I think that my writing to reading ratio is rather high because it takes only a little bit of reading to send my desire to write clear through the roof. Reading a few fanfics my girlfriend recommended to me has inspired me a great deal (heehee, I love dating a fellow nerd ;) ). Incidentally, I have also been inspired by the sheer coolness and manliness of Gurren Lagann, the new Gainax anime that I was hesitant to watch. It is the polar opposite of Lucky Star, with a focus on action, machines, drills, power, and most importantly, the importance of will and guts. I highly recommend it – it’s no Evangelion, but it’s better, in my opinion, than This Ugly and Beautiful World and perhaps on par with Furikuri (any Gainax fans out there?). I think girls would enjoy it, too … the girls I know, anyway. Just have to look past Yoko’s bursting chest … to see Kamina’s rather nice, muscular topless body ;).
Anyway, I’ve begun writing a story, but I should probably check out of my now-clean room first before they start hounding me down for that key.
The new story will probably not achieve any new ground in terms of deep emotions and lengthy prose. Almost every line starts with an indent, and I doubt that will be changing. This is a sequel to the old story “Triumvirate” that I wrote, featuring the same main characters after they return to Catleya. Patrick and Sonya are the royal children (the country is always unnamed, but it’s taken to be Justinland). Their mother is Queen Jessica, who is stern and distant (but used to be very spunky and rebellious before she became a widow). Beya (Belladonna, beautiful woman) is an “alien,” but human, formerly a priestess on the secluded, devout planet of Xishebelle (beautiful flower). During the golden age, humans settled many planets – that was circa 8000 years ago, and the downfall of humans led to loss of communication with the outer colonies, one of which became subjugated to a fanatical religion – that being Beya’s homeland. After the defeat of the three false gods, the various convents and monasteries were disbanded and Beya decided to emigrate to Catleya with Patrick, with whom she had fallen in love.
This story picks up right after Beya completes her xenosanitization procedure, which is the modern way of clearing a person of alien pathogens, nucleic-acid based or otherwise.
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