Flonne + Tron Bonne

Trigun!!!

2023-08-15T00:11:51Z

I've been on a massive Trigun bender recently. Watched the new series Trigun Stampede (which took some getting used to, but in the end I really enjoyed it), read the manga (which is amazing), and am rewatching the '98 anime (which I always loved, and still love). Now I'm reading fic and looking at fanart and listening to the OSTs and fanmixes and playlists and watching AMVs and just wanting to bask in ~~Wolfwood~~ Trigun for as long as I can.

I have lots of thoughts, but am too lazy to write those down right now. Instead, I'll just say that this doujinshi is a perfect, perfect missing scene from the end of the manga. MASSIVE SPOILERS!

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[Hikaru no Go] Fanfic: Puddles of Pudding by ChatGPT

2023-05-01T06:00:39Z

So ChatGPT (our new AI overlord) usually spits out the most boring stories ever, but I finally got a good one with this prompt: “Write a story in which shindou hikaru and touya akira turn into puddles of pudding.”

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Puddles of Pudding

Once upon a time, Shindou Hikaru and Touya Akira were playing a game of Go. The game was intense, and both players were giving it their all. Suddenly, a strange energy filled the room, and the two players began to feel strange.

As the energy grew stronger, Hikaru and Akira began to feel their bodies changing. They looked down and saw that their hands were turning into pudding. Shocked and confused, they tried to stand up, but their legs had also turned into pudding.

In a matter of seconds, Hikaru and Akira had completely transformed into puddles of pudding. They were still conscious, but they could not move or speak. They could only watch as their bodies slowly melted into the ground.

The other players in the room were horrified and didn't know what to do. They called for help, but no one knew how to reverse the strange transformation.

Days turned into weeks, and the puddles of pudding that were once Hikaru and Akira remained on the floor. Eventually, they were cleaned up and disposed of, and their disappearance became a mystery.

No one knows what caused the strange transformation, but some say it was the result of a curse from a rival Go player. Others believe it was a strange phenomenon caused by the intense energy of the game.

Regardless of the cause, the story of Hikaru and Akira turning into puddles of pudding became a cautionary tale for Go players everywhere. They knew that the game was intense, but they never expected it to have such a strange and terrifying consequence.

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Hurray

2022-04-30T04:12:43Z

So I am pretty sure now that I’ve had long Covid symptoms on and off since March 2020. There were no tests available at the beginning of the pandemic, so I can’t be sure I had Covid at the time, but I did have a fever and a cough and was told to quarantine for two weeks. I’ve been feeling crappy since then. Never to the extent that you hear about in the news re: “long hauler syndrome,” but enough to make it hard for me to get back to work.

And now I have Covid again (body aches, fever, cough, etc.), which I can confirm with a positive test result this time. I may have gotten it while visiting the post-Covid recovery clinic to help me with my long Covid symptoms.

I am just going to stay in my room forever this time.

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[Hikaru no Go] Fic: Shadow (Puppet) Master

2022-04-16T23:47:10Z

Title: Shadow (Puppet) Master

Fandom: Hikago

Characters: Hikaru, Sai

Wordcount: 727

Summary: Sai is a master of shadow puppetry, which is not lame at all thank you.

Read it on A03

( Shadow (Puppet) Master )

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Sign up for Get Your Words Out 2021?

2020-12-13T23:16:50Z

GetYourWordsOut: Year Thirteen!
Pledges & Requirements | getyourwordsout.net

For 2020, I pledged to write for 350 days of the year. I’ll probably end the year having written for about 290 days, which I think is not bad considering this stupid pandemic, my shoulder injury, feeling depressed and anxious about climate change, etc. Most of what I “wrote” was dictated aloud and transcribed into an app, so it’s all in super messy first draft form...but there is heckuva lot of it.

For 2021, I’m going to pledge to write 350 days again.

In terms of the actual content of my writing next year, my goal for is… well, I’ll have to see how my shoulders heal up first, so my goal is to not worry about what I can’t control, and to worry about things at the proper time!

How about the rest of you?

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Hikaru no Go fic rec: Waya no Go

2020-12-08T21:33:10Z

Lookie! I got a Hikago gift fic and it is PURE AND PERFECT CRACK.

Waya no Go by pluvia

This is what happens when you say "give me a Waya-fic, prompt is 'cow.'"

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Interesting article on square enix translator

2020-08-04T22:46:29Z

Lots of shoulder pain = not posting much nowadays, but here’s an interesting article!

https://archive.rpgamer.com/features/insidegaming/tslatteryint.html

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Get Your Words Out, Otter App, Voice to text

2020-02-04T18:49:11Z

So I’ve pledged to write 350 days out of the 365 days in 2020 for https://getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/.

...it’s been fun, so far? I’ve been writing purely orally, using Voice to text technology, mainly using the free Otter app, which also transcribes your words pretty well along with recording your voice. It creates a dynamic transcription that you can edit later on, and click on specific words to jump to that place in the recording. Kind of like a Ted talk transcript. It’s not that accurate when you are writing weird fantastical sentences with place names and character names that you made up yourself, and sentence structures that are, well, kind of nonsensical because you’re stumbling around trying to figure things out in your story world, but it’s good enough for a mangy first draft that you’re going to throw out anyway.

The first nice thing about writing with my voice is that I can do it anywhere, like when I’m walking my dog. Right now I am using my phone’s voice input (not Otter, just iOS) to write this entry while riding on a noisy bus. I’m just using the earbuds with microphone that came with my iPhone SE. It’s pretty accurate all things considered.

The other nice thing about riding with my voice is that I don’t destroy my back, shoulders and neck so much, although it’s still not perfect because I have to look at my phone sometimes. This is actually the main reason why I am investing so many brain cells and trying to learn how to become a more auditory thinker. This is actually the main reason why I am investing so many brain cells and trying to learn how to become a more auditory thinker.

For my second draft, I’ll probably have to use a paid program like Dragon, which I have never been able to get the hang of, but now that I have so much back pain in my life, but better time to learn?

I’m thinking in future of projecting a big screen on my ceiling and “writing“ while lying on a bed, dictating my orders to my machine servant. But who is the servant and who is the master really?

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Exchange on the Big Bridge - fic and art!

2019-10-19T05:20:55Z

The fic and art for Exchange on the Big Bridge have been revealed :)

I received two lovely gifts!

That Imperial Witch, a piece of FF6 fanart by CorpseBrigadier
Terra, being floaty and Amanoesque

Rays of Hope, an FF6 fic by Siver
Not everything can be so simple. A night in Mobliz and a talk while Terra wrestles with her feelings.

And I wrote a fic!

More Than Mere Etiquette
Cyan attempts to teach Gau table manners, but Gau ends up teaching him a thing or three.

This was not an FFVI-only challenge, or even an FF-only challenge--it just happened that all my involvement ended up being FFVI-related :D

'Twas a fun exchange! Nice and low-key, and really well-run. Hats off to sunberry for organizing!

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The Play That Goes Wrong

2019-09-10T04:17:04Z

I really want to see this play!

The Play That Goes Wrong

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Exchange on the Big Bridge letter

2019-09-06T21:02:49Z

Hi writer/artist! Thank you so much for fulfilling my request!

Request #1: FFIV
Rydia, Rosa, and/or Porom
Basically I want the FFIV ladies to get some attention because they are all awesome :D

Request #2: FFVI
Celes (and/or Terra, who wasn't nominated except in combination with Kefka, so I didn't put her in my requests on A03)
Ditto for the FFVI ladies!

I am pretty easy to please. I love humour, action, plot, no plot, romance, pron, gen, mystery, deathfic, Cthulu fic, everything! Almost anything goes! Any rating is okay! There is very little that fazes me. The only thing that I am not too interested in is AU fanfic for the sake of AU. (AU fanart is okay.) Don't get me wrong, I like AU and often write it myself, but I like to see a strong sense of purpose in it, not just a change of scenery for the sake of it.

In general, I love it when a writer/artist has a strongly specific understanding of the world and/or characters, and is able to illuminate something about the source material that I didn't see or think of before. Or maybe they just make some ridiculous in-joke that only makes sense if you know the source material XD

These are my specific requests, but feel free to take another tack. I am not picky, so honestly you can do almost anything you like. Feel free to post an anonymous message if you have any questions! :D

Best,
Flonnebonne

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Not Ready for Prime Time 2019 fics!

2019-08-03T23:22:45Z

I was lucky enough to get THREE fics for Not Ready for Prime Time 2019 and I love them all so much! Thank you so much to FireEye and BridgetMcKennitt for these!

1. Dragon's Pact (FFIV) by FireEye
Lunarians have long memories. Rydia & Cecil. (Who's yer One to Be Born from a Dragon now?!)

2. Sunlight Breaking Through the Clouds by FireEye
Locke rather accidentally drops in on Sabin during a snowstorm. (My new favourite thing in the world is Sabin and Locke being buds.)

3. Reading ahead (Waya, Isumi, Hikaru) by BridgetMcKennitt

Isumi may not have wanted to participate in the bet, but he was going to use all of his strength to win it. (Who doesn't love Isumi being all sneaky-like?)

AND, as a bonus, I kind of got a fanart gift from the fabulous laughingpineapple, who saw my Not Ready for Prime Time letter a while back and randomly drew fanart for one of my requests...for a different challenge :D

Fanart: Locke and Sabin - gossip gossip gossip by laughingpineapple

Check out the rest of her art in that series...actually, just check out her art! Such unique ideas and style, love it :D

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[Final Fantasy VI] Fic: From This Dawn, Unto the Next

2019-08-03T23:04:15Z

Title: From This Dawn, Unto the Next
Fandom: FF6
Characters: Cyan, Celes, Locke, Sabin, Gau, Edgar
Wordcount: ~~Too many~~ 16,209
Summary: Cyan knows not the ways of these strange folk with whom he travels, nor does he care to know. (Nor does he care to think of what he has left behind.) Written for The_Exile for Not Prime Time 2019.

Read it on A03
Read it on FF.net

Not my best work, methinks, but personally meaningful to me.

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Hikago Day 2019 - Post your WIPs!

2019-05-02T18:40:32Z

It's almost May 5 once again! In the spirit of Hikaru's final, unfinished game with Sai, I posted a call on the hikarunogo community for everyone to post their WIPs there.

...Let's see how it goes!

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Not Ready for Prime Time fic exchange letter

2019-04-28T18:45:56Z

Dear Not Ready for Prime Time Writer,

Thank you so much for taking my request :)

I am pretty easy to please. I love humour, action, plot, no plot, romance, pron, gen, mystery, deathfic, Cthulu fic, everything! Almost anything goes! Any rating is okay! There is very little that fazes me. The only things that I am not too interested in is AU for the sake of AU. Don't get me wrong, I like AU and often write it myself, but I like to see a strong sense of purpose in it, not just a change of scenery for the sake of it. In general, I love it when an author has a strongly specific understanding of the world and/or characters, and is able to illuminate something about the source material that I didn't see or think of before. Or maybe they just make some ridiculous in-joke that only makes sense if you know the source material XD

Request #1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Characters: Isumi Shinichirou & Shindou Hikaru & Waya Yoshitaka
Request: I just love the friendship between these three, and am always up for fic about them :)

Request #2
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Characters: Cecil Harvey & Rydia
Request: The Mysidian legend starts with the line "One (to be) born of a dragon." We're told that this refers to Cecil, or maybe the Big Whale/Lunar Whale...but really, if anyone is born from a dragon, it's Rydia. See https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Mysidian_Legend.

Request #3
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Characters: Locke Cole & Macías "Mash" Rene Figaro | Sabin Rene Figaro
Request: Locke and Sabin are both firmly connected to Edgar in-game, and I would love to see the two of them interact based on that connection. Maybe they can roast Edgar together? Or they can fill each other in on Edgar's dirty laundry? Or they can be more serious, or a mixture of silly and serious...up to you!

These are my specific requests, but feel free to take another tack if that's what you're comfortable with and what your muse demands :)

Flonnebonne

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Random snippet of original writing

2019-04-19T18:53:29Z

So the Get Your Words Out writing community posted a prompt:

Stop whatever you're doing.
Reply to this post.
Write whatever comes to mind in the comment box—a scene, a summary, a character sketch. It can be terrible, it can be purple, it doesn't need to make sense. For now: Just write.
Post the comment.

Then continue what you were doing.

I liked this prompt so I wrote a snippet of...something.

( It's )

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[Hikaru no Go] Fic: An Interview, Ten Years After Lee Sedol

2019-04-10T05:36:41Z

Title: An Interview, Ten Years After Lee Sedol
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Characters: Shindou Hikaru, random OC interviewer
Wordcount: 1,470 words
Summary: Ten years after AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol, Shindou Hikaru gives his thoughts on the matter.

Read it on A03
Read it on FF.net

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Kuroko’s Basketball & the Uniquely Understated Homage to Kabuki Theatre

2019-03-21T03:58:50Z

So apparently Kuroko no Basket is an homage to kabuki theatre.

...Well that explains a lot!

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HOW SQUARE ENIX CAN FIX ITS GAME DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

2019-03-12T05:55:43Z

1. Beg Hironobu Sakaguchi to come back.* This shouldn't be too hard.

2. Ask Sakaguchi to make a game on an SNES cartridge. If you're feeling generous, give him a Chrono Trigger-sized cartridge. Ask the employees who made that FFXIII sprite movie to help out. Beg Yoshitaka Amano and Kaori Tanaka to do the designs. Beg Nobuo Uematsu to do the music, and be nice to him so he doesn't rage-quit and form his own music group.

3. One year later: Playtest the game and make sure it has not morphed into a feature-length film about Sakaguchi's dead mother.

4. Don't release Sakaguchi's game. Keep it a secret.

5. Beg Hajime Tabata to come back.

6. Ask Tabata to turn Sakaguchi's 16-bit game into an AAA blockbuster on PS4/Xbox/Switch/CPU. Be nice to Tabata so he doesn't rage-quit and form a competing game company. Ask Alexander O. Smith to rewrite all the bad dialogue into iambic pentameter. Ask Hikaru Utada to sing a theme song. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW TETSUYA NOMURA ON THE DEV FLOOR. But let him add some anime hair to the sprites, direct some trailers, and make a splash at E3.

7. Profit.

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POST-LAUNCH DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

1. Release Sakaguchi's 16-bit game on handheld and mobile systems.

2. Keep an eye on Nomura. NO RANDOM SPIN-OFF GAMES.

3. Let the execs have a bonding session in a Coleman tent.** Catch some fish. Cook all the meals in FFXV. Make sure Uematsu spends some time in a hot spring.

4. Profit.

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*Kitase or Matsuno would also do. Kitase is still at Square, technically, but I think he just sits around and collects money. Matsuno would be my pick, but Matsuno already rage-quit once or twice? so I think it would be a tough one.

**...Square Enix needs some more women in the leadership ranks, doesn't it?

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THE MODERN SQUARE ENIX DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

2019-03-11T00:10:53Z

1. Lock Tetsuya Nomura in a room and give him some acid so he can start drawing up...something. Something involving belts and hearts. NO EDITING ALLOWED.

2. Make pretty trailers based on whatever Nomura drew. Trailer must include mockups of gameplay so people will understand that development is definitely well on its way.

3. Plan out all side games and side movies and mobile games. Hire Sean Bean to play all side characters.

4. Make sure to announce several bombshells at E3. Watch hype grow like a weed. Send out cheques to shareholders.

5. Five years later: Think about actually developing the game.

6. Hire Outsourced Company to develop the game. Bring them to the room where acidified Nomura scribbled his soul in blood all over the walls. Tell them to Figure This Out. All employees of Outsourced Company receive free leather coats for inspiration.

7. Five years later: Realize that Outsourced Company is a film company and not a game company. Start sweating. Fetch Nomura from rehab and tell him to Fix Everything. With his well-organized and highly analytical mind, surely he can find solutions to all these problematic gameplay elements, like the fact that there is no gameplay.

8. Twenty years later: Quality Control says the game has neither quality nor control. Someone compares the game to a fetal monstrosity theatening to rip apart time and space, Chrono Cross style. Interesting idea, but the shareholders are starting to Panic, and the dev floor is filled with Heartless and Nobodies in leather coats.

9. Call Hajime Tabata and beg him to Fix Everything. Tabata politely explains that he doesn't do that anymore.

10. Cut out half of the planned storyline. Keep all the cutscenes (shiny!) and add more cooking/fishing/cell phone mini-games (more shiny!).

11. Release the game to the public. Make Nomura do some frantic hand waving and say it was all “creative genius choices,” not budget cuts.

12. Profit.

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POST-LAUNCH DEVELOPMENT CYCLE

1. Release some rage-inducing DLCs and mobile games.

2. Profit.

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...Have I mentioned that complaining about Kingdom Hearts 3 is now my full-time job?

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Kingdom Hearts 3...

2019-02-28T06:22:26Z

...is possibly the most disappointing game I have ever played! Just my personal opinion, since I know other people like the game, but...man, what the hell were they thinking? The main story in particular was a huge letdown. I was actively starting to dislike Sora at certain points.

KH1 and KH2 did not make me feel this way.

But I do like this video: Kingdom Hearts Explained. (Note: this was released before KH3, so it is actually completely unrelated to the rest of this post.)

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Harry Potter Fic Rec: Dear Alastor

2019-02-09T22:12:01Z

This fic is essentially a list of descriptions of Hogwarts students but it is SO GOOD. It is also exceedingly hard to find so I am putting a link here for myself, for posterity.

Dear Alastor Remus, Moody | G | 2,000w
“I’ve had a letter from Professor Lupin about this class,” says Moody in Goblet of Fire. This is the letter.

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

2019-01-31T05:22:55Z

So I read the novel Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wouldn't say it'll change your life, but it's fun, and the author has a brisk, breezy, highly readable style--the kind that makes you want to read on, but doesn't make you OBSESSED with the book to the point that you can't fall sleep. And since that was exactly the kind of book I was in the mood for, it worked for me.

( More of my review under the cut, with SPOILERS )

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[Ender's Game] Fic: Learning to Human

2019-01-03T04:30:51Z

So I wrote an Ender's Game fic for Yuletide 2018:

Title: Learning to Human
Fandom: Ender's Game
Characters: Valentine, Ender
Wordcount: 3158
Summary: Valentine and Ender, on the colony ship. An immediate sequel to Ender's Game. Directly contradicts Ender in Exile.

So I notice that I have a tendency to write stories in the EG universe in which: a) people are stuck in rooms b) one person teaches another person to be more human c) desks are important d) weird mystical bugger crap happens

OH WELL what can I say except that when you are writing for a deadline you tend to repeat your favourite tropes.

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Ender's Game fic recs

2018-12-29T07:04:18Z

These are both fantastic fics, in very different ways:

Shadow of the Noel by CABridges, 335 words, humour. Summary: Battle School rosters aren't the only things Bean tweaked.

An Offer Worth Considering by toficornottofic, 1478 words, AU Summary: In a world with no time to create a third child, Peter and Valentine needed to be reconsidered

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