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Hi. That 'b' is not a typo. Once upon a time there was a little girl who read the Redwall books and joined the Dibbuns Against Bedtime rpg community online and gave herself the name Sunflower Brushtail. Since then she has used the name sunflowerb for just about everything. So, me? You can call me Sunflower, or Megan, or Sunny, or Megs. You may NOT call me Meg or Megi. But Megs will do just fine. It's a long story; just go with it.

INSPIRE ME: CONTEST OPPORTUNITY

KINGDOM HEARTS "US" CONTEST

open as of 1:49am Est, 8/29/09

So I have decided to host a contest/challenge. After nearly four years and over fourty fics I figure I've earned the credibility to host one. Why? Because it seems the good literature in the Kingdom Hearts fandom is getting harder and harder to find with each passing day. Plus, I've hit writer's block and I need someone to inspire me, and like I said, it's getting harder and harder to find anything that's good enough literature to make me want to go write something.

Rules, FAQ, etc:

Kingdom Hearts, SoraxKairi, Post KH2, Canon. K-T Rating. Theme: You, Me, Us. There's always been something, so after everything, where are we now?

sokai. You can stick as many other pairings in as you like (provided they are all het, I don't read slash fics), and throw in some love triangles if you like, but the main pairing HAS to be SK, or even sokai falling apart, if that's the direction you want to take it, as long as it fits with the theme. This isn't a 'how fluffy can you make it' contest, it's a 'how well can you write it' contest.

Post KH2. This doesn't mean it has to take place directly after the end of KH2, it can be ten years in the future if you want, but just make it happen after game two. However, if you want you can have little bits from earlier, but the main plot/conclusion should be postKH2. For example, the format I used in Check Yes or No (preKH prologue, and finishing KH2) would be acceptable.

Canon. Mostly. No major AU here please. Try to stick to the original universe here, please. I say this because I'm getting sick of stereotypical highschool fics.

Oneshot/short multi-chapter preferred. I mean don't try to give me a big, epic adventure fic here, please. If you are going to do a multi-chaptered entry, make sure that it is something that you are sure that you will have finished and not abandonded by the contest deadline. Try not to make this too complicated. Don't try to enter your version of KH3, you'll never have it done in time.

New Fic. Your entry must be something you have written FOR THIS CONTEST. No entering pre-existing fics. I don't care if the fic you wrote three months ago fits this challenge perfectly, you can't submit it.

K-T rating. No M rated fics. Nothing graphically violent or sexual; no lemons, keep the language mild.

Deadline: December 21st, 11:59 pm Yes, I'm giving everyone plenty of time. Most people either have just started school, or are about to start school. Including me. Trying to factor that in. I may extend the deadline if seriously needed.

How to enter: PM me with a link to your fic (or if the link won't work, just tell me the title and I'll go to your page and find it.) I check my email like, five times a day, so you should get a PM back soon after to confirm that I got your entry. If you don't hear back from me within three days, it may mean there was a technical problem (ex:FF didn't send me an email--it's happened before.) Also--mention in your fic/fic's summary that this fic is for the contest. Something simple: 'for sunflowerb's "Us" contest' will do. Just something to identify it as a contest entry and advertise the contest.

Judging, winning, etc: Judging will start after the deadline, and I'll announce the winners sometime between then and New Years. I'll PM participants with a more exact date once I see how many fics are entered.

Prizes: First Place: Reviews for all of your KH fics (excepting slashfics, which I won't come near with a ten foot pole), advertisement on my profile and on my Contest Closing fic, Request fic, request for a chapter of 'As if We'd Just Gone to Buy Milk', request for a chapter of 'CRACK'D', Bragging rights, . Second place: Advertisement on my profile and Contest Closing fic, bragging rights, Request fic, Reviews for any three of your KH fics (tell me which ones, also, these are three fics other than the one you submitted for the contest). Third Place: Advertisement on my profile and Contest Closing Fic. Request Fic. Bragging rights. Reviews for two of your KH fics (two other than the one you entered in the contest).

Honorable Mentions: Fics/authors deserving Honorable Mention will get advertisement on my profile and my Contest Closing fic. All entries will get a review from me.

OTHER INFO: My new fic "Underneath the Willow Tree" is my kick off to the contest and it's there sort of to demonstrate my own variation on the contest theme; I'm trying to leave it a really broad theme so I'm just trying to show one way you can take it in case anyone's confused. Also, it's good advertisement. PM me with any questions!

KINGDOM HEARTS "Us" CONTEST ENTRIES:

SilverInkBlot "We Were" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5391264/1/We_Were

NoiseAndSound "Never Enough" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5397231/1/Never_Enough

Jupiter-Lightning "Romance Novels" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5419709/1/Romance_Novels

XIV with a heart "Picking up the pieces" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5441573/1/Picking_up_the_pieces

Emerald31 "Gravity" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5450196/1/

Izzyv1o "Three Words" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5458454/1/Three_Words

kikofreako "MAYBE-HOME" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5478156/1/maybe_home

Marsuvees "The Beach" http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5509994/1/The_Beach

darth-korbo and Tanuokami have also expressed interest.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Much Ado About Nothing cover: http://sunflowerb.deviantart.com/art/KH-Much-Ado-About-Nothing-89007116

Kairi's outfit design from Habillement of As If We'd Just Gone to Buy Milk: http://sunflowerb.deviantart.com/art/KH-Kairi-redesign-89006448

My homepage links to my Deviantart page. Please check out all my artwork there.

ME: Megan. 18. Recent High School Graduate. Yes. Even more recent College freshman--art major. Still pretty psyched about surviving high school. Entered the world 8/6/91. Tennesse girl. Doesn't need to lose weight, doesn't know how to gain any. Does not have an eating disorder, despite public opinion. Can never remember to wear her retainer. Artist. Writer. Artist before writer. Christian before all else. Is short. Has way too many pairs of earrings. And shoes. Ultimately wants to be a fashion/costume designer. Caffeine addict. Lives on Starbucks Mocha Frappuchino, Strawberries, Nutella, and air. Hates/abhors/loathes/despises fast food. Was always the weird kid who loved brocolli but wouldn't eat a hamburger. Dreams of designing costumes for Cirque du Soleil. French Nerd. Too obsessed with anime for her own good. Borderline rabid fangirl. Has recently developed an addiction for Doctor Who. Would like a boyfriend with hair like David Tennant's. Art Geek. Loves reading. Loves drawing. Loves writing. Loves Ballroom Dancing, particularly the Foxtrot and the Hustle. Wants to live in France or Monaco some day. (If only for a little while.) Procrastinator. Optimist. Tries to give people the benefit of the doubt. Hyper. Likes video games. Doesn't watch much TV. (Who has time for TV?) Clinically ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Seriously. Adderall XR, twenty mg. Else she can't focus. Thinks BBC should bring Jenny back to Doctor Who. Soon. Or Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures. Could be interesting that way. Is convinced Susan and Romana could still be alive. Is not particularly thrilled with Jon Gosselin at the moment.

Yay: Doctor Who, Gilmore Girls, LOST, What Not to Wear, Jon and Kate Plus Eight (Aldergater!), Mythbusters, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Sailor Moon, Mew Mew Power, Kaleido Star, Kingdom Hearts I & II (two of the few games I've ever actually beaten), Paper Mario and Paper Mario Thousand Year Door (also two games I've actually beaten), Pikmin 1&2 (come close to beaten), Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, Kirby anything, Mario Sunshine, Lego Star Wars I & II (Me and my mom and brother have gotten 100 percent on both of 'em), Final Fantasy XII, Harry Potter, Shadow Children Series, anything by Magaret Peterson Haddix, Redwall, Inheritance Trilogy, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Finding Nemo, The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribean, Chocolat, Ocean's 11, 12, & 13; I, Robot; The Day After Tomorow, X-Men, Chicken Run, Forest Gump, The Chronicles of Narnia, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mulan, The Princess Bride, WaaAAALL-EEee (as in, Wall-E. See it. BEST MOVIE EVER), Newsboys, TobyMac, Chris Rice, Switchfoot, Relient K, Casting Crowns, BarlowGirl, Steven Curtis Chapman, Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hawasaki, Ai Otsuka, Natsumi Abe, J-Pop, Frank Sinatra, Soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil's Alegria, Contemporary Christian Music (at least as long as it doesn't sound like "Praize!!111" music), Jazz, Broadway (musical theatre girl), classical-soundtracks are awesome. The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter, etc.

Nay: Twilight, HSM, Rap, Yaoi, Yuri, Christian Hypocrisy, blending stumps, being sick.

OTPs: SoraxKairi and Roxas/Namine and any het variation thereupon (as in, Roxiri and Sorine). 13x14, RoXion, or whatever we're calling Roxas/Xion. Larxene/Axel. Riku/Namine. Hayner/Olette. Ten/Rose. 10.5/Rose. Doctor/Romana.

Still hearts: Riku/Xion. Axel/Kairi. Axel/Xion. Roxas/Olette. Riku/Olette. Just about any het pairing in the KH division provided it isn't creepy and it's written well enough. 4/Sarah Jane.

FROM MY PEN: Mostly Kingdom Hearts. Grown out of Teen Titans. Still adore the show, just not writing for it. Romance. Humor. Some Drama. Major angst in the TT catagory. Major fluff and funny in the KH. Can we see why I switched fandoms? I like to be happy. That is hard to do whilst writing angst. KH leaves more room for happy and fluff. Everything from before about summer 2007 sucks. I write pretty frankly. I endevor to tell it like it is. Or at least the way I see it. Fallen in love with Doctor Who. More to come from that.

STILL CHUGGING ALONG:

Kingdom Hearts

As If We'd Just Gone to Buy Milk: Life back on the islands after KH2. Some romance, a lot of humor. Sokai, some implied rikai and namixas along with whatever strikes my fancy at the time. Coming soon:...well...I dunno

Crack'd: A collection of crack pairings, ranging from the almost-normal like Sorette and Roxiri, to the totally insanely crack-tastic like LuxordXQueen of Hearts, UrsulaXDavy Jones.

DW: There is a possiblity that I will continue Daddy's Little Girl. Just depends on how many more ideas come to mind. Especially after Doctor number 11 takes over.

READ AT OWN RISK:

AS IN, THESE FICS SUFFER FROM BEGINNING WRITERS SYNDROME

Teen Titans:

Test:A oneshot following the end of Things Change in Terra's POV. This is only to be read if you wanna be depressed.

Somewhere to Run: One of my first few attempts at writing tragic romance. BBxT First thing I think I ever wrote. Sucks. really.

Kingdom Hearts:

Something Real: First attempt at writing KH and sokai. Fluff is an understatement. OOC, dribbling, mushy, gushy, bubbling goopy romantic sap. Blah. I hate it.

THE GOOD STUFF: AKA, WORTH THE READ

AS IN, THE ONES PEOPLE LIKE THE MOST

Kingdom Hearts:

Luck: What kind of luck do you get when you find a five leaf clover on friday the 13th? Sora's about to find out. He'll need it. After all, it's him vs. Riku; the prize: a kiss from Kairi...sokai. One of my most popular to date, even though its only about the second full oneshot for KH. I do like it however.

Kill Me Now: Fluffy oneshot tying in death and ballroom dancing. It makes sense once you read it, I promise. Sokai.

Check Yes or No: "Deer Kairi, Who do yoo like betur, me or riku chek yes or no" The problem, besides the horrendus spelling and grammar, was that it wasn't a yes or no question. And Kairi wasn't quite sure how to answer...oneshot set at first preKH and then switches to post KH2. Very fluffy, thou hast been warned.

Impulse: He was a guy, by definition he was supposed to be stupid and impulsive. But the one time he needed to be stupid and impulsive and just kiss her; now his brain chooses to make an appearence. Sokai post KH2 fluff. ...I don't know...ideas come and I write them to shut up the plot bunnies.

Petals: one of my crowning acheivements of Sokai fluff. written in the tradition of Check Yes or No, giving a new twist to an old cliche.

Lullaby Syrup: Proof that I can write crack pairings. DemyxNamine. Yes. You read that correctly. And I did it without even hinting at RoxasNamine, SoraNamine, or anything else canon or canon-esque. Gave poor Namine bronchitus because that's what I was suffering from when I wrote it.

Sukairian:combine all the sokai fluff I have ever written, and you get this. Sukairain, if the translator I used is correct, is japanese for skyline. Or, horizon. So, if Sora is japanese for sky, and Kairi is japanese for sea, then where does the sea meet the sky? at the horizon of course! Sokai fluff

Chocolat: used the french word for chocolate. Because every now in then everyone has to indulge...in some chocolate covered sokai. entry in Kaiora's Kairi's love contest.

ON SWiTCH: Futurfic, AU-ish. Naminecentric. Sort of a futurfic set several years after some form of a KH3 or KH4, but I don't really go into what that adventure was. The more you read the more the setting makes sense. Whatever this KH3-KH4 ish adventure was, it occured when Sora and Kairi were about 17, and it resulted in Namine and Roxas gaining hearts and beings of their own, separate from Sora and Kairi. And yet four years later, when this oneshot takes place, Kairi (now princess of the restored Radiant Garden) and Sora are happily married with a kid on the way, wheareas Namine and Roxas have tentatively remained just friends for the last three years. If this does well, I may continue with my ideas with the general setting. And if it doesn't do so well...I probably will anyway. A sokai companion, perhaps. I'm better known in the sokai section than in the Namixas, so I'm probably more likely to get reviews there. Uber long.

Glass Half Full: sokai companion to On Switch. longest oneshot to date.

Moonlight Serenade: Goodbye fic for Kaiora. Kaiora, post KH2. Epic, romantic sokai fluff!

Ain't: A random oneshot inspired by my own southernese. Kaixel-ish. Set during KH2 when Axel is kidnapping Kairi. Written for fun more than anything else.

Much Ado About Nothing: multichap. Namixas. Set inbetween Roxas joining the Organization and being captured by DiZ. Assuming that Roxas and Namine had met before KH2. Sort of an alternate 358/2 Days thing. Mostly focused on the relationship between Roxas and Namine. Finally complete!

Mucus-Flavored Kisses:second only to Luck in popularity. Written while I was sick, so of course it's completely insane. Sokai, but the audio commentary is provided by Roxas from within Sora's head.

Citrus: My first Haynette. I've loved the pairing forever, and it was high time I wrote something for it. implied sokai, for reasons that actually transgress my adoration for that pairing.

Insert Pet Name Here:twoshot featuring Sora's vast incompetance, and Riku's vast misunderstanding of Kairi.

Plus: Sokai, futurfic.

Raggedy Andy: One of my favorite sokais. Read it. I'm proud of it.

Twinkle: A sokai set in Neverland. It will make your heart soar.

Dirt: sokai. Involves gardening, Sora getting chewed out, magic, and fluff.

In Sickness and In Heath: People kept asking for a sequel/companion to Mucas Flavored Kisses, so I delivered. Poor Kairi is sick this time. Audio commentary by Namine.

Doctor Who:

Daddy's Little Girl: Because how can you not love Jenny? Adventures with the 10th Doctor adjusting to life with his daughter, and his daughter adjusting to him.

Name: More Jenny and 10. And a secret...

F.Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

Beautiful Lie: set over 15 years after the end of the book, Nick returns to East Egg for Pammi (Daisy's daughter)'s wedding. oneshot. Nick's POV. "Congratulations, Daisy. She's a beautiul fool, just like you wanted."

Gilmore Girls

What Love Isn't: Rory-centric. Implied RoryxLogan. set after the series ends. Rory leaves Logan a voicemail message, telling some of the things he never gave her a chance to say. "If you loved me enough to marry me, then you should have loved me enough not to be okay with letting me go." Seeing as almost every review demanded it to be continued, there is a possibility that I will.

Stories Planned/Fandoms Planned: (I intend to get to these eventually.)

Untitled: Fuu x Axel. Yes. You read that correctly. I have the urge to write a totally cracktastic crack pairing and start a craze for it. I intend for this to be separate from Crack'd

Ionic: tragic sokairiku. this will be total angst and drama. mostly Rikukairi, but more onesided because of the overwhelming tragic-ness of the nature of the implied sokai. more of a possibility at the moment. not sure that I'm going to do it yet.

Just Check Yes: Sequel oneshot to Check Yes or No. "Dear Kairi, will you marry me? Check yes or no; the prefered answer being yes." This time wasn't as simple as commenting on his spelling...sokai (duh.)

Companions to ON SWiTCH. I like the future setting. The plot bunnies just spawned on it.

THE SOUND OF MY LIFE

"God's in heaven, and all's right with the world." -Anne of Green Gables

"Trees grow back, people don't." -My geometry teacher

"It's not a kitty, if you pet a fish, it dies." -my best friend April

"People are like chocalate. There is dark chocalate, and white chocalate, and all different shades in between, but no matter what shade, it's still chocalate, and no matter what, people are still people."-my best friend April.

"In the same way that I look at the Mona Lisa and know that there is no way it could have been created by randomly slinging paint at a canvas, I refuse to believe that a world this complex and beautiful could have happened on accident."

"Oh, watch out, all you Avatar fans, Wil's practicing his pencil bending!" My french teacher.

"What? Where's boardwalk? This is a sacriligious Monopoly!"-April

"See, this is true friendship. When you guys act like this and make total and complete idiots out of yourselves practically every five minutes, and yet, we still allow ourselves to be associated with you." Me to my best friends.

Me:"Hey Andrew, Are you coming to ballroom tomorrow? If you come, I promise I won't let Charley impale you with her fingernails." Andrew:"Yeah, she does have a tendency to do that.".

.Charley: "We're like a four sided triangle!" Me: "You mean a rectangle?" Charley: "No, I mean a four sided triangle." Me: "Charley, by definition, triangles only have three sides." Charley:"I don't care, we're a four sided triangle!"

"Y'all, everyone's staring at us. We're having a four-way tug-a-war over a frisbee"-Me to my friends

"Yeah, like High School Musical."

"There's some real good conservative Republican values."

"With a star who's in a nude pic scandal. Oh yeah, that's real conservative."-conversation between me and two other people during Art class...

"You guys pwned this math problem."-my pre-cal teacher

"To get extra credit? Hm. If you filled this room with pennies, completly filled it up. It would get a little difficult once you got up so far, because then you couldn't put them in through the door anymore. And of course we have to use this room for class, so you'd have to get them all out before we had class. Then I would give you extra credit. And I'd even put it on the wall." -my geometry teacher last year when someone inquired to much about extra credit.

"...Say your chemical turns..skyblue pink-"

"Sky blue pink?"

"Yes, Sky blue pink. New color."-my totally awesome chemistry teacher...

:"Ow! Yeah, see, that's karma. When you scheme to get out of English class then you turn around and whack your head into a locker." -me

Actual Note we wrote on the Bible teacher's board:

"Megan's explanation of karma:

Charley, Selina, and Megan scheme to get out of English class, and Megan turns and whacks her head on the locker opener thingy. Thus karma smote her."

It took 5 minutes to write that note. Some quotes from the conversation while we were trying to write it:

"Charley! You spelled my name wrong! You've known me for years! There's only one A!"-me

"Charley, scheme is being used as a verb. No, it's 'scheme'. Not 'schemes.' You don't need to miss English class."

"Locker opener thingy? It's called a latch."

"Smote, not smoked. No, Charley, it's smote. Not smoted." :

"Justin, I've been sent to inform you that if you don't get to ballroom in the next two minutes, April's going to feed you to cannibalistic butterflies."-me

:"Well, what makes a good (scientific) model?"-chem. teacher

"Their appearence, composure; what they're wearing, or not wearing.."-jacob:

"Make up your minds! Do I have an eating disorder, or do you want my pizza?!"-me. One minute my friends are saying I'm anorexic and need to eat more; the next sentance they try to steal my pizza.

"So Megan bounces in here and says she has to tell me something. And I'm expecting something like 'I found a chipmunk' or 'I got a cute kitty' but no, its 'I have an evil banana.'"-My art teacher. Yeah. Evil bannana. We named him Dr. Wart. Long story.

"Why does it smell like global warming out here?"-Charley

:"You're evil! Like, really evil! You're evil with a capital 'W'!"-Me

"A 'W'?"-Selina

"Yes! You're so evil you can't even spell it correctly!"-me:

"Do you realize that if you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you'd look like a zipper?" -Charley, to me. I've yet to figure that one out. Supposedly it's cuz I'm so skinny, but still...

: Classmate "So are you going to be one of those dads who when the boyfriend comes to the door, you're standing there with a shotgun?"

Teacher "No...bow and arrow." :

"So now Trey's (my brother) a wolf from the Andromeda galaxy? This is the weirdest game of 'Duck Duck Goose' I've ever played in my life." -me, during a game of Duck Duck Goose with my brother and two younger cousins.

"He's cute! I'm gonna call him...Hottie McHot-Hot!"-My young cousin Savannah, upon seeing Roxas for the first time. She wasn't serious so much as just being silly.

"Two heads are better than one...unless you're a siamese twin...and drowning."-My pre-cal/calculus teacher

"I hate significant digits. I would rather use mixed fractions than significant digits...unless I'm cooking."-My pre-cal/calculus teacher

"It turned out just to be a shiny ripple, but I swear, for a second there, I thought I saw, like, the Fish of Heaven or something."

"The Fish of Heaven? I don't remember hearing about that one in Sunday School. What book in the Bible is that one in?"

"Uh...Malakishieye. Yeah, let's go with that."

"What's happening is usually the opposite of what isn't happening."-Awesomely odd teacher at my school.

God Bless!