the deep moans round with many voices

I thought I would take a moment to mention that I have finally, finally finished one of my far-too-many writing tasks.

The edited and expanded version of What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) is now up on ff.net, along with its two sidefics. I will also be posting the revised version and sidefics to the AO3 as soon as I finish coding in the damned italics... so, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow night; it depends on my boredom tolerance levels.

[ETA: And here is the AO3 version! I do like their series function; it keeps related stories together without needing to post sidefics as subsidiary chapters of a one-shot.]

Also, fair warning: if you thought the original one-shot was long at 21,000 words, I must in all honesty tell you that the revised version is now 24,500 words. So yeah.

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Look, I have never claimed not to run on at the word processor!

Anyway, the main changes are designed to fix typos, remove extraneous commas, smooth out some of my worst stylistic quirks, include Sasuke's interactions with more canon characters, better foreshadow the NaruSasu relationship, and fill in the time jump between Sasuke's start at the academy and the climactic scenes.

Now I am off to code italics. *headdesk*

So, about those sidefics for What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed)? This is not one of the ones I mentioned. Instead, this is Sakura the night Naruto brings Sasuke back, right at the beginning of the story. Also, I ran a little over the time limit, so it's technically a twenty-five-minute fic. Ah well. (875 words)

[ETA: The revised and slightly expanded final version is now up on ff.net and on the AO3.]

( With a Vengeance )

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And now to bed, since I have another Festival-busy day ahead of me. *sigh*

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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fanfiction: Naruto
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Organization: This list is arranged first by associated story cycles and then by date. Word counts and writing dates are approximations.

Content/Warning Policy: 1) I am not consistent about warnings! I use them when I remember, for a few relatively broad categories of potentially problematic content, but if something is off-page, non-explicit, or generally backgrounded, I probably won't think to note it in the metadata. 2) The things I try to warn for are explicit sex, rape, murder, torture, cannibalism, incest, depression/suicide, familial dysfunction, and occasionally also societal dysfunction (aka dystopia). Sometimes I just slap a general content warning on all my fic for a given fandom and don't label each individual fic. I also don't generally warn for violence, unless the violence in a fic is dramatically out-of-step with the violence in its source canon. 3) I don't use any content rating system unless I'm posting to a site or community that requires or encourages ratings, because I find movie-style ratings counter-intuitive when applied to written fiction, and not particularly useful for anything other than denoting the presence of explicit sex, which I already note in the metadata.

SERIES-SPECIFIC GENERAL CONTENT WARNING: Naruto is a series about ninjas (defined in-universe as a mix between assassins and magically-powered special forces units) who start their training around six or seven and graduate to semi-professional status around eleven or twelve: child soldiers, in other words. The manga is mostly action/adventure, but I sometimes like to play around with the darkness of that underlying concept. Take it as read that my Naruto fics often contain textual or implied violence, sometimes contain death, and also tend to glance at societal and individual methods of rationalizing and valorizing mercenary bloodshed.

Quality Rating System: I've marked my favorite stories with asterisks, on a scale of 1 to 4. The more asterisks, the more I like the story. This doesn't necessarily mean that stories without asterisks are bad, just that I don't like them as much. Also, I am not claiming to be an arbiter of taste; you may love stories I dislike, and vice versa. I am just providing a heads-up about the ones that I think are best written and/or most interesting.

Notes: I actually like all of my Naruto stories. I think this is partly because I've gotten better at writing over the years, but it's also because I'd mostly stopped writing 15-minute ficlets by the time I fell into manga fandom, which means I wrote fewer stories and tended to give more time and thought to each one. All fics are manga canon only, since audiovisual media are not my thing and I've only ever seen one episode of the anime.

Where To Read: As always, if an AO3 version exists, it is definitive. FF.net versions are definitive in the absence of an AO3 version. Journal versions are the equivalent of beta drafts, though the shorter and/or fragmentary works may never be posted anywhere else.

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( The Apartment Manager sequence )

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( The Tides sequence )

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( The What Isn't Broken sequence )

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( Summer Camp & Politics AU )

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( Everything else )

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