Petronia

20/20 by petronia
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Characters: Oshitari Yuushi, Atobe Keigo, Mukahi Gakuto, the rest of the Hyoutei 3rd year regulars plus Kabaji
Warnings: none
Rating: G
Wordcount: 4837 (~1K longer than the previous version with some edits, mostly around the fact that for some reason I did not like Oxford commas nine years ago. That ~1K took me three weeks. This story.)

Acknowledgements are in the notes.

A very Atobe Christmas to you, and you, and you (albeit slightly late); you are all in my thoughts. XD

Does anyone have a copy of my damned Hyoutei fic? The Oshitari-centric one. I spent half an hour digging up a paper draft and it's still missing bits toward the end, I'm sure of it.

Peer-pressured into reading Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - and I've gotta say, this book brings some real insights to the table regarding the success of the Seishun Gakuen junior high tennis team. (Suspect one could write a pretty good mgmt how-to book using only examples from Prince of Tennis. SHOUNEN JUMP: JAPAN INC.'S SECRET WEAPON???? ...Actually we knew that, didn't we.)

Sent out a bunch of holiday mail today. Most of you are going to get cards - in a lot of cases because it takes me geological eons to produce a mixtape or an FST, so I figured I'd send something while it was still seasonal. XD; Also I got ambitious and started doing this origami thing uhh well in any case you'll know when you see it. CDs went out to: beeblebabe, akatonbo, calintz, canis_m, and bladderwrack. There'll be another batch Monday or Tuesday.

The way it works is, there's no tracklisting in the package. XD So you get it, listen to it first without knowing what the songs are going to be, then let me know and I'll post the tracklisting here - along with the mp3s for mass consumption.

In other news (and to take a page from marej's book), the Internet as a whole is fired for not informing me that there's a Pantha Du Prince remix of Depeche Mode.

I'll do the questions at the end later, if they haven't been covered yet by my extensive rambling. :P

( Six pairings I like )

( Three ships I've abandoned )

( More than three ships I've never liked - possibly controversial??? )

( Two ships that have piqued my interest )

Sentou Yousei Yukikaze FST and The Etched City FST reuploaded to fst (join comm to see posts). Upping a couple more before month's end - may even toss up that 20th Century Boys FST, eheh, though it's hard to count it finished when I haven't read all the manga yet. ^^;

100-word FFXII drabble gifted me in drabble_trade (Chrissie, isn't the first one you too? o_O): here and here (inappropriate bunny cat ears warning). Signups for round two are under way. I think this time I'll offer for offbeat fandoms only and see what happens.

Other FFXII drabble request GETTO ♥ from geekerypokery: here (end of game spoilers warning). Here as well as above I'm assuming that having read the one(s) I linked everyone will click through and read the others, which are even more brill. I haven't requested from other people because I owe too many drabbles and thus feel too guilty to do so. XD;

Drabbles I contributed to drabble_trade:

( for silvermuse89: PoT, Shuusuke and Yumiko )

( for orangensaft: Love Mode, Reiji x Naoya )

Other drabble-related thing I made: fanwork_tag, a sandbox for anyone who wants to play Truth or Drabble, Sketch or Drabble, etc. (it's a lot less bothersome to have the signup post on a low-volume LJ comm than a personal journal). I advise single-fandom games as multi-fandom has a way of getting out of hand ahahaha. Um. WILL SOMEONE ELSE PLS START A FFXII GAME I HAVE NO TIME orz|||

I'm going on RL social hiatus until my birthday (which, well, I'll at least let you know where that's happening XD;;). Not declaring LJ hiatus but don't be surprised if I drop off for a bit - or conversely, spam. I just really need to get a few things done, and I don't have time for that, compiling the next SSBB issue, and seeing people in the evening or on weekends. ...Besides I'm kind of seriously PUP right now. XD;;;;

Of varying age and degree of exposure. Some of this stuff I need to post here before I forget I wrote it. XD

( Futures. Mizuiro imagines. 243 words. )

( Spark. Ichigo pre-series. 403 words. )

( Rubicon. Aizen and Urahara. Was writing this for K and will finish it if/when I can, orz. 100 words. )

( Caught by the River. Ichigo/Rukia/Renji. When I started writing I assumed there would be a point to it besides getting Rukia wet pfftHAHAHA but there isn't, unless you count the title. And no, I don't know why I'm obsessed with fish. 740 words. )

( A Friendship. Atobe and Kabaji. 177 words. )

***

I think Ichigo is like Shindou Hikaru for me - the characterisation that appears when I write is not entirely within my control. "My" Hikaru is more teasing, and "my" Ichigo more... introspective? distanced?... than I think they are in canon, and usually I'd nudge them as close to my idea of canon as possible, but it's like what wants to be, is.

Possibly I should have saved this as per tradition, for the week between Fuji Yuuta's and Fuji Shuusuke's birthdays (which will always be somewhat special to me I think, not least because my own birthday falls halfway through XD), but I have a spare half-hour now, and who knows about then.

Of course the tracklisting has undergone plenty of changes over time. Still generally within the purview of relaxing, pretty BGM, though.

Flor de Yemanjá EP

01 - Ono Lisa - Flor de Yemanjá
//the sea and white flower

02 - Gal Costa - Aquele Frevo Axé
//reminders of carnaval ( lyrics )

03 - Sunahara Yoshinori - My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
//a penetrating perfume ( lyrics )

04 - Ono Lisa - I Wish You Love
//birthday present

05 - Ulrich Schnauss - ...Passing By
//the train glided past houses

06 - Richard Hawley - The Ocean
//so lead me down ( lyrics )

Okay, you know that Prince of Tennis Subrosa challenge fic from this time last year? The Oshitari-centric Hyoutei Christmas thing? That I've been assiduously pretending doesn't exist?

I am so going to regret posting this tomorrow. >_>

( 20/20, Christmas 2005 Mix, 1/2 )

...Yeah, I'm walking into the Fiona Apple trap of Everyone Will Think The Demos Are Better.

Written out of boredom at the idea of having to tell all my vacation stories as if they happened to me... yeah. >_> It seems quibbling to claim this isn't set in Tin's "Park Amsterdam" universe but I have a feeling a side-by-side comparison of the details of our respective characterisations (likes/dislikes, habits, etc.) would turn up direct contradictions. Also Tin doesn't go for the cheap effect, and well. XD

Tezuka and Fuji are amazingly peripateic, though, if you think about it. I've read fic in which one or both of them travel or live in Europe, Asia, both Americas... It feels as if there should be a reason, other than the whole German hospital and pro tennis bit of course.

( 1,021 words, just as I'd estimated. )

I'm not doing NaNo as such but I'll keep track of how many words I write in November, since I have so many projects on my plate. Will insert appropriate photographs tomorrow if I find the time. XD;;