Part Two of the NGE Vol. 9 Debacle: Sticking it to the Scammers

The good news: with a little help from the lady-manager of our town's branch of the bank where I have my account, I was able to get The Scammers to back off and close the membership that I Did Not Want and Did Not Sign Up For. My account is safe. Downside, I still don't have the book, but I've made a bid on the UK eBay listing. Keep sending out those prayers and positive thoughts.

And further proof of my obsession: went to the Salem. NH Barnes & Noble, where I picked the first two volumes of yet another manga set in the "doujin-universe": "The Shinji Ikari Raising Project", based off one of the available-only-in-Japan videogames. Hm. I'm wondering if Viz or Dark Horse has any plans to take up "The Record of Heaven's Gate". I'm hoping they do, since it'll keep us all occupied in between releases of the Rebuild movies, and while Sadamoto slogs through the next chapters of the core-continuity manga...

Though to tell the truth... I don't think there really *IS* any WUN TWOO KANNON in the Eva-verse...

31_days fic: The return of Neon Enoch Evangelion

I certainly haven't abandoned this project: I've been gathering ideas for future chapters and roughing out a sort of outline (Operating word being "sort of": I've learned the hard way that I need to give my characters room to move around in, as long as they don't completely derail the story).

The facepalm icon will become apparent once you've read the fic... It came out funnier than I first expected, but post-EoE, one needs a good dose of funny...

Title: "Gathering the Flock"
Day/Theme: Oct 9. Wandering birds pass through the village
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion (part of an on-going project)
Character/Pairing: Kozou Fuyutsuki, Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Sohryuu, OFC
Rating: PG-13

Author's Note: Follows immediately after "(Un)Welcome Torrent", toward the beginning of the second part of "Neon Enoch Evangelion", aka the ambitious NGE project. I'm probably borrowing heavily from several post-EoE fics I read a week ago, but the authors thereof can rest assured, it was done in a spirit of "imitation as the highest form of flattery" rather than thievery or plagiarism.

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