Just in: more fanarts from some awesome artists! Check the Fanarts (lineart) page for a great sketch of Morio by gmonique89 and a couple new ones by the ever-talented sozoteki.

Also …

“All in Good Fun” by jkd989

and …

   “The hEVAN” by vayne.

Those two can be found on the colored fanarts page, and thanks again!

Soooooo two new fanarts added today!!

     “In the Beginning” by sozoteki

This one is “What to do with a Baby Boy” by My_Only_Love. Available to view on the Colored Fanarts page.

This one is “Beautiful” by sozoteki. Available to view on the Linearts Fanarts Page.

Enjoy!!!

Very cute Check out the Tanny and Samantha fanart submitted by RadicallyHybrid. The larger version can be found on the Fanart Lineart page.

  Also, a very adorable image of Kurt and Tanny by sozoteki.

Thanks!!!

So it always happens to me: this sort of sad, empty-ish sort of feeling whenever I finish a story or project.  Granted, I don’t really have that feeling so much when I finish a oneshot, but something a little longer, that takes some time and involvement?  Sure … It always does.

Having just finished Purity 8: Vendetta (the final chapters will be posted in the next couple weeks), I was taking a moment to look back on the stories thus far, and I wonder, you know?  How much of myself really does show in those?  How much of myself have I given away?  No, it doesn’t bother me; not so much, but it does make me wonder if anyone actually does quite understand exactly how much goes into the stories I write?  Let’s put it this way: if you want someone to read something and get out of it even a portion of what you’re trying to convey, you have to put a hell of a lot of yourself into it, to start with.

So, you know.

Anyway, there were a few surprises for me along the way; things that weren’t there when the story was first planned out.  Tanny wasn’t there. Really.  She just sort of cropped up, and I loved her.  She added about twenty extra chapters to the story, but that’s all right.  I think, in hindsight, that the story just wasn’t one that was meant to be told in fifty chapters or less.  It completely screwed up my own timeline, as far as what I wanted to do and have done this year, but that’s all right.  I think the end result was worth it; at least, it was to me.

And now … off to torment Evan, and I have to say that it’s going to be so strange, getting to focus on him for awhile.  He’s … well, he’s a lot of fun to write.  He basically does whatever he pleases and says whatever he wants, so he’s a fun guy, right?  Sure … let’s see if I can keep him on track, right?  Riiiiiiiiiiiight …

Let’s have a moment of silence for Vendetta … I’ll miss that story a lot.

So … just got done adding a few fanarts … look for them on their perspective pages

Green Bits by anglica incarnate

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December Thirtieth by sotozeki

Sami by sotozeki

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Sami by unique_fallen_angel (Zero)

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Kurt by Sueric

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Enjoy!

Sooooooooooo I finally got off my lazy butt and figured I’d update … Let’s start with the big stuff, eh?

Avouchment is finished.  Makes me sad.  I love Griffin, so it’ll be hard to move on …

okay, or maybe not so hard …

The first chapters of both Purity 8 and Purity 9 are posted on Media Miner.  Purity 8 is going to be fairly intense to write, so I figured I’d break tradition and post some of 9 as I go so that I can trade off if I need to.  Don’t worry.  There isn’t much in the way of spoilers, so you’re good to go …

Also posted are new fanarts by sozoteki.  Be sure to check those out, and a huge thanks to sozoteki for your great work!!!

So I just uploaded two new fanarts on the fanart lineart page.  They were done by the very talented sozoteki on deviantart, and I’m very happy to share them here, too :)   One is an image of Ryomaru and Nezumi, the other is a sketch of Mikio, so please do check them out!

A lot of people have emailed of late to ask me where I’ve been.  I suppose that I just got sidetracked.  I’ll explain.  Back in February, my first “girl” died.  Abby wasn’t that old: only around 8 years or so, and she was my first dog.  Seriously, when my husband brought her home, I confess I wasn’t much of a dog person, but Abby just . . . well, there was something about her.  Anyway, when she got sick, we took her to the vet, but she was gone the next day.  I’ve been pretty heartbroken over this, and while I still have Bear and Teddy, I doubt that anything can fill the place in my heart that Abby did for so long.

So the day that the husband went in to bring her home so that we could bury her nearby, he also brought home four orphaned puppies, too.  We didn’t know if we could raise them, given that they were infants at the time (less than a day old, I think), but the alternative of having them put to sleep was bad, too.  After all, they were just too little to stand a chance, and the odds of successfully raising puppies that young by hand are not so good.  But we had to try, and I rather think that it’s been quite cathartic for me.

By some miracle that I’ll never truly understand, though, our girl, Bear (Abby’s daughter) took those puppies in and made them hers, and by even greater miracle, she began to lactate a few days after we brought the babies home.  I’ll never know exactly how it happened or why, but I know that maybe there really is a balance in the world.  To have lost those babies would have just killed me, especially after having just lost Abby, too.  So I suppose that it’s proof that life does go on.

So I’ve lately gotten back to writing.  I figured, though, that after this time, I’ll just finish Avouchment and post it together (it will take about a week to post the rest of the chapters at one chapter per day).  Then I want to get a few chapters of Purity 8 behind me before posting those because the opening of that story is extremely important.  In the meantime, though, there are chapters of Purity 9 posted (don’t worry; there won’t really be any spoilers to worry about regarding Purity 8, so it is safe to read both.).  It’s just that Purity 8 is going to be extremely hard to write for me.  The subject matter is far more intense, but hopefully it will come out right in the end, too . . .

Soooooooooo after weeks of procrastination, I added three linearts to the Fanart [lineart] gallery, all done by BENGbeng!  Enjoy those!!

I also added three new images to Uchinanchu Duckie’s page: one of Nezumi, one of Bas and Sydnie, and one that was a silly challenge on DA but it amused me, so there you go :)   Those can be seen on her page.

Some might have noticed, too, that I also updated Desideratum *gasp!!*  Please don’t ask about future updates though.  I’ll update it when I get the urge to, and even then, I highly doubt that many people will enjoy the next chapter, so there’s that, too …

Anyway, back to the ol’ grind.  I’m working on finishing up Avouchment, so look forward to that!

Oneshot posted! Also, new fanart added to uchinanchu duckie’s page, so please do check it out!

The Lesson can be found on Media Miner.  I’ll add a PDF as soon as I can.

Happy birthday to me!!

I don’t know how many of you noticed.  I’ve been editing Purity 2: Defiance pretty heavily.  This isn’t the same as the small “fix this, fix that” type edits I normally do.  This is a pretty extensive edit.  I started reading the story the other day for kicks and realized that I was officially underwhelmed with the project.  I simply didn’t have any real, concrete memories of the story, and in my mind, that rather spoke volumes.  I encourage those who read and enjoyed the story to give it another read-through, either as I repost it or after I create a new PDF of it.

In other news, I plan on posting a special oneshot on Sunday (my birthday) along with a very, very special fanart by uchinachuduckie.  I hope you all enjoy them.  They give some rather interesting insight that you may not have had before.

For now, though, I’m off to finish editing another chapter of Toga’s story.  I’ve been trying to get at least one chapter done a day, along with my regular writing, so wish me luck!