Velvetpaws

[Fic] Inspiration (Spirited Away)

2008-06-02T19:44:45Z

Only slightly late, here's my meme response for canis_m: a "Spirited Away" ficbit.

Inspiration

Sharply Chihiro drew in a breath--like starting awake to the sound of her alarm clock, breaking the surface of sleep into the air of a new day. She blinked at the rectangular shape in front of her for a moment or two, until it began to make sense. The brush in her hand sketched a ragged circle in midair, indecisive, diffident now that her focus had been broken, and at last she lowered it. She supposed she was probably done. A slight frown creasing her forehead, she studied the small painting perched on the easel before her.

A broad stream curved sinuously about the foot of a gnarled, sparse willow, narrowed to spill through a short drop, and then widened out once more as it reached the foreground meadow. Its banks were hazy, moss-soft washes of brilliant emerald, low hillocks fringed with wisps of long grass and sedge; the water itself was a darker, fathomless green, tracked with almost startling white where it caught the sun. There were a couple of muddy, blotched places (watercolor was really tricky, though she thought she was getting the hang of it), but overall....

"Well?" Haku asked quietly, as if still mindful of her concentration. "How is it?"

"Eehh...I think it's okay?" She couldn't quite keep the rising pitch of dubiousness out of her voice. Glancing past the easel, she peered intently at her model, still sitting with graceful ease against the bole of the ancient tree, his legs curled up beneath him. Sunlight through the scant curtain of branches traced delicate patterns across his white yukata; his eyes seemed to have captured and concentrated all those shadows as he returned her gaze with an elusive smile of almost catlike serenity. Squinting, she looked from the painting to the god and back a couple of times, then frowned once more, crossing her arms and pursing her lips.

"It's so weird, though," she murmured, more to herself than anything else. "Somehow, it always comes out like this."

The genesis of this one is kind of interesting: the night after you won the meme, I had a dream in which slightly-smaller-than-Haku-sized white dragons were serving as messengers for a certain region of a kingdom. (I think they were caught up in a civil war of some kind?) And then I woke up from the dream, and I knew exactly what this ficbit was going to be about. Despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the dream except for the dragons. I guess a dragon messenger brought the idea?

ETA: I think this is the first fic I've finished and posted in two years. (The robot porn story was in June 2006.) Yikes.

tokyofish, I haven't been hit with any ideas for the Sorashi yet. Sorry! If you want to, you can try giving me a prompt of some kind and see if that shakes anything loose.

velvetpaws @ 2008-06-01T20:20:00

2008-06-02T00:21:47Z

Sakura word count: 1369

Still not &@#$%! dead.

Shh! Himitsu!

2008-04-22T16:18:30Z

I'm vastly amused by the fact that CLAMP's forthcoming Mangettes for Dark Horse are apparently so secret that even Dark Horse doesn't know anything about them. ^_^;; Oh CLAMP, you crazy, crack-headed ladies you....

Two memes for the price (?) of one

2008-04-21T16:33:15Z

O hai--new Le Guin book. Looks tasty. ^_^

Memes pilfered from canis_m (even though I'm not entirely sure I have the brain cell for this ^^;;;):

Your mission is this: give me a pairing (or multiple pairings, if you are feeling particularly ~~mean~~ generous). I, in meme-like fashion, will respond to you with at least 100 words of blab ~~probably~~.

AND/OR

Quote at me a passage--five words, minimum--from one of my fics. I will guess which fic the passage is from without cheating. If (= WHEN) you stump me, I owe you a ficbit featuring a character from the fic you stumped me with.

velvetpaws @ 2008-04-14T15:02:00

2008-04-14T19:06:11Z

Thanks for the supportive comments. ^_^ I keep feeling as though this cycling must be getting really tiresome for whomever's reading it--progress and effervescence! no progress and depression! It makes *me* tired, anyway.

At any rate, progress continues, and thus also a reasonable amount of bounciness. The current scene is going on a bit longer than I'd meant it to, though I think the blathering is being kept pretty close to a minimum. (Although, dude--ONIONS, wtf? I think I may have to cut that bit.) And I went back and reread one of the earlier parts of the chapter and managed to make myself teary eyed, so that looks like a win.

I think part of what's helping is that I'm permitting myself reading and anime time. I'm not sure how much of it was a low-energy state that kept me from being able to invest any excitement in, well, just about anything, and how much of it was me punishing myself for not getting enough accomplished, but I've been running for ages off a bare minimum of creative *input*. Survivor just doesn't cut it. :P

So I've been rereading some of the Vorkosigan novels, in hopes of encouraging more forward momentum, because if anyone is the master of forward momentum, it's Miles. Animewise, I finally got up through my previous stopping point in Hajime no Ippo, so I'm now into new-to-me episodes. Just finished Ippo's fight against Okita for the 5th rank spot, and it looks like the Miyata in Thailand episodes are coming up next! ♥ (Although why is that phrase giving me "Miyuki-chan in Wonderland" flashes....) And now that I'm getting hold of decent files (thank you again! *sparkles*) I'm slowly getting started on KKM. I'm only up to episode 7, so we just finished the Morgif quest. And, at least so far, I am *such* a Conrad fangirl. ^_^

velvetpaws @ 2008-04-08T16:38:00

2008-04-08T20:49:58Z

I finished the Seiichirou scene.

I finished. The Seiichirou scene.

Excuse me WHILE I ROCK.

I also pretty much got through the following scene. Which means just one more round of PoVs to go. About ten more scenes. *takes a deep breath*

It turned out that I needed to sit down for an entire day and just power through it. (I took yesterday off to give myself a long birthday weekend, and that was basically all I did all day. Well, that and laundry.) I also ended up switching out of WriteRoom and back into Word, because in the end I couldn't justify spending about $25 on a full-screen writing program when I could get nearly the same effect just by maximizing my Word window. ^^;;; Also, the green-on-black proved not to be quite contrasty enough.

I have no idea what yesterday's word count was, but it must be something near 1000, considering the tail end of the Seiichirou scene alone was over 600, not counting inserts to the earlier bits.

I rewarded myself with cake. ^_^

Random update: anime and writing software

2008-04-03T02:25:22Z

So I finally finished out the Ouran anime. Hurray! That really was excellent fun, all the way through. Love, love, love these characters. I even kind of "get" Honey, and I respect him for his choices, although he still doesn't really appeal to me personally. (So not my moe.)

I'm currently working on torrenting the Kyou Kara Maou TV series (which I've actually never seen before), but alas, the batch torrent I've found has glitchy files. Watchable, though barely. I really just want to see a little of it to see if it actually interests me. I started watching the OVA that's just being released, and the first episode was intriguing--but then it sort of cliffhangered, and the second episode didn't pick up there but apparently went off on a different storyline entirely, one that probably is a lot more endearing if you've seen the original series and know all about the characters and their foibles and their previous interactions. :P

In other news, I've actually been poking at Sakura again! After totally choking up for, like, weeks. And I actually think I see my way through to the end of the current scene! Despite the fact that Seiichirou seems unable to stop talking. (Nataku finally got a few words in edgewise, and that seems to have gotten things back on track.) I've found this rather awesome little shareware program, WriteRoom, which basically creates a full-screen, green-text-on-black writing environment, and I think it's helpful for me, because I've been having a lot of trouble lately with distraction. I find it mentally very soothing, at least. ^_^ Although I'm going to have to see whether it ends up being good for my eyestrain or not. There's another program, Scrivener, which apparently offers a similar full-screen mode plus a bunch of organizational writer's tools, and I'm thinking about poking at that to see if it would work well for the original fiction. (Which I'm also starting to get back to--spent the last couple of days doing some world-building.) There's always a danger of getting so wrapped up in the shiny tools that no actual work gets done, so I need to watch out for that. But it could be useful, especially since I'm starting to accumulate bits of info.

Brrr...

2008-03-24T16:40:42Z

On Friday, there was no heat in our office building, so they let us go home at noon.

Today, there is still no heat in the building. Home, alas, does not appear to be forthcoming.

Cold kitty is cold. ;_;

velvetpaws @ 2008-03-14T19:55:00

2008-03-14T23:56:04Z

Meme: answering miyabiarashi:

Have you ever written any original fiction?

Not really, aside from some very early pieces and some short stories for high school and college classes. I have a whole bunch of ideas lined up that I want to work on, but at the moment they're mostly along the lines of "here are these cool characters and the overall situation, and then...stuff happens." I really need to sit down with them and either a) work through the plot outlines and necessary world building or b) just start writing and see where they go.

But this is part of why I keep wrestling with what I'm going to do about Sakura. Honestly, at the moment the main reasons I want to finish it are to avoid disappointing all the people who've been waiting and to avoid having the "fail" of this major unfinished work hanging over me as I go into original writing. Right now, I don't really have any burning desire to finish it for its own sake. And considering my current state of mental static, I'm not sure I have the brain cells to spare on it--especially if I want to have any for other stuff!

Once again, maybe I just need to go out on retreat for a while. (Hey doktor_x, if you get that job in Alaska, can I come and stay with you? -_^ )

Any influences in your writing style?

I've always said that my aspiration is to be an unholy cross of Ursula K. Le Guin, C. J. Cherryh, and Tanith Lee. Le Guin for thematics mostly, and also somewhat for writing style; Cherryh for gripping drama/tension and amazing "into-the-heads-of-aliens" PoVs; and Lee for descriptive lushness and sensuality.

velvetpaws @ 2008-03-14T19:30:00

2008-03-14T23:33:24Z

Meme: I'm consolidating aishuu and canis_m into one, since they're so closely related. ^_^

I'm curious about what anime/tv/books you currently watch and/or are obsessed with.

Seconding aishuu, with additions of manga and music. :D

Actually, I've been going through this weird period where I'm not really into anything--or rather, I have these very brief flares but no ability to sustain the focus or energy. D.Gray-man has been the latest example, where I was totally all over it, but I'm at chapter 109 of the manga and episode 17 of the anime, and it's like turning a square wheel to read/watch further. (Once I heave over the corner, I enjoy it, but that corner is a stone bitch.)

Anyway, that said...

Anime: Aside from D.Gray-man, I'm still partway through Code Geass, Ouran Host Club, and Hajime no Ippo, all of which I've been enjoying a great deal, when I actually watch them. I'm sure there's a lot more out there that I'd be interested in, but there's so *much* new stuff these days that I hardly even know where to start. And anyway I should probably finish the backlog first. ^_^

TV: I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that just about the only TV I'm watching these days is...Survivor. Isn't that sad? And again, it's not for lack of other things that I'd be interested in. But I typically only turn the TV on when I'm looking for either background noise or else a little bit of brain death, and Survivor is very good at being both of those. (So are bad movies on the Sci Fi channel, but that's only for when I'm *really* desperately in a stupor.)

Books: Still partway through Friedman's Feast of Souls. I was thinking about grabbing Komarr (one of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books, for any benighted souls who haven't read them yet ^_^) for a quick reread, but I probably should finish the one that I'm already reading first. (Heh, the pattern continues. ^_^) For nonfiction, I'm also currently halfway through Maat: The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt by Maulana Karenga.

Manga: Again, aside from D.Gray-man...actually, there's not too much here. I was really into the scanlations of the Animal X books for a while (were-dinosaurs and canonical MPREG!), but I'm kind of bogged down in that as well. I've been reading Afterschool Nightmare standing up in Borders; I'm not sure I like it enough to actually buy it, but I'm intrigued enough to want to see what happens to the characters.

Music: Mrrr...Not a lot new coming in here. Latest Duran Duran album, which I blogged about, D.Gray-man soundtrack, Tsubasa RC soundtrack. At least these I've listened through all the way!

Basically, I think that somehow I'm in a persistant state of overwhelm at the moment--too many shiny distractions, too many clicky links, not enough quiet time in which I can cool down and stop vibrating, so I'm on this hamster wheel of not getting anywhere in anything. Probably what I really need to do is get off the computer and avoid all media and go out in the woods for a few days to decompress. (Though realistically it might actually take a few weeks at least. ^^;;;)

Wow, this is a kind of depressing post. But I'm actually in a pretty good emotional place at the moment, just really, really scattered and unfocused.

velvetpaws @ 2008-03-13T14:05:00

2008-03-13T18:06:55Z

Hmm, this looks like an interesting meme. ^_^

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post comment about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal (if you want) so that we can all learn more about each other.

velvetpaws @ 2008-03-03T21:18:00

2008-03-04T02:44:51Z

Let's see...weekend stuff.

Randomly watched an episode of one of the Angelique OAVs, which I'd been curious about, since for ages I'd seen the character art here and there, and of course it's lousy with long-haired bishounen/biseinen. The highlight for me was going O HAI OMI the second Marcel showed up and opened his mouth. (Closely followed by Koyasu as Olivie. *.*) Alas, its origins as a game are stamped all over it--I've never even played the games, and I was like, okay, this is a cut scene, and this is where we would see a character portrait with some scrolling dialogue next to it, and hey, tutorial!--and it was really awfully dull for something so full of pretty men. I might check out the other OAV that I downloaded, which I think is a more recent one, to see it's any more interesting.

Also *finally* caught a couple more eps of D.Gray-man. I'd been debating skipping as much of the filler as possible and jumping right up to China and Edo, but instead I did end up finishing the Leaves of Revival and Millennium Swordsman mini-arcs. And even if it *was* terrible filler (oh, Vittorio...the hair), at least Kanda's solution was exactly true-to-character. And we got to see his nasty smile, too.

Oh, Kanda. You are a maladjusted, antisocial, stupidly bad-ass son of a bitch. And I love you so. ♥

Currently reading: Feast of Souls by C. S. Friedman, which is so far quite awesome. I'm trying to read more fantasy in the hopes of kick-starting my writing, since at the moment I'm in the crispy-black stage of burn-out. Hope never dies, though. ^_^

velvetpaws @ 2008-02-27T20:06:00

2008-02-28T01:08:02Z

Well, the word count totally fell into the bog due to a) freelance work, b) emotional meltdown, and c) constantly having to delete and rewrite bits of the Seiichirou scene because it's been making me want to stick a spork in my eye. In a metaphorical sense, of course. I don't know when I'm going to get back into gear, although I'm hoping that this weekend will see at least a bit of progress.

Despite that, I'm actually feeling pretty good today--I'm out of the ick again, at least for now, and I'm basically just concentrating on relaxing and doing some things that I enjoy. I've read a bit further in D.Gray-man, and I have to say, I can't follow the fight scenes hardly at all, so I can't wait to see more of the anime, but Krory/Jasdebi was pretty awesome. I've been kind of meh on Krory, but this was definitely win.

I also reread Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce, I think in the hopes that it would be better than I remembered it being, but alas, it wasn't. I think I got spoiled because I read her Protector of the Small series first, so I'd already done girl-overcomes-obstacles-to-become-a-knight, and her more recent take on the theme manages to avoid the things that bugged me about the older book. Like the random amethyst magical aura. And the sparklehorsie. I would have loved it when I was twelve, though. ^_^

And I was really happy to discover that Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Changeling is back in print--a cheapo iUniverse edition, but I'll take what I can get. I read it in fifth grade or so, and was never able to find it again. What's really interesting--my memories focused entirely on the fantasy world that the two girls created, the story of Tree People, so I remembered that as being much more detailed and involved than it actually is in the book--and I almost completely failed to grasp any of the interpersonal dynamics. So it's actually quite a different book than I remembered. It was still an enjoyable read, though, and I'm glad I was able to pick it up.

velvetpaws @ 2008-02-02T11:31:00

2008-02-02T16:33:13Z

Argh, Seiichirou's epiphany. It is refusing to epiph. (And the DGM smut playing in the back of my mind is not helping.)

No word count yet because I'm still slogging. :/ I just needed to vent.

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-29T21:35:00

2008-01-30T02:41:34Z

Sakura word count: 210
Final battle body count: 7

Dear brain cell:

No. We are not writing "Kanda Fails at Origami." Finish the canon material first. Thank you, and good night.

Yrs. truly,

N

In other news, in the last two days I've finished two of the three projects at work that had to be done in the first three days of this week. One more task, one more day. And I think my head has only half melted, so I might actually get through this.

Have also got more freelance work, so yay. Income is of the good.

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-27T20:43:00

2008-01-28T01:46:48Z

Sakura word count: 978
Final battle body count: 7
Random mental comment to myself: "Karen has naked powers too!"

Another scene done, and maybe halfway into the next one. I wanted to get even farther tonight, darn it, but the sleepies have hit, and I have a wicked killer week at work coming up, so I'd probably better just go thud.

(Note to self: You never, ever, ever want to watch the Saw movies, considering that you gave yourself a bad dream last night just by reading about them on Wikipedia. :/ )

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-23T22:15:00

2008-01-24T03:28:05Z

Sakura word count: 154
Final battle body count: 6

OMG the scene is done (and I'm just barely into the next one). And the chapter currently stands at exactly 24,000 words, though that does include some random notes at the end of the document. It's probably too darn ridiculously long already, though I think that the scene I've just finished *is* the last really lengthy scene and a number of the rest of them should be just impressionistic short clips. Going back and editing this all later is going to be fun. ^^

Dude, if I can finish this chapter by the end of February, I should be in a pretty good place--with enough focus, March and April *should* be enough time for me to get most if not all of the way through the aftermath chapter. (I'm expecting it to be significantly shorter than this one...it had darn well better be.)

Srsly, chapter and a quarter (if that) to go. I'm not thinking about the sequel, nooooo....

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-23T16:42:00

2008-01-23T21:43:11Z

Okay, so I've only seen up through episode 14 (though I've let myself be spoilered for some of the later stuff), so it's probably way too early to be engaging in any kind of speculation, but--has anyone actually mentioned the Allen/Destroyer of Time thing in front of Kanda? So far Komui knows, and Bookman, and Hevlaska, of course, and I think that's it. (I'm pretty sure Lavi was out of the room when Allen and Bookman were talking about it.) And has anything whatsoever been revealed about "that person," other than the fact that Kanda's goal is to find him/her? Is it evident anywhere that Kanda actually knows that person, or could it be that he's on a quest for somebody that he only knows by role or title? And what exactly does he plan to do when he finds that person?

I just can't help thinking Destroyer of Time + hourglass spell = hmmmm....

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-22T21:31:00

2008-01-23T02:44:10Z

Sakura word count: 352
Final battle body count: 4

And I'm still not done with this scene. @_@ Almost! But I'm losing focus, and my eyes are starting to swim, so I think I'm going to get off the machine and go do...something. I'm not sure what. I was going to reward myself with anime, but I'm already kind of sleepy. Maybe I'll just slowly wander bedward.

...wow, this post is really boring. But at least I'm still moving forward. ^^

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-15T21:52:00

2008-01-16T02:53:46Z

Sakura word count: 365
Final battle body count: 4

Not too much to say tonight...I'm a little bit brain dead, though not nearly as bad as last night. Not far now until the end of the scene! Maybe by the end of the week. (The chapter, on the other hand....)

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-11T21:41:00

2008-01-12T02:45:04Z

Sakura word count: 264
Final battle body count: 4

Probably would have gotten more done tonight, but I wandered off to read fic. (LadyBast's WK fic "The Price of a Smile"...*sniffles*) I beat my 200-word minimum, though, so it's all good.

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-10T21:56:00

2008-01-11T03:09:07Z

Sakura word count: 248 (1/7); 123 (1/10)
Final battle body count: 4

Tonight's small word count is mainly because I did a lot of deleting of words from Monday....

mimian and I went to see I Am Legend last night. And there was this one point when Will Smith's character goes into this dark building and it's really scary, and I was suddenly like...actually, I don't think I really want to be seeing this movie! Because I've kind of been struggling with anxiety lately, and sitting there waiting for the big scare to come was like a super-intense anxiety attack. Otherwise the movie was okay. Will Smith is almost always good. ^_^

My download orgy of D.Gray-Man continues! Just ten or so episodes left to go. Then I just have to watch it all. ^_^

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-05T19:50:00

2008-01-06T01:09:58Z

Sakura word count: 721
Final battle body count: 4

The writing went well, though I had a bit of a crash after it and wandered around in a fugue for a while. I went for a walk and raked some leaves, which helped, and then I watched some episodes of Ouran and there was lolz, which helped even more, so I'm pretty much back on an even keel by this point.

(I did have a momentary crisis where I was like, OMG, now I really want to finally finish watching Ouran, but what if it's licensed and I haven't downloaded it all yet? And I checked, and it was licensed, and I was sad. And then I checked my anime folder, and I found that I *had* in fact downloaded the whole series, and I was joyful. Because I'm often stupid like that, where I'll start watching a series but then I'll get distracted and not finish, and by the time I get back to it there's no more active torrents, either because everybody else is done with it or because it's been picked up. So the fact that I was actually with it enough to DL all of Ouran in the first flush of interest is pretty miraculous.)

I've been listening a lot to Duran Duran's new album, Red Carpet Massacre. (Thanks to coridan for the heads up that it was out!) At first listen I wasn't too wild about it--it's very synth-heavy (unsurprising, considering that they've given Andy the boot yet again) and club/dance-oriented, and it felt kind of soulless to me, especially in the wake of Astronaut, which might actually be my favorite DD album ever, or at least is very close to the top. But RCM has been growing on me with subsequent listens. Youji likes "Nite-Runner" (also totally unsurprising), while Ken seems inclined to claim "Falling Down" and "Last Man Standing" (I sense a theme here.) My brain is also trying to hook up "The Valley" with Kanda from D.Gray-Man, but I haven't seen enough of the series to know if that really works or not.

Now to decide whether to watch more anime or read tonight....

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-04T20:30:00

2008-01-05T01:46:39Z

Sakura word count: 244
Final battle body count: 4

I was doing well to get anything done today--it was another one of my scattered days--so I'm pretty happy to have ended up with this much.

In Dojo, we've left behind the wacky antics of the ancient Mulians in favor of examining similarities between Mahikari's spirit experiences and traditional Japanese shamanistic mediumship. (Shades of The Catalpa Bow, which is itself an awesomely interesting book, and in fact the author cites it.) And while we're on that particular subject, I find myself wondering something:

In one of the traditional practices, an ascetic or exorcist (male) summons a spirit into a medium (female) and speaks with it in order to sort out the problems of a client. Now, I know that there are plenty of exorcists and mediums in anime and manga, but is there anything with this specific dynamic? (I'm sure there is, and I've probably even seen it/heard of it, but I'm just blanking.) More interesting for me, are there any instances of genderqueering this relationship? (F'r ex, having the man be the medium and the woman the exorcist, or else a same-sex pairing?)

If not, I might have to write it someday. -_^

velvetpaws @ 2008-01-03T20:42:00

2008-01-04T01:51:36Z

Sakura word count: 552
Final battle body count: 4
Character who has spent the last 1700+ words naked: Karen

Wow! I had a poopy nonwriting day yesterday, but I guess I made up for it today. (Anything over 200 words is pretty awesome for me. ^_^)

I've been reading a book called Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan, and it's a real trip. It's a study of an exorcism-focused modern religious group called Sukyo Mahikari that believes things like "medicine is poison" and "all illnesses are caused by spirit possessions," and it's quite clear that studying their lore and attending their lectures and treatment sessions gave the author an intellectual headache. (He admits in his preface that the whole book was an exercise in dealing with culture shock, and his horror is frequently quite obvious.)

I think that my favorite bit so far is Mahikari's take on ancient history, which is that Japan was originally part of the continent of Mu (hee! sorry, I'm having a RahXephon moment...), and the ancient emperor Sumera Mikoto, who ruled over the entire world, sent out fifteen divine princes (and one princess) to bring civilization and religion to all the other lands. Apparently, the pyramids were first built in Japan, and Tutankhamun was a Japanese prince. Go figure. Also, Jesus came to Japan when he was eighteen to study and to receive a seal of kingship from the emperor, but when he got back to Israel he got into trouble and was almost crucified, except that his younger brother was killed in his place. Jesus himself returned to Japan where he lived to be a hundred and eighteen. Alas, eventually the Mulians became proud and corrupt, and they ended up committing miscegenation and engaging in nuclear warfare with Atlantis, which made God angry, so he sank them beneath the sea. And this would all be common knowledge, except that the communists in the Japanese Teachers Union have been repressing the information.

People believe the weirdest things.... All this story needs is some otakukin. ^_^

Now I am going to reward myself for successfully sitting down to the fanfic with chocolate chip cookies and anime.