're going to watch it again now, and take one drink whenever official PW merchandise is used as a prop. I'm pretty sure that's an Apollo Justice notepad Maya is using and I know that's the Godot mug.

Edgeworth in Paris, between games 1&2. Work-safe.

( There is nothing on earth that we share; it is either Valjean or Javert! )

Prompt: Zax/Cloud/Aerith discovering the permutations of love in the afternoon and how despite Cloud's low self-esteem three is NOT a crowd. ;__;

for fyredancer (and in memory of that diner in SanFran, y-con 2002, where we went with you guys, in our turk-suits. Where has the time gone?)

This was tricky, because I really never thought of those three ever, you know, crossing paths that way until actual game-time. But I think everybody had a good time with it. They might have had more of a good time, if I wasn't writing this at work. ^^; forcing it to be WS. Alas.

(NB for anyone just passing through: I don't follow awkward sequels/prequels or the ridonculous, ill-thought-out surnames that are spawned by them; the man was Zax Darklighter in my head long before square's soft-serve gackt machine urped out the name Zack Fair, and in my stuff, at least, that's how he stays. Conversely, I can't ever get the hang of typing Aerith, try as I might. ;_; And trust me, I have. There are no retconned Turks or spare Jenova clones here. Seek them and their benighted canon elsewhere. If I sound irritable, it's because squenix's sequel virus has forced me to put this disclaimer on every ff7 thing I write now; Zack is everybody's favorite boy even though most of them never played the first game and if they did, they were seven years old AND they missed his scenes; and yet I still don't have my action figure of the boy. Sheesh. It's enough to make anyone cranky. It's also enough to make them quit writing FF7 altogether. Which is just a damn shame, really, because I love him to the point of being kind of stupid, or at least to the point of writing long, hissy-fit disclaimers. SaD.)

( 1313 words )

Drabbles, from Friday's requests! I will be filling them sporadically and posting them as I get them together. (Actually, eider will be posting for me.) Sorry, in advance, for the post-spamming on your lists. Still, the way it's been around here, I think we could all stand to see a little action.

Request: Squall and Zell, a wind blown overcast day in fall is there anyone out there 'cus it's getting harder and harder to breathe for darthneko

( 810 words )

I am opening up requests for drabbles! All this afternoon and possibly next week, too. ^_^ I've been slogging through original projects and I'd love to be able to write something easy, and I miss fan characters. So as much as I'd be flattered, no OC requests, unless they are fan-based (i.e.: Reno's siblings).

So if you want to play, please give me a series, one or two characters, and a key for the drabble. Like a song lyric, or a day of the week with a weather report. For example, Phoenix & Edgeworth, an overcast Tuesday in March, an hour in the shower is the best that you've got.

I expect that most of my fandoms are pretty well known on this ickle flist, but basically, all Final Fantasies except for Ffonline/anime and anything retconned/sequeled. (Advent Children is good, but no other ff by-products or the characters in them; I haven't played them and probably won't.) Suikodens 1-3. Kingdom Hearts. Xenogears, natch. Vagrant Story. Certain obscure members of the Belmont family. The lawyers, of course. Loveless, Saiyuki, Weiß Kreuz, Ronin Warriors, Arslan, yadda yadda anime. I am not up on the new and shiny anything, except for how I'm gnawing holes in my desk waiting for Final Fantasy Dissidia.

I woke up this morning missing Squall Leonheart like burning; it was something about the weather. Requests for SOLDIERS and SeeDs may result in eight-page explosions. Do not concentrate and inhale. You must be as tall as Sora to ride. Void where prohibited; results may vary; contents may settle. Residents of Guam will need to answer a simple math question to qualify for prizes. GO.

Man, cutting it close, here. NaNo ran into December (I finished my 70K+ draft uh, yesterday) so I didn't get a chance to do as much Christmas fic as I would like. I also no longer have access to IJ at work, so no posty for me until I got home. But this one is for eider, who really didn't ask for anything else except for some Christmas fic with lawyers in it. So I wrote some today.

Merry christmas, baby. And to everyone else, too. Have some nog on me.

Takes place the Christmas after AJ:AA. there really aren't any spoilers, but there is a bit of the gay, of course. Work-safe! <3

( Gifts: 3754 words )

Since I had a head start on my NaNo, I thought the best way to kick off my November would be to write 7,000 words.... of Apollo Justice pr0n.

Ah, well, word count is word count, right? I feel really rusty on this, but I hope it all comes out all right. Quite frankly, I'm tired of looking at it, and I can't do any more tweaking it at work, so here you go.

Klavier/Apollo, first time around. NSFW by any means. Spoilers for the whodunnit of case 3 of Apollo Justice.

( Second Guitar )

ahahah, okay, clearly one Halloween fic is not enough for me. This one is worksafe, short, 99% spoiler free (I suppose there are spoilery hints about Edgeworth's childhood but that is all) and mostly just an excuse to shove Phoenix and Edgeworth into a doombuggy together.

Probably after the end of the fic they go around on the ride again and make out the second time. Then they all go to lunch in the castle. That's what I think anyway.

I only just dashed this out this morning, so it may be messy. Apologies to Disney Imagineering.

EDIT for a curiosity note I just found in the ride tour section of Doombuggies.com: By the way—if you were to check out some of the real books used as props from the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion's library, you might be led to believe that a lawyer was haunting the halls. Among the titles of the law books that sits on the dusty shelves are Corpus Juris (which is translated to "The Body of Law") and Modern Legal Forms. There are also some medical books in the collection as well.

:D :D :D

Foolish Mortals
2,000 words
Worksafe
Happy Halloween (again!)

( This is a Dark Ride )