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oyster_shell. I wish I could have spent a little more time on it before posting, but I wanted to get it out before Christmas, so I hope you enjoy it as is. Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 
Gah, I'm supposed to be focusing on Melting Ice, so why do I keep getting plot bunnies for other stories? It's so frustrating!
Somehow, despite my resolve to focus only on Melting Ice, I've started two -- TWO! -- more stories over the course of the last month. One is a Harry Potter Christmas story. I've been rereading the series, and while reading the Christmas chapter in CoS where Harry and Ron are trying to sneak into the Slytherins' common room, I was curious as to what exactly Percy and Penelope were up to in the dungeons. I've written a couple of scenes so far, but I think I've managed to convince myself to wait until closer to Christmas to continue it. By then, Melting Ice should be done (hopefully), and it'll be more fun to write when it's actually Christmas time.
The second story is much more of a problem, because I really, really, REALLY want to write it now. Has anybody read the manga Demon Love Spell? I picked up the first two volumes last week and really enjoyed them. It's about the unlikely romance between a Shinto priestess and a sex-crazed incubus, and it reminded me that I always did want to wrhite a Helios/Chibi-Usa story featuring an incubus as a villain. I actually did use an incubus and a succubus as minor monsters in one of my first fanfics (Star-Crossed Lovers, I think?), but this story line is a lot more interesting, in which a revenge-seeking incubus takes the guise of Helios and seduces Chibi-Usa in her dreams, eventually managing to convince her to live with him in her dreams forever. The real Helios then has to find a way to awaken her from her never-ending dream before she dies.
Man, I'd much rather be working on that than Melting Ice... I'm so stuck on that story, it's not even funny. *sigh* Maybe it would be better to work on something else for at least a couple of weeks...
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sm_monthly, and there's still the possibility for the SM/WHR crossover I really want to write, so I'm not completely retiring from the SM fandom yet!) As I've mentioned before, I've decided to cut it down from the long multi-part I first invisioned it as to a long one-shot (possibly a short multi-part, depending on how things go) using some of the entries I wrote for sm_monthly(rewritten to better fit the story). I really think that'll make things a little easier to write, so wish me luck this time! *crosses fingers*
Okay, I have finally finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so now I can finally weigh in on some subjects I've wanted to discuss, but didn't feel like I should without reading the book itself first.
First off, though, here's my final ranking of all the books in the series, after having reread the first six before getting to DH:
1. Goblet of Fire
2. Half-Blood Prince
3. Chamber of Secrets
4. Deathly Hallows
5. Sorceror's Stone
6. Order of the Phoenix
7. Prisoner of Azkaban
Deathly Hallows might have been a little higher had the first half not been so meandering. Once they actually found out what the Deathly Hallows were, the book was fantastic, but getting there was a little sluggish at times.
Now, onto the aforementioned subjects I wanted to weigh in on.
Heh, this got a lot longer than I thought it would. *laughs* I think that's about everything I wanted to say, but if I think of anything else, I'll edit it in later.
Finally,
oyster_shell is officially finished! And way ahead of schedule, to boot. I was hoping to be done by the end of the year at the earliest, but posting SOF and ATR didn't take nearly as much time as I thought it would, even with all the annoying split chapters. In any case, feel free to friend it if you're a fan of my writing. Now that I have a writing journal, I doubt I'll be posting fics here anymore, although I may post links here to the writing journal when I do update. I haven't decided yet.
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Considering my last entry, I just had to do this meme.
Name five crossovers you'd love to read or write one of these days, no matter how cracked-out or improbable.
1. Sailor Moon/Grey's Anatomy - I think it would be really interesting if either Ami or Mamoru ended up interning at Seattle Grace, and the hospital ended up having to deal with the casualties of a youma attack, having no idea what was going on.
2. Card Captor Sakura/Ghost Whisperer - Melinda sees ghosts, Touya sees ghosts... It's a no-brainer. (See previous entry)
3. Sailor Moon/Witch Hunter Robin - I really do want to write this eventually. My idea has Robin, whose craft is fire, being related to Rei, a fact they discover when the STNJ starts investigating the Sailor Senshi, who they think are witches.
4. Someday's Dreamers/Harry Potter - A lot of HP crossovers from what I hear tend to be with series that don't really fit in with it, but Someday's Dreamers really would be a plausible HP crossover partner, IMO. Both series are about magical people learning how to use their powers, so I think they would complement each other well if done correctly.
5. Absolute Boyfriend/Chobits/Hand Maid May - *laughs* Yeah, I just want to see how somebody would handle a crossover with these three series about robots who look like people. I bet it would be a lot of fun. ^_^
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