Laura Bryannan

Finally, more of my Tyrant Who Falls in Love story. Souichi's point of view now, 1103 words and not particularly worksafe, but please don't kill me for the cliffie. Sorry! *ducks*

Title: The Turning, IV
Pairing: Souichi/Morinaga
Rating: NC-17
Theme: Morinaga gets a surprise

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

( The Turning, IV )

I spent a decade managing two departments at a prestigious university and, in my experience, this article is 100% true. For those of you slogging through school when you hate it--only there because you're buying into this culture's BS about how you need one of these puppies to survive--read and believe!

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree

...do you use your turn signal if there's no one there to see?

I'm honestly curious.

FWIW, I do not.

Lmuse finally got off her ass and pulled together more of my Tyrant Who Falls in Love story. Back to Morinaga, 537 words, still worksafe but we're getting there.

Title: The Turning, III
Pairing: Morinaga/Souichi
Rating: PG-13...for now ^_~
Theme: Morinaga gets a surprise

[Part 1] [Part 2]

( The Turning, III )

You can find episodes 79-82, as well as OVA 4, available for direct download at the subber's website, Shoku-dan, or on torrent here. Enjoy!

Here's the next part of my Tyrant Who Falls in Love story. Now we have Souichi's POV. 873 words, still worksafe, I'm afraid.

Title: The Turning, II
Pairing: Morinaga/Souichi
Rating: PG-13...for now ^_~
Theme: Morinaga gets a surprise

[Part 1]

( The Turning, II )

And now a little something from The Tyrant Who Falls in Love universe. I've been itching to write this story ever since I began reading the manga, so here is the first part. 434 words, worksafe.

Title: The Turning
Pairing: Morinaga/Souichi
Rating: PG-13...for now ^_~
Theme: Morinaga gets a surprise

( The Turning )

Woohoo, I gots story! I finally finished this piece, so sorry for the long wait. 1306 words, not worksafe, although it turned out more thoughtful than erotic, I'm afraid. It's dedicated to my pal yasashii_kawa, who thankfully lured me into playing with this pairing. ^_^

Title: Of Green Things, IV
Pairing: Gojyo/Sanzo
Rating: NC-17
Theme: Sanzo faces some human realities

[Part One] [Part Two] [Part Three]

( Of Green Things, IV )

This one's going around y!gallery. Thought it might be interesting to compare notes

Age: older than you
Where you grew up: midwest

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: stream
2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store called: shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in: lunch box
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people: couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: deck
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: pop
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: pancakes
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: trunks
12. Shoes worn for sports: tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order: clean up
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark: firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball: roly-poly
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: see-saw
17. How do you eat your pizza: wagonwheel cut
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: garage sale
19. What's the evening meal: dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: drinking fountain

Yesterday vejiicakes posted some gold: David Kawena's gorgeous art of Disney men! Even if you don't like Disney, these portraits are droolworthy. Here's Tarzan *slurp*



If you need more, check out his blog here. There's no naughty bits showing, but it's probably still NSFW. Enjoy!

This has been reported in two different places I frequent, so I thought I'd pass the info along. There are authors and organizations who have learned how to get negative reviews to their works removed from Amazon. Apparently, if enough different people flag a review as abuse it will be automatically removed until a human can review the situation, which takes about a week.

Once the review is reinstated, the situation repeats itself. Some authors have enough of a posse going that negative reviews come down within hours of being reposted.

So, my dears, if you bump into a book that has no 1, 2 or 3 star reviews, beware. It is possible that the author's pals are manipulating the system. If you'd like to explore further, peek at the Amazon thread here.

Here's a few ways to disgust those you allegedly admire:

1. Show up in their journal (one you've never commented on, of course) and ask the creator in question to write or draw something for you. Don't offer any compensation for their effort and imply they've got nothing better to do with their time. Extra bonus strategy: ask them to do something they never do, like write yaoi when they only create het, etc.

2. Arrive on the scene saying something like, "I love your work so much, I've created a piece using your characters. Aren't you thrilled?" You get points if the creator has never invited such participation in their canon, and if it's a parody or satire of their work, that's even better. It goes without saying that you should never ask permission first.

3. If you're not getting the attention you crave, use a tried and true method of manipulation: dedicate your piece to the creator you admire. Now they'll have to check it out, right? (and say something nice, too). Again, you get points if you've never commented on any of their works first.

4. If you do deign to comment, be sure to get your needs met as well. After all, killing two birds with one stone is smart, eh? So, you can always say, "Boy I really liked this, but when are you going to [do what I want]?" Or, "This was good, but I would have liked it better if you [did what I want]."

5. Here's another successful strategy: be sure to advertise your own creations in your comments to the one you admire. A helpful example: "This was so good, it reminds me of my wonderful piece which you can find [link provided]."

6. Extra bonus points are awarded if you get publicly pissed that the one you admire seems uninterested in creating something featuring your most beautiful and perfect MarySue OC, or politely asks that you stop playing in their sandbox.


There ya go! Ain't I helpful? These things have all happened to me or folks I know. I'm sure ya'll have others.

That is all.

P.S. School is finally back in session and I'm writing again! *pets happy muse*

Posting a fav picture because I've nothing else to say, and I'm bittersweet about being pulled away from my OT3.

I hope to have the next part of my Saiyuki story up next week, but even that keeps getting sidetracked by Tyrant. Lmuse is confused.

Anyone know of any fanart/fiction troves for

( The Tyrant Who Falls in Love )

I'm not sure I like it yet, considering Morinaga always seems to be raping Souichi, but those glasses do it for me every time, so.....

For all of you who have stories up at fanfiction.net:

cavisze was kind enough to post that The Voles has changed it's formatting rules, and now anyone who has used asterisks, dashes or dots to mark section breaks in their stories will find the markings gone. Edit time. *sigh* I may remove pieces rather than go back in and fix them all.


A permanent archive for writers:

scribblemoose posted about The Organization for Transformative Works, which is having a membership drive in hopes to open their 'Archive of Our Own' later this year. Writers interested in placing their works in such an archive may want to look into this.

Here's more of my story. 843 words, only moderately worksafe.

Title: Of Green Things, III
Pairing: Gojyo/Sanzo or maybe Sanzo/Gojyo....not sure
Rating: R this time
Theme: Sanzo faces some human realities

Part one is here.
Part two is here.

( Of Green Things, III )

This week's Bleach omake was a hoot. The running gag of the Shinigami Women's Association Calendar caught up with Shuuhei and Kira with Rangiku behind the camera, and whose hand is so helpful. Go girl!



( Now let's get those off too! )

I've been thinking about this all day and finally decided to link to it. My flist pal achariya posted about supacat's discussion concerning her relationship experiences while living in Japan. She discovered practices so charmingly different, I was honestly surprised. Come peek and let's discuss. ^_^

(Relationships in Japan, as written by a western woman trying to figure it out)

The whys are in oceanica's journal here.

And, if you need further convincing, have a peek at this interview with Anton Nosik, a Director of SUP who currently runs their blogging operations (courtesy of scribblemoose).

I doubt this boycott will accomplish anything but wanted to give my flist a head's up in case ya'll wanted to participate, and to say that if you post a creation on Friday and I don't comment, this is why.