Flonne + Tron Bonne

Summary: Waya and Isumi spend May 5 like old farts: drinking beer (even though Waya is technically underage), playing the slowest game of go in the world, and not paying any attention to the Hokuto Cup that Waya failed to qualify for, no sirree. Submitted to Blind Go Round 18. Comes after "The Games of Summer" and "The Games of Winter." 

( The Games of Spring )

blind_go reveals for Round 17 have been...revealed!

Here's my fic: 

Blind_go round 16 fics are up! 

I've been too exhausted by work to do any fic writing, so I didn't even get close to finishing my fic. Anyway, it's a fic idea that's been sitting on my hard drive for years and will probably never be finished.

Here's the beginning and end of it in case anyone wants to see: 

( Hikaru 1/2 )

 

This is what I submitted for blind_go : 


Hand of God by skays on deviantART

I made this in Meritum Paint on iPad in about an hour, which is really fast for me. I like how it turned out. 

Meritum Paint is this app that likes to throw up uncontrollable fwoo fwahs of colour all over the canvas. It's great. I love it. Can you tell I am tired right now. 

I really liked doing a non-fic, low-key round of blind_go. 

Zzzzz...

Wah ha ha submitted something for blind_go  yesterday, more than a week early. I like this no pressure, no-sign up, non-fic round.

I missed the blindgo deadline and I didn't actually do anything for Hikago Day, so I am going to navel-gaze at my own Hikago fics. All the links below go to FF.net because I am laaaaazy. 

Fave serious fic:
Do I have serious fics? Ha ha. Maybe the first part of Hikaru's Game. 

Fave comedy fic:
Happy as a Pan, probably. 

Fic I need to revise:
The Language of War. This fic is weighed down by the overly thinky main character. But it would be a huge revision job and I don't waaaaanna at least for now. 

Fic I will probably never finish:
Go Wars. I like it, but it looks like way too much work. Anyway, the main purpose of the fic was to eventually make jokes about Waya and Le Ping and the Clone Wars, but  

Fic I should probably finish:
Blind Woe. Only needs one more chapter. 

Fic idea I'll never write: 
A crossover with 1984, where all information pertaining to Sai is censored by the Institute of Truth and go philosophy is transmuted via doublethink into something that makes total sense (the Hand of God is something we should reach for but ultimately unreachable; go is useless but also the most important thing in the world). 

Fic with the most reviews on FF.net:
Hair Today, Go Tomorrow. A fic with ONE JOKE. A lot of the reviews are people saying "hey what does jailbait mean agh I looked it up." I'm proud of my influence on young minds. 

Fic I've gotten the most positive feedback on: 
Kuwabara is Dead (Long Live the Honinbou). Just the other day I was teaching a kid to use death foreshadowing at the beginning of his story and I realized what an easy thing it is to do. And it works!

First Hikago fic:
Go Fish in 2005. So I've been writing in this fandom for...nine years. Egad. 
 
How my writing has Hikago writing has changed over the years:  
It keeps getting more and more meta. I think that's pretty normal though, right? Right? 


Anyone else want to navel-gaze? Let's turn it into a meme! *chirp chirp cricket chirp* 

Title: Waya in Storyland
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Characters: Waya, Hikaru, Isumi, Akari
Genre: Meta disguised as fic
Wordcount: 8662
Warnings: Lots of mentions of porn but no actual porn.
Summary: Waya is a character in a story and he knows it. It gives him existential angst.
Note: The first half of this story was submitted to round 14 of blind_go. Sorry it took so long to post the second half of the story.

( Another day at the Institute. Argh. )

Happy belated Hikago day! I didn't do to celebrate anything this year, although I've been reading the fics from the latest round of blind_go and the Let's Five meme at the Dreamwidth community and enjoying it muchly. 

One boring thing I did finally remember to do, though, was upload all my old blind_go fics to my ff.net account:

Two by Four (blind_go round 1)
Waya wakes up beside Touya, and Hikaru wakes up beside Isumi. Much argh is had. 620 words. 

Blind Going In (also round 1)
Touya plays a game of go with a blind man. This version has been edited down a bit from the original version posted on blind_go. 1423 words. 

Across the Board (round 2) 
Eight minor characters, eight hosts for Sai. 975 words. 

Go Wars (round 4) 
On the planet Tokyooine, our young hero Shindou Hikaru lives in happy ignorance of the evil Institute and its nefarious grip on the galaxy's Go. Until one day he meets a ghost of the Old Republic.... Still sadly unfinished, and likely to stay that way. 2556 words. 

Blind Woe (round 5) 
Weekly Go is celebrating its 15th Anniversary with an essay contest! The topic of the essay: an experience that changed your go. All submissions must be typed and double-spaced. A parody of the blind go challenge itself. Will hopefully finish this one day. 11,732 words. 

Fine China (round 9) 
Isumi and Waya in China, and the walls growing between them. Angsty pants. 989 words. 

An Exorcism (round 10) 
A priestess labours to exorcise a ghost on behalf of her client, a housewife in Tokyo. She does not know the ghost, nor does she care to. 1530 words. 

I'm not going to bother posting these on my LJ, so the final versions of these fics will all live on ff.net. Hurray for the Pit! 

Going to be in Europe until May 18, won't be reading LJ until I get back, ta ta!

...I didn't finish my blind_go fic.  :(

Ack! I missed the signup deadline for blind_go! That's what I get for falling off the face of the internet for a month. It's kind of refreshing, actually, not being glued to my laptop all the time. 

So, it's been a month of travelling, crying, packing, crying, goodbyes and enkais, more crying. My town and my school have been really good to me--I was exceptionally lucky in my placement as a JET, and exceptionally lucky in finding great friends. I don't think it's really hit me yet that I'm leaving.  

p.s. If you're ever in Tokyo, do please go to the theme restaurant Alcatraz E.R. and tell them it's your birthday. I'm sure you'll have a good time.