“So, uh. You got chosen to be the next crazy lady- sorry, family eccentric?”
She moved to whap her sister with a celebrity magazine on sheer principal. Camila ducked out of the way and flung her hands up.
“Am I wrong?” Camily was laughing. “And you also are honored to spend the busiest week of your life learning ancient family oddities from a houseguest. You must feel so lu...
2017-10-31 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI am currently downloading a program that apparently I need.
I am so sorry.
I am the worst.
2017-10-29 01:20:30 +0000 UTC View Posti am the worst but i am trying to understand why i can't make it go
it's scheduled for fifteen minutes from now!
It should have been five but I got confused and it won't let me schedule a post so soon before I do it, I think.
2017-10-29 00:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post“The opening bid is 300 thousand. Do I hear one bid? One bid! Two bids, three bids, four. 350! Can I get 350 on this?”
Brianna hooked her left ankle around the chair leg and tried not to look like she was being lulled to sleep by the rhythmic calling. She wasn't actually thrilled about being at an auction, but it was distantly pleasant. The room was beautiful, it ...
2017-10-28 06:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostI'm at home sick and will be inside all day tomorrow for sure, because the typhoon if not the horrible infection that has made me a vile shadow of who I once was.
I have been given a laptop, by a very good person who loves me way more than he ought.
So I was thinking that I want to try out the livestream thing tomorrow for the first time. So, please, comment with anything that you wa...
2017-10-28 05:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostShe woke up after a particularly late night out with Red, feeling bleary. The time- oh no, she needed to run to make it to breakfast. Brianna wrestled her way into clothes before she was totally conscious and almost walked out in her socks.
There was a letter under the door.
'That's a first. She can write? What would she write?'
Brianna's...
2017-10-26 08:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Iwagakure was as cheery as it ever was. Jiraiya entered with a family of merchants and tradespeople, winning their support with a combination of a sob story and bribery. He'd deliberately picked a cheerful bunch, but even their attitudes dimmed under the oppressive weight of stone stretching into the sky to blot out the clouds. It was just unnatural, was what it was.
Sorry about the long period of silence! I mentioned this on my tumblr, but- I dropped my laptop into a puddle during a typhoon weeks ago. I thought that I had resurrected it but I was wrong, so so wrong. It let me use it with an attached keyboard for a day or so and then decided to sleep eternally.
I have lost a lot of drafts. And all the cat video. I'm really sorry.
...
2017-10-26 07:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post “Thank you all for coming so promptly.” The Sandaime seated himself at the end of the table, nearest the door. ANBU filed in to dot the walls and crowd his shoulders. “I'm afraid that we have a lot of news to discuss.”
Genma kept his lips pressed shut and his back straight. Maybe no one would notice him if he was very, very still. <...
The fucker just up and left her.
'There might,' Regina reflected, 'be some very good reasons that Ando-san was surprised to see me with Jiraiya. I'm going to guess that he is unreliable, uncommunicative, and inconsiderate.'
Also an incurable liar.
She didn't know much, but he had definitely ...
“Thank you all for coming so promptly.” The Sandaime seated himself at the end of the table, nearest the door. ANBU filed in to dot the walls and crowd his shoulders. “I'm afraid that we have news.”
Genma kept his lips pressed shut and his back straight. Maybe no one would notice him if he was very, very still.
...
Night and day were sharply divided. Her days started in the afternoons when she did rehearsals, practiced her stage persona, and endured an increasingly ridiculous costume wardrobe.
As she mastered songs, she had to run through the performances in the ballroom as though it was for real, pausing for audience reaction and bowing and smiling and sometimes accepting flowers. T...
2017-09-30 13:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post A romantic perspective was that living up by the Spikes was a delicate dance. If you were quick and graceful, you could thrive in a beautiful, deadly place unlike anywhere else in the known worlds.
Some people just said it was damned stupid. Magic was unstable here- more so than down in the valleys. It crackled visibly between the tall mountains, daring anyone foolish or p...
2017-09-27 13:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post The fucker just up and left her.
'There might,' Regina reflected, 'be some very good reasons that Ando-san was surprised to see me with Jiraiya. I'm going to guess that he is unreliable, uncommunicative, and inconsiderate.'
Also an incurable liar.
She didn't know much, but he had definitely told O...
30 Patrons already- that was fast!
Ya'll voted overwhelmingly for the video about my cat, so I guess that's what you'll get. I hope it is everything that you ever hoped it would be. But it'll probably be fairly bad because of the problems with who I am as a person and the fact that my computer is Smol and a little elderly. I recorded and now need to do a lot of editing to make it into some...
2017-09-27 12:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Brianna watched the ballroom’s new sound system go up and tried not to think too much about the coffeeshop where she had sung on the open mic night for years. The difference was surreal and staggering.
She watched a trio of uniformed experts snake wire and do absolutely absurd, arcanely clever things to blend the speakers and equipment in with the historical décor. It was a prett...
2017-09-25 05:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post Chapter 2. White Elephant.
5391 words.
“Who are you?” her captor demanded.
He used the exact same wording that this one infuriating youtube commercial advertising beer did, so it took Regina a moment to straighten out her emotions in response to that confusing input. She told him her name. The grip on her shoulder be...
Living up by the Spikes was a delicate dance. Some people just said it was damned stupid. Magic was unstable here- more so than down in the valleys. It crackled visibly between the tall mountains, daring anyone foolish or power-hungry enough to come on up if they were hard enough.
Sometimes people did go up. They didn't always come back down.
But ...
2017-09-08 13:20:33 +0000 UTC View Post “They've entered,” crackled through the speaker hidden in the podium.
Brianna uncrossed her legs, but didn't stand up just yet.
The pianist was haunting an armchair on the other side of the room with a copy of a romance novel hidden inside an antique-looking cover.
She opened her mouth and then sighed,...
'The drop site is compromised.'
He didn't see anyone, but they were waiting for him. Jiraiya kept an easy smile and swaggered on up the road.
'Did my contact sell me out, or is it a third party?'
Whoever it was waited until he'd stuck a key in the post box. The kun...
which is everyone, since it is the first week.
ps im sorry the video is so bad, i will do better
2017-09-05 11:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostI'm so happy to have 15 patrons here already. Thank you so much, all of you.
I'm working on a 'welcome' type video, so look for that! You can see how weird my face is, and that I am super happy to have you on my page.
2017-09-02 11:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
“I want to thank you for all of your work.” Her voice wasn't entirely steady. “All three of you exceeded my expectations. I'm sorry that I had to leave you in Konoha. You acquitted yourselves honorably.”
Yuusaku didn't meet her eyes. Ryuusei shrugged insolently. “At least you got us out. Thanks for that.”
&nb...
Gaara was in her office the moment the door shut behind the new chuunin.
Aiko gave a pointed look to the pile of sand that had accompanied his whooshing entrance.
The other redhead seemed not to notice. “I see you are well.” Gaara stated. “I have investigated. Saito-san is not responsible for the attempt on our lives this afternoon.”
...
'I've never seen one this close before.'
“We call that one the Red Lady,” Imile said. She watched Brianna's expression with a pleasant smile. “For obvious reasons.” She tossed her hair and started walking again, not interested for long. “She dances every night that there's live music, so you will encounter her often.”
'I've nev...
2017-08-31 14:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostI'll close this poll on September 30, or once I have 30 patrons- whichever comes first. Let me know what you'd like to hear me talk about!
2017-08-30 07:50:09 +0000 UTC View Post^
That's the theme of some original writing I'm working on. There's a short snippet below.
In the beginning, it wasn't really the beginning at all. There were no fantastic soundless explosions, no colliding of celestial bodies.
As in so many things, the beginning of the world was brought about by the death of something else.
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2017-08-30 07:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post