The Beat and the Timing

More fanart, this time with characters from Bleach, FMA and Naruto.  Here's a teaser to whet your appetites:

Well, WAAAAAAAAY back in February, I signed up for a gift exchange at transmute_fluff.  Everyone who signed up was assigned a different person to do a gift fic or artwork for.  I had mine in before the April deadline and my story was posted back near the end of May.  Now, I guess there were some problems with people not getting their assignments turned in, so that meant some people didn't have anything in return yet.  Since it's an anonymous exchange the names won't be revealed until everything's been posted, so that means my story's been posted, but my recipient doesn't know it's from me yet.  Not a huge deal I guess, except that nothing's been posted for me in return.  I was going to wait until the end of the exchange when everything's been posted, but when that'll be I have no clue.  There have been several little one-offs "for the community" but who knows if/when all the stories will be up.

So since I'm annoyed, I'm just going to post the story I wrote and be done with it.  I'm not really caring at this point if my recipient finds out it was from me or not, since I highly doubt they even read my journal.  So here it is.

Title : Photograph
Author : Rhyssa Fireheart
Recipient's name : Seaweed_FMA
Rating : K
Pairing(s) : Hughes/Gracia, Mustang
Disclaimer : Don’t own it, never will.  Just like to play with it in my mind.
Warnings : Extreme lameness? ;-)
Author's notes : None


Enjoy!  I plan to cross post this at Fanfiction.net and on Coeur de Feu, of course.

And the second FMA fic I wanted to post.  This one is a companion to "Conversations by Starlight."

Title: Conversations in Winter
Author: Rhyssa Fireheart
Pairing: Kimbley/OC
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Don’t own it, never will.  Just like to play around with it in my mind.

Summary: Her voice reminded him of the last time they’d spoken in Ishbal.  There was a sense of finality in the quiet words, and she walked away without looking back, shoulders slumped.  He caught up with her and walked by her side, the sounds of their footsteps echoing ahead of them as they walked the hallways of their world.
As before, originally posted on Fanfiction.net and archived on my own site.  Enjoy!

So I signed up for the fluff fic/art exchange over at transmute_fluff just for fun.  I have no idea how this is going to work out, but I'm certainly willing to try.  Plus I'll have at least a month to write something and I'm sure I can come up with something in that amount of time.  I put that I want to give a fic since my drawing skills have atrophied so badly over the years (as I put in my application post).  I really should do something about that, but I'm lazy.

Posting this tonight because I'm going to start yet another FMA fic for myself.  If it goes as I've planned, it'll be 34 chapters in total, but I'm sure they'll be shortish chapters.  But that would still probably make it my longest story to date (my FFVII fic "Memories" was 22 pages in MSWord, this should top that), so we'll have to see.  One of the reasons it should be so long is because I plan to base it around the moves in a chess game and the game I picked had 34 moves each for white and black (that means 67 moves in total) and I'm going to do them in pairs (white/black I mean).  Anyways, it makes sense to me and right now that's what matters.  But chess notation is kind of cool looking and those will form the chapter titles.  It'll be posted on fanfiction.net once I'm done and since it'll be in chapters, I'll be able to post it here as well.  And as always, it'll be archived on my portfolio site.

Reminds me though, this means I still have two other FMA fics to work on (one in my "Conversations" series and one related to "Small Favors")  in additon to the story I'm starting tonight, plus an FFVII fic that's been in progress for a while as well.  I need to reread my FFVII fic to see where I was going with it (it's a long one) and rewatch FFVII:AC again to get back into the world.  I've been writing FMA fics for a while now that I've lost touch with my FFVII ones.