I will be posting links to my work, Cardbattler Yumi, here if you wish to read them and discuss. I do this so General Chat isn't clogged with posts yapping about this series.

archiveofourown.org/works/82752006

Right now I just have the prologue down, but within the next few days I should be done with at least part of Episode 1.

I'd like to know what these "hits" are on AO3. Are they, like, the amount of times people have upvoted the thing, or just how many times people have seen it?

it's the amount of people who've seen your piece, while their interpretation of upvote is called kudos

Oh cool, because I have six of 'em.

Now I just gotta figure out how to open the first episode...

My plan is to watch some anime series to get a feel for how this show needs to go down... time to consult TV Tropes.

I'm not much of a reader myself these days, but I just want to wish you luck with your project.

It's always nice to see people developing creative hobbies like writing. Anything that's creative and brings new or inspired stuff into the world is cool by me. Especially now when everyone is distracted by free content available 24/7, it's good to know that some people get enjoyment out of simply being creative and making things.

Anyways, congrats on having the motivation to start your project dude.
I'll stop rambling now.

Thanks man. I appreciate it.

So, uh... probably just gonna get started writing the first chapter tomorrow. It's almost 1:00am where I'm at.

I've got a little bit out of the way.

"May 31, 2010; around 10:00am; Kinmau, Keishoukoku, United Nation of Nikyo (what would be Monterrey County, California in the real world)




Summer vacation has arrived. Kids everywhere get an entire two and a half months all to themselves to play video games, read comic books, watch TV, and do fuck all but schoolwork (their parents would rather they be studying, but that's neither here nor there). The sun shines, all the cool TV shows come out, public beaches and theme parks are open for business... With all this free time and fun to themselves, there's no way a kid could be upset, right?

Well, if you're Yumi Sakihokoru Ellison, you get to spend a whopping two weeks in some fancy campground and pretend to be best buddies with Tomoko Eiichi, the girl who sits behind you in English class.

Sounds like a walk in the park, right? Well, it might be, if Tomoko didn't make it publicly known every 20 minutes that she thinks about as highly of you as a tire thinks of a sharp rock. And knowing this park, walking in it might result in a hospital stay, and that's BEST case scenario.

But you don't have a choice. Your father works for Tomoko's dad at the biggest law firm in the UNN, and needs to make a nice impression so he can get the biggest pay raise of his life. And Mr. Eiichi is bringing his daughter along for the trip, and she would be SOOOOOO lonely if she had no one to play with (which is bullshit, since her little brother is tagging along, too), so here we are; driving to Pfeiffer South State Park. 

Now to be fair, it's not like there isn't an upside. Yumi gets to spend two weeks in a fancy log cabin, probably won't have to do TOO much outdoorsy stuff (they have TV's and vending machines and an actual Chicken Train), and might even get money from Mr. Eiichi again like he did a few months ago when she met him after that assembly about jobs.

But she'll have to share that experience with that rich bitch and her annoying little brother. And force a smile while doing it. Or risk her dad losing a pay raise.

God have mercy on her soul."

I can hear rain and thunder outside my house right now, while I'm trying to write something set during a nice sunny day.

This is not the mood I was hoping to set, and I usually LIKE rain.