Type: Fanfiction (Final Fantasy 7)
Title: Twelve Day Ride: Chapter Five
Rating: R
Warnings: The Good, the bad, the gay makeout
Summary: Vincent and Veld share a mission

( The Confusion Incident: Trying to Work )

Other Links
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four

X-posted to drakonlily, AO3, and FF.net

Type: Fanfiction (Final Fantasy 7)
Title: Twelve Day Ride: Chapter Four
Rating: R
Warnings: The Good, the bad, the gay makeout
Summary: Vincent and Veld share a mission

( The Preparation Incident: Outlet Shopping )

Other Links
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three

X-posted to drakonlily, AO3, and FF.net

help_haiti has been floating about the journal land. If you can, donate. This is horrible for a country with a poor infrastructure to begin with.

I have a new shot called the "Moogle" that I'm working on for MetaVerse Bar. I'm worried about yanking someone's art without permission or anything. Anyone on the Flist have a manga or a moogle picture laying around that I may use with credit?

This shot is going to be debuting at OYAHOCON as well. The Engineering Bitches ( seventhe / first_sevenethe , crankyoldman / venefica_aura, and myself) are going to be updating said blog with whatever we can throw together that weekend. Hopefully it'll make a wonderful listing of drinks and foodstuffs and geekily named wonderment.

Type: Fanfiction (Final Fantasy 7)
Title: Twelve Day Ride: Chapter Three
Rating: R
Warnings: The Good, the bad, the gay makeout
Summary: Vincent and Veld share a mission

Day One
( The Initial Incident: Valentine's Socks )

X-posted to drakonlily, AO3, and FF.net

Type: Fanfiction (Final Fantasy 7)
Title: Twelve Day Ride: Chapter Two
Rating: R
Warnings: The Good, the bad, the gay makeout
Summary: Vincent and Veld share a mission

The 12 Day Ride
By drakonlily with assistance from verdot (cranky old man). Mad props to the mistress of Veld.

Day One

The Roommate Incident: Vickalor Vincent Valentine

It felt more than a little nostalgic to wander the intern dorms of a medical campus. Vincent wondered if he was old enough for nostalgia; something in the back of his brain started to giggle at the idea. He smirked along with it because sane people didn't laugh aloud at the voices in their heads.

After Vincent refused to work on the Jenova project his medical career was over. ShinRa didn't like to let go of people who worked in the labs. His choice had been clear enough, much to his parent's dismay. Vincent didn't feel ABOVE the Turks, really. Just horribly out of the loop. When Chief Tally handed him this mission, Vincent felt like it was a good opportunity. His partner didn't like him, but maybe this would allow Vincent to prove to Veld that he earned the degree that he had with his skillset and not by being Doctor Grimoire Valentine's son.

Veld also wasn't bad to look at, so it all balanced out. He pulled one bag along- no need to bring more; he'd be in scrubs most of the time- and had his laptop in a shoulder case. His roommate was already settled, sitting on the couch and looking puzzled. "Hey, Veld."


X-posted to drakonlily, AO3, and FF.net

Type: Fanfiction (Final Fantasy 7)
Title: Twelve Day Ride: Chapter One
Rating: R
Warnings: The Good, the bad, the gay makeout
Summary: Vincent and Veld share a mission

The 12 Day Ride
By drakonlily with assistance from verdot (cranky old man). Mad props to the mistress of Veld.

Day One

The Introduction Incident: Veld Michael Dragoon


Veld had thought it would be an average intelligence mission. In fact, most of what they did was really intelligence gathering; one had to know what was going on with ShinRa. Turks existed for the sole purpose of informing the president, controlling information leaks, securing acquisitions, and protecting company assets. One company asset was spending time in Junon Regional Medical center and there was reason to believe his life was in danger.

It was only 12 days- the duration of a surgery and hospital stay- but he still had a page of medical terms to memorize. This one was probably the worst to watch because the only way to keep an eye on things was to get into the hospital. And Veld's education certainly hadn't covered this.

At least the apartment looked nice; it was one of those cheap, slightly shabby but not run down places. College apartments were used to tenants that could disappear, and so far the people he'd passed in the hallway were young. He sat down on the couch and got back to memorizing. Veld had always sort of wanted to attend college, but working as a medical intern was not proving to be his cup of tea.

X-posted to drakonlily, AO3, and FF.net

Updated Strange Waltz Vincent/Veld series of short letters. Working on some other things, but I just threw this up and wanted to post it. I'm on a roll this year

Everyone else is doing a yuletide reveal post, so am I. I wrote two, one pinch hit and one actual longer work. I'm pleased with the quality, but I'm really FLOORED by how good they were this year. My gift was pretty much the best thing ever, and these aren't that good. BUT here they are

But I am That Good - Amber as a little girl (Repo! The Genetic Opera)

Ms. Superwoman and Mr. Death - Markus doesn't like Christmas (Jeremiah)

:) I'm having a great day, I hope you all are too!

Type: Original Work
Title: Untitled (Tempest?)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mermaids are evil
Summary: A daydreaming fisherman gets more than he expected


( I do not know where this is going, but here it is )

X-Posted to drakonlily

Getting a Jump on the New Year

It's getting close to the end of the year again, and so I'm cleaning up my writing. My WIP folders are now neat and orderly and I have a few viable titles that I'm, as always, looking to finish in the New Year.

FURTHERMORE I have AO3 accounts now. The main account is here.

Below the cut are the works that have survived into next year. Cheer for them. I have also opened my requests back up and the link is here.

( There have been some changes to the lineup )

Type: Fanfiction
Fandom: Final Fantasy Seven Alternate Reality
Title: After the Twenties
Rating: PG - 13
Warnings: none
Summary: Rufus is feeling the stock market crash

CHAPTER ONE: And They're Closing all the Factories Down

( And We're Living Here in Allen Town )

Character Study: Tifa (Final Fantasy Seven)
Summary: Tifa got a Diary

( It's just an old fashioned love song )

OKAY, so... I have all the journal tabs up that I need to work with... damn. If I missed your post, I assure you it is not because I loathe you. It is because I have about 80 tabs open.

MONDAY 12-21-09 TO DO LIST

1) Pick up food from friend that hunts (delicious delicious food)
2) Visit last of the relatives
3) Drive home
4) Put gifts away
5) Study for GRE (1hr)
6) Write both Yule Tide Stories (by 2100 EST)
7) Do laundry
8) Sleep

SORRY TO RP PEOPLE FOR NOT TAGGING. SORRY TO PEOPLE I AGREED TO BETA READ FOR. SORRY TO PEOPLE I AM EMAILING IN REGARDS TO MY WEBSITE. I AM TRYING TO CATCH UP! :

Well, when you're on a roll I guess...

Type: Original Work
Title: Roost
Rating: PG
Warnings: Main character is a lesbian.
Summary: If you have a haunted/cursed item, the Roost will take it for you. Please don't worry, they are the very best.

Part One: (801 words)
Part Two: (588 words)
Part Three: (1411 words)

( Where Robin gets cranky )

X-posted to drakonlily

Type: Original Work
Title: Roost
Rating: PG
Warnings: Main character is a lesbian.
Summary: If you have a haunted/cursed item, the Roost will take it for you. Please don't worry, they are the very best.

Part One: (801 words)
Part Two: (588 words)

( The young priest's quest for the box continues )

It's the screened comment "You will get mail" post. Respond to this post with your address and something you want/like. I will mail you a card, poorly drawn fanart, gum wrapper, photographs, fanfic... something. ;)

Type: Original Work
Title: Roost
Rating: PG
Warnings: Main character is a lesbian.
Summary: If you have a haunted/cursed item, the Roost will take it for you. Please don't worry, they are the very best.

I blame a CERTAIN SOMEONE for this, he knows who he is (finch)

( This is so not my nano )


X-posted to drakonlily

Firstly I wanted to thank you so much for writing for me. I'm always happy to participate in Yuletide and I'm geeked for this round. So thanks! As for me, I'm an extremely easy person to write for. I like things that are sweetly sad, or just sweet. Something nice and cute or melancholy.

:) My own work can be found at adagio_piano if you're curious about how or what I write.

Dear brain,

I am not going to write about a middle aged woman, who married late, has children she doesn't love, and who is spiraling into a depression/insanity. It would be an amazing story, I know, brain. It would color the want of conformity and the false hope that awash many women. It would detail the weakness of someone's character, and despite her being weak, one would sympathize with her, because that is what you want. I know, because you just read Yellow Wallpaper along with some poems and you love them like you love Book of Franza.

I am NOT, and I repeat, NOT capable of writing like Elizabeth Bishop, Charlotte Perkins Gilman or Ingeborg Bachmann and I would make a mess of it. I repeat, I am NOT a Bishop or a Bachmann, no matter how much I love them both. And don't even start, I'm nowhere near a Virginia Woolf. Woolf was born 100 years before me and brilliantly insane in a way that people who study literature can typically only sit back in admiration of.

Bishop? Bishop's work stands alone, she can do more in a few lines than some people can do with PAGES. See Insomnia.

( Insomnia )

See? See that? Do you even grasp that? OF COURSE YOU DO NOT YOU ARE MY BRAIN. Look, I get that you want to defend literature as you're a rare brain and you've studied both. You know now that the "ease" of a literature degree is really what you make of it. While you can study these writers, and write okay papers on these writers and attain an "A" far easier than you can put together a Differential Equation to depict a working circuit or outline Fluid Dynamics for your physics class, it doesn't mean that doing well in literature is easy.

No, as I just outlined above, what you are looking at is brilliance and you're not there, kiddo. Brilliance in literature is a rare talent, the same as artistic brilliance is rare. There are many people who write "well", that is to say that they get an "A" they publish and they make alright livings. But some topics are left to the brilliant writers that you've read and studied and should probably not be butchered by you.

This is not to say that you're not a wonderful brain. Honestly, I find you to be quite exemplary in most situations. As I said before, you're a rare brain that handles science, math and writing with a jack of all trades sort of ease. However, you're a jack of all trades brain. You're not a literature giant brain. Please don't push me to make a fool of myself.

~love Drakon

Edit:

Be my NaNoWriMo friend HERE I AM!

( To Do List )