We're finally getting into the hawt action, to the long awaited Ichigo VS Ulq! <3
And what do the asshole executives do? They'll put the FILLERS rollin'. >____________<;;;

Pisses me off, big time. Bleach was the only anime I've been regularly watching anyway, since I haven't been following Naruto at all since they started rolling fillers months back. Guahh. >_<

The epi had some good stuff in in too. Seeing Ryuujinjakka in action is always awesome, Stark was even cooler than usual, they showed Rukia <3 and the beginnings of the above mentioned hawt action.

I managed to get myself an appointment for the hair dresser for a week from now, so I'll be able to get my hair in order for the con... It's so soon! :o

I should be writig both Chain and TT, but I don't feel like iiiitttt~ :x

- Chie

My animecon costume is by this declaration finished!

Pic 1,Pic 2,Pic 3,Pic 4!

I can find many faults in the costume though, since I become quite the perfectionist when cosplaying. The sleeves aren't wide enough, the red tatters lining the yukata are too thick and the hem of the costume is too short.

And I feel like I'm showing too much of my legs. xD You can even see the leg of my shorts if I'm not careful! And the shorts are very, very short indeed. >.> I bought them just for the purpose of wearing them under this costume to prevent myself from flashing my panties. xD

All in all, I'm still happy to say that I've finally made a cosplay all by myself from a scratch, and it looks good. :3

The convention is in a few weeks, 11th-12th of July. I already asked my friend to take some pics of me with his fancy camera. ;D

I also might have a Kon keeping me company on Sunday. :p

- Chie

My costume's coming along slowly but surely. At present I only have left the cloak and then I need to sew the sleeves and hem to look like it's torn. Choosing satin for the lining was good idea since it feels nice against my skin, adds a feeling of luxury and most importantly - it was cheap, but it'll fray like hell so I need to be careful when sewing the hem to look tattered...

This is how the costume looks so far: Pic!

I wore it for a few minutes and I can already tell I won't be enjoying too much having it on. xD It's rather hot, the white canvas is surprisingly heavy, the collar is awkward and disturbs me... And once the sash was on, it became rather obvious that I was at least one and half cup bigger than Rukia. I still won't bind my boobies though, even if someone would again come to ask me if I had stuffed my bra. The costume will be uncomofortable enough with the scythe, walking around barefoot, trying not to sweat like a pig despite feeling hot and the heaviness of the costume, not to add an extra layer beneath it all to make my boobies flat and to make myself feel even more uncomfortable.

Tomorrow I'll be leaving to the middle of the forest. xD On Saturday it's the Midsummer, which is largely celebrated here in Scandinavia. (Scandinavia meaning the cultural area, since Finland isn't actually part of the geographical area...)

I think that's all for now then.

- Chie

My cosplay costume has got the sleeves on it. I'm currentli battling against the collar. If lucky, I'll finish the collar tomorrow.

I actually finished TT ch 14 already. I'm rather happy with it. I even made a friend of mine to read it through to get an opinion out of it. And since she read it all on one sit (8000 words) without having read any of the story from before and without knowing anything about Inuyasha either and still found it good, to you my readers the chapter must be great. ;D I haven't updated it yet, since I want to get further into chapter 15 before I post ch 14 (ch15 has currently 1600 words down).

I'm having a bit of a trouble with TT again, on keeping up the suspense (mwahahaha >:D) so I've been working on Chain instead.

Chain's processing rather regularly, So far I've been managing a pace of one chapter per week, about. What surprises me are the stats numbers for Chain. Well, to be frank, Chain's stats numbers piss me off. Not because they'd be bad, because they're not.

No, I'm pissed off because Chain seems to be liked. Logical, isn't it not? Chain, so far, is quite your average, general sesskag fic. There's nothing that original in either the plot or the set up. Still, it has soon almost the same amount of alerts than TT, which has been around since 2006. TT, which is much more original and carefully planned. Meh.

Let's compare, shall we?

Tables Turned - Chapters: 13 - Words: 109,404 - Hits: 15,865 - Reviews: 112 - Favs: 66 - Alerts: 102

The Chain of Love - Chapters: 3 - Words: 14,143 - Hits: 3,511 - Reviews: 60 - Favs: 36 - Alerts: 90


So yeah, I'm just whining away since I myself like TT better and am very attached to it, more attached to any of my other fics since it's been around for so long. I guess I'm slightly disgruntled that there are a lot of fics similar to Chain out there, in my opinion at least, but none quite like TT. But I guess the people then want to read the general, average fic. Meh^2.

Cranky writer complaining, feel free to ignore.

Oh well. I'll twist Chain around soon enough. I have plans after all. EBIL PLANS!

Though I suppose I should try to get around to TT too, it's getting so good.

Chain will be updated tomorrow with Chapter 3. (I'm so far ahead that I've already started writing chapter 5 O_o How very rare for me, to be ahead the posting. I guess it's the summer holiday.)

Anyone up to buying me a new computer with a 2,4 GHz processor so that I could buy myself the Sims 3? The system requirements are just insane. >_<

- Chie

Wow, I seem to post to this blog a lot nowadays. That's weird.

Dokuga Awards' winners were announced. As I already had guessed, Tabled Turned did not place. I am very grateful for being nominated, even though I knew I would not place.

Oh no, not I.

Sometimes it really pisses me off. Sometimes it makes me wonder what am I missing?

I think I'm a good writer. I have a group of readers, some of them even call themselves fans of mine, and I love that group dearly, many of the readers that have been with me since the days of FM seem like old friends to me. <3

But it pisses me off a bit every time I see a fic that has got a lot of reviews and/or attention. And when I start reading that fabled fic I sometimes think to myself that it's not that good. That some of my stories are actually better.

Now, I know that sounds bad but don't get me wrong. I do not have a Sesshoumaru-syndrome. I am not arrogant and I do acknowledge that there are a lot of talented authors out there much more skilled at their work than I will ever be.

But sometimes I just can't help but feel that my stories, even though they have their own loyal circle of readers, don't quite get as noticed as they would deserve.

I recently was reading a fic that had over thousand reviews. My most noticed work stands at mere four hundred. That fic was good. It had some very good and original ideas in it and some very good twists. But I found some parts very naïve. Some decisions were just bad in my opinion. And there were somethings that were just plain wrong too. And I'm not even going to the naming of some of the minor original characters in the story...
Still. This fic had like 4 times the reviews than my lil' old FM.

So it made me wonder. What am I missing? Why aren't my stories as recognised even though I feel that they're at least as good as some of these more recognised works?

Is it because I take my time with my chapters? With TT, I certainly have, because for that fic, I write exeptionally long chapters.
Also, TT is a very special fic. I started it in December 2006 and still it remains incomplete on this very day, and there are only 13 chapters to it. During the year 2008 I did not update it once.
When I started TT, I was in my final year of upper secondary school. In the spring I had my graduation exams. Then I went to driving school. Then I had my entrance exam for the university. Then I had a summer job. Then I was accepted to the university. I moved out from home. I was getting used to the university. Then (in January 08) I got myself a boyfriend. And he left me in last November.

All this has happened since I began to write TT. My whole life has changed. I have changed so much that I can barely recognise the girl who started to write Tables Turned, in December 2006.

But guess what? The Story goes on.

As does life.

- Chie

As I mentioned in my last post, I put Chain's prologue up yesterday on FF.net! (I'll publish it in Dokuga too, but before I will I'd like to get a bit better started with it.)

Thus, last night Chain debuted, and the response this far has been positive. While only having odd 250 hits, Chain has got 11 reviews, 7 favs and 18 alerts. I know, it's nowhere near to the better writers of the fandom, but I think that it's quite good of just a prologue. What's better, it seems that as many as 14 of the 18 on the alert list are new readers! (I compared it to the list of people who have me in author alerts.)

What has made me really glad is that people do seem interested and most of my reviewers at least find the idea quite original. <3

I'm glad. I showed the prologue to Dah-chan as well and she seemed to like it, saying that it has potential.

Anyways, I need to run now since I've beenn invited to my friends' graduation party.

Toodloos~

- Chie

I put out the prologue of my new story project "Chains" today in FF.net, as a test. I want to see if people are interested with it before starting properly at it. The basic idea is somewhat a cliché, Sessmom wanting to see her hooligan son settling down. But I think it'll get a bit more unique as I get going. Or how many fics have you read of Sess and Kags being actually chained to each other? Not many, I hope. I also have evil plans concerning Kagome, math exams and Sesshoumaru in the modern day.

I'm also juggling with TT, of course. Ch13 is about 6400 words long. I know mostly what I want to do for the rest of the chapter, though I'm still not entirely sure yet of how I'll get around to it.

Plotting and plotting. What could be better? ;D

- Chie

THIS here is now the new look for this blog of mine!

I'm having a day off from sewing, just to calm down my nerves. I thought that I could try to work on my fanfiction today. If I'm as productive with TT as yesterday, I might as well update the fic during this very week. :3

I stayed up till past 4:30 AM >_> The weirdest thing was that when I was finally going to sleep, my mom was already up and about. Seriously, I just don't understand how she can manage getting up that early. Sure she goes to sleep early too, but still... o.o

Anyways, I'll be off before I start rambling. ;D

Let's try and write more for TT! ^___^

- Chie ♥

Whew.

Like usual, things started out simple enough and then got completely out of hand. xD

I wanted to change the theme for this blog, because I got annoyed at not having the "edit entry" link at hand. So I started to browse the different themes, finding none to my liking. (Well okay, I did find one, but couldn't get it with my free account...)

Then, with my cousin's help I realised that I could actually tweak the colours and such of ready themes, if I just chose one that would be editable.

So I set out. I tried with two themes before this, but I liked the layout in this the best, even though I can't get a picture to adorn this page in this theme. :/

But after tweaking the colours and fonts, I'm rather happy with the outcome! At last. It's 2:30 AM and I should sleep...

EDIT, 4:30 AM: changed my mind and switched the customised theme over to my personal blog in stead since I figured I want to get a background image to this blog after all. Anyways, I'll get back to tidying this blog later, I really need so sleep...

- Chie

PS. After watching today's Bleach I had to admit to myself that I seem to have become a Stark-fangirl...

Cosplay

I feel like screaming. I'm frustrated, stressed and highly irritated.

And I hate sleeves. HATE them.

I got to sewing, and I did okay, until - you guessed it - I had to sew on the sleeves.

I've never been too good sewing sleeves on, really. With this costume I've now tried it twice, each attempt came with equally bad results. The shoulder and the sleeve look awkward. The sleeves sewn on all weird and what's even better it is too tight for me around the upper arm. >_<

So I've concluded that I hate sleeves, and that I will have a little break from sewing.

Fanfiction

I wrote TT a bit yesterday and will probably continue today too. Ch 13 is currently almost 3000 words long, so that's about a third of the chapter done. It seems to progress well.

I also have been plotting in advance for a new story. One called "The Chains of Love", also known as tCoL. This one would be Canon, for a change, and it's revolving around an idea I've been brewing for ages. The genre will most likely be humour & Romance, at least in the beginning, we'll see where else this story will wander once it gets started. ;P

Here's the first sketch of a summary: Sesshoumaru’s Mother decides that it is time for the West to have an heir. She hires a vixen Matchmaker to deal with the situation. As the renowned Matchmaker studies Sesshoumaru from afar she realises that no mere arrow of Amor would be enough to make the daiyoukai fall, so it is time to bring out the bigger weapons – or rather it would seem, chains.

I know, it's sounds a bit lame and less unique an idea for a plot that in most of my fics so far... But I think it'll be okay. Don't you think that the idea of Sesshoumaru and Kagome actually chained together is just too delicious to pass by? ;D Just think of all the hilarious situations I can come up with! Priceless. Mwahahaha.

The voting on Dokuga has been extended for this week still. So the results of the Awards on Q2 09 will be announced on this week's Sunday. I'm almost certain that TT won't place, but still I'm nervous. ^^;

Few days ago I left a message on Dokuga forum to notice people that I'm looking for a beta for my stories. The Dah was an amazing beta, but I haven't been in contact with her that much, because she's hardly ever online anymore. I lost my beta to WoW. .__.
Besides, I think it's about time for me to get a native beta anyway. My English has improved a lot, I think, but it would be a safe bet to get a beta whose first language would be English.
If interested, let me now.

Oh, and I updated my userpics too today. Like the one up there, it's a new one. ^^

- Chie