Smoke and Scribbles

Here's the cover to the upcoming CLAMP in America book from Del Rey. Many online comic book retailers have it listed for a February 24th release.

Author: Winter Violet
Challenge: Pomegranate # 3 Transformation and Strawberry Cheesecake # 13 Mirror
Topping: Whipped Cream
Word Count: 233
Story: Little Detective
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Growing up without a parent: what a drama.
Notes: I still feel so sad about this story. Shortest one I’ve written so far.

( Grown-up )

Author: hi_falootin
Story: Second Chances
Prompt: FOTD "Solicitous": Manifesting or expressing care or concern; Full of desire; eager
+ Rainbow Sprinkles + Malt: Zombz's dare for Tony on an adventure of some sort
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~2200
Notes: Okay, I had a major screw up with the write-or-die desktop program (lol shut up) and lost about 1000 words of this. So this is both an attempted rewrite and...kind of late. Sob. Unedited. :( But it's a Tony story, so I can get some brownie points for that, y/n? Timeline is a couple of weeks before this piece.

What he really wanted was to have a few more beers then pass out in the air-conditioned motel. And wake up to Water World. On the first night of their roadtrip, Tony and the ladies hit a tavern. Why does Charli want to talk about that?

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Lol, oh yeah and I forgot to post this to LJ, but I finally have a job.

It is at the library where I will do much shelving of the books and will basically be the librarians' bitch, but I am a-OK with that!

I've pretty much coveted this job for three years now. Omg library. Omg books! They're gonna pay me for something I like to do anyway!

So, yeah, I start sometime in January and man, it's gonna be hella wicked.

Wowzers.

k bedtime

I really want to visit Vermont over winter break and maybe those of you in, like, NY and MA and stuff. ♥

WE SHALL SEE

So, I , uh, wrote some Boostle. This is, hilariously, not one of the four fics I've been working on since the beginning of November, but is, in fact, something I started last night and just finished.

I had a lot of fun with it!

The best kind of fic is the kind you actually enjoy writing. :D

I've read meg cabot mediator, a long time ago, and for some reason I'm just in the mood to read about dealing with people that talk with ghost. Anyone know any thing similar?

You remember my younger self, right? It's been a while. The younger self comics aren't around much because they're so uh, different. They're odd, I write them as I go.

I spent two days working on a comic that I ended up not liking. Maybe I will fix it later and post it sometime, it happens! Expect another update soon. But for now, not wanting to wait any more days to update, I just made a comic about frustration. Poor little self, I don't always treat her well! And I felt so bad about the broken telescope, I kept it until I was in university.

I still like advent calendars, though.

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( Well, THAT wiped the smile off your face. )

For latecomers.

Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

10:15 Happy Birthday! You're still a baby! Practically a fetus (who would retweet Spongebob cough cough...hee) @JackieKessler #

17:22 EEEEE. So happy! And envious too, but envy makes it even better!! hee @dianapfrancis giddy Bitter Night is nominated for RT Best UF for 2009 #

17:40 Yes, I'm retweeting myself because I refuse to let the epic vendetta of Cal Leandros and Spongebob die. twitpic.com/skrtj #

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For those of you who didn't get to see the excerpt/draft of one of the, like, five Boostle fics I'm working on, here's the Wordle.

Discuss.

I was gonna write more but I'm hella tired.

Yes, I wrote "hella". I'm from California, it's excusable.

Well, I guess this also serves as my intro post to the community, so, um... Hi!
I started writing a fic inspired by a combination of the... first page, I guess, of Chapitre 198 and the awesome splash for Chapitre 201, where everyone's a kid, over the weekend, and I've now got the first chapter written. I usually post fiction without a beta, but I wanted to have someone check this over before I post it to make sure that it's relatively easy to understand and that I haven't messed up on any major grammar rules.
Any takers? (oh, and, it's roughly four pages in length, in case anyone was wondering, and is told sort of from Kurogane's point of view).

Thanks!

Title: Enemies of My Soul, Conspirators in Pajamas
Rating: PG-13 for language, and sexual situations
Characters: Adelle DeWitt, Laurence Dominic
Pairing: Adelle DeWitt/Laurence Dominic
Disclaimer: I do not own Dollhouse. Or Alias.
Words: 3, 340
Author's Notes: Here be the previous chapters

Familiar footsteps follow her to the study. She doesn’t know whether to burst in tears or to grin like a loon. It’s so strange to hear that sound after such a long time. And she just realized how much she missed it.

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This is a book by Frances De Pontes Peebles, about two girls in 1930s Brazil. As always, minor spoilers.
It is a surprisingly in depth look at how we change, how people can adapt and react. One of the sisters, Luzia, was badly hurt when she fell from a tree in her childhood and her elbow became locked, resulting in taunts and bullying for most of her life. She escapes the village by joining--or rather, being carried along with--the cangaceiros, the bandits and outlaws of the caatinga, the 'backlands' of Brazil. Luzia's older sister, Emilia (her name is spelled wrong; I can't add accents here) sees her life in the tiny village as a trap, and willingly follows Degas, one of the upper class, out of the town as a wife. She finds out how precarious her position is in the catty society of Recife. It's about women suffrage, about how easily hatred and bitterness can slip into someone's character. It kept making me flip flop, too--one minute, I hated Degas's guts, and the next, I understand what he must have been going through and sympathized.
I like it, though it took me a long time to get hooked onto the book. I especially liked how the author made Luzia not a perfect character, but instead forced her to become steadily harsher, bitter--and still keep me with her. It is also a look at society between the wars from another country. The caatinga is described
In all, I think this would be a 9/10 book, and recommended for anyone who isn't--disturbed--by violence and brutality--and who likes thick books (this is 641 pages). Otherwise, if you enjoy contemporary (is 1930's contemporary? I don't know) with a deeper theme, this is great. You can choose to enjoy the story or dig through it if you want: that's the nice thing about this story.

Title: The Only One For Me
Summary: AU KuroFai one-shots *it's been on FF.net for a while now*
Rating: T
Chapter Summary: Kurogane asks for Yuui's help to get Fai a White Day present.

All that glitters is not a real cut...

Author: talking_fridge
Prompts: Dark Chocolate #6: Disillusionment
Extras: Pocky
Story: Noise
Word Count: 83
Summary: Todd realizes that his goals might not be easy.
Notes: My first Pocky, so I'm a bit nervous about whether it went well or not. For those new to the story, don't freak out about Todd, the Falling aren't humanoids. They're... tiny, mysterious things, which may or may not technically be alive in the first place.

( Not listening and not realizing were very different... )

Continuing in the festive tradition of holiday gift-giving, the Winter Holiday Book Giveaway Spectacular for Week 2 is for a hard-back copy of the third Artemis Fowl book, "The Arctic Incident". If you would like to participate in this Giveaway Spectacular, please post a comment with your Christmas Elf Name. You can either make one up, or use the Christmas Elf Name Generator. I will select a winner at random on December 16.

Ho, ho, ho!

I apologise in advance for this, as I know there are many, many posts similar to this out there. But the boy I am buying for is so fussy, I felt I needed to ask more specifically.

I am buying a Christmas present for a boy who rarely reads, but wants to get into it more. He has recently enjoyed A Spot of Bother and This Book Will Change Your Life - he is interested in, and I quote, "feel-good, kind of artsy, pretentious books".

Any recommendations for something that could tickle his fancy? Thank you so much in advance.