The playlist is here for your convenient viewing.

Unfortunately, the DVD recording is a DVD and cannot be turned into YouTube, not with my current knowledge and soft/hardware. But the video recording quality is not great, not at all, so you’re not missing much. In fact, I am enjoying the audio recording as much or more than watching my own self, which is awkward for me for some reason.

But next recital I will get my own video recording stuff. : P

Final wordcount: 24,492. Final pagecount: 60. Days to write: 5.

A truly gigantic chapter, in which Innes learns how to have a real relationship in a totally uncreepy way with a woman he already knows. ‘Bout time, ain’t it? I mean, there is a huge difference between realizing that your good friend is really quite attractive and you get along well and heck, why not spend your whole lives together? and stalking a pretty girl to make sure nothing hurts her. Good job, Innes. You have graduated from the totally-optional ‘creeper’ stage of life. …Now, if it was in real life, would be the time to pray for a real happily-ever-after. But since Fire Emblem is by design a fairy-tale (even if it doesn’t have fairies), happily-ever-after is pretty much guaranteed – until the sequel. : P (dun dun dunnn? …nahhhh, too much work. :3 ) Continue reading →

If you ever read Eirika’s Story, you’ll note some key differences here, mostly because this is the bit that I’m planning to rewrite. Really? Eirika dragging Seth off during a battle for some kisses? Wow. That’s just dumb. So that’s gone now. I think I am better at writing dialogue than I was five years ago (especially when I’m not using the stilted stuff from the game) and trying to think in first person view gives a slightly better set of descriptions than thinking in top-down map view. (Partly why The Tactician and the Jewel worked out so well? Because I had no maps to rely on?)

Innes is reminding me of Hrulash. I talk so much, myself, because I’m always thinking. (Whether I’m thinking about anything useful or intelligent is up for debate. :3 ) But so my characters have a lot of things to say. But when they don’t say a lot, like Hrulash – or Innes – they end up saying it inside their heads. (Which Yllamse noticed, and nailed in her recent Rifted Riders fic. 😀 ) I guess I have a thing for quiet, intelligent, snarky guys? Straight-laced-ness is optional, though. : )

One more bit, and it’s going to be (finally) 100% Innes/Syrene-y. 😀

This is some excellent writing music. Almost an hour of Baroque organ music! : D And it’s awesome organ music! It’s variations on a hexachord by Pachelbel, which I believe means that the theme is on a ground bass six chords long? Anyway, Pachelbel’s pretty inventive, if he draws it out for 48.5 minutes of this beautiful ornate… music (complete with varied registrations in this recording) on the same theme. 😀

More Fire Emblem 8 fanfiction? Whut?

See… I was working on Ephraim’s Story… and then I realized that large portions of Eirika’s Story weren’t very good. I’m going to rewrite them. But then I read Frelia’s Finest, which was my Innes/Syrene story, and realized that it, too, is not very good. So I’m rewriting it first, since it’s short and there needs to be more Innes/Syrene in the world. But it’s long enough to get divided into three parts. : P

EDIT: Also I am totally ignoring any sort of timeline, so mentions of days and hours and things probably won’t match up between stories. Not really concerned about it. I might look into that when I’m done getting the fun parts down. : P

I’m almost done the next chapter of Ephraim’s Story, so it will be up within a day, probably.

I’m so happy for Ryder Hesjedal! <3 Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! It was kind of emotional when they played O Canada in Milan. History! : D

Painting the front porch (click for larger size):

Painting the spare room:

GOING TO PICK UP MY MAIL-ORDER BOYFRIEND

Mwahahaha, guess what I’ve been doing?? I have a project called “replace the shoddy lights in my room and the one next to it”. I have new light fixtures all ready to go, and if this was a normal house, they’d already be installed. (The power’s off and everything, Mom. 🙂 )

But that would be EASY. Continue reading →