frog princess

eldanis, I got your parcel this morning. Thank you for the amazing and beautiful art. I have to share it because it knocked my socks off.

eldanis drew me Edwardian vampire!Hakkai, aka Nikola from the AU bloodsucking fic An air that kills. He's remarkably like the image I had in my head of him.

Click through for a bigger pic...

( Vampire Hakkai )

I put up a saiyuki_time request for prompt ideas, here. Also, this week's challenge is a catch up week for anyone who didn't have time to do any of the previous challenges. So, if you've got half finished fics or ideas you never had time to write first time around, now's the time to post. I'm going to have a stab at it... It's been a bit quiet over there recently.

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kispexi posted some of her favourite Saiyuki images and asked other people to as welll. Hey, it's always time for a picspam!

( *rummages in folder* )

Title: The Curse
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Hakkai/Gojyo
Warnings: explict het and m/m, genderswap
Notes and summary can be found here. Any feedback and comments are very much appreciated.

part one

( The curse - part two )

for metal_dog5 - Hakkai/Gojyo, snug.

( The good life )



For kispexi - Kou/Zakuro - an illusion gone wrong.

( A masterful plan )

Things that make me happy:

saiyuki_manga has some images from beautiful Salty Dog 5.

The latest chapter of Saiyuki over at radiofreebanri, where ( spoiler )

Oh, just fyi, there is a new challenge over at saiyuki_time - this week, it's about clothes.

daegaer insisting that I write a robot au. Robot tennis au. Rafa Nadal is discovered to be a tennis bot in the middle of the Wimbledon final. I know, stop looking at me like that! She thinks I'm already writing it. I suspect she is already writing her OWN robot au.


Things to make me sad:

R Fed lost his match today at the Cincinnati Masters, where he should be winning. Or, if not winning, at least in serious contention. I wasn't able to keep track of the scores, from nerves. God. You know, I am suddenly learning how people get totally over-invested in sport.

I has a Twine

I don't really know what Twine will be useful for yet, but I'm trying it out at the Beta stage. I quite like the small potted entries, and the ability to have groups of people sharing and contributing to each Twine. But. Do I really need another link collecting thing?

I do have some Twine invites, if anyone would like one?

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I wrote a fic: Travel light - for saiyuki_time, Gojyo/Hakkai (ish), worksafe.

Heyyyy, I got Saiyuki Reload vol 8! ( some spoilers )

Also, I wrote somefing: Night Vision, Gojyoi/Hakkai, R, for the saiyuki_time prompt 'sight'

puddingcat came to Reading yesterday to get fitted for her coat of many buttons, so in the afternoon I met up with her and her dressmaker friend Claire and landlady Laura. We hit up the John Lewis haberdashery and Fabricland and a couple of shoe shops and now I feel so enthused about dresses and fabric and shoes. I can't wait to see puddingcat's coat - she showed me the pattern and it's a sort of pirate frock coat with panels and huge cuffs.

I'm thinking of commissioning a dress from Claire too. I just have to decide on what I want: either something 60s style in a simple A-line/shift dress style, or a full skirted 50s style dress.

Also, when we were randomly chatting about stuff, puddingcat made a really interesting point about Nii - ( cut for vague spoilers )

And lo there was fic: Reflection, for the saiyuki_time prompt 'ghosts'. Hakkai is trying to recreate his old life.

Title: Heart of Darkness
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Ni/Gojyo (implied Gojyo/Hakkai)
Warnings: not worksafe, some m/m, Ni, some weirdness
Notes: thanks to emungere, my dearly loved enabler, and to new_kate for beta and encouragement. I always think of this story as 'the end of Ni'. I don't know what prompted me to write it, just that I've been thinking about him recently. Any concrit and feedback would be much appreciated.

Summary: Houtou castle is under attack. Ni has a prisoner in his lab.

( Heart of Darkness )

Some generous soul uploaded many shiny screencaps of the Hakkai and Gojyo Burial OVA at saiyuki. Oh my god they are so pretty.

That is all.

I'm just idly wondering if anyone's got any fic recs for Nii-- in any of his various guises, pairings, whatev.

ps, I have already read the altogether too likely Nii/Bunny by emungere

Thanks for all the answers to the special powers poll. My favourites:

Sanzo:
If he had telekinesis, he'd never let anyone get within 50 metres of him.
Pissed off!Medium.
Slight precognition and slight telepathy, the rest is all attitude

Hakkai:
Psychometry, healing and life-force vampirism
Only acts like he's reading your mind.
Absolute direction sense like an internal GPS - this made me think of Mildmay!

Goku
Spidey-sense
Telekenesis or just plain superstrength. Maybe he's the Incredible Hulk?

Gojyo
The ability to give someone an orgasm just by thinking about it.
Charm / presence / awe-inducing magnetism. Or pyrokinesis.
Empathic / psychometry - quite a few people suggested empath for Gojyo.

*mulls it over*

Also, random thought of the day (last night): I was wondering if Koumyou kept Ukoku and Kouryuu apart on purpose. Kouryuu only has one memory od Ukoku, but it's clear Ukoku visited Koumyou sometimes - or even regularly? I really want to read more stories about Nii.