Fic: Stoked
Jun. 16th, 2015 03:19 pmThis is not any of the things I /should/ be writing right now, but I haven’t been having any luck on any of those, so, here you go.
Because I finished Raising Steam today and thought, “…did Vimes know? He /had/ to have known.”
tiny original thing
Jun. 5th, 2015 09:31 pmWhich means someone has to make them. Swords that glow in the presence of evil and vials of liquid that change color when someone dies don’t just /happen/, you know.
( writing occured )
.
Fic: Filling the Cracks
May. 2nd, 2015 07:40 pmTitle: Filling the Cracks
Post-TWS. Natasha goes by the grave, sometimes. Maybe she's looking for reasons. (Maybe not, but she gets them anyway.)
For
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veleda_k. Vel, you've helped me get through a lot of horrible stuff over the last six months. I can't really say thank you, enough. Instead, have a fic. ( Filling the Cracks )
(no subject)
Apr. 9th, 2015 07:43 pm…..So, the new president of my club /might/ be an asshole.
( cut for ranting )
untitled fic
Mar. 12th, 2015 09:49 pmduskwightscholar asked: izumi and olivia getting close after the armstrong-curtis-take-down-sloth-alliance. sig dying of something, izumi lays on olivia for support in these times because izumi loved him and misses him dearly, and olivia's been in love with izumi for a long time so yeah, but then a few years later izumi just flat out asks olivia out and ye"
And then fic happened. I do not have a title for it, but i like it anyway.
( izumi/olivia )
Fic: Den of Ghosts
Feb. 21st, 2015 11:01 pmTakes place shortly after this story.
Yeah, it’s a series now apparently. This is, again, more or less unedited.
Final Fantasy 7/Bravely Default fusion
Last week, the Chief disappeared into a Turk van, and Jackal knew what that meant.Fic: The Going Rate for Loyalty
Feb. 16th, 2015 08:20 pmFinal Fantasy 7/Bravely Default fusion
Set in Midgar
Tseng has captured one of the most skilled private body guards in MIdgar - now, to convince him to stay. (Turk!Khint AU)
Crystal-Bright
Feb. 11th, 2015 08:49 pmLast week on my tumblr, I asked for femslash drabble prompts.
Edmondia responded with “I want to say cute bitties Agnes/Olivia but I also don’t want spoilers and haven’t started chapter five yet.”
It is not quite a drabble, but nevertheless. Agnès/Olivia, pregame, a total lack of spoilers. Just adorable teen girls with crushes and a slice of time to themselves.
( Crystal-Bright )Fic: Pallor Mortis
Jan. 19th, 2015 08:08 pmTrigger warnings: Suicide ideation, suicide attempt, self-harm, blood, morbid imagery, forced hospitalization. (If I missed any, let me know please! Take care of yourselves, darlings!)
Bravely Default
Pallor Mortis
Victor S. Court
Summary behind cut for Chapter 4 Spoilers
Fic: A Step out of Sequence
Jan. 9th, 2015 11:38 pmDoctor/Companion AU
AKA dr who fic written by someone who has never watched Dr Who AKA that thing that spun way out of control AKA "i researched 12 century cathedrals for one detail in one scene"
Spoilers for Vampire Subquest in Bravely Default
The Doctor always works to protect humanity - but every now and then, he finds a fascinating, distracting person. DeRosso/Yulyana subtext
bravely default narrative meta
Dec. 12th, 2014 11:40 pmBut in this case those rules backfire - the characters know how those stories go too, and that's what get used against them. Because human beings /believe/ in stories, more than we believe in facts. Human beings need narrative, and we tend to place ourselves in the slot of Chosen One at the beginning of our Hero's Joureny. At worst, we'll be a contributor the Great Cause. Everyone wants to be important, and any politician or propagandist knows it and knows how to manipulate it.
Frame the facts in the right narrative, and you can get people to believe whatever you want. They'll maintain it themselves, even, once they're invested in it, and ignore any possible flaws in the story. Wonder how politicians can take the exact same facts and get completely different responses out of them? It's because they're fitting the information into different narrative contexts. They may even believe it whole heartedly, because they have their own stories too, but not always. Sometimes it's just manipulation, knowing the narratives that get the right response out of people.
Bravely Default takes the fantasy narrative and turns it against itself, takes the human need for the Hero's Quest and shows how easily it can be manipulated. Human beings need stories, but it's very important to know who's telling the tale.
fandom is like found art
Nov. 27th, 2014 12:41 amFound art works kind of like this: wandering about your every day life, you find a thing. Maybe it's a piece of worn wood, twisted in interesting directions. Maybe it's a rusted bolt, age and damage giving it texture and character. Maybe it's a rock, split with cracks but holding together somehow. Whatever it is, it's compelling. Something about the shape or the color or the texture of it makes you stop and pick it up, thinking, "Huh, I could do something with this..."
So you do. You suspend the ancient bolt among its newer brethren or wrap the wood in twisted wire or carefully, carefully pull the rock apart to see what's inside. Maybe you put the bolt through the wood or trace the rock's cracks in neon paint. But you emphasize rather than disguise - sure, you /could/ sand the wood clean, or clean the rust off the bolt, or glue the rock back together, but then, what's the point? Take away the flaws and uniqueness, and then whatever you found so fascinating isn't there anymore. You want to champion the interesting features, not erase them.
Fandom - fanfiction and fanart - are a bit like that. Only with stories, or characters, or relationships, or settings. You come across a story, something compelling somehow, and you want to make something new out of it. You want to see what a character is like in a different setting, or zoom in a particular figure in the background, or move a couple of people around because they clearly belong next to each other. You take what you find and make into something new and interesting.
It's art. And it's pretty cool.
so. therapy.
Nov. 5th, 2014 10:25 pmSession on Monday? I was talking about my career and he talked about how important networking was, and I quipped that networking was hard when you have social anxiety.
Fucker had the /gall/ to call anxiety an "excuse".
( cut for ranting )
brb cackling
Nov. 2nd, 2014 09:31 pmfor one of my classes, we're doing a project. and for my project I wanted to do engineering analysis of bone. I got some deer legs, but my prof wants them to be clean before they come into the lab, so I'm doing that now.
I was pulling them out of the oven where I was boiling them, when one of my roommates' best friends (who has been irritatingly friendly to me this whole semester, coming to talk to me despite very clear "fuck off" signals) came over asked me what I was doing.
So I told her. I explained the experiment that I was doing (seeing how vibrations transfer through bone) and that I really /wanted/ to do human bone but couldn't get any.... by the end (and especially at the part where I told her it's legal to buy human bone) she had that alarmde slightly-too-wide look in her eyes.
I may or may not be cackling a bit now. She's insisted on getting to know me this whole time.... not my fault if what she finds isn't what she expected.Fic: Honest Men
Nov. 1st, 2014 08:38 pmFic: Honest Men
Fandom: Bravely Default
Summary: Partners in Crime AU. Agnes only wanted to do what she had to survive, but there was no other way...was there?
( Cheating honest men )
Fic: Sandstone Tower
Nov. 1st, 2014 04:26 pmFic: Sandstone Tower
Fandom: Bravely Default
Rating: G
Summary: The Crown Prince of Ancheim hated being dragged out to Royal Events, but there might be someone worthwhile at this party… Pregame, preslash.
( fic )
No idea how I feel about it past that.
taking care of self
Oct. 7th, 2014 10:21 pmSo, as some of you know, I have sort of stumbled face first into being president of a club. The added pressure, among other things, has done horrible things to my already fucked brain chemistry, and I’ve been having panic attacks over it.
Today I went in to talk to my adviser, who is also the faculty for the club. I wanted to be upfront about it - I have panic attacks, this is stressing me out, I’ll do the best I can but I don’t know if that will be enough.
It went well. She was understanding - said there had been other club leaders with anxiety issues, told me about things I shouldn’t worry about and reminded me that this was to gain experience and have fun. And she said if there was anything she could do to help, or if there was anything that she was doing wrong, let her know.
And I appreciate that. So yeah. I think I might be able to handle this.
