boring old days, drifting away

It breeds, I swear. No, not the plot bunnies (all though they're at it likes rabbits currently), the word count pre chapter. Then again, the plot bunnies are at fault there.

Tree-rat, we might want to sneak in some contraceptives into the plot bunny pens...

Or Something Like It (ch. 4) is here.

Or Something Like it is finally posted on urplesquirrel's LJ.

!!!

To my dearest story, WotM and all characters residing with in,

You know, I have issues with you. You've been around for over three years, infesting my mind, so how could I not. You're something that I've lost hours of sleep over, and I think about you at least hourly. But:

I have plot lines lying on the way-side, forgotten and discarded.

The continuity in you sucks.

My writing style has changed drastically since you began, in my opinion.

But most of all, the plot has changed so many times it's not funny, or even vaguely amusing to me...
...
...Well now that I think about it, it is bemusing, however that's not the point.

Yugi, Malik, Ryou and all yamis.... PLEASE STOP CHANGING THE PLOT ON ME NOW! Please, I'm nearly ready to cry. Look we've gone through how many plots for this part? At the bare minimum it's eleven. This one's nice, this one is nearly written out and it's good.

Sincerely,
Ella

PS, YES, Yugi-tachi who were left behind, I hear you! Wait your damn turn or else I swear with the web as my witness that idea involving you and a certain firefly ship is going to get beyond my hard-drive and on to here!

Figured that it might be a good idea to update this.

In RL:
I moved. I hate this place.
I went on vacation and met up with urplesquirrel there.
We wrote some stuff together.... about 26 pages of stuff in two weeks.

Parts should be up later today. In other news I'm writing more and hope to have the rest of WotM up in two weeks.

Writing Progress:

Chapter 38 of WotM -- ??% written (I need to find my notebooks and get the whole bloody thing together.)
Chapter 39 of WotM -- 30%
Chapter 3 of WotC -- 75%
Chapter 1 of Or Something Like It (yes, the new project 'Im working on with urplesquirrel) --99%  (editing)

Or Something is hopefully going to get written quickly due to there being two of us. It's YGO and the pairing is Yuugi/Atem. It's post-manga-ish, with stuff drawn from the anime. The original concept was urplesquirrel's.


Other fics are being worked on, so something might pop up every now and then that's a decent length.

I had a nice burst of inspiration yesterday when I dug up some old YGO stuff, and watched it. WotC's ch. 3 Is about halfway done, as is WotM latest chapter. Yea! And I might post a little  one shot or something later today.






Let's see, what else to talk about. Our kittens are very cute. I want a digital camera for my birthday (which is in a week). I'm going to see my best friend later today, which is going to wonderful. I dug up my list of YGO crossover ideas and found seven more that I'm seriously considering writing. Can I kill my muse? My muse is wonderful. But this is an addition to my other fandoms.   
 -_-u

Anyway, I'm gonna write some and run a new snippet past my little brother to see what he thinks. I'm not gonna post it yet as it's the start of another story.

And I need to clean my room. Curses!

I figured that I'd better update this thing, as I haven't really had a chance in a while. I'm presently working at the local library as a page (on of those people who's primary task is shelve books) and pushing the carts around takes a lot of me and my flabby muscles. It's rewarding though and I can steal glances at the books I'm shelving. Plus it pays.

Been busy, life keeps on throwing stuff at me and at least it hasn't been a lot of lemons (all though in the fandom sense that might be nice). The moving stuff is going reallllllllllly slow. But I'm going to be going up north this fall. So is my little brother. Very conflicted on that issue, but over all I think it will do him good. Me on the other hand... I might be hard pressed not to cause major bodily damage to someone. Probably going to channel some of it into to writing.

And thus we come to the rest of my post.


Maybe it's time to go to bed.... I'm becoming incoherent.

I'm between classes right now, with almost an hour or more of time to burn. I finished the assignment I was doing early.

Why am I taking both Chinese and Japanese again? Oh yes, I'm almost certifiable now. That and Chinese helps with my kanji. -_- Gods, I can't wait for this semester to over.

As for the moving stuff, there is already some one vaguely interested in the house, my old art tutor. I wouldn't mind at all if she were the one who bought it. We have a lot garden wise, at least five rosebushes, two fruit trees, a patch of raspberries and various herbs turning into weeds of the top my head. /nods/ The lemon balm is continuing its plot for lawn domination. Very happy about that. I love mowing the stuff.

I've still got at least half an hour to go, so here's a drabble:



Title: After It's Been Packed Away...
Fandom: Yu gi oh
Author: Stella Wind
Rating: G
Spoilers: Very vague ending of the series. Vague because I have only the foggiest notions of what happened. Most of it is based on my assumptions
Summary: anzu centric
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights, nor am I making a profit from this.




Anzu picked at her thumbnail, running a stray piece of gravel down, watching the clear nail polish as it was plowed upwards. She glanced up for a second as she herd a cheer, and she glanced up briefly to see (what was his name again?) plow through Yugi's defenses with a trap card. She glanced briefly at Yugi, and saw his still casually stance, and went back to her anti-manicure.

Ever since the shadow games as well as the Yami Yugi had been sealed away, Duel Monsters had lost much of its shine. Seto Kaiba had resigned months ago, and Jounochi rarely played now. Mai had moved onwards, as she said, but with a vague lonely look as she left on a cruise. Ryou Bakura had looked his deck in safe and had very ceremonially thrown the key into the ocean.

The only reason Yugi was dueling now was to pass on the title "The King of Games." But he did with such ill concealed boredom that had come to she believed a coin toss would have been a better solution.

Yugi had changed after Yami left. He had become moody, and even snarled occasionally, a far cry from the formerly optimistic, cheerful youth he had been only sixth months prior. His hair had once more become messy, tendrils creeping out of the once uniform spikes. He had become almost gaunt, and had grown almost three inches, further compounding his weight loss. He tended to doze at school, even during lunch. She had given up trying to get him to eat lunch daily and steeled for making sure he wasn't going to be hospitalized.

What scared her the most however was even when he was in his dark moods, he had very little emotion; he was only manifesting more so then he had before.

He had become a waning shell for something long gone, as had they all.

Jounochi had only managed to save himself from the depression by throwing himself into caring for his sister, a coping mechanism that Kaiba seemed to share. Honda had become quiet and contemplative, and seemed to be intent on becoming and Egyptologist. Mia had continued to drift along, barely touching the world. She was almost certain that Ryou was cutting and had mentally added him on the same list as Yugi.

She had changed just as drastically as them she knew. Dance seemed to one of the very few things that could entertain her now, and only when she let herself go into the rhythm. She could hardly stand to even look at DDR now.

All the older duelist of who where once of any standing were bailing out of the game, scrambling to find something else to fill there time, but Anzu felt it was impossible.

The games were over, and what was left for the pawns except to be thrown back into the box?






Wow... that turned out much longer then expected. Please comment! Got to run to class, sorry about the crappy editing.

Well, WotM is updated with WotC of to Ora!

Ah, so nice to be back!

...And I really should be studying. :P