Zen Crib Notes

 Vincent Valentine and Veld, post Dirge of Cerberus, and a cameo with Shelke and Tifa. After all that has happened, Veld takes the time now to look for Vincent one of these nights? Time has displaced them, and it's like looking at people you knew wearing masks of their fathers.

Birthday present for kingofbeartraps, on tumblr.

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Title: Laughed Out of Town
Characters/Pairings: Shin-ra
Rating/Type: G
Team: Turks (?)
Word Count: 100
Series: Before Original Game Content
Author's Notes:  Second Person POV, and it's based under my head canon that the Shin-ra family was originally from Nibelheim.

So you turned heel and walked out- that sleepy little town in the mountains in their fog and clouds covering the sky and the ground. They’re hypocrites, all of them! They sit on their haunches at their porches, wondering how Nibel can scrape by, but you suggest one thing and they cry tradition! Tradition! It’s all we got to retain our identity.

So they sneer at your Wutainese powder, obtainable from the fireworks merchant from over the mountain. You’ll show them.

The world will know Shin-ra, armed and protected by it, and it will be turned by your invisible hand.

Title: In the Face of Adversity
Characters/Pairings: Tseng, Cissnei
Rating/Type: PG
Team: Turks
Word Count: 100
Series: Before Crisis
Author's Notes: Warning- Racism

What Cissnei knew of Wutainese pride, she knew from Tseng. Raised by Shin-ra’s hand since childhood, she knew Tseng since his first day and envied him because he was hand-picked by Veld. She tested his chops by quizzing him and he responded through his fervor.

Envy became sympathy when the Wutai Conflict began, and there are posters around town of slant-eyed yellow men with buck teeth and pigtails, eating rats. Someone betrayed his confidence by cracking his locker, and he cleans the slander off with soapy water. He silently accepted her help, wrathful eyes disclosing his hurts.

If you can write a half-assed English paper discussing about racial identity in American Literature of which you are comparing two stories that has on one Jim Crow South and miscegenation, and the other being a Japanese American Nisei witnessing the gender roles of Asians in America as well as the loss of innocence of women being taken advantage of by men...

And it's all done within three hours, between sleepy space outs, making you miss out the two classes of the day including the American Lit class, turn it in at the teacher's office hours AND have it accepted because she is that awesome...

Then you can damn well finish a goddamn Valentine's Day one-shot in FFVII fandom!

>:(

That's me scowling at me.

Tips tonight: $46.

Also: Work was really good tonight, as I can confidently say that through my efforts I was able to wrangle $20 tips out of five tables. And it was a fairly slow night. I couldn't believe how much time has passed without me noticing it. I guess not freaking out allows time to flow faster.

Sidenote: My paycheck was WICKED.

Every time I look at someone's livejournal for their fanfiction, and they're pretty good fanfic writers, that when I go to their user profile I find that they either live in Florida, USA or Canada. I'll rant about the former because it's in the same country as me.

What, is there a conference of FFVII writers in Miami? Are people in Fort Lauderdale plotting to blow up a future Meteor by postulating in their Fanfic?

Florida is not within driving distance from where I am!

Tips: $50

PS. My Kindle is here one day early!

So, I've been busy, in a sense.

On Tuesday, I had my first date with a friend I haven't seen in over two years. We're good friends, and being such he offered that I get to experience my first date. A friendly hangout. So we did. We ate at California Pizza Kitchen for lunch and then watched "Hancock" afterwards. The movie was ok, but it got really lame towards the ending. Oh well. Then after that, we passed by a used-music store that was well-known in the city only to find that it's going out of business and there's a huge sale. So, naturally, to support the establishment one last time, I shopped there!

I bought:

Dido and Aeneas opera CD.
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
The Three Tenors CD
Castle of Cagliostro
and Rocky.

So good deals! I'm really sad that the store is closing, though D: It's hard to find unique music stores nowadays that adds to the local color of your hometown.

But back to my date. I think that two years of not seeing each other felt a little odd to me. And during that time, I confirmed that I have no special feelings whatsoever towards my friend. So while I see it as two friends hanging out, he tried to make an effort to make it feel like a date for me. Now that I experienced that firsthand, I really kind of wished he didn't. Oh well. It was still fun.

Now, things to do:

Take the English Assessment test to test into English 110 for SBCC.
Attend my 18th birthday banquet
and then attend the 18th birthday of another friend on a cruise ship later that night.

But the first one might be a bit of a challenge to do. While I'm worried about whether or not I can write coherent essays, I also realized that I don't have any cash to take the bus to downtown at the college. Which is all kinds of misfortune.

Speaking of cash, I miss the tips I get at Cold Stone's... I need to inform my boss that my extended break is over and i wish to work again. But he doesn't respond to my emails! I need to go to the store and make a note for him one of these days.

Also, I've been writing fanfiction (of which I published in Fanfiction.net!), which is pretty exciting, because I already got 6 reviews and numerous story alerts. That gave me a lot of motivation to continue- I'm not a loser!

But I also developed this feeling that although I love what I'm writing (Persona 3 fanfiction), I also dreaded what I published, because I felt that it's crap to the rest of the world. *Holds head in anguish*

Is that a common feeling? It's like something out of "Whisper of the Heart" if it's more specific on what I'm feeling.