So I was reading a fanfic the other day, and while it had interesting parts, there was one aspect that wound up annoying the ever loving crap out of me. I'm not going to say for what fandom because really, the characters were so OOC that they might as well have been original. However, they were interesting characters in their own right, which was ( Read more... )

Dear self,

The reason why you associate that particular shade of yellow-green with royalty is because of a story you wrote. Searching on Google will not give you any details about which royalty because you made it up. IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD.

Don't you feel stupid now?

No love,
Tsaiko

I just wrote this in a dictionary I'm putting together for one of my other stories.

Antarekarab n.: Mythology A warrior who famously vowed to avenge the death of his family by seeing the last of the Bheran clan die without heir. He became the husband/partner of the male prophet Aknara asKharal, paired to a blue unicorn with sight and last of the ( Read more... )

IT'S LIKE HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVELS AND HIGH FANTASY STORIES WITH DRAGONS AND UNICORNS AND MAGIC AND SHIT HAVE MATED IN MY BRAIN TO PRODUCE SOME SORT OF HORRIFYING VICTORIAN BASED FANTASY WORLD HYBRID. SOMEBODY STOP ME FROM WRITING STORIES SET IN THIS WORLD.

Note to self: in the STFU universe, you can graduate from STFU with egregia cum laude as that can be translated as "with outstanding praise" or as "with hysterical praise."

I still kind of wish I could graduate with hysterical praise.

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, in France you can graduate with the notation assez bien ("good enough"). I know ( Read more... )

I have been working on the Desert Bride story all afternoon. I finally managed to finish the first part and now only have two more parts to go before where I started writing this thing connects with the actual beginning of the story. This is why I try to start at the beginning. So I don't have to go back and write things out of order. Less ( Read more... )

I am not on campus today. My throat is raw, my head hurts, I'm stuffed up, and my body aches. I am sick. I cannot afford to be sick, especially not tomorrow when I'm meeting up with my manager from my internship and the DNR. Ugh ( Read more... )

Even if no one else is amused by this I am. For all that Han claims to not be superstitious, she checks the back of Tahn's neck just to make sure he's not a demon. LOL.

( Original novel fragment, Muddy Waters )

miome and I went to one of the local farmer's markets today where we cleaned out their bruised tomato stash. This place usually has a box full of fruit that got bruises or is slightly damaged in transit, so they are half off. Seven pounds of tomatoes for $7. Miome then cut these up, added some white wine and bullion, and is letting them cook down in the ( Read more... )

I'm discovering that the biggest problem with writing a story about superheros is coming up with a code name that ( Read more... )