Words that you can practice writing with only the first hiragana – the vowels and the k sounds. (a, e, i, o, u, ka, ki, ku, ke, and ko)

koe – voice
kaku – write
oke – wooden bucket
kao – face, honor
ie – house, extended family
aki – autumn
iu – say
akai – red
aoi – blue
kioku – memory
ekaki – painter

Words that you can practice writing with only the first hiragana – the vowels and the k sounds. (a, e, i, o, u, ka, ki, ku, ke, and ko)

ai – love
ue – above; top
oka – hill
kiku – hea, ask; chrysanthemum
koke – moss
ike – pond
kau – buy
eki – station
iku ( ?? ) – go
koko ( ?? ) – here
au ( ?? ) – meet

Day 1 – The first series you ever read a yaoi fanfiction of or saw a yaoi fanart of.
Day 2 – Scene from your favorite yaoi doujinshi or manga, redone in your style.
Day 3 – Favorite yaoi couple from an animated series.
Day 4 – An anime series you think should have been a yaoi.
Day 5 – Favorite seme.
Day 6 – The reason you love yaoi.
Day 7 – Your OTP.
Day 8 – Favorite love scene.
Day 9 – Favorite uke.
Day 10 – The first series that you owned after getting into yaoi.
Day 11 – Favorite scene from a series that was close to being yaoi, redone in your style and made into yaoi.
Day 12 – Favorite character, paired with your least favorite character from same series.
Day 13 – A version of your favorite fanart in your style, linked to the original (Please do this in a way which is respectful of the original artist, and don’t just rip them off, pay homage to them.). If you are doing this as a writing challenge, then please write a scene including the imagery of the art and let the artist know about it.
Day 14 – Self-Insertion (for God’s sake make it funny not horrible, since we all know these suck) of yourself with a character you’d like to be paired with, proving once and for all whether you are seme or uke. If you are a girl, then your self-insertion character has to be gender bent, obviously.
Day 15 – A pairing you think you could get your friend who hates yaoi into if she knew enough about it.
Day 16 – Songfic (or song-art) that includes your favorite song.
Day 17 – Favorite yaoi website.
Day 18 – A yaoi pairing that broke your heart.
Day 19 – A manga or doujinshi you think should be animated.
Day 20 – Favorite theme. (School life, vampires, neko.. ect..)
Day 21 – A version of your favorite fanfiction in your style, linked to the original (Please do this in a way which is respectful of the original artist, and don’t just rip them off, pay homage to them). If you are doing this as a drawing challenge, please illustrate a scene from the fanfiction and let the artist know about it.
Day 22 – Hardcore or softcore?
Day 23 – The character that fits your real life favorite type of male in appearance. Do this by listing the traits you prefer in men you date (or think are attractive) and then look through series until you find the one that matches the most of these. Pair this with the character that fits your real life favorite type of male in non-physical attributes (humor, intelligence, habits, etc) and write them into a story or draw them into an artwork.
Day 24 – A yaoi pairing that pisses you off.
Day 25 – One of your stories or artworks done in the style of another artist/writer that you admire..
Day 26 – A yaoi pairing you’ve been intending to learn more about.
Day 27 – The song that best fits your favorite pairing.
Day 28 – Anything you want that’s yaoi related.
Day 29 – A yaoi pairing that makes you get all giggly.
Day 30 – A yaoi pairing you used to love but got sick of.

Rating: NC-17 for Angst.
Summary: Insector Haga, while completing an English essay, gives the reason for his choice of clothing. Serious subject matter.
Warnings: Self Mutilation, Angst, OOC.
Pairing: Yaoi, Insector Haga x Dinosaur Ryuuzaki (English Names: Weevil Underwood x Rex Raptor)

Characters (c) Takahashi Kazuki.
The Reason (c) Takahashi Conspiracy.

There was a reason he always wore the long-sleeved green shirt with the beetle printed on it. Not because it was his favorite, although it was. Not because he thought it looked cute, although it did match his hair. Not because it matched his shoes either. Haga smiled at the mostly blank paper with his Creative Writing assignment written neatly across the top. “Character Development: What do your character’s belongings say about him/her? Pick one and elaborate.” He trailed his fingers across the soft material, bringing them to rest on the top button. He sighed happily as he removed the familiar piece of clothing; Ryuuzaki wouldn’t be home for another hour. He had time to play without worrying about his roommate’s reaction. Folding the shirt and laying it on the couch beside him, he stared lovingly at the scars running in careful patterns across his arms and chest. He had an hour to work on his design – it wasn’t long, but he pulled the box of razors and lighter from the pocket of his shorts anyway. He had placed small squares of duct tape on the corners of each blade left in the small cardboard container in order to protect his fingers when he heated them. Haga began to hum a NightWish tune as he held one of the metal tools inside a high orange flame.

Satisfied with the haphazard sterilization, he dragged the razor in a straight line across the inside of his left arm near the crook of his elbow. He winced at the pain caused by the burning and slicing of his pale skin. Adrenaline washed over him in slow, pleasurable waves, blocking out the worst of the pain. Haga repeated the action three times before taking a piece of gauze soaked with alcohol and wiping away the blood that steadily ran down his arm. He grinned again, admiring the accuracy of the cuts as he turned the blade and started back, completing a nine-squared grid. This time he allowed the blood to flow freely and remove the contamination from his lithe body. He laid back against the couch, riding the adrenaline high and smug in the knowledge that one more part of his physical self was purified. Humming joyfully to himself with his eyes closed, Haga missed the sound of the door opening as Ryuuzaki arrived home.

The long-haired brunette only sighed before taking his lover into his arms and gazing into now-open green eyes. He said softly, “Not this again, Haga, I thought you’d found some other way to handle these strange thoughts of yours…” His eyes traveled slowly over the pale form, noting several new grids since he’d last seen Haga without his trademark green shirt. Apparently he wasn’t spending enough time with his lover or he wouldn’t have been able to lie so easily. Ryuuzaki brushed turquoise bangs back and kissed Haga tenderly, pulling the first-aid box from underneath the sofa. There were several first-aid boxes in every room of the tiny apartment just in case Haga ever took the cutting too far. Not that he ever had – he wasn’t suicidal, and his cuts were precise, exacted almost obsessively. It didn’t take long to clean and bandage the injuries – he’d gotten quite a bit of practice over the last year, and it was only one grid this time. Haga rested against the brunette, picking up his assignment and writing a few sentences in his careful, obsessively neat handwriting. Ryuuzaki took the paper when he’d finished, curious as to what had set him off this time, but not understanding the answer.

“There was a reason why the frail, small teen always wore the same outfit, regardless of the weather. Not because his lover had told him for the first time that he loved him while he was wearing that same faded shirt. Not because the shirt defined the only things he still cared about. But the reason didn’t matter, because no one saw the boy anymore; They looked right through him.”

Mobile blogging. Most bloggers in Japan post from their mobile phones. MIXI, the number one social networking site in the country, reported in September of 2007 that posts from phones were more common than those from computers.

A great example of this in America is the use of e-mail or voice posts on sites such as LiveJournal or WordPress. I even have a WordPress app on my iPhone now that allows me to post without using a special e-mail address or phone number. Moblogging is highly addictive.

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Empty space and time. Also a literary concept describing places in a story where the reader must fill in what’s missing from the narrative. Common in anime and manga.

I sometimes use this in stories by having a character stare off while saying ‘Mah…’. It works well as a syllable that fills up the space and indicates that they are trying to piece together things from different points in the narrative. I am especially fond of fanfiction in which Kakashi uses this instead of saying ‘Oi.’

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Yeah, the dork in me simply had to post this. This is NOT something I made, it is an ACTUAL screenshot from Naruto.

Wow. That is one pointless thing for a ninja to say.

Wow, really, Choji? I never would have guessed, from, maybe the headband, or your friends, or anything like that. Thanks for clueing me in. And how come he’s the only ninja I’ve ever seen in Naruto who wears a diaper on his head instead of a headband??? o_O Holy fuzzballs of Ra, that is just a strange screenshot.

Thanks to Dattebayo for the random filler that I capped this from.

This is a chart of Katakana characters, to be used as reference in later lessons. A very useful thing to learn! Katakana is learned AFTER Hirigana in most cases.

Katakana Chart

This is a chart of Hirigana characters, to be used as reference in later lessons. A very useful thing to learn!

Hirigana Chart