The danger of researching...

[wiseheart]

...isn't just that your head explodes from all those miles-long Japanese names that somehow all manage to sound the same. No, you also get haunted by story ideas.

So I've written pr0n. Related to an episode of "The Tale of the Heike". About people who might or might not have existed 900 years ago. I took one of the most tear-jerking parts of the TOH, turned it around and made Teh Ebol Slash(TM) out of it. Complete with purple prose (very, very purple), horrible euphemisms (the "hidden delights of his secret garden" anyone?)and explicit, erm, interaction.

At least it's only 5 pages, and it was done within two hours. I'm still a bit shocked by the results research overdosing could lead to.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Sure, it sounds fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Will be on its way in a moment. In the meantime, visit this page (http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/wayou/index.htm) and drool over the guys Tosh meets in this story.

It's a great site, shows clothes from all social circles from that period. Am really happy to have found it.

[artemis10002000]

Thanks for the link and the fic!

The clothes are lovely! I've filed it under my research bookmarks, you never know when you need it... XD

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They're beautiful, aren't they? Somehow, imagining my protagonists in that garb before they put it down to do the dirty almost makes pr0n, I dunno, salonfähig - is there a proper English expression for *that*?

[artemis10002000]

*laughs* I don't know, actually. But I understand the sentiment XD