Small reminder....

Just a small reminder: Today, Saturday September 8, is the International Day for Literacy. Have you been reading anything? I've been reading. I've been reading En ö i havet, slow progress but still progress. I think I'm too restless at the moment to really hunker down and read.

I have been writing a little, too. As usual, yaoi FanFiction. So, I give you the first page (or is it maybe somewhere in the middle of some book) of my Star Wars meets Mass Effect yaoi, with my Revan (with a new name) and Carth Onasi as the love couple.

The Ebon Hawk shot out of the worm hole and straight into a planet atmosphere. For a moment, it was out of control and it got extremely hot in the freighters interior, but its expert pilot was swift to put the heat sink in overdrive. He could not gain control over their decent, however.

“We’re totally going to crash”, said one of the kids behind the pilot.

“That would be bad”, said another, with a knack for stating the obvious.

         The fear for this destiny was palpable; no one on this ship wanted such an end. The only one who seemed calm was the man standing between the pilot seats.

“Buckle in, kids”, he said. “This is going to hurt.”

         The seven people behind him hurried to do so. Unfortunately, this left no seat for himself. Their pilot had managed to slow down a little, but this was going to be a quite graceless landing. They were rapidly meeting a sand sea, at least there were no mountains to strike. The standing man braced himself for impact.

         The Ebon Hawk came to a skidding halt on the dune sea. All was still. No one moved.

“Uron. Uron!”

         He among them that had been standing when they crash landed groaned and sat up. The pilot sat back with a sigh of relief.

“Don’t do that to me”, he said.

“Sorry”, he muttered. “I’m ok.”

“You’re bleeding”, said a female voice, which was neither of the two women in their company.

         Uron put a hand to the back of his head and felt the sticky warm blood. He nodded slowly. His head was feeling really funny. He looked up at the woman who had spoken. She was not alone. She was accompanied by three men and two women, of different species.

“Asari”, he said quietly, getting to his feet. He swayed a little. “If you will excuse me, I think I will go and vomit.”

         The crowd parted for him, they would have, sick or not. Uron’s friends looked after him.

“Will he be ok”, one of them asked.

“Yeah, well…”, said the pilot softly. “Maybe I’d better go and check. Let’s go to the assembly room and figure this out. I’ll get Uron.”

         The 8 of the 9 people of the Ebon Hawk and their 6 “visitors” filed out to the assembly room, and the pilot walked outside.

“Uron”, he said quietly. “You ok?”

         Uron stood with his back against the side of his star ship, eyes closed. He seemed to be listening.

“My head hurts”, he said.

“Of course it hurts. What did you think? What were you thinking, standing there? Why didn’t you at least get down?”

         Uron smiled a little.

“Carth Onasi”, he said softly. “Are you worried about me?”

         The Ebon Hawks pilot and long-term friend of Uron, Carth Onasi, gently put a hand on Urons temple. Uron could feel the healing power of Carths hand.

“Always”, Carth said.

“I feel cold”, whispered Uron, allowing himself a rare moment of vulnerability. “Embrace me.”

         Carth pulled gently at Uron, who leaned forward. They stood for a moment, close together.

“A thousand times you’ve promised me to be careful with your life, and a thousand times have you broken that promise”, said Carth quietly. “How can I trust you when you do that to me?”

“You trust me for the millions of times I do keep my promise.”

Wednesday is library day.... part 2....

Ok, so, I know i was supposed to write this last Thursday, buuut.... well, mostly I didn't do it because I had no inspiration whatsoever, but i blame my tooth... anywho, seeing its technically thursday a week later (writing this at 00:48 night between Wednesday and Thursday) I thought I'd push myself into doing it. So, favorite books in categories kids through yaoi, here i come.

Kids (that is not written by Astrid Lindgren): Oh, this is SO DAMN HARD! Should i Pick Harry Potter? Well, funny story about that one; I got it when i was a kid from my mom, birthday present. Guess what? I REFUSED TO READ IT! I was very anti-everything everyone else did, so reading Harry Potter..... nah. Didn't actually start reading until the Prisoner of Azkaban. We were vacationing on Crete and I was bored, so I bought it in the reception at the hotel. My favorite of the books, but the least favorite film. But that's all a side note. I think I will actually go with Momo by Michael Ende. He also wrote The Neverending Story. Momo, the title character, is an outsider looking in at a society where she, as a lonely little girl living poor and alone in an amphitheater, isn't really liked by the adults, but loved by the kids. She and the kids play and enjoy the time spent together, and the town where they live is peaceful and quiet. But then the Gray Men appear and time seems to disappear..... it's a good read, and it made me think. It's just as much for kids as for adults.

Manga: Oh.... I hardly remember all the manga I've read. All is not in the bookshelves, so i pick from there..... and my pick is: Black Butler (黒執事 :Kuroshitsuji) Kind of generic, I know.... Everyone knows what this is, at least if they know anything about manga. About a boy (Earl Ciel Phantomhive) and his butler (Sebastian Michaelis) and their antics in Victorian London's shadow world of crooks and murderers and.... and GRELL! Grell, you weird, red, crazy Shinigami, you! You totally deserved it when Will landed on your head! (I think it was Will.... Might have been Sebastian..... or both....) But then, I think you liked it. And that was the scariest version on the Cheshire cat EVER! Anywho, one of my favorites!



Fairy Tales: Ok, this is not what you think! I used the Swedish word "Sagor", witch is a much wider concept than fairy tales. Fables fit in here, as well as Harry Potter, The Golden Compass and Pippi Longstocking. So this may seem really random. Talking strict classic fairy tale, my favorite is Sleeping Beauty. Not the Disney version. This is totally bias on a book I had when I was a kid. I think I have it somewhere. It had beautiful full-page pictures on every other page. I think I like the paintings more than the story. From the book shelf: The Moomin books. Hard to choose which. Sent i November (Late in November, literally, but i don't know if this is the actual English title) puts me in that quiet, almost sorrowful state that I like from books, especially in November. And that song Tove Jansson, the author, wrote gives me chills for some reason.It's called Höstvisa, look it up, check for an old clip from the 60's, a man is singing in that version. 

Science Fiction: I'm gonna go all Star Wars here, and say The Jedi's Apprentice. It's a young teen series about Obi-Wan Kenobi as a teenager. It's a really good book series, and I just love Qui-Gon Jinn.... I started reading this before I saw The Phantom Menace, and I had Liam Neeson's voice in my head whenever Qui-Gon spoke.... and lo.... Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn.... The SW universe has spawned fanfic, but not this specifically.






Shounen-ai: I had surprisingly little in this bookshelf. Only three books. But it seems I'm lacking books here. I'll go with Betrayal Knows My Name (裏切りは僕の名前を知っている Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Sitteiru) (Yay me, I remembered the whole thing by myself!) The only thing that bothers me is that Yuki was once a girl.... Is it really shounen-ai, then? Don't know. I just know that Yuki is sweet, Luka has the good old devil's stare and Takashiro is totally hot. A LOT of yaoi fanfic has come out of this occult series, and there is more to come....






Yaoi: Hard, hard, hard..... I think I'll go with Junjou Romantica. Slice of life yaoi about Misaki who comes to live with his big brothers best friend Usagi-san. Usagi-san pursues Misaki, Misaki resists.... we all know the drill. Don't really know what to write about this, other than I really like it, and it's kinda cute. And it has spawned some yaoi fanfic....








Well, that was that, all categories in my bookshelf. Not the most sophisticated reader perhaps, but it's all good and fun. Tonight I'm reading Assassin's Creed Renaissance.

Everything is yaoi....

It's true. Everything is yaoi. And if it isn't, you can make it so. I have made yaoi out of just about everything. So, let me tell you about that thing I promised before. Treasure island yaoi. It is one of those stories that I started when I was a kid, and since then it has gone through a hell of an evolution. It all started when I was 10 and our fourth grade teacher said we had to read at least one book per month. Well, I though, I read one book per day, so... MOM, I NEED A CHALLENGE! She dumped Treasure Island in my lap. How that was a challenge, I don't know. Maybe because I didn't really like pirates back then.

Anywho, I read it, and little girl feminism kicked in, just like with Lord of the Rings. I immediately decided to split the main role between Jim Hawkins and a girl. The girl was Jim's sister, runaway girl, I don't know if she ever got a girls name. But off she was, and she came to Bristol and was found by Alexander Smollett. He thought she was a boy and he took her in. She said she didn't remember her name, so he gave her the name Ismael. Ismael is a name I fell in love with after having seen Fanny och Alexander, mainly because that Ismael was really cool and a bit scary.

Little girl Ismael didn't survive very long. She turned into little boy Ismael. The boy Ismael didn't take long to detach himself from the source material, made clones for himself and sometimes changes his name. One of him stayed in the Treasure island world, grew up, got hitched to a woman and got himself a boyfriend, named Horatio Hornblower. Sound Familiar? It's another book (series) about a sailor in the 18th century. One of the Ismael clones moved to France and joined the musketeers (this has several stories, one in an alternate future where France is ruled by king Louis XXVI), one changed his name to Isaac and moved to 21st century London, another also changed his name to Isaac, but misspelled it Isacc, he is for now sitting rather still in a boat somewhere in the space-time continuum. Isacc has once met the original Ismael, buut.... i don't know. I promise to one day post some of those stories.

Just to give you a hint of what else I'm writing about, here's a little summary of 5 people/couples:

Zidane Karone + Charles "Kuja" Shunte: Zidane is the riches-to-rags-to-riches guy who ran away from home when he was 12. Kuja is the guy from the suburbs that ended up on the streets when his parents died. Apparently, foster care didn't exist in this universe. These two hasn't changed much since i started writing about them when I was, maybe, 12. Their names has changed, I think Kuja was actually "Charlie" in the beginning. Then came Final Fantasy IX. Name stealing 200%. After that I made a gag out of the name Charles. Zidane's father's name became Carlo, his mothers brother Carlos, and his and Kuja's oldest son Charlie. So Zidane use to say he's surrounded by Charlie's. Once upon a time, to solve the "how to have kids" dilemma, Zidane and Kuja actually had wives. But then i went all sci-fi on them. Anywho, a little slice of life story that seem to be never-ending.

Alexander Gabriels: This young lad lives in 10'000 AD, in a society with no culture. Or, at least no fun kind. All movies are educational, there is music, but there are no words. Not no singing, but the singing is gibberish without meaning. But they have games, like World of Warcraft and the likes. Alex is an avid player, he even have a neural input, allowing him to immerse himself completely in the games. Coming from a broken home, he moved to his aunt and uncle when he was 10, his cousin is as close to him as any brother. His cousin Nathan recruits him into his band, (not dissimilar to boy bands of today), Alex spirals almost out of control, but is more or less rescued by his then-on boyfriend Kevin. Alex's net skills lead him to THE LIBRARY, containing all movies, music and books from our time.

Uron Raccall: My very own Jedi Master. Kidnapping the Star Wars Universe entirely, Uron Raccall wasn't just my Revan in the game Knights of the Old Republic, buuuut he also united the Old Republic before is was a republic, single-handed started the Jedi Order and stopped Anakin from going all rogue. Yes, this Jedi Master is old as the stars. He's a bit of a mystery, even to me. When he's not keeping a shroud of mystery around himself he says he is the Force itself, and most people who has met him is rather unsure as to where his allegiance lie.

Kana + Sora + Aito: One of my three threesomes. These guys hail from a post-apocalyptic Japan, ruled by the Eastboard Alliance and their alien allies. Kana, the oldest of them, saw the fall of the world 400 years ago, when the aliens attacked. He is a vampire, and he is the Dragon of the Void, a leader of the resistance. The other four dragons don't know he is a vampire. Kana had been a vampire for 200 years when he fell in love with Sora, who was fatally ill. Turning him was, in Kana's opinion, the best thing Kana ever did. It was Sora who made them a threesome. 200 years after his becoming a vampire, he fell in love with Aito and Kana didn't disapprove. Now they're fighting together.

Kato + Sora: My favourite gender-bender. I totally nicked this idea from the Yaoi manga Sex Pistols. (Some releases of this in the west is called Love Pistols, as to not confuse it with the band of the same name.) Kato and Sora are descendants of dragons in a shadow society. The call normal humans Monkeys, three guesses why, while they, and all others who are not evolved from the human/ape ancestor, madararui. I still don't really got the hang of what that means, but the important thing is they are not really human. The Madararui have means to make the males pregnant just as the females, and most of their marriages are arranged as there are rather few of them. Getting to fall in love and be with the one you love is rare. But Kato and Sora are lucky. They found each other and were allowed to marry. And now.... Kato is pregnant. Sora's childhood friend Ichiro and his husband Toya are also pregnant after having lost their first child.

I don't know how much that said about anything, other than, yes, i like yaoi. I'll write more about my 100+ stories, in due time. Tomorrow is Monday.......