Okay, ladies and gentlemen, who are all so graciously putting up with my spamming of your LJ friendslists during November: I just signed up to be a Sponsored Writer for NaNo, in order to raise some money for the Office of Letters and Light (aka: the NaNo people). I'll be making personal donations throughout the month, but the ultimate goal is to try to get 250$ raised for young writers across the world, and improve literacy programs in school (and all sorts of other fun, awesome things that OLL sponsors).

Go! Check it out! Tell a friend!

My current word count is 11202/50000, and it's only the beginning of this wacky month. All the details are at the sponsor page I linked above!

Oh, you can also find and follow my status during November at my NaNoWriMo profile page: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/182921

(crossposted to irish_ais)

Title: of impractical dresses and men with machine guns
Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Fujin/Laguna
Rating: G
Prompt: ff_kissbattle,

( of impractical dresses and men with machine guns )

Title: notes like broken glass
Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Squall/Rinoa
Rating: PG
Prompt: ff_kissbattle, astrangerenters, "at the end of all things."

( notes like broken glass )

Title: post-its and burnt coffee
Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Squall/Rinoa
Rating: G
Prompt: ff_kissbattle, auronlu, "functional relationship."
( post-its and burnt coffee )

ff_press, please list!

Watchmen, Final Fantasy, and Paradise Kiss bookmarks

Bookmarks are still for sale. As I'm currently in a situation where funds are needed urgently, I'm dropping the prices on all of them. Individual bookmarks are $1.50/each, sets of 5 are $5, and sets of 10 are 8$. Shipping is a flat 2.00$ for ANY order over 5 (under 5, shipping is 1$.) I will ship anywhere, including internationally.

I also accept commissions on these. Sets of 5 are $12, (originally set of 4 for 17$.)

Also, I make and sell jewelry and various other sundries on Etsy. I am offering free shipping on any jewelry item right now. I am also offering 10% off any item in my store; just comment here or message on Etsy with the item you'd like, and I'll put it on hold, change the price, and notify you so that you can purchase (I would prefer that you purchase the item through Etsy itself, but if need be, I can add it to your total from here).

http://clockworklotus.etsy.com

For bookmark listings, go here!

For everything, I will ship STANDARD MAIL, to keep shipping costs down. If you want something shipped Priority International, please comment, and I will let you know the shipping charges, as that tends to be really pricey. Any purchase not including the bookmarks has tracking worked into the shipping price. PLEASE COMMENT WITH YOUR US ZIPCODE or CITY, COUNTRY (for international), so I can calculate shipping to you.

I'm accepting Paypal, checks, MOs and well-concealed cash. Orders will ship when money has cleared. Paypal is clockworklotus (at) gmail.com. I will PM you with my mailing address for other forms of payment.

( fandom goodies )

I will combine shipping on items, and if it exceeds a flat-rate priority box price, I'll put it all together and ship it that way. Please, please, please comment here if you're getting anything from the bookmarks post or from Etsy in addition to something here so I know to combine those orders into one package. I have kind of an erratic schedule, so I will edit this post when orders have shipped.

I'll also take reasonable offers on anything. I will not put things on hold unless it's only for one or two days.

Thanks for looking!

ff_press, please list both the Rinoa fic challenge and FST! :D

Title: the air i'm breathing
Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Rinoa, implied Rinoa/Squall
Tracks: 10, one in .wma, the rest in .mp3
Rating: PG
Summary: Rinoa before, Rinoa during, Rinoa after. She carves her own path between the stars, but history waits patiently behind every turn.

( art and .zip )

Bonus: I barely ever host any sort of writing challenges on here, but I'm opening this one up because I'm not even going to lie, I've got a fic idea for every song in this mix.

Rules!:
-Download the mix! Listen! Enjoy! Then follow the rest of the rules.

-Drabble/short-fic challenge only (pretty much what you can fit in a comment, or several, because I'm totally cool with that.)

-Must be Rinoa-centric, but writing from other characters' perspectives is A-okay!

-You must either incorporate one of the mix songs, or simply cite which one was the inspiration, so that people can have some mood music when reading ficbits.

-Post directly in the comments.

Time limit!: None, particularly. More of a writing exercise than anything else.

Prizes!: Okay, there are no real prizes, but I will totally send a Final Fantasy bookmark to anyone who submits something and actually wants one. You should want to write about Rinoa anyway because she is awesome.

Title: the complete idiot's guide to the care and feeding of your chocobo.
Medium: Fic
For: mercuriosity // ff_exchange
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Seifer, Zell
Prompt: Seifer/Zell, hurt/comfort, them being idiots and potential making out (which, alas, doesn't actually occur in this fic).
Summary: "Don't you have like, fifty junior cadets who would do this for you at the snap of your fingers?" Seifer, Zell, some tweezers and the obligatory joke about Zell's hair.

( the complete idiot's guide to the care and feeding of your chocobo )

Title: bottle rockets
For: snowinsommer // ff_exchange
Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Irvine/Selphie
Rating: PG
Summary: A gull freewheels overhead, crying the end of the day.

( bottle rockets )

Title: the keeper of the butterflies
Fandom: FFX
For: snowinsommer // FFEX
Characters: Yuna, Yevon, the original Fayth, and one unnamed priest of Yevon.
Rating: PG
Summary: There is always more than one version of a story. Yuna listens; the fayth dream.

Notes: I was aiming for a skewed retelling, something that would be passed down from generation to generation, where the details start to get a little muddy. I had about fifteen tabs in Firefox open in regard to the history of Yevon, the Machina War, Yuna, Braska, and every single "known" Fayth (none of which actually make an appearance, alas, although I learned a lot that I didn't pick up, even after going through the game twice.) I haven't written much X, so this was a challenge AND a welcome relief to write.

( the keeper of the butterflies )