#genmitsu writing

[lalaurelia]

Akutagawa finds Atsushi's strength attractive. He has an unusual way of showing it.

For SSKK week.

[foxlady3]

Fanfiction Ask Game

I was tagged by @lalaurelia. Thanks, this was fun!

At what age did you start writing fanfiction? 40.

Who is your favorite author? I wish this was a Top Twenty list, that would definitely be easier. I shall name two:

Terry Pratchett, whose Discworld novels and Bromeliad Trilogy (Truckers, Diggers, Wings) are excellent. His stories are full of humor in the face of adversity, satirical, great storytelling, compellingly quirky and memorable characters. The pinnacle of fantasy to which I can only aspire.

P.G. Wodehouse, writer of the stories featuring the cheerful hair-brained Bertie Wooster and his brilliant, unflappable manservant Jeeves. Loved them since I was a child, and incidentally a great education in 1920s slang. So incredibly funny. Bertie or one of his pals gets into a fix, Jeeves figures out how to bail them out again, a tried and true formula with endless silly variations that never fail to entertain.

What is your favorite fanfic? I need a Top Fifty list for this one! I've read so many wonderful fanfics that they've almost ruined regular books for me. Here's four:

Filigree by Hunger4Righteousness ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6878198/1/Filigree  ) A retelling of the Megamind movie, mostly behind the scenes action involving Roxanne, so it's a lot of absolutely awesome stuff. Riveting. Rated M.

The Overlord's Lady by @joanhello2 ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10224583/1/The-Overlord-s-Lady) A divergence from the movie in which Megamind, instead of creating Tighten, begins meeting with Roxanne as he struggles to deal with his remorse, and consequently becomes a true leader of the city. Superb worldbuilding, great action. Rated M.

Dreams of Lace and Satin series by @pamdizzle (  https://archiveofourown.org/series/1024157 ) Collection of Gotham fanfics. Oswald begins a journey of self-love and acceptance, with a little help from his collection of male lingerie, and builds a loving relationship with Jim Gordon. It is glorious. Sweet and sexy. Mostly rated E, some works in the series rated M.

Imagination Infection series by @lalaurelia (genmitsu on AO3) (  https://archiveofourown.org/series/1060598 ) Another fabulous collection. It starts out with some anonymous sexting between Oswald (unaware of who is really on the other end of the line) and Jim (who is completely aware), and quickly expands from there. True confessions, hurt/comfort, guilt and angst, heady passion, the works. Ratings vary from T to E.

What tags do you avoid like the plague? I tend to avoid tags with Nygmobblepot, and Death of a Major Character.

What AU do you wish to write but feel like you won't manage?  I haven't done many AUs, but sometimes I get the urge to combine Gotham with the Hunger Games. A herculean effort beyond my energy levels.

What has been your favorite story to write so far? Stepping Out, my teen Megamind tale. There's a lot of fun stuff in there, and it was my first major multi-chapter story. And for the Gotham fandom Cease-Fire was a lot of fun, though it gets a little angsty.  Has a happy ending!

Do you prefer to write one-shots or multi-chapters? Why? I feel I've gotten a little better at one-shots, but they constantly keep trying to grow into much longer tales. I prefer multi-chapters, mainly because it gives me more time to tell the story.

What is your favorite kind of comment? All comments, but I especially love it when someone mentions one specific thing that they thought was funny, or something that struck a chord, or just liked.

Why did you start writing fanfiction? Why are you still writing it? It all started with the Megamind movie. While searching online for news of a sequel (sadly not forthcoming) I stumbled across LiveJournal and discovered the wider world of fandom. Growing up, I was a lonely girl geek, and I never even heard of 'fandom' or 'fanfiction' or 'shipping' in my entire life, until Megamind and LiveJournal came along. I was forty years old. Perhaps it was a midlife crisis, but if so, it hasn't stopped yet.

I adored Megamind and Roxanne, was blown away by the stories and art, produced by regular people just like me, which were heartfelt and brilliant. Ideas came to me. I wrote them down. I started writing stories to go with those ideas. And it has continued from there. I am still writing fanfiction because I love it, even when it's hard, and I love the characters about whom I write. When Gotham came along I was seized with similarly powerful feelings for Oswald Cobblepot as for Megamind (in some ways they’re very different, and yes I realize Oswald is an unrepentant murderous little shit, but I love him anyway) and when I saw the Gobblepot tag on AO3 my immediate response was YAS THIS IS MY SHIP, and I began getting story ideas for the Oswald/Jim pairing as well.

I tag @elf-kid2 @pamdizzle @sunlitroom @joanhello2 @thegreenfairy13 and anyone else who would like to join in. (I’m sure I’m overlooking someone...)

[butterfliesandresistance]

Summary: Oswald wants to show Jim something. It's not what Jim expects - and it's going to bring some changes in their relationship. Yes. It's exactly as cheesy as it sounds.

@lalaurelia and I somehow ended up writing this crack fic, inspired by this. Yes, yes, it’s a real product, I can testify that. :)) 

[dailyjapanesephrase]

厳密に言うと、トマトは果物です。 - Technically, a tomato is a fruit.

厳密に言うと、トマトは果物です。 (Genmitsu ni iu to, tomato wa kudamono desu) - Technically, a tomato is a fruit.

厳密 (Genmitsu) - Strictness, closeness (na-adjective: strict/close)

に (Ni) - Particle to make a noun/na-adj into an adverb

言う (Iu) - To speak

と (To) - “If” particle

トマト (Tomato) - Tomato

は (Wa) - Topic marker

果物 (Kudamono) - Fruit

です (Desu) - Polite present copula

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厳密に言うと could also be translated as “strictly speaking,” and in fact that aligns up rather closely with the Japanese translation as well.

There are a number of “set phrases” with 言う like this (簡潔に言うと, kanketsu ni iu to, to put it briefly; 簡単に言うと, kantan ni iu to, to put it simply). It’s not uncommon to write these without using the kanji for 言う either, just in hiragana (~にいうと).

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[lalaurelia]

Chapter 12 is here.

Please mind the 'Canon-Typical Violence' tag.

[lalaurelia]

Chapter 10 is here.

Ahhh, miscommunication~

[lalaurelia]

Atsushi had to spend a whole week without Akutagawa. When he finally returns, things get very heated.

For SSKK week.

[lalaurelia]

2024 Fic in Review

It's this time of the year when I do this thing with my fics again. It's going to be a bit different now since I unexpectedly have two fandoms I've written for, wow. Also I'll be including all languages (and extra creations such as games) in these stats.

Here goes~

total number of completed stories: For Gotham it's 7 fics, 1 game, and 1 minigame, 1 CYOA, 2 collages for a fandom event. For Bungou Stray Dogs it's 6 fics that are completed and 1 that's still ongoing.

total word count: For Gotham it's 33323 words. For BSD it's 18791.

fandoms written in: Gotham and Bungou Stray Dogs. I did NOT expect to have a new fandom this year. But I was feeling very low after the fandom event in summer, so BSD and Shin Soukoku were a godsend for me.

looking back, did you expect to write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? Honestly? This wasn't a good year for creativity for me. I was working very hard to release the game, then there was that fandom event that drained me completely, on top of work and world events keeping happening. I kinda hoped I'd write something, but I suppose it's a small miracle I wrote anything at all.

what’s your own favorite story of the year? This is kinda hard. I guess I'll name Pierced, because it was the one that pushed me into writing for BSD, it was very insistent in my mind and wanted to be out.

did you take any writing risks this year? Yeah, writing for Bungou Stray Dogs XD It's been ages since I've written for anime fandoms, and like, before Gotham I was convinced I had no writing skills. And I was worried if maybe all my skills were Gotham-induced. But I like what I've managed to write for BSD so far~

do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year? I never know what is meant by profit goals here XD For fics I hope to finish at least some of my WIPs, and maybe participate in an event, if it's nice. I'll be staying away from Fandom Kombat though, likely, it's demotivating for me.

best story of the year? I do love how Kisses Communication turned out.

most popular story of the year? For Gotham it's Pieces. For BSD it's Marks and Meanings. Both splendid choices, if I do say so myself XD

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Oh no. I can't be objective here. I'll name Dogs Bite, but it was a completely self-indulgent story so I'm not surprised it's not to everyone's liking.

most fun story to write: A Solo Act was plenty fun to write~

story with the single sexiest moment: A Solo Act, yes.

sweetest story: I suppose it's going to be What Dreams Are Made Of. It's a bit sappy, but why not XD

“holy crap, thats wrong, even for you!” story: Yeah, I'm traditionally skipping this one. There are no wrong things in fiction. Write whatever the hell you want, just tag it correctly.

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters & most unintentionally telling story: Not sure about telling, but I love finding new sides to both Akutagawa and Atsushi in Seekers, Finders. It's an interesting journey and I'm curious where it will lead~

hardest story to write: Not sure. I have troubles with Gotham's Of Lilies and Borrowed Clothes, but that's due to it being a case-fic and also an experiment in a thing I wanted to try, plus a lot of specific research and a bit of being discouraged.

biggest disappointment: I shouldn't have participated in Fandom Kombat as it sapped my motivation way too much. Like, I know that for Gotham I write for myself, predominantly, but it was still very discouraging. Also I got tired of writing in Russian for it.

biggest surprise: How big a surge of inspiration Bungou Stray Dogs turned out to be. It's like being on fire, and also being insane. I love it. Shin Soukoku saved the remainders of my sanity this year and I'm so, so grateful for all you guys who read my writings~

I don't know who to tag at this point, but I'll be curious to see if you guys do year reviews of your stories.

[lalaurelia]

Akutagawa enjoys leaving marks on Atsushi. What if he finds a mark he's not sure is his?

For SSKK week.

[lalaurelia]

So the scene where Akutagawa bit Atsushi was stuck in my brain. I think Atsushi should masturbate about it.

[lalaurelia]

Time for chapter 9.

There's a certain development~

[lalaurelia]

Terribly sorry, but the next chapter of "Seekers, Finders" will come at a delay.

I'm having some difficulties with it as well as some personal issues.

Here's hoping I'll be able to finish it tomorrow.

[lalaurelia]

Continuing the somewhat inconsistent tradition of posting fic on my bday. Hope you enjoy this.

Jim, Oswald, and a conversation.

[lalaurelia]

Here's chapter 13.

Libido mortido something something, you know the drill~

[lalaurelia]

Finally, chapter 11 is here. Sorry about the delay.

They're more of a mess than they thought.

[lalaurelia]

Jim has a new case with a connection to Oswald. He also wants to be connected to Oswald. Must be spring at work.

Or, a bit of a case fic with some flirting included. Hope you like it.