thedetectiveprince-ss:

((Okay! It’s Giveaway time! 200 Followers is more than I have ever had in my entire life on Tumblr, so I want to thank you all. It means a lot to me that you want to interact with Naoto, and I love being able to interact with all of you. So here are the deets…))

WINNERS: There will be THREEtotal winners that will be selected via a random number generator. 

GRAND PRIZE: 

The grand prize winner will win the 16 Bit Junes T-shirt pictured above and ONE of three Persona 4 Figurines. Rise, Teddie, or Kanji. (Naoto is mine). 

First Prize:

The first prize winner will receive ONE of the remaining 2 figurines (depending on what the grand prize winner chooses) out of Rise, Kanji, or Teddie.

Second Prize: The second prize winner will receive the last remaining figurine out of Rise, Kanji, or Teddie. Sorry you don’t get your choice, but all of them are super adorable and I don’t think it matters in the end. Ya still get something super cute. 

RULES: (Because without rules, there is chaos).

• If you are the Grand Prize winner, you MUST be willing to give me your T-Shirt size and mailing address. I want to be able to get the prize to you.
  
  
• If you are one of the other two winners, you MUST be willing to give me your mailing address. Again, I want to be able to get the prize to you. 
  
  
• NO GIVEAWAY BLOGS. I will be checking. This giveaway is for my followers to thank them. Not for you to scam on my prizes. 
  
  
• YOU MUST BE FOLLOWING ME!!! THIS WHOLE THING IS TO THANK MY FOLLOWERS. If you follow me just for the giveaway, please don’t unfollow me after it ends. That’s just rude. I love everyone and if you want to RP with me, I will gladly do so. 
  
  
• All notes on this post count as one entry into the contest. Likes only count once by default. You may reblog this post THREE TIMES. HEAR THAT? THREE TIMES ONLY.Any more than that and I will assume spam. 
  
  
• This giveaway ends on October 4, 2014 at 11:59PM EST. Once it is over, I will tally the numbers, use the generator and determine the winners. They will be posted on either October 5th or October 6th on my blog, and I will also contact the winners through their ask box. So make sure yours is open. If I don’t get a reply within 24 hours I will assume forfeit and the other winners will move up and a new winner will be chosen. 
  
  
• Lastly, if this post does not get 30 notes, I will cancel the giveaway. These prizes are pricey and you all are worth it. So please show interest. Otherwise I don’t see a point in spending the money. 
  
  
• GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN. 

Naoto roleplay blog? (squee!)  Awesome giveaway? (yay!) Sign me up, thanks!  (loves Naoto way too much)

brichibiwritesthings:

huntersseries:

Back when I was to college, I was part of a Gundam Wing yaoi mailing list for Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell (1x2x1 ML forever!)  On that mailing list was a girl who called herself snowtigra.  We started chatting over IRC (yeah this is how long ago this was) and ended up doing a fic together that was a terrible Resident Evil/Gundam Wing crossover that’s still on the internet somewhere, I’m sure.

Anyhow, long story short, we’re still together after 11 years somehow.  

One day, while chatting over IRC, we started roleplaying with anime characters.  They came from all sorts of series, from Gundam Wing, to Yu Yu Hakusho, and we just… kept doing it.  We started calling it “dating.”  She lived in Minnesota and I was in Iowa for school, so we were long distance, but every night we’d get online and “date.”  This involved coming up with random plots for these characters, and as we got into more anime series and video games, more characters would show up.  Like, “Hey, Gaara is really cool, we should put him somewhere,” or, “I’m really obsessed with Kanji and Naoto right now,” or, “Sebastian and Ciel, please.”

When I moved up to Minnesota, we got an apartment together.  One day, after she picked me up from work, we found out that our apartment had been broken into.  This included our laptops, which had the file on it we used to roleplay.  So, we had to start all over again.

That’s when things changed.

Suddenly characters were changing.  For example, we would think, “This would be awesome if it were a female lead,” and so boy characters changed to girl characters.  Then we came up with the concept of “The Storyteller,” a creature who lives in a library full of books, each book depicting someone’s life.  At some point we realized, you know, these Naruto characters aren’t really the same anymore.  We sort of… created our own characters.  Like we were still using the name “Haku” but it wasn’t really the same person.  

Then, about two years ago, she randomly wrote up a teaser chapter.  The characters were renamed, no more Ky Kiske or Gaara, no more heartless or Netherworld, because those things weren’t those things anymore.  Then I added a bit to it.  Then we sat down and made an outline.  The outline ended up creating seven book ideas.  She wrote the first one for NaNoWriMo two years ago, then I read over it and added things/took things out and jazzed it up.  

We realized, “Fuck… we have a story here.”  So she sent it to publishers.

Now we’re signing a contract with Alpha Wolf Publishing.

And thus became the dorkiest love story ever told.  The Hunters series started with us being in a long distance relationship where we would roleplay every night to talk to one another.  

To all of you roleplayers, fanfic writers, fan artists, and all that’s in between, here is my message to you.  Keep doing what you do.  Because you never know what it will turn into.  This is what it did for me.

Oh, and “Treat Me Kindly,” the book I’ve written on my own?  Use to be a Naruto fic that I never finished.  After dissecting the fic I kept the first sentence, one of the original characters I created, and two of the animals.  

Reblogging because not all of you follow my writing blog, but I wanted to share  :)