frog princess

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 )

Hoorah, I wrote something for saiyuki_time

Title: The Creator
Warnings: none
Notes: this is for the prompt 'rebirth'. Time taken - 25 minutes to write and then another ten for editing and rewriting the ending about twelve times! Concrit welcome.

Summary: Dr Ni Jianyi conducts an experiment

The Creator

Nii is bisexual! I think we really all might've had the teensiest inkling about this anyway, but athena8 very kindly translated the bit in Saiyuubito where he says so, in typically charming manner. Minekura also says some really adorable things about Gojyo and also really astonishing things about how she plots, like at the last minute! I don't know why I'm so shocked by that, but I kind of am.

Anyway, besides being astonished, being able read what she thinks about her characters just makes me very very happy.