Hallowe'en price check and NGE completionism

Spent most of yesterday in Burlington: the Hallowe'en stuff store in one of the empty store fronts behind Kohl's is now open for business, so I had a blast browsing the costumes and the yard haunting stuff. I priced some LED candles/candelabra, including some LED pillar-type candles which had been molded to look like they'd melted down at the top.

Also found that I need to avoid Newbury Comics like the plague: I keep finding cool tchotchkes that I like, every time I pop in. This time, I discovered the Vertigo Tarot, which I'd been trying to track down for years. I utterly love the artwork (Dave McKean = genius; that's Card 0, the Fool -- recast as John Constantine -- in the icon for this entry); and to my surprise and delight, the introduction on the accompanying manual is by Neil Gaiman. Also got "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth" for a bargain price; I know, most of the footage from it has been recut into the series to become the Director's Cut version, but I have an especial place in this movie: It's what inspired what has become "Neon Enoch Evangelion".

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31_days fic: Instrumentality fic #1: The Case of Kozou Fuyutsuki

This fic was the hardest to write yet, and I'm so drained by writing it, that I have little left to comment on it. If anyone is getting tired of the weird parantheticals in my titles, give me a holler: I snitched this convention from the titles of the Rebuild of Evangelion movies, but I'm wondering if it's wearing on anyone's eyes.

Title: "Path (Not) Taken"
Day/Theme: Sept 25) falling in love is searching for missing pieces of ourselves
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Character/Pairing: Kozo Fuyutsuki/Yui Ikari
Rating: PG-13

Author's Note: Warning: set during Instrumentality, so I used some odd tenses to carry the weirdness of it all. I have to admit the mid-EoE warped version of the awkward Shinji/Asuka kiss in Episode 15 was the direct inspiration for part of this bit. Also... this is a draft of these particular bits. I may end up going experimental-fiction when this goes to the "Director's Cut" version (ie. when I get the whole damn thing done). This is eventually going to be (part of)the tail end of "Neon Enoch Evangelion", aka the ambitious NGE project

Suggested tracks: "The Scientist" -- Coldplay

'Yume no Sukima' -- End of Evangelion OST

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