It's the end of February, 2008, already?! Oh, hell.
After far longer than expected---and after missing all of my dear friends here in LJ-Land way too much!---I decided that Leap Day was a good time to get back online once more.
Why reappear on the 29th of February? Why, simply to wish Tsukiyono Omi a happy birthday, of course! Why else?
{smirks before acknowledging that this was just coincidence, then continues as if that random remark hadn't surfaced on its own}
Truly, I never even saw an absence of this magnitude looming on the horizon back in September when I nonchalantly threw out that last genki post. {heavy sigh} But the mostly painful reasons for the silence are not suitable for a public post. I will reserve that particular darkness for a Friends Only entry that will immediately follow this one and instead I'll focus on lighter topics for now.
First and foremost, let me address that which brought me to these fine environs oh so many years ago. This could only mean fandom-related matters, of course, so here goes my most shameful admission for the entire post:
I haven't even glanced at anything pertaining to fanfiction since mid-September. {hangs head before adding} Yes, this means I never went back and checked for quality or even reviews for the first two chapters of "Breaking All the Rules" after they were posted at MM.org. {crawls under table and hides while whimpering} I'm a horrible person. A cad, a humbug, a well and truly guilt-ridden jerk... In other words, a decidedly unhappy llama.
{slaps self repeatedly, then throws self on the mercy of the court and pleads}
But I'll try harder now, really, I will! Don't kill me... yet. After all, there are more complete Weiss Kreuz manuscripts trapped on my hard drive that are simply aching to see the light of day sometime in 2008!
Yes, the rest of book 3 of the Realizations Arc as well as all of books 4 & 5 are hiding in there and if at all possible, I will get back to that before too awfully much longer. Whenever I do, perhaps I'll even discover who read that last posting run and whether or not they enjoyed it. Hmmm.... where did that leave off anyway? {frowns thoughtfully before admitting}
After being apart from Calliope and her sisters for so long, I fear that I will have to go back and re-read every last chapter of the arc that have been published thus far before I can possibly resume editing. Argh! I will even have to skim ahead some, too, so I can remember where all of it was headed, especially the portions involving Schwarz. As much of a continuity freak as I am, it would leave me a total wreck to damage my own muses' efforts by unintentionally redirecting things at this point. {sighs and acquiesces to the necessary evil that is re-education, then adds morosely}
Oh, and for the Saiyuki: Reload lovers out there, "Painful Lessons" is still biding its time at a frightening 50,000+ words in the bowels of my laptop. {another, albeit deeper sigh} I wonder how much longer it will take to get that back up to speed...? Probably too long, but we'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Now, turning to other otaku topics...
As far as anime viewing is concerned, there was more of that in the last five months than might have been expected. Mostly due to strange schedules during October-December and more recently because of illness/migraines/etc. I remain addicted to all of the shows that I was in love with when last we discussed such things. There have been a few promising new titles that failed to deliver and a couple of unexpected personal favorites that I'll hopefully yammer on about more another time.
Graphic novels continue to be my escape of choice on a nightly basis. While blissfully solo in Havelock, it's often a yaoi title that is my chosen vehicle. However, while at the yaoi-free zone that is the DHoC---a place where I spent way too much time during my absence---it was mostly shounen stuff.
I haven't even glanced at eBay in ages, so the only new otaku goodies in my hands lately have all been courtesy of my bro. The gloriously colorful anime magazines from Japan and so forth from Akadot have been welcome beyond words.
By the way, I haven't accessed the email account that links to this journal in over five months, so odds are good that I've missed a ton of stuff there. Sorry about that. But in all honesty, I haven't kept up on my normal email either---there's too much bad news in that particular inbox for me to cope with lately---but I'll be trying to wrap myself around those twin sources of angst before too awfully much longer.
Heck, I was so egregiously out of touch that I had failed to note that my paid account here had lapsed. {winces} It turns out that they lock down part of your userpics when that happens, yet thanks to the timely intervention of weisshund this afternoon, that has already been remedied. Arigatou, bro!
{feeling rather nervous about his long delayed return to the online world, the llama goes to get a cup of Earl Grey Decaf and then makes sure the following post isn't as depressing as the previous two rough drafts of it were.... yeah, the pack animal's journal entries get edited just as much as his fanfiction does. is that really a surprise to anyone reading this?}
Why reappear on the 29th of February? Why, simply to wish Tsukiyono Omi a happy birthday, of course! Why else?
{smirks before acknowledging that this was just coincidence, then continues as if that random remark hadn't surfaced on its own}
Truly, I never even saw an absence of this magnitude looming on the horizon back in September when I nonchalantly threw out that last genki post. {heavy sigh} But the mostly painful reasons for the silence are not suitable for a public post. I will reserve that particular darkness for a Friends Only entry that will immediately follow this one and instead I'll focus on lighter topics for now.
First and foremost, let me address that which brought me to these fine environs oh so many years ago. This could only mean fandom-related matters, of course, so here goes my most shameful admission for the entire post:
I haven't even glanced at anything pertaining to fanfiction since mid-September. {hangs head before adding} Yes, this means I never went back and checked for quality or even reviews for the first two chapters of "Breaking All the Rules" after they were posted at MM.org. {crawls under table and hides while whimpering} I'm a horrible person. A cad, a humbug, a well and truly guilt-ridden jerk... In other words, a decidedly unhappy llama.
{slaps self repeatedly, then throws self on the mercy of the court and pleads}
But I'll try harder now, really, I will! Don't kill me... yet. After all, there are more complete Weiss Kreuz manuscripts trapped on my hard drive that are simply aching to see the light of day sometime in 2008!
Yes, the rest of book 3 of the Realizations Arc as well as all of books 4 & 5 are hiding in there and if at all possible, I will get back to that before too awfully much longer. Whenever I do, perhaps I'll even discover who read that last posting run and whether or not they enjoyed it. Hmmm.... where did that leave off anyway? {frowns thoughtfully before admitting}
After being apart from Calliope and her sisters for so long, I fear that I will have to go back and re-read every last chapter of the arc that have been published thus far before I can possibly resume editing. Argh! I will even have to skim ahead some, too, so I can remember where all of it was headed, especially the portions involving Schwarz. As much of a continuity freak as I am, it would leave me a total wreck to damage my own muses' efforts by unintentionally redirecting things at this point. {sighs and acquiesces to the necessary evil that is re-education, then adds morosely}
Oh, and for the Saiyuki: Reload lovers out there, "Painful Lessons" is still biding its time at a frightening 50,000+ words in the bowels of my laptop. {another, albeit deeper sigh} I wonder how much longer it will take to get that back up to speed...? Probably too long, but we'll have to wait and see, I guess.
Now, turning to other otaku topics...
As far as anime viewing is concerned, there was more of that in the last five months than might have been expected. Mostly due to strange schedules during October-December and more recently because of illness/migraines/etc. I remain addicted to all of the shows that I was in love with when last we discussed such things. There have been a few promising new titles that failed to deliver and a couple of unexpected personal favorites that I'll hopefully yammer on about more another time.
Graphic novels continue to be my escape of choice on a nightly basis. While blissfully solo in Havelock, it's often a yaoi title that is my chosen vehicle. However, while at the yaoi-free zone that is the DHoC---a place where I spent way too much time during my absence---it was mostly shounen stuff.
I haven't even glanced at eBay in ages, so the only new otaku goodies in my hands lately have all been courtesy of my bro. The gloriously colorful anime magazines from Japan and so forth from Akadot have been welcome beyond words.
By the way, I haven't accessed the email account that links to this journal in over five months, so odds are good that I've missed a ton of stuff there. Sorry about that. But in all honesty, I haven't kept up on my normal email either---there's too much bad news in that particular inbox for me to cope with lately---but I'll be trying to wrap myself around those twin sources of angst before too awfully much longer.
Heck, I was so egregiously out of touch that I had failed to note that my paid account here had lapsed. {winces} It turns out that they lock down part of your userpics when that happens, yet thanks to the timely intervention of weisshund this afternoon, that has already been remedied. Arigatou, bro!
{feeling rather nervous about his long delayed return to the online world, the llama goes to get a cup of Earl Grey Decaf and then makes sure the following post isn't as depressing as the previous two rough drafts of it were.... yeah, the pack animal's journal entries get edited just as much as his fanfiction does. is that really a surprise to anyone reading this?}