Argh.

Remember how much I grumbled about writing my thesis? I now realise that writing grant proposals are somewhat the same.

ONLY TIMES TEN.

D:

Why must I be subjected to this? *cries*

It took about a month, but the A-Z Drabbles are all finally done, now. Yay! *throws confetti*

So here's the last of the bunch:

O for Obtuse, Helling [mangaverse], Alucard/Integra, Pip/Seras, G
U for Unreasonable, LOTR, Aragorn and his children, G
I for Imperious, Hellsing, Alucard/Integra, PG
Y for Yuletide, Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy/Riza, G

Many thanks to all you flisters for taking the time to prompt me! *hugs you all* =)

S for Secrecy, Doctor Who/Firefly crossover, Ten and Inara
P for Potholes, Doctor Who, Rose/Ten/Jack
Q for Quest, Bones, Zack Addy

Still 5 letters left! Please to prompt me? *hopeful eyes*

E for Elemental, Doctor Who
L for Loner, Blood+
V for Vengeance, Firefly

6 letters still left! *pokes f-list*

The Great A-Z Multifandom Drabbling Meme!

Thought I'd do a round up of all the prompts so far and see if I can't drum up some more.

( So, this is how the list stands at present )

There are still lots of letters left, so please to join in and prompt me? Please? Main post is here, so jump in any time. =)

So, in a bid to break my bad case of Writer's block and get back into writing again, I present:

The Great A-Z Multifandom Drabbling Meme!

Gacked from leni_ba, who did a great Haji/Saya one.

This is how it works:

1. Pick a letter.
2. Pick a prompt that starts with that letter (ex. K is for Keyhole)
3. Pick a fandom, a character/pairing and a rating. Or if you want to leave it up to me, that works, too. =)

Leave them in a comment and I'll write a 100 word drabble for you.

And here is a list of my fandoms, for easy reference:

Bones - only till S3, though.
Blood+ - anime and mangaverse
Farscape - I haven't written any, but I've just had a rewatch, so my love for the series has been rekindled.
Firefly
Fullmetal Alchemist - both anime series - though I've only seen Brotherhood upto the most recent episode aired.
Harry Potter
Hellsing - mangaverse only
Inuyasha - manga and animeverse
Kyou Kara Maou
The Lord of the Rings - book and movieverse
The Pretender - heh, the show that first got me into shipping and fandoms...
Dr. Who - I have been known to write/read some Whofic. :P
Toradora!
Darker than BLACK
Nodame Cantabile
Honey and Clover Although I'll admit the only ship I really like is Morita/Yamada
Tears to Tiara
Toward the Terra

and, of course, most Bollywood movies, cause I do Bollyfic, too. And maybe even Telugu ones, if you want. :P

So, please to participate and prompt me? Pretty please?


A for Aragorn and Arwen
B for Boon
C for Covers
D for Disguise
E for Elemental
F for Faramir
G for Grass
H for Happiness
I for Imperious
J for Justice
K for Killer
L for Loner
M for Mulling Things Over
N for Nursing
O for Obtuse
P for Potholes
Q for Quest
R for Rescue
S for Secrecy
T for Trio in the TARDIS
U for Unreasonable (KKM) and Unreasonable (LOTR)
V for Vengeance
W for Weekend type shenanigans
X for Xenophobia and ...
Y for Yuletide
Z for Zipper

( D for disguise )

( T for Trio in the TARDIS )

( C for Covers )

( W for Weekend type shenanigans )

( A for Aragorn and Arwen )

( R for Rescue )

( H for Happiness )

( Z for Zipper )

( M for Mulling things over )

( J for Justice )

( F for Faramir )

( B for Boon )

( G for Grass )

( N for Nursing )

( E for Elemental )

( V for Vengeance )

( L for Loner )

( S for Secrecy )

( P for Potholes )

( Q for Quest )

( X for Xenophobia )

( K for Killer )

( U for Unreasonable )

( O for Obtuse )

( U for Unreasonable )

( I for Imperious )

( Y for Yuletide )

Despite all evidence to the contrary. :P

And I know it sounds like the lamest excuse ever, but I really have been just that busy at work. Ever since May, I think, when I got some additional responsibilities to handle. D:

Work just about killed off my social life, too - I haven't met any of my non-work friends for nearly two months! *cries*

So, I know I've missed birthdays, and special occasions and anniversaries, and really great fic/art/icon work over these past 4 months - so forgive me, flist! *cringes*

And please, tell me how've you've been? I'm trying to re-enter the land of the living, so help out a suffering soul? =)

I be bored at work again. This state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely.

Therefore: poll!

If these following sci-fi guys were to get into a kicking-screaming-biting-is-allowed-fist fight, who would win?

Poll #1382642 Sci-fi guys
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

Whoverse: Nine vs. Ten

Mal Reynolds vs. John Crichton

Crossovers galore! Nine vs Ten vs Mal vs Crichton:

I wrote this a while ago, but I decided to finally post it at least today. :P

So happy birthday, litele_one! =) Hope this doesn't suck. *wibbles*



Title: Legend
Ship: Sesshomaru/Rin
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,035

A/N: For litele_one, who gave me the prompt ‘fire’.

( Legend. )

Happy birthday, litele_one! *HUGS*

Hope you have the very best of days, with everything you could possibly wish for! And cake. Lots and lots of cake. And presents, of course. =)

Happy birthday, goldy_dollar and kortirion! ♥

Hope you both have a great day, with everything you could ever wish for. And lots and lots of cake, and presents. =) *hugs*

So one my friends from college got married the other week, and I went down to Ahmedabad for the wedding.

( More here )

I was in Ahmedabad for three days, so we went sightseeing with a few members of the wedding party one morning. There are some famous temples in Ahmedabad, and so we visited two of them.

One of them is a replica of the Vaishno devi shrine, which is located in and on a mountain in Jammu and Kashmir. Devotees believe that they are cleansed of their sins if they take the path up the mountain on foot - the harder the path, the greater is the cleansing.

There's this one bit in particular where the path goes through the actual mountain itself, and people have to squeeze through this really narrow crack in sheer rock. My uncle (who's been there) tells me that it's supposed to represent us moving down the birth canal - in that in going on this pilgrimage, we are reborn in the same pure and innocent state as when we are babies.

Which is all well and good, but this replica had the same thing - on a smaller scale, of course, and you have to pass through it to get to the main temple, where the godess idol is. My friends went through it, blithely expecting me to follow.

Now, this was difficult, because I have slight claustrophobia.

Not the kind that makes it difficult to get into elevators, but bad enough that I had sweaty palms and a pounding heart at the thought of getting down on my hands and knees and crawling through a tunnel of rock even only a few feet long.

I suspect this phobia of mine stems from an incident back when I was about three years old, when my older brother drew the covers - a very thick quilt - over me when I was getting ready for bed...and then proceeded to SIT ON ME. Cutting off my air supply. And leaving me flailing in the dark. :/

It was equally bad when I went to Giza in Egypt a few years ago. Now, I have a bit of a thing for history and culture, so I begged my dad to let me go down into one of the pyramids that was open to the public. He agreed to come with me (my mother and brother didn't want to) and off we went.

It was an experience not to be forgotten, mostly because the passageway actually got so narrow at one point that I had to creep along sideways with the wall before me being three inches away from my nose. My dad had to practically pry my fingers off his hand when we got back topside, heh.

It wasn't so bad at this Vaishno replica, but I did have the same irrational panic and the fear - but I got through it somehow, and my friends - who didn't know about my mild phobia - were suitably apologetic for leaving me behind once they found out. So all was well, in the end.

Anyhow. All this makes me curious. Do any of you have any phobias, no matter how mild? Share with me, flist!

Title: Allegiance
Characters/Pairing: Haji/Saya
Word Count: 1,340
Rating: PG
Warning: Spoilers for most of the series.
Timeline: Post episode 43

Disclaimer: I own nothing and am making no money off this, please don’t sue me, thank you kindly.

A/N: All characterisations based on the anime.

-Written for the Valentine's challenge on hagisaya, prompts being 'Missing scene from the anime' and 'feeding.'

( Allegiance )

Title: Flash Point
Characters/Pairing: Haji/Saya
Word Count: 3,056
Rating: R! Beware.
Warning: Vague spoilers for most of the series.
Timeline: Post episode 50

Disclaimer: I own nothing and am making no money off this, please don’t sue me, thank you kindly.

A/N: A sequel to Steady Flame. All characterisations based on the anime.

-For the Valentine's day contest on the hagisaya comm, themes used being 'Missing scenario' (from the anime) and 'feeding'. =)

( So when the feeling comes over him, when there is a pull in his very blood and he knows that Saya is calling to him somewhere, he only grits his teeth and ignores it. )

I hath been tagged by litele_one. =)

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.

B) Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

( Under the cut )

Now, your turn! I tag agent_rouka, daystarsmom2, gilliebeans, neocloud9, teef_chan, renjiluvah, leviathan0999 and redpillpedlar in case he ever decides to post on his LJ. :P

Dooo it! =) *bounces compellingly*

Wherein I give you 5 subjects I associate with you, and then you elaborate on them in another post. :D

If you'd like to play along, comment and I'll leave you five associations that you can then write about in your own LJ!

So these are the things the lovely browncoat_2x2 associates with me:

( Behind the cut )

And now it's your turn! Comment and plaaay with me, too! =)

Thought I'd get on the meme bandwagon, too. =)

It seems Aunty Beeb reckons that most people will only have read six of the hundred books in this list. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started, but didn't finish.

( List )

I once read a fanfic based almost entirely on 'The Time Traveller's Wife' without knowing it, so I wonder if I can say I've...half read the book? *ponders*


Also, speaking of books: what was the scariest one you've ever read? I was watching a horror movie just yesterday, which explains the segue, at least in my head. :P

For me it was 'Kiss the Girls'. I was only thirteen when I read it, and the book opens with this bit where the psycho killer hides in his (high school classmate) victim's A/C vents, then creeps out at night and rapes and kills her. And her mother. And her little sister.

And then of course there was his friend/partner in crime, who liked to keep body parts of the women he raped and killed.

*shudders*

That book put me off slasher movies for life, I tell you. And made me compulsively check my room (all the little hiding spots and crannies) for nearly six months after I'd read it. :P

So. Now it's your turn! Share with me! I'm bored at work and I demand it! *stares compellingly*

Late for the kkm_challenge last round.

Author: Isha
Title: The Student and the Teacher
Characters: Wolfram and Greta
Word Count: 240
Rating: PG
Any Warnings: None
Prompt being used: Provided title
Timeline: Unspecified point in the series.
Summary: She was young, she could yet learn.

Disclaimer: I own none of these very entertaining characters, please don’t sue me. Thank you.

( The Student and the Teacher )

Mostly gushing about the new anime series I've started watching, so feel free to skip.

( Under the cut because not all of you are into anime )

There, now that I've gotten all that rambling off my chest, I feel much better. :P

*facepalm*

Can't believe I forgot to thank the anonymous sweetie who sent me a daisy v-gift. *HUGS* Thank you so much, whoever you are! You certainly brightened my day - and my profile. ;)