And we're winding slowly down

[nekokoban]

So, despite being a little mopey about my Canada trip falling through, things are pretty good! chirachira is coming down to spend the new year with me, and we'll likely be very boring and not do a whole lot except hang out and geek -- which in retrospect is actually pretty exciting to me. *g* (Which means! If anyone in the Seattle crew wants to see her while she's here, she'll be leaving in the evening on Tuesday -- the first -- so let me know. :D)

In other news, I've picked up eleven prompts at springkink, which is about my average, though I've got more at the BEGINNING of the month than the end this time. WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES \o/ Also been getting my app for the you-know-what beta'd. I am so nervous guys, and I know no one else can be responsible for me, but -- if you hear me wibbling, don't let me get away with it. I am trying very hard NOT to talk myself out of it, but it's only sort of working. XD

Also also also. My god, going and looking at the response for my Yuletide fic has made me ridiculously happy. I'm a little giddy and giggly and I feel like spazzing about it at anyone in particular would make me sound really arrogant so uh. Apparently I'll just spazz at my flist in general: given the amount of trouble I had with the end of that fic in particular, the fact that it's going over so well is just. Some of the nicest comments I've ever had are from this story, and given its peculiar nature, this is kind of really amazing. \o/ \o/ \o/

Since Yuletide has encouraged me and I am feeling particularly like a whore (it's a Friday, and I'mma go see nightsinger's kitties tonight as well as pick up Chira♥ it's like an embarrassment of cute riches! it'll put anyone in a good mood), lol hay guyz plz r&r my genderswitch Tsubasa fic. I do promise, though, I will keep writing even if no one else does. ;)

AND FINALLY, a meme! Because I've been collecting links to do a "summary of fic posted in 2007" thing for the new year and been kind of boggled at how damn much I talk.

What do you think are the quote-unquote "trademarks" of the fiction and essays that I write? What type of themes or characterization notes or quirks keep on manifesting in my writing? Essentially, what do you think is a stereotypically "my" way of writing?

Or you know what? JUST TALK TO ME. Why has the internet been so slooooooow latelyyyyyyy~ ToT

Comments

[grendelity.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I don't know about quirks of your style. I hate that I keep catching you when you want feedback and I am absolutely brain-dead, but uh. Take this with a grain of salt, mind you, as I'm super-tired and tormented with the bad decision of caffeine consumption, so THIS MAY OR MAY NOT SOUND OKAY.

You have a very natural, easy style that feels real. It's not low-key, it's just...comfortable, enough to where when you yank out an image or a line as a hinge or clincher, it sticks. i.e....oh, I don't know, for some reason, in the fic-thing [...*digs*...] "The Shape in Dreams," the image of Haruka giving Kantarou the goddamn Heimlich maneuver has never left me. DON'T ASK ME WHY. And on a less visual note, um...the little bit in "These Songs Still I Hear" about Kurogane singing. I think I'm really tactile...? Something like that, but images and sensory things snag with me, and the way you write makes them snag all the more deeply because you don't seem to try to make everything snag.

...*blinkblink* I don't know if any of that makes sense, honestly. Theoretically it boils down to, "you write pretty things."


*** Okay so now that I've had time to sit around thinking about NOT shoving my foot in my mouth, I also want to append that anything and everything I say can really and truly be viewed through the lens that I-I admire you greatly, consider you my sempai or onee-san or whathaveyou because-I-don't-know-the-word-in-German. JUST SO YOU KNOW. Not that that's entirely relevant to my garbled comment above. XD

[nekokoban]

REPLYING BELATEDLY BECAUSE I AM LAME.

This actually didn't sound bad at all -- I was just very curious to know what people actually identify as something that I'd written. XD And I would be terribly flattered to be your senpai or whatever-you-want, though! I DO NOT KNOW HOW GOOD OF AN EXAMPLE I WOULD SET FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION. :|b

♥

[miss-arel.livejournal.com]

*waves* THIS IS ME, TALKING TO YOU. BEING SICK BLOWS. DX DX DX I'd try to answer your fic question if my head weren't so fuzzy. I suspect you'd prefer your answers coherent. ^_~

*waves to Jayd* Hope you two have fun together! :D

[nekokoban]

I HOPE YOU ARE NOT STILL SICK. D: That would be kind of sucktastic. D:

Jayd did mention to say hi to you when you get back to Seattle as well~ :D

[gisho.livejournal.com]

It's pretty hard to define, but you have a deft way with words. I recently rather bungled an analogy comparing various GB writers to artists, but I'll pick it up again: you're like Trina Schart Hyman! Who you have probably never heard of, but bear with me. You approach things from just the right angle; your characters are stylized, but not improbably so, and you're not afraid to show imperfections as necessary. Emotional intensity can be present but doesn't blare. Also there are hidden details which are fun to hunt for. <3

[kawaiigami.livejournal.com]

*waves* Y halo thar!^^

One thing I've always liked about your writing is how the characters all have distinct personalities, but aren't caricatures. It's not an easy thing to do.

p.s. I've picked up a few prompts too.^^ Should be fun to see how things turn out.

[nekokoban]

Halo halo! :D That is rather flattering to hear, I'm glad I pull that off. :D

I'm glad to hear you're participating in SK this time 'round! *g* It's good to know all my subtle pimping actually worked out for this. ;)

[half-shadow.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is REALLY random, but what series is your icon from? I saw it and it intrigues me! ...Sorry, that's really random isn't it? XD

[nekokoban]

Nah, not a problem! *g* It's from a series called Mononoke, which was a spinoff of the last arc of another series called Ayakashi. I think you'd like it; it's full of supernatural creatures, badass fighting, and funky animation. :D (Current icon is also from the same series.)