Personal challenge for myself today: take an everyday event and make it sound magical.

She’s laying back on the couch, laptop in her lap with a fresh cup of cocoa at her side.  It’s been a relatively calm day, the kitten sprawled out on the futon mattress, sleeping soundly and dreaming the way kittens do.  She’s been listening to music as she writes, trying to create a whole new world that she hopes, someday, other people can become lost in.  The characters are there, they just need to travel from behind her closed eyelids to the blank screen in front of her.  

The music changes to a familiar melody, an animated movie she has seen once upon a dream.  She remembers the black and white world, the man made of paper and the lady he pursues.  "It’s Paperman,“ she whispers, "It’s playing the Paperman music.”

That’s when the magic happens.

She hasn’t looked outside in a while, too focused on her fictional characters and the world she’s trying to put them in.  The music gets to a particularly memorable part of the movie.  The papers are resting quietly in the alley, unmoving, then something wondrous brings them to life.  One is woken from its slumber, followed by another, each flowing in the wind to the beat of the music.  The writer smiles as she remembers this part and takes a moment to glance out the window.  

It’s snowing.

It’s not the harsh snow that’s seemed to plague her home as of late, not the fast and overpowering kind that makes it hard to see.  It’s the soft, gentle snow that’s falling from the sky, dusting the sidewalks and streets like powered sugar.  

She smiles and imagines that it’s paper, one of the soft flakes kissed by her red lips.

Inspired by the Paperman soundtrack playing while I was listening to music, then me noticing that it had started to snow :)

Apparently it was Adachi’s birthday?  I’ve never written anything for him before, so I thought I’d give it a shot.  Adachi and Naoto have a talk which, in turn, leads to a lesson.  

Warnings:  Spoilers for December and beyond.  Not really any pairings, unless if you want them to be there  ^^

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In case you’ve missed the news, Paperman is awesome.  It’s been posted online just in time for the Oscars, so if you didn’t get to see Wreck-it-Ralph and catch this amazing short, now you can!

After watching it again (saw it before Wreck-it-Ralph last year) all sorts of feelings re-emerged, and this headcanon was born  :)

Warnings:  Sap, no dialogue (trying to do it in the style of Paperman, which has no dialogue, and doesn’t need it whatsoever), completely implausible 

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Once upon a time before I became obsessed with the Persona 4 fandom I was part of several others.  I thought it would be fun to post old fics because, some of them, I do like the writing (which is a surprise I thought I’d cringe, lol).

So, here we go!

This is a the one and only Kingdom Hearts fic I’ve ever written, which is surprising, because I grow increasingly frustrated with the franchise absolutely love the franchise.  This Axel and Roxas story was posted on y! gallery back in 2007, holy cripes!  And that’s y!gallery, it was probably on livejournal earlier than that.  

Warnings:  Angst, sex between boys – or nobodies, if you will, though I suppose technically at this point… you know what?  Not even going to try and explain, back when this was written there was no 358/2, no Dream Drop Distance, nothing like that at all.  Also, warning to the fact that this was written five years ago, so read at your own risk because I haven’t changed anything about the story.

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Probably the shiniest Zelda book you’ll ever see  :)

So krisrix is awesome and amazing and did some lovely birthday art for her husband simongannon.  Both of them are lovely folks who enjoy my writing, so I thought I would write up some sweet sap for Kanji and Naoto for them  :)  May or may not do a smutty remix later.

Warning:  I know Kanji already had a birthday but for the purposes of this story it’s his birthday again, yay!

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Something that came to mind when watching the anime again/hearing a friend talking about his P4 Golden playthrough.  

Yukiko mentions that her and Kanji use to be friends.

Still a Kanji and Naoto story (with a whisper of Chie and Yukiko), but sometimes those two need a push.  But this time, that push comes from an unlikely source.

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A headcanon, if you please  :)

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He finds them in the back of Kanji’s closet, of all places.  Stylish, and oh so very yellow, like bright flowers on a perfect springtime day.  Kanji is standing there, blushing more shades of red than Souji’s ever seen before.  The taller boy speaks, or rather, he stutters out some sort of response, “T-they… I-I mean…” then he balls up his fists and decides that being loud is the logical route, “It ain’t what you think!”

Souji takes it in stride, having gotten use to Kanji’s aggressive dialect long ago.  He pulls the heels out and examines them, turning them in his hands. There’s a hint of some scuffing on one of them, a spec of dirt on the other. These have been worn before and they’re slightly stretched out, the owner’s feet a touch bit too large for the ladies footwear.

Kanji’s still stuttering, balled fists shaking, “… I just… t-that pageant, and…” then he stops.  There’s no point to try and explain.  Senpai is much too smart and will see right through it.  So he just stands there and waits to see what he’ll say and do. 

The last thing he expects is for Souji to set the shoes on the floor, pull off his socks, and slowly step into them.  Kanji just stares, mouth hanging open as his senpai takes a couple of test steps.  It’s a lot harder than girls make it look and his legs are shaking, but he keeps walking, heels tapping at the floor in seductive little waves that makes Kanji’s face flush for a completely different reason.  

“They’re nice,” Souji says, voice soft and understanding, as always.  He smiles at Kanji as he starts to get the hang of it, long legs more confident as he moves.  There’s even a playful swing of his hips that silently calls the Kanji, but he’s too busy staring to actually respond.  Souji seems to feel the boy’s eyes on him and he stops, the sweet smile shifting into something a bit sexier.  He leans towards Kanji, speaking again, “What do you think?”

“I… I think you’re fuckin’ crazy,” he whispers.

“And I think you’re ‘fuckin’ turned on.”

Kanji decides that if there are any regrets to be had later he’ll just blame the heels.

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Urm… so good morning, everyone!  That’s what came to mind when I saw this lovely picture  ^^;;;  Sorry it stops before it gets to the good stuff, but there’s no “Read More” cut with reblogging and I like to put that stuff behind a cut.  It’s actually the first – no, second – time I’ve written Souji and Kanji, it’s not a pairing I’ve really explored much of but hey, you gotta listen to your muses  ^^

So as I watched the Nanako episode of the Persona 4 anime something occurred to me.

Warnings:  Post game, Kanji and Naoto cuteness, Nanako cuteness, detective cuteness

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This is actually part of an email we got today about possibly self-publishing our story with a company.  Take note, kids, this is how you know NOT to go with a certain company, if they try and scare you into going with them because “only 2 percent of new authors make it with the big publishers” or “unless if you’re a celebrity or had some sort of freak accident” and things like that.

Under the cut is part of the email, because the rest of the email was basically, “This is why you should believe in us even after we just said you’d never make it ever without us o.k.?”  Just… wow, no matter how many rejections I get, I’ll be sure to NEVER give this place a try.  

Oh, for future writers or current writers, this company is called Xlibris.

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