Melodramatic Fool

http://catandgirl.com/?p=2545
Yep.

Took Mom out for dinner for her 60th yesterday, and gave her the Kindle that my brother, his gf, and the husband and I all got for her (for birthday and Christmas, at least for James and I, considering our budget). She's very gleeful about it.

Realized it's been over 3 years since I posted Put Your Hands Into The Fire (a KHII thing for that one springkink community). That one to this day remains the only thing I've written that I not only like, but have read/reread for my own enjoyment. I think the thing I miss most about AkuRoku was feeling like I actually could do (at least my interpretation of) the characters right, that I actually had a bit of confidence/comfortability with them and didn't feel so awkward (and I feel like I did schmoop better back then, too). Definitely the reverse for writing for SPN now--I have yet to really feel comfortable in Sam and Dean's heads, and even Our Endless Numbered Days isn't one I truly like (I see so many things I did wrong with it, ugh. How the hell did it ever get recced.).

It's funny, I've written four short things and one long piece for both fandoms. Though that doesn't count any spnland work (which in a way I don't consider because some/most of it was half-assed, none was beta'd or submitted to any communities) or poetry (I have trouble counting poetry amongst fanwork in a way because sometimes it feels like fandom doesn't really count it--like at some of the comms that track fanworks for a pairing, they'll note fic, serial fic, bigbangs, drabbles, art, videos...but not poetry.). If I counted all that, I've done more for SPN, which makes me even more frustrated with feeling like such a bumbling newbie still.

Am worrying about the challenge I signed up for at summer_sam_love. The germ of an idea I had (I claimed doing a fic tag for Swan Song) has refused to spark and feels pretty much dead. And I just can't seem to generate any other ideas at all, especially ones that haven't already been done and done again, and aren't just completely 2-D, flat and lifeless. I worry that I need to contact them and give the episode to someone else to claim--but I so wanted to do *something*, you know? I really, really think Sam is awesome and just wanted to *show* that somehow. Bah. I dunno. Maybe I'll give it another week or so.

Title: Put Your Hands Into The Fire, Parts 1 and 2
Author/Artist: Di (whitereflection)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: AU, m/m sex in part 2
Word count: 11,477 total
Summary: Growing up, settling down, loving your best friend, loving fire; sometimes it really is that easy.
Prompt: July 9, 38. Kingdom Hearts 2, Axel/Roxas: Pyromania - "Burn, baby, burn"
A/N: For Kat, Coyo, and caffeine ♥ And with all my thanks to animadri for being a gracious person and wonderful mod at springkink. Extra thanks to Coyo and my buddy Anj for betaing.

I have a soundtrack, of sorts, to go with the fic. Links to songs can be found in the text, or there's a zip of all five here: PYHitF ST zip

Part 1: http://community.livejournal.com/springkink/199831.html
Part 2: http://community.livejournal.com/springkink/200052.html


And now we see if I can focus tomorrow at work, or if I'm the jittery fretting person all day. :x Yeeha~

[Edit: Son of a BISCUIT, is it too late to change the fic's title? One of the other folks for the prompt is using one almost *exactly* the same, based off the same Thirteen Senses song and ARGH. It's like walking into some shindig to find someone else wearing the same outfit, except I don't give a rat's ass about clothing so that wouldn't bother me. Whereas this does. Knew I should've come up with a better title.

Nuts. I'm goin' to bed.]

Title: Astronomically Low
Fandom: Axel/Roxas (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Note: Been craving next life/reunited fixit AkuRoku fic so bad, so I took some ideas gnawing on me the last month and put them here. But for onthefloor and semecucumber, really, for various reasons. ♥

( Once upon a time there hadn't been a Roxas in his life yet.  )