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- In my head, Yuki Kajiura's Moonflower is totes the theme song to The Etched City. Just sayin'. It's all holy silver twinkling layered over this lush, green sound that's sort of dirty, like it's covered in a layer of grime. (...I realize my personal reaction to that song might be a little odd.) I can't even listen to it without thinking of the book, esp. the scene near the end with Gwynn in the rain.


- Am I the only person who can spend days on end writing and tweaking and writing and tweaking a story of less than 1000 words? Seriously. This is ridiculous.

(I have retooled the structure of this Umineko ficlet at least three times. Idek.)


- You know, I was gonna post about the shithead's (as you-know-who shall be referred to from now on) massacre of the Avatar series and link to all the hilarious reviews panning it (such as Roger Ebert's), but everyone's already done that, and I just don't have the motivation to deal with talking about it anymore.

So I will just quote @DrunkHulk on the subject: "DRUNK HULK JUST FIGURE OUT TWIST! M NIGHT SHYMALAN CAREER WAS DEAD WHOLE TIME!"


- On the subject of whitewashing (but not bad movies), Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix is getting a new cover for its paperback release... and well, just look at it. The cover of the upcoming sequel will pretty much be a carbon copy, too. Sigh.

As I said to inkstone, regardless of whether those women are white or not, we are obviously meant to interpret them that way. And not only are they whitewashed, those covers are completely inappropriate to the material. Those clothes? What the fuck? That modern, teen paranormal romance look? The story is a fantasy adventure set in ancient China, people. I just. What.

I have seen some inexplicable covers, man, but those should come with some 4chan-esque "pic unrelated" label.


- Oh! And I just watched the new eps of Leverage! I spent the whole of 301 going, "Billy is AWESOME! Where did they FIND this guy?! ...And why does he remind me so much of Hardison???" Well uh. Apparently dude playing him was Edwin Hodge, Aldis Hodge's (dude that plays Hardison) brother. *g*

HAY GUYS! You remember those prompts I took back at X-mas? That I failed to write ANYTHING for thanks to raging neuroses and an excellent gift for procrastination? No? Well surprisingly, I DO, ahaha... ha.

ANYWAY, back then both alankria and eisen asked for something with Raule, and eisen specifically asked for "Raule and a heart in a box", iirc. While I was working on kink_bingo TEC fic, I suddenly had inspiration for that one. (Not that this is kinky. Disembodied hearts don't really do it for me. Sexually, I mean. Okay, I'm just going to stop this parenthetical aside before it gets any more creepy.)

So!

Fandom: The Etched City (KJ Bishop)
Prompt: Raule and a heart in a box
Rating: idek, but there's a disembodied heart?
Summary: Raule receives a strange gift from an unnamed sender.

>> The thing ticked with each beat like a clock.

Oh, oh! And now that I finally remembered to pick up new batteries for my camera, guess what I got in the mail last week!



The Etched City in Chinese! ♥

Oh, but what's this?



Is that Gwynn... cosplaying Fei Long?



And... Monkey?



I... I think it is! (Splat his head Raule. He deserves it.)

\o/♥


i bet those of you on dialup are hating me today orz