It's Christmas Eve for some of you and Christmas Day for the folks down here, so:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ♪



MASTER LIST OF CHRISTMAS GIFT FICS

+ AIR GEAR. Feral child raised by puppets. (for lyra_star)
+ BLACK LAGOON. (for annotate)
+ BLEACH. Questions that never breathe. (for mlina)
+ COWBOY BEBOP. Love me little, love me long. (for icecream_parade)
+ DARKER THAN BLACK. Dreams of the impossible. (for _sabriel)
+ DEVIL MAY CRY. Wine not found. (for salavin)
+ FULL METAL ALCHEMIST. I’ve squandered all these years. (for questofdreams and tasogareika)
+ GINTAMA. Stop whispering; start shouting. (for nonartisan)
+ HOUSE M.D. I know it well, the nakedness of truth. (for braidedstars)
+ HUNTER X HUNTER. The proof of living that you gave me. (for kye_kestrel)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! And may tomorrow be wonderful too. (for umarekawareru)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! Lay me down in a field of flame and heather. (for kasugai_gummie)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! Snow falling on cedars. (for audiopain and tyreling)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! The rope to the ivory tower. (for starkissed)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! The sun of life's morning. (for signifies)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! We are but weaklings pretending to be tough. (for rodickparker)
+ KINGDOM HEARTS. Something pure and out of my hands. (for g3ssh0ku)
+ METAL GEAR SOLID. Morning glories make a roof. (for mushroom18)
+ OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE. No dust upon the furniture of love. (for istrill)
+ OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE. Ownership of such fragile devices. (for tsunekipanda, special flag to factorielle)
+ RPG FANFICTION: KHR - PUBLISHING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. All the little things. (for redmoonmurder)
+ RPG FANFICTION: KHR - PUBLISHING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. Lost in a dream from which I can’t awaken. (for desumethis and akaru_hana)
+ RPG FANFICTION: THE SKYTIDES. And he chants the hate of a million years. (for schmot_gurl)
+ RPG FANFICTION: THE SKYTIDES. Under the shade of flowers. (for fae_of_the_rose)
+ SOUL EATER. Xanadu. (for foxarashi)
+ SUIKODEN II. I thought I'd stop and say hello. (for jusrecht)
+ SUIKODEN II. Instruction through interpretative dance. (for osmalic)
+ SUIKODEN TIERKREIS. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. (for factorielle)
+ THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU. I believe in peace, b*tch. (for mienaihoshi, special flag to factorielle)
+ XENOGEARS. In praise of surfaces. (for ukefied)


Everything is up on stitchedophelia, as always!

Still working on my gifts for psychoshoujo and yukitsu. Sob, those ones take a lot more time and thought. ;^;

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I also want to pimp out the wonderful things that people posted for me!

SenBasa: Kojuurou Masamune x Date Masamune from kasugai_gummie!
KHR: 1896 from desumethis!
TST: 691896 and the Vongola from signifies!
KHR: D6918 from lyra_star!

Kudos as well to audiopain, who gave me an FST for Return on Investment and scanned a lovely 1880 doujin for me. And then to mushroom18, who drew me giftart for Flik & Viktor! *A*



Much love to all of you, your friends and your families. ♥♥♥

I blame my absence on my connection being a douchebag yet again, and house renovations. Things seem to be stable for the most part, though, and the best thing is...

MY ROOM IS FINALLY FINISHED!

Pictures to follow. I keep forgetting. ;;

Right, so~ went to Megamall on Thursday to meet up with 77ws, yukitsu, ficcentricity, menismastah and THE AMAZING MYTHICAL synatri. The plan was to eat at Saisaki for free, but we were cockblocked because everything was trufax expensive. THAT IS OKAY THOUGH BECAUSE THE CURRY PLACE WE WENT TO WAS AMAZING. ♥

The whole Koushien + Adzhu celebrated Yukeh's birthday the next day - we zipped over to the MoA area, where Yukeh treated us all out to the dampa.

There are no words to describe the Awesome of the food.

I don't think I'll be able to eat seafood the same way ever again. T^Tm

And of course, since it was my darling other half's birthday, I wrote her stuff.

FIC TIME!

Click on the name of the series to access each page. I glumped the drabbles together this time since I finished everything before the deadline!

The Skytides RPG: Alternate Stories
+ Heroes in times of peace (Roy & Itou)


The Skytides RPG
+ There's a low moon caught in your tangles (Itou & Takasugi)
+ The sweet and the bitter (Roy)


Endtimes: Thick as Thieves
+ The thrill of blood comes instantly (Alistair on his trufax crazy lover)
+ Arrangement in black and gold (The portrait of a Bladian and his wife at a social function)
+ Drinking sunlight (Satsuki and Hikaru on a beautiful day)


Endtimes
+ The structure of her nose alone (Lorenzo knows Liandrin best)
+ The world in all its colors (Aidan & Rethe, travelers and love)


Seirei no Moribito
+ Glorious eyes that smile and burn (Balsa, on Chagum)
+ Eyes I dare not meet in dreams (Tanda wants what he cannot have)


Full Metal Alchemist
+ The killer in me (Riza has always had Roy in her crosshairs)
+ How strange that we, perambulating dust, should be the vessels of / eternal fire (Roy x Riza)
+ And I see your progress stretched out for miles and miles (Havoc watching Roy & Riza)
+ Watching through a veil (Hughes is very familiar with Roy's back)


Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
+ Oh how could anyone not love your cold black heart? (Kusabake --> R18)
+ And crazy is the forecast all week (Cheering up the fabulous fag)
+ Misunderstandings developed from contrasting courting styles (Ryohei tries his best, really)

Now to buckle down and wait until Yukeh and Khursten swing by the house. Plans, we can has! /o/

Holy Week is always interesting, for a number of reasons.

This year was no exception.

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Fic Dump!

Endtimes
+ Listening to fear (Lorenzo & Liandrin, for psychoshoujo)


Final Fantasy 7
+ Born under a bad sign (Cloud, for psychoshoujo)


Firefly
+ Dear me (Mal/Inara/River, for psychoshoujo)
+ And you honored in blood rite (Mal/Inara/River, for psychoshoujo)


Full Metal Alchemist
+ But not without considerable regret (Hughes & Roy, for psychoshoujo)


Gintama
+ Such a natural, normal lethality (Bansai x Takasugi, for rainy_takako)


Gundam Seed/Gundam Seed Destiny
+ What feeds me destroys me (Murrue, for psychoshoujo)


Gundam Wing
+ One pierced moment whiter than the rest (Treize & Zechs, for psychoshoujo)
+ Many are the dead men, too silent to be real (Quatre, for psychoshoujo)


Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
+ An ode to your innocence (Kayashima & Nakatsu, for psychoshoujo)


Kingdom Hearts
+ We will now take the path of courage (Mickey, for psychoshoujo)


Persona 3 & 4
+ Lit like a burning city (Ryoji/Minato in your hotsprings; for rainy_takako)
+ Those who loved early in vain (Mitsuru & Yukari, FES; for psychoshoujo)
+ Some girls spit fire (Mitsuru; for psychoshoujo)
+ Synesthesia (Souji x Yosuke, for psychoshoujo)

Semi-frustrated that I wasn't able to write the whole weekend, but my wrist was being weird again. I guess it couldn't be avoided. orz

Will catch up once I'm sure that it's fine!

Not-so-randomly: one thing I really like about writing by request is that I feel it helps me grow. Makes me write stuff that I normally WOULDN'T write, and all.

Overall, it's never a hassle. I'm even happier when the ones who requested are happy with what I've written for them.

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I've FINALLY caught up with One Piece. I can't say that I'm as impressed with it as I might have thought I'd be, but I suppose it was worth the read. I'm also making good time with Gintama, and that is always cool. |D

Now to reread Full Metal Alchemist and catch up on Kekkaishi.

Beyond the animu, I've also finally updated my icons on both relevant accounts and changed my Plurk layout to something so terribly not-worksafe, it's glorious. ♥

Little things like this make my world go 'round at the moment~

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Currently in the office now, to catch up on downloads and do all of the other things that only a decent connection will allow me to do. I feel I've caught up with RP duties a little TOO quickly - I'm still waiting on a pending application, so I'm a little reluctant to start working on the apps of the other characters I've got planned. I don't have any hanging logs either (or more like, I've tagged them so I'm just waiting on the other party), so... yeah. o_o

As for things on the home front, I spent a good part of yesterday moving things out of my room. Dad has Big Plans for renovation, so I'll be living like a hobo until the construction and repainting finishes~

Oh. Now that Holy Week is over, I'm going to call PLDT and get that damned upgrade. More than a month of lol!internetz is time enough.

This entry is LONG OVERDUE, but I've spent the last few days drowning in paperwork -- this was something that I did on purpose, as I wanted to make sure that I did all my teacherly stuff before the actual break. That way, I'd be free to party slack off be productive in other, less academic areas of my life throughout the Christmas season. I CAN HAPPILY COLLAPSE IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE NOW THAT EVERYTHING IS DONE! \o/

Srsly, though, this Responsible Adult thing? Sometimes I want to kick myself in the head for it. I might work myself straight to the coffin at this rate. Somebody needs to tell me when to slow down. *fail*

kye_kestrel had her birthday celebration last Saturday over at Powerplant; anothermiyaw hitched a ride with me from Katipunan, after my Texts and Textuality Class. Traffic was bad, so we kinda ended up shooting the breeze for the good hour that we spent swimming through a sea of cars. Met up with the boss and yukitsu once we got there: everyone else - khrusten, 77ws, ficcentricity and lonelybusiness who is fail because she thought we were meeting up in Glorietta - arrived later. Cue dinner shenanigans. Cue crazy gifts. KRISTEL, UNDERSTAND THE CHAOS YOU BROUGHT DOWN UPON ALL OF US WITH THOSE GIFTS. B|

Spent the next few days after that Drowning in Papers whenever I was home and doing school shenanigans whenever I was in Ateneo. Finally managed to finish up everything sometime last night, and today was light and easy. Had my first Christmas party with the English Department. That was pretty much an awesome way to kick off my break. ♥


Goals That Will Probably Not Be Met For Christmas Break 2008:
* Work on my pitch to Image Comics. I'm planning on pitching Endtimes. *crosses fingers*
* BOND WITH MY PS2. ASDK;LHG;LAHSDGHADSG TOO MANY PEOPLE POSTING ABOUT PERSONA 4.
* BOND WITH MY PSP. I'VE ONLY BEEN USING IT FOR MUSIC. orz
* Catch up with my backlogged anime, manga, movies and TV series. The list keeps growing, whut.
* Catch up with all the books I've bought but haven't even really cracked open.
* Sort all those images. I HAD A GOOD START.
* Fix my game plan for the rest of the semester with my kids.
* Write more Return on Investment after I've finished all my Christmas gift fics.

Now that I've mentioned it, I should be posting some of the gift fics that I managed to finish before work came rolling in. In the meantime, I'm pimping out the fics that I wrote for kye_kestrel - I did my usual ## number of drabbles = to celebrant's age thing for her~

+ FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, TENGEN TOPPA GURREN-LAGANN, ODIN SPHERE, KINGDOM HEARTS, SOUL EATER (click here!)
+ PERSONA 3: Ryoji/Minato, Shinji/Aki, Junpei/Aki & XXXHOLiC: Doumeki & Watanuki (click here!)
+ D.GRAYMAN: OT3, Cross, Rabi/Kanda & DARKER THAN BLACK: Gen Fics (click here!)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!: 1827, 5927, Spa27/Spa51 & OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE: IzuMizu, AbeMiha (click here!)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!: Shouichi Crack, 6927, 8059, 801859 (click here!)

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My thirteenth month pay thingie came in last week, and Mom just put it on time deposit - this means a huge rate of return in terms of interest every month. This suddenly makes some plans that I had for 2009 very feasible, so I've decided to go for a major Poverty Plan to make sure that I achieve them at the projected dates.

Here's hoping that I make it.

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Cross-posted, as always.


69 Challenge Entries #54-58: 1 Bloodsport, 1 Full Metal Alchemist, 1 Harry Potter, 1 Love Mode, 1 Loveless
iWHORE & other non-69 Challenge Drabbles: 3 Bloodsport, 1 Endtimes
Dedications and requests granted for: archangel_dream


one post says all for the win!


EDITS PLZ. Oh, and StitchedO has a new layout. The main journal will follow soon. Layout at izkariote finished! XD XD XD

Finally finished with my end of the deal for the drabble fever that plagued several cliques of writers over at reuk_schitz... I was part of the troop that did 60 each, alongside yukitsu and ravenel. Here's some mad linking for the fic journal entries I have for my work~

Drabbles 1-14. Citrus Avenue, Endtimes & Thick as Thieves.
Drabbles 15 & 16. Citrus Avenue.
Drabbles 17-20. Endtimes: Shadowsong & Thick as Thieves.
Drabbles 21-25. Endtimes, Yukikaze, Magna Carta & Devil May Cry.
Drabbles 26-37. Citrus Avenue, Endtimes, Thick as Thieves, Yukikaze & Final Fantasy 7.
Drabbles 38-43. Final Fantasy 7, Kingdom Hearts, Full Metal Alchemist, Thick as Thieves, Endtimes & Magna Carta.
Drabbles 44-52. Bloodsport, Final Fantasy 10, Kingdom Hearts II, Endtimes, Final Fantasy 8, Peacemaker & Monster.
Last batch: 53-60. Bleach, Gundam Seed, Bloodsport.


Note to those who didn't already know: Endtimes and Thick as Thieves are original works of mine. Bloodsport is a collaboration I've started with yukitsu and archangel_dream, while Citrus Avenue is a brain child of mine and ezraelandvari. It has its own at citrus_avenue, where you can keep track of the happenings in that universe. ^_^

Although technically I am finished, I'll continue along with drabble sets up until May 15, which is my new deadline now that I've been tricked coerced bribed kindly persuaded into pushing the bill until 120. :3

*pimps her fic journal @ stitchedophelia yet again*

Nearly done with Kingdom Hearts II. makintash and I almost regret not doing Proud Mode, now that we've learned that you have to complete all the mini games in order to view the secret ending in Standard. Almost.

...I've come down with a bad case of Fandom Wank again. As Pao has Hikaru no Go, I have Full Metal Alchemist. >__> The first couple of episodes were not extremely impressive, but the moment you go past 19... *whistles*

Anyway, today was an interesting song to sing. Left the house late to watch FMA 24-28, and came around to the usual place on campus where Liss and Joanne were. Joanne was kind enough to remind me about collecting my refund for lab breakage from second semester last year; thus, I am P492 richer. *fufufu* Maybe I should get my NSTP fee refunded too to add P2000 to the lot...

Played 3/4ths of a game with Khursten before skipping off to Social Anthropology class. After that session, I barely had enough energy to drag myself down to the covered courts and check whether I had PE 101 for the day. Turns out I didn't. Ended up hanging out with Mayene at Berchman's before she went off to her plenary and I re-joined the co-writer. We played a crack game outside of our classroom. Gotta <3 having Ra's Al Ghul 8-drop, Wolverine on Berserker Rage, and Lady Shiva/Master Assassin on play at the same time. ^_____^

Sir Crisostomo was as charming as ever, and hunger prevented me from absorbing anything that we discussed in Western Literature. Hitched a ride with Johnty on his way out to go to Coffeeheads and grab myself a bite there; it was a 15-minute mutual ranting session for the both of us on the turn. Block thing. Spiffy.

Got home. Kicked bro off my computer (he was watching FMA without my permission >_>) before declaring that all is forgiven and padding down to watch 29-30 together (we're siblings like that XD). Chapter 26 & 27 are sitting on my hard drive waiting to be edited and I still have the aftertaste of fettuchini carbonara in my mouth.

Oh yeah. Just because I feel like it, let me go back to an old topic that Mayene and I have discussed time and time again. Don't you just hate it when people call you opinionated, yet they can't stomach being considered the same even though they're worlds sillier about things than you are? I believe they have the gall to pin it on the spirit of the staircase.

"Hou" indeed.

...Been working at a near breakneck speed for Endtimes, and the current obsession that co-writer and I share with the VS card system and the deck we just bought from Tzi last Friday isn't helping. ._. Now I wanna make an Endtimes deck. Just so you know, some of the cards have already been determined.

Today has been chock full of FMA and dealing with human stupidity. A certain "K" has proven to us, once again, how much of an idiot he happens to be. But let's not go there.

By the way, dude, if you're reading this, I was helping her. I was helping her more than you ever will. You're just scared to admit it. Thus, do yourself a favor and stop obsessing.

On more evil achievements over this week, I would like to say that I think a scathing review that I wrote up for some stupid Mary Sue advocate on the FMA fanfiction at the general craphole made the foolish girl take her story down and run away crying. Shame you all won't get to read my review. It went something along the lines of me pointing out how worthless her shit was. :D

Khellers gave me a direct download link for FMA, but the speed runs at 167 bytes per second. x_x;; I gave up. Yeah.

Huzzah for Chapter 25.