Fano's Fantasies

19 June 2008 @ 10:36 pm

Cleaning Out the Attic - A Poem

The manga's done and I have to admit my inspiration for IY fics has been pretty limited lately (what? you haven't noticed?). I also have to admit that my epic - the 25 page outline, the 300 page draft.... is dead. I just don't have it in me (or my schedule) to dig into the depths of angst to pull out Myths of Rin. And so it goes on the pile with the unwritten screenplays, novels, short stories and a handful of fanfic drafts that will never see the light of day. For someone who loves to write I sure as hell have a hard time starting stuff, must less finishing it.

So I was thinking about all that drafting and writing and getting ready to mentally shelve it for good, when I remembered one poem I wrote that I liked and was a standalone. So I'll put it here in my journal for posterity. It is about InuYasha's experience through the centuries of waiting for Kagome, as her soul is reborn in and out of his life.

"Shinrai" means Trust.

It is sad.

( Shinrai )

Tags: journey, myths, story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

sad

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19 June 2008 @ 09:20 pm

Drabble: Premonition

I normally don't post drabbles on my site, but it's been so long since I wrote anything, I thought I'd do it just for fun. Written for

iyissekiwa. (Theme: Upset, Rated G, Inu+Kag). Thanks to

fenikkusuken for her beta.

( Premonition - Drabble )

Tags: story updates

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25 November 2007 @ 12:13 am

"Sunshower" - Inu/Kag Smexy Fluff [NC-17] & Art by Aquariel!

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Tags: art, story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

content

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16 September 2007 @ 11:25 pm

Yay & bouncy thanks to Paynesgray! (and writing update if anyone out there still cares)

I know I should be embarrassed about this (I'll tell you why in a sec), but I'm just so happy!

paynesgray has done me a double favor.

( more about why this makes me happy )

I could just bounce around all day in celebration for this! It's a pic of Inu/Kik before he'd met Kagome.

Shinrai - original artwork by Quirkyslayer/

paynesgray

Ok. So why does this embarrass me? To anyone who's followed my writing posts over the past... uh... year? it should be quite obvious, but I'll make it painfully so.

( *facepalm* )

Gah! I just wanna write anything at this point. I don't think it's "writer's block" but "writer's distraction" eating my creativity these days. Rl is just so full and my brain has been trained by the kit/bath/deck renovation + 6 weeks of traveling this summer to be really ADD, which makes it hard to sit still and concentrate long enough to write squat.

Can I pout? Will you still love me?

*toodles off to be a little more distracted*

Tags: art, myths, story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

touched

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29 June 2007 @ 12:15 am

No Longer Alone

Title: No Longer Alone
Genre: Vignette, Character Study (Rin)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Sess/Adult!Rin
Summary: Rin reflects on her new role in Sesshoumaru's home, as mother to his child. Written as a gift!fic for

helena_markos for winning my manga caption contest a few weeks back. "No Longer Alone" is an Epilogue to Home [NC-17], but you don't have to read Home to understand this one. Dedicated to mothers everywhere - especially

ashtariwho just had her baby ~ Congraulations! And

fuschiafinn who's expecting! Disclaimer: I do not own Sesshoumaru or Rin, but merely borrow them occasionally to make them dance and cry and love at my command.
Links: MM.org / FF.net / DA

( No Longer Alone[PG] with Illustrations )

Tags: story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

creative

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06 April 2007 @ 11:28 pm

"Home" - a Sweet little Sess/Rin Lemon

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Tags: story updates

Where the hell am i now?: in bed (sleepy)

So, how am I feeling?:

contemplative

Music On?: children laughing

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23 February 2007 @ 05:36 pm

Enemy Mine

featuring jojo_kunartwork that inspired the fic...

Title: Enemy Mine
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Dark!Fic, one-shot
Pairings: InuYasha/Kagome, InuYasha/Naraku
Warnings: psycological dark!fic, yaoi, bondage - definite squicks and Not Work Safe. Beware the squicks and don't say I didn't warn you.
Summary: InuYasha has lost his friends and his enemies and succumbs to his nightmares to bring them back. Written to see if I could come up with a reason that Inu would welcome the sexual ministrations of Naraku (as depicted in "With Teeth" on InuE and y!Gallery [not at all work safe] by

jojo_kun ). Also written as a character study for a dark!fic I'm planning (which won't have this in it!). Thanks to

fenikkusuken and

jojo_kun for the preread and suggestions.
Links: AFF.net / InuErotica / MM.org

This was written as an InuYasha character study for a fic I am planning. It goes along with (perfectly safe though angsty) poem, The Pounding, posted to

iypoems for the February Challenge.

Tags: story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

morose

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17 February 2007 @ 12:47 am

Wish

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Tags: story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

accomplished

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09 February 2007 @ 05:11 pm

Perfect Kiss Drabbles: Miroku's Good-bye

Title: Forever Kiss [100 words- PG]
Author:

alterfano
Pairing: Mir+San
A/N: I'm so sorry.....

( Forever Kiss )

Tags: story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

sad

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09 February 2007 @ 11:44 am

Perfect Kiss Drabbles: Kagome's Dreams

Two of my contributions to

forthrightly's Perfect Kiss Drabble Challenge. I'll post a third later... it's a bit... different. [Posted: Forever Kiss - Mir/San]

All the kisses can be found at: MM.org / AFF.net

Title: Accidental Desire [100 words of PG]
Author:

alterfano
Pairing: Kag + Inu

( Accidental Desire )

Title: Victory of Temptation [100 words of PG]
Author:

alterfano
Pairing: Kag + Sess
Note: I wrote this especially for forthrightly to show her Sesshoumaru through my eyes. My first Sess/Kag - ack!

( Victory of Temptation )

Trying for a Sess+Rin Lemon for the Valentine's Day lemon-off. Hopefully this time I can do it without depressing the heck out of everyone. Wish me luck! (Done! Check out Wish)

Tags: story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home office

So, how am I feeling?:

bouncy

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01 January 2007 @ 06:30 pm

Happy New Year! (2007)

Every New Year’s morning, I do the same thing. I sleep in, get my cup of coffee and settle in to review my notes from the year. I keep a variety of notes… in several journals (including this one). And once I’m done, I come to some sort of conclusion about the year. Then I do a tarot reading on the year ahead and record it. Sometimes this is helpful, often not. But it’s fun. And then I sit down to write out my wishes for the year ahead. I find that making wishes works better than resolutions. I know how to make wishes come true, but so far in my 44+ years, I’ve sucked at resolutions. So this year, I’m working LJ into my little ritual. This isn’t EVERYTHING, but a fair amount of it. It’s mostly for the record, but you all figure big in my ’06 review, feel free to peek.

( Alterfano's Real Life )

( Alterfano was born in 2006 )

( What I'd like to write in 2007 )

( My 2007 New Year's Thanks & Wishes )

( My 2007 New Years THanks & Wishes )

Happy New Year!

EDIT: Ack! I fixed the fonts and it wiped out all my lj cuts... argh.... this new interface.... >-(

Tags: fano's faqs, journey, story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home - at my new writing desk!

So, how am I feeling?:

content

Music On?: Deep Inside of You

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20 December 2006 @ 11:05 pm

Ch 486 1/2 - Fangrlz Revenge (BWAHAHAHA!)

Title: Fangrlz Revenge
Genre: Parody/Crac!fic/Bad!fic/Comedy
Rating: M (for Language & Limes)
Warnings: Inu gets drunk and finally has the guts to ask Kagome to *ahem* - yeah.
Summary: Since the not-so-kind publishers at Shonen Week are not publishing a manga chapter this week, I'm publishing my own - for fangrlz only - version of what we all HOPE is happening between Chapters 486 and 487 as a holiday/New Year's present to IY+Kag fangrlz everywhere (and guys, I guess, are there any out there.... hello?). Posted as Chapter 3 of "Twisted Inu" crac!fic collection.
Links: MM.org FF.net AFF.net DA
Acknowledgements: Thanks to some of my LJ buds who gave me assurances the first draft was funny enough to keep working on. I HOPE I made it funnier.... you be the judge.

Happy Holidays everyone! Enjoy your holiday treetz!
And since today is

bluezinthos birthday - I dedicate to her! Happy Birthday, BlueZ!

Tags: fangirl, story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home

So, how am I feeling?:

silly

Music On?: The Fray - Over My Head

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31 October 2006 @ 11:36 pm

All About "Twisted Inu"

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Tags: story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

silly

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16 October 2006 @ 02:04 am

Gisei - Updated

Thanks to everyone who has read, reviewed and nominated Gisei. I've received much wonderful concrit and I want to thank everyone who's taken the time to comment and provide feedback. I've just updated the story. Specifically, I've worked to make Rin's character somewhat more sympathic (if no less tragic); emphasize her daughter's symbolism to the story; the sess-as-father-figure point and add a tiny bit more squish at the end.

I have not yet posted Gisei on mm.org or ff.net as I'm planning a new story/collection of fics which this will be part of. Stay tuned!

Tags: gisei, story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home office

So, how am I feeling?:

melancholy

Music On?: something celtic

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04 October 2006 @ 08:00 pm

POUNCE! - A Giftfic for McGray [NC-17]

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Tags: story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home office

So, how am I feeling?:

hopeful

Music On?: night sounds

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01 October 2006 @ 02:50 am

Fano's Romps

Once upon a time I was bored and began a fantasy in my mind wherein my favorite Takahashi couples (InuYasha/Kagome and Ranma/Akane), finally got together for real, made love and actually met each other in a Tokyo park. Then I began writing fanfic and just couldn't help myself, so I wrote and published this silliness. Some readers seemed to like it. They gave me reviews. They nominated A Romp in the Park for awards, and it actually won some! But, alas, Park was just a PWP. There was no actual plot and so, after 14 chapters of foreplay and 2 boffo lemons (if I do say so myself), I ran out of story. But I was just having too much fun writing it and I liked the characterizations I'd created for my four favorites - and - EGADS! Ranma 1/2 came to an end! (in English publication) So, I decided I just had to go on, continuing the story Rumiko Takahashi had finished with Ranma 1/2 series and diverging into an uber happy and humorous story for InuYasha & co.

Thus was A Romp Through Time born (with

twosen's encouragement), developing an actual (very silly) plot line. Because many Ranma 1/2 and InuYasha fans are not necessarily lemon fans, and since it had a plot and didn't need to rely on lemons to keep it interesting (I hope), I made it rated R. However, my Ranma, Akane, InuYasha and Kagome decided they wanted to return to Park every once in a while for a little lemon, and I'm happy to oblige. So, as of chapter 17 in "Park", both fics will continue, weaving comedy, romance and a dash of lemon juice together.

Title: A Romp In The Park
Rating: NC-17
Genres: Hentai/PWP, Crossover (InuYasha/Ranma 1/2), Romance, Comedy, Hentai, Yaoi/Yuri
Awards: 1st - Best Crossover IYFG 1st Q '06, 2nd - Best Lemon & 2nd - Best Crossover IYFG 3rd Q '06, Best of '07 - Best Lemon, MediaMiner.org Maximum Challenge

Title: A Romp Through Time
Rating: T/R
Genres: Crossover (InuYasha/Ranma 1/2), Romance, Comedy
Awards: 1st - Best Crossover IYFG 4th Q '06, Best of '07 - 1st Runner Up Best Crossover, MediaMiner.org Maximum Challenge
Sequel/Parallel Story to "Park": Time starts after Chapter 17 of Park.

Note: Anyone on my flist who is interested in joining my special "Romper Room" filter to get advance reads and/or kibbutz on story line, just comment below to be added.

Cute little doodles by

twosen that i find inspiration in!

Updated: June 6, 2007

Tags: journey, romp, story updates

So, how am I feeling?:

silly

Music On?: simon wynberg

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30 September 2006 @ 11:55 pm

All About "A Romp Through Time"

Title: A Romp Through Time
Rating: T
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Crossover (InuYasha/Ranma 1/2)
Featured Characters: InuYasha, Kagome, Kouga, Miroku, Sango, Shippou, Mrs. Higarashi, Jii-chan, Ranma, Akane, the Saotomes, the Tendos, Shampoo, Ryoga, Mousse, Ukyo, Cologne
Warnings: Divergence from InuYasha after manga chapter 465, Continuation of Ranma after the end of the series
Summary: After the magical afternoon from A Romp in the Park [NC-17], our favorite Takahashi couples return to their 'normal' lives, except that nothing is normal once Naraku has been defeated and the well is opened to all. This is a divergence and sequel to A Romp in the Park, which will continue as a series of lemon chapters for "A Romp Through Time." All characters are the happy property of Rumiko Takahashi. I own nothing. Don't sue me, please. Written for, and with the pre-reviewing support of,

twosen.

First Runner Up, Best Crossover '07 - MediaMiner.org Maximum Challenge

First Place, Best Crossover 4th Quarter '06 - InuYasha Fanfiction Guild Awards.

Link: MM.org FF.net

Updated: March 5, 2007

Tags: romp, story updates

Where the hell am i now?: home

So, how am I feeling?:

silly

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30 September 2006 @ 11:50 pm

Gisei

Title: Gisei
Rating: R
Characters: Sesshomaru, Rin, Sesshoumaru's Mother, Jaken
Warnings: Spoilers for Chapters 471 & 472
Summary: Rin and Sesshoumaru are separated on the eve of her journey into womanhood and begin a life adventure that takes them through the bloody wilds of the Sengoku Jidai before they can finally be together.
A/N: Gisei was written for

amara_anon for September's

iy_flashfic. I also dedicate it to

manonlechat, in honor of my promise to her to write a 'happy' ending someday for Sesshoumaru and Rin, after depressing us all with my Sess/Rin tragedy, Entangled. Many thanks to

fenikkusuken for her encouragement and editing. And to Foo~Dog and Shinigami Hilde (

nokomarie's daughter) for her assistance with translation. Gisie has won the Best Romance (Alt Pairing) 2006 award for the InuYasha FanGuild Awards. Thanks so much for reading, reviewing, nominating and voting for it!

idan_trradiak has been inspired to see a great AMV inspired by Gisei, Unseen Hero - a Sesshoumaru Tribute, go watch it!
Links: The story is only posted here on my journal and on Moonlight Flowe r

Gisei

***Awards & Reviews for Gisei***

Many thanks to foo~dog for inspiring me with her amazing artwork of Sesshoumaru and Rin. Please visit her DA site and tell her how wonderful it is!

artwork by foo~dog (larger images inserted in the story)

FanArt for Gisei! An original painting by mcgray of Rin at the end of Gisei.... (full picture inserted in the story)

"Under the Cherry Tree" by Kirayasha

Author's Notes on terminology:
Gobodou-sama: This is the term Jaken used for Sesshoumaru’s mother in the manga is translated as ‘Supremely Honorable Mother.’
Haha-ue/Hahaue-sama: Mother/Honorable Mother
Meidou: The void beyond life that Tenseiga can open to consume his enemies when Sesshoumaru uses it with a compassionate heart.
Asai: The historic Japanese clan name most closely associated with the pattern on Sesshoumaru's haori, as researched by Dark Avenger (

cadkitten ), and provided to me by

inuhanyounikkie

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Originally Posted: September 30, 2006
EDIT 10-16-06: Thanks to all my initial reviewers who engaged me on various characterizations and plot elements. I've now done a thorough edit to address the issues you've raised, including ensuring Rin is a little more sympathetic; clarify the Sess as father-figure point; the symbolism of her daughter and add a smidge more squish at the end. I appreciate all your input and kind words! I will be posting this on mm.org and ff.net eventually, although I plan to post it as part of a new story/collection. Stay tuned.

Endnotes to be added.