Title: A Hero
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: angst, fighting, past character death, minor character death within the story, major Alternate Universe
Characters: ensemble cast, but focuses on Ukitake, Shunsui, Ichigo, Renji, and Isshin
Pairings: Shunsui/Ukitake, Renji/Ichigo, Hisagi/Kira, Yumichika/Ikkaku, Hitsugaya/Matsumoto, Ishida/Orihime, Byakuya/Nanao, Zaraki/Unohana, Kaien/Miyako, Rukia/Hinamori, past Isshin/Masaki, some Urahara/Yoruichi/Soifon ambiguousness
Notes: This is all tentative. Some minor pairings may end up added, changed, or left out, and warnings may be adjusted, but at this point this is what I believe the story will end up including.

Summary: In which Renji is kickass, Ichigo hates his life, Ukitake has survivor's guilt, and Shunsui has a good heart, even if he is a bit annoying.

or, more seriously-

Ten years ago, they were saved by a power that only one man understood- and that man died in the process of saving them. Now, though they fight, the clock is ticking down and their options begin to fall away, one by one. If they do not find a way to harness that power, Aizen will slaughter them all.

Prologue: Concern

 You know when you read a long, engrossing fic or book that's well written and just hits all of your buttons and when you've finished you feel kind of numb and like anything else you read right then just isn't going to compare? 

That's happened to me twice in the last two days. 

Which, yay for really awesome fic, but I still want to read something and so now I'm staring broodingly at my to read fics on pinboard and going "nothing looks appealing!". Which is quite a feat, since I have over 1300 to read fic links on pinboard... I have a problem. 

On the other hand, most of these are probably better than working on the essay I should be working on, hah. Oops. 

(If anyone's curious, the one from yesterday was desynchronization (Hikaru no Go, Ogata/Sai, scroll down the masterlist to find it) and the one I read today was Family Ties (Loki gen))

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( Babbling About This Week's Chapter )

So now I'm going to pimp some stuff going on.


bleachbigbang is holding a mini-bang currently. I plan on signing up and seeing if my muses will cooperate enough in order to finish something. Unfortunately all three of the things I've been working on recently have either already passed 10K or will definitely do so in the future. Oh muses.

fandom_helps is also happening. I signed up for casestory as it fits one of the aforementioned things that are already over 10K, we'll see if I can actually manage to complete it. I'm also pondering scifibigbang .</user> This entry was originally posted at http://ravens-rising.dreamwidth.org/71442.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

I’ve been meaning to start posting again for a while, but it looks like Bleach is about to start getting really interesting for me soon, so I decided that I should come back if only so I can spam you all with my theories and musing instead of just harassing nerdowl and spikykun! :D

I know I attempted to delurk the beginning of last semester and that lasted, like, two days, but to give myself some credit, last semester ended up being a hellish semester. This semester will not be. However, I don’t guarantee I won’t be sporadic with my posting. I’m planning on updating pretty frequently; we’ll see how that goes.

Now for Bleach talk! The plan was to type up all of my thoughts about all the information we learned from Kubo during the hiatus, but then I realized that it was incredibly hard to get all of my thoughts together, my brain is teeming with ideas, and that no one would read it because it'd be ten pages long. So I'll probably be posting chunks of rambling theories and speculation over the next couple days.

If you haven't seen the new information, you can find most of it on the first page of this thread. This page isn't up on the first page yet, and we're waiting for the "official" translation of one more page.

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Part 2 of the recs list!

( July 1st - July 17th )

( Before July 1st )

100+ WIPs you should be following

This is a rec list of all the WIPs I think that everybody should be following on the x-men kinkmemes. All of them are Charles/Erik, have Charles/Erik in the background, or are focused on Charles & Erik friendship.

I made this list because I've been in other fandoms where the kinkmemes were huge, but it was always way too intimidating to even figure out where to start looking for fills/wips. Reason 2: I'm also hoping a rec might convince some of the authors to update some of the fills that haven't been updated in a while ;)

This is NOT all the good WIPs currently on the kinkmemes. I'm still going through everything myself! And there are some WIPs that just aren't to my taste. If you want to give me recs for WIPs that I don't have on here, I'm all for it!

I also didn't put WIPs on here that the authors have stopped updating on the meme and moved to their journal, or ones that are going to be bigbangs.

The headers refer to the date of the WIPs last update. Within the headers, they're not arranged in any order.

Anything with a " *** " after the title is one of my personal favorites, and in my opinions you should all DROP EVERYTHING AND READ THOSE RIGHT NOW, OMG.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy! If you see any mistakes, please point them out!

( August 1st - Now )

( July 18th - July 31th )

The manifesto for Henry/Montjoy from Henry V is up! Go read it here and write fic for it! ♥

*crosses fingers*

I had fun with this batch of icons. I'm a bit rusty with photoshop, so it was nice to remember things and discover new things! Most of these have similar colorings and you'll notice my one try at using textures!

These are for the movie Henry V, and are focused mostly on Henry, Montjoy, and Henry/Montjoy, as they are awesome, and because a manifesto will be appearing for them shortly on ship_manifesto written by the awesome hyarrowen!

If anyone wants text on any of these, I didn't have time to do more than a couple. Just ask and I can add it in/change the existing text easily. Lots of thanks to hyarrowen for getting me the screencaps and so quickly!

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( 44 Icons )