Christmas 'gift' for my online friends!

[caitlin_chan]

So, since I haven't bought gifts or whatever for my online friends (alana, atom, slightbuddhist, tonko, pixiemarie, inomuiro, this is you guys! If I forgot anyone, OMG!SORRY!), partly because I have no money and partly because I have no addresses, I have come up with something that is free and will (hopefully) make you happy

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[tonko]

::wave:: Hi!

I have no idea how to reply to the ff.net PM (i r noob) so I'll say thanks here--and don't worry, you're not coming off as mean in any way whatsoever. Thank you for your mini-beta. I'll have to poke around with my account there to figure out how to update the fic (been a while), since I agreed with your point.

At least I can edit the one on LJ easily enough. ::does so::

And, OMG fic for meeeee. :D :D
Okay, hrm. How's this:

Naruto pirate-ship AU. Any pairings you want, m/m always good, but aything goes, heh. Can be goofy as hell or angst-ridden (but prefer happy endings if so). My main pirate-y knowledge comes from One Piece, by the way, so don't worry about authenticity.

If that's too general or too WTF-y, then seriously, give it a pass, and how about... some Hinata-Neji friendship, with presence/cameos of Naruto, and/or possibly Kiba and Shino.

You're so brave, I'm not sure I could write off of a prompt but if you give me one back I'd like to try, though my brain's in a Riskverse rut so I'm not sure how I'd do.

Random thought: I need to get a Naruto icon.

[caitlin_chan]

To reply to PMs on FFnet, you go to the person's profile and click the "Send message" link. ^_^

If you need it, I tell you how to fix your FFnet versions. ^^

How about I give the pirate thing a try (because it sounds like LOADS of fun! ^_^), and then if I can't get it to be anything worth reading, I fall back to the Hinata-Neji friendship? Either one would be a one-shot, though - is that cool?

Well, they won't be done by Christmas, because I have exams and work, and I have to work on getting what I have of my NaNo novel ready for my free copy to be published (BWEE! Free published copy! Yay for LuLu!) at least a bit, since I have to send it in by January 15th. ^^;;

OMG, Riskverse would make me happy! So would Shika/Chou or Naruto/Neji or Naruto/Gaara or anything really, m/m not required, since I like Naruto/Hinata and Kiba/Hinata and Hinata/Gaara (as long as the author has them actually, y'know, meet and stuff before getting together) and Shika/Temari and... yeah. I'll read anything if it's well written. ^^ Oh, and I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort-ish stuff. XD

You can gank some of mine, if you want - I think I have all my Naruto ones credited to whoever made them. ^^

[tonko]

Aha, you've cracked the secret of teh ffnets! Thanks, lol, I'll remember that for next time.

Good luck for the pirate thing--I'm glad you think it'd be fun, I wasn't sure if it was just cracktastic, heh, and I'm sure whichever ends up working will be awesome. No worries here if it's post-Christmas, half the niceness is anticipation :P. Oneshot of course! I certainly wasn't thinking of a 60-chapter epic :P

::cracks knuckles:: Hurt/comfort, booyah! That's my thing for sure. Time to start thinking, then. Aaaand, hello, I have an idea. Shika/Chou Riskverse not-quite m/m due to post-marriage (that okay?) h/c.

And hey, you get an actual published copy of your NaNo novel? That is AWESOME.

[caitlin_chan]

Hey, no problem. I've been with the site since... oh gods... 2000, when it used to be, well, really good. I miss the old Writer's University section.... :(

Well, it is cracktastic, but it's not JUST cracktastic. ^^ I see you shiver with antici... ... ... ...pation! The only reason I mentioned the one-shot thing was that I actually had someone who I'd offered a fic to (this was a few years ago) expect a big epic fic. >< It was kind of aggravating, actually, because they didn't even say thanks for what they got - they were all like "Is that all? Where's the rest?". ><

Wheeeeee, h/c! ^_^ And a sorta Shika/Chou is totally fine. ^_^ Your writing in general makes me happy, so it's all good. *is excited* As you may have noticed, I'm pretty easy to please as far as pairings go. ;P *hearts your next gen m/m OC/OC pairings as case in point* XD

If you win, you can get a free copy published through Lulu.com, as long as it's being shipped to a US address. I have an ML friend in the States who has said I can get it shipped to her place, then I'll pay her for the shipping to me.

Wow, we both seem to ramble a lot in comments, don't we? XD

[tonko]

We do. I tend to do that--I'm pretty shy, until someone actually talks to me, then I can really get going. Internet is worse for that, since I can't be interrupted, lol.

Okay, awesome, I'm going to start fiddling with my plot. This will be fun!

And awww you hearted Mako/Hazu, thank you, I'm glad they turned out okay as I didn't want to make them sue-ish but I can't really tell if I succeeded. Like, I thought I did, and then I look at them from another angle, and it doesn't seem so anymore.

Which leads to me asking... do you think when you're less busy (like January, maybe), you'd be willing to do a beta of their story? Anyway, I don't want to heap tons on your plate, so "no" is okay :P but if you're interested, we can take this to email if you don't want me clogging your comments :P (dragoncat at g mail for me).

[caitlin_chan]

OMG. XD I am totally the same way sometimes. ^^;;

This will be fun! I'm excited! Nothing better to recover from icky exams than writing fic.

And Mako and Hazu totally aren't Sue/Stu-ish. ^^ (Though you do have Hazuki in an earlier fic as Haruki, I think, unless there's two of them and I'm just confused?)

OMG! I would totally beta for you! *bounces* I love betaing - it's kind of sad actually, because one reason is that I get to debate obscure points of grammar with my roommate, rostand. XD And I don't care about you clogging my comments - I usually don't get any, so it's a nice change. XD (My e-mail is tsukiyuuki@yahoo.com, and my MSN is tsukiyuuki@hotmail.com, but don't e-mail me there or I'll never get it. *got Hotmail just for MSN and hasn't checked it since getting the address '04* XD)

[tonko]

Shyeeaaah... Hazuki = Haruki. See the whole Mako/Hazu thing came out of my sketching, I was just doodling Hyuuga-with-short-messy-hair and Uzumaki-with-long-hair, which decided to be "that other son of Hinata's" and Mako, and I couldn't remember Hazuki's name lol, so it sort of morphed. And then I couldn't go back. He was a baby in 21 Days, though, I never expected him to end up this way! Cute sleeping infant = insolent, cocky, self-centered Anbu? Who knew.

(He's Haruki still in the FF.net version of 21 Days, but the LJ version's since been corrected.)

Fun trivia: Hazuki (and Haruki) = girl name. I didn't realize till after the fact. But I figured a fandom with people named after fishcakes and butterflies wouldn't mind too much.

[caitlin_chan]

OMG, that's hilarious. XD

(Yeah, that's where I remember seeing it as Haruki.)

I had kinda noticed that they were girls' names, but I basically looked at it the same way as you. :P Girls names for guys, versus fishcakes, butterflies, whirlpools, deer... shall I continue? XD