Gintama Fic: Pandemonium 1/?
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So! I have - not quite finished it, but am on the epilogue, which is close enough to begin posting. Consider this a sort-of WiP; the first draft is pretty much done, but I take long enough to edit that I'll be posting in parts. It's somewhat over 60K words in total - the longest fic I've completed in a couple of years! \o/
This is completely indulgent; I wrote it so that later I would have the Gintama fic I wanted to read. Big thanks to
naye,
gnine, and
snarkydame, for encouraging me to go through with it anyway.
Warning: I love the cracktastic humor of the series; I love the moments of epic drama as well. So this starts out silly, but that is not the tone maintained throughout the story entire. Also watch out for random Japanese jokes and references - I'll annotate the major ones; I can try to explain the others (though some might only make sense in my head anyway.)
As always, any and all comments appreciated more than I can say.
Gintama: Pandemonium, 1/? {4,448 words}
gen; PG-13; Yorozuya (the Shinsengumi, Zura, and most of the rest of the cast show up eventually)
Today's lessons for the Yorozuya trio: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, and be careful when life seems too good to be true, because it might be a sign that everything is soon going to go very, very badly.
Read on AO3
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Warning: I love the cracktastic humor of the series; I love the moments of epic drama as well. So this starts out silly, but that is not the tone maintained throughout the story entire. Also watch out for random Japanese jokes and references - I'll annotate the major ones; I can try to explain the others (though some might only make sense in my head anyway.)
As always, any and all comments appreciated more than I can say.
Gintama: Pandemonium, 1/? {4,448 words}
gen; PG-13; Yorozuya (the Shinsengumi, Zura, and most of the rest of the cast show up eventually)
Today's lessons for the Yorozuya trio: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, don't count your chickens before they're hatched, and be careful when life seems too good to be true, because it might be a sign that everything is soon going to go very, very badly.
Read on AO3
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Date: 2010-11-15 07:17 am (UTC)Thank you thank you thank you for writing delicious gen!!! I am reallylooking forward to seeing what you'll do with the rest of the cast, having done the Yorozuya trio so very well.
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Date: 2010-11-15 10:16 am (UTC)Hope you continue to like it, as it goes along and other chars show up! (The Yorozuya are the main focus for the first half; the Shinsengumi get a few early scenes, but their major role is in the second half. By which to say they charged in and kind of took over a lot ^^;;;)
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Date: 2010-11-16 08:03 pm (UTC)*g* The perfect reason for writing Gintama. Thanks for sharing!
Knowing your writing from Saiyuki, I'm looking forward to reading this when you've got it fully posted. Would you mind if I friend you?
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Date: 2010-11-16 10:35 pm (UTC)Heh, yeah, I tend to avoid reading WiP myself - I should have it all posted within a month or two, hope you enjoy it when it's done! And please do friend me, the more the merrier! (...with thw warning that lately it's been all Gintama all the time 'round these parts ^^;)
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Date: 2010-11-22 12:21 pm (UTC)I was hesitating on whether I should read this now or wait until you had posted all of it, but here I am. XD (also,
I've never even read Gintama fic before, but this is such a perfect reflection of the series that it made me both laugh out loud and squee. The rosebush, the apparent randomness of the gift, Gintoki's JUMP, the things they want to do with the money...! XDD
And then Gintoki doesn't want to stay out all night searching for a time machine (that line is both LOL and AWW at the same time!), and it turns out they're okay, and of course Shinpachi gets turned into a toy when he's paralyzed, and then they stay up and worry about him... ^____^
You have a few more chapters posted. I'm off to read them now!
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Date: 2010-11-22 09:28 pm (UTC)both LOL and AWW at the same time!
This is like 80% of my favorite stuff in Gintama (...okay, maybe 70%, but a lot) - so very glad it worked so in the fic. ^^
(and yeah, the Who x-over is such crack that I feel obliged to do it XD)
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Date: 2011-03-01 12:32 am (UTC)Looking forward to reading the rest~
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