[subete nagesute te boku no...]
DOING THIS WHEN I SHOULD BE DOING OTHER SHIT........... (lol working)
Leave me a comment saying "rainbow". I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in your post and offer to ask other people questions.
I will say this, though: if I go through all the trouble of thinking up questions for you all, you'd damn well better answer them. :P
Anyway, my responses! (as queried by seki_yumizu)
1.) Take some pictures of your [much talked about] crazy eyeliners.
OKAY.
There's two here: this bronze-y red, and this deep purple. They're both part of the 24/7 Eyelights collection by Urban Decay, my absolute FAVORITE cosmetics producer. Despite my love of them, however, I still have yet to muster up the courage to buy their eyeliner that comes in that crazy acid green... ;_____;
The red, BTW, is not that crazy on skin. It's a really muted bronze, actually. I use it for a brown smoky eye more than anything else WTF fail. It's a nice color, but TOTALLY NOT AS ADVERTISED *sigh*.
2.) Now pictures of mysterious eyeliner on yourself.
Forgive my crappy hair and lack of aforementioned bronze eyeliner. -__- I decided to try a green palette for shit's sake today because I was thinking about doing green for a Christmas party I'm attending tomorrow... THANK GOD I SAMPLED IT OUT NOW. Dear Lord it looks like ass. O.o At the least, the color palette I attempted. The eyeliner on the green, BTW, is a silver metallic done by Too Faced. The green itself is passable, but I think the silver was an overkill. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Thoughts?
The purple, on the other hand, is nice. Couldn't decide on a shadow so I just left it like that, lol. I may actually just wear that to said Christmas party and be done with it; I would except my dress is GREEN, that is, and the combo would probably look like barf.
W/e TLDR the reason I don't wear crazy makeup is because it looks like shit on me.
3.) Where do you work?
At this dinky little gas station in northern Maryland. -__-;; It's so sad; I've been working there for so long that I have "regular" customers and am a "favorite" of the locals who come in. WTF so unglamorous. It's a job, though. And my coworkers are generally good people. And the money is okay. :) Being able to fuck around at work like I'm doing right now is also okay.
4.) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
VIDEO GAMES!!!!!!!!! But I'm so hard to please because I only play JRPGs. :( It gives my non-RPG playing friends a lot of grief because I can't stand to watch them play boring games like Halo, Call of Duty, Left 4 Dead, etc., and yet I expect them to sit through four hours of Eternal Sonata any time they come to visit me at my house lololol.
I'm currently playing Star Ocean: The Last Hope right now, and I gotta say, it fails. The only character I liked was Crowe, and he a.) wasn't playable, and b.) turned himself into a black hole right before the final dungeon. D: Next on my list is a replay of Infinite Undiscovery; God, I love that passive-aggressive tsundere fucking cockmuncher Edward. :) Actually, lately I HAVE found myself only liking one or two characters from a video game... Last game where I (almost; blegh, Teddie and Naoto) liked the entire cast was back with Persona 4... Then Tales of the Abyss before that (ASCH).
I just bought Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360, but I have this feeling I'll probably hate the whole fucking crew... *sigh* I hope I'm wrong. Characters in JRPGs have been so stereotypical and disappointing lately... I'm going through withdrawl...
I am NOT, by the way, at all excited about Final Fantasy 13. Shit looks like crap.
5.) How many chapters of Gemini are done?
Hmmm...actually, I don't know. Frankly speaking, the book is probably about 1/5 of the way done with the current storyline I have going on in my head right now. But I don't break them into "chapters", per se, more like "parts", in which one particular event of the story will occur, then another, and so on. I can't consider them "chapters" because several of these "parts" are longer than the other - as long as 30 pages, for one - whereas others are only about 3 or 4 pages in length (one I think was even a mere 2). @.@ Agh, I don't know. I just write it however it comes to me. *FAIL*
I'm glad you're still interested in it, though. ♥ AND OMFG I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I GOT YOUR MAIL TODAY. AZAZEL AND DORIAN FANART. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Anyway, after that, I got some questions from a certain unnamed pain in the arse (runesque)...........
1.) Do you speak in capslock in real life?
YES. (Why am I, by the way, not at all surprised this question was asked? -___-) Actually, I'm sure everyone says this, but lolololol I'm pretty much the same person online as the person I am in real life. I'm loud, I get excited easily, and the same EXAGGERATED WAY I TELL STORIES is probably the vocal equivalent of what capslock is on the Internet; so, well, there you have it. If you don't believe me, ask kujasangela who actually knows me in real life and actually probably talks the same way as I do as well @.@.
Of course, you could see for yourself if you would just COME VISIT ME THE FUCK ALREADY, ARGH. >F
2.) What's the craziest thing you've done in public?
Went and saw the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie at midnight on the very first day that it came out. You probably think I'm joking here, but the crazy part actually comes from the fact that I was JUST AS EXCITED AS THE ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD KIDS.
3.) Tell me about your most prided piece of writing.
My most prided piece of writing is the piece I haven't finished yet. It's a young adult novel called Gemini and it features the quasi-homosexual adventures of patricidal 17-year-old Azazel Ramse, and his pretty-but-unstable classmate, Dorian Fife. Thanks to a time-old immortal entity known as the Zodiac Libra, the two are thrown into a sociopathic free-for-all against other troubled teens in a battle that concerns their pasts, their fates, and each other.
Despite the relatively cliched premise, I'm extremely proud of Gemini beacuse it's NOT cliche. Azazel is a neurotic chickenshit with a deeply self-sacrifical pathos as a direct result of the much-mysterious aforementioned murder of his father. Dorian is an infantile adaptive failure who allows what he once was to completely erase all vestiges of who he eventually becomes. It's NOT happy. It's NOT heartwarming. And yet it IS, because despite their flaws, despite the fact that the two of them are, in their own subtle ways, fuck-ups; they still manage to befriend each other, help each other, and in the end regain that in their lives which matters most.
And if enriching character growth isn't your style, the story's got plenty else to offer, too: humor, in large doses; dynamic, shounen-inspired action scenes; and enough "O SHIT" moments to completely make your head spin. There's at least three Big Reveals that I can think of off the top of my head, and the story leads up to them in vague, roundabout, yet decidingly heavy-handed kind of ways. There's a ton of mystery about the backstories of my two main characters, and the tidbits I DO throw out there are so inconsequential and untelling that hopechan has been known to do the Internet equivalent of throwing a bookshelf at me whenever I include one. :P
There's romance, but not between the predictable characters that you would think. There's death, but not for the well-deserving characters you'd expect. Even the ending itself, while cathartic and painful and aggravatingly OPEN is still - not what you would expect. It's genre writing, but I turn it on it's head. It's fantasy literature, but with a real-world edge. It's a teen book, for teens, about TEENAGERS - yet with themes that are blatantly and infuriatingly adult.
What else can I say? It's Gemini. I love it, and would trade my entire library of video games to have all of my friends on my LJ friends list read it, but I've moaned already, I've begged already, and I've spam-posted already, so all I can do now is just be the fuck PROUD of it already. Even if my friends-list isn't huge on original fiction, it's still good writing. It's my baby. And I'll keep on writing it, if only for myself.
/soapbox
4.) How many languages can you speak?
Je peux parler un peu de francais, mais les autres langues je ne peux pas parler. Hell, what I say barely qualifies as speaking ENGLISH half of the time.
5.) If you could be any historical figure, who would you want to be and what do you wish you could achieve in their stead?
In truth, I wouldn't want to be ANY historical figure. The beauty of living a boring, immutable average life is that you're not expected to do anything BUT live a boring, immutable, average human life. There's no pressure. You can take things at your own pace. How could I say that any of the people who shaped our civilization to be what it has become ought to have done one thing or another differently? What would the consequences to the future be if I had?
To be honest, I think the person that I am now isn't a person who qualifies for historical greatness. I can say with total honesty that I'm not a human who is worthy of such a memorable, futures-altering role.
Ahaha, sorry for taking your question all retard-seriously, Runedaime. XD;;
And last, finally, questions as asked by Yami! (yamikakyuu)
1.) What was the best fic you ever wrote; can be fanfic or original?
I would say see Rune's Answer #3, but eh, whatever, I'll bite, and talk some more about myself because HAY LOLOLOL I LOVE DOING THAT. This time I'll pimp some fanfiction.
I'm sure that everyone's expecting me to say that the Paradiso arc is the best fanfiction I've written, but in truth, while I don't despise it and it's kind of become my template for anything 1896 (LOLOL SORRY ABOUT THAT LATEST FAILURE, RUNE), my favorite fic probably has to be........... THIS ONE. (It's friends-locked, sorry, and not finished besides, but I'll get to that in a second.)
Why do I like it so much? I dunno, I had fun writing it and really think that comes across in the narrative. It is my only recorded dabble into my purported OTP of the KHR fandom (8059), and I feel like really, it probably would have been my most successful anyway (DERP). While I never carried out my threat of actually FINISHING the damned multi-parter plot fic, and events in canon have currently rendered the idea I had come up with depressingly AU anyway, the interactions were cute, everyone was IC up until that last part when I suddenly decided I wanted to make this a pedophilia fic (?! O.o yeah I know, WTF was I thinking, I keep meaning to sit down and do a rewrite but WTFever) and then it all went wonky and a bit south. But not enough to drag down the overall tone of the story, I felt.
I'm sad I didn't get to do the bit with TYE!Hibari and TYL!Yamamoto, though. D: They were eventually going to meet and it was going to be both awesome and yet full of epic fail. I'm also sad that I never (officially) got to the 8059 bit, either. ONE DAY I will write my goddamned OTP for this series. I'm so tired of seeing shit OTP!fic flooding the main comm. (*debilitated!*)
ANYWAY, THIS IS ACTUALLY EMBARRASSING. I'LL TOOT MY GEMINI HORN TO THE HIGH HEAVENS BUT PLEASE DON'T ASK ME TO ANALYZE MY FANFIC. ;____;
Because, well, it's just that - fanfic. For all it's all anyone seems to read on my writing community, it's just...not that important to me. It's practice. It sounds terrible to say this to the friends I've made from people who have really, REALLY enjoyed it, but...it's the truth. It flies off my fingers and onto the keyboard and when it's posted on Livejournal, it's done. I don't obsessively review and revise like I do my original writing.
AND SO I USUALLY LOOK BACK TWO DAYS LATER AND THINK, "OH GOD IT'S CRAP".
So to make a long story short I don't really HAVE a best fanfiction. I think it ALL kind of sucks. @.@ But the one I linked above is pretty decent, IMHO. It's lulzy, at least. Yamamoto is a SpEd.
2.) What is your job?
Amateur porn star. LOL j/k see Seki answer #4. I WISH I were a Stephanie-Meyer-famous young adult novelist, though! Except with books that were actually GOOD.
3.) Your fave author and book?
LOL IT'S STEPHANIE MEYER
Oh Lord, I am just kidding. (Though I think there are some Twilight fans on my f-list??? Sorry, guys.)
Favorite author, hunh? It sort of depends on the genre. For old-school fantasy, I definitely love the (singular) work of Robert Jordan, his eponymous Wheel of Time series. Mr. Jordan passed away unfortunately in 2007 of a rare blood disease, but some dude named Brandon Sanderson is finishing the twelfth, and last, book so at least his epic and awe-inspiring ideas haven't died with him. :)
In truth, a lot of people I know found the WoT series to be boring, convoluted, and a blatant rip-off of Lord of the Rings, and while the similarities aren't arguable, I think the series stands as a contribution to the genre pretty fine on its own. The plot gets pretty muddied, and %90 of the time I forget who the fuck the people in the book are, but I keep coming back to it, time after time, and that's a magic unique to the series that no critic can overlook.
My favorite character, predictably, is Mat. -___-;; I also HATE the main character, Rand, for little more than the fact that he has three wives. (LOL FEMINISM.)
Anyway, another author I feel like noting is Pamela Kaufman, who wrote a historical fiction trilogy the only good book of which is the first one, Shield of Three Lions, which I'm bothering to reference only because SoTL is so fucking GOOD by itself that it would be a shame for anyone on my f-list who is a fan of the genre not to read it. (kujasangela, you liked this one a lot too, didn't you?) It's a simple almost manga-esque story of a girl who joins the Crusade disguised as a boy, but the main character is so spaztastic and plucky and just generally NOT girl-like that she really managed to find a place in my heart. :) King Richard was also a great and glorious fag and I sort of wanted to marry him. XD
For a book of just the plain-old fiction genre, a book I recommend to everyone I know over and over and over again is Looking For Alaska, a young adult fiction novel by John Green. It tells the story of a teenager named Miles Halter, nicknamed "Pudge", who goes to the boarding school that was his father's alma mater and wreaks havoc, makes some friends, and finds his way out of a labyrinth of total suffering. The story is funny in the beginning, but have some tissues for the end. It was such a beautiful story; I couldn't help but cry. The two (teenaged) boys I work with also wound up borrowing this book from me, and they cried, too. And simultaneously loved it. They still reference it from time to time when they talk about borrowing books from me.
4.) Craziest thing you ever did?
BRAIN TWINS WITH THE RUNEDAIME MUCH? Good Lord, I wonder if maybe the craziest thing I've ever done was get this god-forsaken Livejournal with all of you lunatics on board. @.@
5.) When someone asks you for a fic, how do you come up with your ideas?
Easiest answer? I don't. See, whenever I make a request post, the requests that always get answered are the requests that I already KIND OF had an idea for, in the back of my head. Like, when Rune asked for a KHR fic involving Mafia people doing Mafia things, I had already sort of entertained an idea about a fic about the Vindice and maybe breaking Mukuro out of it. I'd also toyed around in my head with the idea of 1896. So the Paradiso arc was born.
With your D18 fic, I'd wanted to do something involving Hibari and the concept of Namimori as his "Rome", and his affinity for wild animals likened to something as being raised by wolves like the twins Remus and Romulus etc etc etc. and really in the end all I kind of did was almost...the fic equivalent of Photoshopping Dino in. (Urp. >__>;;)
As for where I come up with these ideas in the first place? Eff if I know. A single line usually pops into my head while driving, and I usually build the fic off of that. For example, a line that I thought of a while back that will ONE FUCKING DAY I SWEAR TO GOD WHEN I QUIT BEING A LAZY SAP morph into an 8059 fic was this: "He also found Gokudera asleep in the garbage, but couldn't be bothered to notice an inevitability like that."
So there you have it. My thought processes are mean and can sometimes cause minor rear-end auto accidents.
AND OH DEAR LORD, I AM DONE. Fuck, that was exhausting. I never thought I could grow tired of talking about myself and yet SOMEHOW I HAVE. @.@ Anyway, sock it to me, f-list! So that you may feel the tiredness I now currently feel!
Leave me a comment saying "rainbow". I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in your post and offer to ask other people questions.
I will say this, though: if I go through all the trouble of thinking up questions for you all, you'd damn well better answer them. :P
Anyway, my responses! (as queried by seki_yumizu)
1.) Take some pictures of your [much talked about] crazy eyeliners.
OKAY.
There's two here: this bronze-y red, and this deep purple. They're both part of the 24/7 Eyelights collection by Urban Decay, my absolute FAVORITE cosmetics producer. Despite my love of them, however, I still have yet to muster up the courage to buy their eyeliner that comes in that crazy acid green... ;_____;
The red, BTW, is not that crazy on skin. It's a really muted bronze, actually. I use it for a brown smoky eye more than anything else WTF fail. It's a nice color, but TOTALLY NOT AS ADVERTISED *sigh*.
2.) Now pictures of mysterious eyeliner on yourself.
Forgive my crappy hair and lack of aforementioned bronze eyeliner. -__- I decided to try a green palette for shit's sake today because I was thinking about doing green for a Christmas party I'm attending tomorrow... THANK GOD I SAMPLED IT OUT NOW. Dear Lord it looks like ass. O.o At the least, the color palette I attempted. The eyeliner on the green, BTW, is a silver metallic done by Too Faced. The green itself is passable, but I think the silver was an overkill. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Thoughts?
The purple, on the other hand, is nice. Couldn't decide on a shadow so I just left it like that, lol. I may actually just wear that to said Christmas party and be done with it; I would except my dress is GREEN, that is, and the combo would probably look like barf.
W/e TLDR the reason I don't wear crazy makeup is because it looks like shit on me.
3.) Where do you work?
At this dinky little gas station in northern Maryland. -__-;; It's so sad; I've been working there for so long that I have "regular" customers and am a "favorite" of the locals who come in. WTF so unglamorous. It's a job, though. And my coworkers are generally good people. And the money is okay. :) Being able to fuck around at work like I'm doing right now is also okay.
4.) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
VIDEO GAMES!!!!!!!!! But I'm so hard to please because I only play JRPGs. :( It gives my non-RPG playing friends a lot of grief because I can't stand to watch them play boring games like Halo, Call of Duty, Left 4 Dead, etc., and yet I expect them to sit through four hours of Eternal Sonata any time they come to visit me at my house lololol.
I'm currently playing Star Ocean: The Last Hope right now, and I gotta say, it fails. The only character I liked was Crowe, and he a.) wasn't playable, and b.) turned himself into a black hole right before the final dungeon. D: Next on my list is a replay of Infinite Undiscovery; God, I love that passive-aggressive tsundere fucking cockmuncher Edward. :) Actually, lately I HAVE found myself only liking one or two characters from a video game... Last game where I (almost; blegh, Teddie and Naoto) liked the entire cast was back with Persona 4... Then Tales of the Abyss before that (ASCH).
I just bought Tales of Vesperia for the Xbox 360, but I have this feeling I'll probably hate the whole fucking crew... *sigh* I hope I'm wrong. Characters in JRPGs have been so stereotypical and disappointing lately... I'm going through withdrawl...
I am NOT, by the way, at all excited about Final Fantasy 13. Shit looks like crap.
5.) How many chapters of Gemini are done?
Hmmm...actually, I don't know. Frankly speaking, the book is probably about 1/5 of the way done with the current storyline I have going on in my head right now. But I don't break them into "chapters", per se, more like "parts", in which one particular event of the story will occur, then another, and so on. I can't consider them "chapters" because several of these "parts" are longer than the other - as long as 30 pages, for one - whereas others are only about 3 or 4 pages in length (one I think was even a mere 2). @.@ Agh, I don't know. I just write it however it comes to me. *FAIL*
I'm glad you're still interested in it, though. ♥ AND OMFG I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I GOT YOUR MAIL TODAY. AZAZEL AND DORIAN FANART. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Anyway, after that, I got some questions from a certain unnamed pain in the arse (runesque)...........
1.) Do you speak in capslock in real life?
YES. (Why am I, by the way, not at all surprised this question was asked? -___-) Actually, I'm sure everyone says this, but lolololol I'm pretty much the same person online as the person I am in real life. I'm loud, I get excited easily, and the same EXAGGERATED WAY I TELL STORIES is probably the vocal equivalent of what capslock is on the Internet; so, well, there you have it. If you don't believe me, ask kujasangela who actually knows me in real life and actually probably talks the same way as I do as well @.@.
Of course, you could see for yourself if you would just COME VISIT ME THE FUCK ALREADY, ARGH. >F
2.) What's the craziest thing you've done in public?
Went and saw the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie at midnight on the very first day that it came out. You probably think I'm joking here, but the crazy part actually comes from the fact that I was JUST AS EXCITED AS THE ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD KIDS.
3.) Tell me about your most prided piece of writing.
My most prided piece of writing is the piece I haven't finished yet. It's a young adult novel called Gemini and it features the quasi-homosexual adventures of patricidal 17-year-old Azazel Ramse, and his pretty-but-unstable classmate, Dorian Fife. Thanks to a time-old immortal entity known as the Zodiac Libra, the two are thrown into a sociopathic free-for-all against other troubled teens in a battle that concerns their pasts, their fates, and each other.
Despite the relatively cliched premise, I'm extremely proud of Gemini beacuse it's NOT cliche. Azazel is a neurotic chickenshit with a deeply self-sacrifical pathos as a direct result of the much-mysterious aforementioned murder of his father. Dorian is an infantile adaptive failure who allows what he once was to completely erase all vestiges of who he eventually becomes. It's NOT happy. It's NOT heartwarming. And yet it IS, because despite their flaws, despite the fact that the two of them are, in their own subtle ways, fuck-ups; they still manage to befriend each other, help each other, and in the end regain that in their lives which matters most.
And if enriching character growth isn't your style, the story's got plenty else to offer, too: humor, in large doses; dynamic, shounen-inspired action scenes; and enough "O SHIT" moments to completely make your head spin. There's at least three Big Reveals that I can think of off the top of my head, and the story leads up to them in vague, roundabout, yet decidingly heavy-handed kind of ways. There's a ton of mystery about the backstories of my two main characters, and the tidbits I DO throw out there are so inconsequential and untelling that hopechan has been known to do the Internet equivalent of throwing a bookshelf at me whenever I include one. :P
There's romance, but not between the predictable characters that you would think. There's death, but not for the well-deserving characters you'd expect. Even the ending itself, while cathartic and painful and aggravatingly OPEN is still - not what you would expect. It's genre writing, but I turn it on it's head. It's fantasy literature, but with a real-world edge. It's a teen book, for teens, about TEENAGERS - yet with themes that are blatantly and infuriatingly adult.
What else can I say? It's Gemini. I love it, and would trade my entire library of video games to have all of my friends on my LJ friends list read it, but I've moaned already, I've begged already, and I've spam-posted already, so all I can do now is just be the fuck PROUD of it already. Even if my friends-list isn't huge on original fiction, it's still good writing. It's my baby. And I'll keep on writing it, if only for myself.
/soapbox
4.) How many languages can you speak?
Je peux parler un peu de francais, mais les autres langues je ne peux pas parler. Hell, what I say barely qualifies as speaking ENGLISH half of the time.
5.) If you could be any historical figure, who would you want to be and what do you wish you could achieve in their stead?
In truth, I wouldn't want to be ANY historical figure. The beauty of living a boring, immutable average life is that you're not expected to do anything BUT live a boring, immutable, average human life. There's no pressure. You can take things at your own pace. How could I say that any of the people who shaped our civilization to be what it has become ought to have done one thing or another differently? What would the consequences to the future be if I had?
To be honest, I think the person that I am now isn't a person who qualifies for historical greatness. I can say with total honesty that I'm not a human who is worthy of such a memorable, futures-altering role.
Ahaha, sorry for taking your question all retard-seriously, Runedaime. XD;;
And last, finally, questions as asked by Yami! (yamikakyuu)
1.) What was the best fic you ever wrote; can be fanfic or original?
I would say see Rune's Answer #3, but eh, whatever, I'll bite, and talk some more about myself because HAY LOLOLOL I LOVE DOING THAT. This time I'll pimp some fanfiction.
I'm sure that everyone's expecting me to say that the Paradiso arc is the best fanfiction I've written, but in truth, while I don't despise it and it's kind of become my template for anything 1896 (LOLOL SORRY ABOUT THAT LATEST FAILURE, RUNE), my favorite fic probably has to be........... THIS ONE. (It's friends-locked, sorry, and not finished besides, but I'll get to that in a second.)
Why do I like it so much? I dunno, I had fun writing it and really think that comes across in the narrative. It is my only recorded dabble into my purported OTP of the KHR fandom (8059), and I feel like really, it probably would have been my most successful anyway (DERP). While I never carried out my threat of actually FINISHING the damned multi-parter plot fic, and events in canon have currently rendered the idea I had come up with depressingly AU anyway, the interactions were cute, everyone was IC up until that last part when I suddenly decided I wanted to make this a pedophilia fic (?! O.o yeah I know, WTF was I thinking, I keep meaning to sit down and do a rewrite but WTFever) and then it all went wonky and a bit south. But not enough to drag down the overall tone of the story, I felt.
I'm sad I didn't get to do the bit with TYE!Hibari and TYL!Yamamoto, though. D: They were eventually going to meet and it was going to be both awesome and yet full of epic fail. I'm also sad that I never (officially) got to the 8059 bit, either. ONE DAY I will write my goddamned OTP for this series. I'm so tired of seeing shit OTP!fic flooding the main comm. (*debilitated!*)
ANYWAY, THIS IS ACTUALLY EMBARRASSING. I'LL TOOT MY GEMINI HORN TO THE HIGH HEAVENS BUT PLEASE DON'T ASK ME TO ANALYZE MY FANFIC. ;____;
Because, well, it's just that - fanfic. For all it's all anyone seems to read on my writing community, it's just...not that important to me. It's practice. It sounds terrible to say this to the friends I've made from people who have really, REALLY enjoyed it, but...it's the truth. It flies off my fingers and onto the keyboard and when it's posted on Livejournal, it's done. I don't obsessively review and revise like I do my original writing.
AND SO I USUALLY LOOK BACK TWO DAYS LATER AND THINK, "OH GOD IT'S CRAP".
So to make a long story short I don't really HAVE a best fanfiction. I think it ALL kind of sucks. @.@ But the one I linked above is pretty decent, IMHO. It's lulzy, at least. Yamamoto is a SpEd.
2.) What is your job?
Amateur porn star. LOL j/k see Seki answer #4. I WISH I were a Stephanie-Meyer-famous young adult novelist, though! Except with books that were actually GOOD.
3.) Your fave author and book?
LOL IT'S STEPHANIE MEYER
Oh Lord, I am just kidding. (Though I think there are some Twilight fans on my f-list??? Sorry, guys.)
Favorite author, hunh? It sort of depends on the genre. For old-school fantasy, I definitely love the (singular) work of Robert Jordan, his eponymous Wheel of Time series. Mr. Jordan passed away unfortunately in 2007 of a rare blood disease, but some dude named Brandon Sanderson is finishing the twelfth, and last, book so at least his epic and awe-inspiring ideas haven't died with him. :)
In truth, a lot of people I know found the WoT series to be boring, convoluted, and a blatant rip-off of Lord of the Rings, and while the similarities aren't arguable, I think the series stands as a contribution to the genre pretty fine on its own. The plot gets pretty muddied, and %90 of the time I forget who the fuck the people in the book are, but I keep coming back to it, time after time, and that's a magic unique to the series that no critic can overlook.
My favorite character, predictably, is Mat. -___-;; I also HATE the main character, Rand, for little more than the fact that he has three wives. (LOL FEMINISM.)
Anyway, another author I feel like noting is Pamela Kaufman, who wrote a historical fiction trilogy the only good book of which is the first one, Shield of Three Lions, which I'm bothering to reference only because SoTL is so fucking GOOD by itself that it would be a shame for anyone on my f-list who is a fan of the genre not to read it. (kujasangela, you liked this one a lot too, didn't you?) It's a simple almost manga-esque story of a girl who joins the Crusade disguised as a boy, but the main character is so spaztastic and plucky and just generally NOT girl-like that she really managed to find a place in my heart. :) King Richard was also a great and glorious fag and I sort of wanted to marry him. XD
For a book of just the plain-old fiction genre, a book I recommend to everyone I know over and over and over again is Looking For Alaska, a young adult fiction novel by John Green. It tells the story of a teenager named Miles Halter, nicknamed "Pudge", who goes to the boarding school that was his father's alma mater and wreaks havoc, makes some friends, and finds his way out of a labyrinth of total suffering. The story is funny in the beginning, but have some tissues for the end. It was such a beautiful story; I couldn't help but cry. The two (teenaged) boys I work with also wound up borrowing this book from me, and they cried, too. And simultaneously loved it. They still reference it from time to time when they talk about borrowing books from me.
4.) Craziest thing you ever did?
BRAIN TWINS WITH THE RUNEDAIME MUCH? Good Lord, I wonder if maybe the craziest thing I've ever done was get this god-forsaken Livejournal with all of you lunatics on board. @.@
5.) When someone asks you for a fic, how do you come up with your ideas?
Easiest answer? I don't. See, whenever I make a request post, the requests that always get answered are the requests that I already KIND OF had an idea for, in the back of my head. Like, when Rune asked for a KHR fic involving Mafia people doing Mafia things, I had already sort of entertained an idea about a fic about the Vindice and maybe breaking Mukuro out of it. I'd also toyed around in my head with the idea of 1896. So the Paradiso arc was born.
With your D18 fic, I'd wanted to do something involving Hibari and the concept of Namimori as his "Rome", and his affinity for wild animals likened to something as being raised by wolves like the twins Remus and Romulus etc etc etc. and really in the end all I kind of did was almost...the fic equivalent of Photoshopping Dino in. (Urp. >__>;;)
As for where I come up with these ideas in the first place? Eff if I know. A single line usually pops into my head while driving, and I usually build the fic off of that. For example, a line that I thought of a while back that will ONE FUCKING DAY I SWEAR TO GOD WHEN I QUIT BEING A LAZY SAP morph into an 8059 fic was this: "He also found Gokudera asleep in the garbage, but couldn't be bothered to notice an inevitability like that."
So there you have it. My thought processes are mean and can sometimes cause minor rear-end auto accidents.
AND OH DEAR LORD, I AM DONE. Fuck, that was exhausting. I never thought I could grow tired of talking about myself and yet SOMEHOW I HAVE. @.@ Anyway, sock it to me, f-list! So that you may feel the tiredness I now currently feel!