Imperial Privilege

I posted in the Fanfic Crossover Thread (or Idea Thread?) that Fate/Grand Order isn't even out yet, and I'm brainstorming ways to cross it with other Fate properties. At the time, I was cooking up something about Rin and Shirou at the Clock Tower getting pulled into Chaldea as Zouken or Darnic show up as a surprise benefactor and not-so-surprise antagonist. Then I decided that was a weak idea and got the ball rolling on this front instead.




He had not walked these ...

Not a dude dating thing, actually

So Arashi posted this cool thing. It's one of those hooks that came to mind that he doesn't seem to have any real intent on writing, but it struck me as soon as I saw it. I've spent a lot of time picking his brain about his discarded concepts and even considered taking a crack at a few of them, with this one being the second most enduring (the first being that pitch for a Third Grail War story but you should know that by now, given my incessant chatter ...

Shamelessly ripping off Vagrant

Let's sift through some ideas of mine that have been shelved or discarded. These are stories that had a bit more thought put into them than a lot of the scattered little nuggets I litter the Fanfic or Crossover Fanfic Idea Threads with. So they've come further and have a more coherent basis than a lot of my

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scattershot. Ironically, the first one is actually spun off from a pitch of Zalgo's

Premise

Reverse Kiritsugu and Kirei:

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I ran the title through an online title capitalization checker, and it came out looking like that. It feels wrong, as if everything should be capitalized or "If" should be lowercase to keep "off" company.

And that is not at all the point of this blog.

Some of you might have seen I finally have a story up and running after a lot of time hemming and hawing over one. I decided to suck it up, bite the bullet and do other things with my mouth to crank something ...

I'm constantly conceiving and discarding story seeds, which has been the subject of many a blog post. But I (like to) think I'm finally zeroing in on a few concrete ideas that, at first blush, weren't related at all. Then I began to think more and more about them and saw how easily they could be sewn together as episodes in a much greater narrative.

The common theme? Shirou winds up fighting vampires in most of them.

But let's start at the beginning.

I've ...