I simultaneously thank (and blame) Mai-HiME for luring me into the world of shoujo-ai (“girls love”/femslash/whatever-you-want-to-call-it) fan-fiction. Loads of pretty girls + magical powers + subtext + one dirty-minded 27-year-old = Hilarity Ensuing. It helps that there’s an actual lesbian character in canon (Shizuru, though at the point I am in the series, she isn’t quite as open about it as Bleach’s Chizuru). Surprisingly, she’s not the one character who’s the focus of my “pairing du jour”, but according to FanFiction.net, she’s practically the focus of everyone else’s.

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Whew…my keyboard hands are tired. I’ve spent that last month or so writing fanfiction, and I’m already ahead of my planned schedule for “One Wonderful April”, having completed 18 of the 30 specified chapters, and experiencing a surprising jump in popularity at FanFiction.net since I started writing it. I honestly didn’t think my story would be that well received, since I’m writing for a rare pairing and all.

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Say what? A Read or Die recap? Yeah, I can do that, too. Gotta give Mai a break for a week, especially when I’m in the midst of still writing fanfiction on her (by the way, Chapter 17 is available if you want to read it).

Anyway, back to the topic at hand…I decided to re-watch the Read or Die OVA (it’s basically a short animated movie consisting of three episodes). One of these days, I’ll get the TV series on DVD, which kinda picks up where this one left off, but anything where a chick can fight off super-powered clones with sheets of paper and index cards is all right in my book.

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Okey-dokey. I’ve put up a few more stories in the last week that I’ve simul-posted on LiveJournal, two of which are 200 words or less. One is from Azumanga Daioh, centering around a little dream-like episode of Osaka’s, because she’s goofy like that. Another is from Suikoden, where Viktor and his Star Dragon Sword get into a little argument (yes, the sword can talk). I could get used to writing short vignettes like that. Then there’s my big in-progress Mai-HiME fanfic starring Mai and Natsuki. There is lots of kissing involved (16 chapters so far), but it’s all PG-13 stuff, because I suck at smut. I realize I made a few factual mistakes in previous chapters, so I’ll have to go correct them tonight or early tomorrow when I get a chance.

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Oh, how I love hanging around the TV Tropes Wiki…so many interesting things to learn about series that I have yet to watch. A few days ago, someone toyed around with the idea of adding a “Trope Pantheon” to the site – something that lists fictional characters as gods of something-or-other. For example, we elected Star Trek’s Captain Kirk as God of Space, and Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Seto Kaiba as God of Wealth (anybody who’s familiar with the Abridged Series will know him mostly by his “Screw the rules, I have money” credo). At first, it started out as a single page, but then morphed into a section of the site all on its own in just three days. Still more gods are ascending to the Trope Pantheon even as we speak. I’ve never had so much fun organizing a project like this…

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