Been planning on posting these for a while, but totally forgot about them. Hope you enjoy!

( Without A Noise, Without My Pride: A Doumeki x Watanuki FST )

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( Scarred Heart in Hand: A Kurogane x Fai FST )

...Annnnd suddenly I find myself bereft of a good fiction read. Have plenty of non-fiction since I'm currently reading three of them, but I always need fiction. So, flist, any suggestions? :D I'm always up for fantasy, light-hearted, sub-texty romance, and beautifully crafted worlds.

I think I've fallen off the manga bandwagon for the moment, although webcomics have become a new addiction. Specifically Questionable Content. Now I want my best friend to open up a coffee shop called Coffee of Doom someday so I can have a bookstore called Book of Horrors right next to it. With a door in between so you can wander back and forth.

( RL-ish, so under cut )

Just saw one of the cut-scenes from Crisis Core on my brother's PSP, and god, it's gorgeous. And now I kinda wanna play it. >_< WILL NOT GIVE IN. That's a lot of money for a game that's more likely to create more plotholes than resolve them. Plus, GACKT/GENESIS. I won't be able to stop giggling at how ridiculous that is. BUT THE CG IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND IT'S SEPHIROTH BEING almost HUMAN. AND NINE-YEAR-OLD YUFFIE. Maybe I'll just borrow it when he's done. Yes, that will work. But oh, how the canon hurts. I don't think it can take anymore.

Ten hour shift + wandering around the block several times at eleven p.m. trying to figure out where my husband parked my car = cranky, cranky, cranky. Now that I have consumed an entire box of macaroni and cheese, it is time for bed.

EDIT: All my friends save one are enjoying the local con, and spamming me with pictures of cosplayers and fanart and themselves having immense amounts of fun. But I'm getting a bunch of random stuff (they won't tell me what they bought) and three DoumekixWatanuki doushinji out of it. And some random vendor called me a crazy yaoi fangirl over my friend's phone while she was trying to figure out which doushinji to buy me. One of which has been scanned, and two I've never seen before, so... But I'm grateful to have such awesome, crazy, and wonderful friends, yes.

This song makes me want to play Final Fantasy VI. I know that re-releasing the Final Fantasy games is just a way for Squeenix to make money off something they've already done (a million times over) but god I wish they'd remake this for the DS like they've done for III and IV. I loved the SNES games, they're so iconic of my childhood that I don't care how shitty the gameplay is, or how lame the plot is from an adult perspective, or how cheesy the dialogue, I would play them over and over again just for the nostalgic rush. Sometimes I think the characters are so much better than anything after that - before they realized how many people would buy the games just because it's Final Fantasy.

*wanders off to see if she can find the PSone release on eBay*

ALSO: I really need to stop shopping online. Amazon has Final Fantasy Anthology, but if I spend 5 more dollars I get free shipping, so might as well get The Dark Tower Concordance, too, and oh look, Looking For Group has new merchandise! *headdesk* My almost-paid-off credit card does not thank me for this.

For the record, I am participating in the content strike, and I hope everyone can curb the LJ addiction for one day to do the same! (Seriously, guys, it's high time we did something.)

Just switched both my accounts back to basic while I still can! And have registered as vinval at InsaneJournal, if anyone wishes to friend. :-) Although I haven't even bothered to fill in my profile or anything yet. I will once my three-day-weekend kicks in. Yay!

I just finished typing up a scene from a story idea that's been kicking around in my head for a while, and was wondering if anyone would read it and give me some hard-core crit if I posted it? Because while I love fan-fiction, if I decide I want to get serious about getting published, I'm going to need to get my technique torn up, down, and sideways.

Internet is down for unspecified period of time. Posting from brother's computer which hates me. So, um, see you around eventually?

MAR. 19th: Of course, as soon as I post this, it gets fixed that night.

Holy cow, I just noticed somebody anonymously linked a Smashing Pumpkins album download to Because Love 9 as a Christmas present. How did I miss this? If you're part of my flist, thank you! Sorry I'm so unobservant, I don't know how I missed it.

godamnit, I am having the hardest time finding colored scans of xxxHolic. Surfing LJ and deviantART has yielded very, very little and since I have no artistic abilities, doing it myself is out.

So I guess I'm asking if anyone could point me in the right direction? Or give me searching tips? I really have no idea what I'm doing on the internet anymore.

EDIT: Oh! And if you're into Naruto at all, please watch this and comment! My friend made this AMV and it's awesome (and I don't even watch Naruto) and she needs more love for her amazingness, since I know she spent three sleepless, foodless days trying to make it perfect. Please?

TODAY = MALICIOUS GLEE.

( CAN'T STOP CAPLOCKING OMG )