we are only made of air and dust

in case you were wondering

[1] A house is not a home
[2] Little Boxes
[3] Happy Family
[4] And I believe this is what they call the chase
[5]These broken days won't last forever
[6] Some kind of happily ever after

All are one shots, with the exception of 5, which may be expanded further. All are finished, with varying degrees of gen and shippiness, and 6 is an ode to the almighty OT7 (you will be assimilated). Oh, and of course I'm still working on finishing the prompts in my comment ficathon in an earlier entry. :D

However you spell it, the Ohkuras are the most awesome family ever.

ETA: like Shark Week, it's Atadan week in my LJ. I'm sure this mania will pass....like the sands through an hourglass.

ETA2: I suddenly have a backlog of comments - I'm reading everything, and will get back to you

Title: True North (1/1)

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, NTV, the original author of the novel do, but this is based on the dorama.

Rating: G

Genre: Gen, and if you squint, you could certainly take away some 'shippiness from it.

Notes: This is more of a drabble, and in a fandom I've loved, but never written for.

Dedicated to snowfire and kitsune714

TITLE: Interlude (part of No Good Deed) 1/1
Fandom: Kurosagi
Disclaimer: TBS own the rights to the drama, Natsuhara Takeshi owns the manga, no copyright infringement is intended
Notes: A portion of Interlude was posted here.
It is as always, all kitsune714's fault. The song that inspired the title is Interlude by Timi Yuro, though most people would be familiar with the Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux cover. Both versions found here.
Summary: Who knows if it's real or just something we're both dreaming of? Even Kurosaki knows a fairytale.

( what seems like an interlude now )

Title: Five futures that befall Yoshikawa Tsurara (and one of them is true) 3/5
Fandom: Kurosagi
Disclaimer: TBS own the rights to the drama, Natsuhara Takeshi owns the manga, no copyright infringement is intended
Notes: You decide which future is the true one. Future 2 is finally complete.

( the one that got away )

So I'm polishing the second half of Five futures's second future, while writing the third future, with notes on the fourth and fifth future planned out, and watching Kurosagi MVs on youtube - and these are things I have to confess:

1. I haven't re-watched Kurosagi in months, so the fic I'm writing? All memories of the series I have, and after checking on some of the MVs, some startlingly similar linear parallel plots. Or something. *cough*. Yes, that's exactly it. It's both AU and linear time-wise. And I like monkeys.

2. I absolutely have DVD commentary on this supposedly simple supposed to get me back in the saddle fanfic-wise writing experiment. 50 ways started out like an experiment, and then I apparently died and never wrote anything again. But really, when you have two characters that are this dynamic and all their drama comes from the things they can't say to each other, HOW CAN THERE NOT BE COMMENTARY? I will babble like the proverbial brook!

3. There are, at my last count, three Kurosagi MVs with the song "Far Away" by Nickelback as the theme. I (have made peace with the fact) like the song well enough, and it's certainly hit all the angsty notes. Still, dear MV makers: There are Other Songs.

My friend Tom writes very good ones! Or even that tried and true romcom staple, "You and Me" by Lifehouse (Grey's Anatomy, this is ALL YOUR FAULT). I need to learn how to make vids. She says, for the millionth time.

4. I have these moments where it's bloody difficult just to write for ten more minutes. Ten more minutes, and I'm wrestling with the problem of writing versus writing beautiful sentences. I have that English Major's disease (particularly vile since I majored in Creative Writing) of writing really (or wanting to write) elaborately constructed prisms of sentences and sometimes I fall in love with a turn of a word or a phrase, and it's great and it's pretty but it's sitting dead on the paper, because while it is pretty and sparkling, it is also not particularly useful. So heeding the advice of the Mokonoboo pigs, "Simple is best." I'm trying not to fall in the trap of being too 'writerly.'

5. I have wasted several hours of my life looking up Shirota Yuu on youtube. There are long lanky legs and Latin seduction music and cooking with Spanish accents and this is Yamapi's fault. He's SIX FEET TALL. I am ded, as the kids say.

6. No one dies in my fic. I'm not feeling particularly Shakespearan today.

7. I'm almost done with my carton of Quality Street. And seeing how the pound now trounces the dollar utterly, I do not think I will be re-visiting the UK any time soon. And I'm done with my Tunnock's caramel wafers. Oh my sweeties! And clotted cream. This is when I miss the UK the most.

8. I've decided on my viewing habits for the next month: I'm quitting Witch Yoo Hee until it's finished, I've started Nodame Cantabile, I'll be downloading Sexy Voice & Robo, I'm not watching Liar's Game until it's finished, I'll be downloading Proposal Daisakusen, Seito Shokun, and I'll wait for Bambino! to finish before watching. And I have my Outsiders DVDs to keep me entertained in the meantime. Of course, this could all change, but I have only so much free time and instant gratification is so much more appealing.

9. I would keel over in shock if the Rumored Next Project (there's been 'statements' made by Pi that suggest that he and Maki have signed on for another project together) if not Kurosagi 2, something that would require them to gaze longingly at each other, and you know, follow through. I would keel over in shock and then I would EXPLODE. IN SQUEE. Or if this was some alternate universe, and Johnny's Jimusho had been taken over by a non-insane control freak, that the next 'project' Yamapi and Maki were signing on for was in fact a public announcement of their relationship. Because, yes, crazy making out!

10. I've had a lot of sugar.

11. I should be writing this fic now.

It's a lazy Sunday, fic posting kind of day, I feel.


Title: Five futures that befall Yoshikawa Tsurara (and one of them is true) 1/5
Fandom: Kurosagi
Disclaimer: TBS own the rights to the drama, Natsuhara Takeshi owns the manga, no copyright infringement is intended
Notes: You decide which future is the true one.

( I (will not write) you love letters )

Late at night, right before my mother gets home, is a bad time to go falling in love.

Alanna updated her Buffy fic site, and there are long, illustrated Buffy/Spike stories calling to me.

It's late and I shouldn't, but Oh God, I want to.