YOUTUBE.

WHY WILL YOU NOT UPLOAD MY VIDEO? I SPENT HOURS ON THAT, AND I AM QUITE HAPPY WITH IT NOW.

BUT YOU WON'T FRICKING LET ME PUT IT ONLINE TO SHARE.

NOT HAPPY,

jak

Dear Dragon Age,

Thank you for being so awesome. On my second play-through already.

Jak

Dear Dragon Age Fandom,

Thank you for being the greatest thing since Zutara. The game has been out less than a month and there is already three pages worth of fanfiction on ff.net. I can't wait until after Christmas when even more people will have played the game and write fic for it.

jak

Dear swooping_is_bad,

Thank you for being so epically awesome that I basically have to check you every hour or so less I miss anything amazing.
And yes, Alistair is indeed the greatest muse one could ask for.

jak

Title: Pup
Author: Jakia
Word Count: 644
Summary: For swooping_is_bad challenge 3. Alistair sees Fem!Cousland's shade in the Temple, and asks a question: why the nickname Pup?

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Title: Selfish
Author: Jakia
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins
Summary: But tonight, you cry. All these things you have suffered, and tonight you cry over a stupid boy. (Fem!Cousland/Alistair. MAJOR SPOILERS LIKE WOAH.)

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I finished Dragon Age: Origins today.

I'm already writing fanfiction.

Goddamnit.

jak

(also, a review: the game is amazing.  Simply amazing.  Perhaps the best game I've ever played, and I've loved games like KOTOR and Zelda.  It is *that* good, especially in the RPG range.)

I---I just found spoilers for Dragon Age.

...
...I...

I am going to love this game.

ALSO HAPPY HALLOWEEN FLIST!  HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT ONE!

jak

(ps Jade you need to play it too, Bioware made it.)

If you could erase five characters from any fandom, who would you choose?

1.  Mai.  Arguably, it would have been like extreme lesbianism if just Azula and Ty Lee traveled around looking for the Avatar, but I would have been much happier.

2.  Sasuke.  Okay, maybe not for all of Naruto.  But for Shippuuden, totally.  I'm sick of the little bastard.

3.  Aang.  I know, aren't I a horrible person?  But can you imagine Avatar without the Avatar?  It would have been Zuko struggling to regain his honor, while Sokka and Katara and Toph were badass awesome rebel fighters.  Think about that, and then tell me you wouldn't want to watch it.

4.  Regal.  Dude, if I made Tales of Symphonia, Yuan would have been your 8th character and Regal would have just been some dude there for a minor plot thing.  In terms of storyline, Yuan is like 8000 times more important than Regal.  ...And yet you play as Regal and don't get to play as Yuan.  SOMETHING DOESN'T ADD UP.  Plus, part of the reason I don't like Regal is that his story line is THE EXACT SAME AS KRATOS'S only less awesome and angsty.  Therefore, Regal gets the boot.  (to be fair, I like him better in the sequel.  But the first one?  Nah.)

5. T3 from KOTOR.  I mean, I love the little guy and all, I just never used him.  Ever.  For anything.  So...I'd rather have Dustil Onasi or someone awesome instead, if I have to have that extra character, you know.

peace out,
Jak

Title: Lessons Learned Along the Way (or, Four Girls and One Guy Shikamaru Dated Before He Found His Soulmate)
Author: Jakia
Word Count: 2,017
Summary: Growing up is troublesome: dating is troublesome. Doesn't mean you don't learn something about yourself with each person your with. [Shikamaru/Ino, Shikamaru/Sakura, Shikamaru/Shiho, Shikamaru/Naruto, Shikamaru/Tenten, and endgame Shikamaru/Temari]
A/N: I hate it when I read fics where sixteen or eighteen year old Sakura has her first kiss with her one-true-love Sasuke, an then they get married and have a crapload of babies. Oh please. These are teenagers, and ninja. The Rookie Nine has probably been dating each other for years, especially since Naruto was off training with ero-sennin. So I thought to myself, wait I ship Shikamaru with Temari, they're my OTP, does this mean Shikamaru has dated other girls before Temari? And my subconscious was all like, yes, Write It. So I did. Hope you enjoy it as much I did.

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Because it's the weekend and for once since the semester started I don't have to dedicate my weekend to paper-writing on account of it being midterms and all.

Also, I hate myself.

Give me a character (and no one is off limits, whether they come from a book, a movie, television, you get the picture) and I will give you at least five facts about them according to my own personal canon. This can range from their birthday, favorite color or even their earliest memory up to what they had last night for dinner.

Beam me up, Scotty.

jak

GUYS.  GUYS.

IF WE ARE TO REMAIN FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR LINK AS THE ALL-TIME GREATEST HERO EVER.
http://www.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/vote/index.html?battle_id=62

ALSO, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY VOTE FOR ZUTARA AS THE HOTTEST SHIP EVER.
http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/246312.html

AS BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE PRECIOUS TO ME AND ARE LOSING BADLY.  AS FRIENDS, YOU SHOULD HELP.

THANKS,

JAK

 Okay, most days I love my school.  Mostly because they do things that are totally awesome.

After all, what other school in the country calls their English honor students STDs (Sigma Tau Delta)?  Made even better by the fact that the art club is called ASS (Art Student Society). 

In other news, I am now officially an STD and am rooming with the President of ASS!  W00t!

jak
(who will have fandomy stuff later, if I'm lucky)

Ship meme! Reply with a fandom and I'll fill this out for it.

• One True Pairing Ship:
• Canon Ship:
• "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
• "You are one sick puppy" Ship:
• "I dabble a little" Ship:
• "It's like a car crash" Ship:
• "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
• "Makes no canon sense but why the heck not" Ship:
• "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

So, I'm seriously considering doing a Naruto/Harry Potter crossover in my free time. (Not a lot of it)

But if I do, it's not going to be "Dumbledore Hires Naruto to Protect Harry" because while it's a good idea it's also fast becoming very cliche.

Instead, I'm thinking about doing something like "What if the Naruto characters lived in the HP world?" type thing.

But I've caught a little snag.

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College is a bitch.  Advanced Comp is kicking my ass and anally raping me every time I go in the classroom.  For Creative Writing, people now have to read and review my original fiction in both a positive and negative sense, and this is causing me to have major anxiety attacks because dear God someone is reading what I wrote what if they don't like it what if it sucks what if I never accomplish anything in my life and what if I'm a huge failure at everything and OH DEAR GOD WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE and what will I do if I don't do English and OH MY FREAKING JESUS I WILL END UP HOMELESS AND ON THE STREETS IF THIS DOESN'T PAN OUT.

Mistakenly I thought I might someday be good at this,

Jak

ANYONE WANT TO BETA SOMETHING FOR ME REAL QUICK?

It's like, 4-5 pages.  It's called Lessons Learned Along The Way, and it's about the four girls (+one guy) Shikamaru has dated in his life and what they've taught him about himself and his intentions towards the female gender.  Obviously, it's Shika/Various, but if you want to get real technical, it's Ino, Sakura, Shiho, Tenten, Naruto, and the end result (who he uses this knowledge for) is Temari.

Any takers?  Please comment with your email address!

jak

(in case you were wondering where I've been, I'm a junior in college now and classes have began.  Also, I've been sick for a week. don't I know how to have fun?)

So hit me.

Top 5 fandom-related anything.

For example, uh, Top 5 Zutara Moments, or Top 5 Moments Shika was at his sexiest, or 5 Things Mai did in the show that made me not like her.  Stuff like that.

jak out

When Temari's spikey ponytails are drawn in a more 'realistic' style, they are almost always portrayed as curls. 

When Shikamaru's spikey ponytail is drawn in a more 'realistic' style, it's nearly always portrayed as needle-straight.

(for an example, see here: http://sour-lemons.deviantart.com/art/S-T-Pass-Me-By-60642551)

What the hell, world?

There is no was in hell either of them have needle-straight hair.  Not with that many spikes.  Not with that much volume.  Have you ever looked at the back of the kid's head?  His hair sticks straight up.  In real life, that'd translate to basically a ponytailed-fro.

Just once, I'd like to see wavy! or curly! haired Shikamaru.  Simply because I think it'd be more interesting.

I suppose I should at least be grateful they figured out Temari doesn't have needle straight hair.

More curious than angry,

jak

NARUTO STOP BEING AWESOME OKAY?

Spoilers under the cut!
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List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. (And flist, I'd love your opinions on patterns you notice.)

1. The final battle against Cruxis rages: the boy-turned-Renegade attacks the second-in-command while Yuan battles the leader.

2.I always thought that if God wanted to punish me---and I mean really punish me---he'd force me to work in retail for the rest of my life.

3. In the end, you marry the girl you always said you would marry, not because you love her, but because you have a rather pragmatic sense of duty, and do not know how to break her heart gently.

4. "Sparrow" was technically a surname, the name of two daughters who had been abandoned cruelly as children.

5.Not for the first time that night, Zuko felt like crying.

6. Every time Mal gets pissed at Simon, every time that damn Core doctor thinks he knows better than him, Mal runs a finger around the jagged scar near his ear, and forgives.

7. Kohona is on fire.

8. There was a very good reason why Shikamaru Nara was named Konoha’s ambassador ninety-eight percent of the time, and that was that it was very difficult to actually insult the Nara boy.

9. Somehow, in some way, the Sand Siblings all carry around a piece of their mother.

10. He's not her Prince Charming and maybe he’s not suppose to be; what's important, though, and what matters to her is the fact that he loves her, wholly and unconditionally, even if she is old and decrypted and vain.

11. It was two a.m. when he heard the news that Naruto was dead.

12. Team 7 has always been a team compiled mainly over love.

13. Team 8 is also a team compiled mostly over love, but it’s a different sort of love that bonds them together--team 8, you see, is mostly a family.

14. Team ten is a team compiled mostly over love, but it's a different sort of love--it's the bonds of friendship that keeps team ten together, but that's a form of love, too, they know.

15. "I know we basically agreed to do it only after we rescued one another, but, well, you're looking particularly fetching today, or maybe I'm just horny---in any case, do you mind if I fuck your brains out?"

16. "A pawn can only move one square forward," The man explains with tired ease, as though he's explained this a thousand times before to a thousand different people, and not a single one of them has grasped exactly what he's trying to say. "It cannot retreat."

17. Suna is harsh becomes his first impression of the Village Hidden in the Sand, and he means it in more ways than one.

18. By the time Ino realized that her teammates were, well, boys---real boys, dateable boys, they were all grown up, and Shikamaru was Konoha's most eligible bachelor.

19. The day Nara Shikamaru quit the ANBU was also the day he quit smoking---September 24, the day his daughter was born.

20. This is the Yondaime Kazekage.

(conclusion: I have a crapload of Naruto fic I haven't finished. Also, some of these seem humorous when they are actually quite serious, and some seem really serious when they are actually humorous. I guess I know how to set the mood, huh?).