Avatar

... up with the story. It was kind of cool, and the story, while hackneyed (basically Dances with Wolves IN SPACE) seemed to work more or less. A few days ago, I watched RedLetter Media's extensive and smart critique of The Phantom Menace , how it didn't work because there was no dramatic structure, and no protagonist with a character arc. Well, Avatar has what Phantom Menace lacked: a main ...

...It didn't take Eriol very long to decide that the library was his favorite place on campus. He spent hours in there pouring over books, the likes of which he'd never seen even in Clow's extensive library. It was, he thought, a normal Saturday, excepting the mistletoe hung around the campus in a fit of Christmas cheer. Lovely stuff, if poisonous. He'd always found that somewhat amusing. He got up ...

Eight(ish) Crazy Nights: Eight (SV)

... us. See if you can save Kon from the Luthor curse.” “Join you?” Clark asked numbly. “I don’t mean that you should quit your day job. Or your extracurriculars, though one must wonder about the toll such extensive activities take on the ability to raise a child. I mean that you’d live in my house and share my bed. If you do that, you’re welcome to do your best to indoctrinate our child in your ...

[Fic] Reborn!: Cure for Shock

... of Hibari’s extracurricular activities. Not that Hibari cared. Not even when Sawada began sending his other guardians to Hibari in an unsubtle attempt to minimize the increasingly extensive, increasingly expensive topographical damage. Sasagawa was the first, and was also called back almost immediately when it became clear that partnering the enthusiastic Sun Guardian with the mercurial Cloud ...

thoughts on "lowside of the road: a life of tom waits" by barney hoskyns

...'t have a book to write. Which, frankly, seems pretty flimsy reasoning to me. Lowside of the Road is well written, considering the number of people who wouldn't talk to Hoskyns. Making use of extensive interviews given by Tom throughout his career and a handful of people who would talk (notably, these folks are almost all from the early phase of Tom's career and feel hurt at being shut out ...

Happy Holidays, _chibiko_!

... my own heart. Joe's Blue's Bar, Paris, 2010 It was at times like this that Joe really hated being out of the field. Sure, he was still nominally Duncan Macleod's watcher but, for all extensive purposes, he'd been put out to pasture under a huge pile of paperwork. All of France, as well as Britain, Switzerland, Morocco, and Spain, fell under his jurisdiction, and that was a lot of Watchers ...

Fic: Speak Low If You Speak of Love - for thesewarmstars

..., though, what would happen to Severus in all of this? The timer went off and Harry retrieved the cakes mechanically, sliding them onto the cooling racks. He spent the next fifteen minutes cleaning up the extensive mess he’d made then tested one cake for cooling. Assured they were ready, he pressed a flat cake plate over the top and then flipped the first plate, tapping on the bottom to make sure...

Nightmares part 1

... so they’d fallen into an uneasy friendship – punctuated by his occasional lapse into flattery or flirtation, and her constant teasing and occasional flat rejection. Like her brother Fergus, Erika had quite extensive martial training, but unlike Fergus, or even Ser Gilmore, she had found herself excelling more at archery and fighting with light weapons than in heavy armour with a heavy blade and ...

[sci-fi AU] Before the Thunderstorm

..., no matter what the kid did. Yanagi merely nodded to Akaya, a signal that was correctly interpreted as you’re going to pay for this later. “An was found in Kabukicho, originally by Jackal. After extensive repair, it’s evident that she’s an Inui-type android.” “Good for it, I guess?” Akaya clearly didn’t see any problems in pushing his luck. “I am female,” An stated, looking directly ...

Jupiter Station, I miss you.

...'s still an active community! :D Janeway/Paris was my favorite pairing, and for any J/P fan, there was JuPiter Station. I loved that website too much. The fan fiction archive was just too extensive for my life, it was such a guilty yet wonderful indulgence. A quick Google search revealed that the website is, sadly, no longer online. The original owner has lost interest in the pairing. But did he ...