blueglows

Pitter-patter goes the panic,
Fallen drops of liquid manic,
Scramble for a rag before chaos stains the floor.

Beating hard; my heart is racing
from discordance lost from the casing
of the Box that shouldn't see light forever more.

Gnashing before the harsh demands,
Problem solving skill expands,
Clean the mess and seal the lid, leaving nothing sore.

The matter was found very taxing,
Though it too could shine with just a waxing,
And now just the work to keep the deal is all that is in store.

Title: Home for the Holidays
Author: Alexa/blueglows, aka Greg Garrets
Fandom: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Original Series: Cosmic Dust
Character(s) / Pairing(s): Alfred Cosmic, et al.
Rating: K+, PG
Word Count:  Approximately 11,600 total
Warning(s): None, I think.
Disclaimer: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and related property and ideas are owned by Disney/Pixar. Cosmic Dust and and related property and ideas are owned by me.
Summary: Alfred has a job he does every Holiday season before returning home to Beta. However, this year, can he decide whether Beta truly is his home?

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Title: Home for the Holidays
Author: Alexa/blueglows, aka Greg Garrets
Fandom: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Original Series: Cosmic Dust
Character(s) / Pairing(s): Alfred Cosmic, et al.
Rating: K+, PG
Word Count:  Approximately 11,600 total
Warning(s): None, I think.
Disclaimer: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and related property and ideas are owned by Disney/Pixar. Cosmic Dust and and related property and ideas are owned by me.
Summary: Alfred has a job he does every Holiday season before returning home to Beta. However, this year, can he decide whether Beta truly is his home?

Previous Section here:Section One
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Next Section here: Section 3

Title: Home for the Holidays
Author: Alexa/blueglows, aka Greg Garrets
Fandom: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Original Series: Cosmic Dust
Character(s) / Pairing(s): Alfred Cosmic, et al.
Rating: K+, PG
Word Count:  Approximately 11,600 total
Warning(s): None, I think.
Disclaimer: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and related property and ideas are owned by Disney/Pixar. Cosmic Dust and and related property and ideas are owned by me.
Summary: Alfred has a job he does every Holiday season before returning home to Beta. However, this year, can he decide whether Beta truly is his home?
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My Final for Comm 1 was a timed writing (one hour) in which I had two prompts to choose from. The I remember, and the one I used, was instructions to write about how technology (TV, video games, computers) affect reading skills. I decided to write in favor of technology helping reading skills.

Essentially, I wrote about how video games and the internet taught me to read. Well, not really, but close enough.

( Reading through Technology )

Title: Robot Building
Author: Alexa/blueglows, aka Greg Garrets
Fandom: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Original Series: Cosmic Dust
Character(s) / Pairing(s): Alfred Cosmic
Rating: K+, PG
Word Count: 1406
Warning(s): None, I think.
Disclaimer: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and related property and ideas are owned by Disney/Pixar. Cosmic Dust and and related property and ideas are owned by me.

Summary: It was one of his stranger commissions... An energy vampire. How was he to accomplish that?

( To the Fanfiction, and Beyond! )

These are my notes on Alfred's monocle. If anything is confusing, ask and I will try to explain it. At the end, there is a short explanation on how the monocle will be used to affect the BLoSC universe:
 
How it works:
 
The device in Alfred's monocle is built using a controlled black hole.
           
Connections through the black hole allow the direct access to the timeline, as well as the near-infinite space to hold those connections.
 
The control keeps the black hole from expanding and drawing in any more, forming a kind of antibubble around it self that keeps everything out and the black hole in.
 
The controlled black hole/antibubble is incased within an Teranian discovered alloy that is difficult to break through and requires a long time to deteriorate (described as "practically invincible").
 
Connections from the black hole are transmitted to specific programmed receiving lines which Alfred has running through the rim of the monocle, along with an activation switch.
 
The lines connect to the display screen made of a Teranian crystal, cut to fit into the monocle.
 
The crystal is necessary as the display screen, since it is the only thing with the properties to allow images of the time line to show.
 
Thoughts are transmitted to control the display through absorption of brain waves into the crystal lens of the monocle.
 
The crystal is also needed to absorb these brain waves.
 
When the ZTQ line was using the crystal and device, thoughts were in the form of electrical pulses similar to brain waves that were absorbed into the crystal for the display.
 
Connection wires were added from the display to the processor of the ZTQ line. Alfred can use something similar to connect the monocle to a computer to display what is being shown on the monocle, though the monocle still needs to be close enough for someone's brain waves (or electrical pulses) are their to affect what is being displayed. It only uses the thoughts of whoever is closest and within a certain distance, so since Alfred wears it, it's closest to him and only shows his thoughts.
 
How it displays:
 
Events are seen like a video, but anything not physically present to give information (such as a clock telling the time or a documentation of some sort) is seen as an implied display at the bottom of the lens with ribbons of different colors and patterns that all mean something but takes experience to determine what it means.
 
Using it:
Using the monocle takes practice since it responds to thought. If you want information on something, but you start thinking of something else, you suddenly gain all the information specified by your stray thought and not necessarily what you originally intended.
 
What Alfred did was practice thinking of multiple things, but only keep certain thoughts open to his monocle while the rest are blocked, but still going on. Like a wall surrounding three-fourths of a city with the city representing thoughts. Everything is going on in the city, but only one-fourth is open to for the outside (or monocle) to see.
 
 
How this affects BLoSC:
 
After Alfred finally went back to see his father again, Commander Nebula demanded to know everything that had happened to Alfred since he ran away. Alfred told him most of everything, and Commander Nebula let him skip over a few things, but one thing he didn't let Alfred skip over was why he was suddenly wearing a monocle, of all things.
 
Alfred had kept the function of his monocle a secret from everyone and was not willing to tell Commander Nebula until Nebula threatened to not help him with the problem he was having (this will be further explained in a future story, don't worry. It's purposely vague right now for a reason). Alfred relented and told Nebula exactly how he got the monocle, what he uses it for, etc.
 
Nebula was not very happy to know that the monocle grants the user all the information one could want and told Alfred to get rid of it to prevent it from being used for evil (he was also unhappy with what Alfred was using it for, but...). Alfred downright refused, since he needs to use his monocle for most things. Nebula instead decided to enforce a rule that Alfred is not allowed to be caught using the monocle on Star Command.
 
Nebula also added that Alfred has to remain on Star Command and work there after he finishes helping him, one of the reasons being that he wants Alfred to learn not to use the stupid thing to cheat at life.
 
(Other reasons include wanting his son to be close by (collective 'aww'), wanting to make sure his son doesn't do anything evil, etc.)

Title: Meeting Tangeans
Author: Alexa/blueglows, aka Greg Garrets
Fandom: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Original Series: Cosmic Dust
Character(s) / Pairing(s): Alfred (CD), Releta (CD), Mira Nova (BLoSC), King Nova (BLoSC), others (CD)
Rating: K+
Word Count: 3677
Warning(s): Minor, non-graphic violence
Disclaimer: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and related property and ideas are owned by Disney/Pixar. Cosmic Dust and and related property and ideas are owned by me.
Summary: Part of being the boyfriend of his planet's princess was that he had to meet royalty from other planets. However, he was not expecting the visiting royalty to be Tangeans.

( To the Fanfiction, and Beyond! )

I write fanfiction and I write my own, original stories. Sometimes, when bored, I combine my writing of the two. I decided to start posting these stories I write here on this livejournal account. That way, it doesn't bother anyone on fanfiction.net and I don't have to deal with the awkward submission process on deviantart!

Some of these writings will be one-shots and some will be multi-chaptered or possibly series. I'll have links to other entries if it's one of the latter two.

I will admit now, I happen to like slash/yaoi/male-male pairings or whatever you want to call it, and I do happen to have a lot of male characters. I don't put my characters into a relationship in the actual stories (save for a few exceptions, one of them being a major part of the story (see the Clovers folder at greggarrets.deviantart.com)), but I use non-canon stories to put my characters into definite "crack" pairings. In the OC/Fanfiction Cross stories, sometimes it turns into  an OC/Canon Character homosexual pairing (or possibly heterosexual pairing, which is almost as bad if it's an OC/Canon Character). There will be additional warnings for stories that have slash in them, so look for those if you want to avoid it.

That said, be mindful of what happens on part of my original characters. What happens in the cross(over) will relate to my original story in one of three ways:

1. Canon - This happens in the actual story, or is a feature of the actual story, etc.

2. Semi-Canon - This is something I wish I could make canon but for various reasons can't (usually because adding it would make it fanfiction and I can't sell that, which is why it's here). I will normally pretend its true in my mind and make subtle references to it in the actual story, but will never directly mention it.

3. Non-Canon - This would not happen in the actual story and is the product of my sick mind just wanting to see how my characters would react to it. Most obvious use of this in the OC/Fanfiction Cross is the fact that it is a cross to begin with.

And, now that you know what I am planning, let the stories begin!

I like to think back on past experiences and I like to explain things. Most past experiences I'd like to forget and most of my explanations never leave my mind because they're pointless/on a subject no one even cares about or don't know about.

However, I decided to write down this explanation of a past experience and now for some reason I'm putting it here. Oh well.

( To the "Essay" )