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[EDIT] June, 25th, 2009: This was written waaay back in 2006. I'm posting this now because I don't think I ever did post it in my LJ.
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Rated/Warnings: Iris -- references to non-consensual sex, violence, fluff/waff and angst.
Summery: Yuki Eiri and Shindo Shuichi explores their relationship thru various artistic media. Here, Eiri is working on a massive joint project with Shuichi on a story about a young man growing into adulthood in an earlier century involving photography, written words and a diary uploaded to a website that traces geneology.
Beta: Ashcat, thank you VERY much.
Comments: Thank you for all the lovely, encouraging comments. Especially the constructively critical ones. It means a lot. Chapter 01 has been re-written to reflect where this story is going. There is a plot, convulated and circular though it is, it's there.
This was created to be a part of 'Structures of Trust'. I already have the ending chapter written, but how many chapters are there between this and that last one, I don't know. It will very likely be more than ten. Originally, this was only two chapters.
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Ch. 01 -
( Spirits Along the Edges of Memory )
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Ch. 02 - TBC...
Notes:
1. I find the tessen or steel (either ribbed or reinforced 'sheet') fan a much more elegant weapon than the samurai katana. It's not a female-only weapon, in fact it is a favorite of the samurai themselves.
2. Cranes mate for life. They are symbols of love, fidelity and also of eternity (not to be confused with 'immortality'). A very popular motif in Japanese/Chinese/East Asian weddings.
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Disclaimers: Gravitation and all of its offshoots + me = no ownership, no affiliations, no connections. I'm simply an obsessive compulsive fan.
[EDIT] June, 25th, 2009: This was written waaay back in 2006. I'm posting this now because I don't think I ever did post it in my LJ.
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Rated/Warnings: Iris -- references to non-consensual sex, violence, fluff/waff and angst.
Summery: Yuki Eiri and Shindo Shuichi explores their relationship thru various artistic media. Here, Eiri is working on a massive joint project with Shuichi on a story about a young man growing into adulthood in an earlier century involving photography, written words and a diary uploaded to a website that traces geneology.
Beta: Ashcat, thank you VERY much.
Comments: Thank you for all the lovely, encouraging comments. Especially the constructively critical ones. It means a lot. Chapter 01 has been re-written to reflect where this story is going. There is a plot, convulated and circular though it is, it's there.
This was created to be a part of 'Structures of Trust'. I already have the ending chapter written, but how many chapters are there between this and that last one, I don't know. It will very likely be more than ten. Originally, this was only two chapters.
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Ch. 01 -
( Spirits Along the Edges of Memory )
----------------------------------
Ch. 02 - TBC...
Notes:
1. I find the tessen or steel (either ribbed or reinforced 'sheet') fan a much more elegant weapon than the samurai katana. It's not a female-only weapon, in fact it is a favorite of the samurai themselves.
2. Cranes mate for life. They are symbols of love, fidelity and also of eternity (not to be confused with 'immortality'). A very popular motif in Japanese/Chinese/East Asian weddings.
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Disclaimers: Gravitation and all of its offshoots + me = no ownership, no affiliations, no connections. I'm simply an obsessive compulsive fan.