#KUNZOI FOR LIFE

[mahesiyah]

Rainbow crystal who?

All I see is a fight to the death over Ami

[mahesiyah]

They will definitely be boinking tonight.

today is the only day you can reblog this

[random-mailbox]

Random-Mailbox's Favorite Sailor Moon Fics - Week 38 - What If

This week’s stories are all around “what if” theme as suggested by @areptiledysfunction1107. Even though technically all fanfictions can be classified as that, these take an extra step making that part of their plot. Also, don't forget about @usamamoweek2023!

As always, my apologies in advance for spoiling some of these for you (Fic Titles are linked to either FFN or AO3 entries).

What if - @idesofnovember

I could not have had a “What If” list without this story. Usagi canonically always wants Mamoru (and everyone else around her) to have a chance at making their own choices and not be bound by destiny. One day she bring it up with Setsuna, who makes her learn her lesson the hard way that the timeline should not be messed with. 

Fantasy - Lois Fogg

This one was recommended to me by Beej88 and is a fun AU that has magic, parallel worlds and constant questioning of what would happen with every decision. One thing to note, this story was almost sold to a publisher with changed names, so you may notice a few stray “May”s for “Minako” here and that's the reason why. Totally worth checking out though!

Space Bar - Beej88, @smokingbomber

In this short story, mostly told from Joey (Jadeite)’s perspective, readers get to see the dynamics get tested for Shittenou to come back into the fold of the guard. I love the fact that we get Kunzoi and Kunzite x Venus possibilities all in one story. 

[side note: make sure you are logged into your AO3 account to access this story, it has been locked down with all the scraping and reposting on other platforms without writer consent]

The Chances We Don't Take - @floraone

The entire one-shot is Mamoru thinking about things he should have done differently when it came to his and Usagi's relationship and past interactions. All the points where if had said something or done something, where it could have led.

To Save a Light - @queenrisa14

Little Mamoru had basically given up. He knows that he is all alone and that there is no one waiting for him to get better and out of the hospital. Except that one special nurse explains that every person has a light inside of them, and that letting it shine brightly will help him find a new family and someone very special, whose light will make his shine even brighter.

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That's it for this week and the month of May! Here is the schedule for upcoming posts for June:

June 5 - Missing Scenes

June 12 - Green Jacket

June 19 - Dr Chiba

June 26 - Birthdays

Here are the links to the previous Tumblr posts in these series to explore more amazing works based on different themes - make sure to check them out if you haven't had a chance! (Click on title name to go to the post) - I will keep updating the list every week as new posts come up:

Week 1 - Groundhog Day

Week 2 - Established Relationships

Week 3 - Sex Positivity

Week 4 - Unfinished Stories

Week 5 - Darker Stories

Week 6 - Potions 🧪

Week 7 - Reveals

Week 8 - 👻Halloween🎃

Week 9 - Wrong Perceptions

Week 10 - Non-Senshi AU

Week 11 - In-Progress Fics

Week 12 - Mutual Pining

Week 13 - Enemies to Lovers

Week 14 - Slow Burn

Week 15 - Christmas Part 1 - Ugly Christmas Sweaters and Santa!

Week 16 - Christmas Part 2

Week 17 - New Years

Week 18 - High School AU

Week 19 - Slice of Life

Week 20 - Coffee shop AU

Week 21 - Huddle for Warmth

Week 22 - Friends to Lovers

Week 23 - ❤️Valentines Day❤️

Week 24 - Do a Grouch a Favour Day (or Cheer Up Fics)

Week 25 - Soulmate AU

Week 26 - Amnesia Fics (and resources)

Week 27 - 🍀St Patrick's Day🍀

Week 28 - Fix it Fics

Week 29 - Prompt: Mug

Week 30 - Flowers

Week 31 - Traditions

Week 32 - Dreams

Week 33 - Friends

Week 34 - Body-Swap

Week 35 - Medical Assistance

Week 36 - Sex Pollen

Week 37 - Psychometry

[usamamoweek]

Meet the Mods!

What username(s) and platform(s) can folx find you on? (Please include links!)

Hi, folx! I'm Lillie Bell. I can be found on AO3, and all my shenanigans happen on tumblr @lilliebellfanfics

(Fun Fact) What is your favorite kind of potato?

Waffle House hashbrowns -- smothered, covered, and capped

How long have you been creating works in fandom spaces? How long have you been active in the SM fandom?

I'm one of the OG crew from when the internet was young (lol). I wrote SM fanfiction as a teenager during the era of Alicia Blade, ASMR, etc., I had a short stint in as the writing mod in the SML LJ community, and have recently returned to writing fanfiction, mostly smut, after a long hiatus. I also write for Seven Deadly Sins when I'm not completely lost in SM.

What type(s) of creative works do you usually make? (fanfics, digital art, cosplay)

I cannot draw to save my life or take a good picture, so I am solidly a writer only. I am super impressed by folx who can work in multiple mediums. Words are hard enough, so that's what I stick too :D

What do you enjoy about creating for the SM fandom?

I love the joy & support the community has for each other as well as the diversity of ships and people in the fandom. For the characters, there are so many facets to play with and explore that I never feel like I'm done telling their stories. There are so many more situations to put these babies in!

Are you strictly UsaMamo or do you create for other pairings as well?

I write more UsaMamo than any other pairing, but ReiNako are my grumpy x sunshine queens and I love them. I've also delved into writing KunZoi recently and love their dynamic as well. I'm very much ship and let ship, so I enjoy reading pretty much any ship, but I can only write a pairing/poly that I feel I have a good grasp on. Hence, usually UsaMamo, ReiNako, and sometimes KunZoi.

What inspires you to create works for Usagi and Mamoru?

All the feels (lol). I have specific facets of their personalities or backgrounds that I love to explore. I love to mess with Mamoru the Orphan and how that shapes his decisions & personality (good and bad), and how he evolves with that background over time. I love happy-go-lucky Usagi who is just out in a world being herself, falling through life and living it to the fullest, but also has these big responsibilities and rises to every call.

Do you tend to work on multiple projects (WIPs) simultaneously or try to finish one at a time?

I have multiple WIPs right now, but I tend to be very focused on one at a time (for better or worse). I don't like leaving things not done, so multiple WIPs starts to grate on me to just get it done.

Do you prefer large projects (chaptered fics, webtoons/zines, highly detailed art) or small projects (one-shots or simple art)?

I like one shots / smaller fics where I can hint at how we got here or how the future might look after, but the focus is one small moment between the characters. That said, I currently have two long fics I'm working on... because reasons. XD

Are there any common themes, situations, tropes, or mediums in your work?

I write fairly broadly between dark, smut, and some fluff. There's usually a comedic edge, so it's not 24/7 serious (I'm not that person if you noticed ;D ). My favorite tropes are forbidden love/romance and the banter of grumpy x sunshine. There are definite themes but they may not always come through. For Mamoru, I like to put him in situations he isn't prepared for and help him make bad decisions. I really enjoy playing with his connection to Earth / Elysion and his strong sense of loyalty/duty to Usagi, as well as his shitennou. For Usagi, I think her friends treat her too delicately and, even though she's a bit silly or not totally organized, she will show up for her friends or the world when it's in trouble. I like to play in that space where she is unexpectedly mature b/c Usagi is a quintessential example of a person who doesn't have her shit together, she's not perfect & that's okay, and she can save the world just as she is. MF QUEEN.

I bring these elements into my other pairings--they are pretty common dynamics. KunZoi and ReiNako are facets of grumpy x sunshine and love vs duty/honor. So, I do like to push the characters into uncomfortable territory and then see how they respond. Rei always raises to the bait. Kunzite will crumble... eventually (if mechanical bulls are involved).

Is there anything you haven’t explored artistically and would like to try?

I've done a little bit of everything in my tenure in the fandom, but I think I'd like to produce a few more chaptered works, but not excessively long (6 chaps vs 20). I seem to be strong in either the one shot category or long fic category, but not in between. So that's something I'd very much like to work on for my own sanity.

[mahesiyah]

These two. 💕

I FINALLY have a contribution to the “favorite ship dynamic” discussion 😤 bonus points for Orange going apeshit if Purple gets hurt

[a-cup-of-fantasy]

just for fun, snippets of three fics I’m working on below the cut (all of them sailor moon, since that’s been the current fixation for over a year now). they’re not edited, but I wanted to share them for anyone interested, and since I can’t decide which to focus on first

first, a story about the moment the shitennou left endymion in the golden kingdom:

The whisper at his ear was so soft he barely registered it before he was pushed down to his knees.

“I really am sorry about this.”

Kunzite’s hand on his shoulder was heavy, and all Endymion could do was twist around to try to look at him, to see—he didn’t know what he wanted to see, just desperate to find something that would explain this madness.

“What are—?” Endymion tried to ask, but found that he stopped despite himself when he saw Kunzite’s face. There was no emotion in it he could discern, just dull grey eyes and an expression as blank as a block of stone or a wall of ice. People often compared Kunzite to such, but it had never been true. Even without his powers, Endymion always had been able to see the feelings on his face, although it may have been subtler than most.

And, when Endymion tapped into those powers and focused on the feelings he should have been able to sense through the weight of Kunzite’s hand holding him down, it was as if there was simply no one there at all.

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second, a continuation of the last chapter of What Dreams May Come:

When he looked up, the stranger was looking at him again, with a strange expression on his face. “Are you sure we haven’t met?”

Sasha shook his head. “I don’t think that’s possible. I mean, I only just moved here, so it would have to have been in the past couple of weeks, and I think I would have remembered meeting you. Although…” He couldn’t shake the feeling that they had met somewhere, somehow. “You do seem familiar. Ever been on TV? Maybe I saw you there.”

That got a laugh from the man sitting across from him. “God, no. That’s not the life for me, I prefer to stay out of the spotlight when I can help it.”

You’ve certainly got the looks for it, Sasha thought, but didn’t say, because that would be too weird to say to the man who he’d only met not half an hour ago. Instead, he said, “Guess it’s déjà vu.”

“I suppose it must be. Or we met in a dream.”

Sasha laughed. “Yeah, maybe that’s it.”

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third, a snippet from the third chapter of the shitennou time travel au I started last year:

“I have no idea why she cared about him so much. I mean, she didn’t care if we killed any of the Sailors, so why did she want us to bring Tuxedo Mask to her so badly?”

Kunzite blanched as Zoisite spoke, and Jadeite watched as his eyes widened as if he’d had some horrible epiphany. His grip on Zoisite’s arm must have tightened, as Zoisite turned to him with a questioning expression. “...Kunzite? Is everything okay?”

“She called him Endymion.” Kunzite’s voice was a hoarse whisper, and the words he spoke spilled from his lips like they were being forcibly drawn out of him. “She brought him back… Metallia made him her puppet like she did us, and she called him Endymion.”

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okay I lied here’s a fourth, a snippet from a dark kingdom kunzoi getting together fic that is probably fluffier and sillier than it should be:

The Dark Kingdom was not a place for love. It was not a soft place, not one that valued affection, not one where it was safe to care for another, for you were always too aware that the next day could bring a sentence of death in its myriad of forms. Love, affection, trust: all weaknesses to one’s place in the order of the kingdom. And yet somehow Kunzite had found himself falling anyway. He, the man with the heart of stone, the ice king, Beryl’s most loyal general, had fallen madly—and it truly must have been a madness—in love with his fellow general, a man with a tongue sharper than the blades he fought with and a temper to match.

This was unacceptable.

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other sailor moon fics I am currently working on include: a fic of the moments beryl took control of each of the shitennou, a few different kunzoi short fics, a full golden kingdom story, and my college au that isn’t actually a college au, it’s complicated. the last two of these I have been very slowly plotting out over the last year and I have So Many Thoughts on them

[sparklezoi]

Written by anon request, this is a light, fluffy smut involving Kurt and Zarah on their second wedding anniversary. Meant to fit into Rare Pair Week, but yeah, I'm a little late for that. Enjoy anyway!

[mahesiyah]

@smlgbtqweek Day 4: Twist

Anatomy is hard. I bet Kunzite’s anatomy is hard right now

Seriously, practice makes perfect. When I first saw the daily themes for this year’s LGBTQ week, I knew that I had to draw out this idea.

For their weekly Dark Kingdom Game Night, it was Zoisite’s turn to choose a game — and so he picked Twister. Nephrite was the first to be disqualified, followed by Jadeite.

After several minutes of both Kunzite and Zoisite staying in the game, it became apparent to everyone that Zoisite had his own special motivations for choosing Twister… 😉

[eyes-of-euphoria]

Okay, so I finally made a picture inspired by my beloved Kunzite and Zoisite from Sailor Moon! This can be like any vision of their innocent third life :3 

Special thanks for whereyoursoulresides and sparklezoi for keeping me in KunZoi-nowadays-adventures-mania by their awesome fanfictions <3

[whereyoursoulresides]

YAAAAASS this is so beautiful!!! Thank you so much for this amazing commission!! 😍

A Retro/90s Kunzite x Zoisite (from the  Sailor Moon anime) drawing for @whereyoursoulresides . Thank you very much for your commission!💝

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[merinnan]

My Fics

Updated 25 April 2024

~ - in progress

^ - on hiatus

A Court of Thorns and Roses

~^ A Court of Azeroth and Prythian  (crossover with World of Warcraft) - feysand, Amren/ACoTaR!Varian

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

The Death of Zoisite - KunZoi

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Getting to Know You - Priss/Linna

Chen Qing Ling/Modao Zushi/The Untamed

Blanket Fort Love Language series: (modern AU)

          Do You Want to Have a Blanket Fort?  |  AO3 - Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang, background NieLan

          Blanket Forts are the Best Wingmen  |  AO3 - NieLan

~ Nevermore  (Pacific Rim AU) - XiCheng, background SongXiao, historical 3zun, Jiang Cheng & Wen Qing

Qinghe Jue  |  AO3 - Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang

Daomu Biji/The Lost Tomb

100 Ways to Do a Fox - PingXieSang (with xantissa)

All’s Fair in Love and Tomb Raiding - PingXie, Zhang Qiling & Hei Xiazi, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling & Chen Pi Ah Si (with xantissa)

The Ballad of Bugnado - filk

Beauty from Pain (crossover with Granting You A Dreamlike Life) - HeiHuaSheng (with UtterlyClueless)

~ The Care and Domestication of Prickly Kittens - Liu Sang & Iron Triangle

Cat’s Paw series (with xantissa):

          Cat’s Paw - PingXieSang, Iron Triangle, Iron Triangle & Liu Sang, Jiang Zisuan & Liu Sang

          Cats and Dogs - Jiang Zisuan & Liu Sang

          A Very Memorable Birthday - PingXieSang

          Braids and Other Evils - PingXieSang

Catch and Release - PingXieSang (with xantissa)

Darkness and Light - HeiSang

Echoes of Those That Were - PingXieSang, background PingXie (with Alxina and xantissa)

Fur and Loathing - PingXieSang (with xantissa)

It’s a lovely day in the tomb, and Yóu is a horrible shibie

Just cared too much - HeiHua

Light in the Shadows series (with xantissa):

          Those who fear darkness have never seen what light can do - PingXie

          Shine a little light - PingXieSang

Losing Me Is Better Than Losing You - HeiHua

Love, like a beam of light, dispels darkness - PingXie (with xantissa)

~ Network of the Heart series (space opera AU) (with Alxina and xantissa)

          Refuge

          Scavenging Hunt - Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie

          Wake Up Call

          Sleeplessness - Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling

          Sword and Board - Iron Triangle

          Additional Services - pre-relationship PingXie, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie

          Cabin Fever - Iron Triangle

          Meeting the Family - Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling

          Lost and Found - Liu Sang & Zhang Qiling, Iron Triangle

          Cat-Eared Bots - Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie

          A Nightmare on Yun Cai - Liu Sang & Wang Pangzi, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi & Zhang Qiling

          The Opinions of Ships - Liu Sang & Zhang Qiling

No Sleep ‘Till Morning - Iron Triangle & Liu Sang, background PingXie

Of Mountains series (with xantissa):

          Of Mountains and WeChat Statuses - Liu Sang & Zhang Qiling, background PingXie

          Of Mountains and Foxes - background PingXie, pre-relationship PingXieSang, Iron Triangle

          Of Mountains and First Dates - PingXieSang

The Path to Paradise series (with xantissa):

          A Knight in Bloody Armour - PingXie, pre-relationship PingXieSang

          The Path to Paradise Begins in Hell - PingXie

          Living with Inlaws - background PingXie, pre-relationship PingXieSang

          Ghost in the House - background PingXie, pre-relationship PingXieSang

          Can’t Help Falling in Love With You - background PingXie, pre-relationship PingXieSang, Iron Triangle & Liu Sang

          Where Angels Fear to Tread - Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, PingXie

          All Good Things - PingXieSang

Perchance to Dream - PingXie, Iron Triangle (with xantissa)

Related Calamities series (with xantissa):

          Ears and Other Related Calamities - PingXieSang

          Of Foxes and Mushrooms - PingXieSang

Seventeenth Scar - PangXie

Silent Graves - Iron Triangle

Stand in the rain, stand your ground - HeiSang (with xantissa)

Stars fall like diamonds  |  AO3 - PingXie

Still Waters - PingXie (with xantissa)

~^ Tenebrae Aeternae - PingXie, Iron Triangle (with Alxina and xantissa)

Under the Fur - PingXie, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie (with xantissa)

Unlearn the Way Of Being Strangers - HeiHuaSang (collab with multiple authors)

Wu Xie and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - PingXie (with xantissa)

The Zhang Identity - PingXie, Zhang Qiling & Wang Pangzi (with xantissa)

Granting You A Dreamlike Life

Beauty from Pain (crossover with Daomu Biji) - HeiHuaSheng (with UtterlyClueless)

Guardian/Zhen Hun

Apricity - KunWei

The Cats Travesty - WeiLan, background DaMian, crackfic

~ The Rescue Job  |  AO3 (Leverage AU) - WeiLan

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

…And A Little Dressing (crossover with Star Trek: Voyager) - Dukat/The Doctor, crackfic (with Occy)

The Big Bang - Sisko/Dukat, crackfic (with Occy)

Deep Spuss Nine - Kira/Dukat, crackfic

DS9 Drabble series:

          When The Drabbles Came - crackfic

          Day Of The Drabbles - crackfic

          Drabble Nor - crackfic

          Attack Of The Killer Drabbles - crackfic

          A Drabble A Day Keeps The Doctor Away - crackfic

Endings and Beginnings - Sisko & Dukat

Inherited Memories

Indiscretion

Jil Orra  (crossover with Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Pictures in the Sand

The Story Formerly Known As ‘Covenant’ - crackfic

The Story Freya Made Me Write (crossover with Hello Kitty) - Sisko/Morn/Zek/Hello Kitty, crackfic

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Jil Orra  (crossover with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Picard’s Secret - crackfic (collab with multiple authors)

Star Trek: The Original Series

There Is No Pain - Spock & Scotty & McCoy

Star Trek: Voyager

…And A Little Dressing (crossover with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Dukat/The Doctor, crackfic (with Occy)

World of Warcraft

~^ A Court of Azeroth and Prythian  (crossover with A Court of Thorns and Roses) - feysand, Amren/ACoTaR!Varian

Other

Princess Kitty (Puss-in-Boots retelling) 

[adriannasharp]

For the Fanfiction Questions Thing: 1, 7, 13, 29, 31 and 43!

1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Depends on what you mean by involved. When I first got into fanfiction, I believe my main fandoms I read were Inuyasha and Sailor Moon but I don’t know if I would say I was super involved in the Inuyasha fandom. Granted, I wasn’t super involved in the Sailor Moon fandom either but I definitely read and commented on more fics in the Sailor Moon fandom. It wasn’t until the last few years that I got really involved in the fandom and got to know people. 

7. List your NoTPs from each fandom you’ve been in.

The only real NoTPs I have are in the Sailor Moon universe. The rest of pairings in other things I just kind of shrug and let people enjoy their stuff. See below for my Sailor Moon NoTPs.

13. Any NoTPs?

Usagi x Seiya and Kunzite x Zoisite. I could just never get into either. I could maybe see Usagi x Seiya in some of the other canon but definitely not in the 90s anime where most people tend to ship them. I just think Seiya is far too self absorbed and doesn’t give Usagi the space and support she needs.

For Kunzoi, I just don’t get it. I never understood them as a couple and didn’t see reasons why they would be drawn towards each other. I can see Zoisite having an immense respect for Kunz but I don’t really see it going farther than that. 

29. Do you have a beta reader? Why/Why not?

I never used to until I started doing bang challenges. I didn’t have people in my life who understood the writing process or how to give feedback on it. Once I got involved with the fandom though, that all changed. I’ve had a few wonderful betas over these last couple of years and I don’t know how I managed without one. Actually, I do. My fics were much shorter back then and didn’t need as much critiquing. Now that I’m going to longer fics, my betas have been a huge blessing. Especially to @minakosaino, cluckster, and YOU Charlie. Minakosaino in particular has been such a blessing for beta-ing my first hefty (for me) multi-chapter fic of Love Letters and Loathing and for inspiring/beta-ing an upcoming slow burn fic. Seriously, if you don’t have a beta, get one. They’re amazing for soundboarding, helping with plot ideas, flushing out ideas, and telling me where I’m missing info. ALL OF THE LOVE FOR BETAS!

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

I cherish absolutely every single compliment and they make me so happy. And I wouldn’t say the following is necessarily the nicest thing anyone has said about my writing but it’s definitely my favourite. My artist, @lyrhia, who I’m working with on this year’s bang, has been the absolute sweetest and is taking screenshots of our Google doc and sending me margin doodles about her feelings. Seriously. LOOK AT THESE!!!

How can your heart NOT melt seeing these amazing doodles!!!

43. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

SOOOOOOOO many. This senshi x shitennou corner of the fandom is so freakishly talented!! @coppercrane2 you, of course! You effortlessly weave prose and I am in awe of it. @caffeineivore for the way she can build worlds and characters with just a few perfectly chosen words. @venuscrescent for her absolutely breathtaking introspection. @ellorgast for being able to paint such vivid worlds and characters so masterfully. commas_and_ampersands for the ability to just reach into my heart and crush it into a million pieces. ALL OF YOU ARE SO TALENTED!!!!!!

[sakkarose]

I really like yaoi apparently LMAO

Theres a youtube vid that recently came out called What Your Favorite Sailor Moon Ship Says About You and its funny and accurate af

“your ideal date is getting tutored” can’t believe I’ve been called out like this in my own home

[a-cup-of-fantasy]

okay so I swear I’m still working on the crystal tokyo kunzoi fic (the undiscovered country), it’s just that this next chapter is more “getting all the characters introduced and in the right places” which is not something I find easy to write. it’s still coming, it’s just taking a bit.

more detailed rambling about it under the cut (including a snippet) in case you care about extremely minor spoilers for this fic? also, if you ever want to hear more about my thoughts on any fic I've written or mentioned, I can guarantee I have many that I will gladly share.

I’m planning to get everything set up in this chapter so that I can timeskip to the actually interesting to write down part. this basically means I have to introduce all the shitennou, have them all meet, while also establishing zoisite & kunzite’s friendship with definitely no romantic feelings involved.

unfortunately, this means this chapter might be quite boring, particularly since it's just so much talking (I don't know why I keep having conversations happen in restaurants), and yeah, I am going to skip a lot of the slower building relationship stuff, simply because if I don't I will literally never finish this fic.

anyway, extremely unfinished and unedited snippet:

“You have to admit I’m right though. I don’t know why you’re so stubborn about this.”

“I’m not stubborn.” Kourosh sighed. “…You’re right, and that’s the worst part. You don’t have magic, I don’t have magic, so why are you always right about this? And don’t say ‘the stars know all’ again.” 

Nathaniel shrugged. “Well, what do you expect me to say? It’s not like I know any more than you.” 

That was fair, actually. Nathaniel’s gift for creating unnervingly accurate horoscopes was something no one had ever been able to explain. He’d been tested for magic in elementary school, same as everyone else, and had shown up as absolutely nothing. No magic at all. And yet, if Nathaniel told you he had a feeling, you listened. And when he’d discovered astrology, he became even more certain about those “feelings.” Despite his distaste for the ambiguity of horoscopes, Kourosh had to admit these were worth listening to. 

Continuing, Nathaniel said, “That’s part of why I asked if you wanted to get lunch, actually. Something strange was showing up for you that week, and I guess I now know what it was.”

“Strange?” There hadn’t been anything strange about Sasha. Really, the dreams he’d been having were far more strange, but he hadn’t had them in a couple of weeks now. 

Nathaniel shrugged. “I don’t know. Something, or someone, was supposed to come into your life, and it was important in some way. That’s all I have for you.”

[whereyoursoulresides]

[Invisible Ink, Chapter 1, Pages 1-3]

Finally got around to cleaning up photos of my pages and inputting text! The original is on Twitter (in Japanese), and I’ll be keeping an English translation thread on both Twitter and Tumblr - it just might be posted with some delay, as it takes me some time to process these pages. Hope you all enjoy!

[kasienda]

#14 & 20 😘

14. It’s 11pm and you need to wake up at 6 in the morning. You just saw the perfect fic. It’s complete and it’s 50K. What do you do??

I’ve actually timed myself reading for pleasure. I read at about 350 words/min when I’m relaxing. I figured this out so that I could know approximately how long any story would take me to read. (Yes, I’m that much of a nerd). At eleven at night (which is bed time for me), I’m USUALLY pretty good at avoiding anything more than 10k. I WILL totally read a 10K story at 11pm (especially if I haven’t spent any time on myself that day), which takes about 30 minutes. Worth it! At ten pm though, all bets are off! If I find the story at ten, I usually start the 50k story, promising myself (I even mean it at the time) that I will totally stop when eleven rolls around. But then I never do!! I just keep reading! And yes, I’ve stayed up way too late on school nights on multiple occasions to finish a good fic! (Much to the irritation of my husband). I’m worse about it when my motivation has been low or have been feeling depressed. Fan fiction is one of my coping mechanisms to spend time on me, feel other people’s feelings instead of my own, and hopefully recharge enough to get back to a good place where I can be somewhat self-disciplined. Haha! So if I’m really low, I’m way more likely to stay up way too late! 

20. Which idiots do you want to read falling in love?

Within the Sailor Moon fandom, my OTP is definitely UsaMamo. Like I seek that out constantly, I write that constantly, and I tend to be pretty loyal to it. The only non-UsaMamo pairing I will click on no matter what is KunZoi! I might be more picky here IF there was more of it, but it’s rare enough, that if I see it I READ IT! Generally, if UsaMamo is coming up dry - where I can’t find something, I enjoy a good senshi x shitennou story. And if an author has proven themselves to me with a UsaMamo story, and they have senshixshitennou in their works, I will gladly explore that. Interestly, I have a hard time getting into the yuri senshi pairings. I’ve tried. Clearly I don’t mind male on male partners, and I even seek them out (even dabbled into Harry x Draco stories in Harry Potter fandom before), but I struggle to get into yuri (though yuri fanart?!! I LOVE THAT!!). What does that say about my own sexuality I wonder… I’m not into girls emotionally? But emotionally boy love is hot? But female characters are more visually attractive? (Like seriously, in real life I notice women more than men). I don’t totally get it honestly. I love female characters!! And I have loved exploring feminist themes in various works!! So I feel like I SHOULD be into these pairings! I don’t totally understand why I’m not. (I do enjoy slipping them into the background of my own stories though. Apparently, it can earn me some flames! And those are the best kinds of flames to get! Because it means I’ve pushed someone’s buttons who I wish was more accepting! Hahaha!) I’ve also been cheating on the Sailor Moon fandom a lot lately and I’ve been reading a lot of Miraculous Ladybug (a french cartoon that is totally inspired by Sailor Moon amongst other things). Because it’s a relatively new fandom for me, it’s really easy to find some amazing stories because there’s three years worth of content still to sift through (whereas, I tend to come back to Sailor Moon once every few weeks, to try out new gems, but I’ve read a lot of the older things). This fandom I love reading stories about Marinette x Adrien in all their forms (the fandom refers to it as a love square because they each have a dual identity and she’s in love with his civilian self while he’s in love with her heroine self, and they keep dancing around each other… leads to all sorts of shennanigans. Everyone has different preferences for which set of their identities ends up being the ones to connect). This fandom is also, on whole, as obsessed with the Reveal Trope as I am! So, that’s fun for me!!