So I was looking through my Motown collection for some super sexy love songs, like you do.

And I vaguely recall that For Once in My Life might be a good Conall/Yuyan song. Maybe. Because it's been a criminally long while.

And then I hear the lyrics:
For once in my life I won't let sorrow hurt me
not like it's hurt me before.
For once I have something I know won't desert me
I'm not alone anymore.
For once I can say "This is mine, you can't take it!"
As long as I have love, I can make it.

And I'm just

sitting here giggling and laughing

because, oh, Cyprian, your tears are my yellow sun.

So that's definitely going on Cyprian's mixed media. Just endless misery and Sorensen/Cyprian cockblockery and PTSD. SURE WHY NOT.

These are the current mixed media/ficmix projects, not including ones which are all completely compiled:
30's AU mixed media: Lysander's gang-centric | aiming for 13-18 songs (multiple songs for each prominent member + Jack Briggs, excepting Mashiro and Ragnar?).
Conall/Yuyan ficmix | aiming for 15-16 songs.
Ivy/Gina ficmix | aiming for 15-16 songs.
Mengli fanmix | aiming for 17 songs.
Vriska Serket fanmix | presently at 19 songs, currently glamorizing presentation.
Ivy EP | Planned 8-9 songs, will take down/not do if requested.
Abomination AU mixed media | 15-16 songs.
Possible Tohru Adachi from Persona 4 fanmix.

So I found myself with a bit of extra money recently, and bought a game I'd long been slavering over - Persona 4, an RPG for the PlayStation 2. I grew up on RPGs, but the Persona series has only recently caught my eye. In Persona 4, your allies acquire personas (basically, summons which allow you to perform special attacks - you can get as many personas as you please, on account of being "like the number zero ... empty, but full of infinite possibilities," which, intriguing take on the silent protagonist, Atlus) by fighting their ids personified. It's a fascinating concept, except you fight their ids without their help. So, for example, Yosuke attempts to figure out who did a slew of murders that have been happening recently due to the loss of a loved one, but when his id appears, it claims that all Yosuke really wants is the thrill of detection and suspense in a town where nothing ever happens, and damn everyone and everything else. Everyone has a side to them like that, the game says, and we should all accept it. I already think I know what my own would be like, so I started wondering what my characters' ids might be like. I usually find things out by writing them, so it's a consideration I would never have thought of before. I'll probably write to figure things out this time, too.

Persona 4 is an excellent game so far. Very hard, but very good. I barely skirted past Princess Yukiko's Castle, and the social links are all very likable and fleshed out. I'm very glad I bought it. <3

I HAVE DONE IT

I HAVE JOINED NOVELBIGBANG

SUMMARY OF MY PLANNED PROJECT: An AU of my story The Lethean Glamour wherein Helene takes on her pet project of destroying Holly from a slightly different, more useful angle and brainwashes her. Shenanigans and revenge on deities ensue.

20K OF HELENE AS THE MAIN FOCUS, PEOPLE

I usually censor myself when I write Helene because the places she takes me sometimes are too dark. Am going to see if I can write this with my filters off.

...I wonder what Holly will be like with Helene as her moral compass, though.

ETA: I'm also down for illustrating/fanmixing, since there's a shortage of artists. I'll be interested to see what I'm assigned!

I've recently signed up for scifibigbang to write a time-bendy Final Fantasy VIII rewrite. Wish me luck! You may want to consider joining yourselves, because I've discovered too late that original fiction is welcomed as well. Which is a shame, because lately I've been considering a Holly/Helene mindfuck AU and giving another go at the War of Ascension in imitation of epic poetry.

Happy Sunday, regardless. Take care of yourselves!

1. Finish Isana's Setsuko EP as a ficmix to make up for embarrassing lateness.
2. Finish fixing plot holes in Cyg/Val fairytale remix/Begin working on superhero!AU quartet, specifically Whatever Happened to Lady Ironspy?
3. Finish Cyg/Val fairytale remix.
4. Finish latter half of next Battle For the Sun chapter.
5. Write a batch of Down By the Water vignette chains.
6. Commence losing own god damn mind over mixed media style in Rainbowfic comm; ignore said style and make animation. Find reference image for derpface.
7. Profit (?)