Support: Round 010!!

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

It's time once again to sign up, and rope your friends and neighbors into signing up! This is your official Round 010 Support Thread! Appropriate functions would be flailing, encouraging, questioning, prompting, impromptu ficcing, despairing, hope-bringing, celebrating, and, among other things, of course, panicking. Inappropriate functions would be microwaving, vacuuming, weapons testing, and, naturally, corporate espionage.

Feel free to post anonymously if you want to avoid leaving any clues for guessing. (We'll also screen all the comments on this thread during the two week guessing period, just to be safe.) --ETA: I decided not to screen this time... there's not much guessing fodder in here, anyway, and besides, we WANT lots of guesses, so... ^_~

Writers: Complaints about lack of progress, random spam while writing, requests for fanfic writing ideas are all welcome.

Readers: Please feel free to comment as well! Leave your reassurances, fanfic ideas, and more random spam here.

Enjoy!!

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Tell me why I signed up? I have better impulse control than this, usually!

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

you signed up because you LOVE US and because this round will be awesome, amirite??? c'mon!! you can do it, anyway. if not, we can always send rabid fic dogs after you. whatever works for you. ^_~

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Ninja cats would probably be a better tool to get me to write.

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

I'm worried whatever idea I will come up with for Sai would be totally unoriginal. My best-Sai related ideas have been a. written in a previous round b. done before by someone else, and c. made into a doujin.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFF D:

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

noted, and they are on their way.

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

well, sometimes, it's less about how omg original the idea is, and more about how you execute. i know you do it! ^_^

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely execution would make a common idea feel like new - but I'm going to have to dig for even one Sai idea. :| I don't seem to write him much, actually, so it'll take some getting used to.

[lanerose]

It only occurs to me after I signed up that I don't think I've ever actually written Sai before. O_o

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

well!! ^_^ first time for everything!?! annnnd well, anyway, as long as Sai is part of the story, it counts, so. youcandoit!!!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

All done! I finished writing today.

This is partly to brag (hey, celebrating is on the list of appropriate functions), but also partly to inspire other people to start early. Last round, I did my fic last-minute and wasn't happy with it. Now I can go back and reread with a fresh mind in a few weeks, and edit as much as I want before I submit.

[trixie-chick.livejournal.com]

i am in both awe, and some other... emotion... =X

i want to be inspired, though. i, too, only just barely finished last round, and produced something less than totally happy-worthy. i'm hoping i can change my ways this time around. ^_~

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

...I have no words. Except I feel like crying now for not having fic yet and you do!

(sense of competitiveness much? xD)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Indulge your competitive spirit! You can't just let me sit here being all smug. Go forth and produce fic! :)

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I wish I could, and I AM digging out my cd with HikaGo manga as I type.

Fight-o! And this time I will post after a beta has read through it. xDDDD;

/trivia and q&a thread starts -

[blue-cage.livejournal.com]

Reviving old support thread help and support line, just in case there are points in the series that you need a refresher on. ^_^

[lacygrey.livejournal.com]

Could this be a clue...?
'fic' in the singuler

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Nope. :) The singular "fic" was referring to last round, when I did indeed submit only one. I was careful not to specify for this round.

Re: /trivia and q&a thread starts -

[(Anonymous)]

Not a series question but a general one: I know there are women's titles in Japan, but can women compete for the regular titles?

Re: /trivia and q&a thread starts -

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! As of my research, they can in local tournaments that are marked as Open (yes that includes the Judan and Meijin tournament) even if there are Women's exclusive tournaments for them. My only confirmation though is Kobayashi Izumi (http://senseis.xmp.net/?KobayashiIzumi) who played against her father in 2004, and I must admit that since in general, we only get to see the names of the winners, a trip to gobase.org to do some digging would be a bit tedious, unless we have a hardcore go news follower in our ranks.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?GenderDiscriminationInGo
http://senseis.xmp.net/?PlayingStrengthAndGender

[lacygrey.livejournal.com]

In any case, there's plenty of time for more...

[(Anonymous)]

Mm, a quiet support thread is quiet. I guess I'd better ask this as I'm afraid I might miss the deadline.

Any fic prompts you'd like to see about Sai? I'm headdesking as I have no ideas, and so I'm willing to adopt bunnies you've found to be unworkable/just have no time to write/anything about Sai really.

He's difficult to write, dammit.

-one sad anon writer.

Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Sai/Torajiro slash.

Sai discovers the rest of the internet beyond the Go forums.

Remember when Waya found Hikaru being forced to do stretching exercises by Sai? Perhaps Waya found that it was helpful, and keeps doing it.

The end of the manga with the "can you hear my voice?" page seems like a natural fic prompt to me, but I don't think I've seen anyone write about it.

An AU where Hikaru-pro dies and haunts Sai in the Heian period when he was alive. (Possibly he teaches Sai?)

Someone else besides Hikaru can see Sai and hear them talking, but never lets on.

Everyone keeps asking Hikaru about the internet "sai," since he told the Meijin that he was a friend of sai's. Hikaru finally makes the sad announcement that his dear friend who only played on the internet is dead, and the Go world mourns him based on his internet presence and that one holy-shit game with the Meijin (maybe the kifu of it is printed in Go Weekly as part of a memorial article?). Hikaru is dismayed to find that this does not help at ALL to deter people from bothering him about who Sai is.

For Halloween, Touya goes as some famous person from the Heian period and dresses in a Sai-esque outfit, and he can't understand why Hikaru is angsty and mopey all evening.

Hikaru and Touya have their first teenage fumblings while Sai is still around. Sai tries to look the other way and let them have some privacy, but Hikaru is still all freaked out by having a ghost there, so he screws it up and possibly causes years of misunderstanding.

As an adult, Hikaru commissions a painting of Sai at a goban from his descriptions. Touya is all like, "bluh?"

Hikaru gets completely smashed-off-his-ass drunk and spills the whole Sai story to, like, Ogata or Kaneko or Tsubaki or his mom or somebody.

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I love the prompts you came up with and some of them are definitely workable.

"Sai discovers the rest of the internet beyond the Go forums" <= this made me break out into "The Internet is for Porn"!

[troisroyaumes]

This. So much. I've already written my Sai fic ideas for fifthmus. TT

Re: Some prompts

[(Anonymous)]

You've just described two I have in the works!