To wish for my own happiness... ||Version 2: Final Mix||

flarium — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:45:49 GMT

Hello! Um.

I'm moving all future graphics over to lakalaka_loev, which I share with a friend. If you're interested in seeing any more of my stuff, please go over there and join! We'll be happy to have you. :]

Thank you for friending this journal in the first place! <3~~

I have a new iconpost up at lakalaka_loev already, please click here to see~

flarium will now become a fic-only journal.

flarium — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:13:05 GMT

Artist: wind_borne/flarium
Series: Kingdom Hearts/CoM/II
Claim: Human Characters
Credits: In creative journal.
Completed: 39 icons.
Updated: 13 new icons, but I replaced three old ones, so... ten? 8 ACs, 5 themed.
Notes: Crossposted to kingdom_hearts, iconfiend100, kh_icons and kingdomhearts. teh_acedia fixed my HTML for me, so rabu~ #60 made following a tutorial written by ignored_tears.

Preview:

Rules: Please comment, credit is nice but not needed, hotlinking is frowned upon, etc etc etc. Textless /may/ be used as bases, if requested. Blah blah blah.

01 Candlelit	02 Dress Up	03 Journey	04 Two's Company	05 Take my Chances

06 Secret Admirer	07 Jealousy	08 Fairytale	09 The Little Things	10 Awkward

11 Safe	12 Goofing Off	13 Wings	14 Trust	15 Destiny

16 Home	17 Heartache	18 Obstacle	19 Seasons	20 Artwork

21 Love Letter	22 Bloom	23 Opposites	24 Catch Me	25 Lazy

26 Unexpected	27 Quarrel	28 Gift	29 Flirt	30 Old-Fashioned

31 Freefall	32 Caress	33 Games	34 Entwined	35 Spellbinding

36 Tangled	37 Here and Now	38 Colors	39 Don't Cry	40 Selfless

41 Change of Heart	42 Sanctity	43 Carry	44 Hereafter	45 Whisper

46 Patience	47 I'll Be There	48 Tomorrow's Another Day	49 The One	50 Yin Yang

51 D<	52 Larxene	53 Namine	54 Determination	55 Running After You

56 Artist	57 Iconpair #1(Spirit)	58 Iconpair #2(Soul)	59 Forgotten Memories	60 Faded Beauty

61 Ghostly Eyes	62 Danger	63 Intensity	64 AC	65 AC

66 AC	67 AC	68 AC	69 AC	70 AC

71 AC	72 AC	73 AC	74 AC	75 AC

76 AC	77 AC	78 AC	79 AC	80 AC

81 AC	82 AC	83 AC	84 AC	85 AC

86 AC	87 AC	88 AC	89 AC	90 AC

91 AC	92 AC	93 AC	94 AC	95 AC

96 AC	97 AC	98 AC	99 AC	100 AC

*57 and 58 are an iconpair. :D

flarium — Sun, 20 May 2007 02:49:41 GMT

New credits post, because my old one is outdated like whoaaaaaaah.

Other than that, hello to the people who just friended me. :D!

Textures and brushes:
dearest (textures for large-scale projects)
fuyuno (for polaroid brushes)
_hakanaidreams (for icon textures)
ohfreckle (for tiny text brushes)
wicked_enough (for border brushes)
cdg (for icon textures)
awmpdotnet (for my most frequently used set of light textures =_=;;)
silverqe (for light textures)
colorfilter (for bases)

Images:
Kingdom Hearts - kh2.co.uk
Tsubasa - tsubasaholic.com
Ouran - krysyuy.ouran.net
Naruto - screenshots from cdg
Final Fantasy Advent Children - screenshots by myself
YUI - YUIlover forums or YUI official site.
Misc - probably Google image searches.

flarium — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:45:08 GMT

Artist: wind_borne/flarium
Subject: Kingdom Hearts (I and II)
Character: [general]
Number of icons: 10/10
Credits: Nil. I'm on a no-texture kick again.
Lyrics: Final Distance by Utada Hikaru
Translation: wiki.theppn article~

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Like what you see? Friend this journal. :D

flarium — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:54:03 GMT

Today, we'll be going from to , featuring Riku from Kingdom Hearts II.
You'll need at least a very basic knowledge of how your graphic program works. Not translatable to PSP because of a small step involving selective coloring, but the icon can still be made without it. This tutorial features images under the cut. This was pretty fun to do. ^_^;;

1: Get your base picture and crop it to 100px by 100 px.

2. I thought mine didn't have intense enough color, so I'm going to pull an Auto Levels on it. Image >> Adjustments >> Auto Level. If you think Auto Level doesn't give good enough results, then do a levels layer by all means. Icons depend on the base image. This is what my base looks like now.

3. Color's still not vibrant enough. Duplicate your base (Ctrl + J) and set it to soft light. Ah, now we've lost some detail in the background, and I want that background, so drag it down to 25% opacity. And this is what will happen. Brighter and cleaner color now, eh?

4. It looks a tad blurry to me. So what we'll do is, stamp on a new layer of the complete thing. Er... okay, Photoshop users, create a new layer and hit Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E. It stamps on what the complete image looks like. Sharpen it to your liking and set on normal at a lowered opacity. I set it at 35%. This is what it looks like.

5. Right, so now I'm satisfied with the brightness and sharpness of the base, so we're going to move on to coloring. That's my favorite part of the icon. :3 We're going to do a standard dark blue exclusion layer (#000010) at 100% opacity. For the coloring steps, I'm not going to bother taking screenshots, because I'm kinda lazy. Yeah. If you're not certain how to create a fill layer, go to Layer >> New Fill Layer >> Solid Color.
6. And a pale tan layer (#fffaf8) on multiply to add more beige-ness to the picture.
7. A light blue layer (#efffff) on color burn. It brings out the color of Riku's shirt and hair.
8. And then another light blue layer (#e7fdf9) on darken to bring out the background more. Almost there... just a bit more.
9. A selective coloring layer. I can sense some of you backing away. Chill, I don't overuse selective coloring like most people do. Settings: Neutral- Cyan + 14%, Magenta + 10%, Yellow - 6%, Black - 9%. That's all. Don't follow these settings exactly, your picture will be different from mine and will need different settings to look best. And this is what your base should look like now! Yes, I know it's not that much of a difference. I'm picky when it comes to coloring, okay? XD

10. Either merge your layers together (Ctrl + E) or create a new layer and stamp on the complete image like in step 4. We'll use this to pick colors from with the eyedropper tool. If you're wary of merging your layers until your icon is done, then don't. Eyedropper tool! Pick a dark color from your base. I picked a dark gray/blue from Riku's hair. We'll be using this color to do text. Yay! Text! Are you excited?
11. Locate a good place to put your text! There's a lot of clear space under Riku's chin, so that's where mine will go.
12. I typed 'RUNNING' in Times New Roman at font size 10 and put 'AFTER YOU' in the same font at size 8 in that grayblue I picked from his hair.
13. Then create a new layer, drag it under your text layer and draw a little white blob under the text. Photoshop has default brushes which are perfect for doing that. I used the soft brush at 35px and set it at 100% opacity, normal.

13.1 (optional) Tiny text, if you like. I put just a couple of lines of it underneath the main text.
14. Texture time! I usually go easy on them. I pick one from awmpdotnet. But the dots of light are way too different to merge into the icon well, so I use that color we got for the text, create a new layer and set it on color. There, much better. Merge and drag the texture over to the base and set on soft light. Yay, that looks pretty nice.

15. Now, merge everything together - we're coming to the last part! Adding a border. So, merge and then right click on the background layer and select layer from background. Right click again and select blending options. Click on stroke, set the color to white and the settings to 3px, inside.
16. Make a new layer. Use this brush by wicked_enough in the color of your text.

17. That's all! Save as your preferred file type (remember LJ only allows jpg, png and gif), I prefer .png.

See! The difference between .jpg and .png is pretty large.

Like what you see? Friend this journal. :D

flarium — Sat, 05 May 2007 11:38:59 GMT

jpv10 claim for YUI's CHE.R.RY. I won't be doing this kind of thing again for such a... monotonous PV. -wince- There were only like, four types of scenes where the color could be corrected sufficiently to make into icons. -diediedie- So it took me quite a while to finish this claim. And, hey, look! No gigantic scary space as well this time. =A=;; I should make my brain stop trying to persuade me to claim TegoMass' latest PV. ASDKSLJFSDLFK. And yeah, the icons this time suck. Sorry.
rabu_myv is awesome.

Journal name: wind_borne at flarium
Musican : YUI
Jpop or Jrock : Jpop
PV: CHE.R.RY

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Icondump 2;

flarium — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:16:22 GMT

Naruto x 09
-2 Deidara
-1 Sasori
-1 Itachi
-1 Akatsuki
-4 Sakura

Pretear x 06
-2 Himeno
-1 Hayate
-1 Sasame
-2 HayatexHimeno

Ouran High School Host Club x 08
-2 Hikaru
-2 Haruhi
-2 Eclaire
-1 Hunny
-1 Hitachiin twins

Kingdom Hearts x 05
-1 Sora
-1 Roxas
-3 Riku

Miscellaneous x 11
-hyde from L'Arc~en~Ciel
-Sakura from Cardcaptor
-Kikyou from Inuyasha
-Howl from Howl's Moving Castle
-Tifa from FFAC
-Reno from FFAC
-Cloud from FFAC
-Chii from Chobits
-Yachiru from Bleach
-Orihime from Bleach
-Ishida from Bleach

teaser	teaser	teaser

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06	07	08	09

01	02	03	04	05	06

01	02	03	04

05	06	07	08

01	02	03	04	05

01	02	03	04	05	06

07	08	09	10	11

#01 of the Naruto section won Mod's Choice at akatsuki_awards for Challenge #032.
#02 of the Naruto section won 2nd place at akatsuki_awards for Challenge #30.
#08 of the Naruto section won 3rd place at akatsuki_awards for Challenge #31.
#09 of the Naruto section won 1st place at akatsuki_awards for Challenge #35.

#02 of the Pretear section won 1st place at pretear_awards in Week 44.
#03 of the Pretear section won 2nd place at pretear_awards in Week 44.
#05 of the Pretear section won 1st place at pretear_awards in Week 42.
#06 of the Pretear section won Best Color at pretear_awards in Week 42.

[Singles][Videogame/Manga][Kingdom Hearts] Because You Were Here/Kimi ga Ita Kara - A SoraxKairi FST

flarium — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:09:21 GMT

Sheesh, the title is too long for the subject bar. D:

SoraxKairi - a pairing which deserves a lot more love and a hell of a lot more good fanfiction.

Track 1: Rescue Me ~Kimi ga Ita Kara~ - mink

And everytime I need a place to fall
I flew with the wings you gave me
So I wouldn't give up.
And even if I stumbled,
You were the person who lead me through everytime,
No one but you, you came and rescued me.

Kairi to Sora. Sora to Kairi. It works both ways. Kairi and Riku were the ones who gave Sora the motivation to fight for the world, and Kairi, especially, was part of the driving force behind Sora. To restore her soul, even when he didn't know it was within him - that was part of why he fought. And there's Riku too, of course, but they're not the pairing is about, so I'll refrain from that even though I ship them together too.

Track 2: Ready to Love - YUI

I wanted to see you,
So I started looking for you.
I'll take it one step at a time,
So I won't screw this up.

The perfect Sora to Kairi song. The fact that I really love this song helps a lot too. They're teens now, not children anymore- they're growing into their feelings and they're starting to realize that maybe they feel more for each other than just friendship.

Track 3: Hitori janai Kara - UVERworld

That's the city we grew up in...
A place to come back to.
...
The things I believe still till now,
Oh, even though they're full of mistakes,
They have individuality.
The truth I wasn't longing for
Changing the strength
So I can stay as me.

Sora's song. Because he really isn't alone. He never is. This song, is, I suppose, a song about trust and a song about growing stronger. Sora's changed a lot since KH, and at the end of KHII, his character has grown so much stronger and so much more independent that it's almost unbelievable. The motivation to find his friends, to get them back, is what made him change, but his faith in the path he's walking does not waver. I like that about him.

Track 4: We Are. - Do As Infinity

When I was young, I believed everything
About what was to come after that dream I saw so long ago.
I want to see you again.

This, now, is Kairi's song. I had a hard time finding a song for Kairi, really. (Actually, it was more like I had trouble finding translations.) Possibly because Kairi spent most of KH unconscious. But I think, Kairi, at heart, is like every normal teenage girl - she worries about her hair, wonders whether the boy she likes thinks she's pretty, frets about whether her feelings are returned - but everything in her life is put on hold while they get torn apart, and she falls into a coma of sorts. When she wakes, she's older - but her feelings are still the same; they have not changed, and she's still just a girl in love. She's a princess, and he's a hero - and here you have your perfect fairytale.

Download the zip file here. If you want any of the files individually, please tell me, and state which file-sharing service you'll prefer, or else by default everything will be uploaded to MediaFire.

Crossposted to kingdomhearts, kingdom_hearts, fst, and flarium.

flarium — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:23:14 GMT

Artist: wind_borne/flarium
Subject: Kingdom Hearts (I and II)
Character: Riku
Number of icons: 10/10
Credits: dearest, awmpdotnet, kh2.co.uk and teh_acedia for cropping a base for me. :D
Lyrics: Gravity by Vienna Teng
Translation: Not applicable~ :D

Spoilers:

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flarium — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:18 GMT

Sentient_icon claim

Subject: YUI
Completed icons: 10/25
Fandom: -none- [Singers/Musicians]
Note: You have to scroll down quite a bit. I don't know why, but there's a gigantic space again. D:

Anger	Angst	Anxiety	Craziness	Desire

Determination	Energetic	Euphoria	Excitement	Fear

Frustration	Happiness	Indifference	Jealousy	Mischief

Nonsensical	Optimism	Pessimism	Sadness	Satisfaction

Seriousness	Surprise	Tension	Thoughtful	Tranquility

flarium — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:02:06 GMT

Artist: wind_borne/flarium
Series: Kingdom Hearts/CoM/II
Claim: Human Characters
Credits: In creative journal.
Completed: 29 icons.
Updated: 11 new icons (4 ACs, 7 themed.)
Notes: Crossposted to kingdom_hearts, iconfiend100, kh_icons and kingdomhearts. teh_acedia fixed my HTML for me, so rabu~ Previous post was edited to match this one.

Preview:

Rules: Please comment, credit is nice but not needed, hotlinking is frowned upon, etc etc etc. Textless /may/ be used as bases, if requested. Blah blah blah. Filenames are saved as (number of icon)-(name of character)-<(my_username).png/gif.

01 Candlelit	02 Dress Up	03 Journey	04 Two's Company	05 Take my Chances

06 Secret Admirer	07 Jealousy	08 Fairytale	09 The Little Things	10 Awkward

11 Safe	12 Goofing Off	13 Wings	14 Trust	15 Destiny

16 Home	17 Heartache	18 Obstacle	19 Seasons	20 Artwork

21 Love Letter	22 Bloom	23 Opposites	24 Catch Me	25 Lazy

26 Unexpected	27 Quarrel	28 Gift	29 Flirt	30 Old-Fashioned

31 Freefall	32 Caress	33 Games	34 Entwined	35 Spellbinding

36 Tangled	37 Here and Now	38 Colors	39 Don't Cry	40 Selfless

41 Change of Heart	42 Sanctity	43 Carry	44 Hereafter	45 Whisper

46 Patience	47 I'll Be There	48 Tomorrow's Another Day	49 The One	50 Yin Yang

51 D<	52 Larxene	53 Namine	54 Innocence	55 No Angel

56 Color	57 Iconpair #1(Spirit)	58 Iconpair #2(Soul)	59 AC	60 AC

61 AC	62 AC	63 AC	64 AC	65 AC

66 AC	67 AC	68 AC	69 AC	70 AC

71 AC	72 AC	73 AC	74 AC	75 AC

76 AC	77 AC	78 AC	79 AC	80 AC

81 AC	82 AC	83 AC	84 AC	85 AC

86 AC	87 AC	88 AC	89 AC	90 AC

91 AC	92 AC	93 AC	94 AC	95 AC

96 AC	97 AC	98 AC	99 AC	100 AC

*57 and 58 are an iconpair. :D

KH/CoM/II iconfiend100 update~

flarium — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:36:19 GMT

Artist: wind_borne/flarium
Series: Kingdom Hearts/CoM/II
Claim: Human Characters
Credits: In creative journal.
Completed: 29 icons.
Updated: 11 new icons (4 ACs, 7 themed.)
Notes: Crossposted to kingdom_hearts, iconfiend100, kh_icons.

Preview:

Rules: Please comment, credit is nice but not needed, hotlinking is frowned upon, etc etc etc. Textless /may/ be used as bases, if requested. Blah blah blah. Filenames are saved as (number of icon)-(name of character)-<(my_username).png/gif.

01 Candlelit	02 Dress Up	03 Journey	04 Two's Company	05 Take my Chances

06 Secret Admirer	07 Jealousy	08 Fairytale	09 The Little Things	10 Awkward

11 Safe	12 Goofing Off	13 Wings	14 Trust	15 Destiny

16 Home	17 Heartache	18 Obstacle	19 Seasons	20 Artwork

21 Love Letter	22 Bloom	23 Opposites	24 Catch Me	25 Lazy

26 Unexpected	27 Quarrel	28 Gift	29 Flirt	30 Old-Fashioned

31 Freefall	32 Caress	33 Games	34 Entwined	35 Spellbinding

36 Tangled	37 Here and Now	38 Colors	39 Don't Cry	40 Selfless

41 Change of Heart	42 Sanctity	43 Carry	44 Hereafter	45 Whisper

46 Patience	47 I'll Be There	48 Tomorrow's Another Day	49 The One	50 Yin Yang

51 D<	52 Larxene	53 Namine	54 Innocence	55 No Angel

56 Color	57 Iconpair #1(Spirit)	58 Iconpair #2(Soul)	59 AC	60 AC

61 AC	62 AC	63 AC	64 AC	65 AC

66 AC	67 AC	68 AC	69 AC	70 AC

71 AC	72 AC	73 AC	74 AC	75 AC

76 AC	77 AC	78 AC	79 AC	80 AC

81 AC	82 AC	83 AC	84 AC	85 AC

86 AC	87 AC	88 AC	89 AC	90 AC

91 AC	92 AC	93 AC	94 AC	95 AC

96 AC	97 AC	98 AC	99 AC	100 AC

*57 and 58 are an iconpair. :D

flarium — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:16:04 GMT

Akatsuki icons - 24.
-8 Itachi
-2 Itachi & Sasuke
-2 Sasori
-1 SasoDei
-1 Tobi
-7 Deidara
-1 Kisame
-1 Akatsuki cloud
-1 ItaKisa

Done for the akatsuki_awards advent calendar challenge.

Comments are lovely. Credit is nice but not necessary. If you want to credit, please do so to either wind_borne or flarium.

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Fanart in 6 by Arriku @ DevArt.
Fanart in 8 by Red_Priest_Usada @ DevArt.
Fanart in 9 found in a site that went down.
Non-anime/official art pictures colored by me.

flarium — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:10:22 GMT

Icon dump. Forty plus icons.

Bleach [8]
Ouran High School Host Club [10]
Inuyasha [3]
Cardcaptor Sakura / Tsubasa [5]
BoA [4]
Naruto [8]
Deathnote [3]
Miscellaneous [7]
-Pretear [1]
-Final Fantasy Advent Children [1]
- YUI [1]
-Howl's Moving Castle [2]
-Spirited Away [1]
-Skip Beat! [1]

Teaser:

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48 icons in total.
Please comment, credit is nice, hotlinking kills little babies. [Credit to wind_borne or flarium ]

Crossposted.

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flarium — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:52:04 GMT

Screencaps of TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT, the fourth opening song of Bleach anime. Samples and download link under the cut.

Screencap info

Size: 640x480
Quality: Medium/high?
Number of screencaps: 185 (several are about the same, with slight lighting differences)
Video from: www.bleach7.com
Subtitles?: No.
Credits on the screencaps: Yes, but not the scrolling kind. Quite inobtrusive.

Credit to wind_borne or flarium. It's not required, but it's nice.
Requests taken.
Screencaps of Ichirin no Hana, Baby It's You and Rolling Star coming up soon.

Go here to download. (If you cannot find the link to click in order to start your download, I've taken a screenshot to show you here.)
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flarium — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:06:55 GMT

Daily_icon claim post... just testing the coding here.

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flarium — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:46 GMT

Title: Somewhere (Out There)
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: SasorixDeidara
Warnings: ...nothing, really. This is so /short/ but, what the heck, why not? Vagueness. [[Ignore the weird pun for the title, pl0x.]]
Rating: G (OMG G?! Something's wrong with me. >D)
Word count: 444 (...there is /definitely/ a problem with me today. @_@)

X-posted to akatsuki_love...

Somewhere, there is a man, and his name is Deidara.

Somewhere, there is a shattered puppet lying in the dirt, and his name used to be Sasori.

Eyes shut tight, soul in flight-

And they used to be together, but not anymore.

---

Deidara still remembers; that figure still haunts his dreams at night.

The whisper of black silk over smoothened wood, the creak of inhuman limbs, the sounds Sasori made when he moved, when he was somewhat alive. It is all crystal clear to him, and he can almost sense his lover just a few feet away, but when his eyes open, the taste of life is bittersweet in his mouth.

His right eye stings, and he rubs at it irritably.

The dampness on his hand shines and sparkles in the moonlight filtering in through the window.

Now he's gone, and you knew it would end someday-
But you can't accept it anyway.

---

They used to be together - but they knew that it wouldn't be forever.

They were shinobi, they were missing-nins, and first and foremost, they were Akatsuki. You didn't fear losing your life when you were in Akatsuki. You didn't fear your lover leaving you. You didn't fear anything, much less something as paltry as death.

They used to see death as a new adventure, as a new world to be explored, an experience to be enjoyed.

But Deidara somehow forgot the fact that they wouldn't necessarily be together on their last, most important journey, and Sasori didn't think it was significant enough to remind him about - after all, he was going to live forever, wasn't he?

You can hear my desperate call
But all I see is your fall.

---

He wants to move on so badly.

He tries, and tries, and tries some more, until he feels the pain pounding in his temples and knows it's no good - but no matter how, he just can't do it. His mind keeps lapsing back into imagining soft, silky strands of crimson trailing through his fingers, sly red eyes, a soft smile - and then the world just shakes around him and threatens to fall to pieces.

Sometimes, he wants the world to crumble - perhaps then he'll fall into someone's arms, someone who's willing to catch and hold him. He wants to see what will happen, what comes after death, what constitutes the last adventure. But nothing ever happens. Life continues, missions keep coming, and he stumbles through life blindly.

He needs the touch of a human-
Someone who can teach him to kick cans.

---

So he'll wait, and he'll pray
For their reunion, for that elusive day.

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A/N: If you pick up the Ouran reference (22 and 23... I think?) in that third last line, I congratulate you. XD;;</div>

Naruto: Konoha Shinobi iconfiend100 claim

flarium — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:00:34 GMT

Series: Naruto
Subject: Konoha Shinobi
New Icons: 13
Theme Set: Alpha
New themes completed: 13 ACs
Icons completed: 40/100
Credit Policy: Comments are nice, credit is optional. Hotlinking is a no-no.
Resources: Yumei-K, colorfilter, 77words, animegalleries.net, titan_girl, hybrid-genesis.net, cdg (If I missed something out, please tell me! :D)

ARGH WHY IS THE CODING GIVING ME PROBLEMS STUPID THING. -kicks at-

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01 kiss	02 forgiveness	03 soft	04 are you there?	05 loneliness

06 working	07 dancing	08 abandoned	09 a misunderstanding	10 vacation

11 hug	12 smile	13 tears	14 rain	15 sunshine

16 winter	17 innocence	18 so far away	19 silence	20 stars

21 in the moonlight	22 tickle	23 sweet dreams	24 blue	25 honorable

26 walls	27 happiness	28 sensual	29 food	30 over the rainbow

31 take your time	32 sugar & spice	33 holiday	34 beginner's luck	35 forgotten

36 misery loves company	37 comfort	38 candy	39 present	40 hold my hand

41 spiritual	42 starving	43 joy	44 heaven	45 31 flavors

46 silk	47 keeping a secret	48 open doors	49 lace	50 forever and a day

51 Get This Party Started	52 Just Tell Me	53 Jackass	54 Criminal	55 Confident Beauty

56 Beach Babe	57 Beauty	58 Painful Love	59 Genius	60 Geek Squad

61 Time	62 Chemistry	63 Childhood	64 A Helping Hand	65 Kunoichi

66 Grey Square	67 Lost Dreams	68 Lost	69 Together	70 High and Dry

71 Hero	72 The Way We Were	73 Let Go	74 Killer	75 AC

76 AC	77 AC	78 AC	79 AC	80 AC

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flarium — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:16:23 GMT

For my first post ever~! An unofficial 50sentences set for SasoDei. XD

Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Sasori/Deidara
Rating: PG-15
Warnings: Mention of bondage, slight masochism, sadism, and also fluff. O_O;;
Theme Set: Alpha
Word count: 1,849

Crossposted to sasorixdeidara, and probably akatsuki_love.

01. Comfort

It starts raining in the middle of the night, and when Deidara wakes with a start as thunder roars, he cuddles closer to Sasori, shuddering, and Sasori wraps his arms around his blond lover with no questions asked.

02. Kiss

Deidara accidentally breaks one of Sasori’s puppets, and when he finds out, he pushes Deidara up against a wall, crushes their lips together, and demands his favorite form of reparation.

03. Soft

Deidara is oddly enthralled with Sasori’s hair, and he declares that it’s just not fair that Sasori has the better hair, when he doesn’t even take care of it.

04. Pain

Deidara shudders when Sasori’s hands brush against his wounds as he gently bandages them; it seems so ironic that the hands of the one who causes pain without remorse is the one who touches him so gently.

05. Potatoes

Not long after Deidara becomes Sasori’s partner, the blond brings back a bag of something he calls ‘potato chips’ to the hideout, and when Sasori sees that look of bliss on his lover’s face as he crunches into a handful, he quietly wishes that he still had tastebuds.

06. Rain

On the rare wet days when they don’t have missions, Deidara and Sasori like to cuddle and watch the rain fall ceaselessly, and for that moment, everything is perfect.

07. Chocolate

Sasori doesn’t like to let Deidara eat chocolate, because the sugar overload drives the man crazy, and it’s hard to work on his puppets when Deidara is bouncing off the walls.

08. Happiness

They’ve both found a place in which they are truly happy, and that’s in each other’s arms – if they’re okay with it, who are others to protest?

09. Telephone

Deidara watches in bemusement as Sasori attempts to take apart a telephone, and finally informs his danna that it’s used for communication, and that no, telephones are not spying devices.

10. Ears

Sasori’s ears can hear the whoosh of air as Deidara’s clay bird dances through the sky gracefully, and secretly hopes that the blond will come down and join him soon.

11. Name

Sasori has always secretly thought that his name is a little clichéd, but he can’t help but love it when Deidara comes running towards him with a bright smile and a cry of “Sasori-danna!”

12. Sensual

Deidara swallows uncomfortably and clears his throat – watching Sasori carve one of his puppets and seeing the smooth movement of the sharp knife blade over wood really shouldn’t turn him on this much

13. Death

Deidara can’t help but sniffle in the darkness of the night, alone in the bed – he just wishes with all his heart that Sasori was alive.

14. Sex

When Deidara learns that Sasori is a puppet master, he smirks and licks his lips, and his mind immediately jumps to what can be done with those chakra strings of his.

15. Touch

Deidara bites back a moan when Sasori’s cool wooden hands lightly caress him; he knows that it’s wrong, that they shouldn’t be together, but Sasori’s touch drives away all his doubts and leaves him floundering in a wave of sensation.

16. Weakness

When one of the opposing ninjas rasps out a demand to know why he doesn’t have any weaknesses, Deidara just smiles and explodes him – his weakness can defend himself very well.

17. Tears

Deidara doesn’t shed tears for Sasori anymore – he has nothing left to give.

18. Speed

Sasori watches Deidara soar at incredible speeds in the sky, and absently wonders why Deidara isn’t throwing up that gigantic meal he just consumed.

19. Wind

The breeze ruffles Deidara’s hair lightly as he turns to smile, and Sasori admits it to himself – he’s head over heels in love.

20. Freedom

The first time Deidara hears the jibes about their relationship, he starts to doubt, and offers Sasori a quick way out – Sasori just glares at him, and proceeds to remove Deidara’s uncertainty the only way he knows how.

21. Life

Deidara is secretly glad that his danna is a living puppet, because it makes things a hell of a lot more interesting at night.

22. Jealousy

Deidara likes the fact that Sasori conceals himself within an ugly puppet, because when they walk through a village, it means that no one will ogle his danna, and that’s good because Sasori is his and his alone.

23. Hands

Sasori is a little disappointed when he learns that the mouths on Deidara’s hands aren’t as easy to control or flexible as the one on his face – he’d thought of a few kinky things he wanted to do.

24. Taste

The taste of grapes is like an aphrodisiac to Deidara, and he’s happy that Sasori wrested that fact out of him, because now Sasori makes sure that there is always a bowl of them on the bedside table.

25. Devotion

Everyone knows that they’re mutually exclusive now – the first and last time someone tried to hit on Deidara, Sasori proceeded to break all the bones from his toes to his head, and that was before shredding him to palm-sized bits.

26. Forever

Deidara always thought that his danna would be his forever, and the taste of life is bitter in his mouth when he realizes that his assumption was wrong.

27. Blood

Sasori desn’t bleed, which Deidara thinks is a pity, because the times when he feels the most love for Sasori is when he bandages Deidara’s wounds carefully, and Deidara thinks it’s not quite fair that Sasori can’t experience that same heady rush of love when he does so often.

28. Sickness

In his more angsty moments, Sasori thinks that love is like a sickness, it just keeps growing more and more intense, but when Deidara turns to him with a bright smile, those thoughts are banished instantly.

29. Melody

Sasori discovers, to his dismay, that Deidara is more tone-deaf than a rock, and decides to purchase some earplugs on their next mission.

30. Star

When Deidara dances in the doorway while singing some demented song about a ‘Superstar’ in some weird language, Sasori knows that he has to start restricting what Deidara can and cannot buy from that moment on.

31. Home

Their home is where the other is, and if anyone dares to contest that, they’re ready anytime.

32. Confusion

Sasori thinks that the look of befuddlement on Deidara’s face is simply adorable as he attempts to solve a Rubik Cube, and when he leans over and places a kiss on the tip of the blond’s nose, the frown only deepens in confusion, and a slight smile curves Sasori’s lips.

33. Fear

Sasori gets uncomfortable sometimes when he sees the fear in the eyes of others, but when Deidara sidles closer, exuding a cute sort of protectiveness, all that is washed away.

34. Lightning/Thunder

Those little mewls Deidara makes in the back of his throat when a whip crack of thunder sounds is music to Sasori’s ears, because really – who would have ever thought that an Akatsuki member would be afraid of loud sounds?

35. Bonds

Deidara tests the bonds on his wrists and ankles warily; when Sasori looks up, a diabolical expression enters his eyes, and Deidara starts to worry about whether he should start struggling seriously – but at Sasori’s first touch, he loses all semblance of thought.

36. Market

Deidara markets just like a woman, haggling with the fishwife over a few measly ryo, and Sasori is just glad that no one can see his slight embarrassment that he has just realized Deidara would really make an excellent wife.

37. Technology

There are some advantages to technology, or so Deidara thinks, as he adjusts his mechanical eye to admire the rare sight of Sasori walking without being hidden in Hiruko – but that slight, deliberate sway of Sasori’s hips is rather distracting, and Deidara realizes that the ground might be a better place to be right then.

38. Gift

Sasori holds the clay bird that Deidara has given him at arm’s length, thinking that it will explode, but Deidara smiles and tells him that it won’t explode because he knows that Sasori won’t like it if he does – and that simple act of love warms Sasori more than anything ever has before, because it goes against Deidara’s idea of art.

39. Smile

The first time Deidara sees Sasori smile, he’s dazed, and then he proceeds to realize that this is the closest to heaven he’ll ever get, so he had better make the most of it – right before jumping Sasori.

40. Innocence

Deidara absently wonders how Sasori retains that look of angelic innocence, when he is anything but – and then Sasori nips that special place beneath his ear, and Deidara moans, forgetting exactly what he was thinking about.

41. Completion

After one particularly loving session of sex, Deidara murmurs, half asleep, that Sasori is his other half, and Sasori remains silent, before pressing a soft kiss to Deidara’s lips, slipping his hands down to his lover’s hips and beginning again – and they fall in love anew.

42. Clouds

Sometimes, they sit together and just enjoy the sight of clouds drifting across the sky slowly, before Deidara makes some strange observation about one of the white cotton-like puffs looking like Sasori, and then of course, Sasori has to whack the blond over the head.

43. Sky

Deidara wants to take Sasori up into the air with him, but he’s not quite sure whether his bird can take the weight, so he tries to work on a bigger one – but ends up being distracted by a pair of cool lips nuzzling at his neck.

44. Heaven

Deidara’s lazy, satisfied smile after a good round of sex is the closest Sasori will ever get to heaven, and he’s perfectly content with that.

45. Hell

The main reason Sasori doesn’t like explosions is that the resulting flames remind him just a little too much of Hell, and he doesn’t want to remember that Deidara is doomed to burn there too, with him.

46. Sun

When the setting sun rims Deidara in a halo of golden light, Sasori can only stare, and wish that he could stay in this moment forever.

47. Moon
Deidara’s never seen a lunar eclipse before, and when he marvels at it, Sasori is reminded sharply of how much younger Deidara is than him, especially when that child-like, amazed expression creases his lover’s face.

48. Waves

One day, Sasori comes home to an extremely grumpy, hat-wearing Deidara – apparently, an accident with the hairdryer caused his usually beautifully wavy hair to frizz, and it’s all Sasori can do to keep from snickering openly.

49. Hair

Deidara finds it very hard to comb his hair, because the mouths on his hands insist on chewing up his hairbrush – so one day, Sasori takes the brush from him and gently does his hair, and just like that, it’s their daily ritual.

50. Supernova

Deidara thinks that Sasori’s death was like a supernova – one last brilliant flash, and then everything’s gone, but that doesn’t lessen the hurt or ease the loneliness.

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