follow me into the rain

Tradition by prpl-pen is a delicious Robin/Nami piece featuring mistletoes, overly strong rum cakes, and the power of tradition in the right moment with the right people.
Rated PG-13/R by the writer: not worksafe.

Unbetaed shortfic for Usopp's birthday: nothing big and definitely not polished, just an off-the-fuff shortfic. Concrit extremely welcome.

Title: Again, Like This, Together I might change this title
Characters/Pairing: very lightly Nami/Usopp
Rating: G
Word Count: 1082
Flavour: fluff
Summary: Nami and Usopp hang out towards the end of the Fishman Island arc

( Happy Birthday, Usopp! )

Now I'm going to try to import/crosspost this to LJ or however that stuff works.

Second holiday shortfic, this one prompted by ryu19 who asked for "Nami as Santa, Usopp as Mrs. Claus". And also Usopp/Nami... which I'm afraid didn't quite happen, this is all gen and rather cracky.

For the purpose of this fic, assume that somehow the American Santa legend exists in the One Piece world. But since there's still no Jesus on the world of One Piece, Christmas is an entirely secular holiday there. (The name is immaterial /handwaves.)


( Deck us all with Boston Sally )

I hurt my left foot from sheer dumb clumsiness (seriously: I forgot the vacuumer was underfoot in the kitchen; then twisted the foot the wrong way in panic), had to leave work early and will go get an X-ray tomorrow. I was going to do organic gardening work this weekend (including a big guerrilla gardening action), but that seems a lot more doubtful now.

Anyway, enough whining. But I feel like being self-indulgent today, so here's a repost of a fic I did to the prompt "To (Two) Arms" for lady_karasu's on-going One Piece chaos thread (which everyone is welcome to join!). As always, comments and criticism are very welcome.

Title: Disarmed
Word Count: 984
Rating: PG (for violence shown and implied)
Characters: Nami, Robin
Summary: Nami and a wounded Robin on a battlefield.
Note: Contains wild, unconfirmed speculations Robin's Devil Fruit abilities and of Nami's new weather skills.

( step by step )

So! I got tagged - or rather, asked to be tagged - by scribe_protra a week or so back (*checks* uh, actually it was New Year's Eve - I'm even slower than I thought!) for a writing meme! This one is connected to user pics.

This is how the meme goes officially, though as you see below I didn't follow all of it:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and write a drabble about (each of) the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Beside the icon glee, I think - though I could have this all wrong - that the point is to write something brief and fast without taking it too seriously. Unfortunately, I normally fail at brevity and quickness, so that failed, even though I cheated and asked scribe_protra to only pick four of my icons rather than six. And I wound up way over 100-word length for all of them - though I did hold on to the "not taking it too seriously" part. Anyway, it was still fun to do, and I'd love to pass it on in case anyone's interested.

If you do want to do this, please ask how many icons I should pick - since I only had four, I can hardly demand anyone else must write six!

Concrit is welcome as always - this is just for fun, but it's always good to get tips on wording, correction on typoes etc!

( here we go )

Drew two sketches of Wakaba and Anthy from Utena, plus a coloured pic of Nami where she's crossovering into the Ranma 1/2 universe.

Vague visual spoilers for the end of Utena, no spoilers for One Piece. G, worksafe.

Concrit welcome, esp. on how to get characters looking more like themselves.
( behind the cut )

This is a gift for ayiekie, but he's already seen it and okayed it being posted here. Another return to Ranma 1/2, it's in honour of one of the most deliciously cracky mock summaries of fusions-never-to-be-written I've ever read (I reeeeally wish it was posted on the net so I could link to it here). EDIT:You can now read the thing (the mock summary, that is) here! Again uses one-shot character Mariko Konjo the Cheerleader (and also Akane, less prominently).

EDIT: There are now HUGE spoilers for Revolutionary Girl Utena and Sailor Moon in the comments, so avoid if you haven't seen Season 5 of SM and the entirety of Utena! I MEAN IT. Especially wrt Utena.

( Good king Sauerkraut, look out, on your feets uneven )
While I'm feeling Rumic, here's a tentative sketch of Nami drawn in my imitation of Rumiko Takahashi's style, plus an even looser, more tentative sketch of Robin (face only) as the same.

( rumic wave )

aside: I must say, I find the little fake "products" you can see on the left in Photobucket now, featuring your image as printed on a cup, cards, t-shirt or as a cellphone background rather creepy.

When you find yourself on the one hand writing fairly heavy wangstfic and on the other writing the sixth chapter of a really heavy deathfic, you may feel a certain need to take a break from the doom 'n' gloom at times. At least I did. So here's something fluffy with Nami and Usopp.

Betaed by the truly fabulous tonko.
Edited to add: Of course, suggestions for improvements are much welcome! (But you can pretty much take that as given with my fics.) Also, crossposted to one_piece.

Title: Finding Our Bearings
Rating: PG
Pairing: Nami/Usopp
Spoilers/setting: Post-EL, pre-TB
Summary: Basically post-reunion fluff, mildly suggestive
Note: this fic presupposes some kind of physically intimate relationship between Nami and Usopp prior to Water 7, though probably not yet a sexual one.

( Orientation )