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::watching Samurai 7 episdoes 1-3 with avid interest::

Ah! I get it. There's the young overly idealistic and untested one.

There's the joker who sells his warrior skills to survive! He was James Coburn's character, wasn't he? Maybe. Cause he even looks like James Coburn.

I think the Jesusy one is supposed to be Yule Brynner. Yes, yes, definitely.


This is a very cool anime to watch, at least in terms of novelty. Granted, I've never seen The Seven Samurai... but I have seen The Magnificent Seven! So watching this show is a trip for my inner movie geek.

Although, if this ends the way The Magnificent Seven ended, I might cry. There could be crying.

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Well, I've posted my first chapter, Rockefeller Tall, of my first Full Metal Alchemist fanfic.

Title:Transcontinental Lament
Characters: Roy, Hughes
Spoilers: Episode 25
Category: Angst, Drama
Pairings: minor Hughes/Gracia, otherwise none

Summary: Episode 25 and Roy Mustang. A five-part vignette for dreams, for fools, for a world that moves on.


I am very pleased with this fic so far-- it's bigger than I normally do but not too big, so I will be able to actually finish it. I also kinda had fun choosing the chapter titles, because I played around with the whole train thing, and as such made a few winks at Atlas Shrugged, which had a lot of railroads, trains, and metaphors (also some politics I didn't agree with, but very interesting writing). Choosing the main story title was really hard though, and I'm still not too certain about it.

Note: "Suo Gan" by the Ambrosian Boys Choir is the saddest song to listen to when writing sad fic. It's so beautiful, but that only makes me more sad.

crossposted to fma_fiction

::Watching bits of VMAs recorded from last night::

Marylin Manson: "If Mandy and I had love child... ... ... ...if she were old enough... ..."

I take back every bady thing I ever said about Marylin Manson for the laugh that just gave me.