Title: The Road to Truth (1/?)
Authors: ldybastet & nishi_shinji
Universe: Bleach
Characters: Byakuya/Renji
Rating: PG this chapter, NC-17 overall
Other Chapters: Chapter Listing
Disclaimer: Sadly, they aren't ours. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt in the writing of this story (much to Renji's relief).

Summary: “The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.” -Alexander Jablokov

Author's Notes: Crossposted at ldybastet's journal.

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There isn't much here, but I thought I would share what I managed to salvage from my old storage drive tonight. All of the downloads below contain material rated from G to NC-17, which means a lot of the content is NSFW.

Doujinshi
Bleach (4)
Death Note (20)
Final Fantasy (3)
Gravitation (16)
Harry Potter (4)

Pictures*
A through G
---Ai no Kusabi (7)
---Bleach (91)
---Champloo (39)
---Death Note (234)
---Final Fantasy (47)
---Gakuen Heaven (5)
G through W
---Gravitation (11)
---Kuroshitsuji (2)
---Loveless (6)
---Random (16)
---Star Trek (4)
---WTF (19)

*NOTE: Most of these pictures are from my /y/ folder so a lot of them are uncredited. However, I've tried to credit the artist wherever possible. Also, there may be duplicate pictures here and there because sometimes I just don't pay enough attention to what I'm downloading.

Random eBooks
1984
Anna Karenina
The Art of War
Beyond Good & Evil
The Metamorphosis
Notes from Underground
The Prince

I don't own any of this stuff, I just hoard it.

I need feedback for a few projects I'm working on! Please feel free to comment anonymously if you don't feel comfortable casting a vote with your username.

Poll #1416568 Short Story Collection
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

If I self-published a collection of short stories (original erotica), would you buy a copy?

Poll #1416569 Periodical
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Would you be interested in either reading or contributing to a quarterly published, online collection of original erotica?

(x-posted to nishizono

Title: Anatomy
Fandom: Star Trek
Pairing: Kirk/Spock (implied)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Fail
Prompt: Spock realizing he's in love with/fated to be with/meant to be bonded with Kirk (or whatever, you know), going to McCoy and trying to broach the subject of 'human anatomy, with an emphasis on copulation.' Bonus if Kirk is intuitive when it comes to sex and doesn't need any help to get Spock hot. (posted here)

Summary: "There are certain aspects of human anatomy with which I am unfamiliar, particularly in regards to the process of human copulation."

Notes: This isn't beta'ed, or even cleaned up all that much. I'm not happy with it, but I'm a freak about keeping all of my stories in one spot, so that's why it's here. Also, more fail.

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Title: Nothing so Easy
Fandom: Star Trek
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Fail
Prompt: The Captain's chair, post-movie, Kirk riding Spock, Spock shirtless, Kirk pantless, Kirk doing his best to get an emotional rise out of him. (posted here)

Summary: There was nothing soft about James T. Kirk.

Notes: This isn't beta'ed, or even cleaned up all that much. I'm not happy with it, but I'm a freak about keeping all of my stories in one spot, so that's why it's here.

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I've been depressed, stressed, and uninspired lately. The most writing I've been able to get done in the last month has been two short contributions to the Star Trek kink meme. I'm leaving for Denmark in a week, and I'm hoping that the vacation will kick my creativity back up to where it needs to be. In the meantime, I have a request.

Will someone please write some filthy Light/Mikami for me? Pretty please?

Important: Also, it has come to my attention that LJ has not been sending me email notifications for comments, at least not reliably. If you've posted something important as a comment and I haven't replied, please let me know in this entry (which I will be checking regularly for the next few days).

ldybastet tagged me for the character meme and gave me L:

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thepinkrabbit also tagged me for the character meme and gave me Renji:

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Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character.
thepinkrabbit: Yuki Eiri
h_y_d_e: Yagami Light
lilymoon1: Zack Fair
karadin: Genesis Rhapsodos
nehalenia: Abarai Renji

Blasphemy, I know.

Title: All That Could Have Been
Characters: L
Rating: G

L is not. He is not this hunched stack of awkward limbs, crowned by shaggy black hair. He is not this sugar-addicted, wide-eyed freak who says too little in too many words and never sleeps. He is not this earnest, do-gooder investigator, forever devoted to upholding the archaic, useless laws of mankind.

L has never been sure what he is, but he knows what he should be the night he meets Yagami Light. And when Light stretches out his hand and L takes it, and Light says something pleasant and polite, L thinks-- he knows--

L thinks, 'I should have been Kira.'

I've typed this post several times over the last few years, and deleted it every time because I decided it was better not to involve myself at all in the wanky gossip that happens in fandom. But lately, a few epic wank threads have started to swerve a little too close to home, and I want to make sure my opinion is out there for the world to see, just so there's no misunderstanding.

I. do. not. care.

I don't care if XXX's Cloud, or Mello, or Byakuya is out of character. I don't care if XXX's plots are cliche. I don't care if XXX never played the game, or read the manga, or watched the anime that he/she is writing fic for. I don't care whether someone from Manchester would say 'frosting' or 'icing' and I don't care if you have a PhD in baking, or if your grandmother was a pastry chef for 100 years and taught you everything she knew (I'm looking at you here, Harry Potter fandom). Yes, I know: you played Final Fantasy VII when you were two years old, and you've been reading Bleach for twenty years, and your fifth cousin was one of the lead animators for Cowboy Bebop. Very impressive, hooray for you, I still don't care.

Because the truth is this: we write fanfiction, most of it pornographic, about other people's characters. This is not serious business, people.

I appreciate fanfic as a creative outlet for those times when I don't have the energy to focus on my own original plots and characters. I value it as a tool for me to hone my skills and experiment with different styles. I make every effort to polish my stories to the best of my ability before posting them. I try to keep my characters as true to canon as possible (well, most of the time, anyway). But do I expect everyone else to do the same? Absolutely not.

There are some people who just want to have fun writing, post the finished product, and go on with their lives, and I don't understand why so many fandom wankers find that so offensive. For fuck's sake, leave these people alone already. If you take writing seriously, and you want your writing to be the best it possibly can be, then by all means, pursue that goal. But stop expecting everyone else to do the same, and stop whining when someone else's work fails to meet your personal standards for what fanfic should be like.

It's very simple: if you don't like the way XXX writes your beloved characters, or XXX's plots, or XXX's incorrect use of semicolons, then don't read their stories.

Now, I'm not saying that no one should offer constructive criticism, especially if the author asks for it. I personally appreciate it when people call my attention to errors in my stories that I might have overlooked. But there is a huge difference between constructive criticism and blatant trash-talking, and I'm sick to death of seeing nasty comments being made in public forums about writers who, as far as I know, have never once done anything to insult, harass, or otherwise bother anyone.

Anyway, the basic point I want to make is this: some of us take our writing very seriously, and others don't take it seriously at all. Some of us want to be published authors, and others just write fanfic because it's fun. But there's no point in either side trying to tell the other "ur doin it rong" because there is no right way.

I know this post isn't going to change anything. There are always going to be wankers and whiners, no matter what anyone says. All I ask is that you keep it away from me-- keep it away from my email, keep it away from my journal, keep it away from my phone. Sorry, but I just can't find it within myself to care enough about adverbs to be personally offended when someone abuses them.

And above all, please remember... being praised for being a good slash writer is like being asked to be a guest speaker at a Star Trek convention: it's flattering, and your peers will applaud you, but to the rest of the world, we're still nerds.

Title: Even in Hell
Fandom: Death Note
Pairing: Mello/Matt
Rating: PG
Warnings: Angst

Summary: “Do you think there’s a special place in Hell for us? For good men who have done evil things in the name of justice?”

Notes: Ugh, so much angst. Sorry.

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