Ramblings
Hello to my
readers. I'm back.
If you haven't read of it elsewhere I can tell you how this blog came to be taken down for a time. I was enjoying a good readership
and getting lots of hits on the blog, but was not fully happy with the way the
chapter posts were organized.
I figured that I would do better if I could get a website
instead of just a blog. That way I could have a main page where the titles of
the stories were listed and by clicking on any title you could go to a page
that listed the chapters.
I had decided to use Google Sites for the free website
hosting. I think the problem is that I didn't fully read the Terms of Service.
They don't allow pictures of nudity and sex acts on their free websites. When
they found that I had such pictures attached to my chapters of Futanari Ranma,
they shut down my account.
At the time I did not realize that Blogspot was a Google
service. When they shut down the account for my site, they also shut down my
blog. I would have to guess that they later reinstated my blog, but not the
site. I don't know when that reinstatement took place because Google never sent
me an email to notify me. I didn't learn that the blog was back up until I read
about it in a discussion forum on another site.
I would still like to get a website, but the free web hosting
services I've seen all seem to have some kind of prohibition on adult content.
Since I do write some lemon fics and would occasionally like to illustrate them
with pictures I download, I have to be careful.
If any of my readers knows of a free web hosting service
that would allow adult content (with an appropriate content warning), then I'd
appreciate it if one of you would let me know how to contact them.
On another topic. One of the most universal things I have
seen in fan fictions is author notes where the writer of the fic apologizes for
how long it has been since the last time they updated. Personally, I never get
more than mildly annoyed when it has been a long time since an update. I will
confess to feeling sad and a little disappointed when it has been more than a
year or two since the last update on a story that I really enjoyed.
One of the reasons I don't get annoyed over this is because
the authors of fan fiction don't get paid for their work. If those authors need
to spend time devoted to activities that pay the bills instead of updating
their fics then I can sympathize.
I have been posting three stories on FanFiction.net. Those
are "Happi's Redemption," "Ranma - Senshi of the Moon," and
"No Need for a Tomboy." Of those, the one that I've got the most
chapters posted for is Happi's Redemption.
It has now been a couple of months since I last posted a
chapter on any of those stories. It hasn't been because I don't have anything
ready to post or at least stuff that could be gotten ready.
I am sure other writers will understand my reason. Have you
ever gotten an idea for a story that you just can't get out of your head until
you write it down? That was what happened in my case. I had an idea for a new
story for Ranma. This one is a lemon story where Ranma avoids getting a curse
at Jusenkyo and Genma was the one who fell into the Spring of Drowned girl.
Being the idiot he is, Genma asks the Guide where the Spring
of Drowned Man is and then jumped in before the Guide could warn him. The
result - Genma gained a cursed form of a futanari.
For anyone who has read my "Futanari Ranma" story
you would have heard of the village of Futar. For those who haven't read that
story, it is another village in Bayankala Mountain Range in the same general
area as Jusenkyo, the Amazons, Musk and Phoenix tribes. They have one spring in
the village and that turns the people and animals that fall into it into human
futanari.
The Guide suggested Genma and Ranma go to the Futar village
to help Genma learn to cope with her new form. Then in another act of
stupidity, Genma knocked Ranma into the spring and doused herself with locking
water to be stuck permanently in futanari form. Lots of other stuff happens,
but they eventually get back to Nerima and lots of sex is happening.
After I got a 200 page rough draft for that story done, I
got another idea that I had to develop. In that one Ranma fell into the Girl
spring, but also landed in the Spring of Drowned Tiger. Now with a cursed form
as a tiger cat girl, Ranma can't stand to even look at her reflection because
of her fear of cats.
They go to the Amazon village where Ranma gets help from Kho
Lon and Pao Dah, the Lore Mistress of the tribe. Ranma agrees to stay with the
Amazons for a year for training and Genma goes on to Nerima. I have touched on
a few canon events and how they will happen differently when Ranma isn't in
Nerima to deal with them.
After getting some of that idea written up, I got a third
new idea. This one starts with a bit of a fanon cliche. Fed up with the whole
mess in Nerima, Ranma executes a plan to escape. To further the plan, Ranma has
renounced the Saotome name and the Anything Goes school. She has changed her
given name and decided that she likes being a girl more than a boy.
In this story Ranma has been adopted by an American man and
his Japanese wife. She will be going to school with the Senshi at Juuban high
school. After she is in her new Juuban home, the curse dissipates because Ranma
has learned the lesson the curse was meant to teach.
She discovers that Dr. Tofu left Nerima, not because of
Kasumi related craziness, but because the girl he loved didn't love him and he
didn't think he'd ever had a chance with her. As it turns out it was Ranma he
was in love with (or at least her girl side.) Now that Ranma has become a
full-time girl, she starts going out on dates with Tofu. I eventually intend
for them to get married and have kids. I was also planning to have Tofu eat an
age changing mushroom so he can be the same age as Ranma.
I think I'm at a point in those newest stories that I can
leave them for a while and get back to my previously neglected work and update
one or more of my stories on FF.net. After I've done that, I'm going to work on
polishing up the first chapters of each of the new stories and post them on the
blog and see what comments I get.
I am not a huge fan of anime but have been introduced to it through my Grandkids. Although I did watch A.D. Police many many years ago and loved the music. Since my recent indoctrination via said GKs I have seen the entire Girls Bravo and one other that I cannot recall the name of.
ReplyDeleteI have not watched Ranma 1/2 as your stories were my introduction and have enjoyed them very much. I love to get lost in stories and project my own movies on my own internal screen.
The thing is I have read a lot of Ranma on mediaminer.org, and have found that while the stories are quite entertaining quite a few have mistakes that are easily avoidable such as using "here instead of hear". You don't make many mistakes like that and are therefore more readable which begs the question of Beta Readers. Why don't these people help the writers correct these errors? I would think that a Beta Reader would act more like an editor to point out errs.
I will look you up on FF to see if you have furthered any of the stories from the blog that are incomplete.
Thank You for your stories keep it up.