5 Am ramblings

Recently, one of my favorite authors and I spoke, and we really hit it off. She goes by the pen name Angelas, and we’re actually discussing a collaboration. (Though I’m so nervous about our clashing styles, because her writing is phenomenal while mine is…. meh-heh.) Seriously though, it’s amazing what kind of connections I’ve made by simply writing fanfiction.

I’ve made two best friends in the past few years, OffansandFlames and her partner, WhentheFoxGrins (not sure if I should reveal names) and they’re people that you only meet once in a life time. Truly unique and beautiful in every way. Then there’s Kizukatana, who’s literally my sister from another mister, and TheatricalPlacenta, who is not only extremely talented, but extremely funny and overall just an awesome human being.

I just find it kind of funny that I’ve been in Uni for four years now, and I haven’t learned nearly as much about writing as I have writing fanfiction. Collaborating on projects and writing for these fandoms has helped me grow phenomenally as a writer, and I can proudly say that I’m growing every day.

Ancient Eygptian in, Shadows in the Sand

A LOT of questions about this, seeing as Sasuke’s been involuntarily speaking it in recent chapters. bloggif_5748a5e96d180

I did a lot of research on ancient Egyptian–okay at least, I researched as much as I could understand in the hopes of remaining accurate–and the language is very, very tricky.

See, we don’t actually know how Ancient Egyptian sounds. It’s all a guessing game. So if you look at movies like ‘The Mummy,’ you’ll find a lot of their words are made up or exaggerated, but the pronunciation is guttural and a little harsh to the ears, which is what many think the language used to sound like when it was spoken.

From my understanding we can only guess, since their are no recorded vowels, so some think the sound is similar to Arabic or modern day Coptic (which is apparently the final form of Egyptian), but again, the actual sound is all speculation. As for how it’s written they didn’t have a separate alphabet like A, B, C’s. They relied on hieroglyphs, which were more logo-graphical. So instead of an image representing a sound, like an “eye” meaning “I” to us, because it sounds like it, it represented a whole word. That makes things even more tricky, and deciphering how such was translated into written syllables is again, really, really hard.

It’s definitely not something I could fully wrap my head around for the purpose of this fic, but I sure did try.

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So sad, but beautifully written.

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Drabble prompt: “My nightmares are usually about losing you.”

“Wow. You look like shit,” Naruto blurted out.

This was his first time seeing Sasuke in over a month. Sasuke’s face was a near perfect white, hair matted to his forehead with sweat. His lips were pale and chapped. He was sitting at their table with a completely full glass of water next to him. The ice in it had nearly melted.

Sasuke stared back at him with his mouth ajar, any trace of shock on his face only lingering for seconds until he launched into ire.

“Coming from you? Really?

Sasuke gestured at Naruto, his voice a little raspy from his sickness.

Naruto sat before him in a wheelchair. He had an impressive black eye, one broken leg, a fractured collarbone, and a few broken ribs. He hadn’t bothered to change out of his hospital clothes yet.

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Theatrical Placenta’s art for Chapter 5

Behold. True beauty. My amazing friend and artist, Theatrical Placenta, aka the most incredible human being on the history of the planet, drew this lovely scene from Shadows in the Sand. Please for the love of all that is HOLY drop her an awesome message for her work. http://theatricalplacenta.tumblr.com/that sassTHAT SASS THOUGH.

2 AM idea’s

  • AU where Naruto is a restaurant owner and Sasuke renovates the building across the street, trying to steal his competition. Sabotage and madness ensues and they eventually take their heated passions to the next level.
  • AU where Sasuke is in a coma, and only Naruto can see his spirit wandering around. Befriends him and tries to make what time he has left special. Super angsty, but with a happy ending.
  • Story where Naruto is a struggling mangaka with a great talent for storytelling, but his art is subpar. Then bring in Sasuke, a brilliant illustrator who lacks everything but the ability to make something his readers can connect with. They pair up.
  • Sasuke works at a fast food place. Naruto tries his patience daily.

Shadows in the Sand, Chapter 5 LIVE

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Shadows in the Sand, Chapter 5 is LIVE.

TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS: Summer vacation equals me, being able to update more than just once a month! From this point, bi-weekly to weekly updates!

Lastly! If you haven’t seen it already, the amazing artist Theatrical Placenta drew a scene from Chapter four! I’ve posted it where the scene begins, so if you haven’t seen her beautiful sketch, go back and check out chapter four to gaze at it’s beauty! I’m super blessed to have received art from her, and even more so, to have spoken to her and become close in such a short amount of time! Wehavesomuchincommon it’s insane.

And as always, a huge thanks to Kizukatana for Beta-ing my work. She helps me breathe. And live. Basically, function, without com-busting.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/6134173/chapters/15869440

SHADOWS IN THE SAND UPDATE TOMORROW

^8CF2598E2867909DAC0E97F171DB7045622CD8530955349BBB^pimgpsh_fullsize_distrNew update tomorrow!
The reason this is a month instead of a week later is because of a lot of medical junk. Plus, I’d just finished school. But summers here now, and I’m excited to post more frequently!

BY THE WAY. THIS BEAUTIFUL DERP SASUKE WAS DRAWN BY THE AMAZING THEATRICALPLACENTA. 

Haikyuu! Drabble – Just for tonight

This drabble is simply to channel some of my current PTSD. It deals with the sometimes belated, psychological effects rape and its aftermath can have on the body. This is short, and kind of dark. It’s a lot different than my usual humorous stuff, so I apologize if it makes anyone uncomfortable //Sweats


Summary: His mind beckons to be persecuted. Oikawa tries to take comfort in the familiar.
Rating: M
Pairing: Iwaizumi/Oikawa


Oikawa still couldn’t remember their names, even now, as he lay in bed with his legs spread wide and his hand wrapped around his flaccid member with trembling urgency.

He found it humorless. Pathetic. But he’d been feeling just as humorless and pathetic when their girths slipped inside him, adequate in size, but intolerable in a mouth whose tongue was often the perpetrator of sharp quips and smooth commands.

…Completely unwelcome against the backdrop of firm praise and tentative whimpers for a shrewd, childhood friend.

Oikawa pulled his hand away and stared at the precum between his fingers, face split into a nasty, weakened grin. His hair was matted with sweat, and his other hand lay buried in Iwa-chan’s shirt, fisting it tightly—uncaring if he wrinkled the tee that Iwa-chan had always labeled his ‘favorite’.

Because he was frustrated, and he deserved to be.

At three in the morning he couldn’t even get himself off to the musky, familiar scent of the Iwa-chan that he knew and loved, conscripted to simply stare at the ceiling; begrudgingly recalling events that were insignificant to him or his beloved climax.

Oikawa simply moved to slide back under the covers, snuggling his pillow. He somehow felt warmer, more comfortable this way, but his mind was restless as he brought the fabric of Iwa-chan’s shirt up to his nose and deeply inhaled.

For a brief moment, he stopped seeing the outlines of anomalous, moving bodies against the lid of his eyes. He stopped hearing the rough slap of skin against skin in his ears. Guttural, animalistic murmurs of right there and don’t you like that, were almost immersed in white noise, and all Oikawa could feel, with unwelcome difficulty, was Iwa-chan.

His fingers tentatively brushed against his length and it twitched.

Iwa-chan. Iwa-chan. Iwa-chan.

He stroked himself sloppily, urgently. Oikawa rolled onto his stomach and gyrated his hips. The moan he let out was neither authentic nor compulsory as he tried to imagine Iwa-chan’s lips smoothing over the nape of his neck, and Iwa-chan’s coarse hands insistently kneading his cheeks instead of theirs. 

He rolled his sack with a shaky, saliva coated palm.

Iwa-chan’s chest would heave, exceptionally hard, as he’d run his hands through Oikawa’s hair. Tugging on it. Worshiping it. Burying his nose in it in that endearing, Iwa-chan sort of way, that showed him he was just as obsessed with Oikawa as he was with him.

Then he would pull down his pants.

Oikawa arched his back at the thought.

Iwa-chan would free his cock and it would swell red. It throbs like Oikawa’s hands after a long, onerous volleyball practice. It grows against his backside. It drips like honey onto the sheets.

And Oikawa would quake with need as Iwa-chan positioned himself at his entrance, the head inching its way inside with excruciating slowness. Take it. Take it.

Of course, of course he does.

He would push his hips back, allowing blunt nails to dig into his skin. To draw blood. To cruelly shove a cock through his tight threshold with an unbearable fullness until…

Oikawa’s breath hitched as he came with a pained cry.

It was no longer Iwa-chan inside of him.

You’d like that wouldn’t you, you fucking slut?”

Oikawa shook.

Liquid fire dripped down his cheeks in streams. 


Of course, of course he does. 

Shadows in the Sand UPDATE & UPCOMING ONE SHOT

Shadows in the Sand, Chapter 3, is up!
http://archiveofourown.org/works/6134173/chapters/14582476

And as for the next update, it’s anticipated that I will have it by either this Sunday, or the following Sunday at the latest! I’m really excited about Chapter 4, as it will probably be the longest Chapter I’ve posted with so much action that it’ll knock you off your socks.

As a side note:

I’ve recently fallen into Iwaoi hell. So if you like Haikyuu as much as I do, expect a one shot or (three-part) work for these two losers, because I can’t stand it. I need to write something for them before I explode.


(Art/GIF made by Captainturnip on deviantart)
//Though if I credited this wrong, let me know!!