Marin Liliz

Went on a shopping spree this morning and since I had promise to show gokuma my goodies, here they are:

( Image heavy and I should get paid for all the free advert there's in this post )

Once more from bosska_ak 





Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random
Step 2: Post the first line or so from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)

( Lyrics... )

So, MY DAD ROCKS!!!

And now I've a new computer (this one) much sooner than I had planned. It was a joint effort and I still have to buy a new monitor (cos these days computers aren't sold with monitors, probably cos there's monitors that cost as much, if not more than a desktop) but until then I've a brand new computer. *dances*

So my old computer has died down. Still have to see what the techs say, but there were rumors about it being something to do with the motherboard so I'm not very hopeful:( It's a quite old machine (from 2000) and the only thing I added to it was memory, it was bound to happen someday.T__T

In the mean time I've borrowed a laptop from a friend and will be using it whenever he doesn't need it; for now I have it until friday then he'll need it in the weekend and then I'll have it again all of next week.

I'll be working on the Mistletoe Kisses and maybe some Sandbox Society things and post whenever I have the time and the computer with me.

Not related to this but it'll probably be affect by it, I'm going to postpone any updating of Building from the Ashes until some time in January, I hit a plot-block and have plans to do some things for X-mas and now with this it will take a while to get back on track with BftA.

I'll keep you updated. See ya.

Marin out!

stolen from gokuma

According to the BBC, most people will have read perhaps six of these books. 
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )
6 The Bible ( )
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( )
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( )
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (x)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( )
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( )
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (x)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ( )
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ( )
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ( )
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ( )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

Does it count if I recognize all of them? And have them on my to read list? That I know the plot for more than half? Or seen the movie versions? :P

Anyway, the ones I read to the last word. Final count: 27

...than bother people with idiotic messages?

I got this PM and then a mail from a BrittaDv2@aol.com or britbrit08 on ff.net and apparently I wasn't the only one, she's been sending it through ff.net to some Bleach slash writers. See this post of bababanaba  for more reactions.

What's funny is that now her mail isn't accepting replies. I'm guessing she got more than what she bargained for and people started spamming her inbox with not so kind replies to her 'pleas':








I was kind and polite and didn't even go into the 'sick' business, I don't think it was worth it . It just amazes me what people trouble themselves with. Did she really think that her mail would make me (or any of the other writers) stop playing with the characters and having them involved in hot, smexy gay sex just because she asked?!

I think that it might just have the opposite reaction, at least for me. I have been in a writing slump for a few months but this really is spiking things and giving me a need to write I haven't had for awhile now. It serves her right!

*off to write Byakuya in hot, sweaty, buttsex with two other MALE partners*

I'm writing this Bleach ficlet, set roughly about 50 years before the current timeline of the series; with Byakuya, Kaien and Ukitake as the main characters. And I've been wanting to know more of  their interactions. Things like how they knew each other, who was first to obtain a seated position on a division, their family background , you know, more detailed information.

So today I went and read the latest chapter (chapter -105) and it's like Kubo-sensei has read my mind, there's enough material  to work on and then there's young Byakuya that had me squealing like mad. He is the cutest thing ever (see pic below). *KYAAAAA*


And on another (but related)  topic, can anyone from my OH WISE, FLIST, tell me if Rukia's last name (before she was adopted into the Kuchiki family)  was ever disclosed? I've been searching and found nothing.

The thing is I'm writing another fic, a AU ByaRen set in the present days; it involves hotels, hotel rooms, steamy smex in hotel bathrooms, I think you can see where this is going.XD And Rukia has a part in it all but is not, initially, attached to the Kuchiki clan, so I was wondering if her name had been used. If not could you suggest names for her, something tha goes well with Rukia. Thank you in advance;]

Tagged by calmingeffects
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Live Journal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

This was harder than I thought and yeah, I'm completely into Anime OSTs these days:

1. The Cure - "Let's Go to Bed"
2. Fiona Apple - "Criminal"
3. YUI - "Life"
4. 30 Seconds to Mars - "Savior"
5. Yoko Kanno - "Strangers"
6. Mai Yamane - "Gotta Knock a Little Harder"
7. Steve Conte - "No Reply"

Tagging: ai_ici_lover; chuchacz; fairyyumi ; feathers_of_ice;
perviepreistess ;stace_s;  vampyreranger