Goddamnit Lynx, you sneaky meme tagger.

( Meme Under here )

I tagggg.. otilu, ormery, ohkamimajin, rivercoyte, orangeylocks, silverbrumby123 and whoever else whats to do it


...And here, have another one.


Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever music player you have on random.
Step 2: Post a line/stanza from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly


( Musical Meme under here )

Man, it's so obvious to tell my music tastes from that. whups 8|a

I know there are several other similar types of sites but this is the one I started using. I have been unable to add books for the past month. Every book I search for (even things currently in my library!) cannot be found. I also can't add books from say the libraries of others. I've emailed the webmaster twice but haven't received a reply. I tried the site on two different computers with Windows XP and Vista on Firefox, IE and Chrome, but no go.

Thanks!

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever music player you have on random.
Step 2: Post a line/stanza from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly

( I have a lot of soundtracks )

Title: Favors
Author: frostberrytea
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Greece/Spain. Mentions of France/Spain and England/America.
Warnings: AU.
Summary: Part of Host!Club Universe; Spain finds the new host hiding out from someone and is curious to know who Greece doesn’t want to see.
Author: Part of the Empire series. No need to read the other two stories in order for this to make sense, but it’s encouraged.

<< Empire Collection

Written for allalabeth_san via the fic meme.

( At some point their eyes met and held. Greece leaned closer, hair falling messily over his forehead and then pressed the mouth of the glass to Spain’s lower lip in a kiss. )

Anyone else here read this? I'm halfway through and it's a delightful read! To me, it seems like a strange cross between young adult fiction and regular grown-up fiction, as in either of those age groups could probably enjoy it. It's been a while since I've read anything like that, so I did some research on the author too. It was interesting to find that he used to be a film screenwriter before, and derives a lot of inspiration from cinematic as well as literary works for his writing. I'm curious to read more by him now. Can you guys tell me about any of his other books??

- Comment with the character's personality traits that you think are also mine;
-You can comment only on the ones whose canon you know, or according to the way you see them through our interactions;
- \o/
- ???
- PROFIT.

I. Currently played:
1. Yuuko Ichihara (xxxHOLiC/TRC)
2. (Clone) Princess Sakura (TRC)
3. Mokona Soel Modoki (TRC)
4. Jack Sparrow (PotC)
5. Enma Ai (Jigoku Shoujo)
6. Nakuru Akizuki/Ruby Moon (CCS)
7. Renge Houshakuji (Ouran)

II. Previously played:
1. Sakura Kinomoto (CCS)
2. Clow Reed (... er. CLAMP)
3. Kikyou (Inuyasha)

III. Played at Fourth Wall Event:
1. Himawari Kunogi (xxxHOLiC)

I can see things in common between three of my muses there. 8DDD; I don't think I have anything in common with teeny!Sakura, though. ALSO, I DON'T CARE IF WE'VE NEVER PLAYED TOGETHER. DO EEEEET. /o/

/goes back to writing

Will be updated and made prettier later.

ACTIVE

Kingdom Hearts:

Demyx
[melodyofwater] At xi_rpg (X-Men!AU), betenoire_rp (canon), rowantree_rpg (canon), thewake_rp (canon)

The World Ends With You:

Sanae Hanekoma
[producescoffee] At rowantree_rpg (canon).

Yoshiya 'Joshua' Kiryu
[levitatefusion] At cityofsolace (canon).
[seethdead] At xi_rpg (X-Men!AU).
[composeshibuya] At betenoire_rp (canon, composer form).

INACTIVE

will be added later

Title: Foreigner
Author: C.J. Cherryh
Year: 1994
# of pages: 423
Date read: 10/7/2009
Rating: 3*/5 = good

Description:

"It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registed assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home.

Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic?. . .The interests of a particular faction?. . .Or the consequence of one human's fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a ingle word for love?

My thoughts:

This was a very good science fiction novel about different cultures interacting. I liked how Bren Cameron has to figure out what's going on without inadvertently offending his atevi hosts. I look forward to learning what happens next in the second book in the series, Invader.

Song sits on the couch in the middle of the dressing room, carefully reading and rereading all of the notes she's taken on this place since her arrival a year and a half ago. She is, as usual, muttering to herself.

"Alright.... this seems to add up... In theory, I should... possibly.... yessss....."

She holds out a hand, staring at it intently, and it changes, her fingers becoming the talons of a dragon before sliding fluidly back into its original shape. She smiles.

"Step one, successful...."

She then slips off the couch and kneels, holding her hand over the floor and making strange, careful gestures as if trying to pull something up, though the space under her hand is empty.

or at least... it was.

The floor bulges under her hand, then begins to rise and change... She is not actually touching it, just gesturing in its direction as if using the movements of her hand to focus her intent.

The warped section of the floor now appears to be made out of clay, and she molds it with her thoughts and simple, delicate gestures, building it up and drawing it out until a definite shape begins to take form.

She carries out the process one small step at a time, but in much less time than sculpting by hand would take, a little statue of a rearing winged horse stands before her, as perfectly detailed as one could wish.

"Step two... successful."

She looks very pleased with herself.

MiSTERY porn, as promised! THIS IS FOR ANDERS, BECAUSE NOTHING SAYS "ILU LITTLE BROTHER" LIKE GAY SEX.

Why Keep the Brakes On
Tsukamoto Hikaru/Rikudo Yuuta, R, 819 words.
Backstage at whatever their equivalent of Shounen Club is. They haven't been debuted for more than a few years – I think Tsuka-chan's probably seventeen and Rikudo's eighteen or nineteen. TASTE THE SUN is Rikudo's solo – imagine Nikaido doing Daite Señorita only sluttier; don't even ask where the title came from because I have no clue.

...Would this be considered fic or original? Because technically they're my characters, I came up with MiSTERY no matter how stupid it is. Anders was the one who said HERE YOU CAN COME UP WITH MASAKI'S BAND. I'm just playing in someone else's sandbox. And Masaki's not mine BUT HE'S NOT IN THIS ONE SO HA. I'm tagging it as both. :\

...rofl I just wrote 800+ words of porn for a fandom that doesn't exist yet.

( song lyrics! I still need them! WHO ON MY FLIST CAN WRITE LYRICS AND SPEAK JAPANESE. )

I think the spirit of NaNoWriMo has caught up with me or something! Over the course of one week, I've written all of three fics - and even though it doesn't sound like a lot, it's more than I sometimes write in a whole month, so yeah. DO NOT RAIN ON MY PARADE. :|

All three of them were of the cheesy/angsty/cheesy angst variety, though, so I'm. Pretty sick of that at the moment. 8DD; AND IT DOESN'T HELP THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE SUGGESTED ANGSTY PROMPTS, EITHER, SO I'M STUCK WITH A LOT OF THAT. But I still want to write silly/lulzy fic for those two, and I've been struck by one of my sudden bolts of inspiration again and I got a few ideas, so yay! ♥

... except now I can't seem to make up my mind about which one to write first, either. |DDD; Oddly enough, one of the fics I'm in the mood for writing is pretty bittersweet, sob.There's no escaping, is there?

ANYWAY. HELP ME, F-LIST KENOBI. Pick a number from 1 to 3, and that will be the one I write first. There's silly!fic, crack!fic and angst!fic there, but I'm not telling you which one is which. RANDOM IS THE WAY TO GO. :DDDb

Maybe by the end of this week, the gigantenormous list of doom can downsize to double digits! Double digits would be nice. *__*''

/off to do homework in the meantime

DRAWME!

...

and because I'm apparently a glutton for punishment today...

ANON MEME

You don’t need to be a fan of Bill Willingham’s Fables comics to like this book--you don’t even have to know what they are to understand Peter & Max. This is a re-telling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin story from a different perspective, one of those “what really happened” kind of tales. For every other character or event that might confuse the reader, Willingham explains the course of the comics in a few words and lines that, if anything, spoil crucial points of suspense that have navigated and pushed Fables over the years. But don’t let that discourage you at all if you’re a new fan. What I like the most about the comics and this book, is Willingham’s grasp of consequence and reality. To validate these fairy tales with contemporary ideas, Willingham is always examining the life of our favorite heroes and heroines in the unwritten pages after their most famous moments. Away from the storybook and our imaginations is a far removed perspective that pulls gently in our direction--here is more, it says to us; the story continues; life goes on.

For the folks in fairy tales--Fables, they call themselves--reality is about as pragmatic and mundane for them as it is for us. Forced to flee their fairy tale homes and find refuge in an enchanted portion of New York City’s Upper West Side, the Fables remind us that we know of only a tiny period in their lives; in our world they must learn to coexist in very human ways, without magic or magical objects that would draw attention to themselves. Yanked out of context of course it’s easy to imagine all sorts of wonderful, magical settings that make romantic adventures out of very real, scary episodes. Despite still writing in “happily ever after” endings, Willingham’s come a long way to revolutionize what’s been handed down to us for so long and in the same form.

Peter & Max is about the Piper family (a band of traveling minstrels), two brothers (Peter and Max), and the innocent Peep family who gets caught in the middle of fraternal jealousy and revenge. Like all such things, a combination of skewed perspective and hurt feelings tips the scales of envy towards violence. What begins as an ominous and mysterious set of flashbacks and present-day events, the story gradually finds promise in its most haunting thread: who is the true Pied Piper? Peter or Max? Peter is a sweet boy, always managing to do what’s right and do it well; Max is his older, but less talented, brother who snaps at the slightest attempt to undermine his authority and right as the eldest Piper child. It’s almost impossible to imagine the sweet-tempered Peter luring unsuspecting children out of their beds and away from their homes, but too predictable to assume the blame lays somewhere outside, somewhere obvious.

( Read the rest! )

Hello, booklovers. I have a feeling that mine is not an altogether right way of stepping here, but I do need some help from people who might be willing to provide it.
The thing is I have written a book. Yes, yes, I’m laughing myself. Nonetheless, please, do save your sense of humour for when you start reading it. Being a self-publishing writer, however – atrociously sad world, this one! – I am currently looking for several volunteers to proofread what my insolence considers as a work a merit. Don’t let the word “proofreading” scare you though. I don’t mean ‘editing’ it professionally, just seeing that the wording is in conformity with standard British English.
I hope my appeal for help does not hurt anybody’s feelings. If it does, I sincerely apologise.
For the same reason of being a self-publishing comrade, the only remuneration I am able to offer will be a free copy of the book along with your name in its Special Thanks list. Not very much, I know. I would LOVE to pay for proofing services, but self-publishing means you put your money into having your work published, but you very seldom make profits. I haven’t been one of those lucky guys.
If you’re curious, intrigued and tickled by any other feeling, you are more than welcome to visit the homepage of the future book, ‘The Red Britain Chronicles, or 4891: Comrade Cat, the Macho Axe Effect and the Human Gramophone’ at
http://sites.google.com/site/theredbritainchronicles/
where you can read sample chapters hereof and decide if you’d be tempted by my unappealing offer, or not really. I would even go as far as advising you to get acquainted with the sample chapters in the first place so that, one day soon, you do not find yourselves wondering how you could have accepted to proof a book which is poor or not exactly to your taste.
British English as your mother tongue would be sort of a plus in my case. (apologies if I sound in any way condescending or arrogant - I did not mean to sound this way at all!!!!!!!) Thank you for your patience and attention! And an excellent day to everyone!
Alexander
ps. May I ask you to respond to this post by sending me a private message (or ideally reply to my email - theredbritainchronicles@gmail.com ), instead of posting comments? I haven’t figured out yet how I can follow posts on this site. Thank you!

Ladies and gentlemen, if this book had a penis, I would kick it. It lies. This book is not just deceptive, it outright lies.



A demon trapped in a red gem. Spooky, but it could be just a metaphor. Let's check the backcover.

The Evil Masters. Imprisoned in bloodstones, buried in the catacombs, hidden vaults deep in the volcanic bowels of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Now they are unearthed by archaeologists, freed to work their evil on an unsuspecting humankind.

Bullshit!

Their blood-curdling orgy of nightmare-horror spans continents, crosses oceans, and finally plunges straight into the blazing volcanic maw of Kilimanjaro itself!



THAT SHIT DOESN'T HAPPEN!

As I was reading it, I kept filing away these comments for my review. Like, "two hundred pages and no blood-curdling orgy of nightmare horror." But I thought, okay, it's just the set-up. The blood-curdling orgy of nightmare horror is coming. Then "four hundred pages and no blood-curdling orgy of nightmare horror". I checked the last page. 520. So maybe the blood-curdling orgy of nightmare horror is the climax. Dishonest, sure, but okay. Then I got to the end of the book.

No blood-curdling orgy of nightmare horror. Not one.

You want me to tell you what it is about? Well, really, I have no fucking idea. I think it's part of a series, because it starts off with these archaeologists in trouble like they just escaped from some horrifying situation, but it's not the cryptic kind of mysterious, it's the 'you should know this already' kind of mysterious. Now look up. Did you see anything in the backcover description to make you think this was part of a series? No! They just sell it as a standalone so you buy it, then you realize it's a sequel and you have to give them more money to know what's going on. I hate when they do that! I'm looking at the book and there's no way to know what the prequel is or if there even is a prequel! I looked it up on Wikipedia and it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

( A tl;dr rant about a tl;dr book. )

But hey, maybe the prose is good? Shit plotting can be redeemed by dialogue and description sometimes, right Joss Whedon? No?

( The goofiest rape scene outside of a Gor book. )

( Did I mention Jade's sidekick? He's pretty light on his feet. )

( Sky-diving! )

( More of the romance between Raun and Jade, who are shockingly not Star Wars characters. )

( No, really, Jade has superpowers. )

( But it's not all fun and games. Jade has a nemesis, the mad Russian Belov, who runs into that girl who got raped? You remember, with the rhino? )

Title: Neku and Rhyme
Author: nattolen
Rating: the lower that can exist °-°'
Pairing: none
Summary: A while ago I was going to draw Sora, then I thought how would neku look like in KH style? for this I started drawing Neku instead of Sora. Today I draw Rhyme as well XD I'm planning to do joshua, shiki and beat, too :3
Notes/Warnings: they're dreepy, I'm not tetsuya nomura after all X°DD'' they're thumbnals from dA

( switch~ )

Todavia no he logrado terminar tu regalo, así que te vas a quedar con un dibujo terriblemente mal hecho en unos tantos minutos Suppi borracho y una Nakuru ev0l ~*~completamente inocente~*~ mientras lo hago. Prontito lo tendrás. ;;

Que tengas un gran día y que comas muchos dulces y que te diviertas mucho y que todos tus deseos se conviertan en realidad. Pero solo porque no eres Clow y no debes tener ningun deseo peligroso, ¿verdad? Te adoro muchísimo. ♥♥♥

Y como dice la tradición, mis mensajes son siempre muy cortitos. |DDD AL ESPAÑOL NO LE GUSTAN LAS RUBYS. ;_;

Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel
Tel Aviv Trilogy #1
Review 2003
373 pages
Fiction


This was a random buy the other week; the author's new book caught my eye and since it was the third book in a sort-of trilogy, I picked up the first one, this one, and was interested enough to take it home with me. For some reason, it was just begging to be read, so it didn't have to wait the usual waiting period of books I take home (which is anywhere between five months and five years). However, now that it's time to write the review, I find myself stuck. Every time I try to summarise it, it just doesn't sound right. So I'm ditching my usual review structure and will just talk about the book, revealing necessary bits of the plot-light story as I go.

The premise, in brief, is about a young woman, Lily, studying linguistics and language at the university in Jerusalem who meets a man, Ami, who works as an interrogator for the army. It is a story of their love for one another, a story of horror and heartbreak in a war-torn country, of a people persecuted - and I'm not talking about the Jews here. It's a powerful story, set in the 70s, that is inherently relevant today.

( Read on... )