I'm going to keep posting these for a while, though probably not on any actual schedule. Anyway, parts 7 and 8 are now up on AO3. Part 9 has minor edits from its beta draft version. Part 10 has more significant changes, particularly to the concluding paragraphs.

The Transient and the Eternal: Kisses - Kira and Setsuna discuss a theoretical extra-credit science project. (1,275 words)

The Transient and the Eternal: Irritating People - Setsuna has a girlfriend. Sara and Kira hate her. (1,400 words)

General warnings for Angel Sanctuary apply: namely, that the canon is built of WTF and incest (and very pretty art), so please proceed with caution. :)

I'm going to keep posting these for a while, though probably not on any actual schedule. Anyway, parts 5 and 6 are now up on AO3. They both have minor edits from the beta drafts on my journal.

The Transient and the Eternal: Love Bites - Alexiel introduces Nanatsusaya to Jibril. Dubious power dynamics and obsession. (2,200 words)

The Transient and the Eternal: Naptime - After the Second Holy War, Nanatsusaya wanders the earth. War and implied murder. (700 words)

General warnings for Angel Sanctuary apply: namely, that the canon is built of WTF and incest (and very pretty art), so please proceed with caution. :)

It is once again internet housekeeping time!

In other words, I decided to start tidying up the extant parts of "The Transient and the Eternal" and posting them on AO3. If nothing else, that will let me cross an item off my long-running to-do list, and in the best case scenario it might inspire me to finish the remaining five themes. So in that spirit, parts 1 and 2 are now up!

The Transient and the Eternal: Alone - Alexiel in Eden, contemplating her bargain. (1,100 words)

The Transient and the Eternal: Forbidden - Jibril speaks with Lucifel shortly after his meeting with God. (1,500 words)

General warnings for Angel Sanctuary apply: namely, that the canon is built of WTF and incest (and very pretty art), so please proceed with caution. :)

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some unusual and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #3 - Giving up
Warnings: spoilers!
Notes: This fic is set way the hell pre-manga, and is the bridge between Get out (in which Jibril visits Alexiel in Eden) and Love bites (in which Jibril makes a bargain with Nanatsusaya). As always with this project, I am assuming Jibril was a lot more active in protesting the state of heaven than Raphael gives her credit for. (2,500 words)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Giving up )

I have no idea why this fic, of all things, chose tonight to wrap itself up, but I'm not complaining. Writing is writing, and now I only have six more pieces to go until I am done with this project. *crosses fingers*

Okay. Sleep now.

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some unusual and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #8 - Babies
Warnings: spoilers! Also, some depiction of the fallout of an acrimonious divorce, especially its effect on a child.
Notes: This fic is set post-manga, in autumn of 2015; Setsuna is 32 and Sara is 31. It falls between "Clouds" and "If Only," neither of which are finished yet. (Possibly more helpfully, it falls after Fluffy Things, in which Setsuna and Sara assume a second set of false identities and move to Nagasaki.)

I originally meant this to be more humorous, but I got sidetracked by the philosophical complexities of reincarnation as proposed (in a maddening muddle) by Kaori Yuki, and then it took me forever and a day to wind the narrative back to the point of the prompt, as you can tell by the wordcount. I would also like to note that no actual babies appear in this story. *wry* (6,000 words)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Babies )

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So yeah. A little angstier than I'd intended, but whatever -- it's done! \o/

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some unusual and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #20 - Far away
Warnings: spoilers!
Notes: This ficlet is set way, way post-manga, after Setsuna and Sara eventually die, with all attendant spoilers. It was meant to be a long, involved tale of heavenly politics, but Jibril put her foot down and went off in a different direction, and I ended up at roughly the same conclusion minus several thousand words of plot.

(I am also minus several thousand words of justification for the eventual threesome, which I have tried to make up for a little bit, but I think I may end up writing a sidestory at some point to explain that mess. Or I may shoehorn some of it into "If It Wasn't You..." in which case I will have to come back and edit this fic slightly.)

Anyway. Story! (1,800 words)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Far Away )

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PM is on vacation this week, so I am nominally in charge of the store. Yay? Also, I have a dental appointment this coming Wednesday, and I can't remember if it's just a checkup or if it's for my last set of fillings. Quite possibly it is both. *sigh*

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some extremely strange and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #27 - Fluffy things
Warnings: spoilers!
Notes: This ficlet is set post-manga -- in 2008, actually -- with all the attendant spoilers.

For the curious, the mortal post-manga timeline goes Remembering, Hidden, Surprise, Talking over distance, "Snowfall," "Looking," "Dreaming," Fluffy things, "Clouds," "Babies," and "If only." This story is fairly heavy on internal continuity -- it references the Sailor Pluto joke from "Surprise," Sara and Setsuna's conversation from "Hidden," and, of course, Kira and Setsuna's 'experiment' from Kisses, a mortal pre-manga ficlet.

Belial is referred to as Mad Hatter, and 'he,' since that's how Setsuna first met hir. (There's another reason as well, but that explanation is for another ficlet. *grin*)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Fluffy things )

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These past few weeks, I've been teetering on the edge of a blue funk. I know how to head them off these days -- no more lost weeks for me! -- but it does mean that my sleep schedule goes all to hell. I start looking for something meaningful to latch onto, something to do. I know that creating something -- writing something, making something new -- is one of the best ways to drag myself back up, but I feel empty and flat and dull, and listless, and it's so hard to make the words come.

I've been reading a lot instead, mostly Highlander fanfiction -- I've noticed that I have a tendency to fall into obsessive behavior when I'm trying to avoid a funk (or when I gave in to a funk, in the old days), and I think it's part of that same scrabble to find a handhold and climb back out of my own head.

...

Bah.

I took a long walk this evening, which is another way I keep myself from falling. I went to Ithaca Falls and watched the water for a while. One reason I love living in Ithaca and do not want to move is that I don't know many other places with such easy access to running water and waterfalls, and I find running water immensely soothing and uplifting. Even in the depths of a funk, I could usually find an hour or two of peace and connection after spending ten to thirty minutes just watching a waterfall.

It's the easiest meditation exercise I know of.

I'm doing thirtyforthree for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some strange and/or negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you're probably better off not reading these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #10 - Rent
Warnings: spoilers!
Note: This ficlet is set just a few months pre-manga, in late March or early April of 1999. I am assuming, despite their almost total lack of canon interaction, that Sara and Kira were friends of sorts, though not nearly as close to each other as Setsuna was to either of them. (This is based on the familiarity of their brief interaction in vol. 1, and the way Sara instinctively denies, much later on, that Kira would ever betray Setsuna -- to me, that implies that she knows and trusts him.)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Rent )

Cross-posted here on thirtyforthree

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In other news, we're having freakishly spring-like weather in Ithaca. I find it rather disturbing, though I admit it's nice to be able to walk around without bundling up in my heavy coat and scarf.

I'm doing thirtyforthree for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some strange and/or negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you're probably better off not reading these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #19 - Time
Warnings: spoilers!
Note: This ficlet is set pre-manga, during Alexiel's cycle of reincarnations. I haven't written this particular incarnation yet in "Debts," which is why I'm very vague about the historical setting (and even so, I've probably gotten things a bit wrong, since I haven't done proper research yet). I'm also trying to explain the inconsistencies about Alexiel's guardian angel/s, and speculate on why it took Nanatsusaya so long to give Alexiel one clean death.

( The Transient and the Eternal: Time )

Cross-posted here on thirtyforthree

I'm doing thirtyforthree for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some strange and/or negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you're probably better off not reading these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #22 - Remembering
Warnings: spoilers!
Note: This ficlet is set directly post-manga, and I've taken some liberties with Lucifer's character as compared to his portrayal in vols. 15-19... but given his thoughts on a couple occasions in vol. 20, I think I have justification for my interpretation. (Also, I attempt to lay groundwork for the political situation Kurai describes in Surprise.)

( The Transient and the Eternal: Remembering )

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Cross-posted here on thirtyforthree.

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I am continuing to post on the lj version of this community (rather than the Insane Journal version) because I am a creature of inertia and I don't want to bother setting up accounts on other journal sites. I have too many internet accounts and thingywhatsits to keep track of already -- another set is the last thing I need. *shrug* YMMV, obviously.