#chad chaden

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Somebody helpfully put up a hi-res version of the Iron-Blooded Orphans Special Edition OP on YouTube and that means I can finally screen-grab decent captures of one of the funniest sequences in it.

(The fact Akhiro can punch *Dane* off his feet is pretty terrifying, but hardly unexpected.)

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@givemeastroke tagged me to do this thank you ♥

rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better

i. nickname?

oh man, i have a lot of nicknames that may appear really weird to you so brace yourselves: shoushou, doudou, dandouna, shaddoun(a), shaddou, shasha, shadandan, shoudoudou, shoudou, shawshaw, weshwesh, shadon, den, don (all of these are derived from my name chaden. everyone who meets me makes a nickname for me for some reason) and also, om essisi (which means lady bug in tunisian and my grandpa used to call me that). on here people call me chad and chaddie.

ii. zodiac sign?

virgo! which i really hate but love at the same time!

iii. height?

1.64 cm (i think it's between 5'3" and 5'4")

iv. hogwarts house?

i know nothing about harry potter

v. last thing I googled?

the strokes sub reddit. i make sure to check it everyday but i don't have the app

vi. fav musicians?

the strokes (and their side projects, mainly the voidz), damon albarn, graham coxon, kurt cobain, amy winehouse, garbage (the band), the doors

vii. song stuck in your head?

right now it's 30 minutes boyfriend by julian casablancas

viii. following?

about 700 blogs but more than half of them are inactive lmao (i love spending time on old blogs because i have no life)

ix. followers?

not a lot but it's a good number

x. do you get asks?

unless i ask for them, not that much. i've been getting some recently tho and i'm really enjoying talking to all of you! keep'em coming guys!!

xi. amount of sleep?

during school day it's 5-6 hours. on other days it's 8 hours

xii. lucky number?

i don't think i know it yet

xiii. what are you wearing?

blue t-shirt and blue and green pj bottoms

xiv. dream job?

a biologist, a doctor, something related to the human anatomy

xv. dream trip?

italy. i went before and i absolutely want to go again.

xvi. instruments?

nope :)

xvii. languages?

arabic, english, french y un poco de español

xviii. favorite songs?

oh man, i hate this question.

xix. random fact?

i'm almost 18 and i still can't ride a bike. i become very scared when i try to do it.

xx. aesthetic?

rainy days, forests, beaches, nostalgic things, old photographs of flowers, neon lights.

i'm not tagging anyone tho cuz i did a lot of tag games and i feel like i'm annoying them

[aqconfessions]

I commented some ideas for the names, but for the anon here in short. Derrick; Derica/Derricka (Derri for short?) Derin(e) is also cute. Milk; real name is Dan(iel), so Danielle? Milk as nn? Chad; Chaden/Chadley, Chad as mn, C.H.A.D. Michaels

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The Ragnarök in G Minor playlist

So! Now Ragnarök in G Minor (part 19 of 20 in my Iron-Blooded Orphans post-canon fanfic series Wishing on Space Hardware) is finally posted in full, I thought I'd share the full list of songs quoted at the end of each chapter. Mainly because I used a draft of this post as a way to keep track of all the YouTube links I needed and, well, it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.

This will contain some spoilers for WoSH overall, since where applicable, I'm naming the characters the songs relate to (along with the chapter titles, which are attempts to sum those characters up in a single word). Thus, a cut, to save anyone who wants to dive into the fics unspoilered (I am completing the series with fic #20 in a week's time, so now is an excellent time to do precisely that, if you're up for joining me for 650,000 words of complicated feelings about one of the best shows I've ever had the pleasure of watching).

Wish (prologue) -- A New England by Kirsty MacColl

Loser/Eugene Sevenstark -- Some Kind of Hero by Felix Hagan and the Family

Oddball/Yamagi Gilmerton -- Parallax by Thea Gilmore/Afterlight

Minister/Takaki Uno -- Your Bones by Of Monsters and Men

Sword/Julieta Juris -- Apparition #13 by Thea Gilmore

Corrupt/Earth (interlude) -- Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Stray/Argi Mirage -- Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

Smith/Almandi Iverson (OC) -- Fight for Me by AlicebanD

Maiden/Kudelia Aina Bernstein -- Silver Lining by First Aid Kit

Devil/Kipchoge Ordsley (OC) + Mikazuki Augus -- Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio

Reconcile/Dort Colonies (interlude) -- Something For The Pain by She Drew The Gun

Noble/Gaelio Bauduin -- The Road You Didn't Take by Stornaway

Terror/Embi -- Appetite for Destruction by Vo Williams

Survivor/Norba Shino -- Rattle and Roar by Skinny Lister

Fighter/Ride Mass -- Skin and Bones by Cage the Elephant

Ally/Teiwaz (interlude) -- The Game by The Levellers

Echo/Ahmed Fahim (OC) -- Rage of Dust by SPYAIR

Remainder/Azee Gurumin -- Try by Pink

Tool/Mackenzie Croft (OC) -- Fire With Fire by AlicebanD

Friend/Chad Chaden -- I'm OK by Honest Men

Grow/Mars (interlude) -- Injuries by Skinny Lister

Mouse/Atra Mixta-Bernstein -- Gold by The Wandering Hearts

Academic/Sri Chaifin (OC) -- Mile Magnificent by molly ofgeography

Fury/Almiria Bauduin -- Fall Together by Thea Gilmore

Human/Derma Altland -- Weeds or Wildflowers by Parsonsfield

Remember (epilogue) -- Embers by Skinny Lister

Vow (epilogue) -- Get Better by Frank Turner

Commit (epilogue) -- Modern Way by The Kaiser Chiefs

Run (epilogue) -- A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel

Move (epilogue) -- Battlegrounds by Coco and the Butterfields

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Wishing on Space Hardware update . . . I never actually started counting these, did I? Oh well, never mind. An Update, of indeterminate numeration.

I just finished posting Fic #18 over on Ao3, which completes the set up for the grand finale. Mwhaha. This brings the total word count to over 476,000 words. *expires on the spot* *revives immediately because it’s still not done!*

I had originally planned not to post the final arc until I had everything ready but honestly, all my plans around timing are vague suggestions at best and have consistently gone out of the window. C'est la vie.

I’m working steadily on Fic #19, the extremely reassuringly named ‘Ragnarök in G Minor‘, currently on chapter 7 of 20 (on top of which there will be a total of 10 prologues, interludes and epilogues). Overall, I think I’ve got about a third of the writing done, and the planning/plotting for the rest is unfolding nicely, so I’m feeling good about progress -- even if I can’t actually say when it’ll be done yet.

For those wondering about the title beyond the gag about invoking another Gundam series, I direct you to this harpsichord version of Bach’s Polonaise in G Minor, with reference to music used for Gjallarhorn in IBO and the character who has been the main instigator of chaos thus far. Also Mozart associated G minor with, to quote Wiki, “sadness and tragedy”. So. Yup.

Anyhoo, I thought since it will be a fair while before I get to posting, I would share some technical details one what I’m doing with #19 AKA here is the hole I am digging for myself.

I decided to structure this story so each chapter is told from a different character’s point of view. That is, each chapter focuses on a single character and that is the sole use of their POV in the narrative (excluding the epilogues where I’m going to mix and match). This is the technical maximisation of the strict single-POV-per-section style I’ve been using throughout the series, which is hard mode in terms of landing emotional beats but does force me to make each chapter the culmination of a particular character’s development. Not necessarily the end-point of their stories, you understand, but the point at which I can say, this is definitively what the character is like under my pen.

I think I’ve worked out an order that will let me tell the story I want using this method. It involves a a lot of jumping around temporally, the narrative looping back to tell earlier events from other perspectives, but that does means I can do some quite excellent chapter cliffhangers too (yes, a man with a gun IS going to spring through a door at a dramatic moment, because sometimes you really do just have to Chandler yourself out of a situation).

And it means I can do cute flourishes like entitling each chapter using a single word I associate with a character, and ending them on a quote from an appropriate song. Which admittedly does double my workload somewhat. I’ve managed to sort out the words but I still need to find songs for some people.

For your (hopeful) amusement, I’ll list out the chapter titles and then the characters with their associated songs under this spoiler-preventing cut. Have a go at guessing which go together, if you like. Some are pretty obvious, others probably less so. Regardless -- thank you for reading if you have been!

It’s great to have had so many of you along for the ride.

Chapter titles (not in the order they will appear):

Academic; Devil; Echo; Fighter; Friend; Fury; Human; Loser; Oddball; Maiden; Minister; Mouse; Noble; Remainder; Smith; Stray; Survivor; Sword; Terror; Tool

Character playlist (likewise alphabetised to protect the innocent):

Almandi Iverson (OC) - Fight For Me (AlicebanD)

Almiria Bauduin - Fall Together (Thea Gilmore)

Ahmed Fahim (OC/it’s complicated) - RAGE OF DUST (SPYAIR)

Argi Mirage - Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked (Cage The Elephant)

Atra Mixta-Bernstein - leaning towards Gold (The Wandering Hearts)

Chad Chaden - not sure yet

Derma Altland - not sure yet

Embi [Barton] - Appetite for Destruction (Vo Williams)

Eugene Sevenstark - Some Kind of Hero (Felix Hagan and the Family)

Hirume [I should invent him a surname too] - not sure yet.

Julieta Juris - Apparition #13 (Thea Gilmore)

Kudelia Aina Bernstein - My Silver Lining (First Aid Kit)

Kipchoge Ordsley (OC/it’s complicated) - Wolf Like Me (TV on the Radio)

Gaelio Bauduin - The Road You Didn’t Take (Stornaway)

Mackenzie Croft (OC) - leaning towards Fire With Fire (AlicebanD)

Norba Shino - Rattle & Roar (Skinny Lister)

Ride Mass - Skin and Bones (Cage The Elephant)

Sri Chaifin (OC) - Mile Magnificent (molly ofgeography)

Takaki Uno - Bones (Of Monsters and Men)

Yamagi Gilmerton - Parallax (Afterlight)