PERSISTENCE

After a failtastic move out of my old house and otherwise debilitating Christmas season, Hart's back, and the apologies for the disappearing act are many.

_{._. Please don't be mad?}

[from here]

There was only one corner to turn at the end of the hall, so Anthy took it. The rest were stairwells and dead ends. Sticking close to Utena, the remaining words drifted out of her.

"Yet, you've become precious to me. I think you are my first true friend."

[from here]

Tim stepped into the hallway, closet rod in hand. There wasn't much of anything going on out here, like that wasn't creepy as hell. He decided to ignore how creepy it felt and just press on.

Nothing to see here, folks.

[to here]

I'm posting this because I realized something after the last couple posts in a thread I'm in with another character. Alchemy comes up a lot as a means of obtaining a weapon at Landel's, but it really shouldn't be relied on. I was going through a mental list of alchemists here and realized that after some of the more recent drops Leon is the only one left.

So if you were wondering who was available for that... Yeah. That's it. I'm booked for the current night and the following two nights, after which he gets a short break. I'll only do lists of a handful of people at a time because of how much planning ahead that is, and I'll try to make things as fair as possible next time slots are open but that will be several months from now.

I've made a post in his journal here for questions and whatnot. We may get more alchemists in the future. Who knows?

I just thought it might be important to let people know how things currently stood on that regard.

( it's a dog eat dog world out there )

[From here]

They kept walking in silence for a while before Utena shook her head vehemently. "No. No, there's no way you could have! No one, no matter what they've done, deserves to be treated like the Rose Bride!" she insisted, leading Himemiya more quickly now. "People are people, not objects. They don't stop being human just because someone says so."

She gave the girl's hand a squeeze as they moved down the hall. "Or because they've done something bad."

[from here]

Anthy was quiet for a few long seconds. The path from last night was familiar, but she stopped short once she recognized the banisters that overlooked the Sun Room on the first floor. This was where they'd been attacked, and so this was as far as they'd come before the night ended. She wasn't sure which direction to go next to get to the place they were seeking, and so waited for Utena to take the lead from here on out.

She averted her gaze to the ground and spoke softly: "How are you so sure that I'm a good person? Haven't you ever wondered that I might've done something to deserve being the Rose Bride?"

The number of times she'd been so very plain with Utena could be counted on one hand, but there it was now -- the question Utena should've been asking herself from the very start. There was no turning back.

( better not be thievin' )

Don't know how many of you read the Host Club manga or keep up on it, but the latest chapter had a bit in it that I couldn't resist posting up here. I edited out any names and spoiler-ish things, so it should be ok to read even if you're not caught up or don't know the series too well.

Anyway...
( Oh no, what'll we do? )

( because after a while it becomes hard to keep track of everything )

The power cord for my laptop is broken, so I'm going to be on hiatus until Friday. SORRY, LINA. Not that I haven't already kind of been on unofficial hiatus. I swear I haven't even had time to make a slow posting/hiatus post. Ohgod ack my life.

~Sonya

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So, I ended up being away a bit longer than I'd expected, but I'm back now. I think I've posted to all my backthreads, but if I missed one, just lemme know and I'll jump on it.

Zoro-mun and Usopp-mun and maybe Brook-mun... I'm not sure what, exactly, is going to be killing Chopper yet (and on that note, any volunteers?), but I guess coordinating things would be a good idea, huh? /FAIL

- Eli / Javits
[Kuroba Kaito, the Doctor, Ryoji Mochizuki, TonyTony Chopper]

[[From here]]

So Raphael could kick in a door.  Big deal.  Might as well have added some sirens and flashing lights to alert everyone to their exact location while they were at it.  If he was just going to break it down, she sure as hell could've done that herself!  Rather than answer or acknowledge his childish taunts (Kakashi could be watching after all), she gave an unimpressed shrug and walked right by him and into the room. 

"So much for stealth," she sighed, but was on her guard the moment she entered the room.  It looked as she might have expected really.  Just a room with some books and chairs and other ordinary things.  A quick survey of the room told her that at least nothing was lying in wait for them, but who knew what had been drawn to the loud banging as the door had been kicked in.  Not to mention they couldn't exactly close it behind them if something dangerous did show up.  It was a good thing she'd had him be the one to blame for that then. 

"Cover me while I find the right ones," she ordered, letting her flashlight stray over the titles and pulling one up every once in a while to set it on top of the stack she was accumulating.  Not too many, but hopefully enough that it would have all the information she needed.

After a quick nap and an awkward conversation with her roommate, Bella grabbed the flashlight that was under her pillow (at least someone finally told her.) and her map and snuck out into the darkness, remembering to glance at her room number before heading down the hallway.

As she figured it, she was to meet Edward. … but where? Bella paused in the hallway to chew on her bottom lip and glance at the map, trying to remember where she had originally smacked into him the night prior. At least she’d be in the open and he’d be able to find her. Maybe.

Well, it sounded right to her.

Shrugging her shoulders, she continued down the hallway.

And hiatus end. I'm back from America so I should be back to my regular posting schedule soon enough. Sorry to everyone I've held up and any threads that got dropped while I was abroad.

This one is serious. I can't even get my machine to boot in Safe Mode; I get a weird blue screen saying that there is a "license violation." Until I get it resolved somehow (a techie friend will try to help later this morning), I'm going to have to declare a hiatus for an indefinite period of time. My only access now is via mobile phone, and posting that way is very slow and kludgy.

ETA: Just got off the phone with my friend. He's going to send me a new machine, but it might be several days before I can get and set it up. But hopefully, this might be the end of all the computer-related problems I've been having of late.

Ehhh...I never was too active with Aya around here much but I'm finally just going to have to let him go here due to real life still being too busy for me to keep up with such an awesome and intense game. It's been really fun and I'm glad I joined!

Take care everyone!

Also, please friend remove briar_thorns.