Step One: Find copy of "A Game of Thrones" and hold it open to a chapter set near the Wall ( Read more... )

For the cracked-out, multi-fandom nonsense involving characters who live in a rambling Queen Anne mansion in my creativity centers that will never make it into a fanfic, because it's all too weird:

( Cut for weirdness )

So I took a look at the traffic report for my fics on fanfiction.net and I'm surprised and delighted with the results:

( Cut to fit a table )

But first, another "Hey, It's That Voice" moment: "Whoa... am I hearing this right or am I just that tired? Rukia's captain sure sounds like a Certain Shinigami Named Kurosaki, if his voice had changed a little more..." (Liam O'Brien, who voiced Hisoka in Yami no Matsuei, only this time his voice is a bit deeper, no doubt because he's not trying to ( Read more... )

Which I may end up incorporating into the weird Yami no Matsuei/Bleach mash-ups that creep into my fanficcing, mostly because Mercy Falcone (my OFC) likes to come up with nicknames for people she either really likes or really detests and because I have a feeling Tsuzuki couldn't keep the names straight any more than I can, so no doubt he'd find ( Read more... )

I had planned to go out today and make my at-most-twice-a-month trip to the Burlington Barnes & Noble, but considering the extreme wind chills today and the fact that I was up till the wee hours last night typing one fanfiction, writing another and watching anime (not necessarily in that order or all at once, either), I decided to stay home today. ( Read more... )

While watching Bleach: "Hey, this kid bringing food to Rukia sounds like Shinji Ikari. He's even a bit whiny." Turned out to be Spike Spencer, who's admitted that he's had people at conventions call out "Hey, Shinji!" to him, even though his regular speaking voice is a bit deeper and slangier-sounding than that of the pilot of Eva Unit-01 ( Read more... )

Just brought a bag of Beanie Babies (and some "wannabeanies", ie. beanbag stuffed animals that aren't Beanie Babies but wish they were...) to the Toys for Tots bin at work, and also got my hours for the week: I have ten hours! Yahoo! I guess I got a chance to play St. Nicholas today ( Read more... )

Even since the end of NaNoWriMo, I've been continuing to watch a bunch of anime, which has prompted some weird remarks from me ( Read more... )

--Never listen to the commentary on End of Evangelion at three in the morning, when everything is *funny*. Granted, you'll be better able to tune into the hijinks (and you can tell that a lot of the chatter was Jason Lee and Amanda Winn-Lee releasing pent-up silliness that they'd been keeping to themselves during production on the damn thing; you ( Read more... )