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catholickabuto:

catholickabuto:

kabuto stans who think they don’t ship kabuoro i want you to know i get it bc i pretended not to ship it for a rly long time to save face but i Promise you will have so much more fun on the wrong side of history with me

like for one thing it’s canon whether you want it to be or not

Man, this makes me think. Like, it may be canon, but at the same time, it’s so sad? I think the moment I stopped shipping orokabu in any way I would consider “fun” was the moment Oro looked at everything Kabuto had done to be like him, to warp his body to fill the void Oro’s death had left, and his reaction was just a panel “huh” and then he WALKED AWAY. Kid devoted every fiber of his being to Orochimaru, and at that moment you know that Oro just viewed him as another tool, to be used and discarded. Did they have a physical relationship? Maybe. I head canon that Kabu reacts really strongly to physical affection, since he’s never received it much. But I can only see Oro interested in his own pleasures, completely uncaring of Kabuto’s needs, only giving out dribbles of affection when they do not require any real effort on his part. So you have one person who will drop everything at a moments notice, do anything, Be anything for the other…and the other half views them as little more than a glorified fleshlight. That is not a healthy relationship. And if they got back together, it would be very difficult for either to not fall back into their previous roles, unraveling any real progress either had made in their outside lives. Tl;dr : Oro and Kabu maybe canon, but being with LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE would be healthier for both of them.

You know that frustrating part of your brain that just Doesn’t Stop Poking at Problems? The one that tends to come up with wildly inappropriate answers? 

I think of that part of me as my Inquest side. My personal little “Death of Rats” a la Discworld. 

Just, you know, with more…problems.

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So I didn’t win NaNo this year. But I’m still proud of what I got done. I updated some stuff I’ve had on the back-burner for a while, and worked on a few fics that have no reason to be as long as they’ve become. So:

Georgian Winter (One Piece) has a two chapter update on AO3. 

Plumes and Petals, a GaoGaiGar crack fic has grown into a behemoth at 25000 words, and I’ll start posting it soon.

Ditto for The Sphinx of B’Net, a D&D inspired GGG fic which is way longer than it should be.

Finally, I didn’t get any Naruto stuff done, and have found that no matter how many times I write it “Kabuto as a soulless observer created by God(dess) to judge the ninja world and after 1000 years went off the rails and decided to give the Ninja a final test of worthiness” is proving impossible to write, so that’s on the back burner now.

Still have all my Strange Magic stuff clogging my brain, so expect some more of that in the new year. Thanks for sticking around, y’all!

Me: I’m worried that I’m under-powering this female character by making her main roll communication.

Renais Cardiff Shishio: Receives communication gauntlet and immediately sets herself on fire.

Renais, 2 hours later: Figures out that too much data over-clocks her G-Stone, producing excess energy

Renais, 3 days later: Weaponizes this, turning her iTunes library into an arsenal that will produce energy blasts

Renais, official J-Arc Communications Officer: Wants a stronger gauntlet, so she can fire laser canons

…maybe I shouldn’t have worried about turning Renais into a bridge bunny.

My plan has already gone awry. 

Not because I’m behind. I’m always behind for NaNo. But I’m pleased with my progress and how much I’ve actually been writing.

No. The problem is that I’m 70 pages into something that was supposed to be a stupid one-shot. 

Seventy. Pages.

On an idea that is so stupid that it should be a crack-fic, if the gods-be-damned world building monster hadn’t looked at my paltry offerings and said “No, K. If you are going to write hanahaki into a GaoGaiGar fic, it must have a logical explanation and historical precedent.”

Seventy. Damn. Pages. And they’re not even on the same ship yet. FML

marveladdicts:

Rest in Peace legend. Stan Lee has passed away, at the age of 95.

(via suzie-guru)

And I am too depressed about politics to write my usual shlock. (Given my normal strategy of “exaggerate things to their logical extreme then pick up the pieces” no longer works when the Real World manages to be both worse and more stupid.) So, this year I’m doing a “Clean Up” of all my WIPS. 

There is a list under the cut, but if there’s anything specific people want me to get to, feel fee to shout at me.

Thanks!

- K 

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thebibliosphere:

morgynleri:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.

To a certain extent, you can feel bad for the professors: all their hard work and effort, learning all the intricacies of their craft…and no one reads their work. No one Cares. My creative writing class didn’t count for any GECs, so every one in the class really wanted to be there - and not a single one was an English major. The poor, barely into Gradschool TA was asked to teach a whole class of people who could care less about Great Works, and instead wanted a chill class to connect and practice. She had no ability to guide us. When I wrote speculative fiction, she wondered why the “Differences” were visibly non-human. She was perplexed by the overly lyrical prose hiding the horror in our Chinese student’s ghost stories. When the guys wrote war stories she was confused by the details on the weapon types, and when the girls wrote fantasy she was confused by the lack of reality. And she could not tell us a reason for writing her way. We all liked our genera shlock, and she admitted herself that no one read literary magazines unless you hoped to be published yourself. So…why? Why write what other people didn’t enjoy and/or you didn’t enjoy writing? We all had fun. But I’m not sure we were good for our professor’s self-esteem. Good thing I wasn’t writing fanfic at the time, or I might have been tactless enough to mention that my super shitty, low-skill writing still gets more reads than what a lot of Literature Magazine prose… Seriously. Write what you like.

(via karethdreams)

lodessa:

I want you to know that there are many days when that kudos email from AO3 is the highlight of my day. 

(via carmineeyes)

One am, and I’m once again debating the kind of person I am.

normal person can dream up a one-shot orgy fic. I have to make sure everything is consensual. And fun. And involving characters I like.

Okay. But why am I now ten pages into a treatese on Kobold social structure and the proper way of breaking a curse through loopholes and bureaucracy? And how to appropriately file orgy paperwork with your local goblin council? What?

And all for a Pun. Not even very clever one.

Someone please tell me how to write short fic. I’m drowning in 20+ page WIPs. @.@