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Posting to LJ while waiting for my tea to brew so the caffeine shot will hopefully perk my sleep-deprived brain up...

According to the Death Note mangaka, today, December 13th, is Mello's birthday! There's a small celebration going on over in bish_a_day, which Mello, naturally, hates.

Also, Wednesdays are Girls Who Kick Ass Wednesday over in bishoujo_aujour, and I posted in celebration of the only manga or anime female character who could ever make me rethink this whole "being straight" thing: Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing.

In case you haven't seen it, in this post and comments on bish_a_day, there exist pictures of Loveless characters as drawn by Kazuya Minekura, and Saiyuki characters as drawn by the Loveless mangaka.

And in non-manga linkage, Ten Tips for Smarter Googling. Perhaps I shall post the link to little_details.

In the interests of preserving the safety of your monitor and keyboard, plz to not be drinking when reading the comments in this post about the worst euphemisms for "penis" people have ever come across in fic.

Shira-chan on Deviantart is doing a Slayers doujinshi and has posted a zip file with Chapter 1 in it. (link to the right side of the preview pic.) I shall be doing the variant cover for Chapter 2 of it. :D

Two books I can't remember

Cross-posted to whatwasthatbook

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I'm trying to remember the titles of two books at the moment:

1) a book that I hated, actually. It came up in a conversation elsewhere and it bothers me that I can't remember the title. It's a fantasy that I read sometime in 2002-2004 and published around then. I believe it's supposed to be the story of how the protagonist became an evil character. It's told in first person and the character spent some time in his youth in a religious order like a monastery. The key part I remember - and what caused me to hurl it with great force put the book down was when the protagonist, during some sort of strategy-plotting session with other characters, led them on a sort of guided visualization exercise for one of the plans that they were considering - asking them to respond with the actions they would perform as he described the circumstances of their infiltration of a town (I think), with the help of some sort of storytelling dice. Yes, you got that correctly, he DMed an RPG in the middle of the book.

Anyway, although the book read basically as a D&D session log, it is not Villains by Necessity. And although I think they may have called the dice "destiny dice," it is not Bischoff's Destiny Dice. I think the author is female. puppleball, I may have passed this book on to you - I certainly remember telling you about it back in 2003 or 2004, when we were cleaning out J&C's apartment after the fire.

2) a children's book I read over and over as a kid, which means it was published in the 1970s or earlier, most likely. I think it was set in New York City, or some large metropolitan city like that. The main character and her family lived in an apartment building. Her little sister loved horses so much that she either thought she was a horse or pretended she was a horse all the time, and I think may even have made a tail for herself to wear. At one point, the main character or her sister got hit on the head by falling masonry from construction on a building, and I think the main character's friend made her a paper charm to wear that looked like this:

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