At last...

"Evangelion Volume 9's on my desk, all's right with the world."

I got the mail this morning, and was delighted to find a smallish package, about the size of your average manga waiting in our mailbox. I ran upstairs to open it pronto, though I did so with some trepidation: I feared that somehow, someone had made a mistake and accidentally sent me the Japanese version. But to my relief, once I got through the Tyvek mailer, there it was. The cover is a bit bent and it's a little warped, but the pages are all there, and that's all that matters. I still can't believe it's here, though, and I keep glancing over at my writing desk to see if it's really there....

In the meantime... I ran across and ordered two more books, which were favorites of mine as kid, and which I took out of our town's library almost every Hallowe'en: a pair of Hallowe'en poetry books, one entitled "In the Witch's Kitchen" and the other "Ghost Poems", edited and illustrated with very atmospheric ink and watercolor pictures by Tomie de Paola. The books disappeared from the library some years ago, which left me feeling tricked... but thank heavens for Amazon.com!

31_days fic: Now with song-references and in-jokes

I've had this idea for quite some time and the prompt for the day fit it very well.

Title: "Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon"
Day/Theme: Oct 24. Ask tearfully, truly
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion (post End of Evangelion, part of an on-going project)
Character/Pairing: Kozou Fuyutsuki, Shinji Ikari
Rating: PG

Author's Note: Title shamelessly stolen from Harry Chapin's "The Cat's in the Cradle", which I have to confess makes me think a bit of the (at best) strained relationship between the elder and younger Ikaris (You know you're obsessed with Evangelion when the oddest songs make you think of Eva characters...). There's also a bit of an in-joke in using said title, since this fic involves a conversation between Shinji -- whose temperment is certainly "blue" -- and Fuyutsuki, who has the moon ("tsuki") in his last name... Takes place probably about halfway through "Under the Winter Moon", the second part of "Neon Enoch Evangelion", aka the ambitious NGE project

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