#Kantapup

[greentrickster]

Listen, if it’s been established that two men are in the ultimate ‘It’s Complicated’ relationship, and also that one of these men washes his clothes naked in a river at nighttime, what am I supposed to do? Just not include an intensely homoerotic scene where he’s doing this under a full moon and the other guy sees him and is struck by what a beautiful picture he makes like this in a fanfic I’m writing about them? That’s not how fandom works.

[greentrickster]

sitting in another corner of the party, furiously typing a mass text on my phone “They don’t know about pomegaverse but they’re going to”

sitting in a corner at the party thinking “they don’t know about pomegaverse”

[greentrickster]

Ever write almost seven hundred words of world-building you really like, only to realize that it’s getting the story entirely off-track and keeping any of it in just won’t work? (deep sigh)

Maybe I’ll be able to add some of it elsewhere, or just put some of it in an author’s note at the end of a relevant chapter...

[greentrickster]

Snacks for you!

🍉🥐🌭🍔🍿🍝🍪🍰🍫

I- I've been blessed! Blessed with snacks! So many tasty snacks! And all things I genuinely like to eat! So many lovely snacks!

(Green Trickster gained +20 to writing power, +20 to joy, +10 to whimsy (maxed))

Thanks for the ask (and the snacks)! <3

[greentrickster]

In a strange, horrific slap in the face of all that's good and the structural integrity of the universe itself-! ...I'm posting a chapter early in the morning instead of mid-afternoon. Pretty sure the majority of my readers for this fic are ahead of me time-wise anyway, soooo...

Anyway, Hinaichi's here now! Surely nothing will go wrong and no one will be embarrassed or have their naked skin inadvertently revealed to the night sky or anything of the like!

[greentrickster]

OKAY, so, got the first five chapters of Kantapup written, the next three planned, three in the later/end middle roughed out, the last four mostly written/roughed out, and a handful of ideas for other scenes planned. This AU has been going for six days. It’s over 14k words so far. It’s been interwoven with my previous TVDINT fics. This is the power of trained but uninhibited ADHD.

TL;DR: I have decided to solve the current canon Kannagi angst by playing my ‘Clergy’ card in conjunction with my Nagiri card for the synergy bonus, then activating a spell card to turn Kantarou into a Pomeranian. Finally, I flip my Man-Eater Bug card and use its effect to destroy the ‘Mysterious Creepy Kid’ card, then place the trap card Trap Hole in case my opponent plays ‘Returning Sire.’ I don’t even know if I’ll complete this fic or not but, by god, I’m leaving that nonsense to Bonnoki to sort out, I just need the guys to be safe and happy and reunited and have friends.

[greentrickster]

...all my TVDINT fics are consolidating into a single, unified setting, and, given what the first one is (some slightly humourous slightly soft M-rated RonaDora fun), what the next four are (Clergy/Bob character studies and interactions), and what the current one I’m writing is (which is me accepting that the only way to fix things after chapter 316 is to turn Kantarou into a Pomeranian, trust me, I’m a professional), it does feel just the tiniest bit absolutely buck-wild.

But I guess that’s the TVDINT setting for you. (shrugs)

[greentrickster]

What's In A Name?

Kantapup chapter 4 is up!

And this time it'll definitely be all clear communication, smooth sailing, and Kantarou being absolutely besotted with the perfect, kind young man who is Tsujita-san (who has never done a single thing wrong in his life, ever)!

[greentrickster]

Hiatus announcement, the English-speaking fandom seems to be hibernating for the most part at the moment, which is fair (it's been a few months since any new content), so I think I'm gonna join them as well. (crawls into a coffin and freezes into a solid block of ice)

[greentrickster]

Chapter 3 - Check Out These Buns!

If I had a nickel for every time the wifi at home has gone down for the day before I can update Kantapup I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice (and annoying that it happened two weeks in a row).

[greentrickster]

Another night in Shin-Yokohama, another antic, which is how, in his on-going quest to reunite with Tsujita-san after that night helping out Tsujita-san's manga-ka friend, Kantarou has somehow found himself in the form of a small fluffy dog. Not ideal, but perhaps a blessing in disguise, because this might just be his chance to finally find his absolute best friend in the entire world and patch things up between them! And absolutely no secrets or inconvenient truths or delusions will come to light while he's doing this, at all! Definitely.

[greentrickster]

Oh hey, Nagiri's arrived in the fic! Time to begin a tale of perfect communication and Kantarou understanding exactly what's going on at all times, same as always, hooray!

...okay maybe only the Nagiri bit's true, but hey, Nagiri's here, hooray!

[greentrickster]

(closes chapter 42′s Word document, opens file, adds chapter title to file name, saves it, and closes Word)

There, I’m done, it’s done, that only took six eternities (aka, one month and eighteen days) to finish in its entirety! I’ve now written the whole thing, reread the whole thing, edited the whole thing, and titled all forty-two chapters! All that’s left is to start posting next Tuesday, after which it’ll be updating on a weekly basis until it’s done!

And start typing up chapter 172 of Saturation so it’s ready for its fourth birthday on the 16th. A story I can finally, properly start focusing on and writing again now that the last vestiges of Kantapup have been laid to rest within the hollows of my skull, in the tidal chasms of my mind.

(collapses on the floor like a limp rag and weakly adds this fic to my list of lifetime accomplishments in the ‘first time I’ve ever started and finished something so long so quickly.’)

Listen, if it’s been established that two men are in the ultimate ‘It’s Complicated’ relationship, and also that one of these men washes his clothes naked in a river at nighttime, what am I supposed to do? Just not include an intensely homoerotic scene where he’s doing this under a full moon and the other guy sees him and is struck by what a beautiful picture he makes like this in a fanfic I’m writing about them? That’s not how fandom works.

[greentrickster]

Whew, almost done with the reread/editing/chapter-title-ing, just three chapters left to go, and it’ll be ready to post! So probably thinking of starting that next week, maybe on Tuesday? (Tuesdays feel like a good day for this fic to be posted and updated on, for some reason.)

Listen, if it’s been established that two men are in the ultimate ‘It’s Complicated’ relationship, and also that one of these men washes his clothes naked in a river at nighttime, what am I supposed to do? Just not include an intensely homoerotic scene where he’s doing this under a full moon and the other guy sees him and is struck by what a beautiful picture he makes like this in a fanfic I’m writing about them? That’s not how fandom works.

[greentrickster]

Okay, two days of rest: had! Next step: reread the entire thing and come up with titles for all the chapters, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from writing Saturation, it’s that any fic over twelve chapters long needs individual chapter titles. It just does. For everyone’s sake. Including mine. Saturation’s probably not getting them until it’s done, it’s just too big for me to go back and do it now without having to do a major hiatus, but Kantapup’s still young, there’s still time for it-!!!

Anyway, chapter 3′s now called ‘Check Out These Buns!’ because I know my target demographic and their sense of humour in this fandom.

Listen, if it’s been established that two men are in the ultimate ‘It’s Complicated’ relationship, and also that one of these men washes his clothes naked in a river at nighttime, what am I supposed to do? Just not include an intensely homoerotic scene where he’s doing this under a full moon and the other guy sees him and is struck by what a beautiful picture he makes like this in a fanfic I’m writing about them? That’s not how fandom works.

[greentrickster]

And the final chapter count is: 42! That is forty-two chapters I wrote between June 16th and today, July 19th, that’s forty-two chapters of a minimum of 1.4k each in thirty-three days, I am triumphant, I am exhausted, I am going to go sleep for six eternities, reread the whole thing, then start posting it sometime late this month/early next month (we’ll see) on a weekly schedule.

In the meantime, however, as mentioned, I’m exhausted, I’ve never written a story this long this fast, I’m not sure I’ve ever written anything this fast, I guess I hit the sweet spot combo of inspiration, ADHD, and unemployed for mental health reasons. Very proud of myself, would not recommend the experience though, my brain feels like the colour grey.

Anyway, I’ll message anyone who wants me to when I finally start posting, and I’ll also post a link to the first chapter and it goes up!

Listen, if it’s been established that two men are in the ultimate ‘It’s Complicated’ relationship, and also that one of these men washes his clothes naked in a river at nighttime, what am I supposed to do? Just not include an intensely homoerotic scene where he’s doing this under a full moon and the other guy sees him and is struck by what a beautiful picture he makes like this in a fanfic I’m writing about them? That’s not how fandom works.