Cowboy Bebop fic update

A semi-Faye/Spike fic I like, Fallen Seraphim, was just updated at ff.net with two chapters. Have yet to read them.

Say, circe_tigana, did you ever read some of those fics on that list? Which ones did you like/dislike?

waffles, rugs, and arsenic

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Fresh waffles this morning!

My mom bought a waffle-maker yesterday, and we experimented. The first one was a bad mess, but the second one (after we realized we should spray Pam Oil on the burner) I ate, and it was good. Fluffy. Not those enormous Belgium waffles either; no one in my family likes those.

We also bought an area rug for my bedroom, finally. No more wood floor. It's nice, too. Lots of strips and some flowers; mostly blue and white, like my walls. A very loose design; it was hell trying to find something that wasn't the traditional style of tightly packed oriental designs or tightly packed overly busy old english designs. And finding something that wasn't brown... it took forever. God, all the rugs out there for actual floors (not bathroom rugs) are brown or red. No sense of color at all.

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Last night I had a dream that I was writing a 900 page book that would be the next Harry Potter novel. Only, instead of being about Harry Potter, it was actually an "interlude" story that was all about how Draco spent all of 5th year slowly poisoning his father to death by giving him arsenic. Only, because that stuff stays in the blood forever, he was building it up slowly. And the evening when he was going to give Lucius some tea with the last amount that it would take to kill him, the raid on the Ministry happened. And now Lucius is rotting in jail, and Draco can't get to him to finish the murder. And the doctors at the jail who examined Lucius didn't know what the substance in his blood was because arsenic is a muggle poison.

That's probably not how arsenic works at all, and I have no idea why Draco would want to poison his father to death, or, indeed, why anyone would write a 900 page novel about the slow process of it. But aparently I'm morbid enough to consider it. I had a whole plan for getting around the copyright laws, too.

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EDIT: It only now just occured to me that Draco would have been in school, and unable to poison his father's tea... he must have started the poisoning process during Yule break, and then had a servant continue in his place while he went back to Hogwarts, and getting daily updates from his servant on how it was all going.

Help, help, I'm dying here!

random thought: Does anyone else think Movie!Draco looks a lot like Eminem?
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I need help. I'm playing Final Fantasy X on my PS2, a thing I was too busy to do for over two months until now. Finally, I can do it. Now, however, I've gotten myself into a tight spot.

All my guys are there, and I'm fighting boss-man Seymour the Blue Androgynous Monkey-Faced One. He jumps into this giant.... floating thing... and basically flattens my team. Every time they do something to hurt him, he either sucks the life from one after another in sequencial order, or murders us all with one swipe of his pair of glowy swords. Or combines those two acts. And he totally whupped my Overdrive Bahamut Summon.

How do I beat His Blueness?

here's a renewed version of an old meme - Favorite scents

My favorite scents and smells:

crushed leaves of tomato plant
the ocean, when you've gotten far out from shore
trees and plants just after a rain
strawberries
cedar
apricots
eucalyptus acorns
anise plant (smells sort of like black licorice)
redwood forrests
the scent of a "Double Delight" breed of rose
cookies baking
rum cake
clean towels
roses
freesia
tea
tangerines
plums
pie
lemons
sandalwood
saffron
oranges
inside of a bookstore
chinese tea right after eating
wet just-shampooed hair
beef stew
nectarines
oven-baked green apples

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The icon is new, too. Got it from behindblue_eyes!

Ahoy, mates! Pirate fic rec. Love or Money, by where-is-truth

So. I found a Captain Jack / Original Character het fic. And I'm Shocked and Awed, because I'm falling in love with it.

As you all know by now, a 3-dimenionsal and useful Original Character is a jewel to find in fanfiction. It's hard enough finding one that doesn't automatically annoy you, much less one you like AND like seeing with your favorite character.

where-is-truth wrote a post-chosen Buffy fanfic that I liked a lot, called 'Here & Now.' Started this PotC fic a while ago, and I ignored it until today. Now I'm loving it, and awaiting the next part. Not only is her OC enjoyable, but her Jack is perfect and her dialogue is entertaining. I couldn't for the life of me tell you if it's a realistic dialogue style, but it certainly sounds good and meshes well with my memory of the movie's script style.

title: Love or Money
author: where-is-truth
summary: Jack's presumptuous nature brings him face-to-face with a down-on-her-luck literature lover with nothing to lose and nothing to leave behind.

Quote:
“Love, let us get a little somethin’ perfectly clear. Pirate equals not appropriate, savvy? In fact, I’d rather be appropriately inappropriate than inappropriately appropriate, which is what so many people do, or worse still, appropriately appropriate, which is not only frightfully boring but also a pain in my hindquarters. Now, if you will, take your propriety and apply it to traipsing back up to my cabin, I’d greatly appreciate it.”