Discussion: Sleeping With the Enemy and Miscalculation

Two fatesplit threads that have surprised me with their popularity. So why don't we start to talk about them a little bit, to try and work out why they were this popular in the first place and what people want to see from them.

Thread Voting: Closes 6th January

Apologies for getting to this so late in the day, but here it is now. Have a great New Year's celebration everyone, but do try to show enough common sense to survive the season.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

So Haruhi made up for last week by charging out of the gate and maintaining a solid lead over everything else.

Story: Tainted Cube: The Power of Kings

Whew, ran this a little late this week. But here it is! I hope it turned out alright, let me know what you think. It looks pretty damn certain that Haruhi will win the vote this week, so discuss along those lines please.

Story: Urusei Yatsura World Processor

So I saw an Urusei Yatsura fatesplit earlier in the week, and decided to take advantage of it. Here goes!

Story: Love Normal: New Manager

Here is the second of this week's winners. I hope you enjoy them both. Now I have to get to Tainted Cube, which will be tricky as it means resisting the allure of my Christmas haul.

Story: ANDFR: Privacy

Here is the first of the two winners for this week. Enjoy.

Story: A Likely Tail

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is a To Love Ru piece that I hope you enjoy. I'll start working on ANDFR shortly, and will post it whenever it is ready.

Discussion: ANDFR/Love Normal

What's this? What's this? Two threads have won this week? What's this? It's really quite unique! What's this? Is Lumitiel celebrating Christmas in his own special little way?

And so on. I can't be bothered doing the rest of the song, I'm sure you get the idea. But yes, I decided earlier this week to give you a Christmas gift of also writing whatever second place turned out to be, and it turns out the top two are ANDFR and Love Normal. Don't celebrate Christmas? Well, then happy whatever holiday you may or may not celebrate this time of year even if it's not the most important holiday of your culture.

As for me? I like using it as an excuse to give people gifts so that I can watch their faces light up. So... Gift! Accept it please!

Let's discuss both threads here.

Thread Voting: Open Until 30th December

Merry Christmas everyone! Get those votes in and have a great last week of the year.

Story: Monster Senshi

Saw this fatesplit made yesterday, decided to do something with it. Even if it was already along similar lines to something I was already working on.

Story: Hentai Crystal

Continued from here.
Sometimes I browse through the addventure and see things that surprise me for not being taken forward.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

This week was outright fascinating to behold in action. It looked very much like Haruhi had a very strong lead at the start, but was rapidly overtaken by Code Geass around the middle. From there, it was pretty obvious what the winner would be.

Tainted Cube: Believe that Promise!

This one turned out longer than I was expecting, but that's pretty much universally been the case with these so far. Since it looks like Code Geass is pretty much unbeatable at this point, you can discuss under the assumption it is what's going to win.

Story: Demon's Test: Starting School

Here's Demon's Test! I don't think I got things as perverted  as I might have liked, but the story is definitely pushed forward a little bit. I've also given a direction or two to latch onto for myself or any other contributor that is interested in doing so.

Please suggest improvements if you see anything that really needs it.

Story: Worst Demon Hunter In History

Here's a little introduction to another thread, and I hope you all enjoy it. Wrote it before falling ill, but wanted to tweak small things before posting it. Like, working out what the options might be. I'm taking suggestions on that front.

Discussion: Demon's Test

I will warn now that I'm sick as a dog. Head pounding, limbs weak, stomach whispering tales of death and destruction, throat drier than a British newscaster's wit. Lumitiel is not a well man this weekend.

In spite of that I will soldier on and try to open discussion over what should be done with Demon's Test.

Thread Voting Now Open: Will Close 23rd December

Another week's voting thread opens up. I apologise for lateness, but I fell rather ill last night.

Story: Concubine Factory: Many Girls, Many Seductions

Sorry this took so long, it took me quite a while to figure out exactly what I wanted to do with this. Enjoy and give feedback, then I'll put up all this last week's stories on Monday.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

After several weeks of second place, Rosario + Vampire is the winner! I don't really have anything else to say at the moment, except that next week should be particularly interesting with both Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2 back in the poll. Clearly we're not entering into a cycle of the same series time after time, which I find very encouraging.

Story: Tainted Cube: A Little Knowledge

Let's see what you make of this one. It looks a lot like Rosario + Vampire is gonna take it this week, so feel free to speculate about what could happen with that.

Story: Change-Switch Fever

I got this written up earlier this morning, so let's see what you make of this To Love Ru entry. I'm not used to writing in this setting quite yet, but

Discussion: Concubine Factory 1/2

Wow, has it really been a year since I touched this one? Well, let's see what sort of ideas we can come up with for this one!

Thread Voting: Thread Will Close on the 16th December

This week's thread is now open. Let's see what wins it this week.

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

In a rather surprising turn, Love Hina came from behind to take the lead by two clear points. As a brief confession, I have to admit that I was privately rooting for it to win, but only because it was the underdog.
For the first time since this started, a series is added back into the mix for the coming week. This means we wind up keeping things nice and stable at five series a week.

However! I am concerned by the notion that we'll just wind up with these four series on a continuous loop. Though I would gladly write Sailor Moon if it turned out to be the most popular, I would like to ask that all participants carefully consider what series they really think could benefit from being the next winner. If you think that's Sailor Moon? Great! If you think it's typical second place thus far Rosario + Vampire? Fantastic! Any of the others? Go for it! I fully expect to see all eight series come into play at some point, and the sooner they interact with the plotline the better. On the other hand, it might be interesting to see Sailor Moon actually be altered in some direct manner. It's really all up to you.

I would also like to remind you that I am accepting votes for individual spinoffs from any of these threads, so long as you specify which one you want.

Story: Ero Space

Here's the first of the second batch of fatesplit stories. Enjoy.

Story: Tainted Cube: Measure of a Man

Sorry this is so late up. But here it is! I hope you enjoy it. If there's nothing wrong with it, I'll post it over the weekend. The likely winner will be Love Hina or Rosario + Vampire, so please feel free to discuss among those lines what possible direction this could take.

Story/Further Discussion: Wild Ride For Ranma

So I came up with a bit of backstory for what was going on. Then I realised it was kinda short and felt compelled to do something else with it, so I think I would like to make a sequence involving Ukyo immediately follow the background stuff. Originally it would just go to options about who was hit next, but I figure Ukyo makes the most sense.

I'll discuss more following the story.

Edit: I have now removed the discussion portion and added the Ukyo section.

Discussion: Wild Ride for Ranma

I have a confession to make regarding this thread. I was rather afraid of when it inevitably did reach the top, because I didn't have the faintest damn clue what direction to take it in. What would I do with it? How could I satisfy those voting it up without a concrete ground to stand upon? Something like this was inevitably going to happen eventually, and I dreaded that this might be the first. The individual episodes were okay, but I didn't really have much of an idea what to do next.

Then a miracle happened. In what was likely a calculated move to guarantee the thread won the week, it was updated the day before it would have won the vote anyway. And with that new episode came a couple of potential directions. Let's see what you think.

Thread Voting: Open Until 9th December

This week's thread is now open for voting!

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

That's this week's Tainted Cube poll closed! A new one will be open momentarily. This week's was a lot more obvious than either of the previous two weeks which would be the winner, and I was tempted to call it early. Heck. I'm writing this fifteen hours before the poll actually even closes, and I doubt that either Code Geass or Rosario + Vampire will be able to make up the considerable distance in that amount of time. It's almost like there was a battle royale between those three, and Shinji decides he'll bring Unit 01 along with. This wasn't a poll. It was a slaughter.

As of this week we are down to the more normal numbers that will occur for this series of threads. I would also like to remind you that I am not accepting votes on the regular poll around Tainted Cube... unless you would like to see a particular thread spun off, in which case I insist that you specify which one.

Discussion: Haruhi's Ero Space

So begins the second (larger) batch of stories from fatesplits, consisting of Haruhi Suzumiya, Sailor Moon, Rosario + Vampire and To Love Ru. In this case we start off with a tale in which Haruhi becomes interested in dating sims and inadvertantly alters reality to accomodate her new fascination! Let's talk about how this could be best represented in the first episode.

Story: Tricked Himself Into It

Here is the last of the original batch of fatesplits I set up a few months back. As of next week I'll start working on the next one, beginning with Haruhi Suzumiya's Ero Space.

Story: Love Pendant Usagi: Study, Study!

I think this is gonna go a little bit differently than people expect, because my own thought process when putting it together went a little all over the place. Still! Here it is.

Now all I need to do is justify a minor plot hole, but it shouldn't be too hard to cover up. If you spot it and can think of a way to do so, I'm all ears.

Tainted Cube: Ranma Meets Sailor V, Warrior of Love!

Here it is, and I hope this meets your expectations. Looking at the way the poll currently is makes it very likely that Evangelion will be the winner for the coming week, so that seems like the safest place to put discussion and speculation on what will come next. Though I do not want to be seen as discouraging either further votes changing that direction, or from participants discussing other series following on from this. Merely observing what currently seems most likely.

Anyway, the story! I've tried to insert hammer related puns where possible for a certain character, but if anyone sees a prime opportunity to put in more I welcome them. I also welcome suggestions for different options or different wordings of those options. Have fun, and let me know what you think of it! I strive to improve where possible, and feedback of all sorts is necessary for this process.

Discussion: Love Pendant Usagi

Another week, another victory for Sailor Moon on the blog. Let's see what you all think about Love Pendant Usagi. As always, spoilers lie ahead!

Thread Voting: Open Until 2nd December

Here is another voting thread, where Wild Ride For Ranma finally sees a perfect chance to score victory. Will it prevail, or will it be overtaken and pushed to another week? All up to you!

Tainted Cube Voting Closed: New Poll will begin shortly

That's this week's Tainted Cube poll closed! A new one will be open momentarily. I have noticed a curious pattern emerge over these first two weeks. It seems as though Code Geass and Haruhi both get one vote each, then some other series decide to tie up for the majority of it until a tiebreaker occurs at the end. Last week it was between Eva and Sailor Moon, this week Ranma and Rosario.

I wonder if the pattern will hold this week.

Story: Real World Sailor Moon: Overactive

I am in need for option suggestions, but here is this week's winner! Enjoy.

Tainted Cube: The One Called Sailor Moon

Here is the first installment. No earth shattering changes yet, but the seeds are being sown and the dice has been cast. Let us see how Usagi's desires get twisted around and perverted for whatever wins next week's poll.

Discussion: Real World Sailor Moon

First, some minor news. I am intending to repost this thread on Adultfanfiction, and have received permission from both Sirocco and Cross C to do so. Before doing this, I intend to go over the work so far and clean it up a bit, but that can be discussed in another post.

For now let us discuss the possible direction for the next episode. I have already asked Sirocco what his intentions for the thread are, and they are posted below.

Also, this is Sirocco's blog if you would like to visit there.

Thread Voting: Open Until 25th November

Here is another voting thread, and I'm left wondering if Sailor Moon month will continue. Have fun everyone!

Tainted Cube Poll Closed: New Poll Open!

That's the first week's Tainted Cube poll closed! A new one will be open momentarily. Though I do have to wonder... Did someone make it Sailor Moon month and not tell me? It seems awfully popular around here all of a sudden for some reason.

Not that I'm complaining. Just mildly amused.

Story: Urusei Yatsura Alien Flu

The options for this one are a little uncertain in my mind. We'll see if anyone can suggest better ones. Enjoy!

Story: Spring of Drowned Ranma: QuadRanma

I saw an option for splitting Ranma into four, and decided to take it. Here is Quadranma, and I really don't know where this is gonna wind up. Assuming it goes anywhere at all.

Story: Sailor Moon Titnosis: Fight It Out!

I didn't quite get as much done on this as I had been hoping, but this seemed like the most natural place to end this episode. If nothing else we have a solid direction for this to go in, which was a tremendous help in writing this piece. Hope you enjoy.

Discussion: Sailor Moon Titnosis

There are a multitude of potential directions this could take, and I would like to have a bit of a discussion about what exactly will be done with it. My problem is not so much that I don't have any ideas for where to take it forward. It's more like I have too many ideas! Therefore, there aren't really going to be spoilers in this post. More a discussion on the various possible directions this thread could take.

Thread Voting: Open Until 18th November

Here is this week's voting thread. Which will take it this week? I honestly couldn't tell you. It could go any way.

Tainted Cube Poll Now Open!

If you look to the right, you should see a poll. Every week, Saturday midnight (my time) I will set up a new poll for Tainted Cube. The winner of the poll will determine which of the eight series serves as the setting for the next episode, which will be written during the week the poll closed.

The winner of each week's poll will be removed from consideration for three weeks, which means that this week's is going to be the largest poll conducted on this topic.

Please note that unlike the other voting game, votes do not carry over from week to week.

As an additional observation I have now added the ability to follow this blog by email. That is found just underneath the poll, and please use it if you feel it would make following easier for you.

The first poll will close this coming Saturday (the 17th) at midnight. I hope to see you participate, and I also hope this will curtail my recent new thread obsession.

If you have any particular feelings regarding what you would like to see in this thread, please post your thoughts below so that we can all discuss the story.

Story: Sexy Akane: Snap out of it!

Here is this week's winner, after a brief delay to get it tweaked into a more useable and funny form. Enjoy!

Story: Tainted Cube Introduction

Now for something a bit more ambitious. By a bit, I clearly mean a lot. By a lot, I clearly mean god help me.

I've not tried anything this ambitious since "Altered History". But this, I feel, should go a hell of a lot smoother. Particularly if I use this blog to help keep things organised. A new page will be joining the others at the top of the blog titled "Tainted Cube" at some point later on. It will be used to help keep track of various things.

In particular! I intend to introduce a new voting game to the blog surrounding this particular concept. I have not yet determined the exact mechanics, and would like to encourage discussion in the comments regarding this topic. You see, from the episode below I intend to take option 2, and I intend to update this thread each week. Which means it won't go on the regular vote, but that's a whole other issue.

What will the vote be for? The setting for the next update. See, this is a crossover thread spanning multiple anime/manga series. Each remains seperate, but each will have an influence upon the next. Thus, the ending of one episode will have an effect on whatever the next piece of continuity is. For example: If  Kyon expressed a desire for wealth at the end of a given episode, and then Code Geass won the following week then Lelouch would wake up the next morning with a room covered with gold coins. That sort of thing would happen each week.

Obviously one concern is the possibility that the same series wins multiple weeks in a row. There are two ways I can think of to prevent this from occuring: The first is that once a series wins, it cannot appear again in the votes until all series have won. The other is that a series cannot participate the week after it has won. If anyone else can think of anything, I am all ears.

Here is the story's introduction. I hope you enjoy it.

Story: Urusei Yatsura: First Impressions

I had intended to do this one next week, but inspiration struck early. I hope you enjoy it!

Story: Rei Swarm

This is the last Evangelion story from that fatesplit. I've been told that the first part is perhaps a little too long and should be cut a little bit somewhere. Does anyone else agree with this assessment? And if so, do you have any suggestions on how it should be cut down?

Discussion: Sexy Akane

This is a bit of a tricky one, because I can so easily see it devolving into yet another "Ranma gets a sexy harem" thread. I don't like doing those these days because they feel sort of empty and soulless. So with that in mind, here's what I've got.

Thread Voting: Open Until 11th November

Following discussions over the course of last week, I have decided that each thread mentioned within a single vote must be cast for a different thread. This is the method the majority wanted and to be honest I agree with this way of doing things. And so, we open up a new thread. Happy voting!

Test: New Table Format

Just trying out something I saw online. I've felt that the table format needed changing for a while now, to make it easier for me to sort and let anyone search through it. So, I've been looking online for things that would let me do just that. Unfortunately I need to publish this to check if it works, which is why this went up. Here's what I've come up with.
I think that's about as good as I can get it. Would this format be preferred?

Story: Love Normal: Madhouse!

Here is this week's vote winner. Enjoy! Continues from here.

Rule Change Discussion

In the comments for this week's voting thread, certain issues came to light. It is my general policy NOT to implement rule changes until the week following, to permit those interested to discuss the pros and cons. To that end, please vote as you usually would. The thread is not closed until this issue is resolved.

Let's address these two issues in the comments section here, and leave the voting thread for votes instead.

1: Multiple votes for the same thread.

The reason I established the rules they way they were was for the explicit purpose of promoting variety in updated threads. It seems to me that permitting each participant the opportunity to cast multiple votes on the same thread in the same week is likely to work around that.

If people would prefer to vote for the same thread multiple times, then I would have to insist upon a further rule alteration: Namely, that I do not merely work on the winner and work on second and third position as well. I feel that this approach might help ensure that there is some semblance of variety in the voting, but only if the new rules are adopted.

At the moment I am not convinced this will be necessary. I do not think permitting a participant to use all five votes for the same thread is productive to this blog. If you have any strong feelings one way or the other, please let me know in the comments here.

2:  Changes to updated thread votes.

I suggested an alteration to the way threads updated by others acquire points, based on Sirroco asking about it. In detail:

All updates receive one vote, unless it is a string of fatesplits, in which case it is but a single vote for all put together. Tiebreaker points are handed out as follows:

0: Fatesplit. Episode contains nothing but options
1: Poorly written, or contains less than a hundred words.
2: Within a thousand words, good writing quality.
3: Between a thousand and two thousand words, good writing quality.
4: Over two thousand words, good writing quality.


Does anyone have any feelings on this issue? Better rules for establishing the distribution of tiebreaker points? Please suggest them here.

Story: Just a Kiss(NGE)

I had some minor trouble picking a direction for this one, but I think the options should cover the major places this could go. Hope you enjoy it!

Story: Sleeping With the Enemy

So, I decided to push this forward on my schedule a little bit. Knock out a first episode today, see what people think of it.

Discussion: Love Normal

This is the first time any Love Hina work will be dealt with on this blog. Given my future plans, it will certainly not be the last.

Thread Voting: Open Until Nov 4th

This week's thread is now open for votes. Nothing else to say this week, save happy Halloween.
EDIT: I have been asked if it would be possible to use two votes for the same thread. While I do not intend to allow this this week, I would like to put the option on the table. Does anyone else have a problem with this?

Please comment on the issue if you have strong feelings either way.

This thread is now closed for votes. Thanks for participating!

Story: Cocknosis Geass: Eruption

I wasn't entirely satisfied with what I had written, so here's a little more!

Story: Cocknosis Geass: Bathtime Fun

Here is this week's winner for the voting! I'm not sure how best to treat the link to the document. Stick it in the episode itself, or put it in a comment so anyone can see? Maybe even put descriptions of those techniques into the comments?

The reason I divided it here was because - as you may be able to tell - I could not work out which would suit my purposes better. Still. Enjoy!

Story: Milly Gets a Geass

Here is another Code Geass story start, and once again Lelouch is nowhere in sight. This changes rather a lot with the last one.

Story: Evangelion Weird Science: Asuka the Lab Rat

I saw this yesterday and decided to write something for it as well. I do have a sort of plan for this one if I continued writing it, but for now I have left it vague in case someone else wanted to use Asuka in some way.

Discussion: Cocknosis Geass

It's time to discuss this week's vote winner! Spoilers follow, as usual.

Story: Cursed Joketsuzoku: This is a Curse?

So, I saw this fatesplit yesterday and decided to do something with it.

Thread Voting: Open Until 28th October

Another week, another round of votes! Remember that you get five each week rather than three now!
THREAD CLOSED, PLEASE SEE NEXT WEEK. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!

Story: St Doria's: The Enigma Club

Here's some St Doria for you to enjoy!

Story: It's Fate: Gossipy Destiny

Here is some more It's Fate! And it occurs that sometime soon, Sirocco and I will have to sit down and really think about what the remaining commands are.

Story: Michiru's Body Wash: Fiddling With Herself

I thought about this really hard, and felt that it would be more interesting to leave Michiru something with something of herself. In essence: She's becoming a bimbo with a few innate artistic talents. From this thought an interesting idea was born, and from that was born the punny title. I think I went a bit overboard on certain things, but am not sure what to remove to fix it. Please suggest fixes if you have any ideas.

Story: Real World Sailor Moon: Changes

Here is the latest vote winner! I hope you enjoy it.

Story: Urusei Yatsura: Side Effects of Hypnotism

This one begins from here.

Discussion: Real World Sailor Moon

This week's winner is in fact the very first Sailor Moon piece to come to the top of the votes, and I believe it is also the first collaboration with Sirocco to do so as well. In any case, let's discuss what is to be done with it.

Thread Voting Open Until October 21st

Since no complaints were raised last week, I have decided that we shall make use of a maximum of five votes a week. To ensure there is a difference in points, the Tiebreaker points assigned will proceed in the order 4,3,2,1,0 rather than the former 3,2,1.

Do remember to put the threads in order of preferance, because I am assuming that is how you want me to assign the Tiebreaker points. First thread gets the most, etc.

The thread is now open! Vote away!

Story: AH My Succubus: Purification

Continued from here

Story: You Bet: Bluffs Within Bluffs

Continued from here. And, sorry Sirocco but I decided to change that one card you asked about after all, to at least help the readers follow what's going on a little bit better.

Story: Ran's Body Wash

Another in the body wash saga, with yet another take.

Story: Contagious Geass

Isn't it weird that this is the second Code Geass fatesplit story, and Lelouch hasn't made an appearance in either yet?

Story: ANDFR: Planning Ahead

Here it is, and I hope it meets expectations. Enjoy!

Story: Fire vs Fire

Enjoy this diversion before I write out ANDFR, and maybe work out a new title for it.

Discussion: ANDFR: In Need of New Title

In all seriousness I would like to put a new title on this and I am taking suggestions for it. Let's talk about what we can do with this one!

Thread Voting Open Until 14th October

A suggestion was made to me by email yesterday regarding a minor alteration to the rules. As always, I would like to ask participants how they feel about the suggested rules alteration before implementing it, so please continue to do as usual until otherwise stated. Vote for three in the order of preferance, most wanted to least.

The suggestion was to permit two additional votes per week. Neither vote would add to the tiebreaker value, but would add to the regular vote. Until two weeks ago that was all that was really needed to win the week anyway. How would everybody feel about voting for up to five a week?

In any case: This week's round of votes is open! Please leave your thoughts and opinions in the comments section on whether we should start having five votes as of next week instead of three.

Story: RCM: Quirky Detective

Continued from here.

Story: Ukyo's Body Wash

I decided to ignore the Ranma direction on the body wash thread, and instead focused on a different character and a different direction. Enjoy!

Story: Reflective Seduction: Step One

Here we go with this week's winner.

Story: Anime Alter Ego: The Tomboy and the Warrior

Begun from here.

Story: The Normality of Kyon

A fun little idea I had for Normality Earrings, I'll need to look up the thread this would continue from and probably have to add in a fatesplit to get it running.

Story: Code Geass Miscalculation: Turning Japanese

We have the first of the Code Geass fatesplit ideas I had. It's a bit of an odd choice, but here goes!

Discussion: Reflective Seduction

I honestly had hoped this would have been pushed forward lest I inadvertantly block off whatever iAmMelting had written for it, but let's get right down to pushing this thread forward.

I am still amused that it won without receiving any votes in weeks. Having said that it would have won much faster if it had during almost any of those weeks.

Thread Voting: Open Until 7th October

For the first time since voting began the tiebreaker points were the deciding factor. Reflective Seduction took the top spot! I had hoped that iAmMelting would have posted his work on the thread before this one won, but he appears to have vanished off the face of the Earth. Here's hoping he comes back soon.

Voting is now open.

Story: To Love Body Wash: Duplication

From here.  The idea occured to me a few days ago, and I decided to give it a try.

Story: Konatsu's New Technique: Idle Thoughts

Here is this week's vote winner! I hope it's not as controversial as last time it updated. Here is where it will continue from.

Story: HHL Great Director Moroboshi: Furinkan! Finally!

I felt that the thread had stalled enough on getting Ataru to Furinkan. So here we are!

Continued from here.

Story: Urusei Yatsura: Transformed Transformation Spray

A bit of a weird  story with lots of potential directions to take. Hope you enjoy it!
Begins from this fatesplit.

Discussion: Konatsu's New Technique

For the third time this has risen to the top. This week will be continued from here.

As always with a discussion post, if you would prefer to see the finished episode without knowing what direction it will take, do not read the rest of this post.

Story: Titnosis: Akane Gets

Due to some comments regarding the various other Ranma threads and that commenter's annoyance at the Magic Word method of growth, I decided to take an alternative approach.
Continued from here.

Thread Voting: Active Until 30th September

Here is this week's voting thread. Later today I intend to post all of the episodes I've written this last week but not put on the addventure yet. So I'd suggest you check those out in case there's anything you think should be changed before then!

Story: To Love Body Wash: Role Reversal

I had an idea for a continuation of the Haruna thread, which is here. This is a short entry, shorter than I usally like, but it was also a natural point to cut the episode off at. Please enjoy!

Story: To Love Body Wash: Flighty Run

Continued from here.

I also have an idea for the Haruna continuation, which takes advantage of the fact that they are in a public bath. I may write that tomorrow, time permitting.

Story: Real World Sailor Moon: Two For One

Continuing from here.

Story: Cocknosis Geass

Here is the winner of this week's vote, Cocknosis Geass. Continued from here.

Story: NGE Dreamscape

I went with a slightly goofy writing style for the first bit of this one, I hope people don't mind that too much. Have fun either way!

Story: Titnosis 1/2: Kasumi Gets

Based on a suggestion in the comments. Continued from here. 

Discussion: Cocknosis Geass

After Cross C's magnificent update this last week, how could I fail to work on this thread? The funny part is, it would have still won even if he'd done only one update. I have a vague idea of where I'm going with this, just need to fill in a few gaps and I can go from there.

If you would rather the contents of the episode be a surprise, please don't read the rest of this post.

Thread Voting: Active Until 23rd September

I've added two new threads that updated a little before I closed the previous one. Both from the Bimbo Body Wash thread, one for Sailor Moon and the other To Love Ru.
Let voting commence!

Story: Sailor Moon Titnosis: Monster Magnet

I had this idea yesterday, and found it too much fun to ignore. Enjoy!
Begun from here.

Story: Ranmasexual: Dream a Little Dream

It turns out that the first scene went on way longer than I thought it would. While I'll count this as this week's update for this story, thus satisfying the voting game for the week I will probably do the rest that I mentioned in the discussion post in subsequent threads. Essentially splitting up the story in the same way that Cross C did with his latest Cocknosis Geass update.

Story continues from here.

Story: Body Wash + Vampire: Mizore Gets

Yet another new thread, this one starting from here.

Story: NGE Oversynched

Here is another NGE story. I am taking suggestions for options.

Story: St Doria's: Unhealthy Paranoia

A continuation of St Doria's.

Discussion: Ranmasexual

This week's winner was also the first thread to win the vote. Just an interesting aside. For now, let's talk a little about Ranmasexual. As will always be the case with discussion posts, don't read the rest if you don't want to know how the episode will turn out until it's done.

I have a pretty strong idea for this week's thread. Let's see what you all make of it.

Thread Voting: Active Until 16th September

This week's round of votes is now open! It looks like Konatsu's New Technique will surprise me once again with its popularity, with the potential that it will win for the third time. Another first for the thread. Will that come true this week, or will Reflective Seduction finally take the top spot after being in second place for well over a month? Or, maybe something else will creep in from behind and steal victory from out of nowhere!

That's entirely up to you! This week's round of votes is now open.

Story: Magical Girl Conspiracy

A different continuation of the same thread as my last post, simply continuing from a different option. Continuing from here.

I did not change much of the first scene. Most of the changes are in the second scene.

Story: Magical Girl Syndrome

Continues from here. This is something a little bit different. I see potential for deconstruction, and I like what I see. Option suggestions please if you have them!

Story: Demon's Test: Corrupting the Innocent

This is the winner of the latest vote contest. Thread continues from here.

Discussion: Demon's Test

Before I write up this week's winner, I thought it might be fun to bounce some ideas around regarding the direction this story should take. the thread would continue from here.
Please make any comments you like regarding this story, as it may help not only with this week's update, but future updates as well.

I think I'll start to do this with every winning thread from now on. It might ferment a little discussion.

Story: Bubble Headed: Forget about it

One of my Urusei Yatsura restarts. I hope you enjoy it.

Story: HHL - Great Director Moroboshi: Regarding Lum

Continued from here.

Thread Voting: Active Until 9th September

For anyone that wishes to discuss any given thread, or anyone that wishes to collaborate with me on a given thread I have put contact details into the Contact Me page.

Story: Urusei Yatsura In Your Dreams: Succumbing

Continues from here.

Story: Ranma Meme: Mutations

Here is this week's winner of the votes. I hope you enjoy. Continued from here.

Story: NGE Drive

Begun from this fatesplit.

Story: Cocknosis Geass: Experimenting

Continuing from here.

Thread Voting: Active Until 2nd September

I would like to ask you all to comment on the ANDFR post, to comment on which scene you think works better as the second scene. I'll update it after seeing as many opinions on this as I can get. If nobody else does comment by wednesday, I'll flip a coin.

And for iAmMelting, if you would like some help with Reflective Seduction before posting it I am certainly available for discussion. Please keep in mind that if that does win this week - as seems possible - then it will be difficult for me to post without fear of blocking off an option you intended to take. I'd prefer not to have to work on it before you posted both your versions of events. Thank you.

As a final note, yesterday I made a number of threads that I am calling "Story Splits". Fate splits designed to promote certain story ideas. I will permit votes for any of those ideas, but will link to the split thread.

The three story splits were for Urusei Yatsura, Code Geass and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Story: Code Geass: Divide By

Just a rough draft for an idea I was toying with. Let me know what you think of it, and if you think it can be improved upon.

Story: ANDFR: Tsundere Pervert

Here is the winner of last week's voting round. I have two different versions of the second scene, and have provided both so you can choose which one is closer to what should happen next.

Thread continues from option one of this thread.

Cocknosis Geass: The Spa

Continuing from  here.

Thread Voting: Active Until 25th August

Another week, another round of votes. Let's see what you want to be posted next. Will Reflective Seduction finally take the lead, or will another thread take the top spot instead?

Additionally, I apologise for Konatsu's New Technique being late this week. I have made further alterations to the thread, as I felt the historical portion was... lacking considerably. This new scene at least ensures that conflict is present within the story. Please see the previous post to see the change. If everyone is happy with that, I'll post it later today with options splitting off the exact nature of the technique.

Concept: Konatsu's New Technique

Given the reaction to the latest update for KNT, I have decided to try and address the concerns by explaining my long term plans for this thread. Do not read further if you don't want to see spoilers.

Concept: Reflective Seduction

Though one of the reasons this blog was made was to bounce around a few ideas for stories, this is the first time I've actually done so. I had noticed that iAmMelting expressed an interest in writing for the thread, but wanted to know a little more about the intended direction. To that effect, I shall attempt to explain a little of what I intend to do with the thread if and when I get around to writing it.

No prose here. Just a summary. If you don't want to be spoiled on what the thread will contain, please stop here.

Story: Neon Retcon Evangelion

Continuing from the first option of this thread.
I seem to be drawn to threads like this. Oh well.

Story: Konatsu's New Technique: A Little Backstory

Here is the winner of last week's vote, the first to win twice. The surprisingly (to me) popular Konatsu's New Technique.

Thread Voting: Active Until 19th August

This week's round of voting is now open! It seems likely that Reflective Seduction or Buyer Found will be the takers this week. Or will they? It's all up to you! Vote away!

Story: Asuka Word Processor: Bragging Rights!

Asuka's fingers hovered over the keyboard, lost in the irresistable urge to type out something. Simply to check and make sure this old thing still worked, simply a case of idle curiousity. Nothing more than that, right? Still, the question remained. What should she type? Ah, but the answer became rather obvious after a moment's thought, and her fingers flew expertly across the keyboard as she typed about her favourite subject.

0000: Hello! My name is Asuka Langley Soryu! Aren't you lucky to be used by someone as talented, beautiful and intelligent as myself? I don't need any introduction, of course, but will give one anyway!

0001: I am the pilot for the greatest Evangelion unit, Unit 02! It is well matched with me, for I am the best pilot of them all! My tactical prowess is without peer, my reaction time nearly superhuman and my strength in combat is unmatchable! When I am in Unit 02, the place that Angels fear to tread is covered by a radius a hundred miles around where I am!

0002: There are two other pilots I am forced to work alongside. The first is Rei Ayanami, a girl with no will of her own! She's the sort that will follow any instruction given to her, no matter what it is.

0003: The other is Shinji Ikari. He seems to have something of a yellow streak, but he's not fooling me! In truth he's a massive covert pervert that hides behind innocence and fake shyness to get away with his perverted tendencies. Unfortunately I appear to be the only one that sees through it.

0004: I'm being forced to live with him at the moment, but not just him! There's also Misato Katsuragi, my former guardian. She's a bit of a drunken slob at home, and barely seems to be able to keep from flirting with every guy she meets. Other than that we get on alright.

The urge to type faded away and Asuka looked back over at what she'd typed out. Yep. It looked like it was working just fine! "Not bad for an antique," she mused, but then she blinked as the screen started to flicker. After a moment a message popped up.

"World Processor: Compiling New Data. Extracting Relevant Alterations" Asuka read out. "What the heck does that even mean?"

The message faded away, and was replaced with four lines.

0000: Asuka is beautiful, intelligent and talented. She needs no introduction.

0001: Unit 02 is the greatest Evangelion. Asuka is the best pilot. Her tactical prowess is without peer, her reaction time is nearly superhuman and her strength in combait is unmatchable. When she is in Unit 02, Angels dread approaching closer than a hundred miles.

0002: Asuka works alongside two pilots. Rei Ayanami has no will of her own and will obey any instruction given to her.

0003: Shinji Ikari pretends to be a shy coward, but is merely pretending to cover his true perverted nature. Only Asuka can see through this ruse.

0004: Asuka is being forced to live with Shinji and Misato Katsuragi. She is a drunken slob when home, and barely restrains herself from flirting with every guy she meets. Other than that, Asuka and Misato get on alright.

"Dummkopf computer!" Asuka yelled, stomping her foot indignantly. "That's not what I typed! Not at all! This antique is broken after all! Worthless thing!"

With a heavy sigh, Asuka switched it off and turned around to leave. She stopped upon reaching the door as a terrible thought occured to her, prompting her to turn back around and switch the processor back on again. To her horror, the same words were showing up on the screen. The same words that would surely raise all manner of hell if Misato decided to use this thing at any point in the near future, and - Oh dear. Suddenly this word processor had turned into a ticking time bomb! Nothing else for it! She'd have to hide it in her room until she figured out a way to make the text disappear!

1. Retcon initiated! How does the series look when changed as per these instructions?
2. Meanwhile, Shinji becomes a covert pervert!
3. Asuka plays around with the word processor a little more.
4. No time for that! Angel attack!
5. Something else

Story: Negima: Ninja Mother and Perverted Narrator

Just a little something continuing from here. To be honest, I'm not quite as familiar with Negima as I probably ought to be. Most of what's here is based on things gleamed off the wiki.

Story: Bridal Training: Cookie Cookie

Here is the winner to last week's contest. I would also like to announce a slight alteration to the rules. Any update by someone else in one of my threads will constitute a vote for that thread, with the tiebreaker increase depending on the quality and length of the update.
1: Fatesplit or poorly written
2: Well written but less than a thousand words.
3: Well written, but longer than a thousand words.

If an update is updated, those will count as further votes.

I will change the rules page to reflect this alteration. The original rule has not yet come into effect anyway. If you can suggest alterations that would make it more likely that you would update a thread, please tell me.

Thread Voting: Active Until 12th August

I must admit to some fascination over this week's votes. Will Konatsu's New Technique be the first to win twice? Will it go to Reflective Seduction or Buyer Found? Or will one of the others pull ahead into the lead? All up to you!

Story: Pendant of Lust and Love: Usagi Get!

Another take on the same thread as before, but this time from this episode. Obviously the option being taken is Sailor Moon. Should be interesting, giving such power to her in this manner.

Story: Pendant of Love and Lust: Mariko Get

Continuing the apparent trend of using Mariko Konjo for threads. This comes straight from here, so I hope you enjoy!

Story: Creeping Perversion: Day One

Here is last week's winner, Creeping Perversion. This will be following on from option two of this update.

Thread Voting: Active Until 5th August

A new round of votes will commence as of now. As an experiment, I have reset the values for last week's winner to 0, but kept it in the table. This means I don't have to worry about removing and adding it so much as playing with the order.

Story: Fudge Bunnies: A Cheerleader's History

A diversion from here, using option three. I noticed it and decided it was too fun to ignore. Enjoy!

Story: Curvy Akane: The Spar

This is the winner of last week's vote. I apologise for the lateness. I am taking suggestions for possible options, and would like to see some feedback on this update if anyone has anything to add to it or suggestions they would like to make regarding its improvement.

Story: Life, Death and the Storm: It Fell From the Stars

Time for something a little bit different. This is a first draft that I'm intending to put on fanfiction.net rather than the BEA, because it's the first chapter of a complete story that I've already mostly got figured out in my head. It is (as the tag will indicate) an NGE and Doctor Who crossover piece, making use of something from Doctor Who that has to my tremendous shock and surprise not been used in any fanfiction piece on fanfiction.net. If that is wrong, please provide me with a link because I'd love to read that.

I have provided a link at the bottom so you can see the thing in question. It would probably go into an author's note on the site.

As it is a first draft, please point out all the myriad ways this can be improved upon. My own critical gaze is a little skewered on that regard having written it.

Thread Voting: Thread Active Until 29th July

The voting results are as below. Good luck getting your favourite thread to the top!

Story: Konatsu's New Technique: A favour to ask

This is the winner of the previous week's round of voting. This was a thread whose popularity has surprised me quite a lot. I hope you enjoy this installment! If you have any suggestions for improving it, please make them in the comments. If there are no problems with it, I shall post this update on saturday.

Thread Voting: Thread Active Until 22nd July

Another week, another voting thread! I have decided to stick to the one vote a week rule as opposed to last week's suggested once a day.


The current vote tally stands as follows :

Story: Akane's Identity Crisis

After seeing this, I started to think about the idea. It was pretty interesting on the surface, but I did have a few problems with it. There is potential, but it needs fixing. So... I knocked out the below in maybe an hour and a half. Enjoy! If anyone has suggestions for improvement, I am all ears.

Story: You Bet!

Here's a thread I've been meaning to update for a while. If there's anything in it that doesn't make sense, please let me know.

 Thread continues from here.

Story: The Forbidden Fruit 2

First part is here. 

Please do suggest improvements. I'm unsure of whether to put this on the BEA, or simply keep it as a seperate work, and would like to hear some opinions on that.

Story: Ranmasexual; Engagement of Lust

Here is the winner of last week's vote, written up much quicker than I had anticipated. I hope you enjoy. For now I think it will hew a bit close to (manga) canon, but the major diversions from that path will begin with the next update from this thread.

Thread continues from this point.

Thread Voting: Thread Active Until 15th July

Welcome to this week's voting thread! Last week went better than I had expected for the first week, and the winner -Ranmasexual - will be posted later on. For now, the second round of votes will begin! As per the rules, Ranmasexual's vote tally is reset to zero while all others carry theirs from the previous week.

To make things livelier for coming weeks, I am considering allowing participants to place a vote once a day rather than once a week, with the winner at the end of the week being written. Unless objections are raised during this week, I shall implement that rule change as of NEXT week.

Thank you for participating.

Present rankings stand as follows.

Story: Perverts in Denial: The Lost Years

And now for a Ranma piece. This would be a new thread that would begin from this restart, in particular the fourth option. Please enjoy!

Story: Splitting Headache/Personality

Here is the second of the two ideas, and the second Neon Genesis Evangelion work I've ever worked on. There may be others later. It may not surprise anyone that's remotely familiar with the series if they were to learn that it has tickled my muse a bit.

Story: The Forbidden Fruit

So I recently saw Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time. This naturally led me into checking out various pieces of fanfiction in an attempt to gain a better sense of closure than the series canon gave me, which is also sort of the same reason I got into Ranma 1/2 fanfiction. I rapidly noticed that the most common kind of NGE fanfiction that exists is the Peggy Sue fic type - named such on tvtropes after the movie Peggy Sue got married - in which a character goes back into their own past selves and tries to fix everything that went wrong for them.

But then I had two rather original takes on that subject. The first is below. I am debating whether to put it on the BEA or load it elsewhere as a work all to my own.

Thread Voting: Thread Active Until 8th July

Welcome to the first voting thread! Please see the rules as described here, and vote for any of my threads that you wish to see me continue. In the event of a fate split that I created interesting you, tell me which of the available options you want to see me work on and I'll consider it.

When I have written up the winner, I intend to post it on this blog. Whenever a vote is made this post will be ammended to reflect the current standings. Please do not feel restricted to your votes, as I would also like to encourage discussions on the direction you would like to see threads proceed or on the current direction that they have gone.

Thank you for participating.

Present rankings stand as follows.