Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 18 - Lunar Eclipse
Rating: NC-17
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A long-time reader, who doesn't want to be given credit, recently went spot-sighting in the area of Tokyo where I made up Seishiro's house to be.
Given that I invented it in 2005 (before Google Streetview!) based on a Falk city map of Tokyo (1:15000), the findings are almost scary...
( see three large images for yourself )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: Interregnum 6 (between the chapters 17 and 18)
Rating: NC-17 (story in total)
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About the future of this journal: moving my writing activities to Dreamwidth
Why Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth, which I tested thoroughly while it was still in closed beta, offers a lot of awesome features that make cross-posting, commenting, foreign-commenting and generally maintaining my writing journal a lot more easier than the other services I'm using (IJ, JF, LJ). For example:
- DW allows crossposting to other sites - such as IJ and JF - and changes made to the DW-post will automatically applied also to the cross-posts. This makes corrections in posted chapters a lot more easier for me than now. In addition, I can set the cross-posted entries to redirect commenting to DW rather than having the commentaries fragmented between the different services.
- DW allows to import your journals from different sites into your DW journal including comments; thus I now have all the nice comments from my LJ times *plus* the comments made on IJ back in one journal (and feel finally complete again).
- DW's limits for entry and comment word counts are a lot more generous than on the other blogging sites (300.000 characters for entries and 16.000 for comments [for comparison: LJ 65.000 & 4.300!]).
- DW's split the friending procedure into "subscribing" and "granting access". Subscribing allows you to keep track of journals on your reading list, but you don't have to reveal your private posts to the subscribers, that's limited to those whom you granted access and those can be filtered further. Makes following your preferred writing a lot more easier. :)
- DW allows to refer to people on other blogging services correctly, without duplicating their user name as belonging to their service.
- You can log into DW with your LJ- or IJ-identity (as Open-ID) and if you validate your email address, then you have virtually all the features of a free account (minus posting entries of course): you can keep a reading list, receive notifications of replies to your comments; you can even upload up to six icons.
- and much more.
In 2008, I moved my writing activities away from LiveJournal when I couldn't bear the uncertainty and annoyance there any more and I found a new, cozy home here at Insane (and let's face it: "insane" is a nice adjective for a physicist in popular culture *g*). I was happy when quite a few of my readers followed me along and got accounts over here as well. Which is the reason that I feel slightly guilty about moving yet again. Therefore ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) solo and I together offer seven invite codes for settling into DW to our readers. I will keep cross-posting to IJ. I will keep watching my friends list here and I am entirely happy to have IJ as reliable backup archive for my blog entries. But I will set comments to take place on DW from now on and I hope people will bear with my wish for comfort and visit me there as well. Comments to this post are still possible. Growl at me if you feel to do so. (But I make no guarantees about how my rather possessive ficus benjamini might behave about it.) Edit: Invite code count: 1
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Yesterday, I made two icons for Yoshi, the oversized cat, and now my head is full of "Yoshi slogans":
Poll #3627 Yoshi slogans - your favorite?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All Yoshi... I don't think there's hope for me left...
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| 2009-04-18 17:26 |
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Family Matters
total word count of chapters 1 - 17: 119.468
longest chapter: 09 (8837 words)
shortest chapter: Interregnum 2 (after chapter 5) with 1761 words
for comparison: 36° (complete) has 50.964 words (discounting side-stories)
Therefore, FM is now officially more than twice as large as 36° (and it's still growing)!
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 17 - Solar Eclipse
Rating: NC-17
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Sometimes when writing a fic you have a scene for a late chapter, written almost at the beginning. You grew fond of that scene, played with it, endorse, giggled, whatever about it. And when you finally come to the chapter it is intended for, you realize that the minuscule changes from the original plan accumulated over the last 16+5 chapters and the mood no longer fits. Sometimes, you can salvage the scene, sometimes not. Sadly, "Hotaru's caterpillars" are a case of the latter. It was deleted this morning. At least the rest reads better now.
( beware 410 unedited, unpolished words )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 16 - SumeraMori 2
Rating: NC-17
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I'm thinking about whether or not I continue the Decagram past FM. While I have quite some plot I'd like to tell, I'm not sure it would still be a fanfic.
36° was about their connection & Seishiro's past as Sakurazukamori.
Family Matters is about how they continue & the past of their clans.
Additional plots would be (in no particular order): - Yue's story
- Setsuka's story
- Seishiro's life around the time of making the bet, between the making of the bet and its execution, until the beginning of X
- what happened with Subaru's parents
- and the continuation of Family Matters would tell how all that affects their present existence.
But I'm pretty far from the canon already and the distance would increase necessarily with the next part. So far, 36° & FM are seen rather positively, but I wonder if I don't "overuse my stay" if I stray that far from the canon into original territory. What do you think?
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 15 - Sun Flare
Rating: NC-17
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: Interregnum 5 (between the chapters 14 and 15)
Rating: NC-17
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With chapter 15 (after the upcoming Interregnum 5) Family Matters is going into the final hot phase, collecting and -hopefully- tieing all the lose story threats and building starting platforms for sequels and sidefics. I'm admittedly curious what my readers think about the cast of original characters Family Matters acquired so far. Please let me know. :)
( Family Matters Poll 3: OCs )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 14 - Under the weather
Rating: NC-17
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It's official. Family Matters will have at least three chapters and an Interregnum more than originally planned. I thought 17 would be enough, but that doesn't provide enough space for finalizing the Mori and the Sumeragi clean-ups (plus, I need a 6th Interregnum and additional chapter space for Kamui's sake; FM is a Seishiro-Subaru fic, but that doesn't mean I can leave the unemployed Savior of Mankind in the lurch. The boy suffered enough without me letting him rot in the dump of abandon.
So I'm writing at chapter 14 now and then...
... - Interregnum 5 - 15 - 16: SumeraMori 2 - 17 - Interregnum 6 - 18 - 19 - 20: Epilogue
...and on to the sequel (if I things go really as planned and I don't come up with interesting detours that call for even more chapters that is).
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| 2008-02-27 14:31 |
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Family Matters
total word count of chapters 1 - 13: 89.668
longest chapter: 09 (8837 words)
shortest chapter: Interregnum 2 (after chapter 5) with 1761 words
for comparison: 36° (complete) has 50.964 words (discounting side-stories)
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 13 - SumeraMori 1
Rating: NC-17
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Family Matters is going into its final quarter (or so) now and I have to make up my mind about some things, which may or may not become important as tie-ins for future stories (or an elaborate expanding of this one).
Therefore I'm very interested what my readers think about the relationship between Subaru and Kamui canonically and/or in Family Matters so far.
Please note that I'm not asking about what you want it to be (as in "gimmeeee hotttt!! buttseks with Ka toppings!!!!11!" (or vice versa ;-) )).
( on to the poll )
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: 12 - Summer Storm
Rating: R [Story in total: NC-17]
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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arch: Decagram
Story: Family Matters
Chap.: Interregnum 4 [between chapters 11 and 12]
Rating: R+ (NC-17)
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