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  <title>fART and fICTION</title>
  <subtitle>not nasty...usually</subtitle>
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    <name>niftykins</name>
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  <updated>2007-08-13T21:26:15Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:niftykins:1569</id>
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    <title>Assorted, mostly Snape Doodies</title>
    <published>2007-08-13T21:25:22Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-13T21:26:15Z</updated>
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    <category term="fart"/>
    <category term="severus snape"/>
    <category term="teddy lupin"/>
    <category term="lily evans"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/Neopluto/snapedoodles.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's s psycho Snape-fest! Oh yes, and Teddy Lupin saw his first dog...and you know how to went from there on. Now if he were older, we could make &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;other&lt;/span&gt; connotations about that. I'm bored.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:niftykins:1324</id>
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    <title>Paintchat Doodie</title>
    <published>2007-08-12T16:41:25Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-12T16:42:15Z</updated>
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    <category term="ukitake"/>
    <category term="fart"/>
    <category term="shunui"/>
    <category term="bleach"/>
    <category term="crack"/>
    <content type="html">From ages ago. Much crack. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/Neopluto/ukishun_robin.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ukitake: I don't understand Shunsui. Why do I always have to be the girl? I don't even like fire.&lt;br /&gt;Shunsui: I dunno. Your hair is cuter tied up, and I like this suit.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:niftykins:1036</id>
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    <title>Doodie</title>
    <published>2007-08-12T03:55:17Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-12T03:58:42Z</updated>
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    <category term="harry potter"/>
    <category term="fart"/>
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    <lj:music>Iron Chef</lj:music>
    <content type="html">More references to icky bodily functions. Doodle--&amp;gt; doodie&lt;br /&gt;Done on Facebook graffiti for &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_bobangeba' lj:user='bobangeba' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://bobangeba.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://bobangeba.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;bobangeba&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, pure sillyness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/Neopluto/snapeyonk.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eyelashes and "s" added as an afterthought. ...Obviously</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:niftykins:925</id>
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    <title>To Bog Monster</title>
    <published>2007-08-11T15:55:40Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-12T12:45:49Z</updated>
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    <category term="fanfiction"/>
    <content type="html">It was just too long to put in the chapter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bog monster: It's always a shock to get the first critique on a fic, but it's helpful stuff that any sort of &lt;br /&gt;writer needs. I've had reservations with this story from the start and thought for a while if I should just&lt;br /&gt;take it down, edit it, and re-post it, but knowing myself, I decided against it (the story would never reappear again). &lt;br /&gt;Perhaps this conversation would be better suited to a private email, but since you don't have an account, &lt;br /&gt;there's no other way to communicate with you. A small point, as compared to the rest of this ...dissertation, would be &lt;br /&gt;that yes, I do know the characters are out of character. It bothers the hell out of me. It's really due to the &lt;br /&gt;fact that I'm inexperienced writing for an anime genre and that even though I've read the manga and seen the &lt;br /&gt;anime, the effort of trying to combine the best of both worlds really escapes me. There is also that element &lt;br /&gt;I'm trying to introduce (Cheru) and the way people react to her. I think I've gotten somewhat better as I progress, but who knows.&lt;br /&gt;I also think that Ukitake's got to have an abrasive side to him, people that nice don't live/die that long.&lt;br /&gt;I plan on this being my one and only Bleach fanfiction, and to that effect, I've really tried to take a different approach with this story. &lt;br /&gt; I wanted Cheru to be believable as an original character,&lt;br /&gt;and not too over the top with her dramatic history. Apparantly it seems that I haven't done &lt;i&gt;enough&lt;/i&gt; with her. &lt;br /&gt;Strangely enough, I did think that I had put more effort into writing in details in the earlier chapters of the &lt;br /&gt;story than the later ones. It seems maybe you want more artful details and not such trivial ones. Or am &lt;br /&gt;I taking this the wrong way? Perhaps I &lt;i&gt;am&lt;/i&gt; "telling" you too much of the story instead of "showing" it to you. &lt;br /&gt;I did think though, that this was somewhat unique, that the whole story (nearly) is mostly in Cheru's point of &lt;br /&gt;view. Although there is the "omnipotent narrarator," their view is colored by Cheru's, and even though there &lt;br /&gt;are a plethora of very frank and to-the-point sentences that detract from the aspect of pure description, the reader would know&lt;br /&gt;that they are coming from the character themself and account for that difference. Not only did I want to create&lt;br /&gt;this effect, but I also wanted to force a little work out of the reader. You could argue that I am setting things up &lt;br /&gt;to be much too transparent, but I would argue that I am leaving some things out for the reader to imagine and hypothesize&lt;br /&gt;about (something I love doing so much being an avid fanfic reader and writer). I actually think Bog Monster (and I would &lt;br /&gt;like to see a sample, haha), that you &lt;br /&gt;have a better ability to write than I do. I'm much too used to getting my way around here, and your example (no matter&lt;br /&gt;how rushed or paltry you may have thought it was) did ring somewhat truer than a few of the things I wrote down. But hey, &lt;br /&gt;can you blame a girl for trying? I'm hoping you stick around for the whole thing even though you might get disenchanted&lt;br /&gt;on the way, a few more pointers really would help. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:niftykins:710</id>
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    <title>Introductions</title>
    <published>2007-08-11T01:21:18Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-11T01:21:18Z</updated>
    <category term="splinched"/>
    <lj:music>Crickets</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In order to be more orderly...or just to use this as an excuse to waste more time and boost my low self-esteem, I have made this LJ to host all my fanart and fanfiction. I sometimes (in my frequent drunken stupors) call "fanart", "Fart"...it's just not as funny when you change "fanfiction" to "Fiction". &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Expect nothing, for I am a champion at that. &lt;br /&gt;But if you dislike my liking for good-humored poking fun at slash, it's time for you to leave...for I am liable to make fun of a lot of stuff other than that as well. Slash is not something I love, it's just well...funny, and sometimes sweet--sometimes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So there you go. This journal was splinched from &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_neopluto' lj:user='neopluto' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://neopluto.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://neopluto.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;neopluto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, which never had a purpose anyway, as well as various other accounts with the same or similar name.</content>
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