And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

latenightiridescence:

Rereading the scene I wrote for that Arashi no Yoru Ni AU Toriko fic I mentioned…

I think the real reason I abandoned it was because I couldn’t handle the angst.

I’m so dumb.

I really really really want this fic badly. I’m pining for this fic. Please please please? Werewolf four kings with little goat Komatsu … that would be so awesome. Komatsu would be such a bouncy little goat too. T___T Is it really shelved? Is there anything I can do to like, erm … prod it back?

Though I understand … I’ve had fics go belly up before. *nods nods nods* This fandom already has made me shelve three drabbles, so *shrugs* I’m not one to be talking. But still, if you ever go back to it, know that you already have one drooling reader? :)

Oof. Back to work. Enough procrastinating, though this is a lovely break. ^_^

Grrr. I shouldn’t actually be here right now *glances around furtively* but I’m a little grumpy because of work and the fact that people keep putting more on my to-do list without giving me enough warning -_-.  I hate last minute work surprises, and some part of me rebels by just saying “NO” and shutting down, refusing to do any more work for the night. People really should do their own work instead of making me do it. *sighs*

Apparently, tonight’s rebellion has taken the form of going onto tumblr and grousing. XD

But I hate to be a damp raincloud that brings nothing but gloom and complaining, so yeah. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Toriko so yeah. I kinda feel a little guilty, at times, that I still haven’t bought at least one volume of the manga, but sooner or later I will. I just have to get off my bum and get talking to a few contact and see if I can get the vegetable sky arc. :)

Toriko never fails to make me happy. It actually has a pretty good artist following on pixiv as well.

Tonight, though, I’d like to highlight one of my favorite artists, Kuro.

And just in case you’re wondering about wtf?! with the wolf ears and goat tail … well, click the read more!

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Silly heading aside, yeah, I’m feeling a little pensive and tentative about posting this, since I pretty sure I am in the minority on this, and well, that never gives one an optimistic feeling.

Also, I’m not one to get on bandwagons, not that I’m too hip for the mainstream, but because I’m so slow and ponderous that the bandwagon’s  usually already over the hill and through the woods before I lumber my way towards it.

But I have been thinking about SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, and to be honest, feeling really uncomfortable about it.

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*turns off the timer for the writing exercise* You know that saying … the one involving words and writing, and needing to go through about a million before you even find one worth keeping?  Seems like I’m adding to my million pile today.

I totally need practice (until I finally decided to write for Toriko, I hadn’t written anything for fun in more than eight months) and man, I’m really feeling it tonight!

I was doing the “write as much as you can within a time limit” exercise. And well, since it’s an exercise in getting it all down, I chose a really stereotypical, overdone fandom premise so I wouldn’t have to think about too much and just concentrate on getting my prose to say what I wanted it to say.

Except, I did. Overthink it, I mean. And as a result … how in the hell did I manage to make a really tried-and-true-premise-with-a-potential-to-get-all- sexytiems boring I’m not certain but, well, yeah.

Then the time was up, and now I’m like “well shit.” I’m going to try again later, but before I do, does anyone out there have a good prompt they want to see done in the Toriko fandom? I’m apparently failing at prompting myself. *mutters* For writing challenges, I don’t generally do teh prons, since well … *blush* I get distracted. But I’m great at going on and on ad infinitium about boring stuff. XD

Okay, back to whacking at monsters with Link. And afterwards, pirates. Woohoo. I love having free time!

Sauce

So … this is what I did with my free time instead of writing Toriko fic or actually getting ahead in my work.

Comic by the indomitable: Kelly Turnbull from her webcomic : Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. 

Her comics make me snerk and fear for my keyboard, simultaneously, especially if I have been imbibing near my keyboard at the time of snerking. :)

(For the record, if the bishoukuya thing ever fails, Toriko may have a shot at going to The Commander’s temp agency XD)

(And see, Ma? I have other interests besides just Toriko fandom. Heee. Seriously. I do. Really. *snort*)

Though I don’t mind Fi too much … I think I like Midna the best though. Welp, enough killing Link through sheer incompetence and the occasional odd  camera angle (seriously, the up the ass shots when something is trying to chomp off my head is NOT appreciated). Time to write something. I still don’t know what though. *headclutchy*

Can’t. Decide. Write drabble ideas or write long fic? Rrrrgh. Why Toriko fandom? Why do you spawn such a need to write fic at the first sign of free time?!

So, choices are these:  A) ficlet based on recent manga chapters B) ficlet involving the four kings and Komatsu on a camping trip, C) Pirate fic.

Screw it, I am going for D) turn on game console and whack away at monsters until solution appears. XD

*Grumbles* Though knowing myself, I’ll be back in an hour waffling again. XP

latenightiridescence said: Good to see you again! All of your speculation is amazing, especially the bit about the pines. When put like that, it makes so much sense. And K’s notebook - I thought it was written by the Nitro, but if it were Frohze’s, that’d be incredible.

Hehe, it’s just speculation for a fic idea more than a real theory. I think the chance that Komatsu’s current cookbook is Frohze’s is pretty small — though now that I’ve looked through the Nitro chapter again, the translation only says that the book was created from what the creatures left behind, not that it was written  by the creatures.

And now that I think about it, the thing that keeps me tilting my head like a puzzled chihuahua is that Komatsu was able to understand the techniques because of his own cooking experiences — that means what’s detailed in the books must be similar to human techniques of food preparation, right? However … I think there was something in the manga about how nitro were kidnapping chefs because they wanted to learn human techniques. That’s the part that doesn’t quite make much sense. If they know human techniques, enough to write a book that a human chef would understand … then they wouldn’t need to kidnap chefs to learn their techniques, right? So perhaps the book was written by a human chef reinterpreting the nitro’s cooking?

Or perhaps I’m being too much of a dork and overthinking it. Stopping now before embarrassment really sets in. XD But yup, glad to be back and to see you too! :) How’s it going? I’ve missed poking around in the fandom. Actually, I have two drabble ideas, but I’m trying to decide if they are worth writing when I really should be either polishing the long fic or writing the end to it. *grumbles*

Okay, so that was quite a long run of radio silence. I was expecting it; at this time of year, work kinda subsumes everything I do. It’s not exactly healthy, but I still haven’t learned quite how to balance having fun with needing to pay the bills, but oh well. It makes me happy that there’s stuff like fandom to come back to whenever I get a chance to doggie paddle to the top of the load.

Did manage to read the newest chapter of Toriko. I’m still kinda snerking at the huge muscles Komatsu’s sporting … his head looks so tiny! And I bet Toriko had to lend him a shirt, because there’s NO way that he could have fit into his own wardrobe at the moment. (Since they said that this “doping garlic” could last a month, Komatsu’s probably going to have to live out of Toriko’s closet for that long. XD)

I think, though, the real part that interested me was … (cut for spoilers and a HUGE LONG DORKY FANGEEKING TLDR SPIEL ABOUT TORIKO)

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the times they are a-changin': yay pirates?

latenightiridescence:

Since wonderble started posting her Toriko pirate AU (which is incredible), I can’t stop thinking about my own even though I don’t have time to write it right now, drat.

Mine is more of a Pirates of the Caribbean AU - every fandom needs movie rewrite fic, don’t try and deny it - and even though…

Yaaaay! More pirate fic! XD Though honestly, I’m kinda embarrassed cause I took the idea from you in the first place! There is always enough room for more AUs, and I think every author will have their own unique spin on it. I’m kinda really excited for this. And I really like the idea that Komatsu is tougher  and the guys are real pirates … sometimes I wonder if I took the softer way out, since the Kings in my fic aren’t pirates because … well. … you’ll see. It’s also not anything revolutionary … it’s just a rewriting of the Toriko manga as if they were pirates and if Komatsu met all the four kings. One of the weaknesses is that it doesn’t have a driving storyline. It’s just like one event after another. *Face palm* I just hope people stick around. XD

Yours sounds awesome and does have a driving storyline. *SNERK at damsel in distress OOTAKE* The way you’re writing the kings as real pirates, it has a real edge that way. Though Komatsu’s choice … that’s something that I think both our fics will have to answer. *g*

I will confess that there’s also a “b” side to my fic in that I’ve been contemplating too … there are Gourmet Enforcers in the Empire I’m writing … though the normal ones are just military grunts, the upper echelons are composed of the Bishokukai — and it’s a world where they’ve won.  I’ve kinda thought about making a dystopian Au where the kings are bad guys who do let the appetites get the better of them, and Komatsu’s just been caught in violation of the ideals espoused by the dystopia (because, well, yeah).

I don’t actually write those things very well; I’m not a grim and gritty angst writer, to be honest. But this picture by mee isn’t helping any. Why am I so easily distracted?

I can’t wait for your fic though! YAY!

Artist: Ryouma

Source: Pixiv

Well, actually, I normally do a fic roundup at the end of the year, but this year, in this fandom, I don’t have anything to round up, so I thought I might do a round up and review of some of the parts of the fandom that I could find. Starting with the fanfic … XD

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Title: Viva la Vida Piratae
Fandom: Toriko
Rating: PG-13 because Zebra has a potty mouth.
Summary: As a landlocked chef, Komatsu has never really fit in the world of the Gourmet Empire. Can an encounter with a mysterious stranger, an accidental abduction, and a whole new world of adventure help him find his place?
Warning: Toriko Pirate AU. Do I really have to say anything else? *facepalm*

Part  1A: For Goodness Steak! 

Part 1B: Pasta la Vista, Baby!

Part 2A: But I’ve Never Been to Boston in the Fall!

Part 2B: Frying Pans and Fires

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That awkward moment when you realize you’re wearing all pink and everyone is staring at you like you’re fillet mignon …

As always, from the ever awesome:

Artist: Mee

Source: Pixiv Gallery, this time, though fair warning, some pics in this series is NSFW.

HAPPY 2012!

Oops. I literally ran out of time yesterday, but I had a great time ringing in the New Years with my friends… too much of a good time, I think, since it was the front side of 4 am before I got home. <_< I could get out of bed until 1 pm too. GAAAAAH. *feels embarrassed*

But it was fun and I got to spend the New Years with the friends I see all year — the only difference was there was a lot more Ryan Seacrest and sparkly stuff.

I hope you all had a wonderful new years, spent with the people you wanna spend more of your years with. ^_^  It’s what makes the days better, IMHO.

latenightiridescence said: Viva la Vida is a great name! It helps that I love the song. xD And if you want to write fic you should do it! I wouldn’t worry about ending up with a sucky songfic with your level of skill. I’m sure anything you write will be awesome.

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XD Never underestimate me and the pure power of sucki-tude I can summon. I swear it’s like a secret superpower.  Though I kinda really want to write the songfic about Life in Techinicolor II (Particularly about Komatsu viewing Zebra) because of the lines “I can hear the rain coming, like a serenade of sound” and the idea of a war coming, and that in his life, the presence of the bishoukuya are a storm waiting on the horizon (albeit one that energizes and brings change).

… plus the idea that the Kings really do see the world in technicolor.

(Besides, it’s a huge draw, stupidly enough, that the thing actually has a ready made title and I don’t have to run screaming around in a panic because I’ve named the fic something like “Komatsu and a Tomato” in my harddrive. XD)

*stops babbling about fic that I can’t write until I finish working anyway*

Actually, I’m kinda feeling so happy about having a tentative title for the fic I’ve been running around screaming in a panic about that I might take my next break and code the next part and throw it up here. X3 YAY!

Though I’m on the subject, I wonder what songs people associate with Toriko. It might make for a neat challenge, kinda like a song tag challenge.

Better run, better run … XD

Woo, due to some unexpected occurrences mid-week,  it’s going to be a long night on my end to finish a metric ton of work so I don’t have to worry about it over New Years. But hehe, I am going to take breaks every now and then just so my brain won’t implode.

Strangely enough, I think I have an idea of what to name the pirate fic. Actually, it isn’t as much of an idea as much as the fact that Coldplay got stuck in my head while working.

How does Viva la Vida sound? I kinda like the translation, Long Live Life. Or perhaps just A Pirate’s Life (for me) would be better. I dunno. I was browsing Youtube looking for pirate songs, and well … yeah.

(For some reason, moseying around for sea chanteys kept giving me lots. and lots and lots of Enya. Oooh, horsie!) I supposed Orinico Flow/Sail Away wouldn’t be a bad name for a fic but it kinda feels weird naming a Toriko fic after an Enya song. Huh. Enya sure did have the world’s most weirdest music videos. -_o.

Though now I want to write a Toriko fic, specially about Komatsu and Zebra or even Komatsu and the other kings to this song. IDEK. NO! MUST STOP LISTENING TO COLDPLAY. MUST WORK. SONGFICS TEND TO SUCK ANYWAY. *Sighs* *Grumbles*