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HOLY MOTHER EXPOSITION

There's good news and bad news regarding the development of my latest Timeranger fic.

Bad news: INFO DUMP FALLING LIKE ROCKS FROM THE SKY. Sometimes I ask myself if this fic needs this much worldbuilding to connect one sex scene to the next. Then again, I'd have a much harder time portraying the development of Naoto and Tatsuya's relationship if they aren't doing anything else important in their lives. Since they're such driven guys, it'd be more believable for them to have the mental space to work on better relating to each other once they've made a dent on growing in other areas.

So, I'd just have to keep working on pasting up my scifi one day at a time =/ All my years of only skimming the sex scenes of Manna's The Administration series and little of the plot are catching up to me. As I muddle through the expository sentences, I'm amazed at how many ideas I've gathered for this verse since coming up with it in the middle of Meidi-ya.

Good news: ONE MORE PAGE TO GO. Until I complete this draft! I continue to turn my restless mind inside out for a way to end this on an intriguing note and get prepared for the slog of editing.

Karaoke video for TimeFire's Theme nearly done!

New video coming up! I've been planning to make a karaoke video using Powerpoint with each slide containing a screencap + three lines - the Japanese lyric, the Japanese lyric in Hiragana for singing along and the English translation.

What's left for this project is to decide what to put for 20-secs the Instrumental bits. I'm thinking of putting more Japanese info on it and my own translation, but I put it off cause it's nerve-wracking ;_;

With this done, that means I'd have one more Timeranger fanwork prepared for next year's 20th anniversary. By then, I'd have moved on to another show and who knows what it'll be...

Re-watched more than half of Kyoryuger

Randomly decided to rewatch my first Sentai. I still haven't made headway on figuring out my problem with finishing Sentai shows -- only 7 more Time Force episodes to go and the entire LuPat endgame to go through. It's not worth stressing over completing shows, so as with my usual pattern, I shall just play what I need for the day to lift my mood.

Finished first buttsex scene of 2019!
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15 more episodes for PR Time Force

I'm reaching the arc where Red's descendant appears in present day, which is not my favourite part of Timeranger :/

The endgame in Sentai shows is hard for me to watch, which is one of the reasons why I tend to leave shows unwatched from Ep 40+ onwards. (For the present LuPat, I'm stuck at Ep 41). It's not that I'm too attached and don't want the show to ever end; maybe it's just that I prefer the sitcom premises of the show to having to watch one episode filled with plot after another.

Working on a Sentai recs blog

It'll be a low-commitment one so I won't feel too much pressure about updating. Since I've gotten better at reccing shows that aren't my personal favourites, I'm thinking of giving this project a shot. Whatever will come of it will probably still have a large emphasis on my personal favourites, for if I feel compelled to self-censor myself, I'd probably give up on creating updates.

Making a Twitter account to spread my entries on social media seems necessary, but I don't want to engage with current, fast-paced social media anymore tbh. Still thinking what to do for self-promotion, or if it's necessary at all if the recs serve a dual purpose of logging what I've watched and liked.

It's not everyday that you get a Live Action Fix-It which involves your otp living happily every after...in America. Yet going through Time Force, I'm more and more drawn to the canon het >.>

I like Tatsuya and Yuuri's relationship well enough in their shared two-parter. After the show begins setting them up as an actual couple, most of the time their dynamics get reduced to a simplified version of romance that four or five-year-olds can understand. I don't find that to be the case for Wes/Jen (so far) and it helps that the show starts hinting at their compatibility right from the beginning, in the episodes showing Jen's rebellious side before they've even met.

And I'm shipping Eric/Mr. Collins a little bit?? Wouldn't be surprised if Eric (not so) secretly finds Mr. Collins to be a DILF. Unlike Kobayashi who stated that she wrote Naoto as actually wishing that he and Tatsuya can be 'brothers from another mother,' Eric doesn't seem to have a secret desire to be Mr. Collins' son. Plus that scene when Mr. Collins praised Eric's ambition and they shook hands...

I won't even try searching online for a PRTF fic with this post's title. I know I'd end up disappointed and make empty promises to write it myself, so I'd rather just imagine that it exists out there.

Prompt: Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

When I first joined tokusatsu fandom, I acted like fanfiction grew on trees. Now that I've written about 100k+ words of fic for the fandom spanning across three different shows/ships, I know that's not the case. Though I feel like I'm planting a forest whenever I start writing all the fic for a new show and ship.

Today, I've decided to thank the excellent moderators of the Toku Holidays exchange for motivating fans to get out of their comfort zone and write great stories for their fellow fans. I've done so by creating promotional material for their next run - fic teasers for all the fics posted in the 2018 collection for sharing on tumblr and Twitter.

In an email to the mods, I've sent an attachment of:
-Fic teasers for tumblr & Twitter sized to the current optimum dimensions for the respective platforms
-Fic teaser templates
-A Word Document with the accompanying caption & links to the fics for copy+pasting on tumblr & Twitter
-Two screenshots as samples of how the fic teaser + caption would look like on tumblr & Twitter

Fic Teaser Templates

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I've told the mods that I haven't shared any of the fic teasers so I won't repost the ones I made for other writers here. I'll just share the teaser I made for my fic - to best represent my writing style and the ship, I only took a screenshot of the 6.9MB (way too large for tumblr) GIF that I've embedded in the fic instead of a fic excerpt.



(Phew, I sure feel like I went through a Sentai mecha upgrade episode.)

The first week in review of 2019!

Started the Snowflake Challenge

The Snowflake Challenge involves fifteen prompts revealed over fifteen days for squeeing about fandom. So far, I've completed Day 1 to 3 and have looked through other fans' journals to check out what they're squeeing about. I'm pleased to find more posts about Asian fandoms on Day 3.

I shall try to continue making posts on Timeranger even if my objective for completing the prompts is not to promote this obscure series. With this, I can look back on my posts and instantly recall my main obsession at the start of this year ^_^

Posted the spanking fic & fourth 100words drabble

"Repression Is for the Weak" is up! I wonder how many of my hits are from ardent spanking fans who stalk the tag and toku fans who may not have watched Timeranger/not care about the pairing or even the kink and have just clicked out of morbid curiosity. I'll never know!

There are now 10k+ words of Naoto/Tatsuya fics online with 6 complete one-shots (and 4 standalone drabbles) after there had been none for years, even back when there were fan writers for Timeranger on LJ. I don't write that many words or fic for any pairing that catches my fancy, so I'm grateful for being blessed with the inspiration and courage to put my work out there.

Edited de-aging fic & started new fic

I've finished the de-aging fic and as with the spanking fic, I've decided to save it as a draft for posting next month. It was fun to complete my exchange treat in advance and anticipate for it to be posted at a much later date, so now I'm experimenting with AO3 drafts to see if having a fic ready to be posted helps the flow of my writing. I also wonder if keeping a lower profile on AO3 will make me happier and make me feel less like my hard-earned consistency in posting fics is taken for granted.

After nights of lying in my bed and breaking down important scenes, I've gotten started on my next fic. I'll talk more about this if I do follow through on my writing plan. If I don't, well...the whole year stretches out before me with its possibilities.

Prompt: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

There's a kind of fanwork featuring two characters that isn't straightforwardly shippy yet is faithful in portraying their strong bond. Fans of older Western media fandom may recognize this as 'smarm'.

The Japanese fanartist The L on pixiv draws Naoto and Tatsuya, my Timeranger otp, in this way. As a strong friendship that can be something more if the viewer interprets their relationship in that way. Even if I'm undeniably a shipper, I can't get enough of their excellent works which don't need to portray any kissing or sex to get me in the feels.

Three fanart recs by The L, all in Japanese with my translation of the titles:

1. 「先生」/"Teacher". This one contains an implicit fix-it premise in which Naoto survives the series. Tatsuya witnesses a rare moment of Naoto wearing glasses and teaching a little girl about the care of birds, which brings back memories of Naoto and Tatsuya's peaceful college days.

2. 俺·達/"I/Us". Naoto and Tatsuya through the years, from their first meeting at the end of high school to the final battle. Nearly ends with a reminder of the downer ending, but then! Tatsuya: "I'm going to try changing what Naoto couldn't change..."

3. 【TR 四コマ】作者ちゃんと赤ちゃん達１――口は災いの元/[TR 4-Koma] The author and The Little Reds――The mouth is a source of disaster. The rare fanart with 'ヤオイ臭い'(the scent of yaoi)/shippy undertones. Featuring the breaking of the fourth wall and chibi!Tatsuya! The author observes that Naoto has a small mouth and thin lips, and chibi!Tatsuya climbs back into canon to confirm with a kiss <3