News

10/20/09

MONSTER UPDATE. Three new chapters, one for a fic that's been left hanging for over a year, and a new story. Madness? Blasphemy? Sparta? 2007? I don't know. Just go read!

9/19/09

Someone over on the darklordpotter.net forums has said I am "the Michael Bay of fanfiction." I cannot express with words how hilarious I find that. Personally, I'm ambivalent toward his work, as I like the action and I like some of his humor, but the rest is kind of grating. I recognize that I still have plenty of room for improvement, so I'm simply going to take that comment at face value, and as an indicator of something I already know: that I'm not perfect.

8/21/09

There's been a bit of a dearth in updates lately. I've finally managed to aqcuired full-time employment, and school is starting back up, so that's eating into my writing time. Also, I've started reading The Dresden Files. Yeesh. Overload of win. The Dresden books are like buttons that make four to ten hours disappear whenever I press them, and there's eleven of them out so far

So, I apologize for the slowness in updates.

8/9/09

Updates have been a bit slow lately. It seems I got my hands on the discs for Fallouts 1, 2, and 3 all at once, and OHGODFLAGHABLEWINOVERLOAD.

6/27/09

Iiiinteresting.

I've just recently discovered that someone at Tvtropes has made articles on Forward and Tiberium Wars. You can find them here:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/Forward

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TiberiumWars

6/18/09

I've suffered a lengthy power outage, and my computer with all my text files on it crashed. As a result, two full chapters of Forward, half a chapter of Tiberium Wars, two thirds a chapter of Ocarina, and several side projects I've been working on were lost. Aggravating.

Expect some...delays for future updates.

1/9/09

I recently deleted an anyonymous review. I don't do that very often, partly because I accept whatever criticism is offered, partly because I love attention, and partly because the number makes my ego happy. Now, this is not a particularly special case, but in this instance I was particularly irritable, and the review in question was one hundred percent irrelevant whining. (specifically, it was whining about the treatment of the Black Hand in the Command and Conquer series) I've said it before in my stories and I'll say it here: whining like this pisses me off.

The review system for this archive is intended for, well, reviews. That's what its there for, to give feedback to the author about their stories. The review system doesn't exist as a means to communicate your like or dislike of whatever fiction the fanfic is based on. Now personally, I don't mind it much if someone comments on what they liked or disliked about the show or game or whatever in question, as long as its part of constructive feedback. However, when an entire "review" consists of "they changed this part of the fiction and I hate it baaaaaaaw," I get irritable, particularly because whining and complaining really annoys me. The review system isn't a forum; using it for anything other than communicating with the author about the story is a misuse of it, and if there's one thing I really hate, that's misuse of site functions.

In other words, the review system is not an outlet for pointless bitching. This is the internet; you've got countless other places to whine, and you are not going to find a sympathetic audience in this corner of the tubes. "Reviews" of this nature will be deleted immediately in the future for violation of site rules.

So, who am I?

Aside from being a moody, catankerous jackass (you have been warned) the pen name is Peptuck, a name whose origins are best left unsaid. My real name is Greg. I'm a 24-year-old American living in a place where the CIA hasn't checked for me yet. I'm a busboy who has way too much time on his hands, furthering an edumacation that I'm not sure what I'm going to do with. I'm a slightly overweight college student majoring in International Studies, with a minor in Japanese, and I have a thing for writing stories. I have a personal love for action and the military, and am not afraid to admit that I like violence; just about all my favorite books, movies, and games involve quite a bit of it, though I'm still not sure how that copy of Harvest Moon or what those piles of SimCity games are doing on my shelves. Curious.

I'm a fairly prolific writer. A lot of what I write goes unpublished on the interwebs. I've got a dozen folders in my fanfic folder itself, and half of them are full of stuff that I likely won't ever put up unless I get bored or review-starved. I'm a specialist in writing novelizations; in my personal philosophy, I try not to write a story in a particular fandom unless I've worked on putting some of the original content into written format, as this helps cement, in my head, what my particular interpretation of that content actually is. Thus, the slew of novelizations you see me working on are in a sense mental exercises to help me find how I write, as well as pleasant diversions and tributes to good, fun games.

A word on my writing style: I tend to be descriptive, and at times wordy. Its my belief that the writer should evoke images and paint a picture for the reader, and I have a personal dislike for stories that are too sparse. While I appreciate the power of imaginition, I often like to invoke specific images and concepts, which is why I am so descriptive at times. I try to strike a middle balance between description and imagination, but I try to err on the side of caution and go with description over imagination when necessary.

Note on updates: I update on Mondays. If I have a chapter completed, it will go up on a Monday, which means that even if I finish a chapter on Tuesday, I will end up posting it a week later. So, if Monday passes and there's been no update, don't expect one for the rest of the week. Imposing a schedule like that is something that helps keep me sane.

Some links, as this is train of thought and I might forget otherwise:

http://www.icybrian.com
- One of the best fanfic sites in the world. Go there, read the RPG fanfics, and rejoice, for they are all preapproved, wondrous bits of sexy, sexy goodness.

http://www.centragarden.net
- Site of Greenbeans' Sowing the SeeDs fanfic, a major inspiration for The Gunblade Saga.

http://www.military-sf.com/index.htm

-Military fiction/military sci-fi resource site. This site is an absolute must for anyone who wishes to writeproper, realistic and accurate military combat fiction. If you use any kind of military unit in your writing, from a squad to a division, the information here with vastly help you improve in your capacity to write accurately.

So, there you have it. I'm a moderately insane fanfic author who has way too much time on his hands.

The Soundtrack

Chris Ganale inspired this, by including track listings for some of his chapters, where he suggested certain themes and songs for certain scenes. I like the concept, and as I use a lot of music to help me imagine scenes, I figured I might as well make a listing of some of the tracks I've usedas themes forcertain scenes. This will primarily be focused on Chimera and Mako, as those are my current projects at this point.

You guys may note that achunk of this stuff is remixes; I've encountered some simply amazing remixes and online music; I've included links to those songs available free for download. Those off official soundtracks you'll have to buy or pirate yourself, however.:P

OCRemix.org - Gaming remix site. Anything with "OCRemix" as the album title can be found there. Great stuff, the guys there know their stuff.

Mothergoat.net- Mothergoat does Halo-inspired music, and his stuff is simply gobbsmacking amazing. If Mothergoat is the artist, go grab it here.

Dark Side of Phobos - Doom remix project. If "Dark Side of Phobos" is the album title, go here to find it.

Gh.ffshrine.org - Galbadia Hotel, an excellent site for getting otherwise impossible to find video game music, all free and legal. If I whip some obscure track for a soundtrack that's never been officially released, chances are its here.

Random stuff: I just passed a million words archived total in my stories. Wow, I have no life XD