Saturday, July 7, 2001
09:51 p.m.

I'm soooo tired... ::whines:: I got to go a Real Writer's Conference today, but I had to be up at seven thirty for it... so I'm crisped. It was worth it. So, sorry to people that I owe email to. I meant to do it tonight, but... ::droops::

I have YnM 1-6 on order XD XD and Karasu loaned me all of CCD so I could boot it for me ^____^

And Meia, I will email you the whole version of Xmas Carol as soon as I'm done HTMLing it... I'm assuming you want HTML, me?

::wanders off to watch Suoh and Nokoru be cute until lapse into unconsciousness::

Thursday, July 5, 2001
01:02 p.m.

I am a very happy person today ^_^_^_^

I got to see loud shinys yesterday... (IE fireworks. For that reason alone, America's Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. And the ones in my dinky town are surprisingly good.)

And I posted the ending of an Xmas Carol. (Thank God! It's over! Thank God! Stupid fic was supposed to be four parts and it turns out ten. ::huge sweatdrop::) And I'm worried that not everybody saw part nine because it got bumped down to the second page so quickly. -.-;;

And I started my new ficcy where Subaru gets married. ::giggles:: It's kinda half-serious.

And I'm ordering the first 6 episodes of YnM from Kodacha... which I don't have the money to do, but *damn* that series is cool.

::runs off to be pleased with self::

Sunday, July 1, 2001
12:51 p.m.

Please feel free to skip this entry... I got bored so I decided to post the prologue to my new piece of original fiction up here. Why? Because nobody will ever read it if I don't... but feel free not to. Eheh. It's my Xmenish story.

*****

Prologue

Adam Aaron Atherton was a legend in his time, a hero and an idol.

He found this extremely amusing.

If one was to listen to the rumors, he towered at over six feet, with wild hair and wilder eyes that glowed when he was angry, avenging the injustices that had befallen his people. A superhero, right out of a comic book.

In truth, he could walk around on the street in broad daylight and be completely unnoticed. It wasn’t as if he had an alter ego like Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent. He was an utterly average, unassuming man.

The rumors were simply incorrect.

He wasn’t six feet tall; in fact, he was short for a man, only about five foot six. His hair was dark brown and kept short and neat. Gray ran through it in large streaks. Adam had aged early, and quickly. His eyes were the only usual thing about him; one was slate grey and the other pure white and blind. He had lost vision in it when he was only twenty-five, on the same day that had left him a widower and searching desperately for his only child.

He was a chain smoker, a quiet man, friendless by his own choice. He worked in a dangerous business; friends were best left to other people. He had some acquaintances that he spent his evenings with, and he never missed his weekly poker game if he was in town at the time. He often wasn’t; his business required a lot of travel. He was popular with the women in the same way most mysterious people were; they gossiped and pointed and never had the courage to approach him.

He wasn’t an unhandsome man, but neither was he particularly attractive. His face was round, his features solid.

He was thirty-five years old, and he was driven.

No one ever connected him with the nameless, faceless hero known only as ‘Dr. A.’ He was a doctor. A pediatrician, to be precise. Doctors had been scarce and revered after the third world war, and the wounded had been infinite.

It was not, however, his primary occupation.

Benjamin had been five when he had disappeared. Adam had married young and had children early; his wife and child were everything to him. Then, in one night, his entire life had collapsed around him, Meryl killed and Benjamin gone.

Adam knew where they had taken him.

If doctors were precious, children were even more precious. Especially children like Benjamin; his talents had been obvious even at his early age. A cut on his thumb vanished within seconds; a broken leg could heal within days. Add to that the time that four-year-old Benjamin had lifted a fallen tree branch off of a friend of his when it had fallen – a branch that took two grown men to lift when it was later removed –

Benjamin was special. Everyone knew.

Meryl had been special, too, in that peculiar way she had of coaxing secrets out of people, seeing the truth before it had ever been spoken. She had been fond of saying that diplomacy was an underrated skill.

Everyone laughed, but Adam knew that if Meryl had been locked in a room with the Old Federation leaders for twenty minutes, she could have stopped the war.

If it hadn’t already been too late.

Adam was a doctor, second only to being a father and husband. He did not believe in miracles or fantasies. He barely even believed in God. What he believed – and what was eventually proved to be true – was that Meryl had been too close to one of the blast sites during the War, while she had been pregnant with Benjamin.

That was fifteen long years ago. What had taken Adam a year to realize came out to the public slower, but it did come out.

They were labeled Mutations, which was when the next war broke out.

The Mutations banded together for strength – and strength was something they had in spades. Healers, fighters, telekinetics, empaths – put together they made a powerful force. They didn’t want a war; they wanted only to be accepted. If they couldn’t have acceptance, they wanted to be left alone.

The President of the New Federation, which had become the driving political force after the War, agreed to let them have Vermont. The rest of the world was left to deal with the Mutations in their own way; Vermont was declared a separate country.

So many Mutations were left in the rest of New America, it hurt Adam to just think about it.

It wasn’t over by a long shot; none of the Mutations were stupid enough to think so. The New Federation was always looking for a way to fight them.

They found their way through the children.

Adam and his family had made it to New Hampshire with no trouble, but the fight to the Vermont border had killed Meryl, and Benjamin had disappeared while Adam had still been too distracted to notice.

Adam struggled his way to Vermont, where he found out that Benjamin was not dead; he had been taken to an Institute. Adam had asked someone what an Institute was, and the only answer he could get was ‘Hell on earth.’

They were also called ‘research facilities.’ It didn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that the Federation was bringing children Mutations there and trying to find their weaknesses. Children, Adam figured, because adult Mutations would know how to fight back.

With his position of husband gone, Adam was a father first and foremost. Without that, he was lost.

The Mutations had set up a government – as true as democracy got those days. Adam had taken a job with them, and became part of one of the elite strike forces that raided the Institutes to get the children back. Five years after that, he broke away from them. They were too slow.

Benjamin was out there, waiting for him.

He could feel it.

He was one of the few exceptions to the Mutation-only rule in New Vermont. As far as anyone could tell, with even the deepest telepathic probe, Adam had no special abilities. But he was good with strategy, and intelligent, and courageous, and he had more purpose than any other member of his team.

Two years after he went free lance, the name Dr. A. had reached even the highest levels of the Federation government. He was a force to be reckoned with, but no matter how many teams they sent, he was never caught.

Someday, Adam vowed, he would have grandchildren. Then he would tell them the story about one of the goon squads after him asking him for directions without ever realizing who he was.

****

Ok, I'm done attempting to boost my own ego now.

Sunday, July 1, 2001
12:36 p.m.

I dunno, I think Liz is right about the DOE... at least the bit about philosophizing about their opinions. And I *have* read all of X. The only three destroyed the kekkai are Fuuma (Destiny's Child... sorry, couldn't resist that joke), Satsuki (I'm pretty sure she just likes to kill people), and Nataku (Who only does it because Fuuma looks like his daddy).

I love the DOE, naturally. But waxing poetic about saving nature goes as much against *them* as much as it goes against the DOH.

In my humble opinion, of course.

And yes, Liz, that scene ^_^ I had this great idea... I think I'm only going to give him one kid, though. And it'll take place in between TB and X because I don't feel like dealing with Kamui anymore.

Gotta finish Xmas Carol, though. I'm halfway through part nine, yay for me...

Saturday, June 30, 2001
12:02 p.m.

Prepare for long entry.

So I finally posted part 8 of an Xmas Carol. ::nodsnods:: I'm worn out...

And I saw up to episode five of Gravi. (Yuki Eiri is 23, btw, Murasaki. According to a site I went to, anyway.) Gravi is good and cute and it's an anime soap opera ^_^ I like very much. And I think there's an asshole gene in Yuki's family.

So then, on a whim, since everyone is talking about Yami no Matsuei, I DLed the first four episodes of that. (I love my friend's cable modem.) And it's FANTASTIC!!! ::swoons:: Every once in a while I just find an anime that I see like two episodes of and I know I love. (Trigun was like that. ::Swoons again::) And since everyone I know likes it, I was wondering if anyone could tell me where to get more? Pleeeeease? Seeing only the first four is a bummer...

Also, does anyone know how many episodes it is, total? Ochiba said 13, but it seems like it would be *waaaaay* longer from the look of the manga. Is it still coming out?

Moving on to other topics... I tried ICQ once and it ate my computer. -.-;;; That was my old computer, so I can try again, but since these days I'm only signed on for about a half hour at a time, I may as well just wait until I get back to school.

And hey, Liz... had a question for you. I was re-reading Yume the other day (because it's just that cool ^_~) and I was wondering if I could turn that first scene with Mitsuki into a longer story. (I had this really great idea.) You can email me about it if you want, but my email is being flarpy, which is why I posted it here instead. When Xmas Carol is done, I don't have anything to work on *sniff* so I thought this would keep me busy ^_~

Speaking of email, Murasaki, I did get yours... I just can't reply right now because my dad is going to be calling in 20 minutes, so I have to get offline. -.-

Friday, June 29, 2001
11:54 a.m.

NINETEEN?? ::Stares at a picture of Shuuichi::

....ok, the artists of this series are on crack. That's my decision.

So wait, how old is Eiri Yuki?

Friday, June 29, 2001
01:28 a.m.

So I got sick of arguing with my computer and went over to my friend Kimura's house. She has a cable modem, the lucky bitch ^_~ and we DLed the next four episodes of Gravi. I have now seen the first two.

I like. Is cute and funny and, as Murasaki said, all about pretty boys kissing. What more can you ask for? And Eiri (I can't call him Yuki, I keep thinking of CCS) is *gorgeous*. And Shu-chan, who looks like Omi from WK with pink hair, is adorable. Though I will admit I'm slightly disturbed. I've now seen up to the end of the second episode, and that's where they start kissing, and then fall down.

Off the screen.

Where we can only assume that they're doing other, more interesting things.

...This wouldn't normally disturb me.

Except for the fact that Shuuichi looks like he's twelve. -.-;;;; Anyone know how old they're supposed to be?

Anyways, I get to see the rest tomorrow. Is good ^_^

Thursday, June 28, 2001
07:28 p.m.

YATTA!!!!!!!!

I! GOT! GRAVI! TO! WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, June 28, 2001
07:15 p.m.

Time for Way Too Much Information.

I have PMS. I can tell. You know how? I've been crying ALL FUCKING DAY over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

It took me four hours to DL that stupid episode of Gravi. THen I had to DL RealPlayer. That took another hour. THen I had to set RealPlayer up. RealPlayer hates my computer.

ALL THIS and I find out the episodes are in RAW JAPANESE.

ANd I can't find the translations anywhere.

::small voice:: Help?

Thursday, June 28, 2001
03:01 p.m.

37% and I'm punted again. This had better be one *damned* good anime. Does anyone know anywhere else I can get it in case I can't manage before ochiba takes the first four eps down?

Thursday, June 28, 2001
02:25 p.m.

And WHY? has my stupid computer! turned off the fucking word wrap! on my fucking blog?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Thursday, June 28, 2001
02:23 p.m.

MY STUPID COMPUTER JUST PUNTED ME WHILE I WAS AT 89% OF GRAVITATION EPISODE ONE AND IT TOOK TWO HOURS AND NOW I HAVE TO START ALL FUCKING OVER AGAIN!!!!!!

::kicks computer to hell and back again::

I HATE MY LIFE!

Thursday, June 28, 2001
12:39 p.m.

Wait, wait! I got it to work! ::looks at time remaining and winces:: Ooh, my neechan is gonna kill me if I'm OL for the next two hours....

Thursday, June 28, 2001
12:32 p.m.

Help help help help help!!! Ochiba says they're taking down Gravi 1-4 and I haven't had a chance to DL them yet, so I went to DL them today and it says I need a membership and I can't FIGURE OUT how to sign up!!!! x_X;;

Congrats on the tarot, btw, Murasaki-chan ^_^ You have to tell me who the remaining major arcana are when you get them.

Thursday, June 28, 2001
02:32 a.m.

It came up twice. I feel dumb.

PS: Murasaki, you aren't high bidder on the tarot cards anymore... in case you didn't know. ::huge sweatdrop:: I mean, you must know, but... never mind.

Thursday, June 28, 2001
12:58 a.m.

I am showing Karasu how to use a blog in the hopes that she will get one... c'mon, everyone, pressure Karasu! Peer pressure!!

And if this entry comes up twice, I'll feel dumb.

Thursday, June 28, 2001
12:58 a.m.

I am showing Karasu how to use a blog in the hopes that she will get one... c'mon, everyone, pressure Karasu! Peer pressure!!

Wednesday, June 27, 2001
02:02 p.m.

TRIGUN!!!!!

I wish I knew how to make *cool* layouts like everyone else has... ::sniffles::

Sunday, June 24, 2001
07:39 p.m.

Hey, Murasaki, since you're new to EBay I'll give you some advice ^_~ I'm an old hand at EBay, it's pretty much the only place I can get anime. I sell stuff on it too... so here's my advice... I saw you bid already; if I were you, I'd wait 'till the last minute before you bid again. Because if you keep bidding, you'll just drive the price higher.

My strategy was always to just swoop in at the very last second with a really high bid. (No more than I was actually willing to pay, naturally.) It may be underhanded, but it's a good way of keeping the price from going really high.

Good luck!

Sunday, June 24, 2001
11:15 a.m.

Just went to check... there's *one set* of the X tarot deck up on Ebay. It's currently going for 26 bucks, but there's four days, left so it'll go higher, I guarantee.

Damn... that's so cheap and I still can't afford it. ::needs a job::

Sunday, June 24, 2001
11:12 a.m.

Meia, the X tarot cards *are* out... all 78... or is 178? that come in a deck, minor and major arcana and all that good stuff. (Heh... can you tell I know little to nothing about tarot?) They were going up on EBay pretty regularly a while ago; they started about a year ago around two hundred. Last I checked they were still as high as a hundred, but I haven't been checking recently, because I want them, and I'm too broke, but if I see them going for a reasonable amount, I might buy them anyway. ::sighs::

Friday, June 22, 2001
03:58 p.m.

I've decided that I hate the new YnH board. I can't get my HTML to work. It says that it's enabled, then when I put it in, it doesn't work. ::growls::

And I need a new sig file... hm...

Thursday, June 21, 2001
12:25 p.m.

PS: Murasaki, did you ever get my last email?

Thursday, June 21, 2001
12:24 p.m.

Yay! I have a new obsession! I got to see Trigun at the anime con, and I really liked it, so me and Karasu rented the entire set from the only anime store near here... (had to drive for over an hour each way, though) but now I've seen all of it except the last four episodes and VASH IS MY HERO!!!!! XD XD XD!!!

Ahem. Yeah.

Tuesday, June 19, 2001
12:39 p.m.

Well, Part Six of an Xmas Carol is finally up... I think I'm going to go hide now. Keep in mind that none of this is my fault.

Saturday, June 16, 2001
11:21 p.m.

Mm.... caramel and strawberry and Subaru... XD

I need to go read Liz's ficcy but I'm soooooo tired... ::whines:: I was at the con all day today but me and my friends won best skit in the Cosplay contest!! ::dances around:: So we got a Samurai X T-shirt and a Rayearth poster... it was all good ^_^

Mm... needs must sleep.

Thursday, June 14, 2001
10:30 p.m.

I HATE XOOM I HATE XOOM I HATE XOOM I HATE XOOM..

Did I mention that I just finished updating the X/99 site that Karasu and Inuhoshi and I run?

So those of you who were looking to rec Reversal and Loyalties, go here. I changed Loyalties' name to Sacrifice, because, well, it fit better.

Thursday, June 14, 2001
01:51 p.m.

I think it was "That Stupid Tree" that I was thinking of... I've never read Leareth's fic... must check it out later when I have free time again.

I need a job so badly and I don't have time to work! ::is broke::

Wednesday, June 13, 2001
07:22 p.m.

Is there a TB fic called "That Damned Tree"? I seem to think there is, but I can't remember where or what it is...

And if there isn't, I may have to write one. It would be a great name for a fic.

Wednesday, June 13, 2001
01:08 p.m.

I can't find a job, I have no money, and there's an anime con ten minutes away from my house in THREE DAYS!!! ::wails::

Sunday, June 10, 2001
02:26 a.m.

Sorry, Murasaki, I've just been *so* pathetically busy that I've barely been online. I haven't checked my mail in almost a week and I haven't written a damned word of the Xmas Carol fic...

By next weekend, I have to have *both* of the websites I work on updated, clean my room, unpack from college (nope, sitll haven't done that), clean the rest of the apartment, go shopping. *Plus* I have *three* things I'm in the middle of writing, all of which do I have people waiting for.

I think I'm going to be scarce this week. ::sweatdrops:: I'll try to answer your email asap, though. ::runs off to collapse::

Thursday, June 7, 2001
01:45 a.m.

Now my mail server is down. Life sucks.

::dies::

Tuesday, June 5, 2001
10:32 p.m.

I did get your email, Murasaki. I just haven't had a chance to reply yet.

And I'd really like to avoid killing Kamui... then the world would end. As much as *you* don't like him, heh... I think I need an atom bomb for the Tree. ::nods::

::wanders off to make chocolate chip cookies::

Tuesday, June 5, 2001
12:47 a.m.

It's going to be a while before the next part of Xmas Carol is done, in case anyone's wondering... I have a heinous case of Writer's Block. I can't figure out how to fix, or at least *resolve*, what I've done to Kamui... any suggestions, anyone?

Also I'm trying to get a summer job. I'm so broke it's not even funny.

Sunday, June 3, 2001
12:51 p.m.

Part five of Xmas Carol is posted... XD

I'm very pleased with the last scene... I love it when Subaru gets pissed off.

Friday, June 1, 2001
12:17 p.m.

Posted part one of my GW fic... in case anyone cares -.-;;

I have to go to the prom tonight with someone I don't like. Oh well, at least I'll look good.

Thursday, May 31, 2001
01:01 p.m.

Murasaki, I'm going to wait a day or two and see if that email comes through on its own, because I'm lazy and I don't feel like rewriting it...

Wai, nobody killed me for my latest part. Of course, I have no idea how to fix it... And Leareth, sorry if it seems sort of like Angelic Intervention (which I really really liked, btw.) I didn't intend for this story to go in that direction at all, believe it or not. (Of course, the Tree is a lot less benevolent than Hokuto, and It really couldn't care less whether or not Subaru and Seishirou work things out. So the plot is different.)

It's Picnic Day! ::dances off to enjoy sunshine for once::

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
07:49 p.m.

I just have an announcement to make... THIS IS NOT MY FAULT!!!

::posts part four of Xmas Carol and barricades self into room::

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
01:23 a.m.

::frowns:: But I *did* email you, Murasaki... I was waiting for a reply from you! Did it get lost somewhere? ::grumbles:: It was kinda long... had the list of what animes I have... did you ever get it?

And no, I'm not ever on AIM. ::sweatdrops:: Since I'm home from school, I don't have the constant connection anymore, so I'm rarely online long enough to bother signing onto IM. I keep trying to remember though...

Tuesday, May 29, 2001
12:43 p.m.

Hm.... yeah, that really is the way I am, Murasaki. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, but I love angst and torture and stuff. After all, without it, there wouldn't be a story, now would there?

Though how I'm going to pull a happy ending with this one is kind of escaping me at the moment. I'm sure I'll figure something out.... it just might be a few days.

Monday, May 28, 2001
12:56 p.m.

::waves to Meia, Leareth, and Flamebyrd:: Hihi! I've gotten off my ass and linked back to you ^_^

Leareth, I *love* your layout... then again I love Kaworu...

And Murasaki, your entries are showing up now. Goodgood ^_^ Though quite obviously I didn't get enough sleep...

I've got this weird idea for a GW fic, and I don't know if any of you read GW fics since I've never seen you comment on them, but this one would be so wildly AU that you'd be able to read it anyway...

Monday, May 28, 2001
03:56 a.m.

There is something truly depressing about being awake at four in the morning, after attempting to sleep for an hour and a half, eating chocolate ice cream (World's greatest, according to Ben and Jerry) out of the container with a fork (all spoons dirty... ah, bachlorette-hood).

Sunday, May 27, 2001
01:23 p.m.

Okees... can someone let me know if my cool title thing and new background are showing up? Because I had a bitch of a time getting the things to work...

::perks up:: Murasaki, did I hear you say more of WTMY? ::evil grin::

I feel better today; rather than sneezing every three seconds and my nose running away with my face, now I just have this horrible cough. I think my lungs have been filled with cement or something. I'm lucky it's summer or it would probably turn into pneumonia, which is just such a horrid pain in the ass...

So, you peoples who wanted that Kamui-Keichii side story... was there anything in particular you wanted? Because I'm kinda stuck, heh. Suggestions, anyone?

Saturday, May 26, 2001
10:56 p.m.

::Waves to Meia:: I'll link you back later, when I'm not about to go to bed...

Brinkster, hm? I'll have to try that. Because I need a neat title thing and ... stuff. I'm half-asleep, so, don't mind me. Don't send Subaru to me, I'm highly contagious, and I don't want my Subaru-chan to get sick.

::toddles off to hopefully fall unconscious::

Saturday, May 26, 2001
12:36 p.m.
Hm... *does* anyone know what server I can upload my images onto to get them to work here? Neither Xoom nor geocities is letting me do it. Evil beasts.

Saturday, May 26, 2001
12:19 p.m.

I feel awful. I'm sick, like, really sick, sore throat and sneezing and coughing and can't breathe and head aches and body aches... I haven't felt this bad since I had pneumonia almost two years ago.

This is Kouri-code for saying: Don't expect anything posted on YnH for a while ^_~

So I think this blog no longer looks like *total* shit, so I'm going to give it to people... and it'll look better once I figure out how to hot link images. ::nods::

Kouri

Friday, May 25, 2001
01:41 p.m.

Okay, I think I'm getting a bit more of the hang of this.. problem is, when I try to use pics from my website, they won't load, because Xoom sucks and won't... there's a word for it, but it's the same problem I had with my icon on YnH. ::le sigh:: I'll have to work on it more.

Friday, May 25, 2001
01:06 p.m.
So, um, I have a blog... I'm waiting for someone to jump out of the shadows and tell me what to do with this thing. ::is all confuzzled:: Help me! ... okay, I didn't get enough sleep, I don't think. Babbling is kinda fun... do I have to put a URL in each time? I just put in the X page that I run with Karasu and Inuhoshi... you can go see it if you want... whoever it is that's reading this... Kouri ::wanders off to work on Xmas Carol fic::