Stolen from anat_astarte :

Comment with a pairing and I'll tell you:

1. When I started shipping them
2. What I think their challenge is
3. What makes me happy about them
4. What makes me sad about them
5. What moment I wish had never happened
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other
7. My happily ever after for them

If you comment with a pairing I DON'T like, I'll tell you why.

Stolen from alienchrist :

What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!

AWWW YEAH.

So I got into scorched , and I'm loving it so far. It's really giving me the opportunity to indulge in Sasori's more bastardly side, and the Naruto cast is just lovely (even if most of them hate Sasori's guts.)

I also really, really need to catch up at xi_rpg .

Also fellow RPers, do you listen to any particular music while RPing? I notice I tend to listen to music that seems to fit the mood of the setting depending on what game I'm tagging for, so I listen to more upbeat things (The Fratellis, The New Pornographers, Belle and Sebastian, etc) when tagging at XI and moodier stuff (Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Massive Attack) for Scorched.

On another note, I wonder if any of you flisters have ever been to Italy/have friends or family who've been there? I'm heading to Rome and Florence for a week with my hubby for our anniversary in a couple months, and would love to hear more ideas of great places to visit/great restaurants etc.

Heck yeah, my Sasori application got accepted over at xi_rpg ! Now if I ever finish making icons for it, I can maybe start playing...

If you haven't checked out the game, it's an X-Men flavored game set in a parallel Marvel comics universe that boils down to high school...with mutants! It's quite active, lots of characters from many different fandoms, and the folks are friendly and fun.

So I've been finding my time spent lately RPing over at kannagara_rpg . Naturally, this means my fic and art efforts have been a bit neglected lately (although I've been working on that stuff slowly, I swear.)

I have come up with the ideal solution to this problem: reserving Sasori over at xi_rpg , so I'll have two games taking up all my time instead of just one. Excellent work, self.

Of course, it isn't my fault, I swear. maiiau made me do it, with her diabolical ways of showing me lulzy XI threads and brainstorming with me and stirring up my long-dormant X-Men fangirl tendencies.

Have I mentioned she is also primarily responsible for my now shipping SasoDei like it's my job? She will pay for all of this...somehow. >:|

...And I'm considering a few other games, too: scorched , thewake_rp , thedollsyhouse , betenoire_rp . I wouldn't necessarily play Sasori at all of these, I have a few other muses I'm working on developing. If any of you fine flisters are in these games or have heard about them, give me your opinions/experiences. ♥

I'm working on three fic projects right now that are coming along despite my failure at planning:

- A quickie 30_lemons Regression-verse fic for the Hypothermia prompt (2/3 done, I need to buckle down and finish this.)
- Chapter two of Shogi
- A little DeiSaku+Sasori smut prompt that mutated into a weird SasoSakuDei/SasoDeiSaku/SomethingSomethingSomething, for flibbergibbet

Also, a random music note: I am crazily in love with this album and can't stop listening to it. It has just the right classic rock flavor to be terribly addictive.

Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted anything! I've kind of gotten seriously sucked into kannagara_rpg; I've been having loads of fun playing Sasori over there. A bunch of you are already playing, but if you're not, we're always on the lookout for new players! We'd especially love to see some more non-Naruto characters.

My fic has been languishing a little, but I'm still determined to get out another 30_lemons oneshot and chapter 2 of Shogi in the near future. I've also gotten a few fic ideas percolating away that I'll probably start on once I finish Shogi.

I've been thinking about 30_lemons recently, and while I really want to complete stories for a lot of these prompts, I'm not sure how realistically I can stick to one oneshot a month between the other things I want to devote my time to because I'm still a pretty slow writer; the RP takes up a large amount of time, and I want to work on Shogi, and I also want to really put some serious time into my art. This is the second time that I'm nearing the two month mark without releasing something; although, even if I decide to drop the challenge, I'll still be completing the story ideas I had for the various prompts. I would just be free to release things at my own pace instead of worrying about deadlines; at the same time, having a deadline keeps me motivated to work on things. It's something I'll be thinking about over the next few days.

I've been drawing a bit recently and posted on DA, but I've neglected to post about it here, so I've put together a minor art dump. Of course, since I'm a Sasoritard, two out of three are Sasori-related.

( Art behind the cut )

First off, even though I have been sucked into RPing, I am still fitting in writing fic. The first chapter for the next Sasori/Sakura story I'll be putting out for 30_lemons  will be ready very soon; it was originally going to be a oneshot, but it's expanded quite a bit and will be multichapter. This one is in a different universe from Regression, and will feature depravity and delicious mindfuckery; I'm quite excited about it!

Now, onto the manga.

Weell...it's kind of obvious that I need to say something about this chapter, isn't it?

( Spoilers behind the cut... )

Everybody's doing it, so I'm hopping on the bandwagon!

1) Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
2) NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
3) They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
4) You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( Pics behind the cut. )

I was bored out of my mind since my flist and IM are currently dead, so I set up a Tegaki Blog page. This is one of those Japanese picture blog-type sites; what I find really interesting about it is that almost every element of your page is a picture you draw within the online drawing app. Even the tags are icons rather than text-based. Of course, if your Japanese sucks, it's a terrible pain to try to read people's handwritten comments and such because lots of people have bad handwriting (myself included.) D:

My test pic is a pic of who else but Sasori. Click the pic for full size: