slr2moons

Hello, my wonderful writer! I haven't participated in Yuletide since 2017, but I am so excited to be back. I see things have changed somewhat, but the core is the same! And that's to write a fic for a tiny fandom of your heart, and hopefully receive one, too. C:

My general likes: A character-driven story that makes me feel something. Love, laughter, anger, frustration, warm-fuzzies, an emotional punch to the gut! Yes, I enjoy dark!fic too, though I do ask if you go this route, please give a hopeful ending.

AO3 pen name: slr2moons
Treats are enabled! C:

Tropes I enjoy:

time travel

found family

soulmates

making friends

competence

bedsharing

the end of touch starvation

frenemies

fun AUs like space pirates or daemons or the world is suddenly always in a musical

DNW and Tropes I don't enjoy:

holiday fic (unless it has a plot)

kid!fic

head!canons I don't specifically ask for, like making a character trans or deaf

soapboxing/lecturing on an issue

non-canon ships I don't request

humiliation

the standard set of out-there nopes in fic: bodily fluids, vore, incest, torturing animals, etc

non-con or dub-con being portrayed as a positive thing

focus on worldbuilding without any or minimal characters. Please give me my characters!

On graphic sex: I am actually an asexual, so bland sex scenes make me do a puppy head tilt. It's the emotional connection in them that I enjoy! Be it love or hate, show me how much the encounter means to our characters and I will absolutely melt. C: By all means, include the sexy tiems if you want, just give me that emotional punch and I will be 100% on board.

On gen fic: yes please! I love a good gen fic! Companionship is awesome, and I love to see characters living their best friendship and adventure and dramatic lives!

If you have any questions, do please ask the mods to ask me, or leave a comment on this post. You don't need to stress in uncertainty! I hope you love writing for me. <3

And now, my fandom specifics! In alphabetical order. *winky face*

青のフラッグ | Ao no Flag | Blue Flag (Manga)
Characters: Mita Touma, Ichinose Taichi

Please tell me the story of how Touma and Taichi become romantic. The manga's final chapter was glorious, but I'd love to see how the two of them ended up together. Or how Taichi came around to thinking of Touma as more than his friend. When did Touma decide he loved Taichi as more than a friend? Their first kiss? Their first date? Please give me your idea of how it happens! If you don't ship them romantically, then a sweet friendship story would be lovely. Maybe when they were kids, or expanding on when they first met, or maybe hanging out together as ex-friends who want to rekindle their friendship. Honestly, please give me a story about these two somehow, someway, somewhere! AUs are welcome, but please make the focus on their relationship.

Fandom specific DNW: no other ships with these two. Please show them together or single. One or both having an ex is okay, but don't focus on that past relationship please.

DNW exception: a fic set when both guys are kids is great, but please no adopting-a-kid or mpreg or them parenting stories.

巨乳好きなのにＢＬ界に転生しました | I Got Reincarnated in a (BL) World of Big (Man) Boobs (Manga)
Characters: The Title God, Onizuka Ryuji, Otokawa Nagare, Sakura Haruko

I heard about this manga online when I saw some panels from it and instantly became hooked. I pounced on vol 1 the moment it was released in NA, devoured it while howling with laughter, then immediately read it a second time right after, and a third time about a week later. I love how irreverent the manga is, how the story plays up the BL tropes and has so much fun with them, and the Title God's persistence in making the ship happen. If you love writing crack and comedy, then this is the fandom for you!!

The Title God is my favorite character. I'd love a tale of another of his attempts to make the Otokawa/Onizuka ship happen. As of vol 2, we have yet to have an onsen storyline! Or a birthday for one of the guys! Or put your own spin on more crossdressing, a themed cafe, going skating, or any typical manga date ideas! LOL

If gen stories are your thing, then consider walking me through Otokawa's awakening as an isekai'd otaku in a bishounen body. How did he react when he saw himself in the mirror? What is his isekai'd home life like? Does he go back to his previous otaku life, and what happens then? Does Onizuka follow him back to our non-BL world, and what does he think of everything?

I do enjoy how Otokawa makes no pretense about his love of big boobs and using his wonderful new face and body in their pursuit. He admits he's a jerk, with the occasional soft side that comes out, despite his determination to remain focused on his boobs goal. Deep down he is a good person, he's just a teenage guy who IS obsessed with boobs!

Sakura's devoted fujoshi self is a source of delight for me. Do keep her around!

And sweet Onizuka. The manga hides his face so often when Otokawa shows some affection. Please show his POV! What were his thoughts when Otokawa "rescued" him from the falling glass in chapter one? His inner uke is adorable, and my favorite moments are when he's blushing so cutely and overwhelmed by Otokawa's seme force. That kiss in the fake wedding storyline--tell me more!! Does he deliberately dress to entice Otokawa with his gloriously plump man-boobs? Is he secretly crocheting a gift plushie for Otokawa? Go crazy!

My ideas above are mostly comedy, but I would welcome a serious or dark story, too. If you include non- or dub-con, please remember my DNW and make it NOT a good thing, and keep a happy or hopeful ending.

Fandom-specific DNWs: the hamster. He can be mentioned, but please don't focus on him. Also, please don't Flanderize Otokawa.

Temeraire (Naomi Novik)
Character: Iskierka

Iskierka became my favorite character from the entire series about five minutes after she hatched. I love her diva nature, her drive for prizes and profit, and how devoted she is to Granby. Okay, yes, she tried to marry his gay self off to a completely foreign Empress, but just think of all that GOLD he'd have now if it had worked!!!

What does she do, after canon? Does she try to marry Granby off again, this time to a random prince or rich nobleman? Perhaps she starts her own fancy cow breeding business, after stealing some Kobe Beef heifers from Japan! Or maybe she has a new adventure on her way to join Temeraire in Australia, or on one of her other off-page journeys we don't see. Maybe she ends up with a sad rowboat as a prize, and finagles it up to a massive fortune??

On a more serious vein, what about her future Captain, after Granby is gone? Does she pick Granby's future consort, so she can have the best odds for a good Captain? How does she talk him into it, or maybe it's his idea? Or does she go full rebel, leave the service, and do her own thing? Go pirate, maybe?

Please give me a story of Iskierka living her best life. Ideally with lots of gold and jewels, and being the splendid diva she is!

Fandom-specific DNWs: Don't focus on Napoleon, and especially don't ship him with Laurence or Granby.

DNW exceptions: Given how dragons eat, Iskeirka nomming on a cow or other NON-HORSE animal for dinner is fine, just please don't linger on the animal's suffering. But no horses, even if it is canon! Please! Also, kid!fic here would be welcome if it's about one of Iskeirka's potential eggs, or finding a successor to Granby. Writing about Granby's interludes with an OC or canon woman for the sake of that successor is all right, though not too much focus on awkward het sex for the poor gay man. :C

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Thank you so much for writing for me, and I hope your Yuletide is wonderful in every way! :D

Um....hi, guys. *waves sheepishly*

So...I see it's been over three months since my last post. I'm sorry, if anyone has missed me. The past few months have been a non-stop scramble with work. When I'm super-stressed, I withdraw from social interaction--including posting online, and all I really want to do is sleep, eat, sleep, sleep, and sleep some more. And when I'm sleeping ~12 hours a day, including naps, it doesn't help me get any work done. *sigh*

The fun every-other-weekly write-ins I've been doing this year ended before my last post, and I do miss them. Again, if it weren't for the weekly-weekly walks with Mab and Sno, the only actual people I'd have conversations with in these months would be my regular grocery store checkout woman and the Fed-Ex guy. (The same guy has been bringing me my Viz stuff since I moved here. We're on a first-name basis.)

Those of you who Yuletide have probably noticed I stuck to my guns and didn't sign up this year. It would have been my fifth year, but...given my already heavy stress levels, I think I made the right choice. I followed the Yuletide coms and threads on FFA and such for a couple weeks, but I had to stop. It was too painful to see everyone having fun and chatting, while I was just watching and knowing I really shouldn't sign up this year. It was easier to cut it all off. I haven't arranged any write-ins for the Portland area. I hope someone else is taking care of that. *wistful sigh* And I also stop reading my friends list, to avoid all the painful Yuletide cheer.

Yes, today I loaded my friends page for the first time in a month and a half. I don't know if I'll ever manage to read everything I missed, but I'm going to try.

I'm sorry my sadness of forcing myself to skip Yuletide kept me away from all of you. Checking my friends page has been part of my daily routine for years, but I let it fizzle away. And I remember when I had to force myself to post only once a day. ^^; I miss those fun days of LJ, when my traffic stats showed I had 50 different visitors a week!

I want to post more. I hope you'd like to read more. C: I'm going to try.

I've missed everyone. *hugs*

Greetings, everyone!

Yuletide fics went live on Christmas Eve (which was midnight UST), and I was pleased with my own gift fic. Once again, my assigned writer wrote for a fic early in my fandom's alphabetical list. C: (There's definitely a pattern here. '11: DOGS, '12: Blacksad, '13: Basara, '14: Claymore.)

Yes, I received my Clay fic for Isley!! XD It is short and sweet, and I am happy with it:

fandom: Claymore
title: And I Am Undone
author: still anonymous until the 1st
genre: Adventure
ships and characters: no ships, a gen fic; Isley and Rigaldo
length: 2,306 words
rating: PG for canon-level violence
summary: Isley had never intended to rule over the North. He’d only wanted to do his duty.

Please swing by and give it a read! C: The title is the link.

And then, a day later, imagine my surprise when I received a treat for Yuletide Madness! (Madness is a companion collection to the main one. It remains open until the 26th, and is for optional fics (not assigned) less than 1k words, or longer fics not finished in time to go into the regular collection.)

My lovely treat fulfilled my perpetual House of Five Leaves request, at last!! \o/ I was delighted to see it, and even happier after I read it. It's very good.

fandom: Sarai-ya Goyou (House of Five Leaves)
title: Tonbo-giri
author: still anonymous until the 1st, but I'm pretty sure I figured out who it is. :3
genre: Drama
ships and characters: Masa/Yaichi
length: 3,666 words
rating: PG for canon-level violence
summary: After meeting with Monji in the woods, Yaichi comes back to Katsura-ya and hopes to be left alone. He's used to not getting what he wants.

Again, please give it a read! Both of my gift fics deserve more love. :3

I'll post with info and links to my own stories on the 1st, when authors are revealed and we can freely talk about our fics. C: Once again, I didn't write a Yuletide hit, but I am happy with how my fics are doing. The manga/anime fandom one in particular is being well-received. Yay!

Greetings, my flist! All ~5 or of you or so who, like me, are still on DW and LJ and check it regularly. ^^

I haven't said much here lately, and I admit, it's b/c everyone else is on FB and it's nice to say something and start a dialogue. *sigh* I so miss this platform's glory days. But I should stop contributing to the problem by not posting here, and post more! Ha!

Okay, so...here's an update on what's happening in my life.

Tl;dr: Not much, as usual.

( Longer version within! Work, Yuletide, car, health, living arrangements, misc, and entertainment. )

I guess that's it for this long update. It feels good to talk to you guys again! Please leave a comment, if you have anything to say or ask. C:

These days it's all work-work-work for me, but in this bought of Work Hell, I gave myself two days off. The first was for book club, and the second was for queenie-mab's Halloween party. Which was last night!

( Party summary! )

I came home with full intentions to work (I did a pink Voice page before the party, actually!), and I sat in front of my computer monitors, checked my email, blinked, and 45 minutes had vanished. I was SO TIRED. I flopped in bed a good two hours early. ^^;;

This morning I only slept in a little, and made myself exercise for real. I did a loop through my residential neighborhood and walked one minute, jogged the next, walk, jog, etc. Half an hour long, and I didn't cheat! But OMG I am so out of shape. *wince*

I've been pretty much a zombie (and not in the fun costume way) all day. The running on top of exhausting myself yesterday at the party has really put a dent in my productivity. I'll finish my Clay daily quota tonight, but it's gonna be tight. At least the pink page for the day is done. Poor Voice has to wait until tomorrow. Again.

I signed up for Yuletide!!!! XD This is the one fanfic exchange I let myself participate in every year, and those of you who have been around a while know how much I LOVE IT. My letter has been public for about two weeks. You can find it here! I would not object to a treat or three...

I'm requesting the full six fandoms, as usual. Four manga (all which I've lettered!), one movie, and one short story. I've been stalking the sign-up stats so far, and only the movie, the short story, and one of the manga titles has anyone offering to write. It's early days yet, though! (But now I think about it, poor Clay didn't have any offers last year. That will probably be true again this year. I suppose I'm the only English-language Isley fan...T.T)

Last year I went crazy and offered to write for 28 different fandoms. This year, I'm keeping things under control. I've offered only 10 this year (7 anime or manga, 1 live-action, and 2 comics). But TBH I'm reconsidering the live action and one of the anime titles. I'd like to see the letters for those, first.

I've made a promise to write at least one treat in addition to my assignment, and I had a flaily fit of joy today when I read someone's letter and FOUND IT! The request I want to treat!! *flails more* I've been wanting to write a fic about that character for several years, and they were requested by someone whose fanfic wishes seem to mesh well with me!!! Ohhhhhhh!! XD

I am SO excited. I am offering this canon, though, so there's a slight chance I could be matched to this person anyway. Which would mean my treat would become my assignment, and I've have to find a 2nd person to write for. ^^;; But I'll deal with that if it happens, which it probably won't! This fandom is a Yuletide fave, and always has a ton of offers. That means low odds I'll be matched. *clutches her treat's notes file to her breast* I have another episode to take notes on, then find the corresponding manga chapters and read those, too. Heeeee! :3

YULETIDE! I LOVE THEE SO!!!!! But for now, back to work. I need to finish my daily Clay quota. (Alas, Isley I miss you. If only you were still alive...)

ETA: OMG, someone offered to write Clay!! *tears of joy* Thank you, kind writer, should you see this!! I am delighted by the possibility of receiving Isley fic this year! XDDDD

Today I read the most recent (legally available) chapter for World Trigger, number 45, and I just had to laugh. Not at any specific event in the chapter, but that one of my predictions was right. I knew the SneeBas made sense!! *preens* I suppose there a slight chance the mangaka borrowed the idea from me. This chapter would have been actually drawn no later than the week of Christmas, and storyboarded at least a week before that. If he'd read the chapter Christmas Day and immediately pounced on the idea, maaaybe it could have happened. But it's highly unlikely. Besides, I prefer the idea that great creative minds think alike. :3 *preens*

Speaking of, here's my official announcement for my Yuletide fic this year!!!

title: Family Lost, Family Found (Plus One)
fandom: World Trigger
summary: Arashiyama Jun and his squad meet a new and nasty Neighbor on their first away mission to the Neighborhood. Jun's soul is broken, but a new friend helps piece him back together.
characters and ship: Arashiyama Jun, Jin Yuichi, Izumi Kouhei, Tachikawa Kei;
genre: action-adventure, suspense, bromance or pre-slash :3
rating: PG-13 for language
length: complete at 18,381 words because I can't write short fic to save my Yuletide sanity
setting: after chapter 42

You can read it at AO3 and at FF.net. I'll post it to Skyehawke and Lunaescence eventually. I keep forgetting. :B

Do please leave a comment, review, and/or kudo if you enjoy the fic! :D

( And now, my introspective on 2013, and hopes for 2014. )

I finally made time to visit the salon. My rather ridiculously shaggy hair has now been tamed once again into a cute cap. My hairdresser was new (to me), and an amazingly friendly and bouncy woman. She hugged me! XD I had this silly grin on my face the whole time she was working on me. We kept making each other laugh. She about died when I told her how easy it was to make cranberry sauce. "You buy a can, open it, and pour it into a dish." She loved that. XD What a cheerful, genki woman. C: She also swears I look and sound like I'm in my 20s, which I chose to believe she was honest about. *laughs*

Most of you know, I live in a shell of sorts. I don't pay much attention to the news. Once upon a time, I read the daily headlines from the NYTimes, but that takes time and concentration, and I eventually stopped. (Though I still skim the books issue. :3) To give you an example of how cloistered I can be, I had no idea about the whole government shutdown thing earlier this month until it came up on webcomics. :B

I'm tired of being out of the information loop. I know US media can be really skewed *cough* Fox News *cough*, and I wanted something streaming, so I could listen as I work. My cousin R-chan always reads BBC News for a larger viewpoint on the world. I did some googling and found a site that streams BBC World news. I'm pretty sure it isn't an official stream, but it works for me. C: And hey, thanks to it being BBC and my adblock--no commercials at al! :DD

This is my third day of listening to the news for about an hour, and I'm really enjoying knowing more about what's going on, particularly the stories that have stretched over more than one day, like Thailand going batshit, and the China Sea island dispute. Very interesting.

Back to work for me! Oh, and I added about 100 words to the Yuletide fic. First scene is nearing rough-draft-complete status. ^^V

I would like to invite all of you to read my contribution to Yuletide 2012 Small Fandom Fic Exchange!

( An intro to how I learned about Ghost Hunt and a little about my fic-writing homework. )

title: Something in the Silence
author: slr2moons
fandom: Ghost Hunt
genre; rating: Suspense, Gen, Friendship; PG-13
summary: Lin is a quiet but integral part of the dynamics that make up SPR, something driven home as they investigate the bold youkai that haunts Mai's neighboring apartment.
legnth: one-shot at 11,305 words
setting: after the anime/manga vol 9
special thanks to: My three beta readers, saladbats, knastymike, and stariceling, all three of which found different things for me to polish. Thanks so much, guys! *hug*
read at: AO3 - FF.net - Lunaescense - Skyehawke