sarasusa

Because I got tagged by bakashoujiki...

( List ten things that make you happy in no particular order and then tag five friends... )

Tagging five friends? Hmmm...

::eyes friendslist::

lediz * rayemars * jobiska * fish_are_evil * sheron * cairnsy * cheeky_duckie * tuuli_chan * kay_cricketed * fourth_moon * murinae

That's if y'all feel like doing it. And any of the rest of you-uns who want to try it, consider yourselves summarily TAGGED!

::grins::

....Love,
sarasusa, who used to be able to count

...and who will make the necessary posts to goal_posts soon, I promise you, fourth_moon!

Another two drabbles (Fruits Basket and Here is Greenwood) and a personal statement.

Title: Through the Mantilla
Fandom: Fruits Basket
Rating: K+
Pairings/warning: slight one-sided Hana-chan/Tohru. (Hence, a hint of shoujo-ai.)
Summary: Hanajima's studied carelessness. Diligently. 100-word drabble.
Disclaimer: Hail, all hail Natsuki Takaya. This fic is merely a tribute.

( Each evening Saki undoes her braids )


Fandom: Here is Greenwood/Koko wa Greenwood
Disclaimer: Yay, Yukie Nasu! Boo, anyone who tries to steal her thunder!
Title: Debt
Rating: K
Category: Introspecti-fic.
Characters/Pairings: Mitsuru and Shinobu
Summary: Canonical metaphor--Shinobu can't balance his checkbook, and it's all Mitsuru's fault. 100-word drabble.
Warnings/Spoilers: Especially refers to one of their interactions in vol. 5. (I've only read through vol. 7.)


( the real creditor )

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Yesterday, I was part of an assembly in a public elementary school where the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. I didn't feel clear (Quakerese for being spiritually comfortable with something) to honor the flag as a symbol. However, standing there with my hand over my heart but remaining silent until "liberty and justice for all," I started to think--how might I express what really matters to me? What would I say instead?

I came up with the following. (I wonder what other "alternative Pledges" folks have created?)

( My pledge of allegiance )

In which I drabble my way recklessly into another fandom...

Series: Hikaru no Go
Disclaimer: Ah, if only.
Author’s Note: My first Hikago ficcage. These drabbles cling pretty closely to the anime storyline. Literary concrit (as well as Go-accuracy-concrit) is earnestly desired.
Titles: Pre-Flight; Six and a half; Siege
Rating/ Category: K, introspective genfic with a hint of shounen-ai.
Characters/Pairings: Shinichiro Isumi and Yoshitaka Waya.
Summary: Isumi's back, Waya's off track. Three drabbles (each 100 words).
Warnings/Spoilers: For later episodes of anime (they're set just after Isumi comes back from his stay in China).

( Pre-Flight )

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( Six and a half )

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( Siege )

Crossposted to igo_yaoi.

( Fruits Basket drabble: Bounce )

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( Fruits Basket drabble: Inventory )

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And--finally dusted off and finished after a year or more of patient waiting among my files...

( Yu-Gi-Oh Shizuka introspecti-fic: Still Waters )

All the above are crossposted to my fanfiction.net account.

Way back when, fish_are_evil tagged me for the One-True-Pairing meme. I'm finally getting around to it. Deep down, I don't cling to "true pairings" for series; good writing ofen trumps pairing preference. Still, there *are* pairings I particularly like, so...

( follow the yellow brick cut....  )

Probably everyone else came across this before me, but I just gotta trumpet it to the world:

POTTERPUFFS!

And here's a low-key Vampire Game story that I hope to post to ffdn at some point. Suggestions for improvement, especially from those familiar with the series, are humbly requested. ::cough cairnsy and misura cough::

( 'It is the greatest honor of my life, my lady.' He almost meant it. )

It's the Interests Suggestion Meme! Nicked from the journal of girltypefuuma.

( Based on the interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests... )


Aaaand it's the next stop on the Drabble Express: InuYasha!

Title: Sincere Regret
Rating: G
Category: General
Pairings: InuKag
Summary: A moonless night; nostalgia by the campfire. 87-word drabble.
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: For first few episodes of series.
Disclaimer: Non est mihi InuYasha. Tota gloria Rumikoni sit.


( Kagome and I are both sorry )

I wanted to try my hand at a Maison Ikkoku drabble. Behold.

( the sound of early-morning sweeping )

Also hammered out a ficlet for the utenadrabble community, made (more or less) to specifications for sansenmage:

Scales

Will probably post both to fanfiction dot net eventually.

Mungojerry pics behind the cut. He's 9 years old; I adopted him from a family in my Quaker meeting that's decided to move South. (Since he hyperventilates even during short car rides, they figured a two-day trip would spell disaster.) The name (from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) came with him, though his former caregivers didn't supply a Rumpleteazer.

( Not as crafty as his name suggests... )

Haven't updated in forever, but I've been keeping tabs on my f-list (even if I've barely commented anywhere...)

Brief job-crisis update: Philadelphia's City Council and Mayor, after haggling, got together a budget that restores a bunch of funds to the library. Now the question is--what will the library administration do? Will they have the sense to work on rebuilding morale, to seek input from their employees? My trust for them (probably most staff members' trust) is at rock-bottom. But at least I'm still employed...

::hastens to find wooden surface on which to knock::

I'm going to organize a tween & teen anime/manga discussion group at my branch. Haven't done the like before. In trying to get my act together, I came across two articles in the Voice of Youth Advocates magazine that I thought demanded sharing with you-uns--fellow fanficcers and suchlike. (VOYA is "a bimonthly journal addressing librarians, educators, and other professionals who work with young adults.")

"All Shapes of Hunger: Teenagers and Fanfiction" by Rebecca C. Moore

(...just love that HP fanart on the first page!...) The author has some intriguing reflections on what drives fanfiction, includes entertaining quotes from a few fics, and presents an "Insider's Guide to Fanfic Slang."

and

"The Anime-ted Library" by Kristin Fletcher-Spear and Kat Kan."

(Must confess I haven't read this article yet--but I've looked at the pretty Azumanga Daioh pictures... *_* )

More posts to come soon.

I think.