For the longest time, I have wanted some Sephiroth boots. Maybe a little like these. But sad sad and sad, there are no more in my size, and it is a rule that I never buy shoes without trying them on. That goes double, of course, for Sephiroth boots which I would want to wear every day.

And now I am thinking, thinking, looking at these boots--which ( Read more... )

Saw "Prince of Persia" the other day. A disappointment. I already know, from Robin Hood, that kohl-wearing bald people are evil. In fact, the whole time I was thinking: I really want to read Outlands now. I want to leave this theater and read Outlands instead. And then I was thinking, Ryou is right over there, with that turban, with his face turned ( Read more... )

So, as I've been saying for years, or at least months, or at least thinking loudly, a Freeport/Firefly crossover would practically write itself. Let's see if that is true!

Title: "Layover"
Author: szzzt
Rating: Worksafe for Companions and implied 2x5
Warnings: None.
Summary: Gundam Wing ( Freeport)/Firefly. They say Freeport's the last best chance ( Read more... )

No seriously, they are. They're in league with the semicolons. I hear them plotting at night--to stab me in my sleep with their little pointy points. >_> COMMAS AND SEMICOLONS WHY WON'T YOU BEHAVE ( Read more... )

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So on Saturday, the file holding the Current Story tied and then surpassed the largest file in my Written For Fun folder. (And that formerly largest file is not a story--it is a giant hoard of poems and fine quotes I have found trolling the Nets.) 94KB! Someone give me a cigarDid you know that 17,500 words is the length of a very short novella? I'm ( Read more... )

When I come home, why can't I be stricken with the compulsion to write happy stories? Instead of the one I'm writing, which is like distilled ow, and which keeps getting longer? Or even to finish anything before I start something else?

*Prods ow story, which is still there, sullen and squicky and sort of breathtaking, just as it has been there ( Read more... )

So, sometimes I translate songs for fun. This time it was from English to Japanese, so that I could sing this song TWICE AS MUCH.

The strongest requirement is that the song be just as singable in its new form. Rhyming is not required in Japanese, but I tend to make it happen by accident.

"To Destruction" (Delorean)"On the way ( Read more... )

I cannot but think that if they met Stephen would describe Laurence as "over-nice," and follow with some remarks on diet, costiveness and national character; yet admit, roundabout, the vigor of Temeraire's conversation, and lament the lack of truly, really original thinking in the sphere of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. It would be left to another man to ( Read more... )

Spent a constructive day reducing entropy in the area of my fridge and freezer, then went to the store because said low-entropy state involved very little untossed food remaining in either, and stones would weep if I had to put soymilk in my morning tea again ( Read more... )