Relentless muses

[branchandroot]

*leans on keyboard, panting* Whew! That was a fucking marathon! And I speak advisedly. Three stories, one long and two short, in two days. One standard lemon mixed with psychology, one totally plotless lemon which I almost never do, and one introspective.

*eyes characters*

You guys are going to give it a rest for a bit, now, right?

Ed: Well, there was that one other short one...

Branch: *stuffs characters into Storyspace, slams door, nails it shut*

I'm doomed, all right.

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[bluedelirium.livejournal.com]

Emily! I never use LJ, so I was majorly surprised when boredom drove me to it and I found out you friended me. Um, hey. How've ya been?

[branchandroot]

Kalli, hey, how's it going!

Eh, I had a bad time for a while. Really gruesome handful of months. Better now, though.

Amusingly enough, lj has given me a social life. I was lured in by someone who prefers it to her email and was instantly a lost cause. It seems to be easier to avoid the total nut-cases here than on most bulletin boards or mls I've visited.

You might like the one who hooked me, actually. lysapadin.

Through her I also stumbled across Ohio Anime Fans and have made some real life friends there.

Of course, as may be obvious, my current life consists of writing Fullmetal Alchemist fic. I really only meant to write one, but was hijacked.

How have you been?

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[bluedelirium.livejournal.com]

Sorry about rough stuff. I've just been taking an internet break for a while.

For me, things are good. School is- better than last year, and better is all that's to be hoped for usually. I've been doing a lot of RL social stuff, which is new for me, and irritating and wonderful by turns.

Isn't Lys ap Adin a GW ficcer? I remember that name.

Fullmetal Alchemist?

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[branchandroot]

That's real life all over, for you.

Yeah, Lys spent a long time in GW, good humor and pov. She's not ficcing a whole lot at the moment, though.

Of course, I may have succeeded in seducing her to Fullmetal Alchemist. It's a new show, airing in Japan this year. Now that fansubbing has gone digital, the subbers can get an ep out a few days after it airs on Bittorrent or irc. Torrent, for me, irc still alarms me. It's odd. Vaguely 19th C historical but no recognizable countries or organizations. Alchemy (well, a variation of it) works, and Our Very Short Hero is a prodigy at it (that's him in the icon). Tons of angst. Lovely artwork. And, hey, Paku Romi voices the hero (she did Ken/Kaiser for Digimon, too). It has truly taken over my brain and after over a year of not writing fiction of any sort I find myself unable to *stop* writing.

Talk about the dam bursting... ^_^;

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[bluedelirium.livejournal.com]

I'm only surprised no one thought of alchemy in anime before. Always with the magic. Then again, from what few reviews I could find of it, I'm thinking alchemy works more like magic in this series than the chemistry-alchemy of old.

I always feel vaguely guilty watching fansubs. Do you think the series will ever make it to the states legitimately? If it's even slightly popular it probably will, since I can find all kinds of obscure stuff in the stores these days. But it might take a while....

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[branchandroot]

Dunno. I think FMA is likely to be picked up by something like Adult Swim, but it might take a year or two. That seems to be the standard lag, these days.

It's a bit of rationalization, but if it weren't for the fansubbers, the commercial companies wouldn't have any idea what would be popular. I like to think of it as a symbiotic relationship.