life in the subjunctive mode

Title: i cut my branch from my family tree
Character: Tanwen
Location: Dein Efyd
Date: Day One


( i like this chapter. it's incredibly lackluster but it has potential anyway )

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Title this time courtesy of Radical Face. The Family Tree: The Roots is more or less the soundtrack for the Sisawain family, only with less suicide. I also need to pay extra attention to the less-central family members, because they're still important to the functioning of the group.

Mairwen and Kieve might have accidentally swapped issues in this draft. Since Mairwen is more important to the story, I'm more than okay with this.

I wrote a stupid thing! It's not quite as stupid as a Supernatural/House crossover, but it's close. This is the tale of how Tanwen of Cyfalaf discovered LOLcats. By reading Trying to Communicate, obviously.

This takes place in the AU version of The End of Days, in which the crew hits the reset button on the multiverse, and then somehow ends up living in a house in this world's suburbia, because, um ... four years have passed and they don't really have anyone else to whom they can relate like they do each other? I just wanted a place to write dysfunctional-found-family-vs-the-real-world, and today, it was either writing something stupid about Tanwen and Violet, or trying to write fluffy Supernatural fic set to After the Storm because everything in that fandom is porn, seriously.

So, without further ado!

( a modern dialect )

Or, why I should never try to write a story for Fiction Writing involving the characters I hold closest to my heart, because then I will stress myself to pieces trying to make everything perfect so that there's no way anyone can hate on my babies. (It's possibly totally weird that I call my characters my 'babies', because I don't think of them as children and I hate babies. (Except for Stormageddon.) I guess it demonstrates how important they are to me? I mean, they're real to me, like Dumbledore-in-your-head, 'Of course it's all taking place in your head Harry, but why on earth should that mean it isn't real?'-type real. On a psychoanalytical level, they represent a significant, closely-kept part of my psychology and how I think and why I think and what I think about. Also, every part of it is made up. It's all based heavily in reality, but it's not this current reality, so it's easier to dismiss, which would make me sad.

I need to develop a thicker skin, and I've come very far, and I'm fine with letting my professor read this, but if I have to show this to all of my classmates I'm gonna shit myself.

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( I know some people just aren't going to like my stylistic choices, but I NEED to be a perfectionist and make sure the characters are perfectly developed, which of course is destined to fail because I'm just not a perfect writer )

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Written in 2 days, edited in another 2. I'll report back later on how this goes over ...

1. Tanwen — fan
2. Nomaisoke — neighbor
3. Aisegetoa — garden
4. Ennesilda — nap
5. Linren — lotion
6. Sambiya — alcohol
7. Agioren — party
8. Jesiwe — pier
9. Sakoyo — concert
10. Matuami — drive

( 21. Fan )

Prompt: Neighbor
POV Character: Nomaisoke
Date: 5169
Summary:



This is the second time my computer has shut down on me today, and I've lost the second drabble twice now. I'm irritated - I really liked it, too. More than the first.

My head is so wrapped up in the Shanri Empire that I'm switching my drabble focus over there - I can't think about D'Sezan anymore, so I haven't been doing the prompts.

I do like that Naike calls her 'Neri', instead of 'Nenkantenrion' or even 'Nerion'. It's cute.