Tenika is...

Still seeking an effective control-z function for the last few years. For now she'll just stick with deleting and replacing.

As you may have noticed, several fics have disappeared. Allow me to present my reasons in an itemized fashion.

- Sora's Folktale was removed because: it's just too damn old. Sorry, but no. It's too humiliating to keep it up for the sake of sentimentality alone.
- Blood in Skin Petals was removed because: it is also too damn old, and clichéd now to boot. This is frustrating, because I feel like it still has some original stuff mixed in with the crap (I have yet to see anybody else try to tackle Kaiba's mom--then again, I also live in a box); but I'm transferring a lot of this material to a new story, so. No more of this one, either.
- Being Comfortable, Being Comforted was removed because: of the ungodly sap. Seriously. :o

Which currently leaves What of the Three-Leaf, Playing the Game, and Things to Think About. Don't cross your fingers for two of those. (NOTE: This doesn't mean I've given up work on Playing the Game; it just means that once I start reposting the edited chapters, I'd like to do it with a fresh time stamp.)

Now. Having watched some of my personal favorite fics disappear into the ether without a trace, I have no desire to do the same to anybody out there who might still enjoy these pieces, as much as they make me want to crawl under a rock in humiliation. Accordingly, I will backlog the works listed above in my dashre LJ for anybody who can't stand to see them gone/anybody who wants to visit the museum and see how much more I sucked three/four years ago. So no worries. :) I'm just trying to get some spring cleaning done here.

08/11/09 - My last note made a liar out of me:

Clover writers of all ages and persuasions! I come bearing exciting news! A few days ago I yet again wrote to ff.net in the hopes of getting them to finally, finally, finally add a Clover category, and guess what? THEY TOTALLY DID.

GUYS, IT'S SO EXCITING. There's no fanfiction in it yet so it's not showing up on the main anime/manga page, but we can fix that! (I mean, I just switched What of the Three-Leaf over, but it'll take, like, hours for that to show up.) Quick, hurry and re-categorize your stuff so we can at long last outnumber the Wish writers! (Ah, obscure CLAMP humor. I joke only out of love.)

But seriously, do it.

08/15/09 - Okay, dashre journal has been neatened up. Browse at will. :) - http://dashre.livejournal.com/

And as always, please send all request/complaints through PM. No business in the reviews, pretty please.

09/09/09 - Three new Clover fics posted: Insouciance, These Moments of Which We Are Conscious, and Pigeons and Crumbs. Why all at once?

To commemorate the date, obviously! After all, when else are we going to get a triple repetition of not only the same number, but a number that is in and of itself divisible by three? (In my lifetime, I mean.) That there's magic, folks.

So, please enjoy the fic, and moreover enjoy the rest of your magic night. :D

01/10/10 - Posted the first chapter of Insomnia yesterday ...and there are three reviews already! Holy crap. Clearly the fandom isn't quite as dead as I thought. :o

Thanks so much for the early feedback, guys! :D I look forward to seeing how future updates satisfy/don't (although, as insanely proud as I am of hearing that Jou's voice is so far coming across as culturally appropriate, I feel compelled to mention that I haven't yet been to Japan myself, and so am operating purely from a research/academic study standpoint. LOTS of research and academic study, but still: should you see an egregious American fubar, dear god let me know, and I'll do my best to fix it--unless it directly contributes to the plot, in which case, we'll, uh. Just pretend it never happened.)

The story is complete at seven chapters, one epilogue, and will be updated every Saturday. I'm going to work on getting a reviewer response post up in my LJ (where I'll also be moving some of the end notes, as they take up a LOT of space), but it'll probably take a couple days. Thanks a lot, school.

01/24/10 - Holy shit, have just found out that the pen name Tendency is available. I've been lusting after this for years. I had just assumed that, since it's been taken on every other damn site I'm on, it would be here as well.

...but now it looks strange and uncomfortable. I'll have to sleep on it for a while. :o

01/30/10 - Okay, um, today's post might end up being delayed until tomorrow? I have the document all polished and ready to go, but ff.net's fucking converter won't accept it--or, for that matter, any other file, including ones I know worked last week. I'm calling internal error on this one. Hopefully they'll get it resolved by this evening.

01/31/10 - Okay, chapter four's finally up. Sorry for the delay. I have no clue what was wrong with the document manager. It was most frustrating.

On the positive side of things, however, the interruption did give me some time to put this together: http://tenika.livejournal.com/81791.html (IT'S A MASTERPOST, GUYS, WITH GOODIES AND NOTES. AREN'T YOU EXCITED?)

Now I just need to get my review responses finished! :)