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Scratch that
I'd like to be back more, but I've got a country to fight for since media's doing a shitty job of reporting actual facts and I want my country to experience real progress. So fandoms are not going to be a priority. Maybe there will be updates at some point, when I feel like it, but I've decided there's a whole lot that needs to be done elsewhere.
Hello again
Slowly coming back to fandoms, but I am rather exhausted of the demands to be a more constant presence online. Moving forward, I would much rather post fanfic and fanart here or on livejournal and at my own pace. The formatting of FF.Net is bothersome, AO3 confuses me and I still need to figure that one out more. As always, use the ask feature to contact me. Thanks.
Gads, I miss Gundam Wing.
Whatever happened to Frozen Teardrop? Did they ever drop the project? If they continued, is it still a badfic full of human popsicles and clones and Disney Princess gundams?
Is anyone still doing rewatches? I miss rewatching it and going here on Tumblr to write almost nonsensical meta-essays.
Anyone still hating on the GW girls? (I mean, it’s 2016 but you’ll never know.) Relena? Dorothy, especially? Ah, how I miss blathering about them, miss talking about how Relena’s more than an annoying stalker, miss debullshittifying basher-rants about Dorothy’s craziness in the show. ANYONE CAN GIVE ME EXTRA SLICE OF TIME TO DO THESE ALL AGAIN?
Man, I miss this fandom.
Yes, people are sadly still hating on Dorothy and Relena. I wish they’d just get over it. I’d be receptive to the 1x2 and 3x4 pairing more if a lot of times, it didn’t come at the cost of sabotaging these characters. I’m practically a fossil in this fandom, but I can still remember all the threats I used to get in my email when I started writing 1xR and inserted 4xD in my fics as if it was yesterday. /smiles bitterly
I’ve hit this wall in my writing but I am doing a lot of re-watches. Just at my own leisure and reminding myself that despite the bad I encountered among the fans, there are a lot of things about the story that I love.
Well according to PeachandBetty NO BODY AND SHE MEANS NO BODY EVER on tumblr has been anti-hetero in the GW fandom, I quote “she’s seen none of it”
Best not mention the contrary to her echo chamber, she will troll you and publicly slander you and all your friends and affiliates too. I know from experience.
I was not talking to peachandbetty, I was primarily addressing cinderellaincombatboots because I've traded more emails with her regarding this and many other issues in the fandom that I've had. If you noticed, I didn't reblog other replies and include my own because the only person I was talking to was the OP, not anybody else. I never said anything about tumblr, I was talking about replies I received over the years in my emails and in fic reviews over at ffnet. I have had to step away from the fandom several times over the years because of such hate, I've had to delete fics I had every intention of finishing but lost the will to because of quite a number of emails I've received were ones where they went so far as to highlight pieces of my work and change phrases into things like "...because Relena was a trashy bitch" or telling me that I should kill myself because characters like Relena and Dorothy were supposedly what was wrong with the show and that I was dumb, delusional, and most probably ugly (according to one person who took the time to email me about how 1x2 fans will triumph over 1xR). I am 31 years old now, and the first fanfic I ever wrote was for this fandom, 16 years ago, long before tumblr existed and when people were still primarily using emails as a way to convey their impressions of your work. Seriously, you try being 15 years old and get emails like that for some of your first attempts. I wouldn't mind actual critique but personal attacks? And at that age? And it wasn't like it got better through the years either, even when I tried to ignore it.
I am not discrediting her experience of not witnessing any sort of that hate, and neither am I discrediting yours. I was talking about my own experience which I don't wish on anybody else because of the number it did on my emotional and mental health. I do hope fans are more mature now and thankfully, the number of fics sabotaging Relena and Dorothy have decreased, but it saddens me that some writers still do this out of spite for the characters.
I would also like to believe that peach isn't that sort of person to troll and slander either, just because somebody's experience was different from hers. However if she or anybody else feels I'm being unfair, I wouldn't mind a proper email discussion to clear things up.
Relena Darlian WIP update. Started adjusting the tilt of her head and fix some symmetry issues.
Relena WIP on Procreate app. Still trying to get the hang of digital. It's tougher than traditional media. :/
Gads, I miss Gundam Wing.
Whatever happened to Frozen Teardrop? Did they ever drop the project? If they continued, is it still a badfic full of human popsicles and clones and Disney Princess gundams?
Is anyone still doing rewatches? I miss rewatching it and going here on Tumblr to write almost nonsensical meta-essays.
Anyone still hating on the GW girls? (I mean, it’s 2016 but you’ll never know.) Relena? Dorothy, especially? Ah, how I miss blathering about them, miss talking about how Relena’s more than an annoying stalker, miss debullshittifying basher-rants about Dorothy’s craziness in the show. ANYONE CAN GIVE ME EXTRA SLICE OF TIME TO DO THESE ALL AGAIN?
Man, I miss this fandom.
Yes, people are sadly still hating on Dorothy and Relena. I wish they'd just get over it. I'd be receptive to the 1x2 and 3x4 pairing more if a lot of times, it didn't come at the cost of sabotaging these characters. I'm practically a fossil in this fandom, but I can still remember all the threats I used to get in my email when I started writing 1xR and inserted 4xD in my fics as if it was yesterday. /smiles bitterly
I've hit this wall in my writing but I am doing a lot of re-watches. Just at my own leisure and reminding myself that despite the bad I encountered among the fans, there are a lot of things about the story that I love.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.
May 2016 be the year where I see less jejenese and more people typing coherently (even the Pentagon wouldn't hire you, let's just get one thing straight). Where people realize that "could of", "should of", and "would of" are NEVER okay to use.
May 2016 be the year where I finally, FINALLY defeat Dracula in my long-abandoned game of Order of Ecclesia, complete Fire Emblem, and MAYBE get a WACOM tablet. Where we all hug each other more and hate each other less. Where we all learn the value of being kind to each other and maybe cramming our brains with less junk.
May 2016 be the year for Filipinos, especially this coming Presidential elections. I hope you vote smartly. The next 6 years will be crucial for the country. Remember that.
And finally, may you all continue to blaze a trail this year. We have 365 days. Let's do this.
Lagrange Points in Gundam Wing
For any Gundam Wing fanfic writer, when keeping it canon (non-AU), knowing the locations of places is something to deal with. It can be annoying, especially when writing about travel between colony clusters. It’s always great to orient oneself when writing. So this handy map helps:
To begin, let’s translate what we see here.
In the middle there is the Earth (Japanese: 地球 or “chi kyuu”). To the far left of the image is the Moon (Japanese: 月 or “tsuki”). You can see each colony cluster represented by the small circles around the Earth and Moon, labeled “L__ colony cluster” (Japanese: L__ コロニー群 or “L4 koronii mura”). Orbiting the Earth is MO II and MO III, the resource satellites. Colony X-18999 is in the L3 colony cluster. Near the Moon is Space Fortress Barge (Japanese: 宇宙要塞バルジ or “uchuu yousai baruji”. The square at the image bottom, well, the picture isn’t clear enough to make out the kanji, but it’s pointing towards the sun (太陽へ, “tai you he” or “to the Sun”). Since this is an Endless Waltz map, it can be assumed that it’s the carrier holding the gundams which Quatre sent towards the Sun.
Okay, so what we know about colonies in Gundam Wing is that for each Lagrange point, there is a “cluster” of colonies. How many colonies reside in one cluster, we don’t know for sure, but judging by clips from the show, one may have at least five colonies in it.
I’m no physics or science expert, and I’m basically regurgitating info here, but…
Lagrange points are defined as “five special points where a small mass can orbit in a constant pattern with two larger masses”. If you look on Wikipedia or any article describing Lagrange points, it shows the five points orbiting the Earth and the Sun, however the definition says “two larger masses”. In GW’s case, they orbit the Earth and the moon in the Earth-Moon system.
On this Endless Waltz map…
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Noted.
Epic Fail
Slight AU.
“You WHAT?”
The words were out of Duo’s mouth like an explosion. He gaped, slack-jawed at the boy sitting on the bed in their dormitory room. Granted they weren’t really students there but undercover spies. The mission parameters dictated that they needed to be careful so as not to alert Romefeller spies either, and Duo was all about business (although…St. Gabriel’s cafeteria had the most delicious food he’d ever tasted).
Heero looked at him sullenly from where he was sitting on the edge of his bed, looking very much like a disgruntled kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. “I said I would kill the target,” he repeated.
“Whoa there, hotshot!” Duo held up a hand, disbelief written all over his face at this revelation. “You actually went–”
“Yes.”
“–and told your target–”
“Yes.”
“–that you had every intention of eliminating them?”
“Yes.”
Maybe he was just going deaf, but he really needed Heero to confirm this fact. AGAIN. “You actually warned your target. Like, legit told your intended target that you were going to kill them.”
Pilot 01 was starting to stare his braid longingly, looking very much like he was tempted to kill Duo this time.
He suddenly felt ancient. Of all the mistakes his comrade could make, it had to be the ultimate one: warning your target that you had them marked for death. “Heero, what the hell?! That was all levels of epic fail! Are you high or something?” Duo groaned aloud and sank to the floor into a full squat, his head hanging down. “I can’t fucking believe you! If Assassination were a class, you would have failed the first day!”
“She was an obstacle to my mission,” came the quiet reply.
Somewhere in his befuddlement, Duo had heard that and he looked up with a start. “Wait–it’s a she?”
Heero nodded again, although he studiously avoided Duo’s gaze this time. And was it his imagination or did the Perfect Soldier look slightly...flushed?
'So that’s what this is,' the braided teen snickered quietly. After months of trying to get his comrade to open up, along came a girl that elicited some very interesting reactions in him. This was so going to be fun.
“She pretty?” Duo’s voice had taken on a teasing edge. “Blonde? Brunette? Redhead?”
Heero shrugged. “She’s decent looking. Her hair’s…” 'like spun gold' “…maybe light brown.”
'Decent looking my ass,' Duo resisted the urge to snort at Heero’s attempts to weasel out of this conversation. But he was tenacious. That was Shinigami’s special talent. “Lemme guess. Blue eyes?”
The blush on Heero’s cheeks was now rivaling the color of a sunset. Relena’s eyes were an interesting, interchangeable shade that he wouldn’t forget any time soon, not especially after he had gotten such a close look at her eyes when he ripped up her party invite. Like the color of the ocean, where the sky met the water’s edge…
“The color of the ocean?” When Duo blurted that out, Heero’s eyes widened and he clapped a hand over his mouth. 'Shit.'
The interesting play of emotions on Heero’s face was enough to send Duo into fits of loud laughter. Oh man, did this girl have her work cut out for her. He could already sympathize with her because Heero had apparently given her a mixed message that trumped ALL mixed messages. Forget about flunking Assassination 101, Heero had flunked Flirtation 101 as well.
Swallowing his mirth, Duo went over to put a sympathetic hand on Heero’s shoulder, even as he was still chuckling. “Yuy, that’s the worst way to tell a girl you think she’s hot. But don’t worry, I got ya covered. So basically, it all starts with attraction…”
END
Hey just wanted to know if you would like to submit any of your existing works for the Endless Reflection Fan art Challenge. :) I would have sent this through our normal gwerchallenge account here but I was logged on here for the moment and found you. Lolol if you're not interested that's alright too. Thanks! -Gray02 (username was taken so I had to change it to graydama)
I would, but sadly, this is a very busy period for me as my brothers are in town and I have a backlog of commissions to do.
I was already sent a PM on ff.net by Lady Rinoa about the challenge and I had to refuse (I’m The Bloody Countess on ff.net). Maybe another time? I’m sorry I have nothing worth submitting, fic-wise or art-wise. :/
That’s completely fine! :) Just wanted to include you, and know if you ever want to submit any of your existing work, i.e. Heero, Relena, Milliardo, and now the awesome Trowa sketch, you are free to do so! :D
Thanks, I'm honored. But I'm not happy with them, so I really don't feel they're worth submitting because they didn't meet my standards. I did have an idea for the challenge and it certainly did not involve any of my existing works (which are pretty rough to me). I wanted to make something fresh and that met the criteria of both the theme and my own standards. But I don't really have the time to create it, as it turns out, which is why I decided not to submit anything. I'm glad you think they're good, but I want to be able to submit work that I feel personally happy with, not anything half-hearted.
Commissions are not cooperating with me tonight, so I’m taking a break. More realistic takes on GWing characters. Trowa Barton this time. Used a random model’s reference (and yes, the hair was really styled like that in the photo). Colored pencils, soft pastels, and inks on Strathmore toned tan paper.
Please do more.
We’ll see. I’m not entirely happy with this sketch, so I might redo it.
In any case, these realistic portraits and sketches are giving me such life. It’s glorious either way.
Thanks, I'm glad people like them. I just need to figure out whose faces I can base the other characters on. I've already drawn Relena and Zechs. If all goes well, Duo is next on the list.
Commissions are not cooperating with me tonight, so I’m taking a break. More realistic takes on GWing characters. Trowa Barton this time. Used a random model’s reference (and yes, the hair was really styled like that in the photo). Colored pencils, soft pastels, and inks on Strathmore toned tan paper.
Please do more.
We'll see. I'm not entirely happy with this sketch, so I might redo it.
Commissions are not cooperating with me tonight, so I'm taking a break. More realistic takes on GWing characters. Trowa Barton this time. Used a random model's reference (and yes, the hair was really styled like that in the photo). Colored pencils, soft pastels, and inks on Strathmore toned tan paper.
Hey just wanted to know if you would like to submit any of your existing works for the Endless Reflection Fan art Challenge. :) I would have sent this through our normal gwerchallenge account here but I was logged on here for the moment and found you. Lolol if you're not interested that's alright too. Thanks! -Gray02 (username was taken so I had to change it to graydama)
I would, but sadly, this is a very busy period for me as my brothers are in town and I have a backlog of commissions to do. I was already sent a PM on ff.net by Lady Rinoa about the challenge and I had to refuse (I'm The Bloody Countess on ff.net). Maybe another time? I'm sorry I have nothing worth submitting, fic-wise or art-wise. :/
Death no longer terrifies man. The smell of blood is as common as the smell of white plums. So, he creates slavery and savagery... which surpasses the horror of dying.
Hiko Seijuuro XIII, Rurouni Kenshin
He is a boy from the stars, she is a princess fashioned of the Earth. Their destinies are entwined in an intricate web of war, destruction, hope, and freedom. Strong when they are apart, yet even stronger when they stand together. Where his battle ends, hers shall begin. This is their story. Ready. Aim. Fire. (Cover art c/o of Kajika Ono)
He is a boy from the stars, she is a princess fashioned of the Earth. Their destinies are entwined in an intricate web of war, destruction, hope, and freedom.
Strong when they are apart, yet even stronger when they stand together. Where his battle ends, hers shall begin.
This is their story.
Ready. Aim. Fire.
Do you do commissioned work? What are your rates?
Yes. My rates are here. http://aijou.squarespace.com
