Title: The Road Not Taken: All Roads: Post-writing commentary
Author: virdant
Length: 1,000 words approximately
Notes: Knowledge of Pretty much all of Road Not Taken AU is necessary to understand this, but specifically All Roads.

All Roads
Post-Writing Commentary.

Welcome to what is arguably my favorite part of writing Road Not Taken AU-the post- ( Read more... )

Title: Road Not Taken AU: Bypass: Post-writing commentary
Author: virdant
Length: 1,000 words approximately
Notes: Knowledge of Pretty much all of Road Not Taken AU is necessary to understand this, but specifically Bypass.

Bypass - Post-writing Commentary

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Title: Road Not Taken AU: Watching at the Crossroads: Post-writing commentary
Author: virdant
Length: ~3000 words.
Notes: Knowledge of Pretty much all of Road Not Taken AU is necessary to understand this.

Watching at the Crossroads
Post-writing commentary

Firstly, * waves hands vaguely * I’m not entirely sure why I’m still writing KAT-TUN. I suppose a ( Read more... )

Title: Road Not Taken AU: To Walk the Higher Road: Post-writing commentary
Author: virdant
Length: ~3000 words.
Notes: Knowledge of To Walk the Higher Road is necessary to understand this.

Road Not Taken AU
To Walk the Higher Road - Post-Writing CommentaryI think this is going to become a “thing” for me. I write a fic, and then put down my process, my ( Read more... )

Title: Now Twirl: A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.
Author: virdant
Length: ~6500 words.

Now Twirl
A not-very-brief discussion on similarities and differences between boybands
in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and The West.

( 'Talent' agents would scout for young men who fit a certain critera of handsome-whatever was popular at the time. One notable teen star was scouted when his father got into a car accident. The agent spotted him running hysterically after the ambulance, and thought that said boy had good enough looks to market. After he was signed, they 'recorded' him, where they cut and mixed together several takes which sounded passably on tune. Then he would perform his 'song'-in reality just lip-syncing to his own track to an audience of screaming teenage girls. )

Title: Taguchi Got Hot Or: A rudimentary analysis of KAT-TUN’s Music Station Super Live 2012 Performance.
Author: virdant
Length: 4821 words,
Notes: It's 4821 words of maybe 1/8 of my opinions that I've had for years, finally expressed because KAT-TUN's MSte2012 Performance frankly kinda terrifies me.

Taguchi Got HotOr: A rudimentary analysis of KAT-TUN ( Read more... )

Normally, I try to not write any notes at all. Normally, I don’t say anything about my writing process or anything like that. Mostly because I think my writing should stand on its own, and I always found fandom to be a bit of a test for myself-is my writing good enough to attract people, to get people happy and excited? The answer, of course, ( Read more... )

Title: The Question of Nobuta; Post-Completion Meta
Author: virdant
Length: 7207 words
Rating: PG-13 / R
Genre: Meta of AU, Dystopia, sci-fi.
Pairing: implied Pikame, Implied Shuji/Akira
Summary: Story Summary: NOBUTA; the program's name is NOBUTA. In a world where people spend the majority of their time online playing roles, a rogue program named ( Read more... )

This year was very prolific for fanfiction. I will be posting an overall review over on my rl journal before the new year, if you are interested in that sort of thing. For now, however, I will simply focus on fanfiction. :)

( Divided by type, and then fandom. )

So, as 2008 comes to an end, I've decided to just... study my accomplishments in the fanfic realm.

This is really, the first year that I've posted fanfiction. Not technically, because I had my spats of Mary-Sue OC's and whatnot when I was twelve, but this is my first year. Let's just say that.

20 Seperate DBSK One-shotsOut of all of these, I'm ( Read more... )