My xXxholic fic Balance has been posted as a mobile pdf, mobipocket etc file on http://www.feedbooks.com

http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6634

by some person named blk_dragonfly http://feedbooks.com/user/30582/profile

I really hate people sometimes. Especially when they go about publishing my work for me on other sites, which I've specifically requested that people not do.

S/he did not post is as her own, but s/he also didn't respect my request on my account here and on ff.net that my work not be posted anywhere else on the internet. So I'm pissed.

As she used my user name it wasn't terribly hard to notice, a user name like orpheneritus just doesn't pop up!

I'm about to go and comment nicely, with any luck she'll take it down. I keep such a low profile I'm surprised this happened!

I knew I shouldn't have watched it, but I did.

Fond fond memories of Fame, after school specials and the original Degrassi High surly influenced my decision. I thought, 'you probably won't like it, the dancing and singing won't be as good as fame,' and I was 2/3 right, but I fucking LOVE it! Like cackle with glee the whole way through.

He sang about DYSLEXIA! A tense after school moment of a poor boy in front of an audience who can't read, the moment is so humiliating I feel sorry for him and then BAM... he breaks out into a dream vision song about the pain and confusion of dyslexia..... It's been a long time since I've laughed that hard. So good, I quiver with anticipation at the thought of the next inappropriately timed, but ethically profound, song.

It's like Fame and S-Club 7 collided into a TV show...

I'm so worried about my mental age... but hey at least when I have kids I'll be able to communicate with them on at least one level.

A bit of a muddle of 'yay democracy' type thoughts and some hopes for the future, I think this is the first time I've ever used 'optimistic' as my mood setting...

Well I'm not American, but I think everyone is invested in the American election, and I have to say that I was pulling for Barack Obama this past year, and at the same time was completely consumed by the thought that despite all predictions the republicans would still win.

I think my faith in the democratic system was shaken in 2000, with the questionable circumstances of Bush's win. But in a way I'm grateful for the example (though not the results of his terms!!) I have never appreciated my right to vote as much as I appreciated it that day. I feel that Australia's compulsory voting law is a sound and hopefully enduring policy.

But back to the USA, who have shown the difference that can be made if those who have a voice choose to speak. Barack Obama's election has gone a long way to restore some faith that's been lost. I look forward to better international relations from the US in the future, a non-aggressive and multilateral approach that takes into consideration the world opinions and doesn't dictate rather so much.

As for proposition 8 in California seeming like it will pass (banning same sex marriage and basic civil rights to a minority) it is sad news, especially that it may pass on the same day as Barack Obama has finally stood as proof of the enfranchisement of Black civil rights. However, with this recent hope I turn to the wisdom of Gandhi:

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

And so perhaps I should speak of Australia's own need for enfranchisement... This year is the 100th anniversary of Victorian women being granted the vote. Victoria was a democracy in 1856, even before the Federation of Australia in 1901, but women weren't allowed to vote until 1908 (SA and WA women had the vote in 1901). I think it's great that Australia was one the the first countries to legalize the vote for women, however on this day especially, it's important to note that Aboriginal Australians did not get the vote until 1962. In so many ways the Aboriginals are still not enfranchised and in my lifetime I would like to witness a revolution between White and Aboriginals as I have witnessed between White and African American today. 'Sorry day' was just one small step, there's flights of stairs to come and change is badly needed...

Well, I've heard a few other LJ users complain about receiving spam from BearTrapping.com (gay meet site for bears) and I have also received spam, one yesterday and one today, less than 24 hours apart.

One thing is certain I have never opted in, signed up or even visited this or any of the other websites operated by Gary Niederhelman. For many reasons, the first being I'm not gay/male or interested in meeting gay bears, furry and delightful though they may be. As a salient point on sexual orientational equality I'm actually not interested in meeting people in general - this anti-social affliction appears to be permanent.

There's been some speculation that there's been a breach of LJ's email security, if anyone has any information on that please let me know.

Right now I'm frustrated because there seems to be no indication of how he got this email which I use only for very specific things. In addition there seems to be no point in contacting the site directly as from all accounts found online here the guy's a real arsehole and emailing him will probably only increase the amount of spam I'm receiving.

I'm sad because this was my 100% spam free account... its even bad spam, not at all amusing, no bad spelling mistakes to mock (largely because of the use of small simple to understand words)... just stiff (no pun intended) awful comic strip dialogue.

I despair!

Ficlet for any one with pertinent news! ^_______^

If you ever liked a Joss Whedon anything, which you probably have even without knowing, you should check out his new project.

Dr Horrible will be a web miniseries that will air for free starting Tue July 15 and stay up until Jul 20 when it will then be available for download for a small fee.

Don't skip over "the plan" its a laugh.

Does anyone else racially segregate their jelly babies according to the colour of their skin?

Is it wrong to think that the jelly babies with red red skin are probably smarter and superior to those of green skin in every way...

Why do I only feel guilty when separating jelly babies and never gummy bears, am I species-ist ?

okay, history of the 'White Australia' policy is now ruining my candy!

Title: House of Echoes
Author: orpheneritus
Pairing: Yuushi/Gakuto
Rating: R
Summary: 'It's ugly,' Gakuto says following him into the house, '…and old.'
He smiles and wraps his arms around Gakuto's shoulders, and leans in close to his ear. 'Gakuto… can't you see,' he presses his lips against the shell of his ear. 'It'll be ours.'
A/N: Written For subrosa_tennis

( House of Echoes )

Have to get this one off my chest!

Perhaps I should've known better than to fill that gap in my uni schedule with a writing subject, but hey I love writing... but in every writing class, there's always one...

This one's name is Nellie, and I have fostered a raging hate fuelled by her extreme ignorance and a seeming love for telling others the rules.

Here's the short version of the story:

Assignment one has a Haiku task, with very loose rules and open direction. So I post to the workshop forum my ideas on how a 3-5-3 format is more true to the Japanese aesthetic than the 5-7-5 rule taught in high school. Here is her response...

"We have been given a Set Task in the Assignment
That is to Produce a Haiku in English with 17 Syllables in the 5/7/5 Format So it doesn't matter what we think what is better or not
The aim is to make us produce to the rules laid down
ie we have to answer the question as in any essay that the Tutor sets
That is the Challenge to find words that fit
So no point arguing or wondering is there anyone who agrees or disagrees with the format given"

So infuriating. The aim of any writing course is to explore form, style and function, part of that exploration is to bend, break or circumvent all or any of the rules you please, with the intention of improvement.

But here I see a woman who will NEVER write well, she will write mediocre dribble all whilst following some rules she believes are unbreakable. Her lack of creative anything sickens me.

But the one thing that has just tipped me over the edge is this....

Not only is she suggesting that writing is about sticking to the status quo, she is saying it in away that is discouraging others from experimenting asking them to walk the same safe path she chooses.

Writing is about challenging the status quo.

I have no doubt that Nellie will pass, in that she will complete each requested task, but I would rather fail a thousand times than produce a piece of work that so violates the very essence of writing.

Here was my (2nd) very polite reply, in which I refrained from calling her an old cunt.

"Hi Nellie,

I believe Jane has left the Haiku quite open to interpretation. I quote from the detailed FAQ. "5-7-5 is easy enough for the Haiku, as is 14 lines for a sonnet, but I care more for originality than merely form..."

I am only opening up a line of thought on the form of Haiku, that others may also be interested in. Believing or following in this idea I have presented, is entirely up to the individual. I believe sharing thoughts on form and style to be in the spirit of workshopping.

I respect your choice to regard or disregard the information I have presented, but I believe that there is always a point to discussing form and rules, and I imagine that even if there had been a hard and fast rule about form for the Haiku, I would still have presented this opinion in this open forum.

Many thanks for your comments."

So... I won't deny it's been a long time. Thank you to everyone who has commented in recent times trying to kick me out of my funk. I hope I have now kicked it and that 2008 will be a successful writing year, in spite of my study load.

---

This is for pixxers who wanted a drabble to help her feel better, how could I resist.

Title: Cage of Gold
Author: orpheneritus
Fandom: Original M/M
Note: Gay (Japanese) office/bathroom sex

Summary: On the outside you are the same, your wardrobe the same, your briefcase the same. You are one of the masses shuffling through the crowded platforms, swaying the same way as everyone else as the train rocks through the underground.

( Cage of Gold )

I was being all responsible today. I rode my bike to Kurashiki station so that I could catch the late train and enjoy Amber's going away, but still be home before 1am and get some decent sleep.

Kurashiki stations about a 35min bike ride.

I caught the 12:10 train and got on my bike and just as I crossed over the train tracks about 5mins in I felt a horrible jerk and I just knew something had gone wrong.

Sure enough I have a flat tire.

Do I have a tire repair kit? No. If I did have a repair kit would I know how to fix it? Not really.

Anyway Josh was nice enough to walk with me most of the way home, but walking my bike home took about an hour.

I didn't get home until 1:40am and now I have to get up early in order to walk my bike to the mall where I'll be able to get it fixed, and I work a split shift 9am-2pm the 5pm-9pm URRRGGHHHH!!!

At least all my bad luck happens at once.

I saw this comment on one of the discussion threads about the whole LJ mess and I basically couldn't believe the blatant idiocy of it.

I'm sure my flist will get a kick out of it.

This was said in regards to the content of fanart and fanfic on LJ.

"...A lot of wank that could have been avoided if people didn't feel the need to walk up to the line, stick a toe over it, and dare something to happen."

Can you even imagine what the world would be like if no one ever pushed the line. Throughout history in times of oppression, discrimination, genocide and tyranny, it has always been the artists and writers who challenged the status quo.

It is wrong to believe that a society, even a liberal one, shouldn't have it's boundaries constantly tested and pushed.

On LJ we're pushing the moral boundaries and so we should. I shudder to think of a society where no one ever tried to walk up to that line. (No that LJ has managed to put a clear line down yet)

I've been following the bumbling attempts of the livejournal staff as they struggle to do what no one has been able to do and define the a distinct level of morality for us to all adhere to.

I take issue with their unclear double talk on several levels. The first being...

( Haven't you heard... morality is just a fad )

Fabulous.... a bunch of rank amateurs will be judging the artistic and literary merit of our fiction, from a place where classics such as Huckleberry Fin, Of Mice and Men, Forever, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the Colour Purple, a Handmaids Tale and To Kill a Mockingbird are still challeged and sometimes censored on a regular basis.

I'm not a superstitous person, and yet here I am at four in the morning sitting at my computer after only 2 hours of unrestful sleep feeling freaked out.

This is the second night I've suffered from really intense and strange dreams and the third time I've experienced some kind of strange feeling whilst half awake. I'm a very practical realistic kind of girl with very little room in my heart or mind for spiritual or supernatural, but I can't explain why I sat up with a fright only twenty minutes ago the words I reject ringing in my head.

Right now my throat is dry and tight and my heart feels strangly erratic.

( welcome to the grudge house? )

So because polls are frivolous and delightful things and I seriously require that right now...

...here are my theories, please vote:

Poll #1013577 Get a Grip or Get the Hell Out
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

What's going on here...

Title: Happiness
Pairing: Atobe/Kabaji
Rating: R
Summary: He’s not skilled at understanding his own feelings, only at understanding Atobe’s.
A/N: This has been hanging around on my HD for quite some time and this afternoon I spotted pixxers post about a scorching hot Ato/Kabaji dj, which reminded me of this unfinished idea so, I've finally done something with it...

( Hapiness )

Since I posted this morning it's been nothing but good news.

Love Complicated will have a new home with the very generous fencer_x Details are to be worked out but I will update my links.

All Japan!2006 The website will be hosted by the lovely and kind postingwhore Details to be worked out but I will update my links when more is known.

Also....

All Japan!2007 has been given CPR by playingmyrole it may yet go ahead this year. For the time being please keep your eye on both all_japan_comp and alljapan_07 until details are finalised.

I thought I might see if I could go four for four... Is anyone interested in running a fledgling Atobe/Jirou archive? If so please let me know. I have exported it to a zip file for download to its lucky new owner if there are any takers.

I'm leaving for Japan tomorrow, it's exciting and all that and it's giving me the opportunity to resolve some issues that I've been sitting on. All are good news for me, but maybe dissapointing for others.

-1-

The All Japan! Competition

I really enjoyed running the competition and I hope all participants had a wonderful time, but undeniably it was a lot of hard work and a lot of money for myself.

Two things have happened since the end of the competition last year. The first is I've left my job to go to Japan and work part time, this will be significantly less money than I have been making previously. The second is I've decided to complete a Dip Ed, so I may not return to full time work for a long period of time and also the study will be an added strain on my time.

As sad as it makes me I'm afraid that there will be no All Japan!2007. I apologise to any who were looking forward to participating. I hope that in the near future there will be others interested in taking up the position.

The all japan community all_japan_comp will shortly be deleted.

-2-

gakushi.net

My poor website! Alas I have not updated you in an age. Due to my reduced circumstances (how very 1800's of me) I decided I could only afford to have one paid service online. I chose my .Mac account. I get alot more storage space and functionality for the money and I use it constantly and couldn't bear to part. So I regret to announce that the following websites will be closing:

My domain: http://www.gakushi.net
Love complicated: Yuushi and Gakuto Archive: http://lovecomplicated.gakushi.net/
Afternoon Delight: Atobe and Jirou Archive: http://afternoondelight.gakushi.net/
Secrets: Fanfic Archive: http://secretworld.gakushi.net/
All Japan! Competition: http://alljapan.gakushi.net/

However! I will spend some time creating a post that will link you back to the authors works that were originally posted. I will post these entries in my journal and place a page holder on the site that will last for about 6 weeks.

-3-

email/websites

As I'm deleting my domain orpheneritus @ gakushi.net is no longer a valid email address. Please feel free to comment or contact me via orpheneritus @ mac.com

Currently I'm hosting my pictures of japan at http://web.mac.com/orpheneritus/

I'm also hosting files for download at http://homepage.mac.com/orpheneritus/
(From Eroica with Love scanslations are the current download)


With all of the slightly sad news in this post, I'd like to leave you on a high note (or what I hope you think is a high note). I hope that these changes will leave me mre time to write, which I really miss a lot.

Hello LJ Friends....

I've not been around much lately for many reasons. At the end of last year I was working full time and trying to complete a difficult course and then early this year I've been looking for a new job in Japan!

Happy to say I have a job in Japan and I leave in 2 weeks on April 17 I'll be very poor for a while but you will all be blessed with pictures, so I hope you'll be happy for me.

I've been placed in Kurashiki in the Okayama Prefecture. If you've ever visited Kurashiki and have some hot tips please let me know.

Doujinshis for Sale

In light of my impending departure I find myself a little bit poor. So I'm selling many of my doujinshis. There is Prince of Tennis, Saiyuki, Full Metal Alchemist, Hikaru no Go, Samurai Champloo and Bleach

View the Doujinshi


Doujinshi's are all $8.00 AUD (aprox $6.50USD or $4.85 EUD) unless a reduced price is listed in the table.

EDIT: 16/04 I've closed the sale. Thank you to everyone who purchased items I hope you will all be pleased with them. All items have now been posted as I leave the country tomorrow. However if there is some problem with your item you can still contact me on: orpheneritus @ mac.com, but please give me up to 10 days to reply.

Hi flist. It's been a while since I've been around and that's largely due to my life being a little crazy. Part of the craziness is...

I'm leaving for Japan in two weeks! On April 17th for 1 year to 18months

Only problem is I'm a little short on funds, and I won't be paid for around 10 weeks >____<; So I'm selling some of my beautiful doujinshi in the hopes that I can sort out a few last minute things.

Prince of Tennis (39)
Hikaru No Go (5)
Samurai Champloo (3)
Saiyuki (3)
Bleach (2)
Full Metal Alchemist (1)

Dounjinshi for Sale

( Price )

( Payment )
( Shipping )

( Doujinshi Sale Table )

EDIT: I am hosting the From Eroica With Love files on my iDisk for everyone. If you haven't read it, try it out.

A big thank you to esda who was amazingly generous about uploading the Erioca scans to make this a possiblity.

Scans are available for download here



Does anyone have the scanslations for From Eroica with Love from Volume 8 (Chapter 11) upwards? I tried the free manage communiy, but all the links are broken or it's stored on Mega upload, which is a mega pain since it never works except to tell me all the slots for my country are full. YAY fun.

I just think it's time for more Klaus and Dorian....

You can tell I didn't consider it a great year as it's taken me over two weeks to build up to looking back on it.

Bascialy 2006 was a little crap. But here's the writing break down

I only completed and posted 12 stories this year. I have 28 unfinished/incomplete/abandoned stories hanging around on my harddrive.

( Prince of Tennis )

( xxxholic )

( Ouran High Host Club )

On the list for 2007...

I have two certain plans.

1. An Atobe/Kabaji fic. It needs to be done ^_____^
2. A long fic of Aotbe/Jirou, working on a nice insightful Jirou

Possiblities...

1. More xxxholicI'm thinkin that Watanuki and Doumeki have been left with the shop and have slipped outside of time as Yukko lived.
2. Harry Potter Fandom
Maybe something to fill in the between places in Empty Places That fic was so cerebral for me I'm sure it wasn't making sense on the otherside.
Other character options for me are 1. Severus Snape childhood vingettes (there's a poison tea thought that keeps bugging me) 2. Draco Malfoy as the schemeing wonder brat. 3. Millicent Bulstrode, sucks to be ugly, but I betcha someone loves her. Maybe just a little follow up ona 100 word drabble I did.