SHOUT OUT AND CONGRATS
So, duh, Season Tres of ze contest de Compy is over, will dearest 'ai-chan as the winner. Here I take the time to fully express my sincere happiness of that case.
My dearest Shadow, we first came into contact when you reviewed my major YGOHP xover, New Professors, New Adventures, saying that it was good and that you were going to write a YGOHP xover of your own. That became With A Wave Of The Wand, the monstrosity that is now one of the most popular YGOHP xovers out there.
Since then, your writing has matured, and morphed into the impressive monster that it is now. Your skills are far superior to most that I know, including myself; it brings to life the image and emotions of your characters, even when you're working with those with not even an ounce of personality. If a challenge is issued, you soar above it and write something that leaves the reader reeling, thinking and wanting more. What was once a simple bolt of lightning suddenly becomes a searing flash of light, a deep roar as twenty feet away, something strikes the ground and makes the hair stand on the character's neck, the singed smell of grass filling his or her nostrils as survival instincts kick in, a frozen moment in time before feet pound the gravel underneath. Nothing is ever flat, boring, 2D with you. Everything is alive, and it's all just something for you to work with and present.
The contest only honed your skills. As you rose to even the monsters of chuteshipping and fillershipping, you showed us all that nothing is impossible to be written, that even people who have never met can grow and learn to love. That despite the odds, any two people can come together in *some* sort of situation and prove that they are better that that.
So congrats, saiai-chan. Because that's what you are, my saiai, and that's what you will always be. And thank you, for not only the stories that have let me and others stunned and frozen to the spot, but for your support, emails, and love. Which is why that June is so much more convenient for me to visit, and I hope you're not off to your gran's (?) in Australia when I *am* in your country. x3
Well jeez, that made me teary and cheesy. I better go to homework... *sheepish grin* 'Till later?