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Hello flisters interested in Japanese things:

My wonderful friend Ricci (dotintheshark) is moving from Germany to the US (yay!!) to get maaaarried (triple yay!!!!) and is selling off a lot of her books and manga and the like. She has some especially cool stuff like a ton of Kodaka Kazuma doujinshi (Hikaru no Go, Prince of Tennis, Slam Dunk, the Kizuna series Hana to Ryu, etc), several complete Higuri You series (!), and then plenty of other complete Japanese-language series - Aoki&Ayamine, Sanami Matoh, Watase Yuu, etc - as well as various German-translated manga, German books I can't understand, Japanese study materials, etc. If you are interested in these things, or if you know people interested in these things, send them over her way and you/your friend get cool stuff and also, like, facilitate the path of true love and the smooth running thereof. Wouldn't that feel good? :D

(I changed my mind, you get what was originally here later this month.)


Furies

Banished from sin and the sacred
Now they inhabit the humble intimacy
Of daily life. They are
The leaky faucet the late bus
The soup that boils over
The lost pen the vacuum that doesn’t vacuum
The taxi that doesn’t come the mislaid receipt
Shoving pushing waiting
Bureaucratic madness

Without shouting or staring
Without bristly serpent hair
With the meticulous hands of the day-to-day
They undo us

They’re the peculiar wonder of the modern world
Faceless and maskless
Nameless and breathless
The thousand-headed hydras of efficiency gone haywire

They no longer pursue desecrators and parricides
They prefer innocent victims
Who did nothing to provoke them
Thanks to them the day loses its smooth expanses
Its juice of ripe fruits
Its fragrance of flowers
Its high-sea passion
And time is transformed
Into toil and the rush
Against time

-- Sophia Mello de Breyner Andresen


(tr. Richard Zenith. original.)

Sooo I wrote this like a month and a half ago and never got around to crossposting. Oops...?

Asylum
Characters/Pairing: Patrice Evra, Park Ji-Sung, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Owen Hargreaves, Sir Alex Ferguson, Fernando Morientes, Mathieu Flamini, assorted others (gen)
Word count: 9500
Rating: PG
Notes: In the same universe as Quedarse. Originally for dreamofthem, for valentinesplay.

Summary: What begins as exile doesn't have to remain that way.

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( notes on this story and women's football )

Here's a handful of resources on Spanish women's football for anyone interested:
futfem.com - the place to go for league and NT news/info. (es)
Podemos Jugar - think From A Left Wing, but in Spanish. (es)
Nosotras - Women's sports coverage at AS. Isabel Roldán reports on the Primera Division as well as a fair amount on the national team and women in football at large (e.g. as directors). I've also seen Maite Martín's byline on several articles. (es)
From A Left Wing's Jennifer Doyle on the Spanish WNT, with a pretty convincing hypothesis for exactly why there is such a difference between the junior and senior teams, including a short interview with Laura del Rio. (en)
Interview with Veronica Boquete, touching on several of the above issues. (en)
FIFA write up of a national community side tournament, focusing especially on the players' families.

( notes on the actual writing, and original characters )

I was hoping to finish this before the year was out, but the last two hundred words just wouldn't come out right until today. I'm pretty sure there's an audience of probably about three people out there for gen second-generation futurefic, but this fic has come to mean a lot to me, and I think it's one of the better things I've written, so.

Thanks as always to nahco3 for betaing, hand-holding, and the canon I stole from her own fic. Spoilery notes here.


Origin Stories
Zaida Villa, gen
5426 words

( gonna show you what i'm made of )

Sorry to have been off the radar for so long - I've been working full time again, and it's been much more draining than the last job. This is pretty shameless but, yes, this post is essentially a single link:

anon holiday love meme

It, you know, wouldn't go amiss? In the meantime I have some music and prompt fills and I will try and catch up soon. :)

I need to write something. Taking this idea from a challenge supacat did a long time ago - prompt me with characters and as much or as little else as you like and I'll (try to) write you something that is essentially a page torn out of a longer story.

(My problem with prompts is usually a fixation on providing a full setup of some sort so ideally this will get around that problem. ...I did say "ideally".)

this was intended for nahco3 from the beginning, but it's finally finished for a particular reason. happy birthday to my favorite writer, cheerleader, tinhat, chat buddy, Diego Maradona biographer, AU plotter, filthy enabler, polar bear tamer, and all-around partner in crime. ♥ ♥ ♥


Abort, Retry, Fail
Word Count: 16,500
Pairing: David Villa/David Silva, others implied
Rating: R
Notes: We've all read guede_mazaka's Magverse, right? We know the idea of HBIC Luis Figo overseeing a horde of foxes Spaniards didn't originate with me, right? Okay. Just making sure.

Summary: In which FC Barcelona are a department of misfit programmers, Figo's in charge, Xavi has a lot of Ideas, Bojan might or might not be an intern, David Silva's just trying to help where he can, and David Villa is completely clueless. Romcom-style AU.

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Sooooo! Here is some more of this fic. Like five months later... yeah. Half of that delay was expected and due to RL changes; half of it was, um, not. That second half would still be going on if it weren't for the UNENDING patience of nahco3 in listening to a pretty constant stream of moping, complaints, and pleas for help, so (as if this needs to be said), a million thanks and a polar bear. ♥

In this part: backstory, brooding, more Germans (remember them?), some actual plot developments!

Clandestine Affairs (5/?)
Word Count: (part) 12,600
Characters/Pairings: (part) Cesc Fàbregas, David Silva, David Villa, Luís Figo, Raul González, Fernando Morientes, Gonzalo Higuaín, Juan Mata, Jérôme Boateng, Michael Ballack, Philipp Lahm, Lukas Podolski (David Silva/David Villa)
Rating: R
Summary/Notes: Essentially here though I should probably write some new ones by now.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

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This post is so overdue. D: There isn't really anything new here, just stuff that I never mentioned or that never found a permanent home elsewhere.

+ in the interests of completionism, I never mentioned that I wrote a ficlet for the kizuna_exchange comm back in April. Here's Looking At You, Kid, 1000 words, Jin and Kame gen.

+ podfic! kattunberry has recorded that first Nobuta fic, Warmth, and adistantsun has recorded The Lines They Travel and The Sky Above, The World Beneath. (the last one in particular is STELLAR. music! effects! lovely Australian accent!) So if you are into podfic you should check those out because these people are awesome.

+ translations also, um, finally updated in the main fic index. at long last. that's to add Russian translations of Five Things That Never Happened To Hayato and Ryu and Maps by zlobnyi_kisenok, and of The Sky Above, The World Beneath by alexandro19. translation list should now be complete; please let me know if I've left something out. D:

+ a ficlet for your time. it's not new but it was buried in a friendslocked post before and now that the longer fic it might've gone into is long finished, no reason not to make it public.

"Stray", Gokusen 2, Hayato/Ryu-ish. 336 words.
( hayato is a cat person )

+ ...I don't think I forgot anything? how is everyone from JE Land? I miss you guys. <3