Knowing the habits (and available hard drive space) of the website's maintainer, this Megami magazine image of Peorth and Belldandy, promoting the second TV season of AMG, should be available until the end of the month... but I wouldn't risk counting on that. So if you want it, grab it now while you can...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Well, I know I haven't been keeping up with the schedule for the FATE/Change Dusk and Rogue Bunny threads, and unfortunately, it looks like I'm not going to improve much in the immediate future. Partly this is due to the fact that I've just replaced my computer's old, damaged video card and have yet to get over the fact that I can once again play, well, anything, but a bigger factor has been my discovery of an opportunity to bribe Aishuu/Lady Quicksilver into returning her work, Renaissance, to her active list... since that fic has been one of my favorites ever since I first read it, you can imagine that I've jumped at the chance.
How's it going? Wellll...

...and two unrelated concepts from completely different Steps suddenly pop into view holding hands, and I go "wow, I can do something with that".
I had one of those moments on my drive home from work tonight.
Rei Ayanami, meet Horcruxes. Horcruxes, meet Rei Ayanami.-- Bob
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I loot faster. -- Peggy Schroeck, D&D game, in response to a crisis situation that arises while she's searching the bodies of four recent opponents.

I was NeoRaven, but I finally managed to get a new eZborad ID. Hey all. Hopefully I'll be able to get my fic up off the ground sometime soon here.

(Dry your eyes, dry your eyes, dry your eyes, dry your eyes)
Dry your eyes and quietly bear this pain with pride
For heaven shall remember the silent and the brave
And promise me they will never see the fear within our eyes (my eyes are closed)
We will give strength to those who still remain
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
(Prepare for battle)
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying a faith is come
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
Hold your head up high for there is no greater love
Think of the faces of the people you defend (you defend)
And promise me they will never see the tears within our eyes (my eyes are closed)
Although we are men, with mortal sins, angels never cry
So bury fear, for fate draws near
And hide the signs of pain
With noble acts the bravest souls
Endure the heart's remains
Discard regret that in this debt
A better world is made
That children of a newer day might remember
And avoid our fate
(Prepare for battle)
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be your light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying a faith in God
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
And in the fury of this darkest hour
I will be your light
A lifetime for this destiny
For I am Winterborn
And in this moment I will not run
It is my place to stand
We few shall carry hope
Within our bloodied hands (bloodied hands)
Within this moment
I am for you though better men have failed
I will give my life for love
For I am Winterborn
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winterborn
Without denying a faith in Man
That I have never known
I hear the angels call my name
And I am Winterborn
And in my dying
I'm more alive than I have ever been
I will make this sacrifice
For I am Winterborn
-- CrXshadows, Winterborn (This Sacrifice)

-- Bob
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For Jor-El so loved the Earth, he sent his only begotten son...

One thing that I've noticed about Fujishima's solo works is that they appear to be interconnected. It started in a contest announcement, where You're Under Arrest's Miyuki and Natsumi prayed to win the contest and Belldandy (not yet from Oh My Goddess) told them they weren't eligible...
Since then, Oh My Goddess's Belldandy and Keiichi have shown up in a Christmas story in the You're Under Arrest manga, You're Under Arrest's Natsumi announced the drag-race meet in the third episode of the Oh My Goddess OAV series, the Super Seven that You're Under Arrest's Sena drove (set c. 1995) shows up again in eX-Driver (set c. 2115), and so on.
Is this something that Bob and Chris are noting (or were even aware of) in DW V / OMB II?
On the plus side, it opens up a few new subplot possibilities. On the minus side, it enlarges the cast significantly...

-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Because I feel like it.
Well, see, I was wandering through the TV Tropes site, and I got to thinking about all this self-inserts that we've got going 'round here.
And, okay, yeah, I'm putting off working on F/CD.
Anyway, all of the 'shinobi-Nates' - TGNH, Seven Substitute Shinobi, F/CD - use more formal speech patterns than you'd really guess seeing their dialog written in English - in short, keigo. Both they and that poor sap currently working for SEARRS use watashi, always. Yes, both I and they know that 'manly men' don't do that. That's the point.
For the latter, with the mentioned exception and one other, he mostly talks the same way Canon-Tate does... that other exception is that, by the time the 'second OAV' starts, he's switched to using kisama to Sister Yukariko, though I know that I haven't shown them interacting yet.
So, what about Katsu, or Rikou? Or, for that matter, Doug?
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

Last chapter at: www.fanfiction.net/s/2567419/19/

New newspost up on the Starkwire blog (www.starkwire.com), in which Mr. Stark informs us of coming material. With any luck, this is Gryphon's meta-contextual way of telling us that chapter 3 is coming soon.
-z, fingers crossed

Doubtful anyone has really wondered what I've been up to.. but I may as well make note of it somewhere.
I've shelved Page of the Limitless Blade due to an unexpected.. conflict.. with Telenet Japan. It's not anything official, of course.
Telenet Japan recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Valis game series... by having a game company who has put out such delightful titles as Rape! Rape! Rape! make a new series.
I don't think I have to tell you what the contents are like.
I don't think I have to describe how NEGATIVE the reaction has been of Valis fans who have found out about this.
I was originally going to play with a Valis continuation... something playing with the extradimensional nature of the swords in the series. Play around with the idea of building a new world for Valis and Lithus to land in.
...
Not anymore.
My current little project is 'Phantom Soldier Valis' the title closely derived from the original 'Phantasmal Soldier Valis' title. Basically. I'm going to paint the events of the original platformer games with finer strokes.
Sort of like taking an OVA series and expanding it to a couple of TV seasons, as it were.
I seem to do my best work when I have a full head of nerd fury going....
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead