Tag: meme

I got Taggedy-tagged by @kesskay to say what I’m working on. Thank you! ❤

  1.  The Path rewrite – Forgive me, guys, I recently went back to Chapter 1. I was taking an extremely conservative approach before NaNo last year, but with the sequel shaping up, I wanted to bring the first part into similar shape. It’s actually faster this way, not being chained to the old prose. I’ve been gleefully murdering the old darlings to make way for new ones. No major plot changes, it’s still mostly an OGC-compliant fic, but much more foreshadowing, seed-sowing and interpersonal relationship building.
  2. Redemption Road – The aforementioned sequel. The big NaNo draft still didn’t cover all the major steps in the road, and there is still a heap of linking scenes and prose-refinement ahead, with a Best of the 80s soundtrack for inspiration. Going backwards to write the step forwards, I don’t know, man, it was a great time for power ballads.
  3. Prequel Fic– My original attempt at 500 words a day. Fully plotted, semi-stalled while I work on the others, very messy, going to take one hell of an overhaul. That’s the danger in writing small fragments, the tone shifts depending on mood and energy that day, I kept referring to the same things over and over, forgetting I already mentioned them a couple days ago. But we’ll get there.
  4. The Mission – There is a planned ending now, which I didn’t have at the start, and we’re at least three-fourths of the way there.
  5. Indiana Aeris (and Sephi Croft) – Cold open, initial face-off with the villains,
    historical artifact of possibly magical significance, and a love
    interest being whiny, maybe the first twenty minutes worth of a movie
    written.

  6. Unnamed Sephiroth Tragedy – A non-Path multipart that’s good for sinking the most severe angst and hurtspiration into. Maybe a good chapter or two properly written, the rest outlined in great detail. Not a happy story.
  7. Unnamed Aeriseph Tragedy – Essentially slavery fic of the plotty rather than kinky sort. Barely got more than a prologue done and a few hasty key scenes to flesh out later, according to the loose outline, but it won’t let go so it stays in rotation. Also not a happy story.
  8. The Unsuitable Suitor (working title) – Medieval fantasy/Bodice Ripper inspired AeriSeph. First chapter written, detailed outline complete. This is a happy story.
  9. The Ghost Upstairs – A little Avalanche family fun that I haven’t managed to finish for two Halloweens, but in all fairness one of those  ‘weens I got married. Trying to get going before October this time around.
  10. The Price of Freedom – Aeris as an above-plate kept woman, for @lilly-white. See, I didn’t forget. It just wanted to go from a one-shot to a multichap, and I have a lot of those.
  11. Various Marriageverse shorts – Including the stuff that shows up in the two one-shot collections, these matter to me as much as the larger parts of the timeline, because they all deserve a happy interlude between one angsty journey and the next, and there is vital worldbuilding and character-building there for the eventual conclusion story. Also a great place to stash some lighter feels when the main fics feel too heavy.

And Artwise:

  1. A character pic for the FF30thAnniversary fan poster. Still posing my Body-Chan model.
  2. Mrs. Sephiroth in a ballgown – actually about done but I don’t like the background. Keep meaning to go back and fix it.
  3. Aeris and the Orange – Reverse Cosplay series of Aeris dressed up in my clothes. Being very casually colored on quiet evenings.

And that’s pretty much it  for fandom stuff right now. There is a secondary list of things set aside until this one clears up a bit, plus a fair amount of non-fandom work, mostly sewing.

No-pressure tagging: @klepto-maniac0, @rsasai, @literaryeagle, @evil-robot-cat and anyone else who wants a go at it.

Here’s a little meme to try, I got tagged by @rsasai.

If you want to try it too, you can say that I tagged you.


Nicknames: Ard.

Zodiac sign: Sagittarius.

Height: 4′11′, until the middle aged shrinkage hits.

Last thing you googled: dark forest path. Looking for some scene inspiration.

Favorite music artist: VAST. Just why are your lyrics so samey-same-same.

Song stuck in your head: It’s Raining Men.

Last movie you watched: Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2

What are you wearing right now: blue yoga pants and a grey tshirt.

Why did you choose your URL: I was looking for a forest-inspired name that wasn’t too elaborate, or too common either. I found Arduinna, goddess of the Ardennes.

Do you have any other blogs: No.

What did your last relationship teach you: It is not worth it always being ‘the bigger person’. They get used to it and worsen their behavior, taking your ‘forgiveness’ for granted. Don’t change who you are for somebody else. If they can’t accept you as you are, go your separate ways.

Religious or Spiritual: Spiritual. Nothing like a lifetime of religious school to turn you off organized religion.

Favorite color: Sunlight on leaves, a very golden green.

Average hours of sleep: 6 most nights.

Lucky number: seven

Favorite characters: Aeris Gainsborough of FFVII, Dr. McCoy, Data and Jadzia Dax from Star Trek, , Saber from Teknoman (my first anime crush. Still makes my heart go pitter pat).

How many blankets do you sleep with: 8. I have an elaborate system of layers.

Dream job: Used to be photographer for National Geographic. Now, film director or a stint with Doctors without Borders.

Way late, guys, I almost forgot, I got tagged by both @rsasai and @shining-silver-skies to name ten favorite characters in ten different fandoms. So here we go.

1. Aeris – FFVII

2. Dr. McCoy – Star Trek

3. Tiger – Tiger and Bunny

4. MacGyver

5. Tekkaman Evil/Teknoman Saber – Tekkaman Blade/Teknoman

6. Princess Leia – Star Wars

7. Belle – Beauty and the Beast

8. Polgara – The Belgariad/The Mallorean

9. Arithon s’Falenn – Wars of Light and Shadow

10. Batman

1, 3, 5 and 6!!

And for @lilly-white as well, who also asked 1.

1. 
What are some writing tics that persist in your
work but that you dislike?

A very limited selection of physical signs of emotion. Lots of sighing. Maybe a toe tap or a raised eyebrow here and there. Head scratching. Lots of head scratching.

3.   You have to erase one of your fics from existence
forever. Which one and why?

Authorverse Awry. Self-inserts make me nervous, much more on edge than they did when I wrote it, it was a shallow attempt at mocking fandom as I recall. I do remain deeply uninterested in other people’s Mary-Sues, but that’s because I have my own to identify with, other people’s fantasy wish-fulfillment characters aren’t fulfilling MY wishes, you know, but still, let fandom do what fandom does, I could have stayed in my corner and not been a dick about it.

5.      
Have you ever written anything you would’ve
backclicked if it’d been written by anyone else?

There’s a fic on the kinkmeme I never even bothered to claim or post up afterwards anywhere else. It was supposed to be roleplay, it fell far short of the goal I’d had for it. Poorly executed porn.

6.      
What’s your guilty pleasure as a writer?

So far as my work hurt none, why be guilty? I do have some authorial indulgences that I recognize as ‘not advancing the plot’, ‘padding the word count’ and possibly ‘screwing with the pacing’ that I have no shame about, because this is fanfic and we can do that here, there’s no editor with a red pen trying to make something tight and mass-marketable out of it. That would be lush and lavish descriptions of food, clothes, architecture, fancy books, whatever, let me paint that picture in words on occasion instead of going strictly by character conversation and action to let hints slip in, as I gather is the modern way.

First Lines Meme

Tagged by @comebackwhen. Whew, I don’t think I’ve ever done a meme quite this long. Thanks for the tag! ❤

My list ends up going way back into 2015. I AM UNPRODUCTIVE! D:Links go to AO3 unless otherwise specified.

1.  Let There Be – They see
the plants she grows, the flowers she woke from long-dormant bulbs beneath the
dying earth.

2. Eat or Be Eaten [Tumblr link] – Eating was a chore.

3.
Li’s Tailoring Emporium [OC-centric, part of the Ordinary Life collection] Eight
black shirts, steamed and starched, lay on the bench.

4. Ticking – “Ooooh,
girl, your daddy must be a terrorist, because you da bomb, baby!”

5.
A Different Kind of Magic [Harry Potter ficlet]- A wand from Ollivander’s will
get you through your school days.

6. Wutai Lullaby – There’s a cliff in Wutai Sephiroth won’t go
near.

7. A Flower Blooming – One day Jessie brought a flower home.

8. Beside the
Still Waters – Shoving your trooper boyfriend into the ventilation ducts was
something of a SOLDIER tradition.

9.
Waxing Diabolical – Sephiroth tramped in place in the cold, quiet and glum.

10.
Healing Wind – He passes by her church several times the first year.

11.
Hell – Cold out tonight, ain’t it, son?

12.
Mysterious Circumstances – At first they checked on him all through the day.

13. Chips – Chaos was remarkable in battle.

14. Let’s Pretend –

Let’s pretend there are no walls
no long hallways, no bright lights
no cages, no needles
no tests at all

15. Vanilla Smoke – Three weeks they kept him on the field, the
first time.

16.
Hardwood – Sephiroth strolled into his office sipping from a travel mug full of
tea, when the dick on his desk made him pause.

17. A Walk in
the Woods – The grey days were the best.

18. The
Memory of Snow – In the end the wait was not so long.

19. Above and Below – They are playing a game.

20. After The Fall – On
an autumn afternoon when the sun had cooled, and the leaves were still wearing
shades of mostly summer, a small group gathered on top a green hill to say
goodbye.

 So I suppose for the most part I like my opening lines on the short side and not terribly informative. I think lots of people have been tagged already since I’m late getting to this, but if you haven’t been and want to have a go at it, here’s your chance.

For the prompt meme, could you please do “Sorry” for AeriSeph? Thank you very much!

Sometimes Sephiroth wasn’t sure if they were walking in a
growing field, or her boundless dream of one, her corner of the Promised Land.
The world had changed for the living. They had changed. Grass grew greener.
Flowers grew brighter. The air grew clearer. The rain was more pure. Mako gave
way to oil, which gave way to the wind and sun. The Planet began to heal.  

“Do you miss it?” he asked one day on the road to the old
city.

“What, my church?” she said. “Not really. I spent most of my
life in there. I know what it looks like. Besides, there’s no need to go with
everyone moved on.”

The old city still rose above them, reclaimed by green
growth that was slowly pulling it into the deep earth below. The City in the
Sky would not stand forever. Centuries, perhaps, but not forever. “There it is,”
Aeris said.

Grey stone walls stretched up to the open sky. Remnants of
stained glass streamed floral light across the ground. A field of lilies
spilled out of the doorway and down the slope. The steps had worn away long
ago. They stepped through into the guarded space. The spring still existed,
perhaps a little smaller than it had been in times of great need. Flowers grew
right up to the edge under the open sky. Aeris spun around in the grass, face
turned up to the sun. “This is it?”

“This is it?” Sephiroth looked around. “Where’s the roof?”

“Oh, that fell in long ago. It was never very strong.” She
skirted the edge of the water to the altar where an old sword still stood. “Huh.
It’s gone pretty rusty. Help me straighten it up, will you?”

Sephiroth lent a hand and stood over her as she sat with her
feet in the water. She sighed at the coolness of the water, but made no ripples
at all. “This is nice,” she said. “You should try it.”

“Sure you want me putting my battle-hardened hooves in your
holy water?”

“Why not? It might get rid of that crusty heel callus.”

Sephiroth snorted but sat anyway, gliding downwards as flowing
black smoke and remaking himself barefoot and seated at the water’s edge. “Nope,
callus is still there.”

Aeris kicked water towards him and leaned back on her hands.
She still walked like a mortal, sat and stood like one, even now. Sephiroth let
himself become free floating spirit energy and went up to examine the rafters
before coming back down. “It’s nice,” he said at length.

“It is,” Aeris said. She leaned forward and stared into the
water. “Let me know when you’re ready to go back.”

“But we just got here,” Sephiroth said. “And you haven’t
been here in a long time, have you?”

Aeris closed her eyes. “I’ve spent enough time here already,”
she said, face turned up to the fading sun. No shadow crossed her face. “Did
you know, for a while, afterwards, this was almost the only place I could go?”

“What?”

She shrugged again and swirled one foot in the water. “We
travel the whole Stream,” she said, “but we’re drawn to the places we had the
strongest ties to in life.” The colors of her grew muted and dim. “I hadn’t traveled
much, for a Cetra. I saw a lot with Cloud and the gang, but… well.”

Years had passed. Cloud was gone. Midgar was an ancient
ruin, and ‘Sephiroth’ was a name parents used to make their children behave. “I’m
sorry,” he said.

“For what?” she said. “I traveled enough eventually.”

Sephiroth became black spirit again, flowing with but never
in the Stream. “I’m still sorry, for what it’s worth.”

Aeris flickered back to her usual brightness and stood. “Well,
you did cost me some time,” she said, plucking him out of the air and shaking
him back to ground. “But you and me, we have all the time in the world.”

10 facts about me

Tagged by the gracious @evil-kemis

1. I have a so-called Greek foot. Long second toe, though strictly speaking it’s actually a shorter-than-usual metatarsal bone to the big toe. Runs in the family a bit. Very good for pointy shoes.

2. I own about twenty kimonos at all levels of formality with appropriate undergarments and accessories, including a bridal shiromuku. I started collecting after my tea ceremony teacher taught me how to wear them in the course of using me as a living mannequin to practice her obi tying skills.

3. I love fortune cookies. Love ‘em. Not even for the fortunes, I like the actual cookies, so crisp and crunchy and not too sweet. If they made them shaped like potato chips and sold them in a can that’s exactly the way I’d eat them.

4. I prefer to wear saris with corsets instead of actual sari blouses.

5. I can do a basic, straightforward autopsy in under an hour.

6. When I polish a pair of shoes, they’ll shine like glass and provided you don’t go tramping through a swamp, will still be shining a month later.

7. Twice while I was traveling solo, once in Japan and once in Cambodia, I was taken for a sex worker. Both guys moved on without making trouble.

8. I am convinced the CIA has a nice fat file of all my internet doings, for all us who were student visa holders when 9/11 happened. I call the desk-bound agent in charge of my section ‘Bob’. Bob was a skinny little pencil-neck kinda guy with something missing in his life but no idea what. Then Bob saw sooooooo much slash and yaoi back in the day tracking my shit he had a realization and came fabulously the fuck out. (Hi, Bob! How’s the husband?)

9. I went back to violin lessons about six months ago after a fifteen year break. In total I’ve been playing less than a year. I should have done this sooner because I’m doing okay but wasted years being hopeless at piano, never could read two staves at once, and while I can carry a tune from years in school choir, my singing voice is weak and bland.

10. Childfree. No interest in that much responsibility, prefer puppies anyway. I will adopt and foster as many little abandoned mongrels as I can. Purebred and fancy mixed breeds can usually find a home somewhere. Give me the mutts with all the surprises in their mixed up untraceable traits. I love them.

No-Pressure tagging @caterfree10, @what-hos-there, @haniemohd, @cateringisalie, @literaryeagle, @rsasai and anyone else who might be interested.

Rules: Tag 20 amazing followers you want to get to know better

Tagged by @whitejenna

Name: Ardwynna

Nicknames: Ard online

Gender: Female

Star SIgn: Sagittarius

Height: 4′ 11″

Sexual Orientation:
Straight with lasting hots for Jadzia Dax so I dunno where that goes but I’m settled down and disinclined to poke at it any more.

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

Favourite color: Red. Green. Purple.

Favourite Animal: Canids of all sorts. Turtles a close second.

Average hours of sleep: 5

Cat or Dog person: Dogs

Favourite fictional characters: Aeris, Sephiroth, Dr. McCoy, Captain Picard, Princess Leia, Nyanko-sensei, Tekkaman Evil.

Number of blankets i sleep with: 7

Favourite singer/band: Sarah MacLachlan

Dream Trip: Ride the Trans-Mongolian railway till it meets the Trans-Siberian, get to the end and mosey on home.

Dream Job: 007

when was this blog created: Two or three years ago.

current number of followers: 429 and mostly not porn. I am surprised.

when did your blog reach its peak?: Probably last year around one of those fandom exchanges.

what made you decide to make a Tumblr?: LJ FFVII fandom is dead. I missed the crowd.