pentapus

I wrote:

The Mountain of the Rightful Emperor by pentapus
Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Sanada Ryo/Xiu Rei Fuan a.k.a. Kento, Ensemble cameos
"Welcome to the Middle Kingdom," Kento said, switching to Japanese.

"Uh, yeah -- it’s nice," Ryo said.

So I was the worst anon ever this year. Even forgetting the egregious use of geology, my backpacking trip to China, and a Ryo headcanon I mentioned in my yuletide letter (Ryo dancing! Come on, who doesn’t want that?!), I literally told Spoke two years ago that I wanted to write her a story where Kento and Ryo worked at Kento’s Uncle’s guest house. ( lots more rambling )

I received:

Yoroiden Samurai Troopers

Rites by penitence_road
Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Mia, Kayura, Ensemble
If purity were in the work of purification, they'd be all set. But that's not really how these things work. Or, The Netherworld's Trust-Building Exercises Are Pretty Hardcore. Features everyone, but stars Mia and Kayura.

Longfic! With Mia and Kayura! And Kayura trying to be a proper traditional girl while also ruling a demon underworld. I loved Mia and Kayura feeling each other out. The background that penitence_road gave Mia (French Catholic) made her even more of an outside observer, an interested academic observing Shinto practice in the netherworld, and I really liked that take on it.

Sleeping Arrangements by alessandriana
Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Mia, the Ronins
In the aftermath of the first battle against Talpa, they go home.
(Blatant fluff.)

Nrrrgh, so good. Exactly my kind of fluff -- cuddling with an air of hurt/comfort and lingering peril. Like, Ryo literally does not wake up for the entire story. He is so wiped out from all that Killing-Talpa business that he has to be carried from room to room by Kento as the story progresses. I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT WORKS FOR ME, BUT OH GOD, DOES IT WORK. Also, the Mia POV was great here as she tries to keep track of everyone while being wiped out herself. There’s a bit where she has to stop and stress by herself for a moment, but instead, she falls asleep leaning on the laundry machine – I have done that! I have totally done that! I mean, it was more college finals than demon attack, but it still happened.

Torii by Shusu (Sameshima_Shuzumi)
Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Kayura, Ronins
We're the unsung handymen of the netherworld. Only because Lady Kayura banned karaoke.

This was hysterical, and what really made it for me was the solid world-building underneath. There are some great descriptions of magic and the netherworld in here. And then everybody’s characters are fantastic. It gives it that real feel that just makes humor for me. And Kayura’s POV!

Books of the Raksura – Martha Wells

Too Wise (to wait till those wolves make nice) by mpatientdreamr
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells , Moon, Ember, Song, Chime, Jade, Malachite
Indigo Cloud Court has a couple of visitors.

Malachite! Moon! And some perfect Raksuran characterisations. Loved Ember especially – Moon thinks of him as basically the same as the royal clutch, Ember only listens to Moon when he wants to! Also, the author said she had been worried about making Moon cranky enough, which, yes, haha, perfect sum up of the Moon writing process -- always make him crankier.

Lonesome Son by mpatientdreamr
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells , Moon, Ember, Pearl
Pearl and Moon talk about Ember.

And then she wrote me another thing about Ember!

Alien Song by mpatientdreamr
Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells , Frost, Thorn, Bitter
Frost, Thorn, and Bitter during Flower’s funeral.

This was a neat look at the Royal Clutch and their position as outsiders to Indigo Cloud.

Lilo & Stitch (2002):

Leaving the Nest by trollprincess
Lilo & Stitch (2002), Lilo, Nani
Lilo takes one last surf before she leaves.

This was great. Introduces a very real source of worry while also letting good things happen – and all told nicely through dialogue and character interaction. A great glimpse of Lilo and Nani’s future with David and Lilo’s unusual babysitters. AND LILO CRIES AT E.T. FOR TOO LONG, OH MY HEART.

Jhua Tehrqua by failsafe
Lilo & Stitch (2002), Lilo, Stitch
Stitch struggles with listlessness and fears of being replaced one night when Lilo's all grown up.

This is a sad one, guys. A very depressing future in which Lilo and Stitch go to space, but Stitch is still not considered a free citizen. An interesting read since it wasn’t a vision I would have had of the Galactic Federation. She’s got some great descriptions of Stitch’s body language in here, really brings home the ouch.

The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells

A Lady’s Education by misura
The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells, Madeline
They all have things to teach her.

Really nice, quick glimpse of Madeline’s interactions with the main cast.

The Hanged Man’s Prodigal Son by misura
The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells, Arisilde
Arisilde on the brink.

Arisilde, oh my heart. ;_;

and she is the woman by misura
The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells, Madeline
Two choice pieces of gossip arrived from Vienne that week, in short succession of one another.

I fucking love gossip in fic, guys. A quick spin on the existence of a Sherlock/Watson-like duo in the books canon. Madeline gets to be a novel heroine! And the way each character reacts differently is great. Madeline’s reaction being my favorite. :D

Dear Yuletide Author,

Before I say anything else (and I’m going to say a lot, it’s just my way), thank you for signing up to write some of my favorite wee fandoms. Every fandom I requested this year is a fandom in which any story, of any shape or size will make me happy. So write the story that grabs you.

I threw a number of prompts at you because I know for me, "Write anything!" is the most difficult thing to write. I am a sucker for world-building, plot, and fully-formed characters, even in small doses. If you want to come up with a plot arc and then write me 1000 words of the second to last scene or 1000 words of the first, I will be right there with you.

Now, as far as I'm concerned you can take that paragraph and go, but if you would like more clues, what follows is an extended digression on likes, dislikes, and those wee tiny fandoms I've requested.

( More on that... the infamous optional details )

Fandoms:
(Last year, when I was binge-reading everyone else’s yuletide letters, I realized that I wanted to read everyone’s prompts and their comments, not just their comments on their prompts, so I included my prompts in mine this year.)

( More optional details: The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells, Scrapped Princess, Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers )

That’s all for my requests. I hope you found something in there that helps you. If not, no worries. You are writing a story in a wee, tiny fandom of my heart. I already love it. Thank you!

Cheers,
Pen

Twenty days until my dream trip to China. I leave September 26, and I won't be home til Christmas. Wish me luck. \o/


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Set 2: H50 Dr. Who Inception Temeraire Glee XMFC
Set 1: H50 Dr. Who Leverage SGA SPN Highlander

FANDOMS: SGA (Team!), Xfiles (Mulder/Scully), Merlin (Merlin/Arthur), Due South (RayK/Fraser), Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Team!), Naruto (Kakashi/Iruka)




( The best giant orange-flavored hard candy in the universe. )

( Scully: You are my favorite. )

( The most adorably innocent yet really phallic image ever. )

( Dief knows what's up. )

( Mia, you were my first beloved, badass lady. Even if a lot of people didn't think so just because of all that pink. )

( Would this face lie? )

First, a note: I'm pentapus on dreamwidth (this post, and most others since april this year have been crossposted on lj and dw). With the idea that one day I'll be mostly dreamwidth based and with me fading out of SGA, I trimmed the lj flist down to journals I sort of know*/read. All fannish content on this journal is unlocked, so there isn't anything to miss.

But in other news, here is Today's 20 min 30 minute picture. It wasn't really anybody in particular, except that I colored her hair auburn and drew a rocket ship. So, in my world, that would make her Mia Koji of Ronin Warriors (the rocket ship totally makes this a Rowen/Mia picture somehow. Like I said -- my world), but that's totally optional.





*(or who once told a story about finding their grandmother's vibrator. Flist trimming is not an exact science, I admit).

I am immensely, unnecessarily depressed right now. It's a little silly, and yet no less sad.

My first fandom, the fandom of my heart is not on the yuletide list. It made it in last year -- hence my spending most of the summer and fall happily plotting -- but this year, it was rejected. I think because once upon a time it was a large fandom, and there was no one around to say, "No, no, that stuff on ff.net is all old! I promise!" The yuletide process is a bit of a mystery to me, so I know I wasn't. I'd learned just enough to make sure I nominated it. Sigh. Misery.

I got by before RW/YST made it into Yuletide, of course, and there are so many shiny fandoms that did get in -- but this one was mine, y'know? I mean, you guys get that sort of feeling. We'll just see if I'm un-depressed enough before sign ups end.

:( :( :( :(!!!