I'm not really all that great at blogging.
Anyway, the poll has been taken out and the results have 15 votes for YES to preview section and one vote for NO. The 'other' was a test from me, so it doesn't count obviously lol
Preview section will go up Saturday. Hopefully I'll have worked on a few pieces between now and then.
Thanks guys~
@Sal23 - Late reply is late, but thank you for enjoying the essay! I am glad it seems legit, I truly did want to have as much support as possible. =
Thank you~ =) Song of Memory is approaching the end soooon, I'm sadly really busy with RL schooling but come March I'll have more free time, so hopefully I'll be updating a lot more often then! I hope you enjoy all you find here and what's to come~ Again, thank you for the kind comment <3
Other than the reply, I don't have much of an update. Other than I'm not as sick and clinicals are almost done yaaaaay I can't wait for Maaaaaaaarch.
Oh, and I now have an old Australian dude living in my house. So if weird Australian slang/terms/phrases/weird stuff gets said here (or God forbid in my stories) then you all know where it came from. XD
Things just don't wanna work in my favor, it seems!
I know that sounds emo-ish and it kinda is, but I'll skip it (who really wants to read an emo-y blog? I mean, really? XD)
So basically ch.30 for Song of Memory: Redux is in the works right fuckin' now and I should hopefully get it up within the next day or so. I wanted it up before midnight, cause then I could have said, I got 30 chapters done in 2010! Haha, silly me I know. Didn't work out though.
Right now ch.30 is chock full of hints, clues and foreshadowing and I'm sort of of worried it won't quite work the I want, but nothing is meant to 'explode' until ch.31, after all the technical stuff happens and the characters are set up where I want them when shit hits the fan (again!).
I know my chapters are horrendously short, but that's just how its set up. Hopefully once the action picks up (as from ch.33 on, it's all non-stop! /wink) even if the chapters are short, the content was well worth waiting for and keeps my readers interested on the edge of their seats.
All sorts of surprises are in the incoming final 20 chapters! Yes, SoM:R is going to end at the Chapter 50 mark, plus an Epilogue. And then I can lean back and say, "Wow, I finished a really long ass fanfic." and I hope my readers can say they enjoyed the ride.
I'm planning to buy the X-collection with X7 and X8 here soon, and after ch.30 I might take extra time off the story to re-play the games I've played (X-X6) and go through the ones I haven't (X7 and X8) so I got a real grasp of what I'm writing. What I'm proud of in SoM:R is that despite it not following the games exactly, I still got enough 'root' in the canonical happenings that my events are at least logical/belivable (I think so anyway XD), and I want to make sure I keep that root. Characterization is a different ballgame--I know my personifications of X, Zero, Axl and co. aren't exactly spot-on canon, but hopefully they're close enough to be 'true' yet still 'fresh.'
Not so much of a storyboard or idea reflect than me being rambly, but, for all my readers, thanks again. Have a Happy New Year!
Late Ass Replies:
@Kallan: I did that til the last day of my semester. It's such a fucking hard habit to break lmao and it's a terrible one. Yet I always get better grades with last minute shit than stuff I do early. Go figure!
@Elise: I DID make a Girouette, but my screenshot folder got wiped. Now that I've been reminded, I now want to go try and remake him. lol (IthinkItriedtomakeChernobyltoo/shotdead) Don't ever get into MMOs. Waste of time, money, and... generally too addictive. XD
@Ink: Zero is older than X? I thought they were about the same age. As for Zero liking kids, I know a lot of fans like to think he does (typically, it's almost stereotypical that the 'cold, silent types' actually like kids/puppies/kittens), but I personally think Zero doesn't really care, especially since Alouette is a Reploid--she's programmed to act young, but if you tinkered, she could be an old wise woman in a kid's body. Zero in the Z-series isn't really the type to 'hang out' so much as he just sort of... is there. People'll talk to him, he might talk back, might not. As for people trying to 'undo' the ending of Z4, that's kinda expected to happen since in the Completed Works, Zero's whereabouts are 'unknown', even if its obvious he died. Plus, everyone seems to think love will make everything okay and its all right to forget family if you love someone, "He has Ciel now, he doesn't need the others!" too bad she's a human and, I dunno, has a much earlier expiration date than Zero. Tsk tsk.
As for the crack theory, a lot of people have pointed that out, and it does make sense even in a non-slash view. I've only read one 'real' gender-bent X (there's quite a few cross-dressing fics, but not real gender-change) fic, and it was all right, but its also old as hell XD I've seen lots of art where X is cast in a very feminine light (ESPECIALLY his Zero-series incarnation) and I myself make a lot of fun over him sometimes, but X is still very male regardless if he wants peace or not. Par X7's shitastic characterization, X may hate fighting, but he still gets off his ass and does it... and does it rather destructively. I don't think many put it in this light, but Zero uses a saber, which is meant to strike at weaknesses and take down an enemy effectively and cleanly. X shoots off a giant blast of energy, completely olbilerating and destroying his enemy. (This is of course, ignore the whole 'every enemy blows up upon death' thing in the games.) In a sense, X is a very destructive person, and typically, destructive = masucline. You can also look at Copy X, who is also often esmasculated because of his naivete and small stature, but despite that, look at the amount of damage he can and did do, both in terms of physical and emotional. He put terror into people's hearts--people who once adored and loved X, and he could (realistically thinking anyway) level the city with his Seraphim form without much of a thought. A lot of people make X out to be a sweet little puppy, which he typically is, but X is also the most dangerous person alive I think, a point lots of fans seem to ignore, both in slash and non-slash.
Whew. I think I rambled too much LOL
Hi hi, Ink! Your reply was pretty big and I wanted to make sure you saw a proper reply!
First off, thanks for checking out the site and enjoying the fanfics! I appreciate all of my readers. =)
I know what you mean about Ciel's age. I believe she starts in MMZ1 at age 14, and in Z2, she's 15 til the end (2 months between Z2 and Z3, and not long at all before Z3 and Z4) so despite her maturity in all other regards, in terms of romance, I don't really view Ciel all that mature at all. Also, although you didn't outright say it, YAY someone ELSE admits to something between Elpizo and Ciel, despite it being one-sided! Than again, Elpizo himself wasn't very "old" either. If he lived and Ciel was a little older I'd totally advocated Elpizo/Ciel.
Zero, to me, is not the type to stay in one place once his duty is fulfilled. He's too restless, too on edge. This is shown in Z3, when apparently it's been 2 months of quiet, almost peacefulness, but he was constantly on edge, even snapping at Ciel and the others to shut up because they were "on a mission." To me, Zero takes things extremely seriously, far too much for someone as young as Ciel. I don't know, although Zero was typically encouraging for Ciel, in the situation they were in, it was beneficial for him to be kind. When they weren't in immediate danger (such as the intro to Z3), Zero was quick to be 'mean' to her.
I wish they put more emphasis on how Zero was during both of X's deaths. At the end of Z1, Zero had already remembered enough about X to know they "were always the best of partners" (direct quote.), and he looked incredibly pissed that Elpizo was threatening X's physical body. But afterwards, he was just fixated on Dark Elf... and X hardly reacted to his own death. Then again, as some of my one-shots implied, X had seen it coming and as you've said, Zero probably didn't get the "full" impact of X's death. The second death, I don't think Zero knew until much later, and by the time Z4 rolls around, Zero must put on the facade of being "okay" or else the Resistance would crumble, and he knew it.
Thanks again for the comment, Ink =) I love hearing from people!
@Lady Midnight - thanks for the feedback on Axl/Delia, appreciated <3
@Kallan - Well I can't spoil TOO much about Axl/Delia, but you're on my brain wave length! XD So some het isn't gonna kill anyone? I don't wanna be all... heavy Zero/X and kill people with the yaoi overdose! lmao But, oh, I'm so happy to hear SoM: R was a good introduction fic for you. <3 Thank you so much, and don't worry, it'll get finished eventually!
Thanks to everyone that's replied, here and dA. See you next time!
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