Yaoi Challenge 2007

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, VII (final section) )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, VI )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, V )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, IV )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, III )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

( The Road Towards Kamakura, II )

Title: The Road Towards Kamakura
Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
Pairings: Nagi/Mamoru, Crawford/Schuldig, Mamoru/OFC, Nagi/OFC
Rating: R
Summary: In exile in a distant and unimportant post for his family's crimes, Mamoru builds himself a new life.
Word Count: 61000 words.
Author's Note: Thank you so much to toscas_kiss for beta-reading, and to puddingcat, for her wonderful illustrations! This is a sequel to Sailing to Hirugashima, a science-fiction AU in a space-opera setting. Like that story, it takes its title from place names important to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate.
Sections: I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII






( The Road Towards Kamakura, I )

Final Round

This was a very hard one to get done! I'd like to thank my team of helpers, because without them, this list would not have come together. No, really.

Love to lady_ganesh, cleflink, shayheyred, veleda_k, emerald_embers, solitaryjane, neko_myka, and nephitegirl. If I missed your name, it wasn't intentional. Please drop me a line and I'll rectify asap. Thank you, thank you, thank you!


[40-31][30-21][20-11][The Top Ten]


Thank you for showing up to vote every week!

The top 40 OTP Countdown should begin soon. I'm just having a bit of a problem.


If you are online and can spare a few minutes, could fans of the following pairings/ot3s hit me up @ animadri@livejournal.com:

Tezuka Kunimitsu/Fuji Syuusuke (Prince of Tennis), Eclipse/Raenef (Demon Diary), Leon/D (Petshop of Horrors), Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter), Conrad/Yuuri (Kyo Kara Maou!) , Seishirou/Subaru (X/1999) , and Wolfram/Yuuri (Kyo Kara Maou!).


Thanks in advance.

[Survival of the Hottest Woman - Final Preliminary Poll]

The final OTP Battle-thon Poll has been closed and results will be posted on Saturday, August 23rd. I desperately need your thoughts, comments, love, pics, recs... anything and everything. I need anything that you'd love to see included in the countdown. You can offer your top five otp moments, top five fic that pushed you kicking and screaming towards this certain ship ... Whatever you can offer will be greatly appreciated [especially for your favorite Clamp pairings - Kurogane/Fai (Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles), Touya/Yuki (Card Captor Sakura), Watanuki/Doumeki (xxxHolic)]. Leave your offerings here as a comment. Comments are being screened.

Title: Going the Distance
Fandom: Naruto
Pairings: Naruto/Neji, Naruto/Sasuke
Rating: R (for sex and language)
Warnings: AU of the Hollywood variety.
Word Count: 12K+ for the moment

Summary: When Neji offers Naruto a stunt job under the table it looks like his career is about to take off. But things take a turn for the worse when Naruto learns that he'll be under the direction of Sasuke, the man who walked out of his life five years earlier.


Authors Note: Many thanks to frackin_sweet for being my cheerleader/idea bouncer/characterization fixer and an all around awesome person. This thing has hit 18K and shows no sign of stopping so I apologize that I'm not able to post the beast in its entirety. You can find additional chapters as they come here

Chapter 1: Opportunities
Chapter 2: Confrontation
Chapter 3: Reconnaissance
Chapter 4: Confession

[OTP Battle-thon - Final Round/Survival of the Hottest Woman - Poll #3]

And another to add to the line of unfinished AU's. My bad. This thing hit 10,000 words and just kept going. I'll try to finish it up as quick as possible, posting the rest here and at my journal under this tag.

Title: Hooch
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Characters/Pairings: Xigbar/Luxord, Organization XIII, various cameos and implied relationships
Rating: PG for now [language]
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is owned by Square Enix and Disney.
Summary: Roaring Twenties AU. A new speakeasy has opened up in town. When two rivaling gangs vie for its business, shit goes down as it only can when everyone's packing heat and the moral of the story is “kill or be killed.”
Notes: This isn’t my best work, no one except me cares about it, historical inaccuracy runs rampant, it’s probably too long for its own good, and yet I love it anyway, as I am a giant geek and this was amazing to write, even if it did give me a hard time. Written for yaoi_challenge. Much love for my beta tenchitenmei and anyone else who offered to look over this.

Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four

[Final Preliminary Round - OTP Battle/ Survival of the Hottest (Ladies) - Poll #2]

Title: Blood Brothers 1/4
Author: cleflink
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII - Zack/Cloud
Rating: PG this section
A/N: So despite having four months to write this, I'm still having a few technical difficulties finishing the end off. *shamefaced* This is just the first part, there are at least two more coming depending on how much text I can fit into each post. I hope to have the whole thing posted within the week. *crosses fingers*
( Minor note for reading comprehension )

Summary: Fantasy AU. Zack and Cloud are blood brothers - two souls bonded by one fate. But what happens when one brother is lost and the other has to sacrifice everything he is to try and save him?

( Blood bonding was a strong, ancient magic, begun in love and strengthened in faith, with roots that ran deeper than family, race or kin )

Title: Harry Potter and the Dark Kingdom
Author: Gryvon
Fandom/Pairing: Harry Potter, Snape/Harry (coming soon)
Rating: PG for now
Author's Notes: I decided to go with high fantasy for my AU. Unfortunately the story didn't want to die after 10k so I'll be cranking out the rest of it over the wonderful Otakon weekend.

Chapter 1: A Fire in the Forest
Chapter 2: The Man on the Bridge
Chapter 3: The White Owl
Chapter 4: Hogwarts Students

Rest will be posted under this tag (and here, obviously).

[OTP Battle Poll #6/Survival of the Hottest Woman - Poll #1]

It's the ladies' turn. Interested parties make your way over here and drop a comment with your top ten, five... whoever pings you.

( 10 - 1 )





And that does it, folks.

Please share your thoughts, your favorite pics, links to your favorite AMVs, fic recs... whatever you want. Let's make it a party to celebrate the hotness!

*bows* Thank you all for your participation!

Fandom Most Represented:
1. Bleach - With 4 characters in the top 40. (tied with)
1. Final Fantasy VII with 4 characters in the top 40.
2. Saiyuki with 3 out of the 4 main characters. *pets Goku*