"I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful." - Life of PiIt cooled right down today. I probably would have enjoyed it more if my nose hadn't taken advantage of the fact and gushed forth the red sea. Dry Weather + High Stress = Andy + Lots of ( Read more... )

"All cows, no matter what they're thinking, say 'moo.'" - Mother 3Sharing rooms with my sis while the aircon's still broken and no one in the southern hemisphere exerts such force in their sleep. We're talking mouth-smacking, teeth-grinding, dream-mumbling kung-fu master ( Read more... )

"I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph." - Jack Gilbert

Done for the Hetalia Historical Event Meme, which needs more love. America/Japan, prompt being the bombings of 1945. This is mostly allusive but I think it goes without saying that the content is sensitive and not for everyone.

( The child of god goes to heaven, and the child of heaven goes to earth. )

There's a depressing lack of it, which is downright weird considering how gritty and inspirational this series is so I thought I'd try my hand at DOGS fic. Warning for slight profanity and sexual references.

Badou introspective.

"We are, so to speak, born twice: once to exist and once to live." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

( Grow out the hair, comb the fringe over. In the end, it doesn't matter how much you rearrange it; you can't hide what's not there. Lost your eye and you can't even cry about it. Lost your bro, and really that's everything. )

"According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans." - Sun Tzu

Oh, LJ. Despite knowing this was inevitable since they introduced beta testing, I can't help but be completely disappointed. Blatant disregard for the concerns and DO NOT WANTs of the userbase aside, that's the sort of 'design' that was popular when computers were ( Read more... )

"Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food." - Frank A. Clark

Looking at this list has made me realise that I'm somewhat attention-deficit. Why am I such a half-hearted person. D: Fickleness aside though, I'd absolutely recommend all the series below.

( My attempt at keeping track of wayward chapters/episodes. )

"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." - Pete Hamill

( This is the one where an amnesiac Yamamoto is held up in America and tries to make sense of himself. )

Kokuyo minus Chrome. They're in prison, and Chikusa thinks he sees everything.Chikusa is becoming quickly reacquainted with chest pain, the lip-biting kind, the kind that feels as though his ribs are converging on his sternum. Two more bootmarks; he steals a breath and it's almost bearable, but Ken is shrieking, panicked, scrabbling against the ( Read more... )

A Mukuro backstory. What if he wasn't an Old Soul? What if the Old Soul found him?

He's travelled across decades, treaded on the delicate, duckling faces of humans. He's swallowed their stories, hook and sinker. They fascinate him; the tiny ones with tiny fists, and the dying ones, quiet, convulsing, swimming upstream towards the light.

( He's visited them, studied the unlikely way their skin folds around their bones. )

A 'what comes after' story. Yamamoto. Gokudera. Tsuna.

This is how it all goes down, after the end.

Gokudera Hayato: Loving the dead, jumping at shadows, fastest shot still around.
Yamamoto Takeshi: Autopilot.

( It's said that when you lose somebody together, it either brings you closer or rips you apart. )