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Title: Moving Out and Moving In
Pairing: Pin
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Jin won’t let this slip through his fingers
Notes: Happy Coming Out Day! Also this was long ago promised to akeru_world69




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Part 2

Link to Nij's Story: Go!
Link to full Graphic Story: Download "Book"
Niji's story was just so cute I couldn't choose just one scene *____*
Basically, I decided to illustrate various points in the story, making it kind of like a graphic book? With text designs and covers and insert illustrations with overlay text. :) Medium is watercolor. I sketched in Sharpie, fine point, then watercolored. The letters are a textile design edited in Photoshop. The watercolors didn't scan as crisp as I'd like, but here we are :P

Here are Previews:



The Front Cover



The back cover



A preview of the inside~

Again, you can download the whole pdf here, from mediafire:

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Title: Across a Bridge of Magpies
Pairing: Jin/Kame
Rating: R
Summary: Kame has never been too good at figuring out what he wants, but maybe it's time he learned how.


Originally written for Remix over at jentfic_remix


Part One|Part Two|Part Three|Part Four


Notes: ~31,000 words. (omg)
There are two timelines: Mid to late 2012, and movie-time (1853/54.)

If you have any interest in history, the movie-verse is excitingly(!) full of nerdy history jokes and asides. Some of you maybe have heard of the film "The Last Samurai," which was a grossly inaccurate film about the time period that heralded the end of the samurai. Well, the character in that movie played by Ken Watanabe, Katsumoto, was loosely based on the real historical figure of Saigou Takamori(西郷 隆盛). Coincidentally, his name and Jin's name share a character--the "nishi" in Akanishi has another reading, and it's "sai." Jin's movie character is based on the life of Saigou Takamori, who is rather legendary in Japan-- his ideals and etc have been made into many stories, the most recent of which was Tom Cruise's efforts to remake "Dancing with Wolves." (I love the movie, btw. I mock because I care.)


The poems are all from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, a famous anthology of classical Japanese tanka compiled in the thirteenth century by Fujiwara no Sadaie, whose real first name was Teika. He was a member of the royal family, the Fujiwaras, who star in everything from "The Tale of Genji" to Murakami novels, referenced in metaphor and parable alike. If you know me, I'm a classical Japanese translator. Some of these translations are my own, and some of them were done by the fabulous and talented Ono Keiko, who was a professor of mine many moons ago, and who I worked on this translation project with for quite awhile. Some of them were also done by the amazing University of Virginia team, who I think are quite possibly my nerd-heroes. I hope you enjoy the poetry. It's listed by Author, and then by number. :) (The poems are officially numbered, 1-100)

All clothing is referred to, in movie verse, by its Japanese name. Normally, I would use English, but I feel like there is no easy equivalent, and the terms can be read as exoticisms.

Thanks to Peri bellemelody, who wrote the original: The story of the brave Samurai and his beautiful Geisha...

AND, to liliths_child, who pre-read this before it even made it to being what it is now, and told me I wasn't crazy for having parallel story lines, and who received Ryo/Shige in compensation.

Most importantly, thank you to my Greenpig, teghostshi, who read this...I don't know how many times, and told me things like "Jin might look like he has seven hands, but he really doesn't, Maia-ssi," or "What is this word you made up here that doesn't actually exist in the English language?" or "Maia, this is worth continuing," without whom I could not have completed this project.

Have some music!

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Track list

Title: Steal My Heart
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Pin
Summary: When Rina calls him one spring morning, at five in the AM, after four months of silence, Tomohisa doesn't hesitate to answer. ~12,000
Notes: for the prompt: "pin with a baby! Anyway you want it. No really, whatever you want," given to me by ryogrande, and I basically stayed up all night having fun and sobbing forever. I hope she likes it.

( Go! )

Title:Catching Moments
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Kato Shigeaki/ Nishikido Ryo
Summary: Shige never expected to feel this close. It's sort of like falling, and sort of like flying, too. ~22,000
Notes: for liliths_child who was a helpful set of eyes when I needed them a lot. She asked me for Ryo/Shige as her reward, and I kind of leaped at the chance to tackle such a different dynamic. I hope this turned out okay for you, dear :)

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Title: Climbing
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Pin
Summary: Jin doesn't want to think he's had a mental breakdown, because then he'll have to think about all the reasons that might be the cause of it.
Notes: Deviates from canon at about March 2010, because I didn't want to rewrite my entire timeline! Sorry, please forgive me.
This fic was a joy to write. I haven't had so much FUN writing in a long time. I started this fic in April, and I gave up on it for a while. It started as a gen fic, but as usual, Pin found it's way in and wrested the story from my clutches. I've tried to be as factually accurate as possible, from my own experiences and from what I know, and from quite a bit of research, too, so I hope you like this. This will be the last thing I write for awhile, as I'm going away on a volunteer trip for a bit to a place with no internet, and I've only got one finished thing in my folders for elanielyn that I'll post for her when she's done being a globetrotter and whatnot. My vacation is over. I shall be less prolific. The world rejoices. If you have any questions, or you'd like to see my notes and my map, let me know.

 

( Tokyo. )