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dmxratedSo, for a whole week after Blood updated his stories and I reported him for hosting supposedly MA-rated content (just unlocked an entry on the 6th), I genuinely was sick of seeing his username or that story's icon in the archive. A week later, I went onto an ff.net forum designed specifically for rants, to rant about my issues with him. I had to visit his userpage to provide a link to it, and I noticed that he hadn't updated either of his stories since that time.
Yeah. I said I reported him, hoping that someone would take that shit down on him. Since no one seems interested, though, I am still interested enough to see how the antagonists' demises actually play out whenever they do. Before long, I found myself returning to the archive and de-filtering M-rated stories multiple times a day, expecting initially that he'd keep Cries Unheard going. Even given how busy he is with real life, these whole two weeks is the longest he's taken to update anything, with the second and previous being eight days (although said eight was the period during which he first hosted this Azumanga Daioh fic titled No Reason, which he would then update simultaneously with CU). It's dragged out so much that I've taken to just following both him and his story, intending to simply discard any notifications I receive before continuing a given message-check normally.
No, I don't intend to actually read most of Cries Unheard or anything that he writes in the future. I only care about the comeuppance chapters, solely for the sake of closure for the several times I spent less than functional for days on end. If the story gets taken down first, though, then that will be relief of a different flavor, allowing me to pretend that I never even read that shit in the first place.
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Even that aside, I'm already tired of Lucky Star at this point, of writing about the same old characters after writing a total of seven and a half chapters for different fanfics over nearly two years. I want to come back to Cult, and even tried for the second time to just start writing the first main chapter already, but I just can't. Without any future material to work towards, it just seems pointless. I had a lot of fun writing the prologue around Thanksgiving of 2010, but that's because I had the events of four whole fics to look forward to, only the first of which remains (and even then, only with a team each of protagonists and antagonists, not any actual events).
Maybe there's also the fact that my whole point of conceiving Cult in the first place was about the Supporting Knights that Mondo and Rokuna have made friends with during the prologue. Most of the ideas Chelle gave me for the first main chapter had been about all kinds of things, but only a few about any specific Supporters. (And yes, she already told me the other day that, for this first chapter, there isn't much one can do with all ten of them.)
Disinclined as I am, Parasitic Trio seems to be the only option I have left. Honestly, I don't care about Pokemon anymore, and the only reason I have left to write it is to do justice to the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours I spent playing the games.
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Chelle told me not too long ago how important it is to learn how to write without inspiration, but really, I beg to differ. That would be true if I was writing something to profit from, and I don't know why she writes fanfiction (other than that she enjoys it, obviously) but the reason I write fanfiction in the first place, is to have stuff that I'd enjoy re-reading, and that's even more important to me than having an actual audience. A single scene is one thing, but if I have to force myself through a whole chapter, then I'm not likely going to enjoy the fruits of my labor, which more or less defeats the purpose of writing it in the first place.
Yeah. I said I reported him, hoping that someone would take that shit down on him. Since no one seems interested, though, I am still interested enough to see how the antagonists' demises actually play out whenever they do. Before long, I found myself returning to the archive and de-filtering M-rated stories multiple times a day, expecting initially that he'd keep Cries Unheard going. Even given how busy he is with real life, these whole two weeks is the longest he's taken to update anything, with the second and previous being eight days (although said eight was the period during which he first hosted this Azumanga Daioh fic titled No Reason, which he would then update simultaneously with CU). It's dragged out so much that I've taken to just following both him and his story, intending to simply discard any notifications I receive before continuing a given message-check normally.
No, I don't intend to actually read most of Cries Unheard or anything that he writes in the future. I only care about the comeuppance chapters, solely for the sake of closure for the several times I spent less than functional for days on end. If the story gets taken down first, though, then that will be relief of a different flavor, allowing me to pretend that I never even read that shit in the first place.
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Even that aside, I'm already tired of Lucky Star at this point, of writing about the same old characters after writing a total of seven and a half chapters for different fanfics over nearly two years. I want to come back to Cult, and even tried for the second time to just start writing the first main chapter already, but I just can't. Without any future material to work towards, it just seems pointless. I had a lot of fun writing the prologue around Thanksgiving of 2010, but that's because I had the events of four whole fics to look forward to, only the first of which remains (and even then, only with a team each of protagonists and antagonists, not any actual events).
Maybe there's also the fact that my whole point of conceiving Cult in the first place was about the Supporting Knights that Mondo and Rokuna have made friends with during the prologue. Most of the ideas Chelle gave me for the first main chapter had been about all kinds of things, but only a few about any specific Supporters. (And yes, she already told me the other day that, for this first chapter, there isn't much one can do with all ten of them.)
Disinclined as I am, Parasitic Trio seems to be the only option I have left. Honestly, I don't care about Pokemon anymore, and the only reason I have left to write it is to do justice to the hundreds, if not thousands, of hours I spent playing the games.
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Chelle told me not too long ago how important it is to learn how to write without inspiration, but really, I beg to differ. That would be true if I was writing something to profit from, and I don't know why she writes fanfiction (other than that she enjoys it, obviously) but the reason I write fanfiction in the first place, is to have stuff that I'd enjoy re-reading, and that's even more important to me than having an actual audience. A single scene is one thing, but if I have to force myself through a whole chapter, then I'm not likely going to enjoy the fruits of my labor, which more or less defeats the purpose of writing it in the first place.
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Date: 2014-08-16 11:57 pm (UTC)I don't blame you. When I write, I try to come up with the ending soon enough because that way I have a destination to head to, even if I won't actually use *that* ending. And you're clearly lost in that regard.
I mean... be honest. Do you *want* to use the same villain and plot and all again, considering you're not using the other two parts or several of the plot points, and you might not even want to use the Beehive Brigade due to already focusing on a game or story for them? Do the same fetishes that applied before [giants included] still interest you that much?
I'm not telling you to ditch it, but you should look into what you *want* out of a Mon Colle Knights fic, and not what *we* want. *Then* we start discussing what we want that can help your idea.
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Date: 2019-07-17 12:34 pm (UTC)Sounds like you shouldn't be trying to write longass epics that require lots of content and set up to be coherent, and instead write short stories that quickly get to the scenarios you want.
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Date: 2019-07-17 12:34 pm (UTC)Starbound aside, I can't exactly argue with that. I have heard of the term "setting oneself up to fail" before.
Under the latter, the only thing I have going right now is the sumo fic, which is out of the question right now since I want something that isn't Lucky Star. That one, of course, is fetish-driven, as was Mondo & Rokuna's BIG Date.
Really, aside from the quest that they would have been on, I don't know what else to do with all my Cult-born OCs. If by any chance you've got any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Other fandoms I'd be interested in writing about, even though they're not all puni-plush series (though still moe-oriented)... Those might include Kanon, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and maybe a few others. Already had giantess ideas before for those first two, and even an outline for at least the former, but actually panning those out is another story. (There's also Popotan, but that's obviously something you'd hate.)
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Date: 2019-07-17 12:35 pm (UTC)I'm still kinda lowfire brainstorming on them. Katsuo and Attiya have clear flaws that provide character arcs, the rest I'm not sure about.
You mentioned something about an RPG scenario, but more realistic. What are typical RPG scenarios (that MCK hasn't subverted/parodied already?)?
About the giantess fic, why not just jump right to the scenes you want to write/reread the most instead of fretting over how to start it? The rest can be filled in later.
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Date: 2019-07-17 12:36 pm (UTC)Mostly, I was referring to game physics. For example, that attacks don't cause damage to walls or other things that they logically should, or that when you engage in a battle, you wind up on a flat plane regardless of what the layout of whichever room you were in looked like prior to battle. Even in real time, enemies (and sometimes, you) tend not to fall off ledges that they're standing right near, even if they're at a short enough distance from it to do so.
About the giantess fic, why not just jump right to the scenes you want to write/reread the most instead of fretting over how to start it? The rest can be filled in later.
Gonna need to re-read the outline. Last time I did, though, I had no idea on how to go on about any part of it. Will try again, though, for lack of any other story ideas.
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Date: 2019-11-21 02:00 pm (UTC)Other factors that once made me want to write it...
1) The idea of taking some video game song or another that I happen to like, and picturing a context that it could complement. I even brought that up with Brian a few months ago, and he said that that's actually normal. Can't say I'm surprised, since there's obviously a reason why people listen to music in the first place.
2) Games I used to play (most notably Grandia II and III and Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars). Monster Collection Chronicles was going to be a way for me to utilize everything I liked about said games, minus everything I didn't like, and refine everything to be more realistic. Then again, I'd be the only one to know the layouts of a given place (unless I were to host them online), and long story short, I more or less grew out of that mindset late in 2010.
3) RPG elements, plus a weapon to go with each. Originally based on Pokemon, with my own additional ones, but then I halved it after Chelle wrote a now-either-privatized-or-deleted entry where she mentioned how the cardinal elements combine with compatible others to form different ones. This gave me an idea of which ones to eliminate to make the remaining twelve even more unique.
(At that time, she was trying to get through to me about how my original 24-set of mains would not work, and she technically failed. However, not only have I since taken a lesson from that (about arguing with such advice as she gives), but it would have still been that way had she not mentioned that one thing.)
4) The idea of the protagonists continually dying and being resurrected. Originally inspired by the Earthbound one-shot And After, but also a way to keep the bad guys as competent as they logically should be while given the heroes a chance to win. Debunked; see this past entry and the comments that follow.
And, I'll also admit that that magical girl show you hate had also kept me somewhat interested back when it interested me, mainly due to its use of weapons and the trauma that the girls are shown to suffer. That was months after MCC was reduced to just its first planned fic, but of course, even that did not take long to wear off either.
Nowadays, all that's left of Cult that might remotely still interest me, is the fact that the kids have more interesting weapons to use than most of the girls in Starbound, and the twelve-elemental system that they are meant to fulfill. Those, gender-equality (unlike with Starbound), and that I still want a break from Lucky Star but would still like to spend time with other cute little puni-plush characters (as opposed to the more maturely-designed characters from the Pokemon games).
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As for the Beehive Brigade, yes, I do still plan on presenting them in this fic the way I originally had planned to.