Which is to say, my garbled brain spit something up. It makes sense in my mind, but maybe it comes across as muddled. For reference, the photo it refers to is the picture at the top of the journal (which I didn't draw, obviously, but which inspired this).

Title: The Photograph
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Nami/Sanji/Zoro (Hooray!) Only includes the ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 6
Raksha and Hathi

The Atrium was a man with a pig, then a zoo, then the botanical garden that is its final form in the story. By the time it was a zoo, I knew it needed a zoo-keeper. Just as Nami needed Yasue-mama to introduce her to the brothel, Sanji needed someone to introduce him to the Atrium. The image that sprang ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 6
Broken - One Piece and Paradise Lost

I wouldn't call it a reference, or an inspiration, but Milton's 'Paradise Lost' definitely had an impact on chapter six, especially Sanji's thoughts on people who are broken, or fallen, or otherwise damaged. I had explored the idea somewhat in chapter two, but it came back to me now and ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 6
Arium

The English language has ruined my joke. It was going to be "I thought someone misspelled 'arium'," but apparently that doesn't work. And why? Because according to my spell-check, 'arium' is not a word. Dictionary.com and Google. those fine and reputable sources, agree with it (which is annoying, because they ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 6
Shang-tu

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Kubla Kahn'. It goes on for a while after that, but those two lines are the only ones that really impacted the story. Shang-tu (about which more will be said in future chapters) takes its name from the Chinese name for Xanadu ( Read more... )

Story Title: All Their Sins
Chapter Title: Suicide and Bestiality
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Eventual Zoro x Nami x Sanji, nothing specific in this chapter.
Notes: I couldn't decide on a title! They were both such excellent sins, and I couldn't choose... Anyway, because I actually have a lot I want to say about this story (and especially this chapter, for ( Read more... )

Story Title: All Their Sins
Chapter Title: Homosexuality
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Zoro/Sanji in this chapter

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It was raining out this morning - afternoon? He was sure the shithead knew, but for some reason the man wasn't saying. It was a cold, angry rain, each drop like a needle on his ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 4
Yasue-mama

Alright: time for obscure manga references!

I needed a character that wasn't wholly evil to great Nami upon her arrival in Shang-tu. What I was trying for, I suppose, was to have a character that would embody what the brothel means to its working girls: a cruel master, but by far not the worst option. Yasue- ( Read more... )

Story Title: All Their Sins
Chapter Title: Pornography
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Eventual Zoro/Nami/Sanji, mostly gen.

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Nami didn't like to think of herself as an experienced hostage, per se, but she'd been in this situation enough times to have learned a thing or two. She wasn't quite sure ( Read more... )

All Their Sins, Chapter 3
Kapila Aranya

The nightmare island where our three protagonists find themselves stranded has its roots in Las Vegas, I suppose. The problem is, I've never been there. So where it in fact comes from is not the city, but pictures of the city at night, the darkness lit up with streetlights and neon signs, and stories about ( Read more... )