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flonnebonneblind_go 2 authors revealed!
My first thought: NOOOOOO!!!! I got guessed correctly by three people!! And I didn't even write crack!
My second thought: SHAME ON ME FOR SUCKING THIS BAD.
My first thought: NOOOOOO!!!! I got guessed correctly by three people!! And I didn't even write crack!
My second thought: SHAME ON ME FOR SUCKING THIS BAD.
My Fic
Warning: lots of boring, anal rambling about my fic just ahead. Scroll down to the bottom if you want more interesting content.
So, my story was Across the Board, which was more like a bunch of loosely connected stories that didn't properly hold together than a short story. I'm not used to writing under 1000 words (well, unless it's crack) and struggled a fair bit with the word limit. It was probably a good exercise for me to be forced to write succintly. I'm not super happy with my fic, but I'm not terribly unhappy with it either.
Originally, Kaga's section (all four lines of it) was all that existed of this fic. It had been sitting on my hard drive for months and probably would have never seen the light of day if not for blind_go.
The seguing technique I used in "Across the Board" was not exactly stolen from the novel Green Grass, Running Water, (which I mentioned in the procrastination meme), but it's somewhat similar. Come to think of it, I kind of used the same technique in an old Slam Dunk fic of mine. What can I say, I am a terrible person who likes to plagiarize herself. And come to think of it, the ending of "Across the Board" is reminiscent of one of my other HnG fics.....Anyway, would be very delighted if one of the people who guessed my fic correctly got the Green Grass hint. Or if you knew it was me from the Slam Dunk fic.
Istole adapted a Michael J. Fox quote for one of the lines in my fic. The line in question was said by Kuwabara: "Excellence you can reach for, but perfection, that's God's business." The original Michael J. Fox quote went: "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business" (source: IMDB profile). In conclusion, I like Michael J. Fox.
I got the idea of using the title "Across the Board" several months ago when I was researching idiomatic expressions to teach to my adult ESL students. At the time I didn't know what I'd use the expression for, but I made a note of it. Oh, and "Across the Board is also the name of a HnG AMV I kind of like.
Everyone Else's Fics
...were annoyingly good, and kind of all blurred together after a while, especially when I was trying to read them on not enough sleep and too much eggnog. They also blurred together because they were all short. I expected it to be easy to read a whack of short fics, but I found myself unable to stay focussed.
In the end, with time running short, I didn't make any real guesses...but I did submit a list of completely random shot-in-the-dark guesses that I will not bother to post here because I think I didn't get a single thing right.
I can't say I have a favourite fic, but the one that's really stayed in my memory is Half-Blind byharumi. It totally caught me off-guard by being non-tragic and absolutely adorable and making me really want to draw Hikaru with glasses one of these days. And this is totally irrelevant, but probably one of the reasons I like this story is because it's somewhat longer than most of the other fics (it has a part 2 and part 3). I'm just biased that way.
An Incomplete and Cursory List of Hobbies Shindou Hikaru has Attempted, by some person namedzoesque, was another fic that really stayed with me. It felt wonderfully rounded, somehow, which is difficult in a short fic, though the fic proves that Hikaru isn't rounded at all despite all those hobbies, and er, I don't think I'm being very coherent (I really shouldn't have cleaned the bathroom today). ANYWAY, I loved how every aborted hobby said something different about Hikaru. While I was reading it, I thought in the back of my head that it might be zoe who wrote it...partly because it was well-written, but mostly because it has the sort of title that gives you carpal tunnel syndrome when you attempt to type it (I have carpal now, thanks).
Miscellaneous stuff
I submitted the theme "The League of Extraordinarily Old Gentlemen." I also submitted the line "Ko Yongha uses too much makeup," but I think that got subsumed under "makeup." Too specific.
My secret id was "Chihaku," aka the sixth Honinbo, who had a short and uneventful life and died before naming his heir. That's all I could really find about him, not that I looked very hard. Anyone have a really cool id?
!!!Omake for "Across the Board" (aka: for getting this far, you get a cookie)!!!!
Below is some of the stuff I cut out of my fic. Couldn't bear to throw it away, so it's here as omake. Beware of half-assedness.
KAGA (version 2)
"For the last time, I'm a shougi player!"
Kaga was inspiring a lot of cringing and crying in his classmates today, but that was hardly unusual.
"No, we are not going to a go salon today," he said loudly. "Or tomorrow. Or next week....shut up! Oh fuck."
This was the signal that Kaga was going to puke all over his shirt again. He grabbed a towel from the desk beside him (he heard a feeble "hey!") and covered his mouth with it until the nausea passed. When he handed the towel back it was only a little wet. He was such a nice guy.
"KAGA!" That was Mr. Katsumata. "Talking to yourself again, are we? Getting a little sick there on Daisuke-kun's towel?"
The teacher actually sounded concerned under all that yelling. Christ. This was the last straw. Kaga gave Mr. Katsumata the one-fingered salute and excused himself to go hit on the school hurse.
After sleeping through the next period, blowing off his last period, and having a quick smoke on the soccer field, Kaga "borrowed" Tsutsui's bike and rode downtown to hire an exorcist.
(A/N: I was going to use this long version of Kaga's section until I decided that the short version was a lot clearer and more effective and EASIER TO FIT INTO THE WORD LIMIT. Some of this material got recycled into other sections though.)
KOUYO
"The Hand of God will not be found even in a thousand lifetimes," said Kouyo, "and my own life is already nearing an end. There is no perfection to be found here. However," and here he smiled, "if you will have me, I would like to share my go with you for a little while, as others have done before me."
"Thank you," said Sai.
(A/N: Was supposed to be in place of Kuwabara's section, until I decided Kuwabara is cooler and Touya Kouyo had already gotten a few lines in Akiko's section)
Warning: lots of boring, anal rambling about my fic just ahead. Scroll down to the bottom if you want more interesting content.
So, my story was Across the Board, which was more like a bunch of loosely connected stories that didn't properly hold together than a short story. I'm not used to writing under 1000 words (well, unless it's crack) and struggled a fair bit with the word limit. It was probably a good exercise for me to be forced to write succintly. I'm not super happy with my fic, but I'm not terribly unhappy with it either.
Originally, Kaga's section (all four lines of it) was all that existed of this fic. It had been sitting on my hard drive for months and probably would have never seen the light of day if not for blind_go.
The seguing technique I used in "Across the Board" was not exactly stolen from the novel Green Grass, Running Water, (which I mentioned in the procrastination meme), but it's somewhat similar. Come to think of it, I kind of used the same technique in an old Slam Dunk fic of mine. What can I say, I am a terrible person who likes to plagiarize herself. And come to think of it, the ending of "Across the Board" is reminiscent of one of my other HnG fics.....Anyway, would be very delighted if one of the people who guessed my fic correctly got the Green Grass hint. Or if you knew it was me from the Slam Dunk fic.
I
I got the idea of using the title "Across the Board" several months ago when I was researching idiomatic expressions to teach to my adult ESL students. At the time I didn't know what I'd use the expression for, but I made a note of it. Oh, and "Across the Board is also the name of a HnG AMV I kind of like.
Everyone Else's Fics
...were annoyingly good, and kind of all blurred together after a while, especially when I was trying to read them on not enough sleep and too much eggnog. They also blurred together because they were all short. I expected it to be easy to read a whack of short fics, but I found myself unable to stay focussed.
In the end, with time running short, I didn't make any real guesses...but I did submit a list of completely random shot-in-the-dark guesses that I will not bother to post here because I think I didn't get a single thing right.
I can't say I have a favourite fic, but the one that's really stayed in my memory is Half-Blind by
harumi. It totally caught me off-guard by being non-tragic and absolutely adorable and making me really want to draw Hikaru with glasses one of these days. And this is totally irrelevant, but probably one of the reasons I like this story is because it's somewhat longer than most of the other fics (it has a part 2 and part 3). I'm just biased that way. An Incomplete and Cursory List of Hobbies Shindou Hikaru has Attempted, by some person named
zoesque, was another fic that really stayed with me. It felt wonderfully rounded, somehow, which is difficult in a short fic, though the fic proves that Hikaru isn't rounded at all despite all those hobbies, and er, I don't think I'm being very coherent (I really shouldn't have cleaned the bathroom today). ANYWAY, I loved how every aborted hobby said something different about Hikaru. While I was reading it, I thought in the back of my head that it might be zoe who wrote it...partly because it was well-written, but mostly because it has the sort of title that gives you carpal tunnel syndrome when you attempt to type it (I have carpal now, thanks).Miscellaneous stuff
I submitted the theme "The League of Extraordinarily Old Gentlemen." I also submitted the line "Ko Yongha uses too much makeup," but I think that got subsumed under "makeup." Too specific.
My secret id was "Chihaku," aka the sixth Honinbo, who had a short and uneventful life and died before naming his heir. That's all I could really find about him, not that I looked very hard. Anyone have a really cool id?
!!!Omake for "Across the Board" (aka: for getting this far, you get a cookie)!!!!
Below is some of the stuff I cut out of my fic. Couldn't bear to throw it away, so it's here as omake. Beware of half-assedness.
KAGA (version 2)
"For the last time, I'm a shougi player!"
Kaga was inspiring a lot of cringing and crying in his classmates today, but that was hardly unusual.
"No, we are not going to a go salon today," he said loudly. "Or tomorrow. Or next week....shut up! Oh fuck."
This was the signal that Kaga was going to puke all over his shirt again. He grabbed a towel from the desk beside him (he heard a feeble "hey!") and covered his mouth with it until the nausea passed. When he handed the towel back it was only a little wet. He was such a nice guy.
"KAGA!" That was Mr. Katsumata. "Talking to yourself again, are we? Getting a little sick there on Daisuke-kun's towel?"
The teacher actually sounded concerned under all that yelling. Christ. This was the last straw. Kaga gave Mr. Katsumata the one-fingered salute and excused himself to go hit on the school hurse.
After sleeping through the next period, blowing off his last period, and having a quick smoke on the soccer field, Kaga "borrowed" Tsutsui's bike and rode downtown to hire an exorcist.
(A/N: I was going to use this long version of Kaga's section until I decided that the short version was a lot clearer and more effective and EASIER TO FIT INTO THE WORD LIMIT. Some of this material got recycled into other sections though.)
KOUYO
"The Hand of God will not be found even in a thousand lifetimes," said Kouyo, "and my own life is already nearing an end. There is no perfection to be found here. However," and here he smiled, "if you will have me, I would like to share my go with you for a little while, as others have done before me."
"Thank you," said Sai.
(A/N: Was supposed to be in place of Kuwabara's section, until I decided Kuwabara is cooler and Touya Kouyo had already gotten a few lines in Akiko's section)
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Date: 2007-01-15 09:34 pm (UTC)You know, it was the image of Hikaru with glasses that inspired me for that fic. When I have time for sketches, I may post them up too.
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Date: 2007-01-16 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 12:02 am (UTC)I really liked yours. ♥ The short version of Kaga's was very effective. I loved Kuwabara's part, so I'm glad you had his in there. (Though, Kouyo's would've been sweet too.) :D
...I uh, didn't even finish reading all of the fics. -_-;;
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Date: 2007-01-16 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 11:02 am (UTC)(Actually, I didn't finish reading them until after the reveal too.)
Thank you for the compliments! Agh, you almost got me right??? How is it that people were able to guess me? I am no good at being a ninja.
Ah ha ha, in your fic you wrote that Kyouya was wearing a "lavender suit" and I immediately thought "Touya!" Kyouya...Touya...same diff.
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Date: 2007-01-17 07:15 am (UTC)