Gongagan cuisine at its finest.

As inspired by Jou's birthday-fic Cooking with Zack. :3

Pictures coming... later. (On the bright side? I bet I have leftovers for a week!)

Given that the number of ideas I have waiting in line for free time is always a multiple of the amount of free time actually available, what would you like to see get worked on first?

(Note 1: The results of this aren't going to be binding on account of how the amount of work I have left to do on various next-installments varies from "a couple more pages" to "first I have to do the outline and then...", but I will keep it in mind when priority-setting.)

(Note 2: "All of them! All at once!" is just as much not an option as "Naruto," thanks guys. XD There is a reason I used radio buttons rather than ticky boxes.)

Poll #3736 What world would you like to see a ficbit from next?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What would you like to be the first thing I work on when I get free time?

What should be the second thing I work on, then?

Since it seems to be traditional...

...no wait, I know I have created a monster.

sackiroth

I'm going to take random Sackiroth pictures (and SackFair pictures, and eventually SackCloud and SackAngeal and SackWhoeverTheHeckElse pictures once I get 'em done) and post 'em to the community with Ever So Helpful Commentary(TM). (See also Sackiroth's introductory speech. Also my cat's stupendous level of unimpressedness with Sackiroth's attempts at cat intimidation.)

Once Sackiroth gets to Jou, she says she'll take pictures of him around Japan and post those too! <3

From white_aster!

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( icon rambleage here )

I've got next to no wireless signal, so we'll see whether I can actually get this posted (and crossposted) or not... XD

I've wondered whether my writing has got as many identifiers as I guiltily suspect it does -- stuff that means you can take one (okay, maybe two) looks and go 'yep, that's chibirisuchan.' So here's a bit of a challenge.

I wrote one of the FF7 Anonymous Kink Meme fics. (The FF7 kink indexer has helpfully compiled a list of links that go directly to the stories.)

Anyone want to guess which one is mine? (And/or contribute more fics or requests to it while you're there? ^_~)

I'm screening comments so that folks can't see what else has been guessed already. XD

So, two days ago I didn't remember how to do a single crochet stitch.

By last night, here's what I'd gotten done:


( Fear Teh Cuuuuute! )

A little while ago, one of the LJ FF7 communities had a link to this adorable little sackboy!Reno amigurumi.

I went DUUUUUUUUUUUDE! ♥♥♥

Only problem? It had been about a quarter of a century since I'd touched a crochet hook.

At 7 p.m. tonight I didn't even know how to do a standard single crochet correctly.

At 10:45 p.m. tonight I have my first smiley sackboy head more than halfway done. :3

And it would have been faster if I hadn't forgotten a significant factor in my calculations: The last time I did any kind of industrial-strength yarnfidgeting, I did not own a cat.

Starting at approx. 7:05:
Cat: (yawn) (stretch) (spots the shiny crochet hook) ...whatchadoin?
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: HOSHIT--
Cat: YAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRNNNNNN~~~~!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Me: AAAAUUUUUUUGH--
(insert bloodshed, mayhem, and much yowling from both parties involved)
Me: ...and STAY OUT!
Cat: No faaaaaair! You cheat, you lying cheating thumbiferous thing with thumbs that invented evil evil EVIL doors and it's not faaaaaaaaaaair -- didja hear me yet? Didja?
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
Cat: I SAID DIDJA HEAR ME YET?
Me: ...I think I could get to hate my life.

I finally gave up the notion of getting the whole head done when I stopped to look at the chart, moved my hand, made a really embarrassing noise, and realized that my entire hand had turned into a cramped-up painball and I wasn't entirely sure I could still feel my thumb. Note for next time: distribute the crafting over several days, not one soooooolid crochet session...

Still. Not bad for the first time I've touched a crochet hook in a quarter century. :3

ETA: Now with pictures!

I don't think I ever linked this one in...

Title: Riding to the Princes' Rescue
Fandom: FF7 and Fruits Basket via Kingdom Hearts
Pairing/characters: Cloud and Tohru
Rating: PG 13
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Tohru rescues Cloud from some kind of trouble
Warnings: More Princess-of-Heart Tohru Madness! Not drinksafe.

...and here's tonight's entry (don't kill me too much, I'm planning to get part 2 up tomorrow):

Title: The Dragon of Nibelheim, pt. 1
Fandom: FF7 (AU)
Pairing/characters: Cloud and Sephiroth
Rating: R for being pretty disturbing
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Cloud and Sephiroth, transformation of some kind
Warnings: This one is NOT the fluffy Tohru fairytale world. ^^;; Watch out for the whiplash...

So yeah, I've been a seiyuu music nut for (counts) ...just over a decade now. I have a couple hundred Japanese CDs I've collected in that time (largely when I was in Osaka and could raid the hundred-yen (i.e. about $1) used-CD stores like a crazed hyena).

I uploaded some sample songs by several of the FF7 seiyuu for Joudama. Some of them I picked because they were very in character, and some of them I picked because they were very, er, not what you'd expect. :3

http://www.sendspace.com/folder/qewviq

Here's my general description of what's there:

* Aeris sings THE FREAKIEST SONG EVER. Listen to the tune while you're reading the lyrics, and then think about her relationship with Cloud, Zack, and Sephiroth a little. Then go OH MY GOD a lot.

* Cloud and Zack singing several duets

* Cloud gets trashed and sings karaoke at Seventh Heaven with Rude on sax

* There's a perky bouncy happy-Zack song, and there's a heartwrenching Zack song that may make more ouch if you know that Zack is also Kamui. The lyrics particularly rip you to bits if you speak Japanese. I should translate it some time, because it looks like animelyrics doesn't have it... anyhow.

* Sephiroth sings too. (The one I picked is all about eternity and obsession and a never-ending circle. Heh heh.)

* So does Kadaj. The song I picked for him is called "Unfair." (Of course it is...)

* Angeal gets COMPLETELY TRASHED and sings about his bitchy relationship with Genesis' literary pretentions. I translated the lyrics over here.

* Someone also gets him stoned out of his gourd and sets him loose with a ukulele. (This one is even funnier if you think about some of Genesis' jealousy issues. I translated the lyrics here.)

* Of course, I also put a couple serious Angeal songs up there because Inoue Kazuhiko was my first seiyuu addiction and it's my upload folder. Lyrics to one, I never got around to translating the other.

* Rufus is terribly good at oozing. Someone translated it here, please pardon their Engrish a bit.

* All the Turks have solos (except Rude). Some of the highlights include Tseng's incredibly bitter Wutai rap, Elena swinging like nobody's business, and Reno being completely devil-may-care ("even now the world keeps on going round and round, unstoppably..." I should translate this sometime too, because it looks like nobody at AL has yet.)

* Yuffie. Rumba. 'Nough said. :)

XDDD maybe more later, dunno... have fun listening and breaking your brains!

If you haven't seen No True Pair yet, go check it out. It is full of awesome shiny things. ♥ There's allllll kinds of fun going on by all kinds of crazy talented people. If you're a fan of Aster or Coyo or Laylah, the tag links are awesomely handy that way!

Here's a by-fandom link list to the ones I've finished so far (nearly all of which I wrote in the car during May road trips through the 'if something can go wrong it will' paranoia theory, though I admit I wasn't expecting 'half-my-house's-living-space-gone' levels of 'going wrong' at the time... I really was hoping to finish more than the minimum 'one a week,' but as usual, life has this way of looking at me and going 'heh.')


Fandom: Bleach and Vagrant Story
Title: Lost and Found
Pairing/characters: Yoruichi, Sydney, and, er, someone else
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Yoruichi's attitude toward clothing
Prompt/challenge you're answering: "Yoruichi and Sydney with the title, 'Lost and Found.'"
( Yoruichi and Sydney, Lost and Found )

Fandom: FF7 and FF12
Title: Fledgling
Pairing/characters: Zack and Balthier
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None really
Prompt/challenge you're answering: "The beginning of Balthier and Zack's passionate love affair."
( Fledgling )

Fandom: Discworld and FF7:Advent Children
Title: Prudent
Pairing/characters: Granny Weatherwax and the Sephlets
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Bad amateur headology
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Granny Weatherwax and the Advent Children boys, weaponkink

( Prudent )

Fandom: FF7 and Fruits Basket via Kingdom Hearts
Title: The Edge of the Map
Pairing/characters: Sephiroth and Tohru
Rating: PG
Warnings: Dancing mushrooms
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Tohru and Sephiroth with the title, "The Edge of the Map."

( The Edge of the Map )

ETA, July 3: Now with "Zack and Tohru, captivity scenario"...
( Cruel and Unusual )

Fandom: FF8 and FF12
Title: How the Story Goes
Pairing/characters: Balthier and Laguna
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Balthier's got an acid edge to the wit here...
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Laguna and Balthier: love is blindness / I don't want to see / won't you wrap the night around me

( How the Story Goes )

Fandom: Fruits Basket and Bleach
Title: That pesky...
Pairing/characters: Tohru and Yoruichi
Rating: PG
Warnings: None really Not drinksafe? But that's the standard hazard alert with me, sooo...

( That Pesky... )

now let's see how well I code at midnight-thirty!

Title: Body Language (presentfic #1 of 3)
Fandom: FFVII
Author: chibirisuchan based on ciceqi's Anthroverse AU (LJ archive / IJ archive)
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: totally not mine; the game is Square's and the AU is Coyo's!

There's three of these for ciceqi's birthday and Christmas fics... from 2006. *facepalm* 2007 has SO sucked. ( Author's ramblings )

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( Body Language: Anthroverse fan-fanfic )

One of these days I WILL get my IJ and my LJ all in sync and link-updated and cross-linked and tagged and properly filtered and it is not yet that day. It is probably not even that year, given how insane the damn class and housework and workwork have been. @_@ In the meantime, have fic. Have been hanging onto it since September in the hopes of getting everything in sync. Didn't happen yet, deadline Monday, gave up for the moment... @_@

Title: Detour
Theme: #7
Author: chibirisuchan
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Pairing/Character: Kadaj and Loz
Rating: R
Warnings: Not worksafe, and not brainsafe either. I can't get more specific without giving it away. But if you squick easily, you might want to pass this one over?

Disclaimer: I'm really serious about that not-brainsafe part, people. Watch out for that other shoe when it drops. ^_____^;;

Previous sections (for this chapter in particular, it's important to have read the previous ones in order):

Part 1 - Paved
Part 2 - Yield
Part 3 - Right of Way
Part 4 - One Way

(Table of contents in general )

( Fic here )

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( Author's notes )

...yeah. Still alive. Most of the people who have gotten hospitalized have come back also alive. Some haven't. This has been one hell of a year. I think I need to make myself an 'I Survived 2007' shirt on like Jan. 3 2008 or something.

Have also made an IJ in case of further epic lose on the part of LJ. Haven't populated it yet. Haven't got the brainpower to go around tracking everyone down twice. Don't want fandom to scatter to eight dozen different sites and never find each other again. Would massively suck. @_@

ANYHOW. In hopefully less depressing news: Fic madness ahoy. Hope to have more soon. (hope springs eternal... gotta learn to brace for them surprise attacks?)

Title: One Way
Theme: #18
Author: chibirisuchan
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Pairing/Character: Kadaj and Loz
Rating: PG-13 to R?
Table of contents of the 25 streetsigns fics
Warnings: None beyond Kadaj-style psychosis just yet. (Neeeext time, though... ^_~)

Disclaimer: Totally not mine. Not even the core concept for this arc; it was based on a fic that I shan't identify just yet, because I want to hear the screams when the shoe drops.

Random author's notes: At some point I want to go back and write the triplets-devastate-the-Gold-Saucer part (and maybe call it 'Caution: Children Playing'), but this has been a horrible summer, and writing that kind of enthusiastic mayhem takes creative energy I just haven't got at the moment. I'm writing this this weekend so that I can keep the claim alive. I really hope this doesn't suck? If it does, I'm sorry... maybe I'll have some kind of higher-energy brain juice back before the next deadline? I really REALLY want the next one to work in particular... anyhow.

( Fic here )