[FIC] X, "The Dead and Dreaming"

[umadoshi]

Usually I post full-length stories to my website first, but I'm hoping to catch hinikuish before she goes away and I'm not in the mood to fidget with HTML. May or may not get around to cross-posting to the various X communities; might wait until it's uploaded to the site. *shrugs*

Anyway: my first longer-than-a-page X fic. Sorata/Arashi, set pretty much

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[parron]

Umm. Okay. I know I tend to bug people about leaving long, detailed reviews, so it's time for Parron to do some practicing of her preaching, right? Let me just get the inanity (wow, that's actually a real word) out of the way first: OMGQUEEEEEEEEEEE. ♥♥♥ SORATA/ARASHI IS LOVE, AS ARE YOU. (as is you?) You're an irritatingly brilliant writer, I hope you know

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[umadoshi]

Okay. I loved the mad amount of research you put into the story, the little details and the quotes and the religious stuff. Sometimes that sort of thing ends up feeling a little elitist, like "look at my total smartness," and I must admit that your seemed almost too close to the "show off" line at points, but generally it just added to the coolness. *laughs* Fair enough--I debated taking out the reference to the 14th century monk, but I like the account in the book far too much. ^^ I did think it might be a bit much. (Also, I discovered a tragic inability to be sure whether the Koyasan monks would necessarily use Sanskrit rather than the Japanese, but then I decided that since Shingon is primarily a Japanese sect it would probably be ok since I got the info from a Shingon site.) Butbutbut Shingon (and Shinto) are so very interesting, I had to take advantage of the chance to do research! (And that's not even touching on the part where I was at a yard sale last year that was being run by some local Vajrayana Buddhists, and I asked

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[parron]

Yey and behold my totally fitting icon. :D

First of all, ha! Believe me, the X fandom will like this story. It's well written and besides, they all liked my crazy Hokuto/Seishiro story and this is way better AND not defying a major canon couple. XD;; If you'd like, I can plug it for you? whore it to the masses? I have a couple of people on my flist that would probably be interested/totally read it. :P X fandom is totally not scary, because we all realize how full of crack the manga really is (read: eyeballs!) and love it anyway. You have nothing to fear. :D

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[umadoshi]

That icon is fabulous. *_*

*laughs* If you feel inclined to rec it, I don't mind. If you do, though, I should probably know where, so that I don't spam the same people. That's the hardest part about fic-pimping--I know I should mention it in the obvious places, like togakushishrine and sorashiholics, but then I wonder if there's too much overlap, since the latter is a very small and fairly lifeless place. But given the subject matter, I can't *not* pimp it there. >.< See, I overthink everything. Buuu. I don't mind admitting that I've worked hard on something, but actually promoting it makes me get all queasy inside. Bad combination. ^^

"I am calm, I am calm, I am not losing my temper with you, I am calm, I am calm, OMG SHUT UP, calm, calm, dotdotdot, CALM."

*grins* Ohhh, yeah, that's her. I do love your summaries. ^_^ Poor Arashi. *pets* (I just had this sudden image of Sora giving her chronic migraines. O_O She seems like the type to carry tension badly, barring meditation . . . )

It's entirely possible I'll be the only of your hundreds

[wingblossom]

I'm not a fan of Sorata/Arashi, but I really like this: can't pinpoint my reasons at the moment until I'm in a more lucid mood, but it's v. subtle and convincing.

[umadoshi]

^_^ Thank you! I'm glad you liked it--I don't write them often, but I really enjoy working with them (and need more practice ^^).