Eeeeee! I just finished reading The Borderland State by nekosmuse. Set several years after series one, it is just as twisted, mesmerising, and full of creepy-obsessive mindfuckery as the show. If you like the series, read and have fun!

Thanks to louiselux for the original rec.

I finished a fic - wow! For the first time in over 18 months, I have something basically done, and I'm almost too surprised to be suitably excited by it. It had been making me feel like I would never finish stitching it together, hanging over me like the big black vulture of doom. But it's more than finishing a fic, because this is finishing a world, wrapping up the plot that's been ever-evolving in my head for the last three years, and while I'm more than glad to have got it finished, it's also slightly sad in a way.

Of course, I still have to edit the crap out of this thing, especially the later parts, because the earlier stuff was edited muchly as I went along, but that painful process can wait until another day!

Last night was Japanese movie night over at mamishka's, one live action and one anime.

( Recs and reviews )

On another note, I'm feeling entirely pleased with myself today, because I've finally finished a scene in my WIP. Which doesn't sound like much, until I point out that this Scene has been hanging round my neck for the last four months or more, wrapped around trips to the UK and Canada and other things in my life. The Scene is a more a whole series of scenes strung together through an afternoon and an evening that segue endlessly into one another, with parts of it that were just killing me, and the finished Scene is currently 19,695 words long. Which brings the entire fic to a little under 37,000 words, and means I've got probably 30,000 still to write, but it feels like a hell of a milestone to have got it done after so long.

And now, having been written in so many bits over so long, it needs one hell of an edit, but I'll give it a couple of read-throughs for fluidity and then move on rather than get bogged down in it. Again. It'll probably need more words to soften the joins.

None of which stops me being exceedingly happy to be done with it :-)

Now a trilogy in four parts - it's getting boring linking to the lot, so the previous fics are all here.

Only just over 10,000 words this time, less plot and more smut, which means most of it will make sense even if you can't be bothered ploughing through the previous 126,000. Still all the usual swearing, surprisingly little violence XD

Tangled.

Just a smutty snippet that follows on from 'Wires'. Fairly plotless, so you don't actually need to know how they got there. But I did write 'Wires' to be largely comprehensible to people who don't know 'Mexico', and this really isn't, so if you don't know the fandom or the other fic, this is just so much drivel XD

I'm calling it R-rated, but that's a high end R.

Strung

Back to the gratuitous V/W porn, NC-17 smut and swearing. This one's Renet's fault. We discussed it in email a long time ago now, and agreed on everything except for the minor point that I thought she should write it, and she thought I should. I caved first. Not beta'd by Renet this time, since it's kind of for her.

Mangaverse as ever.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Traveller

Yes, I stole the title. I'm not the first to steal that one, and since the original author's unlikely to complain, you don't get to either ;-)

I thought the word had at least got around this far. I thought I might have actually seen the last of dry anal sex and no prep with virgins. But no, it's back again in yaoi_challenge.

Oh, the pain. In every meaning of the word....

...if you like 58 go here. It's short, but sometimes that's all you need.

(I'm pimping this specifically 'cos I know there's very little overlap between my f-list and kleos_fic, and there should probably be more XD.)

The muse prize this time goes to andmydog, who gets a completely accidental Christmas meme prezzie because of it. Although I'm fairly sure this isn't what you had in mind....

W/V, NC-17, lots of naughty sex words - I really don't need to tell you lot this stuff, do I?

And yes, I've now set two completely unrelated stories in the same gap in the manga in TriMax 6. Suck it down, I ain't apologising for it ;-)

Balance

Okay, so I can drag the Vash essay together and make something coherent out of it, I'm pretty sure.

Now I have this minor problem of fic recs. Because, you know, I could rec quite a few fics where Vash and Wolfwood fuck each other silly, but that would have been a different essay. I know I can dig out some fics to rec that are about Vash's relationship with Wolfwood and are almost platonic if you squint at 'em right. But actual Vash character fics? That aren't dull internal monologues written by teenage girls on ffnet? I am hitting such a blank it's not funny.

Anybody? Help?