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Fiction: "Choices"
I'm actually posting this in late July, but anyway: in late June, I wrote a fic for dn_contest, and I actually won the popular vote. The theme was alternate ownership of the Death Note, and what grabbed me was what might have happened if it had gone to Soichiro rather than his son Light ( Read more... ) -
DN Sims
I'm behind the times: Sims 3 is out, but I just got Sims 2.
W/R/T making Death Note Sims, piles of custom content exist out there, some of the customizations better than the rest. I've scrolled through dn_sims and also looked at posts on other communities, as well as at least three different lists of suggestions, and I've poked the brains of a few ( Read more... ) -
further entertainment for Death Note fans
I've been meaning to post this for a while, now; it's a list of movies, television shows, books, and so on that I think will appeal to Death Note fans based on some element of the story's content. Most of the time, the recommendations I've seen in the fandom extend only as far as Monster and Code Geass.
You can bookmark this entry, or add it to ( Read more... ) -
How to Be Idle -- on Private Detectives
No chapter on walking could be complete without a nod to the private detective, who started to appear in the nineteenth century. He is an attractive character precisely because he is essentially an idler, as Walter Benjamin wrote in Arcades:
Performed in the figure of the flâneur is that of the detective. The flâneur required a social legitimation ( Read more... ) -
You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
We want to believe that things last for ever, whether it is love, life, God, or the laws of nature. But death, as Freud continually reminds us, is what certainty looks like. Perhaps the best we can hope for is to live in uncertainty for as long as we can bear it.
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*flail*
I'm really far behind on a few things. Consider this my to-do list:
- I still haven't finished my fic for the dn_contest Secret Santa! My partner is her_victory and she wrote something stunning and amazing for me, which was posted on 12/20 ( Read more... ) -
Fiction: "Birthday"
Title: Birthday
Rating: PG
Pairings/Characters: L, Beyond Birthday, cameo appearances by the rest of the NPA task force
Warnings: Does a ghost merit a warning?
Word Count: 2941
Notes: This is my first fanfic in almost 15 years. I think I owe part of the concept of ghost!B to knights_say_nih. The idea to write about B haunting L on his last birthday (the only ( Read more... ) -
Welcome post
I've had this journal for months without using it, but I have been intending to use it as a place for fandom works and as a hub for RP stuff. So, here we are. New layout, no icons yet ( Read more... )