Once on a donkey in Tunbridge Wells

Trying to get back in the groove with writing recs. I shall prevail! All recs will be crossposted to Pharmakon.

( Star Trek 2009 )
( D.Grayman )
( Persona 4 )

Updated Pharmakon - nothing big, just stuck "Subliminal" and "The Line of Your Body" on there. The one thing of note is that I actually edited "Subliminal" so it doesn't read like I wrote it in under an hour after dashing back from seeing the film at the cinema. The fact that I did write it in under an hour after dashing back from the cinema is irrelevant.

Today is father's day. Therefore, I have prepared the most appropriate and loving gift a daughter can give to her father to show her appreciation for his (lack of) parenting.

Yup, he got a coconut.

( What? You want context? )

I just posted a comment on an entry completely without realising that it was on lj, and apparently I am still logged into lj. After two years. I do not comprehend.

Anyway. One of my daily checks now is the marukyurevue comm on lj, which links to requests and fills on the huge and hugely awesome badbadbathhouse Persona 4 kink meme. (As a side note, the number of requests for rape/torture fics scare me. I know, I know, kink meme, but seriously, a kink for someone being horribly abused? Each to their own, but I really do not comprehend.)

Getting back on track, the point of this is that I came across this prompt. Which hits on a major IRL kink of mine. So I was thinking about it off and on since seeing the prompt, and when I came home yesterday I was hit with inspiration and wrote out all of the following in one go. Partway through I realised that someone else had posted a fill to the prompt, but this fic just would not stop. So. Have a fic.

NOT EVEN REMOTELY WORKSAFE.

Title: The Line of Your Body
Pairing: Chie/Yukiko
Warnings: Fluffy smut, first time, hipbones kink.
Summary: It’s the first time since they both faced their shadows in the TV world that Chie has seen her in a swimsuit. And maybe that’s why she notices.

( Fic: Persona 4: The Line of Your Body )

AND THUS IT CONTINUES. In this part: Larsa is topped by everyone, Penelo is manipulative, and OCs appear. Basch is present in spirit, although he wishes he wasn't.

[ PART 1 ] [ PART 2 ] [ PART 3 ] [ ? ]

( A Tale of Archadian Passion, or, Penelo's Navel: Part Two )

So my pre-emptive hiatus is now ix-nayed, less than twenty-four hours after I decided to implement it.

The reason for the pre-emptive hiatus was that I was going to be a prosecution witness in a trial about stuff that happened when I was a child. The trial was set for next week, and it was going to dredge up some particularly unpleasant memories.

Today, however, I got a call from the witness people saying that the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) have decided to discontinue the case.

While I am relieved in a way (because now I won't have to air a distinctly unhappy time in my life in a very stressful environment and be questioned by people whose job it is to make me look like a fool), I am also disgusted at the way the CPS have handled this.

I was first contacted to give a statement about this two years ago. The offences the defendant was charged with were rape and indecent assault on a child (edit: not me, for the record). I was willing to go to court to give evidence for the prosecution because I actually give a shit about getting justice for the victim, and I understand that it takes a hell of a lot of guts for someone who has been the victim of that sort of offence to get the courage and willpower together to accuse their attacker in the first place. It then takes even more courage and willpower to survive through the court process. The person who can do that deserves vindication, and deserves the support of any evidence I can give.

How is it justice for the victim when, after two years of waiting, the trial is cancelled five days before it is due to start.

And let me be clear right now: I don't even actually know who the victim is. I know who I think it is, but there were any number of children it might actually have been. I object to this on general principles, not because of a personal investment in any of the people involved.

Well fucking done, CPS. Well. Fucking. Done.

EDIT: End of hiatus. WTF. See this post.


::waves:: Hiya. Just a notice that I'm about to disappear off the face of the intertubes for a while. Real Life is about to hit me like a particularly unpleasant train wreck, what joy!

Normally I get through bad RL stuff by clinging ever more firmly to the fandom stuff, so the reason I'm issuing this hiatus is purely because the upcoming RL situation is not one I have ever been in before, so I've no way of knowing exactly how I'll react or whether I'll be fit for human company (either on the intertubes or in RL).

With luck, any fallout will be isolated and dealt with quickly and I'll be back posting inanities before you can blink. Buuuuuuuut I also might not, so, hiatus post!

If you want to get hold of me while I'm not about here, you can always email me at anria [AT] solelyfictional [DOT] org. More sensibly formatted, of course. :)

Dear fiction-writers of the internet:

I would like to point out that "either" and "neither" do not actually mean the same thing.

Yours,

almighty_frog

Edit: "Gate" and "gait" are also not the same thing. Although that mistake did make me laugh.

Edit 2: "Break" and "brake" do not mean the same thing. Jesus, people.

Holy crap.

I have a not-so-secret fondness for ballroom dancing, and the Argentine Tango in particular. But that ... holy crap.

Just finished Persona 4. Awhrjsrjkghdjfkghjjgfawesome.

Okay, so I'm beginning to believe that my lack-of-being-able-to-write lately has been less to do with writer's block and more to do with having the attention span of a gnat.

This afternoon I have gone from writing more on the Penelo's Navel fic (which, since it is unfinished, I have ported over to DW) to scribbling down ideas for a rather depressing coming-of-age original story to being determined to get something written for young adults published to deciding what I really want to do is read some book reviews, and possibly write them. And then I remembered about my LibraryThing page, which I haven't touched since 2007/8.

I don't know either.

Earlier this week I had a discussion with people about deja vu, and I mentioned that I sometimes get pre-deja vu, where I know that I am going to get deja vu in the future about something that's just happened.

It's not jamais vu, which is when you feel like it's the first time something has happened despite knowing it's happened before, because I only ever get this when I know that it's not happened before, but that it will happen again.

I thought this was fairly common, but the people I was talking to at work had no idea what I was on about - does anyone else get this, or is it just another weird quirk of my brain?

I've now got a Dreamwidth account, courtesy of Jadey. Come find me - I'm almighty_frog over there too (because I r imaginative, yar. Just not so much at 2am.)

Went to Roz's today for a barbecue. It was a very good day, but there was one WTF moment when I realised Roz's cousin was flirting with me.

This was a WTF moment because when I have met this cousin before and I happen to know she is straight. Not gay, not bisexual. Totally straight. So, yes. WTF.

I am currently sitting at my desk at home (holiday, yay!) eating Cajun Squirrel flavour crisps.

I don't know either.

Go here and click the little "HD" button at the bottom right of the video.

Apparently Advent Children just wasn't good enough, so Squenix are redoing it. I am assuming the redo will make about as much sense as the original. And pay about as much attention to the laws of physics.

However, omyfuckinggodit'sgorgeous. I've been waiting for prices to drop a little further before buying a PS3, but I might skip that now...

I just got to level 77 in Persona 3 FES, which meant that I could fuse Mara.

So off I went to the compendium to pull out the five different personae I would need to fuse the damn thing. I've got the Tower S.link maxed out, so I figured it would be money well spent.

So then. I went to fuse Mara. And.

What. The flying. Fuck.

Mara is a penis in a chariot. A penis in a chariot. Who thought that one up? Wait, more importantly, why did they think that up? What thought process leads you to put an enormous green penis in a chariot and then give it pierce skills?

...

Mara just got added to the list of "Why Atlus Is Fucking Awesome". XD

At work, one of my jobs is to make sure we get up-to-date lists of offender's previous convictions from the police, since someone's current offence could be pretty innocuous, but there could be all sorts of things in their background. (FYI: I work for the Probation Service in the UK.)

Anyway, since this happens for every single offender who passes through our doors - including ones who just come to us for pre-sentence reports, and never actually end up under Probation supervision - I have now seen a lot of pre-cons.

Today, however, I was handed the pre-cons for an offender who had thirty-eight convictions for one hundred and thirty-six offences. That's more offences than I've seen on anyone else's pre-cons list, ever. (Not the most convictions, however. Since you can be charged with multiple offences at once, one conviction entry can have several offences listed on it - as evidenced by this guy! The most convictions I've ever seen was eighty-six.)

I love my job and I'm learning a lot, but I do not think I will ever be able to understand how someone can rack up that many offences. Sheesh.

I had NO INTERNET between the 18th of Feb and the 24th of Feb. NO internet whatsoever. It was torture.

Anyway, that was not the point of this post: the point of this post was to say that I've changed my email address. If you want to email me in future, please use "anria [AT] solelyfictional [DOT] org", obviously amended so it actually makes sense as an email address. The old evilchibi yahoo uk address will still work, I just won't check it as often. It keeps kinda not receiving emails, or sending them to me several months late, and whatnot.

And now I play Persona 3 FES! I am determined to finish the whole thing (replay of The Journey and at least one play of The Answer) before Persona 4 comes out on 13 March. Wish me luck! ::salutes::

I finally finished updating Pharmakon. Finally. New layout, a couple of fics added, and a new format for recs. And I've only been fiddling this layout since, oooh, May last year? Oy vey.

Oh yeah - also added 29 new recs to the site, or so CuteNews tells me. Yikes.