Tweets and Twitterings from the Matrix Refugee

• 10:03 Gugh... woke up with a scratchy throat this morning. Is this allergies or a cold? It's always hard to tell this time of year. -.- #
• 22:11 Busy day off shopping, buying Zyrtec and cough drops at Wal-Mart, also went to the Salem NH Barnes & Noble #
• 22:12 Could have sworn the new SPN novel came out this week, but maybe this B&N just didn't have it. Better luck in Burlington #
• 22:13 Also, the copy of the second volume of Martin Greenberg's "Grails" anthology showed up in the mail today. #

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Emotionally recovered at least...

And I have to thank everyone for all the hugs, kind thoughts and vampire hugs from everyone for helping me pull myself back together. Though now, out of the blue, I have a bit of a cough in my chest. Not enough to floor me, but enough to slow me down a bit. I also discovered, about fifteen minutes after punching in at work, that I'd looked at the schedule wrong and I had the day off. Rather a nice surprise, though it won't look too good on my paycheck next week. But... I'm working on finishing the infamous story_lottery stories: I've got maybe one left to finish writing, specifically the EvE Online fic, but I've had that mapped out in my head for a year. Expect to see an insane amount of ficcage popping up for the next few days as I scrabble to meet the deadline.

Also went to the Salem NH Barnes & Noble last night: bit of a disappointing trip, as they didn't have two things I was looking for, though since one was the new Supernatural tie-in novel, it might have gotten scoffed up quickly. I'll try the Burlington B&N. I did get Richelle Mead's "Succubus Shadows", and I'm now fighting the temptation to bring Georgina Kincaid to the Mansion (carpe_ho_ras, you are my anti-drug of choice. :: Laughs:: ).

Now re-reading Gormenghast (and skim-re-reading "The Historian", since I'm seriously considering bringing Helen Rossi in at a certain addictive RPG), and I had forgotten how delightfully Byzantine Meryvn Peake's prose is. And I have to snerk at the purists who yell about the Pre-Raphaelite inspired art design on the TV series (which I have been watching via YouTube and trying to ignore the anNOYing comments: I like how they've redesigned the website, but could they find a way to collapse the comments? I swear to God, YouTube has the most inane commenters ever): I can't see any argument against it, and I rather like it.

story_lottery FIC: "Yami no Matsuei" -- "Reading Materials" (PG)

I had a blast writing this one last night, while sitting in the coffeshop in the Salem NH Barnes & Noble.

Title: “Reading Materials”
Author: matrixrefugee
Fandom: “Yami no Matsuei” (aka Descendants of Darkness)
Disclaimer: I do not own Yami no Matsuei, aka Descendants of Darkness, it’s characters, concepts and other indicia, which are the intellectual property of Yoko Matsushita, Hiroko Tokita, Manga Entertainment, Viz Media, Hakusensha, Central Park Media, et al.
Pairing/Characters: Hisoka Kurosaki, Asato Tsuzuki
Prompt: 3.3 - a park bench
Words: 1,211
Rating: PG
Summary: Sometimes Tsuzuki’s willingness to share new things with Hisoka can poke his young partner’s discomfort button…
Author’s Note: Not exactly a requested fic, but I was lovingly prodded to write this by the lovely folks in the carpe_ho_ras RPG chat room one night, thanks in no small part to Tsuzuki’s lovable awkwardness about… certain aspects of human nature (and his own in-character admissions to reading really raunchy romance novels…). I’d gotten myself hooorribly stuck trying to come up with something to break a moment of writer’s block when I was trying to come up with something based on this prompt, but everything fell into place…

( What is this stuff supposed to be? Porn? )