You should make love during a thunder storm The erotic sounds and light flashes will heighten the experience. Plus, you won’t have to be preoccupied with your own survival. Take this quiz at QuizUniverse.com

 

And more importantly, why am i not in bed?

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Huge thanks to zigsa for turning me on to "Demons of the Carribbean", a great Pirates of the Carribbean/InuYasha AMV. It's a great redo in IY form of all three trailers for the PotC movies. The biggest surprise was Miroku as Barbosa - but Sesshoumaru as Jack was truly funny. You've got to see it just to see Sesshoumaru say "Oh Bugger....."



Enjoy!

And no, i haven't finished Hanyou of the Caribbean....

.... and then I looked at the date.

Today I pray for peace in everyone's heart.

Love to you all.

Thanks to all those who said nice things about me on the Love Meme. And thanks to qem_chibati for putting it out there. It was like a soothing balm to wake up to. If you haven't yet - go bask in the love yourself.

Did a small amount of virtual housecleaning on the flist today. Mostly cleaning up comms that no longer are active and a few people who never comment on my posts, so I assume I'm doing them a favor. If I"m wrong, let me know.

... and what's the first thing I find? This hilarious artwork!

Click 'n Giggle! (scroll down)

Wow! Thanks to whoever left me the great yellow rose for Christmas! I didn't even know LJ had these things. Your wishes are well received. I only wish you'd let me know who you are so I could love you up in public!

Happy Holiday!

I know that not everyone celebrates Christmas, but I do and it is a special time of year for my family and I because we slow down a bit and think about others and how much they mean to us. And so, I want to take this brief moment to tell my whole Flist (and frankly, all of the IY fandom) how much I love having you in my life and thank you for all that you've given me this past year. I didn't write anything special for the holiday because I had such a hard time seeing Inu celebrating xmas, but I did let Kikyou catch him under the mistletoe *points at icon*, which she enjoyed immensely. He's still trying to figure out what hit him.

And for a just a little tad of holiday cheer, I'll share this little dancing elf with you all because he made me laugh (that is my youngest son you're laughing at if you take the link EDIT: and for posterity... here's my other son doing the elf jig.)

I hope everyone has a wonderful couple of days doing whatever you are doing. There will be many moments over the next few days where I will be thinking very warm thoughts about you all.

Merry Christmas

~Fano

I just bought the final DVD for Full Metal Alquemist series.... the FMA MOVIE!!!!!... the third season IY DVDs... and (dark chocolate) POCKY!!!!!!
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I've been waiting so long to see if Roy survived!!!!
SQUEEEEEEEEE!
I'm a Mustang fanpoodle......
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Tonight the kids and I watched the end of FMA (can you believe we'd watched all the but the last 1.5 episodes on Adult Swim before the damn DVD-R fritzed on us?????) and I ate a whole box of (dark chocolate) POCKY!!!!!! in one sitting.....
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Tomorrow night - we watch the movie and I eat my other box of (dark chocolate) POCKY!!!!!!

Hey! Look at my new icon! *points over there*

I am newly in love with mcgray - a wonderful artist who happens to enjoy applying her talent to InuYasha fanart! But, having been also heavily into HP fandom, she has done a beautiful series of HP portraits on her Deviant Art Site. This portrait of Nymphadora Tonks just captivated me and she gave me permission to iconize it. I love Tonks' character and wish we saw more of her in HP (I think of her as Harry's big sis... the one he never had). My sock drawers are messy too (and boy do I wish I had her wand to help pack a suitcase... er... trunk!).

I did used to have short hair... tho it wasn't pink. Many of you know what I really look like, and might be thinking how - er - odd - that I would take on such a beautiful visage for mine own.... but hey. This is FANTASYLAND, right? We write/read/draw FANTASY, right? This is my FANTASY.... 'nuf said.
Go friend mcgray and check out her art. She's got cute little smileys i'm going to gank too.... when i'm not so sleepy...

I love Akima still.....  but i couldn't fid a better pic of her than this and her eyes are too crosseyed. Tho I do sometimes suffer from such crosseyedness, it's not exactly my everyday look.

NOTE: no more "captains log" on the LJ post. Pirate day must be over somewhere in the world - oh - here. it' s 12:01 EST. So long, mateys!

A short post in memory of all that we have lost since Sept. 11, 2001. For everyone who has lost something, a lovely person or a cherished ideal, I wish peace and healing. For our world, I stil hold out hope.

Today is my hubby's bday and we just went to see the One Man Star Wars Trilogy performed by Charles Ross. It was HILARIOUS. He had every nuance to every classic line in all 3 of the original movies down pat. If this comes to your town (and if you have seen each of the original SW movies a thousand times like I have) - you must see it!

 

This guy is great. He particularly got the voices right for Mark Hamill, the Emperor, Admiral Ackbar ("It's a trap!") and Chewie. Drop dead hilarious! Has anyone else seen it? He has a one-man LOTR too which we must see. My kids and I can hardly talk from laughing so hard tonight!

Wow. After working my ass off for two days, I get an afternoon off in Seattle to wander around, write and do whatever the hell I want. Cool! I even bought bath salts so I can take a nice smelly bath tonight (in a nice big tub). Just one more conference call to live through....

Anyway, in the spirit of gratitude, I wanted to pass on a story I heard this morning that I found very inspiring. Actually, I heard a lot of inspiring stories this morning because I'm at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. I had the pleasure of hearing two of the initiatives that I've helped lead praised in front of about 2,000 people and given priority in the year ahead, but I've also heard some truly amazing stories about people who give of themselves to make the world better. Kindof puts fandom wank in perspective. Anyway, this story was told by a rabbi.

One day a father was entertaining his daughter but wanted a few minutes to read the paper to himself. He found a picture of the earth from space in the newspaper and cut it up into pieces. Giving it to his daughter, he told her it was a puzzle she could put together. He had no sooner lifted the remains of the paper to read when his daughter cried, "I'm finished!" Amazed, he said, "how did you do that so quickly?" She smiled and said, "Well, there was a picture of a person on the back. As soon as I pieced the person back together the world just took care of itself."

That one really warmed my heart. Who can we put back together today?

Poll #745984 My computer habits are.....
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

I spend the most time on LJ ... (check all that apply)

I'm likely to spend alot of time on LJ ...

I usually take time to HUNT for good fanfic

I usually take time to READ fanfic

What's interesting about your fanfic hunting and reading patterns?

Happy Mother's Day!

Happiness to all the moms on my flist:alf_bfenikkusukennelson_bannabaouatic_7nokomariel_poetica

Did I miss anyone?
What'd you get for mom's day? 

I've never heard this before. Was in a presentation this morning on creativity (maybe will write on this more later).



The Writer's Motto

Write Drunk. Edit Sober.

So true!

Got into my hotel room last night around 8pm. Ordered room service and - guess what? - sat down and wrote for 3 hours! It was amazing! I love being alone. 

The hotel has a spa, a boardwalk, a pool and a bunch of other stuff. I had no interest, just cranked out 3 chapters on "Romp" and figured out how to negotiate the weird minefield of the "foursome" I got myself into (what was I thinking?) It was so much fun! I invented something I called Inuyasha's "Demon Moon." We'll see if after rereading it in the light of day, and with an editor's eye, I like it as much as I did last night. Should have used the time to work on the even bigger plot minefield of "Souls," but was just into having fun (which "Romp" definitley is). OH! The best part is that it was all the badficness the last few weeks that made writing on "Romp" so much fun last night. I got to use words like "straddle" in their (I hope) appropriate context. AND I got to work in some comedy, too, which made giggle to mayself a lot ('course, that's not so unusual).