Fanfiction: Golden in the Mercy of His Means (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle)

Title: Golden In the Mercy of His Means
Fandom: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
Character(s): Sakura, Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane and Mokona
Pairing(s): None explicit; Sakura/Syaoran if you squint.
Rating: G
Word Count: ~3600
Warnings: None. Set the day before chapter 70.
A/N: This story began as a way to get to the punch-line of the amusing bit, but quickly became an opportunity for me also to explore the first questions I asked when I picked up TRC: How many memories to a feather? How many feathers to a soul? Concrit welcomed with Galas and Granny Smiths. Crossposted from nebroadwe to tsubasarc, sakurafans and clampfiction.
Dedication: For Katie, dear friend and fellow fan, because you asked for it.

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( And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs / Before the children green and golden / Follow him out of grace. )

Curiosa: Director's cut?

Sniggled from Ansible: a damaged but more complete print of Fritz Lang's silent SF masterpiece Metropolis has turned up in Argentina. Restoration is underway.

Metropolis.

Uncut. (Or less cut.)

WHEE!

Please, please, please, somebody arrange for an art-house release of this new version once it's been cleaned up. I saw the last one, with intertitles offering explanations of the probable missing bits -- but seeing the actual missing bits in their proper places projected onto a big screen? Priceless. (Preferably accompanied by an audience willing to roll with the conventions of early twentieth-century cinema. Yes, the evening-clothed gentlemen mugging outrageously at the camera when the robot femme fatale makes her debut look rather silly now, but AFAIK their mime is not primarily comic. Please to chuckle quietly under your breath, if chuckle you must.)

Fanfiction: I have readers in Guam?

I'm having fun with FF.net's newly introduced "Reader Traffic" widget. It's a little cumbersome yet (figuring out who's reading what involves a lot of back-and-forth with the drop-down menu), but the "Breakdown by Visitor Country" chart is just plain cool, in a "Dude -- people all over the freakin' world are reading my 'fic!" way. Last month, I had hits from Malaysia, Thailand and Bulgaria; only five days into August, and I've already seen traffic from Finland, Mexico, Singapore and Guam. Mind you, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the readers hailing from the US and UK, but still -- people all over the freakin' world are reading my 'fic! Logically, I knew this must be happening, but it's a different experience laid out in blue and orange.