Title: Pavel, Bold outlaw of Sherwood forest Neurotic cat
Rating: K+
Verse: Metaphyte (Middle Plains)
Pairing: Rog/Alek
Wordcount: 3107

Bethsoft's Elder Scrolls downloads page.

Daggerfall runs well in DOSBox (which it hasn't always done) but I would not try running it in just the dos prompt in Windows.

Daggerfall was probably the largest RPG ever made, and there may never be a larger one ever. How is that possible? Well, the screen resolution is half VGA, and almost everything is stock rather than unique. The hundreds of towns and villages are put together - probably by a computer - from stock parts that can include whole shopping districts or single houses, slapped together in a random fashion. Likewise the humongous caves were made from stock parts that were chained together. Yet the variation is large enough that only the most dedicated players would remember all the stock parts in his head. The most dedicated player could have been me, but most likely it was one of my friends on alt.games.daggerfall. Perhaps the guy who thought he might go to Daggerfall when he died, instead of Heaven or Hell.

In any case, I have never seen a game in which you were so much in control of your own fate, and could choose to be a truly unique character. It was a big part of my life for many years and probably had some influence on my current thinking in various subtle ways.

You can all go see the Michael Bay movie, I'll just be over here watching old episodes of Beast Wars on youtube.

( Quick thoughts on the first few episodes: )

It was pretty good birthday.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or situations involved in this fanfic, and am not making any profit whatsoever off of it.
Story Title: Cold
Characters: Mazaki Anzu, Malik Ishtar
Romance: Malik x Anzu
Story Word Count: 2,317
Timeline: About ten years or so after the Ceremonial Duel.
Notes: Since Japan uses the celsius measurements, I used that for the temperature listing here. Twenty-three degrees celsius is about seventy degrees Fahrenheit.
Summary: Malik thinks his friends are crazy, wanting to go play basketball in the bitter cold. Anzu stays with him, though her cold fears are slightly different.

( Cold )

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or situations involved in this fanfic, and am not making any profit whatsoever off of it.
Story Title: Desires of Darkness
Chapter Title: Volcanic Lusts
Characters: Johan Andersen, Yubel
Hatesex: Yubel x Johan Andersen
Drabble Word Count: 100
LJ Challenge: This was written for the centi_porn challenge on Livejournal, using set II, prompt #6, warmth
Notes: These fanfics all involve Yubel tormenting Johan sexually and are set after Johan and Yubel lose the three way duel and before the fall of Haou.

( Chapter 4: Volcanic Lusts )

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or situations involved in this fanfic, and am not making any profit whatsoever off of it.
Story Title: Teacher's Woes
Chapter Title: About Time
Characters: Satou Kouji
Story Word Count: 900 words
Chapter Word Count: 300 words
LJ Challenge: This was written for the drabbleday challenge, using the prompt of 'balloons'. I have not yet claimed this yet, but will once my other claim has been accepted and posted. But since I already wrote these...
Timeline: This ficlet is set in Fubuki's first year, two years before the events of season one.
Notes: So, if Fubuki annoyed Satou, how did Saou feel when Fubuki vanished?
Summary: Satou's life was never an easy one, even before he met Yuuki Juudai.

( About Time )

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or situations involved in this fanfic, and am not making any profit whatsoever off of it.
Story Title: Another View
Chapter Title: Celebrate Good Times
Characters: Yuuki Juudai, Johan Andersen
Story Word Count: 900 words
Chapter Word Count: 300 words
LJ Challenge: This was written for the drabbleday challenge, using the prompt of 'holiday'. I have not yet claimed this yet, but will once my other claim has been accepted and posted. But since I already wrote these...
Timeline: Not precisely applicable here. See notes.
Notes: See chapter one.
Summary: You read of Johan's enslavement by a Haou of another world. Now read what Haou thinks of the situation.

( Chapter 3: Celebrate Good Times )

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or situations involved in this fanfic, and am not making any profit whatsoever off of it.
Collection Title: Balance of Power
Drabble Title: From The One Protected
Characters: Yuuki Juudai, Johan Andersen
Romance: Juudai x Johan
Drabble Word Count: 100
LJ Challenge: This was written for the ficlets100 challenge on Livejournal, using prompt #37, sweet!
Notes: These ficlets do not relate to each other in any kind of a way except for the fact that they're all about Juudai and Johan.

( From The One Protected )

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Title:  Maybe Baby
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Original
Pairing: Matt/Jack
Wordcount: 6,100~
Warnings: slash, attempt at witty humour and serious abuse of commas.
 Summary: Jack was all set for settling down to the quiet life with his Cat and a potted Venus Flytrap named Herbert. However, fate had other ideas for him. An old acquaintance from school turns up on his door step and effortlessly turns his lonely world upside down.

 

( To the fic! )

My dad loved sci-fi mags. He read multiple titles, and since a lot of up and coming writers contributed stories in installments to various sci-fi mags it wasn't uncommon for him to pick up a novel years later then realize he'd read it before in on of those magazines. Times change though, and that once cheap magazine he could pick up at the PX and stuff into his duffel bag was replaced by the paperback book. I'd nearly forgotten those magazines. I even expected most long ago mothballed their presses in this digital age.

In fact, the last time I picked up any magazine was years ago. My last subscription was actually Reader's Digest, a magazine I grew up with as my mother was an avid reader. They still send me offers for %50 off the cover price subscriptions. Actually, I just remembered my sibling sent me a six month subscription to a crafty magazine a couple years back. It was a nice mag, but I never did any of the projects it contained, lacking the time, skills, or equipment for many.

So what magazines do you remember, what do you read, and what do you want to read? I'd like to give one or two of these sci-fi titles a try:

Fantasy & Science Fiction
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Asimov's Science Fiction
Strange Horizons
Subterranean Press

On a tangent this reminded me of the Publisher's Clearinghouse contest. I don't know how or if it's still run today, but as a child I looked forward to that envelope with the proclamation "You may already be a winner!" on it. I was wise enough to know the odds of winning were next to nil, but I enjoyed the process of putting the required stickers in the right spot, filling out the information, looking at the stamp sheet of magazines we never subscribed to and putting everything together as I sat on the couch by the coffee table and my mom watched TV. Sorta silly how such a mundane memory makes me smile, but it does.

Yesterday I woke up to discover that I'd developed a zit right in the middle of my surgical scar.

How does that... what... man, things I was completely unprepared to see!

I AM DONE WRITING MY THESIS!

PARTY!

Too bad I now have to go through and format all the figures. -_-

http://www.offworld.com/2009/07/one-shot-cooking-mama-and-fait.html

Who don't read boingboing already.

1) OKAY WHO'S IN NEW YORK I'M GOING TO BE THERE AFTER NEXT THURSDAY UNTIL THE 22ND STAYING WITH KYAKI ANYONE ELSE WANT TO ABDUCT ME DURING THAT TIME

2) picture meme.
• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
• NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
• They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
• You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

I don't save a lot of pictures but um here's some of the ones I have saved in the past that I consider

... resonant.
( cut for quantity/size/what the fuck Squeak - none of them are Url but that does not make them ok )