Sometimes when you need to write sad scenes a bit of music can help set the mood quite well, and I've found that postrock works well in my case; well, often enough that is.
One of the groups I listen to when I want to go for a melancholic or sad mood is I-Human, and one of their albums that works great not just for sad scenes but also for dramatic or even calm ones that you may write to develop the story or to write exposition is this one that I want to share with you:
A while back I drew an ilustration based on a scene in Lost Together, the Ranma story I'm cowriting with Daisuki Fox. Due to the whole mess from last year the ilustration was never colored but Dai finally had the time to work on it and here are the results!
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| First fight against Taro, from chapter 8 |
I like the anime feel he gave the ilustration with the color and shading, I think it looks really nice and I'm glad he was kind enough to color it.
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| Arguably my favorite pairing in Ranma 1/2 |
Here's something that I normally don't talk about much; many years ago I tried my hand at writing lemon, and I wrote a couple of those for the Ranma 1/2 fandom. After seeing the results and thinking of it for a while I decided writing smut wasn't really one of my strong points so I stopped at two.
It is important to mention that I wrote those two lemons in Spanish, as I was experimenting and I felt it would be best to do it in that language first.
Anyway, the first one was a crazy thing involving Ranma and Kasumi titled El castigo de Ranma (Spanish for Ranma's punishment) and it's best forgotten; I guess it should still be out there somewhere, even if the archive where it was published no longer exists. I remember writing that story way back in June 2001, and it was published in July 2001, so by internet time the thing is ancient... and it's also awful as the quality is incredibly subpar. Then again I was just starting back then.
The story had decent reception, though as far as I'm concerned it should be lost to the sands of time.
The thing is, since that story was not flamed to ashes back then I thought I'd try it again, and so I wrote the second lemon I mentioned above.
And you know what? I actually did like the plot of that one, but never felt happy with how I wrote it, I thought it sucked. I still published it, however. It's a Mousse and Shampoo lemon that revolves around an accident with a love potion, because of that I titled the story La Poción Azul (Spanish for The Blue Potion) and completed it on October 2001, hoping it would be better than the previous one.
I sent La Poción Azul to this now defunct lemon fanfiction arhive for publication. Looking at very old emails I can confirm it was published in November 2001, and the story was better received than the previous one.
Still, since I didn't feel comfortable writing lemons and finding it difficult and repetitive, I simply dropped the sequel I had planned for it involving Ryoga and Ukyo, and another idea for a lemon dealing with Nabiki Tendo and a young substitute teacher.
Anyway, back in April this year, I got a pm over at Fanfiction.Net by a guy named Robot mask who said he had read La Poción Azul and wanted to do a remake. I suggested he rewrote the version that was already out there, and he agreed it was a better idea, so he asked for my permision to do it and, given the story was so old I decided to let him adopt it.
And so, Robot mask reworked the story and completed his version late last month, publishing it on Fanfiction.net to good reviews that are asking for a second part. I shared the ideas I had for the sequel with him, so perhaps one day he'll release chapter 2 of La Poción Azul.
You can read Robot mask's version following the link below if you want to, just remember it's in Spanish:
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| Cover image for the story at Fanfiction.net |