someone up there sort of might like me...

[somekindofen]

OMG GUYS, STARING AT THE SUN HAS JUST WON THE BEST PROSE AWARD AT THE ANIME NORTH 2007 FANFICTION CONTEST.  THERE IS NO WAY I COULD HAVE TYPED ANY OF THIS IN LOWERCASE.

I am so happy, I could puke. 

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[ane_s_thesia]

Wow, that's awesome!! You must have been so nervous-- how big was the contest?

I'm unfortunately not familiar with your fic 'cause it's outside my fandom-list; but either way, I'm really proud of you. ^_^!

[somekindofen]

THANK YOU♥!!! Oh God, they wrangled me up to sit up with the other winners who were so eloquent and talented and well-versed with this whole fandom business... while I-- sort of reeked of new blood and looked green and constipated and sort of like my breakfast was going to make a surprise reappearance. I know. I am so smooth.

I think the contest cut off at fifty entries, and they ended up giving out five prizes. There was one for prose, characterisation, originality, plot and one grand prize for the overall, so there's a little voice that keeps telling me that prose was probably the lamest one (akin to Best Effort, maybe? Le sigh.) But NO. I AM NOT LISTENING.

[ane_s_thesia]

So exciting!! O.O <3

I'm gonna have to disagree with you! Best prose, to me, seems like one of the most important categories. Seriously. Originality and plot seem to be hackey categories, imo. It's kinda saying that "yeah, you had a good idea and all, but did you write it well?" (that's saying that someone didn't win in two categories?).

It goes to point that your story was written so fluidly, so WELL, that it deserved recognition. Your plot-line *technically* could have been sub-par, but it was written so nicely that that wouldn't even matter!

That's a big deal, and REALLY cool. :D /claps/

[somekindofen]

I love you forever. Or at least for the rest of the week. Check back for an extension.

[bright_vega]

Eee!!!!!!that's brilliant! Congratulations (I love that story btw) <3<3<3

[somekindofen]

I LOVE IT NOW TOO. My cheeks hurt from the smiling.

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

[arclights]

Puking happy, eh? That must be intense.

Congratulations! Prose is hugely important, so no putting it down. D<

I would like to remind you that you are awesome, but I'd say that this has done the trick quite nicely.

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[somekindofen]

XD I wrote Staring at the Sun after reading your pretty minimalist way in Inertia, and was all "OHHH, so this is how you do emotional impact" but figured you'd never draw the connection because it was out of your fandom list. I am sneaky and unscrupulous like this. I'M SORRY!

So I would like to remind you that you are the SALT OF THE EARTH, but how exactly would one go about doing that? I think a bag of salt would sort of kill the intent, don't you think? ♥

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[arclights]

Funny, most of the time when I write, I attempt to chase the lush prose style. And I wrote Three Pages after being ridiculously inspired by Trivium, so we're even?

Hikago is a neat story, but I'm bothered it wasn't finished. And I'll read anything you write, srsly. ♥

I'll settle for a shiny button to stick on my lapel. :D

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[somekindofen]

DONE AND READY TO PRINT-AND-GO.

[ronsard]

Also restraining caps due to complete and utter unsurprise :]

Staring at the Sun shattered my heart in a thousand different ways all of which Hikago fics have not been able for a long time. Look, I would take prose over plot and characterization any day; your prose is so breathtaking and dedicated, you never succumb to lazy writing unlike some scum of the Earth we could name => you deserve every accolade you'll be sure to be showered with, and are a credit to those of us who never win anything!

In short, congrats, babe, this was awesome enough to draw me out of hiding ♥

[somekindofen]

I am cyberly showering you with kisses. Like fohevah evah. ♥ ♥

Mai, I'm sure my squibbling makes you uncomfortable in every way, but each time you even deign to make mention of my writing, I think you make my week. No wait, reading one of your stories makes my week instantly. Your mention is more like my month. So I'm going to my minimum wage job today and smile Zenly at customers who intend on making my homocidal tendencies veritable personality traits. And this has all been achieved without the temple in China and the meditation-under-waterfalls (which I'm sure is very bad for posture). THANK YOU.

I know spring was being sort of abusive to you, so I hope you're okay. Surely you mean this has drawn you out of hiding, as in permanently, because you know the world is a better place with you in it. ;D

[angharadd]

OMG, I'm so happy for you! Congrats!