As a precaution after seeing a couple recent posts in stop_plagiarism , I just googled the first paragraph of Full Circle.

To my horror, somebody has uploaded Aftermath, Interlude and most of Symbiosis up as their own story on Quizilla. A word for word copy, minus author notes. Oh, and they've made a spelling error and put a bloody emoticon in the new title.

Final Fanasty :3

W.T.F.

I'm more shocked than angry. It's probably just some stupid kid. But I'm off to report this once I take screencaps.
( Screencaps under here )

It's hard getting stuff done when you're tied to a 2 hour schedule. But I've been moving into new fandoms recently: Avatar: The Last Airbender (due to qwi_xux ), Prison Break, and Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. All of this is possible because of the wonders of the internet and my PS3, which enables me to watch whole seasons of downloaded shows on our TV as I walk the baby around the living room/hand her rattles/nurse on the sofa etc. New fandoms are so inspring. :D

However, despite the possible plot lines brewing in the back of my head, nothing is DYING to be written, the way it was with Full Circle and Revolutionary. Akari sleeps well at night now (5-6 hours, nurse, 3 hours, nurse, final 1 or 2 hours of sleep before she's up for the day), which helps me feel rested like a normal person during the day. But the creative juices still don't seem to be flowing. So to try to get myself back in the writing mood, I've been reading fic again and I've volunteered to beta for someone in my oldest fandom (The Bartimaeus Trilogy). She's not in a desperate rush, and I figure I can look over her story and write out my comments whenever Akari sleeps. In practice, this is harder than I thought- writing this post took me quite a few hours, and I wonder if reading critically will be much easier.

Our typical day:

~6am: Akari wakes up bright eyed and smiley. So nice to see a silly baby grin first thing in the morning. Nurse, then go out to living room for first cloth diaper of the day. (We use disposables at night so she can sleep more soundly because they don't feel as wet.) I then do the laundry while she amuses herself- she has her longest "content by herself" stretches in the morning. She watches and/or tries to cram her rattle/cloth book in her mouth (She's discovered that her hands can be used for manipulating objects in the last couple of days.) as I hang the laundry and/or eat.

7:30 or so: She starts fussing. I hold her upright so she can suck her left thumb until she drops off. Put down sleeping baby and jump on the computer/dishes/finally eat etc.

8 am: She wakes up and we repeat the nurse, change, play, fuss, sleep process every 2 hours or so.

Anywhere between 7 pm and 10 pm: Bath, final nurse, bed. Sometimes she ends up on her long stretch of sleep when we weren't expecting it, so she pretty much sleeps through her bath. She still manages to find the nipple even when she's super drowsy though, and eats with her eyes shut. XD

Ok, I am posting this before I fall asleep on the keyboard! Blah. Tomorrow we are celebrating her 100 days of life (which was actually Tuesday, but tomorrow was more convenient) so I'm going to steam a tai fish and my MIL is bringing over osekihan (rice steamed with red beans and eaten with salt and black sesame seeds), customary dishes for celebration. So I'd better follow that parenting advice of "sleeping when the baby sleeps." :)

I've always thought there was a big hole in the fandom with the absolute dearth of Reeve/Rufus fics out there. Two sophisticated, urbane men who have a love of drama. Why doesn't anybody else see this?  However, all my energy is going into Full Circle right now, so I've put any possible ventures into yaoi-land on hold.

But the lovely wheatearposted this link, so I just had to try it. Automated drabble-land, here I come:

 If anybody is clicking here because of my spammy award ads, here's a little more info. 

I'm one of the Preliminary Readers for nominated fics before they make the official nomination list: I basically make sure that fics are serious writing efforts. We call ourselves "Grammar Goons" on the forum. (^_~) Nobody should get a "Best" nomination slot just because they feel like nominating themselves, and we help with the quality control. 

I am not the only one watching out for the quality of the fics though, so please be careful that what you nominate actually fits within the rules. The rules are here. 
Mods will also weed out the ones that ignore the nomination rules- I went to preliminary read a fic last night, and it was already gone because it was actually a series of fics rather than chapters of one fic. If you are not sure about which category to nominate in, please ask in the FAQ thread! It will save you a lot of confusion and frustration in the long run, I think. 

Hope this helps! I know the awards forum has been about 1000% livelier since nominations have started, so do stop by! It is a great place to talk about writing and Final Fantasy- I was totally not a forum kind of person until I discovered it. Home page is here if you just want to have a browse.

Title: Get a beta, already
Fandom: FFVII
Genre: Humor/Parody
Characters: Cloud, Aerith, Tifa, Sephiroth
Rating: PG-13 
Word count: 500
Summary: Why fanfic can sometimes be so bad that it's good. Warning: Scathing sarcasm under the cut

( Get a beta, already )