Request: This is probably a long shot, but would anyone happen to have an album of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner? Any version release would be alright, as long as it contains the complete ring cycles (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung). It is extremely long, so if by chance anyone does have it, I'd be willing to trade you for anything you might want (that I have).

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JPQUEEN HAS TWO NIOU/MARUI DJS! WHY NOW?!. OMG. *BUYS* *SOBS* One of the very few TeniPuri pairings that can still make me fangirl and spend needlessly kthnxbyeIgokillmyselfnow. AND ONE IS BY THAT FANART SITE I RECCED AND GIBBLED OVER YEARS AGO OMG luminata I KILLZ J00!! (for no other reason other than you're the only other person I know who likes Niou/Marui and I WOE. BECAUSE OF COURSE I BOUGHT IT WHEN I SHOULDN'T HAVE.)

Gaaah. I still need to pick up my last doujinshi order. It's been at the post office since forever. ;_; I have a tendency to always wait until the last notice arrives on my doorstep before I even remember that I have a package to pick up, and then I get panicky because of course I don't have time and oh no what if I don't have time before they get rid of it! WOE. My RyoZuka and ShinSaku raburabu~! (Yes, that's RyoZuka. I think there was only one ZukaRyo in that batch.)

PS. Semagic has a new release now allowing the use of LJ tags on the client. Yey!

... I owe three people fic betas. *hides* Sorrysorry. The first has been with me for almost three weeks. *dies* I will get to it. This week. I swear.

caillen just got me into Furuba. Goddamnit. All she had to do was wave Shishou/Kyou under my nose, tell me Shishou took care of Kyou while growing up and wham! Hello Furuba. And now she's gotten me into reading Haru/Kyou. And obviously, Haru/Kyou is another one of those pairs where I can stand a little bit of mush.

So anyway, I want Shishou/Kyou and Haru/Kyou fics. Someone rec me some fics! Please?

Edit: Why are there so many Yuki/Kyou fics. I don't like Yuki. I don't like Yuki with Kyou. There's no Haru/Kyou fics to be had. *whimpers* *kills athene* This is all your fault.

Yosh. I'm back. (Well literally, I never really left, but first time back online with a lot of time to putter about.) Now to read over 300 blah blah blah posts on my friends list. My HP filter alone goes back 100. -_-

Do you know how long it's been since I started reading HP fanfic? Almost 3 years. Do you know how long it's been since I've been active in the fandom? Zero. How many HP fics I've written? Zilch. When I was planning to ever write HP fic? Never.

So what do I do? I join the Sirius/Harry FQF is what I do. My writing has been in a really deep funk as of late, and I thought the challenge would do me some good, even if it currently has me crossing my fingers and hoping I don't get a challenge which I absolutely cannot write for. We all know I'm horrible at these sort of things. I don't even know what I was thinking. It took me days of having the idea nipping at the edges before I finally decided to join.

Anyway, I've decided to do this and I will finish the damned fic even if it kills me.


Is there anyway for you to tell amazon.com that you don't want recommendations from a certain author? My rec list is riddled with Poppy Z. Brite and Mercedes Lackey titles, and I really have no plans of buying anything by these two authors. I want amazon to stop reccing them to me! :/

The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter. Look at the price on that thing.

If anyone had told me back when I got into Naruto a year ago that it would be my next active fandom (after two years of not having one) I would have literally scoffed at you. You would then have the rather smug satisfaction of rubbing it in my face however. I was expecting Shaman King. I was even expecting Saiyuki. Naruto? Hardly. I loved the manga, but loving the manga and entering fandom are two different things entirely.

So anyway, I posted a fic challenge to the Naruto Yaoi list, if only because I've been dying to post this challenge since December. The challenge is simple enough and one that's been done countless of times elsewhere. It's most satisfying to do this with original fiction, where the boundaries are limitless, but just as fun with fanfic.

The challenge: Take any Naruto image (fanart, doujinshi, it can even be your own fanart) and write a fic inspired by said image.

The problem, this being the first challenge, I realize it would be in poor taste to throw it out to the list and not work on the challenge myself. Not a problem in itself, since the idea for the challenge was spurred on by the fact that Tetuno Ichihara's fanart kept on making me go "I want to fic that!", because her art is just wonderful.

( and then i decide to dig my grave )

Somebody kill me. I have the worst, damnable urge to write sap. Yes, you heard that right. Sapsapsapsap. Cringe away in fear at the prospect of me writing sap all you with half a brain to do so. This is all caillen's fault of course, that wretched woman. You see, just the other day she had me download If You Still Believe from Legend of Dragoon. I only got to listen to it tonight (I vaguely remember hearing this song when I played the game, but I'd never really heard the song until now) and well, quite obviously, I'm smitten. The song can be downloaded here.

So, it's a chance of a lifetime to see Achan who's never written anything but snippets since oh, two years ago, write sap. Pure, unrepentant sap you'll be gagging before you even get halfway through. Sound good? Thought not. I dare someone to request me to write said sap fic on a pairing of your choice, and for once I will try to oblige such a request. If you deliberately ask for a pairing I hate I will happily feed you to my carnivorous plot bunny. Sap!fic will be inspired loosely by aforementioned song.

( Lyrics to If You Still Believe )