HAPPY BIRTHDAY, aishuu!

I do hope it's deliriously happy, and that all the craziness with your job and your gall bladder has somewhat settled down... seems like it's been forever since I had an actual conversation with you! I realise that I've been a hideous LJ-friend these past couple of months, and really, I'll try and come back as soon as the bugs and drugs are no longer out to get me...

*runs off in the hopes of passing yet another exam tomorrow*

Er, because I've fallen off the face of the earth and all... a brief excerpt, written by one of my friends, on the things that are going on in med school. She's convinced med school is funny. Sometimes, I even agree with her. ^_~

(As to the cast of characters... Kevin is the class prankster, Victoria is the lovely young poet who wrote this excerpt, Monica is, well, me, Steven's the young newlywed who sits in front of us, Tamer is the not-so-young not-so-newly wed who sits in the middle of our aisle, Shoshannah's our vegan, Greg is our resident military Mormon boy, Esther is darling and busy and always desirous of being helpful.)

( A Day in the Life )

It is vaguely sad that I snicker madly as I read this, but... every word is true. And yes... that, er, lovely little ditty was, in fact, part of lecture. ^^

*will get back to writing again. Really. As soon as the bacteria stop eating my very soul. O_O*

I liiiive!

...which is to say, I have nice, high-speed, functional Internet again! (Which, unfortunately, means that I'm back in the US. Er. Well. Can't have everything...)

I'll be catching up on comments in the next few days, but school's apparently starting with a hop, skip, and a bang, so probably no new stories until Friday, okay? How have all of you been in the time I've been gone? (Feels like forever!)

Gaaaah... well, it's not good writing, but at least I got some writing done... *headwall* Well, when my friends have left and my brain is back in PoT-land, where it belongs, there'll be more. Hopefully better.

So! To welcome back aishuu... Oshitari and Mari go shopping. Up at sinsofwill. ^^

I'm so glad that your experience at the hospital was as pleasant as hospital stays are likely to be, sweetie! *snug* Hope you're feeling better today, dear, and that the extra hole resolves itself!

(And! Oooh! I get to use my new, sparkly Mari icon, courtesy of lainex' lovely fanart, and rageboxalice's icon-making skills!)

*flails about in frustration* I don't believe it. I'm on vacation, and somehow, Real Life actually got me. Snagged me like a catfish. Between a million family events, AND the Dialup of Doom, AND my lovely, but very distracting, friends... how's a girl supposed to write?! (Or, for that matter, catch up on comments, or Friends list, or... well, apparently, I'm not. Gah.)

I just popped online today to wish aishuu a successful operation and a quick, painless recovery! Lit a candle for you yesterday in San Augustin church, sweetheart--hope your surgeons are skillful, your nurses are nice, and that pesky gall bladder goes the way of the dinosaur!

And you know I've been in the Philippines too long when I start lighting devotion candles. *facepalm*

rageboxalice... remember how I was telling you that I had a set of doujin shorts that I wanted you to see?

Well, I finally got onto a connection decent enough that it doesn't bite me every time I so much as look at it. ^^

[Textual Chemistry] Toshishita no Wanko

It's Silver Pair; three one-page shorts, all in the same vein.

I absolutely love this particular circle's art--everyone is adorable (even if they're always poking fun at Shishido and Ootori.) I've already gotten a lot of their other stuff scanned, but Photoshop and I get into violent disagreements--the reason the second page is so rough-looking is that I had to redo it three times. Photoshop kept crashing on me and I (being an utter moron) kept forgetting to save halfway. ^^;

Hope you guys enjoy! Feel free to pass the link around, should you so desire.

(Oh, and missitar? Once On This Island - Forever Yours.mp3 Hope you like it!)

Brief EDIT for amusement value: Apparently tiamatv is a G-rated blog. This comes as no surprise. What DOES come as a surprise? The fact that sinsofwill, is ALSO apparently G-rated. O_O Uh... riiiiight.

...hrrrm.

( So I just received fanfiction for my fanfiction. )

Three questions for all of you...

How many of you write fiction? Original fiction, fanfic, whatever you like?

Second question: how many of you reread your own stories... and not for editing purposes?

(*sheepishly raises hand*)

Third question: So, fellow auto-rereaders... why do we reread our own stuff?

Phew! Finally caught up with comments... mostly.

OH, wait, one more question--is there anyone I can request an icon from, or request icon-making lessons from? (*laugh* I can pay you in drabbles, if you so desire.)

EDIT: Edited for clarity, because people seemed to think my third question was asking why you read MY stuff *laugh*

So I get home and my mum starts on about my posture and my weight, her two favourite peeves. It says something that all I had to do was look back at the comments on Keganin to put me back into the proper fangirly, flaily, deliriously happy frame of mind. ^________^

Fanart makes me insanely happy... but absolutely gorgeous COPING METHODS fanart?! I don't think an emoticon exists that can describe the look on my face.

By kazeko
1) Kiss (she thought of it, I didn't!) (with the reference pic for the pose) <-- *still flailing too hard to come up with commentary*
2) A sketch of Mari!

By lainex
3) Mari being smart and studious <--my response was, "Hiyoshi, oh my God, if she really looks like this, you MUST be oblivious."
4) Mari opening the door for Hiyoshi in Tamatebako

3 + 1 = Anticanon HiyoMari drabble, up at sinsofwill. (And yes, it really is a drabble this time--less than 500 words!)

I am feeling an insane amount of love for the Coping Methods storyline right now, so Silver Pair ladies... er, temporarily forgive me? ^^;

...but you guys, however, who fed me Hell Day plotbunnies, are SERIOUS, SERIOUS love! Thanks to you, my brain actually isn't a puddle on the floor of my auntie's place! Gaspu!

mousapelli ended up poinking my bizarre brain the hardest, though I really couldn't tell you why... the result is up at sinsofwill. Er, dear, I'm pretty sure this wasn't what you were thinking of when you offered the prompt... but I suppose that's only fair, because it wasn't what I was thinking of when I started fiddling with the prompt, either! >.<

Also up at sinsofwill... ehehehe, I guess it's Coping Methods, via chironstar's drabble request... though I have only one thing to say about it: poor Hiyoshi. ^^;

Should I happen to disappear for awhile again, it's because my mother's dialup, as it turns out, is incredibly unreliable--it was out all of Sunday and Monday, and is kind of crawling along today. ^^;

Hello, ladies! I am home safe, back in my mum's place. And she has Internet--dialup, but so much better than 100P prepaid cards! 

That said, I have another request to make of you all.


But I am here to beg you for a plotbunny feed. Any bunny, any couple, no matter how improbable. I can't say I'll write all of them--or, in fact, any of them--but it will go in a big way towards keeping me sane until I can go home again tomorrow night. 

You can certainly comment here, or you can email me at tiamatv at yahoo.com, for anyone who has 'secret' plotbunnies. ^^

Purty purty please?

...yes, I realise that I am overposting, but it is four-thirty in the morning and I've been awake twenty hours. So, here goes. *laugh*

I realise that I don't truly know a fair number of the people on my friends list anymore... and of those folk I remember from the bad old days, I think quite a few people have done what I did and left their journals alive but unpeopled. ;_;

So! In the interest of "getting to know you..." and "seeing how many of the folk on my friends list are actually still kicking around..."

Tell me something about yourself, whether or not I know you--whatever you like! ^_^

license_points, dear, your belated birthday fic is up at sinsofwill. I hope you like it! And I really hope no-one decides to have my head for it...

...with all the HiyoMari I've been writing, I really need another Hiyoshi icon. *laugh*

One quick question before I run off to the Philippines again--does anyone know where I can get fonts like Bradley Hand ITC and Wild Words without, you know, paying a ton for them? I'm going to start scanslating again (right, like I need to get any more into fandom, right?) and unfortunately, I lost all my fonts when my old computer died. >.<

I'm instantly contactable at TiamatMortale on AIM, if anyone wants to chat with me before 9:30 AM EST tomorrow morning--I don't sleep the night before long plane flights. ^^

*bemused*

So apparently I was wrong about him. He called, today--not to get back together or anything of the sort, but just to chat. And he talked about anime and he made annoyed noises at my yaoi fangirling and the fact that I randomly get upgraded to business class when I fly, and he never does.

It was all very normal, not in the least bit awkward, and I find myself so happy.

It's too early to hope, but maybe the staying friends thing actually will work out after all. ^___^

And enough about real life--new shortfic up at sinsofwill. Coping Methods #6... maybe. *laugh*

It's one of the shortest ones I've ever written that wasn't timed, but it's definitely, er, not a drabble--it's about 3500 words. It's kind of spastic, very silly, and is probably the fault of of the Anonymous person who asked for Mari, Hiyoshi, a dojo, and one of Hiyoshi's family members. *cough*

Just a random thought, though... one of these days, I actually am going to flesh out how Mari looks, won't I? *wrinkles nose at the thought*

So I was informed at 12:30 that my group is going to be the last group leaving today.

Me: *looks at watch* Oh, good... time to go finish that Silver Pair story. ^_~

It's up at sinsofwill. And, uh, yeah, just recall that a big chunk of it was written in a "damn it I WILL finish this if it kills me!" rush. ^^;

I personally think that the incredible smuttiness of it is me being reactionary about the whole LJ debacle, but that's just me. ^^; And what IS it about characters I write and oral fixations, seriously?!

*runs off to Honduras*

So, uh, if I don't reply to comments for the next few weeks... it's not because I don't love you guys, it's because I'm in rural Honduras on a medical mission. ^^ Wish me luck!

I wanted to have a Silver Pair story and a HiyoMari story ready to post upon my departure, but unfortunately, I was distracted by the utter madness that was the Dream Live 3. (Just try writing smut after watching actor-Shishido and actor-Ootori goosh at each other! *laugh* It'd practically be a crime to sex up something so darling and innocent.)

So the HiyoMari is done and at sinsofwill, and the Silver Pair will just have to wait their turn when I get back. ^^ Never mind, it's finished. ^^

Oh, God... the madness. I'm a fangirl again. The pain.

That said--would any one of you lovely ladies know where I can actually download a copy of the third TeniMyu Dream Live? Obviously I don't care if it's not subtitled, but I just watched some clips of it on YouTube, and...

Hyoutei is INSANE LOVE doesn't even begin to describe what I'm feeling right now. I just spent the past half hour squeeing to my poor hapless ex about it, and perhaps if I watch the whole thing, I'll be able to get it out of my system. Let's hope. Because I don't think he's going to want to talk to me anymore if I continue on like this.

( Guess I will post what I thought about the Hyoutei TeniMyu after all. )

Roar! Roar! <--wanted to write smut. Ended up finishing and editing the weird scientific Silver Pair instead. (I really like that term--it very nicely avoids the idea of which one of them is, er, top. ^^) But grargh. Posted on sinsofwill.

Will try for writing the smut anyway until I'm tired of male bits. ^^

I was going to make a ridiculously fangirly post about finally watching the Hyoutei TeniMyu. And then I was going to go and happily tap out some more reversible Silver Pair smut until I was sick of the logistics of male anatomy.

And then I read this.

( *sighs* )

Edit: Sigh. Am realising that there's definitely underaged smut in this journal, and in sinsofwill. But damn it... I will not friends-lock. I simply refuse to believe that the admins will be crazy enough to start searching out and shutting down random people's personal pages... especially since I'm pretty sure I have never had anything incriminating in my Interests.