So, I'm a bad Canadian, I'd never heard of this song before I stumbled across it in a Due South vid while totally not procrastinating NaNo. "The Northwest Passage" is apparently a classic, so I feel terribly uncultured for never having heard it. It is indeed a wonderful song.

It also really does go well with Due South, which I recently reread a bunch of fic for after seeing Dave Marciano on an episode of House. Perhaps some irony there, since I pretty much only read Fraser/RayK, but I am still very fond of Vecchio.



( Lyrics after the cut, and the Due South theme )

::girds self::

On the plus side, there's no WoW expansion coming out this year to steal my concentration!

I just found this:

Global Pokedex Plus

You know those things where people have dragon eggs or whatever, and you're supposed to click on them to make them hatch and grow?

Well this is the same thing, except with Pokemon. AND OH BOY DO I SUDDENLY SEE THE APPEAL. WTF. I might even try the dragon eggs, at this rate ::eyeroll::

But really, it's got all bright colours! And the collecting thing! And the random hope of getting one of those elusive shiny pokemon... The site is designed so you can find people's eggs to click on, and see who's clicked on yours to return the favour. Thus a never-ending cycle of clicking!

Actually to be honest this really reminds me of those animal behaviour experiments where researchers get rats and pigeons to tap a button or press a bar to get food or a treat or a jolt of electrical stimulation to the brain. HAHAHA. Well, it works for a reason, what can I say.

If Sheldon from Big Bang Theory wanted to disprove lolcats, he might come up with something like:

http://averagecats.com/.

This one's my favourite.

Maybe this is old, but it's the first time I've seen it:

Taken from questofdreams:
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.

Man, I'm not that prolific. This is gonna go back in time some.

( Hmmm... )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 6)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

Part 5

( Part 6. )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 5)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

Part 4

( Part 5. )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 4)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

Part 3

( Part 4. )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 3)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

Part 2

( Part 3. )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 2)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

Part 1

( Part 2. )

Title: 'Til You Feel It All Around You (Part 1)
Rating: PG-13 (Swearing)
Pairing: None
Summary: Zoro, Usopp, and Robin don't return as expected from a foray into an island forest. After setting out to locate them, the rest of the crew finds their nakama each missing significant portions of their whole lives.

Note: Yes, this is "they get turned into kids" fic. The title is from the song "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. (So's the lj-cut text.) I had to break this into six (!!) posts because it was too big.

Many thanks to serrende for some tireless beta-ing <33. Any remaining typos or peculiar wordings (and do point out anything you see that I missed!).

( In the end, we will only just remember how it feels. )

So I recently sent serrende a couple of sketches featuring Luffy and Usopp and Zoro, which she informed me I should share a little more widely. These are now HER pictures, really, but nonetheless, here they are for public viewing :P

They're not terribly polished... I always leave my pencil lines in because when I erase them I find the pictures look kind of naked (serrende's scan plus cleanup has made them look tidier, though). Anyway, without further ado:

( Naptime story )

and

( Sleeping swordsmen beware... )

I went to see the Dragonball movie with my BF.

LOL.

That is all.

Well, no, also: Toriyama-sensei, I am so, so sorry.

It was like High School Musical romance (no offense HSM! I love ya!) plus crummy video game plotting plus Spike from Buffy in an American accent and green skin.

XD

Title: Rinse and Repeat
Pairing: none
Rating: PG (barely, for Sanji's mouth)
Warnings: nothing
Summary: When there are four hammers on the crew, and one of them is Luffy, it's inevitable.

Note: This is a ficlet that was inspired by a scene from the recently revealed 10th anime opening.

( It was one of those days. )

Rewatching Babylon 5 from the beginning is like rereading a great old book that you've left just long enough to not remember all the plot details. This show looks dated because of the older effects and tech, but man, it's still as good now as it was then.

Fun stuff from the DVD commentaries:

-Centauri hair crests were an accident. Peter Jurasik came out of makeup with that huge hair, intending it to be a joke. He walked up to JMS and said "what do you think?! This works, doesn't it?" JMS thought it was pretty ridiculous, but generally was willing to go with what actors preferred, so he pretty much said "oh, absolutely." Thus, Peter Jurasik thought he really did like it, and went back to makeup saying JMS wanted the hair, and so the hair stayed, even though neither of them actually wanted it that way.

-In Severed Dreams, when Delenn shows up with the fleet and delivers that line, JMS says, "coming up is a bit that most fans call their favourite moment... I really love it too. I'll just sit here and watch it with you." I had mixed feeling about a commentary over that line, but there was no need to worry!

( No boom today... boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. )

Title: Pissed-Off Islanders Make Them Do It
Pairing: Sanji/Zoro
Genre: Angst
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Coerced sexual situations, e.g. "fuck or die" scenario.
Summary: See title.

Note: This is a cliche mostly used over in the Stargate: Atlantis fandom, though usually with a less angsty spin.

Beta'd for posting by serrende <3 any leftover messups are all mine. Please do point out any typos, html fails, or other wtfs!

Other Note: This is an ooooooold op_fanforall fic, originally posted as anon, back in summer of 2008 I think, for the prompt "Zoro is utterly humiliated in front of Sanji. (crossdressing might be fun but go wild on own if you wish)". My response at the time was, "I... wanted to write this, but when I started, it got turned around, and ended up angsty and with Sanji the one more affected by the situation than Zoro." OP was still interested, and thus:


( Do or die. )

Title: Safe Harbour
Author: tonko_ni
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Nami/Sanji, mentions Zoro/Sanji and Usopp/Sanji
Genre: Total AU
Summary: Sequel to Strange Bedfellows. Nami. Sanji. Ice storm strands the rest off-ship. See rating for further clues as to what happens next.

Note: This is HET. Normally I wouldn't bother reiterating this, since it's in the pairings, however since all previous installments with sexual content have been m/m, I figured I'd make sure it was clear.

Other note: On one hand maybe I should be embarrassed that all but one fic in this series/group/whatever are NC-17, but then, when one does a sex-vampire AU... really, what does one expect?

Beta'd by serrende. <3 All remaining errors and/or WTF-ish phrasing are mine. Please feel free to point out mistakes!

Other other note: If it feels, reading this, like some stuff has been skipped, it very much has. The actual meeting of Our Heroes has yet to make it from my mind to the page. Or .doc file, anyway. Suffice to say, they busted up Krieg, Ace departed all free, and Nami, who was there to steal from Krieg, fell in with the boys once he'd been smushed.

( The unexpected is to be expected. )