Six years ago, there was an older woman I admired. She was well-spoken, funny, intelligent. She knew how to make sad kids happy and how to tell off a power-tripping manager. She was attractive, and never hid it. She laughed with her colleagues. She liked to have fun and everyone knew it. She was a bit flippant about life. That was a fresh take on life to my 14 year old self. Whenever I saw her, I just thought - there is no way I can be like her.

Since then, I talked nicely with kiddies and sarcastically with people with their heads up their asses. I dressed myself well, and emphasized what looked good. I made friends with all my co-workers. I’ve also partied a lot, gathered tons of crazy stories, and was frivolous.

A few months ago, I met a different older woman. She was also well-spoken, funny, intelligent. She was in a fast-paced, demanding career. She was dressed neat and professional. She handled all her assignments with ease. She gave presentations to hundreds of people, explaining complicated issues in a simple way. She used humor to illustrate her positions. Her home life was impeccable. I've seen her twice since, thinking - there is no way I can be like her.

I guess we will see what happens in six years.

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 I got this idea while trying to finish the second chapter of Love holds no bounds( which i have maybe two paragraphs *sighs*)... I think it came out pretty good:) I hope you enjoy it. Just a little warning it is a threesome photo... very G rated though. 
I was wondering if anyone would like to try and write a fic based on it? I'm gonna give it a try AFTER i get the two i am working on finished... or at least thats what i am telling myself.*laughs * well anyway enjoy

 

Title: Sun Girl
Author: holyfant
Fandom: Greek Mythology
Pairing: Aphrodite/Persephone
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "In general, Aphrodite doesn't think too much about the underworld."


Sun Girl

Title: Just For Us
Author: siliconhero
Pairing: Mai Tokiha/Natsuki Kuga
Fandom: Mai-HiME
Theme: #8 - Our own world
Disclaimer: Blah blah blah Sunrise blah blah blah Mai-HiME blah blah blah not mine blah blah.
Notes: Breather episode 2 of 4.

( The first meal of the day is the most important )

http://maria-sama.rightstuf.com/

Thanks to Okazu, looks like we've got something new down there. Enjoy checking it out, especially the preview vid. :)

OBTW, be prepared a bit about the Rightstuf version of the subs... it's a little different from the variety we're all familiar with. If you want to give comments and criticisms about the preview, you can hit the official Rightstuf forum section to air your views (hey, looks like there's some rapid response on corrections even on the official site, and that's a very good thing).

*waves hello*
I'm new to this community and this is my first public drabble. Here you go -


Author: xavie
Title: The Law of Witches
Fandom: His Dark Materials
Pairing: Mary Malone/Serafina Pekkala
Challenge #149: Law
Word Count: 200
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mary doesn't appear in the books/movies before vol#2, so you might not know her yet



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pencil, n. [pen-suhl, pěn-səl]
-The story behind modern English pencil begins with Latin penis 'tail.' The diminutive form of this was peniculus 'brush,' which came to have its own diminutive form penicillus 'paintbrush, pencil,' literally 'very little tail.' Penicillus was a variant of Vulgar Latin penicellus with the same definition. It is from this word that Old French pincel, peincel 'paintbrush' was derived. By 1325 CE, Middle English had borrowed the French word and created pinsel 'artist's paintbrush.' Approximately 60 years later, the spelling and pronunciation had changed to pencel. Until 1612 CE, there is no written record of pencil being used to describe a 'writing implement made of graphite,' though we do find pencil case for carrying such tools recorded in 1552 CE.

Title: Levee
Pairing: Cho Hakkai & Sha Gojyo
Fandom: Saiyuki
Theme: 29. the sound of waves
Length: double drabble+
Disclaimer: Don't own, didn't ask to use and don't intend to make any money off this
The longer fic this belongs to is simply not cooperating with me. So instead, I'm treating the parts that do like me as stand-alone snippets.

( cut for Gojyo being slightly crude - or being Gojyo :p )

Title: Darkness
Author/Artist: nevermore199
Pairing: Jacob x Bella
Fandom: Twilight
Theme: #4 - our distance and that person
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or the characters Edward Cullen, Jacob Black, and Isabella Swan.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4132387/9/30_Kisses_Jacob_and_Bella

I hope this is okay to post here... I am posting hte question behind a link as to not offend anyone:) 

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Title: Kill or Kiss
Author: Mariko Azrael
Pairing: Akaza 'Ban' Banban/Tomasu 'Hoji' Houji
Fandom: Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
Theme: #20, the road home
Disclaimer: Not mine. Post series, spoilers apply

( But despite everything... he had missed Ban. )

Ummmm...could this movie look any more scary?? Seriously, even my boy Scott Speedman can't placate my fear.


AND, just like with all scary movies, I want to see it. Like a lot. Knowing I will regret watching it the minute I have to go to sleep. Whateva.

I wrote an angst-ridden theme for 30_kisses .I'm feeling completely depressed and this is the result. Written in an hour in one sitting.

Title: only yo
Author: Clare-wanko (freshpickletoad )
Pairing: Fuji/Ryoma (Thrill Pair)
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Theme: #16: invincible, unrivaled
Disclaimer: I claim nothing as mine. They belong to Konomi-sama.
Summary: To Ryoma, there is no one else but Fuji.
[Theme Table]

A/N: Warnings up for angst and death-fic.


But Ryoma finds little comfort in Karupin’s soft, warm fur. 

robot, n. [roh-bot, rō-bŏt]
-A rather modern word for this community, robot comes from the Czech play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots),' written in 1920 by dramatist Karel Capek (though his brother, Josef, actually came up with the word a few years earlier and used it in a short story.) Capek created the term robot to describe 'mechanical people constructed to do menial tasks.' It was fashioned from Czech robota 'forced labor, drudgery,' which comes from an Old Czech source similar to Old Church Slavonic rabota 'servitude,' from Old Slavic rabu 'slave.' (From this stem was also created related to Old High German arabeit and German Arbeit 'work.') Robot was brought into English via German and was first recorded in an English written text in 1923.