Back at the beginning of April, I requested an AO3 invite code, and it came through today! Yay! So you can now find me on Archive of Our Own.

I think I’m getting the hang of the site for the most part, although I am still having trouble with the tags. I had an easy enough time tagging my other fics, but when it came to Guardians, I hit a roadblock. See, the way the suggested tags are set up, it should be, for example, “Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury/Nephrite.” I didn’t really like that for Guardians because she’s not really Ami Mizuno. I do call her “Ami” because we were never given names for the Silver Millennium Guardians, and I thought using their Japanese names would make them more identifiable than if I made names up. But even though it was done out of necessity, I’m still not really happy with it because it would make more sense for them to have different names, like Serenity and Endymion.

So when it came to tagging, I kind of just wanted to say, “Sailor Mercury/Nephrite” because that leaves it ambiguous. But when I tagged that, it said it wasn’t an active tag. So I changed the tag to be “Mizuno Ami | Sailor Mercury/Nephrite,” but then I saw when I clicked on it that there are some fics, that pop up under that, that are tagged “Nephrite/Ami.” I guess AO3 staff goes through and groups up all the tags? But I kind of want to avoid that and just go with the pre-established tags, because

1. Going through and manually pruning the tags seems like a pain-in-the-ass job and I want to spare the AO3 staff trouble where I can
2. I want people to be able to find my fanfic and I don’t know how long it takes for the tags to be grouped up
3. Plus, since it’s done manually, I don’t want my tags to fall through the cracks and never get joined up with the other Neph/Ami fics or something
4. And I guess it’s just as well that it get tagged under that, even if it’s a Silver Millennium fic, for the same reason that I used their modern Japanese names in the fic in the first placr—people know what I’m talking about that way.

I’m just an obsessive, compulsive, nitpicky perfectionist. Can’t help it. 

Welcome to “Sailor Wings,” my fanfiction blog. Here you can find notes, explanations, and rambles pertaining to my fanfictions published under the penname SailorDonut. If you’d like to know a little more about this blog, please click here. Enjoy your stay!

Welcome to “Sailor Wings,” my new fanfiction blog. It seems like I’m often updating my FF.net profile with lengthy explanations about the status of my fanfics, and I always have ridiculously long author’s notes that I want to post with my stories/chapters, but I think it looks messy to have them sitting there at the top or bottom of a chapter. So I thought, why not make a blog for it? I thought about making a Livejournal for it, but I already have a personal journal and logging in and out drives me crazy. Then I realized, “I know how to use WordPress… why not use WordPress?” XD So here we are.

Stuff you’ll find here:

• Status updates about fanfictions
• Rambly thoughts as I write my fanfics
• Author’s notes for new stories and chapters

Stuff you won’t find here:

• Actual fanfics. They are all up at my Fanfiction.net profile (or, if it’s a PGSM story, at PGSM Fanfiction).

This also seems like a good place to explain the title of this blog, “Sailor Wings.” All the sites I have hosted on this domain are tied to the fact that both my domain and my sister’s are named after angels from Oh My Goddess! So my collective is “Angel Feathers,” our banner exchange is “Angel Wings,” etc. With that in mind, I thought, “Hey, my fanfiction author ID is Sailor Donut, and ‘Sailor Wings’ is a line from ‘Kirari*Sailor Dream’, and I mostly write PGSM fanfics…” 😀 I dunno, it was like 4:00 AM when I thought of that. But hey, it works.

Umm… I may update this post with more info at a later time, but I think that’s sufficient for now.

Oh, but I am planning on adding some back-dated entries– stuff I posted on my LJ about my fanfics that I thought readers of this blog might enjoy. So even though this is the first actual post, there will soon be some entries dated before this one. 🙂

Sooo…. welcome!

Okay, so I know I keep promising more GotE&M, but it’s coming FOR REAL. I am about halfway done with chapter six right now. It’s been taking longer than expected because I came up with some awesome (well, I think) ideas to add some new plotlines to the story, which required a bit of tweaking to be done to my draft of chapter six. I hope the wait will be worth it for all the Silver Millennium fans that like my story.

That said, I have an itty bitty new Zoi/Mina one-shot today. I wasn’t planning on adding it until GotE&M was done, but my sister made a fanvid that sort of ties into it, so we decided that we would upload both together (if you want to see the video, you can do so here). So I hope you will enjoy it. This one takes place in the universe of “After the End.” I really enjoy writing within that universe, so expect more stories set in it as time goes on. I’ll try to make my next update be chapter six of GotE&M, and it will be within the next week or so. 🙂

Finally, I’m sure most of you saw this coming, but I have decided not to continue “With a Blink and a Nod.” Unfortunately, I just don’t really enjoy I Dream of Jeannie the way I used to, so I know I’m never going to work on it again. I think it’s unfair to leave dead fics up taunting fans, so the story has been removed from the site. I hope that any fans who might have been hoping for an update on that one will forgive me.

I know I said I don’t like to leave dead fics online, but “Tales From Atlantis” is more a collection of short stories than a fic that has continuity, so it can stand as-is. I had planned to continue the story up until Milo and Kida met, which would have given it maybe two or three more chapters. I hope you won’t hate me for not making it that far. XD Maybe someday, I will write more, but for the time being I feel comfortable leaving it where it is now.

I have some new, non-GotE&M fanfics coming out this week… sorry, Silver Millennium fans! GotE&M is NOT on hiatus right now, I am working on the next chapter, but I had a few short stories that came into my mind that I wanted to tell. The first is “Hit and Miss,” a Len + Maya (Kamen Rider Dragon Knight) fanfic that I wrote for my sister. It was intended to be a multi-chapter piece, but I got annoyed with the direction the show was going. I may expand that story in the future, but for the time being, this story functions as a stand-alone short story.

The other new story is “After the End,” a post-Act 49 Nephrite + Ami one-shot. While I love writing Silver Millennium Neph/Ami, I was really in the mood to write a modern day fic. Hopefully fans of my first two Neph/Ami one-shots, “Getting to Know You” and “Double Date,” will enjoy this story.