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Happy holidays everyone!

Yuletide fics are live~. I managed to finish the treat I was working on super last minute (it doubled in length) and posted it right around when the fics were about to go live. I realized I didn't even have a title so came up with one just as I was about to post. The result was a title that's very similar to another fic of mine, whoops, when these stories aren't even from the same fandom. Interesting what my mind defaults to.

I stayed up to read my gift but haven't gotten about to reading any other fics yet. I received a lovely story about Azazel and Mugaro~

Vow So Deep (1170 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 神撃のバハムート | Shingeki no Bahamut | Rage of Bahamut (Anime)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Azazel (Shingeki no Bahamut), Rita (Shingeki no Bahamut), Mugaro | El
Summary:

I vow these boughs will never break.
Azazel discovers himself attached.

The other day, I wrote up some rambling thoughts about some anime I'm currently watching, but like everything I do lately, I just let that sit around... Now I have to update it given the new episodes that have already happened since, pft.

( Thunderbolt Fantasy, Slime anime, Bunny-sempai, Ace Attorney s3, SAO, Tsurune, Honda-san )

These are the levels over at Yu Lun, Yu Wo's forums. XD

Holy Knight-in-training (0 points)
Holy Knight (100 points)
Holy Knight Platoon Member (1000 points)
Vice-Captain of the Twelve Holy Knights (2000 points)
Twelve Holy Knights (5000 points)
Judgment Knight (10000)
Sun Knight (30000)
God of War (50000)
Shadow God (70000)
God of Light (99999)

I think I will be forever stuck as a holy knight. XD;;; I see a few Judgment Knights...! That's already really impressive. I guess they must be aiming to become the God of Light, lol. I want to be a vice-captain. If not that, then the God of Light, lolol. But sadly, I'm not nearly that wordy.

Some Chinese LSK and Gong Hua fic recs!

( fic recs )

And some other news. In February, I saw someone ask Neko Kreuz on Facebook about the state of the LSK manhua. Her reply was, "The manhua edition of the Legend of Sun Knight is currently on hiatus. Right now, I don't know when it will continue. Sorry about that."

Taiwan still hasn't gotten V5 of the manhua yet. I bought V4 in December of 2012, and it's already 2015. I wonder what's going on? I hope the manhua doesn't go the way of some other novel-to-manhua adaptions that end up unfinished. D: (I don't know about the situation with Unique Legend, but it seems like the manhua adaption is only 5~6 volumes long, and unfinished? I tried buying the manhua but couldn't find it in stock...)

In happier news, I'm getting my copy of Illusions-Lies-Truth V3 tomorrow. :3;;

I've been reading as many Yuletide fics as possible, but I've only reached L in the alphabet... (I started alphabetically, though I did skip around for fandoms I looked forward to a lot). This is probably all I'll get around to reading before reveals. ): Time to return to writing!

I adored the following stories a ton. <3

( a few fic recs )

Yu Wo's Holiday Fic Poll
Yu Wo's Poll for the short stories she'll write for the holidays! She gathered a few prompts from the readers and came up with these options.

( translation of the entry )

Legend of Sun Knight x No Hero fic rec
After I voted, I caught up with a Chinese fic for a crossover between the Legend of Sun Knight and No Hero called Bonds. It's super fun. XD;; I mean, look, it's a crossover between LSK and NH!! Lots of tropes at play here too that make me ridiculously happy. XD

( spoilers for the fic )

LSK x Reborn Fusion fic musings
While going over the different flames for Reborn, I thought about how cool it would be to toss Legend of Sun Knight characters into Reborn's canon. XD;; Except I can't quite make everything match, hmmm.

( musings for an LSK x Reborn fusion fic )

I received an awesome fic for funpotexchange! :D Thank you for the lovely fic! Fic about Liladent Krauser, humorous misunderstandings, and language barriers! :DDD

♥ The not-so dream of getting scouted by satsu_basu
The frustration of finding out someone is getting scouted... And how quickly it changes when they realize it's not for pro. Characters include Kirihara Akaya, Liliadent Krauser, Echizen Ryoma~

I finished writing part 21 of Bittersweet Sweetness! \o/ I'm going to try for...somewhat regular updates, so I tossed the next part into my scheduled LJ posts. The post will magically appear next Tuesday (hopefully with the right formatting). XD;; My goal is to continue writing and hopefully stock up on a lot more chapters so we don't have ridiculous dry-spells... and meanwhile, I'll be working on some other fics too. I'm hoping I can at least finish something before Tuesday, but we'll see...

After reading chapter 176 of Bakuman, the last chapter, I'm in dire need of an epilogue. The ending was touching (Dreams and Reality! 10 years later!), but I really missed the rest of the cast. So I think I will write an epilogue that includes the rest of the cast. My next fic project. ;) It better be a oneshot, and I better finish it in one go. Man, I was so off with my version of "10 years later" when I wrote these two fics around the time chapter 24~25 was out. But gosh, I didn't think the series would actually cover 10 years! For 750words yesterday, I slapped down words in a frenzy, mostly just ideas for the Bakuman fic. 750 words of random snippets and ideas... OTL. How is all this going to come together?

Last day of the year! I finally got around to reading some Yuletide stories that weren't gifts for me yesterday. Or well, this morning. I pretty much opened all of the fandoms I even passingly knew, but there were a lot that I'm not familiar enough with to appreciate fully. I had to stop halfway though. Saved everything else for later, though I was hoping to leave comments and kudos before reveals (feels more... special to me? and I remember I never did go back after reveals last time...).

This Kimi to Boku fic absolutely broke my heart. It is a thing of beauty, and the characterization is so much love. My heart goes out to Yuuta.

not where it starts, but where it ends (3510 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Kimi to Boku | You and I
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Asaba Yuuta, Asaba Yuuki, Tsukahara Kaname
Summary: Even twins grow apart.

I've yet to answer most of the Advent Calendar posts over at colors_tcg. Gotta do that before the year ends!

Utena Marathon
I had a holiday marathon of Utena with gem2niki. Finally watched this classic. :) I expected it to be mind-breaking, but it was not as mind-breaking as I was expecting, though there were parts I didn't understand, and whoa, themes galore. Sometimes I felt the show was cryptic just for the sake of being cryptic, and some parts were truly repetitive (yet I did look forward to the repetitiveness of the duel openings and the elevator scenes because they offered familiarity to me, and the duel of the week set-up does appeal to the part of me that appreciates battle and sports manga, which also have similar set-ups to have fights happening. The repetitiveness also allowed us to fast-forward through those parts, haha, otherwise the marathon would have taken even longer). I came out of the show with "zettai unmei mokushiroku" stuck in my head. And gosh, just how many times did people get slapped in this show? (I also had moments when I finally understood the naming behind decks submitted for colors_tcg. Truly fitting names like cowbell for Nanami and onion for Wakaba, hehe). I couldn't help but hear Hikaru in Utena's voice, though I guess it was probably the opposite for others.

( more babbling on the show )

yuletide fics are up! They've been up! (Except I've been sleeping! XD;; Well, not that long, but sleep and other things meant I didn't get around to reading until now).

I received three fantastic gifts! Thank you so much. ♥

Think Before You... (1197 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Legend of the Sun Knight, 1/2 Wangzi | 1/2 Prince
Summary: Sun should know better than to poke around Pink's house.
My mind automatically filled in the last word of the title as "Think Before You Leap". XD; This is a super fun crossover between 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight. Sun's voice is so spot on! And the little details are to die for. :D Again, this is so, so fun.

A Strange Life (1347 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: NG Life
Summary: Loleus wakes up from a bad dream.
KL;ASDJF;ADJFLA;SK NG LIFE FIC. NG Life fic is like, super rare. And then, fic focused on Loleus is even rarer since he's not even a "main" character and not even alive as we only ever see him through flashbacks. This fic makes me love Loleus even more than before (I did not think that was possible) and left me feeling wistful but content at the same time.

The Continuing Record (5970 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Double Arts
Summary: The record continues.
So, I stated in my Yuletide letter how I would looooove longfic. This fic is deliciously long, filled with little snippets of Elraine and Kiri's journey to headquarters, as well as what happens after they reach headquarters. All I could ever want in a continuation of Double Arts! The fic brings in a great cast, giving the spotlight to Fallan and Sui at parts too. It really felt like I was reading a continuation of the series. :D

*bites fingers about her own fics* Now I wish even more that I've written more, because anonymous fics and general squeeing is so much fun. :) I might attempt to write a bit more (later....?) which might mean whatever I come up with... will end up in the NYR collection. I don't think I'll make Madness in time. XD Or maybe I should just read and review. There is so much to read, and I've only gotten around to my own gifts so far. :)

I read through almost all of the Yuletide and Yuletide Madness fics I've been meaning to read. It took me a long time, and I had so many tabs open. I also left as many comments as I could even though I was far from profound in all of them. The series near the end of the alphabet got the short end because my comments got shorter and shorter, and I ended up not checking out the fandoms I was less familiar with or fics with characters I cared less about (but I did for the beginning of the alphabet). I might return to them later, but for now, I'm done. ^__^

I am fairly sure I ran into a number of darkicedragon's fics with the fandoms I did end up reading, haha, but I was clued in because of the titles and the summary before the actual fic confirmed my guess. But who knows, maybe I'm completely off the mark. XD; Anyway...

5 fics I enjoyed a lot (outside of my gifts) (why does this sound like the title of a fic? People have been titling their fics like this way too much *g*) I realize I've never recced any fic from Yuletide outside of squeeing over my gifts each year... so, have some recs.

The Closest Place to Forever (Cat Street, Nako)
This gives Nako wonderful closure as well as a glimpse into everyone's lives and how they're settling into it now that they're all older.

Cake (Honey and Clover, Ayumi/Nomiya)
They're a pair I actually adore a whole lot (I don't adore too many couples), and this fic does it perfectly. The ending really touched me.

Sit. Stay. Beg (Minamishineyo|You're Beautiful)
This is cuteness, really, with enough humor and adorableness to make me smile all night.

Never Lag Behind (Natsume Yuujinchou)
This could be a chapter out of the manga! I really loved how things unfolded here.

She Says It's Not a Love Song (But it Totally Is) (Yu Yu Hakusho, Yukina)
Yukina is awesome in this, and everyone else is written in a way that makes me wish this fic were even longer (but it's a perfect length, with self discovery, realizations, and a whole lot more).

Yuletide aside, I started reading +C: Sword and Cornett, and I like it a lot (with the conspiracies and princes and people saving and crossdressing and loyalty). But now that I've read through everything that's available so quickly, I'll need to wait. *grumbles* Still, this is now also on my to-buy list. :) I've also been reading T.R.A.P. (that I bought last last week) and finished volume 1 so far, and yup, the main character really does have amnesia, and he's probably psychic. *g* I look forward to seeing what kind of soccer will result from this.

The reveal for the Obscure Fandom challenge at yaoi_challenge is up!

Fics I received from the past two challenges that I really adore:

♥ Lost in the Silver Box (Eureka 7, Dominic-centric) by Thimble (ravenbell). When Dominic boards the Gekko State, how well does he get along with the rest of the crew? (I had just finished watching E7 when I requested this, and it was the fic that I wanted to see written the most. I'm so glad that ravenbell took on the prompt! ♥ )

♥ Where all Things End (Princess Tutu, Knight/Prince [Fakir/Mytho]) by hyakumonogatari (nekokoban. A fractured fairy tale for the Knight.


The reveal for remus_reads was up ages ago too. I've been meaning to rec this fic that I read in the ficathon.

♥ The Alphabet Song (HP, Remus/Harry). The fic goes through the entire alphabet. Really quite adorable.

I shall be posting up the fics I submitted too...after more editing, that is. I've accumulated quite a few fics.

some HP favorites of mine that have accumulated over time...though it's sad that I don't remember half of my old favorites. Some are older, some are newer. Includes recs for Draco, Remus, Harry, and Neville-centric fics.