I don't know if I've ever really mentioned it, but while I'm a fan of many things and I tend to use this journal to share my love of whatever fandom I happen to be in. I am also an editor.
Not as in book publishing. So, don't send me anything...original.
For the past couple years, I've been working in technical editing and of late I have been contemplating trying out fiction editing. The two of them are far different animals than they might seem. Especially for someone like me, who is also a writer.
When I was learning, the hardest part for me was trying not to write the story how I would write it. In the back of my mind and I'm told it's common for writers who are also editors, was always the thought that I could have done it better. So, for the past couple of years I've been honing my skill somewhere else.
Which brings me to my crazy idea.
While I was in college, I had the opportunity to work on a little literary magazine. It was basically a collection of short stories, the occasional chapter from a chapter fic, poetry, and artwork. We did two volumes a year, one for each semester.
And so, I thought, since I really need to ascertain if I can handle the whole fiction editing thing and it would be a way to give back to the fan community, that it might be fun to do something like that only with fan fiction and fan art.
Tentatively, if this is something you all would be interested in, I'm calling it Ameteris.
(I've had this fan website on the back burner for awhile with that name, which keeps getting redone because I've moved to another fandom and for awhile there it was going to be the place where my graphics went or maybe even my author website, but I'm donating it to the cause so to speak.)
( Details and Polls.... )
Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions or questions you might have regarding this idea. I'd love to hear feedback of any sort.
Next update....I promise I'll get to the rest of my graphics.
- Location:waiting
- Disposition:
curious - Music:Babylon 5...one of the episodes actually
I have this feeling that this week I'm not going to get much sleep. And it was such a lovely long weekend too.
I randomly decided this weekend that the perfect thing to do with the extra cash I had was not to collect manga or buy some more books to add to the stack that I have to get through or even give in and buy that PlayStation that I've been longing to buy. NO...I randomly, partly because I was already going to get my hair cut, decided that now, this weekend, in fact it was actually yesterday...had to add color to my hair.
It's not that I don't like the highlights...been thinking about doing it for awhile. But the whole snap decision thing has always been my method of choice when it comes to my hair. So...to commemorate or just because I was seeking an excuse to post, I bring you color.
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( Pic Spam )
Next post will hopefully have more graphics. I have a small subsection of Kaname and Zero wallpapers that can or can not be taken as a Kaname x Zero pic. Which should appeal to a certain scanalator...who shall remain nameless...for the moment anyways.
Tomorrow, when I'm more awake...and have a bit more time, I had a fun idea that I wanted to run past the VK and fan fiction community. But for now...I shall leave it at this.
Standard rules apply to the wallpapers. They're free for download and your personal enjoyment. Please don't post them anywhere else, but you can link to either the deviant art page or to this post.
- Location:here and there
- Disposition:
artistic
When I saw this post, I was noticeably skeptical. I've seen more than my fare share of odd theories about Kaname and the origin of the vampire species.
And then
Damn you Hino! Just once I wish that you would do something that wouldn't affect one of my storylines...not to mention characters. This is what I get for writing fanfic. Especially fanfic that doesn't really screw with the manga cannon.
I have this series of...well there are three of them now...stories (an Ichiru, a Rido, and a Yagari fic...and there might be a little Sara fic in there, still working on the details) in which one of the more integral characters was a specific vampire. And now that one of Kaname's secrets is out, she's screwed that up.
*sigh* I have no idea how I'm going to work with that.
Luckily I haven't actually gotten that far into any of them, nor have I posted them. So, it's not like it's a big problem. It's just an annoying problem.
*It should be noted that the writer of this post is being specifically vague on certain things, out of deference to those who have not been spoiled by the fanbook.*
I just wish that I knew how I was going to fix this tiny problem of mine. I mean, it's not like the problem I had with Ichiru dying, cause well he dies in the first chapter of his fic, but it's all sorts of fun after. And I'm not telling if he lives or dies in the end.
I still have to come up with a way to fill three hundred fifteen million three hundred and sixty seconds in Rido's fic (that's approximately ten years in seconds). And she's (my character that is) in and out of his at critical points, that ultimately succeed in leaving us with the Rido that was so distracted by the fact that Yuuki looks just like Juri. Mainly cause she, in a certain light, looks like them...she has that little curl to her hair that Juri has.
And a big part of who she is, is a part of the Yagari fic. Cause it has to do with the reason why it is that the two of them don't know that one is a vampire and the other is a hunter. It ends up feeling a bit like the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, only without the marriage bit cause they don't see each other enough for that to ever happen. I would rather characterize them as a couple joined at the hip.
Other than that tiny problem. I find myself possessed of Aidou-like curiosity when it comes to whether or not there was an explanation as to why it is that Hiou and Kuran are seen at the same status level...or at least why it was mentioned that they were in the Shizuka arc.
I feel like I've been horribly whiny in this post. Next time I'll bring pretties.
- Location:here
- Disposition:
indescribable - Music:Still Doll - Vampire Knight OST

( Kaname's Inner Theatre )
And now a little something extra.
Originally, I didn't plan on doing anything more than coloring the scan. Originally, that was all the inspiration I had. However, I had this coloring that I did ages ago, that was actually supposed to be on an alternate KanamexYuuki wallpaper that just is stuck in scraps because I'm not all that certain what I don't like about it. But I loved the way he turned out. It was the first time I tried a little something different with hair coloring. I always find it funny that Hino says that Kaname's hair is a pain, but for me, his hair is one of the easiest to color. I find that the lighter the color of hair the more of a pain it is to color.
This one is dedicated to
( A little something extra... )
Feel free to link to this post if you want to share.
- Disposition:
relaxed
I branched out with my graphic making into slightly larger graphics. Mostly it was because I had this fabulous sketch Hino did of Ichiru that I just couldn't pare down to a tiny sig. It deserved a wallpaper. After all, it's Ichiru and the poor boy just does not get enough love.
So, I started making wallpapers instead. Which then prompted me to open up a Deviant Art gallery to hold all my pretties.
I actually meant to do a post with all of them a lot sooner, but kept putting it off because I only had like one or two. So without further ado....
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( Wallpaper Haven )
I do have a couple more wallpapers in the works. One that should make
I also have another KanamexYuuki one that has a colored image, but it lacks a background. I find that I'm at a loss of what to do with it.

- Location:here
- Disposition:
finished
Meme:
1. The first character I first fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer:
6. The character I used to dislike but don't any longer:
7. The character I would shag anytime:
8. The character I'd want to be like:
9. The character I'd slap:
10. A pairing that I love:
11. A pairing that I despise:
12. The characters that must and musn't die:
13. The character shouldn't have died:
Feel free to post the answers to it on my journal or even in your own. I did mine on Vampire Knight.
( Meme within )
- Location:work
- Disposition:
finished - Music:I have no idea
I have been stuck, for like ever on the fact that ultimately I didn't like Rido as a villian. He just wasn't evil enough. He wasn't enough of a driving force in a story that was ultimately more about Kaname and his past and his choice for the future than it was about a freaking blip in the family tree.
And then ch 43 came out. With the bats and the awesome pureblooded powers being thrown around it was hard not to be inspired to write something.
Originally, I had planned Rido to be the cause for Inara's awakening, because it's one of those things that she's supposed to deal with because it's her duty to administer justice in the pureblooded realm. Only, he never really struck me as something that would cause her to want to want to wake up. I mean the girl has been asleep for ten thousand years...it's got to be something more important than that.
Of course that's not to say that she hasn't been partially awake, ie she's been borrowing someone else's body to wander around. Ten thousand years is a long time and the world has changed a lot in that time. So, I was faced with a connundrum. What was the driving force that would bring her awake?
And then I read Kaname's hinting in 43 and it struck me. In the fic, it's always been said that Kaname out of all her kids is the closest to her, even though he never calls her by anything other than her name (even drops the honorifics). He pretty much states in 43 that he's fed up with the fact that the vampire world is the way it is and that one of the driving motivations for his current actions isn't so much Yuuki as it is the need to change that world (feels Lelouchian motives in this twist). I mean Yuuki as an excuse for everything he does only goes so far and ultimately would make a rather boring reason for his continued action.
( Warning! Story spoilers contained within )
Ironically, I was planning for this story to be just the one and then I could go on and write other fics that had no relation. But lately, I've been getting into KanamexZero fiction and for some odd reason it sparked a completely unrelated pairing that is all sorts of fun and angst. So, it looks like there'll actually be two of them. How interrelated they'll be has yet to be determined.
I'm actually looking forward to this fic. Now all I have to do is finish developing my bad guy...whose name still sucks becuase I haven't settled on it yet. Started out with calling him Marcus, decided I didn't like that...too western. Then I thought maybe Shaun Yuu, but it just doesn't fit. Will have to pull out my kanji dictionary and develop a thoroughly fitting name.
In case you're wondering, Inara means "One soft wish" and it plays alot into her character.
Must remember to whip up a suitable Rido wallpaper. He deserves at least that much.
- Location:Ficland
- Disposition:
plotting - Music:Queen of the Damned Soundtrack
Updates for this post:
Haruka x Juuri
Doctor Kaname
( Sigs under the cut )
Remember to credit if you take.
- Location:Ficland
- Disposition:
curious - Music:Evanescence
I wish I could blame
I swear I think I was a starving vampire there, only I feed on books instead of blood. For some odd reason, anything KanamexZero inspires YagarixInara.
Note: Don't feel bad if you have no idea who Inara is. You really shouldn't. Not yet. After all I haven't given out her name and to be entirely truthful, the only way you'll get to meet her loveliness is if I finally settle on a storyline for "Blood Legacy", which is still hanging because a part of me wants desperately to go back to the nity grity of Vampire history and introduce everyone to Kaname's past. Which so far is distinctly different than a few of you might guess.
I have no idea why it is that KanameZero would inspire that pairing, but I have a feeling it has something to do with the impossibleness of that ever happening in cannon...and my own perversion, possibly. I mean, Inara is a vampire and Yagari is the number one hunter. Like that is ever going to happen. I mean, she's not just any vampire. She's...well it would be easy to say that she's a pureblood that's significantly older than Kaname....might say she was his mom, but he wouldn't actually ever admit that...and I would have to explain why that is and I really don't want to.
I totally blame her for the idea. I was minding my own business, taking a brake from plotting, and reading through volume 2 of the manga and had paused, momentarily, on the page with Yagari pointing his gun at Zero in the pool. She made some clip about how he was definitely a sexy beast. And she's been insufferable ever since.
Sometimes, I really hate OC's . They tend to take over my brain. I told her it wasn't going to happen. And she asked about the probability of it. And somewhere in there I said it was about as likely as Kaname and Zero getting it on. *sigh*
You can all guess what happened when I gave in and read Wing-chan's KanameZero fics.
So, as it stands. Due to the fact that "Blood Legacy" is supposed to have her as a secondary and I'm feeling inclined to explore Kaname's past, I may actually have to give in a plot a deliciously angst ridden YagarixInara fic just to shut her up. No guarentees on posting it.
Next post will update the graphics with pretties.
- Location:Ficland
- Disposition:
tired - Music:Evanescence
My Fanfictions
Blood Legacy
Chocolate Kisses
Requests
~none yet, but they are open
( Sigs under the cut... )
Requests will be open when I get through the Fanclubs list.
- Disposition:
creative - Music:Underworld Soundtrack
So, this post, is the post for anything and everything related to the Vampire Knight Fan Clubs of VK Forums. I frequent a number of them and I decided to make them all a pretty set for their FC. Some of them you'll notice have more than one. In the case of FC's that I frequent quite a lot, I have more than one to give them a variety.
This is my little list (those in red are done):
Hanabusa Aidou
Chairman Kaien Cross ~ 2
Takuma Ichijou
Ichiru Kiriyuu
Akatsuki Kain
Kain x Ruka
Kuran Family ~ 3
~ Kuran Family General
~ Rido Kuran
~ Haruka Kuran
~ Juuri Kuran
~ Haruka x Juuri
Kaname Kuran ~1
Kaname x Yuuki ~ 2
Maria Kurenai
Maria x Ichiru
Rima Touya
Ruka Souen
Seiren
Senri Shiki
Shiki x Rima
Shizuka Hiou
Shizuka x Ichiru
Zero Kiriyuu
Zero x Yuuki
Touga Yagari
Yuuki Cross
- Disposition:
creative - Music:Underworld Soundtrack
Anywho...
I have four weeks. Yep that's right. Four weeks until I'm officially a graduated individual.
Sad part is that my brain is refusing to engage. I have pile of papers that I have to do. Two of which are due this week. Two of which are due whenever I feel like getting to them between now and the end of the semester. A small stack of journals for one class. Another equally enlightening stack for the internship course. And four more shorts for the internship course.
Did I mention that I haven't been able to convince myself that writing these things is a good thing. I can't figure it out myself. I usually have gotten over the whole "it's a new semester time to slack" bit by now. It just never happened. And I suppose there is a little bit of the whole this is my last semester of college and I really don't give a shit about school anymore in there for good measure as well.
Anywho....
If anyone is looking for a good recommendation for Anime I have a couple series that are worth watching. Code Geass (not recommended if you have a strong dislike of mecha, but heartily recommended if you have a like of intelligent strategy in a mecha series. Lulu is the god of strategy and maniacal laughter.) is a good series, will keep you relatively entertained. Vampire Knight (love the manga, go read it first before beginning the series or if you do watch the series don't read the manga until it's finished.) if blood drinking vampires are your thing join the fun.
And to show that I haven't been totally slacking. I have some banners for some FC's over at the VK Forums.
( Banners...get your banners here. )
I have a small list of others that will be getting done as soon as I get enough pictures. This particular series I like to call my photo album line.
I have plans to get a set done for the Zero FC, the Ichiru FC, the Aidou FC, the Ichijou FC, and if there's a Kain FC that will be getting one as well. I also have a second set planned for the Kuran Family FC...basically they came in a set of two with one being the happy Kuran family and the second being the "Bloody" Kuran family. But I can't do it just yet, since I don't have any pics of Rido to include.
And now I'm off to do research that I should have been doing instead of making these pretties.
- Location:Cross Academy
- Disposition:
artistic - Music:none at the moment
So, update. I survived the semester from hell. Yep. 21 units. I nearly fried my brain. Sad part is that I'm going to have to take two of those classes over again. Apparently, my brain did not function well enough to complete Women's Psych and Asian American Lit.
Fun part is that I only have one semester left.
That's right. only one.
I'm going to be a graduated adult soon. Maybe I should start a countdown on this journal.
The only thing that royally sucks is that for my last semester my financial situation has created a problem that requires the help of a student loan to fix. I was one semester away from graduating and not owing anything in student loans. And now I'm going to owe the federal government money.
Apparently the force was not with me this semester.
In writing related news. Those of you who have been following "Terminal" are going to be waiting a bit longer. I am stuck. What's coming out of me is not very good and I hate to put out bad writing just because I want the story to get done.
I need to design a new layout for this journal. I just haven't decided to get around to doing it yet.
Did I mention that I was going to be a graduated college student. I'm going to have a BA by the end of May.
Best of all, is that I'm going to be an editor...and actual editor. Depending on where I end up in the publishing world, I may even be able to help all of you writers. I won't be able to help myself, but it'll be fun to experience the publishing world. I wonder which publishing house I'll end up in.
- Location:Here
- Disposition:
blah - Music:none at the moment
Truth is that I always wanted to put to use my little web design skills, but I never sat down and did it. Anyways...I have a brand spanking new layout, that works not only on the main page but the archive and friends pages.... cool huh.
Go, ahead. You know you want to take a peek.
Anyways. So this little post is to announce to my friends list that they may feel free to request a custom design for their own journals. I'll work my magic and whip up something that is aesthetically pleasing for you and your list to enjoy.
This particular design was done on an S2 layout, and actually wasn't that hard once I figured out how to do it.
If your interested, leave a post with your design request.
Now, I'm off to work my magic on my writing journal so that it looks pretty too. Good thing that it's on the same layout this one is on. Flexible squares is perhaps one of the easier ones to work with, but I haven't tweaked any others.
- Location:home
- Disposition:
pleased - Music:birthday present music
By the way, my birthday is on saturday. So, I require a poll on what I should write or do for my 25th birthday. (Unfortunately, I haven't bought or felt inclined to upgrade, so I can't poll.) But you can all answer with your favorite out of the list.
1. Go see the Pirates 3 -- amazingly I haven't seen it yet.
2. Break out the Lord of the Rings movies and have a Ring-a-thon
3. Write me something
a. post a word and a fandom and I'll give you a drabble (it's the gift that gives back)
b. you could post that next section of Terminal
c. no, no...it's me that supposed to be writing something for you, after all it's your birthday
4. Go to the bookstore and pick up that book you've been wanting to read...go on...you know you want to.
5. Absolutely nothing.
And those are all the options available.
- Location:here for the moment
- Disposition:
contemplative - Music:romeo and juliet soundtrack
Maybe it had something to do with feeling like I wasn't posting anything worth posting. Which is also one of the main reasons I don't write in journals...I feel stupid talking to myself for no apparent reason other than to talk to myself, and it's not like I don't talk to myself enough already... ok, I'll stop now...that was a little wierd.
Anywho. I FINALLY finished the rewrite of Terminal Phase 3. Unfortunately, having finished Phase 3 means that I have to get on with figuring out what happens in the new Phase 4.
Looking back on Phase 3, I realized that there were like two scenes I kept from that phase. In the original edit Lacus seemed to me to be going in circles which is very un-Lacus like....and well Az was doing way-way-way too much so I had to tone her down. Out of all that rewriting I have to say that I am the happiest about the fact that I know how its going to end now. Before I had no clue how it was going to end and well I really wanted to know that because it's important and it helps everything else fall into place.
( Inu-yasha fandom fic ramblings )
Watching the new Saiunkoku episode this weekend had me pondering some very odd things, in between laughing at the ep in general. I wondered how Naru would act when drunk (he's from Ghost Hunt...which everybody should watch, since it's a guilty little pleasure of mine and well...it's since it's so little known I must plug it to make you all watch it too. Unfortunately it's finished it's run and is sadly not going to have a second season (which saddens Aki greatly)). I have no idea why I should ponder this question, but all the same I am drawn to it.
And since I'm on the subject....further ponderings and much posting of snippets from the novels for said series has my defunct brain coming up with a plot bunny for said series. Ah, why now...I have to get back to my fic I don't have time now.... er....
Anyways.
( Ghost Hunt fic ramblings )
And now that that's out of my system... I'll get back to the homework that I've been avoiding all afternoon.
- Disposition:
curious
There's nothing like having an entirely goof off weekend in which to do absolutely nothing. I suppose I shall simply have to wait until thanksgiving week (I have an entire week off for thanksgiving) before I'll get back to fiddling with making jewelry. Which reminds me I need to get more beads.
I should be writing a mid-term paper, but that'll probably come out of me tomorrow morning before I go running off to class. Undoubtedly the teacher will be oh-so-impressed. I have never figured out what they think is so wonderful about what I write. I usually come up with some off the wall subject that tickles my interest the right way. Ah, well...it's the grade it gets that's important any more.
I feel bad that I haven't commented on anybodies journal's in a while...hell I hardly post on this one...and it's not likely to get any less busy, so hope everybody is doing well...
- Location:home
- Disposition:
curious - Music:GSD SE3- not really music
I have fans... it's a new experience for me. I don't usually get too excited about them, but it's just so nice to know that something is liked.
I really should be making flash cards for my travel and directions vocab test next week in japanese class, but I'm posting. Go me!
The procrastination factor has to be scheduled anymore. I'm in 19 units worth of classes, including a language course, a web development course, an editing course, a fiction writing course, and a class where I have to read books.
Did I ever tell anyone on this thing that I'm an editing and publishing/english major? Well I am. And I'm about [___________] <---this close to finishing. Yep, nearing a semester before I have to manage to get myself graduated. If I stay over that I get to pay for it, which I kinda figured would be happening eventually...mom will only pay so much tuition before she wonders if you're ever going to leave.
I have also acquired a new hobby. My sister actually introduced me to it over the summer when she gave me a pair of handmade earings. Yep, I make earings when I can squeeze time in. They're actually pretty cute. If I had a way to show pictures of them to you guys I would. But for now, you'll just have to take my word at it.
Oh, and I wrote a new originalfic for Fiction writing class and they loved it. Which seems to be a pattern. At least they talked this time. I was worried that what happened the last semester I took this class would happen again. There's nothing more horrifying to a writer than a class that goes deathly silent when your work is up for critique. It leaves you to wonder if it was so horrible that they just can't bring themselves to talk about it. Of course we writers never consider the possiblity that our work is genius and they're all deathly silent because they really found nothing wrong with it....god, I wish I could be that optimisitic.
Anywho. Latest Inu-chapters has me desiring to fiddle with that fic in which the cast meet the woman that raised/trained Inu. I mean I always wonder where he learned all of those skills cause I just can't see his foster dad teaching him...but that's just me. I really have to get back to that one.
Unfortunately I have to finish the one that I'm on. *sigh* Why is it that bunnies always want to be played with when you're already on a fic.
Oh, and since I found it, I thought I'd share the song that has all the Ouran Host Club members singing.
Mata Ashita!
- Location:neither here nor there
- Disposition:
tired - Music:Ouran Host Club Soundtrack
I hate it when people beg and plead for reviews, but I guess I can understand why it is that they want them so bad. I still don't like it though.
Downloaded the second Bleach soundtrack. It's ok...not great...certainly nothing to write home about...not that I know why anyone would write home about a soundtrack.
The second greatest moment today was when I went to check my financial aide. Was expecting a big fat zero like the last few years (parents make too much money....apparently they believe mom pays for things she doesn't pay for).... they're giving me money. The kind of money that in my infinite having discovered how to live on pitance and nothing little way I could stretch most of the year. Go figure.
Have an interview on thursday for a marketing firm.
I know nothing about marketing. Why it is that these people feel inclined to call me in to talk I have no idea. But it apparently pays quite nicely. I have this stupid question I have to answer...or rather I have to tell a story about it.
I don't think I've ever convinced anyone to see my way about things. I don't even know my way about things so how can I convince them. But apparently I have to come up with an answer by thursday.
I have this feeling that I'm going to suck majorly at this interview thing.
And someone please tag me for a meme.... I'm out of meme's to snitch...for the moment anyways.
- Location:Somewhere in the ford galaxy
- Disposition:
confused - Music:Number One - Bleach Original Soundtrack 2
For some odd reason, most of last week and the beginning of this week has seen Bakersfield weather come to Chico. I was enjoying it not being hot, but it's frying out there. Yesterday it hit 110. Which is normal for where I used to live, but not here.
Oh, and I posted my gundamfic yesterday. I don't know if any of my flist is into gundam but. Terminal can be found here.
I also started tinkering around with a fic that should have been written ages ago, because that's when
prpl_pen asked for it, but I finally found my inner Al/Ran Fan muse. Hopefully I'll get that knocked out soon.
I also have a Princess Tutu fic in the works. Think I'll call it "Once upon a time..." And while I'm certain I won't live up to the series greatness, let's just say that I'm aiming for a little Fakir/Ahiru with a twist.
I've discovered that in the Fakir/Ahiru ship that most have Fakir turn her human again by writing a story. I don't think I'll do that. I will start another story....
And since I feel like sharing. For general snitchage.... Princess Tutu music.
Ahiru/Fakir dance in the lake of despair music
Ahiru Rue show down.... who will the love shard choose.
Edel melody
and Mythos dancing
- Location:here
- Disposition:
writing - Music:Princess Tutu Soundtrack