While working toward finishing my longest Rayearth fanfic, Sanctuary, I have been going back through the earlier chapters to fix things that bugged me about them, and to also get them to vibe correctly with the later chapters, since I didn't know the whole plot when I first started writing and it is very obvious on a reread right now. 

I will be adding some notes to chapters with big changes as I update them, but I also thought it would be fun to do a more detailed post with what I've changed and why, as well as my thoughts about the chapter. I miss the old trend of author commentary from the LJ days. Why not use this space to do that for my fanfic.

If you are coming over here from AO3 and would like to chat in this thread as I post updates and commentary, you are more than welcome to join the forum to do so. Registration is open, but it has to be manually approved before you can start posting, so it may be a wait of a day or two for me to log in to see the notification for approval unless you shoot an email to the forum email account or my personal one on AO3 to let me know you need in. It's a spam measure, sorry for the inconvenience.

Commentary Posts by Chapter:

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6

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Maybe she likes a nice red bean or green tea flavor? Those aren't quite as sweet (still sweet, but not like some chocolate marshmallow cookie dough monstrosity)

Guess I have to decide Ascot's. I'm gonna go with a nice cookie dough for him. (That was my fave when I was younger, now I enjoy more of the less sweet ones myself, oh, and salted caramel)

At the beginning of the manga, Umi wails about Cephiro's lack of Haagen Daz, which feels slightly incongruous with her dislike of sweets, but I suppose not all ice cream is particularly sweet.

What sort of ice cream flavours do you think she likes best?

On the topic of ice cream, what sort of flavours do you imagine the other characters might enjoy?

Do you think any character in particular might be too lactose intolerant to enjoy ice cream?

Our washing machine caught fire last week, and choosing a new one is so annoying!

this is still the mood.

I'm sooo excited about it no matter what they do! but honestly, I would like some original new scenes/interactions or maybe some slightly different plot points. as long as it keeps the important themes and characterization I'd love to see something other than the exact same story beat-for-beat.

So, I just started playing for the first time two weeks ago. Despite not playing for the last week, I've already put in over 60 hours, and I have gotten married, we have one baby so far, and I'm halfway to finishing the community centre.

It's been a really nice distraction during a rather stressful week.

Anyone else playing?

2 June 2024, TMS announced that they would be releasing a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime series.


A rough translation of the text in the teaser:

「CLAMP」 is working on
A legendary isekai adventure story
Shidou Hikaru
Ryuuzaki Umi
Hououji Fuu
30 years since the anime broadcast
Once again, the girls with be able to meet
A new anime project begins now!

Let's use this thread to share info about the new series as we learn it.

Discussion about hopes and expectations should be kept in New Anime Discussion

So, some of us already talked about little about this in the Discord server on the day, but what are your thoughts about the new anime announcement?

What do you hope will happen or expect to happen in the new version of the series?