I just read a fic that managed to do a crossover between Pirates of the Caribbean and Firefly, with the pairing of Norrington/River, and it was actually pretty good. Crack pairings FTW. (Another crack pairing I read recently: Tseng/coffee. Then again, most pairings that involve inanimate objects end up being amusing one way or another.)

I've also been on an icon-making spree. I've discovered the wonderful world of brushes, and it's about on the same level of awesomeness as when I discovered textures and LOL GRADIENT FLARE YAY. I'm also experimenting with different methods of coloring rather than just hitting "color enhance" which is what I used to do because I was lazy. Needless to say, this means I've uploaded some new icons, one of which features a brush that I made myself. I'm rather proud of my mad GIMP skillz.

Meanwhile, when I haven't been being somewhat of a geek I've had my first three days of life as a high school senior which is pretty awesome. Most of my classes are great. AP English 12 pretty much pwns AP English 11, I've decided... although we haven't really done much so maybe I'll have to withhold that judgment? Although the fact that we took three tests over the first two days of school was not fun. Latin continues to be awesome; there are only 11 of us and since when is Latin not awesome anyway? Contemporary American Studies is also a lot of fun; today in that class I learned that our generation's children are going to be hippies that will probably hate us. Awesome.

I've also recently discovered that I have somewhat of a fetish for guys with books, which suddenly explains my love for Zexion, Sawyer, and Genesis. And I suppose Desmond, because of the whole "Our Mutual Friend is the last book I'm going to read before I die" thing. And Ben, although I don't love him in the sense that he's attractive. (I still can't think of anything that explains my irrational love of Sephiroth, though, except for the fact that he was actually a pretty nice guy before he went batshit.)

... Yeah, why am I talking about things like that when nobody cares?

Now I've got to take a shower before going to the senior class lock-in, which will be loads of fun because what's not fun about hanging out with your class all night with games and such? 

No one will probably be interested, but I just throught I'd share my first foray into fanfiction-type writing since the summer of 2006. (It's Kingdom Hearts-related, though the two central characters are from Final Fantasy.)

( fifty aerith/leon sentences - fear their compound/complex-ness! )
Prompts come from the community 1sentence, which I'd try to link to except for the fact that apparently LJ doesn't like me or my linking attempts. I've decided I'm rather fond of this style of writing, though; it's very non-commitment-like. (Makes it sound like I'm having relationship issues with writing.) I've also really been loving Aerith/Leon lately, and I've discovered that they're rather easy to write.

I came across a Kingdom Hearts fanfic that is quite possibly up there with The Shoebox Project as Best Fanfiction Ever. It's an Organization XIII fic, showing how the Nobodies of the six apprentices of Ansem the Wise ended up in The World That Never Was, how they form the Organization, and their discovery of Twilight Town and their recruitment of new members. It's just so awesome. The characterization is great, there's parts that I find extremely humorous even though they're not necessarily meant to be funny, and Organization XIII is my favorite part of Kingdom Hearts anyaway. I've read some other Organization XIII pieces that this author has written too, including a great Axel/Zexion one even though I'm not really into the whole "Orgynization XIII" thing (i.e. shipping people within the Organization), although there are some members of Organization XIII (Axel included) that definitely give off some gay qualities. Anyway, the fic is here even though no one will probably be interested.

Perhaps as a result of this, I've had a major plot bunny attack, and currently I have three ideas running through my head. One is an Aneirin/Sidra short piece, in which Aneirin uses adult beverages to get Sidra to make out with him; another involves Antares being a pyro scientist, probably including aspects of his relationship with Leah; the third involves Talia post-Arx Chalybs and her abilities and her friendship with Leon and Freya. So yeah. If only I had more time.