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Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arc: Decagram
Story: Business as Usual
chapter: part.1 - Demons
word count: 14.723
rating: Mature (this chapter less so, I believe)
Story summary: ...in which Seishiro and Subaru learn the hard way that overcoming the differences of two feuding clans is nothing in comparison to a business merger!
Chapter summary: At least, they answered the phone.

Link to part.1 at the Archive of Our Own

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Thomas Bergersen - Star Sky

Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arc: Decagram
Story: Domiciliary Visit
Side-Story to Family Matters
word count: 1193
rating: Teen
Summary: In 36°-X, Takamura Suoh was gravely injured by the Twin Star, who intended to skewer Seishiro and Subaru before they could invoke the Dao and trapping him in this reality. Suoh rejected spiritual heal-ing without which he would die. This story reveals why he isn’t dead. Its events occur during chapter 5 (Spring Thaw) of Family Matters and are mentioned briefly in chapter 20 (Family Matters).

Link to the AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27670138

Current Mood: nervous

Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Story Arc: Decagram
Story: Business as Usual
chapter: part.0 - On Vacation
word count: 22.696
rating: Mature
Summary: ...in which Seishiro and Subaru learn the hard way that overcoming the differences of two feuding clans is nothing in comparison to a business merger!
Chapter summary: Golden Week 2000

Warnings: "Business as Usual" as a whole is rated R for violence, (organized) crime, occultism, sexual situations, alternative lifestyles, and a vocal tree having issues. Single chapters may be less restricted.

As a direct sequel it may not make sense unless you know the previous parts of the Decagram, most notably "36°" and "Family Matters". You can find all stories of the Decagram at the Archive of our Own and on my homepage.

My stories are based solely on the German translation of the Clamp manga books, therefore there might be differences in names and details from the English or Japanese editions.

Link to the Archive of Our Own

Current Mood: accomplished

My fanfic rating policy can be found here.

Fandom: The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker

Title: Soot-free [complete]
Beta:

solo, the awesome!
Characters: Sicarius (~5-6 years old), (Hollowcrest, Pike), OCs
Genre: slice of life
Type: short story, one shot, complete
Size: 1282 words
Labels: none
Rating: G
Summary: Even feared assassins are curious little boys in the beginning...

Title: Run! [complete]
Beta: --
Characters: Sicarius, Amaranthe, Akstyr, Books, Basilard, Maldinado, Isabel, (Starcrest)
Genre: Crack
Type: short story, one shot, complete
Size: 653 words
Labels: everything imaginable
Rating: PG-13 (just to be save)
Summary: they have no chance whatsoever!

Title: The Dark Side of Fame, The Light Side of Infamy [complete]
Beta: --
Characters: Sicarius, Amaranthe, Akstyr, Books, Basilard, Maldinado, Lady Dourcrest,(Deret Mancrest)
Genre: slice of life, film noiresque
Type: canon
Size: 2910 words
Labels: libels and cramps
Rating: PG-13
Summary: An upcoming novel release, monthly cramps, and a fallen childhood hero tumbling the group into turmoil.

Title: The Night [complete]
Beta: --
Characters: Sicarius, Amaranthe, Sespian
Genre: ghost story
Type: canon, possibly AU after EE5
Size: 799 words
Labels: none
Rating: PG
Summary: Once a year on The Night, the spirits of Turgonian deceased come to see what their descendants did with the life given to them... [winning story of the Halloween contest 2012 on the Emperor's Edge forum]

Fandom: Tokyo Babylon - X/1999

( ~~~~~ Decagram Arch ~~~~~ )

( ~~~~~ Standalone Fic ~~~~~ )

( ~~~~~ Short Fic & Drabbles ~~~~~ )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: X - Sadame

I finally got around to create the planned Decagram - Outtakes WIP on AO3. Nothing great, nothing edited, but at least the abandoned snippets won't be buried in 10 years worth of blog posts. :)

Current Mood: accomplished

This is a crack-scene that was once written for within Family Matters (after chapter 12 but before chapter 14). Since it wouldn't work at another time, and doesn't fit as a side-story, here it is...

...unbetaed, unedited, just for the lulz.

Main Story: Family Matters [https://archiveofourown.org/works/688109/chapters/1263312]
Outtake: Fishwives
Fandom: Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Scheduling Subaru-san's jobs has become complicated.

( outtake behind the cut )

Current Mood: mischievous

Now that my website is up-to-date (and Crystal Structures posted), it's time to present the fics depending on it. Here's the first one:

Fandom: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Title: Dark Ozark
Rating: R
codes: violence, fungi, lack of house-training for horses.
characters: Goose, Niko, Annie O, Darkstar, Walsh (brief appearances of Waldo and Doc)

Summary: Annie O's shot and it's not easy for a wanted woman like Darkstar to call the cops (err-- the rangers).

Important references: Crystal Structures, Weaknesses Are To Be Erased, Strange

You can read it on my website: http://www.annkniggendorf.de/page206.html
or on the AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13349835

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: No Guts, No Glory

I updated my homepage to a contemporary code base. It was originally done in HTML-3, literally in the last Millennium. It's now adaptable to different screen sizes (including large 4K displays and tiny phones) and again holds all my fan fictions for CLAMP's Tokyo Babylon/X-1999, Lindsay Buroker's The Emperor's Edge, and Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

I also relocated the fan art gift gallery for the Decagram there, since maintaining it without an image hosting service has become decidedly tedious as of late.

Have a look at http://www.annkniggendorf.de

Now, that it's back up & functional, writing will commence!

Business As Usual... *eg*

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Sadame

Editing Crystal Structures was finally completed today. The story clocks in at 72.958 words in six chapters and has been uploaded to the Archive of Our Own at http://archiveofourown.org/works/13111320

I'll add a PDF version including frontispieces to my ancient homepage at www.annkniggendorf.de later today.

Please let me know what you think of it.

Current Mood: accomplished

Yay, finally some progress. Lots of small issues in scribbles were added to the text and I'm fleshing out the reception. A change of location was needed to account for some of the new "personae dramatis". I wish I had more time to work on it now, but the alarm clock will be relentless tomorrow morning.
Anyways, here's a small excerpt of today's progress (or lack thereof):

The main docking bay had been cordoned off and decorated with flags, a raised dais, and rows of white-decked tables. Navy personnel, decked out in dress blues, formed an honor guard behind and to the left and right of the area holding the tables. A broad swath along the walls had been handed over to the press. Tri-D drones whirred overhead, kept at bay by the safety netting strangely in place across the dock despite neither this nor the two adjacent bays were in use.
Safety in more than one aspect, Gooseman thought when more than a dozen of the drones tried to zoom in on their table – and him specifically. At least, the fucking tri-D buzzers won’t splash into my coffee. This felt less like a military ceremony and more like Mrs. Hays’ madhouse(*). He suppressed a shudder."

(*) see Beyond the Frontier

Current Mood: happy

Finally some progress.

Crystal Structures 6 (the Epilogue included) is currently at 18 A4 pages, 14 of which are continuous, hopefully somewhat readable text. Since I don't have an active editor for GR, that means the chances that CS will be posted this year - barring any unknown catastrophes ahead - are quite good. Which also means that all of you (yes, apparently there is still a single individual not myself lurking out here for updates), who wait for the Dekagram to continue may hope for Business As Usual beginning in 2016. We'll see.

I'm still convinced there's a gazillion threads in CS that I failed to pick up and close properly, but at least the reworked Zach & Eliza scene is coming together nicely (though I still have to finish the paragraph about the tattoo - and no, that tattoo and the backstory about it is NOT negotiable!) and do a reread on paper to see, whether or not the scene holds up to scrutiny.

If that works out, then there are only two scenes left: the honoration and the epilogue with O'Mega's parcel, both of which will remain essentially unchanged plotwise - albeit some polishing and streamlining is required. And then it's done. Stay tuned. For realz.
:-)

And for reading all this to the end, here's an excerpt of today's new stuff:

His artificial skin had felt warm and natural, but then she’d held on just a little firmer, and there’d been no bones underneath but a smooth metal structure, reminding her that there beside her was enough power to bring down a combat spacecraft.
She suppressed a shiver, recalling piloting one he’d brought down. No, that had to have been the slaverlord she’d powered. She recalled being collected off the battlefield later without so much as a scratch – and that ship had been blown apart around her.

Crystal Structures 5...
...is done. Work on the final chapter 6...
...is about to begin.

Other than planned, the material left at the end of 5 will result in 6 being a full chapter rather than an epilogue. At least, that works well with the nice frontispiece I have for it. ;-)
And here's the last sentence of chapter 5:

"So that's what you're protecting, Joe," he said quietly. [Adml. Subadar].

Crystal Structures chapter 5 saw a lot of work today, growing by almost 5 continuous pages (discounting two ToDo's on the last one). I think I finally figured out how to tell the battle of the Psychocrypt in fewer words with more tension. It's all in the relative timing (more or less). I'm still unsure that I caught every plot thread properly - several revisits on paper during my morning commute will have to check for that, but overall things are looking better.

Teaser:

=Regroup.= Command ordered. =Proceed with caution.=
The floor was solid on this side, Goose noted, the entrance to the crypt ahead still open. Half the squad was on this side of the seal. Bare walls. No cover. Any forces ahead could bring enough fire power to cut through armor. Caution would kill them.
"Charge!" he barked, throwing off the helmet in favor of unhindered senses.

Current Mood: hopeful

I finally got to the actual battle scenes (and realized there is WAY TOO MUCH text for it to have the effect I want), hence: CUT CUT CUTTEDICUT. Am now basically going from "storming the asteroid" to "Doc's programs to the rescue" in less than one page!

The usual issues with editing an old text:
(a) was my English really THAT bad back then? and
(b) *whine* I loved those cut scenes somewhat fierce!

Current Mood: determined

Final chapter (discounting the epilogue), adding some intrigue of Zach's for a change:

"—four squads in gecko suits, each led by a Galaxy Ranger with knowledge of the terrain will proceed into the interior along the axis corridors and seize control of the installation, including main control and the crypt itself. Further space marine contingents will secure the access points and locks. You will spend the next 18 hours informing yourself about the installation and the additional safety gear."

It didn't sit well with Zach that the team would be separated during the mission, but there was no way to avoid it and still make use of their experience in Crown installations. Doc and Niko stood beside him, Goose was a shadow in an unmarked, dark gray Navy overall behind the admiral. The ST either didn't receive his gear or hadn't had time to change into his proper uniform. Secret orders and legal status not withstanding, the ST was one of his people and had the right to the white-and-blues! And then there was Walsh's personal order—
Zach narrowed his eyes. He'd have to do something about this. And do it fast. "Doc," he hissed under his breath, looking pointedly at the spot right at his side, making the hacker inching closer as if just not standing quite still at attention. "Can you get us access to each others' feeds?"
Doc tilted his head, appearing to listen even more attentively to the admiral while obscuring his, "and a com link bypassing the bridge?"
Zach nodded grimly.
Doc waited for another statement of the admiral before nodding. "I'll need access to the suits, including Goose's."
"'k."

Current Mood: mischievous

CS5 saw some rather drastic edits over the last two days, namely the Eliza thread got severely cut back, resulting CS5 currently being 13 pages (down from 17) of continuous text. However, it puts the Eliza thread at the same level as the military thread, allowing for a better balance in story telling.
As a plus: since now I have to go over the whole chapter with a very fine "continuity comb" anyway, I can make better use of Eliza's unique perspective as a true outsider to the Rangers and their abilities. After all, she was frozen before their unit was even established!

"As if they'd freeze a Galaxy Ranger!"
"They've got no such qualms when it comes to a supertrooper, Lady."
A supertrooper? Eliza froze. She remembered the broadcasts about the disastrous military project before they left for Kirwin. But those-- "Let me guess," she asked sardonically, "you were the baby-face?"

After a long, work-related hiatus, CS5 is finally getting some love again. Here's a collection of snippets I previously hauled at everyone not defriending me fast enough on Facebook:

August 20:
finally some progress on the war room planning scene. I really need time to type things into file!!!

August 23:
[Gooseman] shifted on his bunk. This was a military operation. Other than Zach, Doc and Niko, he hadn't been deployed as personnel. He'd been dispatched as property.
Package content: 1 ST type BDC, ID: 1643453, self-ambulatory, armed.
He snorted.

August 24:
"Have you heard anything about Goose?" Doc asked quietly once they were past the checkpoint.
"He's still on the Comanche. I've ordered his traveling gear to be delivered shipside."
"They really didn't let him leave yesterday?"
"No." Zach shook his head, looking grimly ahead. "There was nothing I could do after they invoked his legal status."

Overall, CS5 is now continuous text of 17 A4 pages. However, there's still important stuff left to come, namely the raid on the Psychocrypt and its aftermath, although the official conumdrum may be delegated to CS6, which has be downgraded to an Epilogue deserving the name.

Current Mood: energetic

Sadly, Mission Report 42 is not the answer to the life, the universe and all the rest of GR. Things have been unsatisfactorily busy on my life, hence progress was stalled. However, finally things are speeding up again, as the snippet below proves:

"Grim news."
"The Crown?" Walsh straightened.
Subadar snorted. "Worse. The Board."
Walsh signalled for Sheela to leave the room and seal the office. "BELVA, keep this private."
=Yes, sir.= The AI rotated briefly. =Privacy mode engaged. Scanning for eavesdroppers.=
"We're going to raid the Psychocrypt," Subadar said after the AI disappeared from the now green-framed screen. "In three days from now."

Current Mood: determined

Editing CS5: I finally got past the Eliza goes home scene (including Doc's famous restoration of GV), though it will still see a check-through on paper. Next will be new stuff with Walsh, Subadar and politics. Finally!

CS5 now stands at 15 edited pages with a total of 32, which is likely to fluctuate widely since I'm cutting stuff, restructuring the rest, and adding new threads (politics / Subadar) to give the plot a more firm footing. Stay tuned.

"Don't sweat it. People are still too party-brained to make trouble, anyway." He suddenly sidestepped Zach and, with a broad smile on his face, tapped at an imaginary hat. "Was nice to meet you, Mrs. F. You really ought to wear all his shirts—"
"Doc!" Zach snapped.
"—they are looking much better on you than on him."

Current Mood: accomplished

Editing CS5 continues sloooowly. I finally got past the memory lane scene (cutting another bunch of descriptive half-sentences helped) and now started on working through the breakfast morning. Problem with that one: I have no clue about recipes & how those things are called in En, hence... RESEARCH. Sheesh, CS5 begins to feel like the Dekagram in that regard. :p

Unrelated side note: I finally got a hold of a smartwatch that doesn't look like a leftover of a steampunked Dick Tracy gadget (and also doesn't pack a gazillion functions I don't even use on my phone, much less so on something tied to my wrist (like voice commands, for example)).
As it is, it transfers the notifications I receive on my phone (a LOT, since I use timer, remind me, and Tasks checklist apps to organize my day & tell me in time what has to be done in time) as vibration against my wrist.

Advantage: my commandeering phone no longer disturbs my coworkers.
Disadvantage: now I hear "ALMA's voice" only at home, da sigh.

There are a few other things built in - like a step counter (slightly less nervous than the one on the phone) and puls and sleep counters (don't need & don't plan to use them; what does it help to know how I sleep when I can't change the conditions? Nada.)

Additional plus: no built-in mike. If some spy wants to listen in, s/h(e)/it listens to the rustling in the office wardrobe (I typically hang up the phone along with the coat... *eg*)

Anyway, nice weekend. :)

Current Mood: happy

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AKK Fanfic Guide for DW

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