New forum!

Okay, Kasimi and I couldn't access our old forum for some reason. It's like it got shut down or something. So, after having gone through this for so long, I decided to go make a new forum for the project a few days ago.

Here's the link: YnH: AR forum

You see that it's a bit different this time. New layout and stuff... I even put the forum chat in there. On top of that, I put new categories in there that wasn't on the old forums, so that people can have some things to talk about other than the project.

Enjoy~

Forums problems, writer's block, and fanart.

Okay, it is as it says.

First off, the forums has been problems for a while and Kasimi and I don't know what the problems are. I remember it being like this before, but this is the first time it has continued to be such a problem as this lasted for more than a day; Hell, more than a week, close to a month now. So, we'll try to see what's wrong and how to solve it.

Secondly, school has been over for two weeks (it's summer vacation in the Philippines now), though I have summer courses next week. Around this time should be the time I'm usually supposed to get out of writer's block since it's break and I'm supposed to be typing away at the chapters like Hell because of being inspired and what not. But, apparently, the writer's block has become persistent again, so it's rather annoying now. I hope I can really get out of this.

Small out-of-topic note... X3 Last month made the fourth year anniversary since working on YnH: AR, so I'm happy about it.

Lastly, I've not told Kasimi this, but we do have a few fanart of YnH: AR on my request since I like seeing my OCs in other people's styles (thank you very much, guys!!!). So, I shall post what we got so far (will write commentary about them later since I'm about to go sleep):


The Keiya-Hitomi-Hideki love triangle by Keira-sama~


Hitomi by Rini~


Hideki x Aiko by jarekmattsinurie on DA~


The not quite pairing of Keiya x Hitomi by Ice-Suzaku on Mangabullet~


The Kohaku x Hotaru pairing by Saruten on MangaBullet~


The Keiya x Hitomi pairing again, this time by aego on DA~



Now, if only I can find people who can draw Rai x Miyu and Naoki x Azami since the people I've asked on drawing these pairings for me has been delaying it, so...

Also tempted to request the Hitomi-Keiya-Aiko love triangle as well. And I know that Ura is involved in YnH: AR, but Rai has yet to draw him as he is the love rival (somewhat, probably antagonist as well) for Hitomi. Well, like I said, I guess more of an antagonist?

All artwork belong to the respective owners while the characters are mine! So, no stealing unless you want me to hunt you down and do more than bite your head off for it!

Finally! A book format to fit YnH: AR in!

What I mean is...

You see, I've been looking for a layout... A layout that would format into two pages like a book and, when you click on it, flip like a book...

I've been looking for that for a long time since I've officially made YnH: AR a light novel project a long time ago. And now, just recently... I found such a place. A place where you can turn your articles/webpages into a flip book, as if you're reading a real book...

And I found it here at Emogazine. It's a site that's still under beta testing of this, but it's a site that... Well, this info is from the site itself, it explains better than I could on what this site is:

"Emogazine is a free online Internet application for creating and editing Rich text contents such as news, magazines, blogs, slideshow presentations, literature, comics. With easy-to-use tools and friendly interface, both amateurs and professionals will soon realize that publishing is never easier than this. We use the cutting-edge Internet technologies to build emogazine, providing wonderful functions that you have never seen before.

Now you can create stunning documents with Columns, Text wrapping, Text-box linking online or even offline. You can access your documents wherever you go. Your documents are always stored securely online and automatically synchronize with offline data."

You can see the demo clip of this in the "How it Works" section of the site.

And so, you can finally find the work on YnH: AR in (literally) e-book format right over here. I know it's still on volume one right now (Hell, I didn't put all of the chapters in the book for volume one yet), but that's because I've just signed up on Emogazine hours ago and, after getting a late invite to be able to check out the beta testing of this site, I was busy trying to figure out how the stuff works as I began to format YnH: AR in here.

You need a high version of Flash (9 or 10, I forgot) in order to view the stuff on my account (which I shall fill out eventually and I don't mean with just YnH: AR either; I also plan to make a flash blog on here for a site that I built a few days ago, a site that's dedicated to my new memories here in the Philippines).

But I hope you guys enjoy how YnH: AR looks now~ :heart:

Prologue II removed (and YnH: AR poem)

Two days ago, I removed the second prologue for YnH: AR. After having looked back at the story...

It occurred to me that Prologue II was a massive spoiler fest in the beginning. After I revealed some of the plot in Chapter XX, I realized that the other part of the plot had to do with Prologue II. And plus... I was a writing a poem in Hitomi Yuume's point of view about this...

So, after having been done writing that poem, I deleted Prologue II for now because I felt that that would give away the whole plot right off the bat. This is temporarily as I do plan on putting up that prologue again when the time comes. Probably in either the dark side of Miyu's arc or Aiko's arc because both are also in that forbidden bloodline kind of thing.

And here's the poem I was talking about in Hitomi's point of view.

Impure

I'm fully aware on why I'm being watched over.
This bitter taste in my mouth...
Distorted, dark memories in my mind,
Things that would've been better forgotten a long time ago...
It's still there.
This blood... This curse...
I don't hold resentment towards them, I don't have any regrets being like this.
But those words still linger...
"It is forbidden to mix light and dark together."
"The prayers that end with despair will not reach anybody.
Monstrosities like you should be dyed all in black.
It is a sin to seek the way for redemption.
Not knowing this is blasphemy.
You fall and wander."
Who would... Accept me if they found out about this?
If they found out about this side of me...
No... More importantly...
Would he accept it?
I'm afraid that if he knows...
He'll leave me alone like many have done in the past.
So, I'll keep holding up this cheerful front to hide the dark truth.
Nobody needs to know how stained I am.
Nobody needs to know I am a living sin.
Nobody needs to know how lonely and hurt I feel.
I'll keep lying to everyone, I'll keep lying to myself.
But I'm already painfully aware that, deep down, I'm impure
And nobody would love me for it.

Happy (late) New Year of 2009!

Yes, I'm a little late for New Year's greetings, but we all are because we were celebrating it with our family and friends.

But, Happy New Year to everyone. Rai was late with this too as he planned to finish this the day after New Year's, but he was celebrating, so...

^^ To commemorate the new year of '09 with YnH: AR, Rai drew this as a YnH special! Happy New Year, guys!