The last of the 12 Days of Fanfic

Three fanfics to go: I realized that if you count Christmas Day as one of the days of Christmas, you end up with the 13 Days of Christmas, so you'll be getting the last three on the last day of Christmas. I'll be posting one in the morning when I first check my email, one in the afternoon after I come back from running errands, and the last will turn up tomorrow evening, probably at or just after midnight.

After this: I'll be taking a mini-break from fanfic writing and posting -- perhaps for a couple of days, since I just wrote thirteen fics in thirteen crazy days -- and then I'll be turning my attention to the prompt challenges I have sitting waiting for me to take them up. I'd taken the fanfic100 challenge when I started writing "Neon Enoch Evangelion" and I'll be aiming to finish one or two of those a week; same goes for the 30_kisses challenge I'd taken on, with Muraki and Ukyou, from the manga continuity of Yami no Matsuei as the pairing of choice. And then there's the Vampire Author Auction, which I'm in the process of signing up for. Lots to do, but I've been on such a creativity craze lately, it doesn't seem like a lot of work at all.

12 Days of Fanfic: Evangelion -- "Post-Apocalyptic Snowball Fight"

What's winter and Christmas without a snowball fight? I've been itching to write this fic ever since I picked up the fanfic100 table and discovered one of the prompts is "snow". Granted, I had to Handwave why it's snowing in the Evangelion-verse, but it works.

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

An Evangelion snowball fight,
Midnight Mass in the Trinity Blood-verse,
Doctor Hobby wracking Joe's brain,
One Meifu Christmas office party,
A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"Post-Apocalyptic Snowball Fight"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion, it's characters, concepts or other indicia, which are the property of Hideaki Anno, Project Eva-Gainax/khara, et al.

Author's Note: Just a fun bit that I wrote for Neon Enoch Evangelion, more of a winter fic than a Christmas one, but Christmas is partly about family and being together and I thought I'd show the post-Instrumentality survivors just being a family for a change. There's a lot of angsty post-End of Evangelion fics (rightly so, considering what happened), so I thought I'd give these folks a reason to take a break from the angst.

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( Fuyutsuki awoke to a silvery half-light that he dimly recognized. )

Fan Fiction Personality Test

Nicked from anivad

Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

The True Fan

OOC is blasphemy, canon is everything.

Once you fall in love with a movie, book or TV series, you are loyal like an old dog. You take fanfiction quite serious and use it as a substitute after the canon ran out.

You are probably a walking dictionary of your favourite fandom and you are picky about what you write and read. The closer to the "real thing" fanfiction is, the more you like it.

You rather explore a character in all depth, see new sides and learn more about them than creating new characters or mix up the situations they are in.

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And that's me all over, though I'm perfectly fine with a little character drift, or showing a character in a situation where they're a bit different than we know them from the series, though still recognizable (given that a lot of real-world folks tend to wea masks, as it were, it stands to reason that some folks from other universes would, too). Wouldn't be me if I didn't get a bit ticky with some of the questions: lumping lolicon, shounen-ai and Mpreg all into the same bucket is a bit annoying, but there again, Mpreg is my guilty pleasure of choice and I've been writing in a fandom that features plenty of overt and subtle slash elements. Lolicon I tend to regard askance, but it's a personal thing (even still, there are some pairings which make me nervous about the people who think that's a good idea).

12 Days of Fanfic: Yami no Matsuei -- "White Out"

The first of the two Yami no Matsuei fics I promised for the last day of Christmas. And proof that I can write a gen/het fic set in the YnM universe: a Christmas romance for a usually devious fellow and his basically normal ladyfriend.

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

Energy vampires and death gods in a snowstorm,
An Evangelion snowball fight,
Midnight Mass in the Trinity Blood-verse,
Doctor Hobby wracking Joe's brain,
One Meifu Christmas office party,
A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"White Out"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: I do not own Yami no Matsuei, aka Descendants of Darkness, it’s characters, concepts and other indicia, which are the intellectual property of Yoko Matsushita, Hiroko Tokita, Manga Entertainment, Viz Media, Hakusensha, Central Park Media, et al.

Author's Note: This fic grew out of a rather absurd comment I made; in describing something as difficult, I said something was "as easy as finding a Hollywood albino dressed in white in a blizzard". Of course that made me think of a certain anime Evil Albino/White-Haired Pretty Boy, and who would or wouldn't want to find him in a blizzard. There is one who wouldn't want to lose him in those weather conditions and this fic features her...

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( Walking back to Ukyou's apartment after Christmas dinner with her parents... )

Errands and books

Had to get more Airborne since I've been taking it the moment I get home from work lately: a lot of co-workers have been coughing and I don't want to take any chances.

And I also picked up a copy of Charlaine Harris's "A Touch of Dead", which collects her Sookie Stackhouse short stories into one place: nice little volume with some nice pen and ink-wash drawings. I also swung by the library to print out more Yami no Matsuei scanlations (specifically the Oriya/Ukyou arc; I'm trying to get the elusive uncollected chapters printed before the scanlation sites start carrying the collected versions once Vol. 12 is released in Japan next week), but I also found, in the book swap the fourth of Stephen King's Dark Tower novels (I'm still missing the second one), "2061: Odyssey Three" by Arthur C. Clarke, which rounds out that series, and Laurell K. Hamilton's "The Lunatic Cafe". Can anyone tell me whereabouts in the Anita Blake series that LKH started to lose her touch? I'm hoping to read anything from before that point but I want to get the titles straight in my head.

And the last of the 12 Days of Fanfic is set to go live just after midnight; I'm going to miss doing this and I'm wondering now if there is a Valentine's Day-related challenge going on out there. I said I was going to take a break from writing for a day or two, but I'm not sure if my mind will let me. :: laughs:: Especially since I have a fic or two that decided to be something like the Valentine's Day decorations and stuff which show up in the store windows the day after Christmas (one is a follow-up to the last "A.I." fic I posted for the 12 Days challenge, the other is -- yep -- another YnM fic and the first in the 30_kisses challenge, though not based on the first prompt).