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Title: Sketch: Something Ere the End
Fandom: FMA (manga or either animeverse)
Character(s): Gracia, Elicia
Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Warnings: Offstage character death.
A/N: Finally getting 'round to posting this here; it also won co-first place in the weekly FMA Fic Contest for the "just one more thing" prompt about a zillion years ago now. (Talk about positive reinforcement!) Concrit welcomed with a funeral-baked meat.

"In here, ma'am," says Sergeant Bloch.

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Animi Motus accomplished
Locus Home, sweet home
Cantus Motorcycle engines

Title: Ficlet: The Honey of Earthly Joy
Fandom: FMA (manga or Brotherhoodverse)
Character(s): Miles, Scar
Pairing(s): Set post-series, with all the spoilage that implies.
Rating: G
Word Count: 250
Warnings: None.
A/N: This 'fic ended a nearly year-long writing drought and also won first place in the weekly FMA Fic Contest for the "sugar" prompt. (Talk about positive reinforcement!) Concrit welcomed with an ISO standard cup of tea. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to

hagaren and

fm_alchemist.
Dedication: For Katie, by whose recent success it is dwarfed. :-)

How sour sweet music is
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
-- William Shakespeare, Richard II

~*~
The nameless man takes his coffee black; Miles, with a spiral of cream. ( Read more... )

Animi Motus happy
Locus Nowhere near a coffee pot
Cantus "What I Want Is a Proper Cup of Coffee" (Troutfishing in America)

Title: Ficlet: Nian Nian You Yu
Fandom: FMA (manga or Brotherhoodverse)
Character(s): Mei Chang, Xiao Mei
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 250
Warnings: None.
A/N: Very slightly (as in one word) revised version of a 'fic submitted to

fma_fic_contest for the "fish" prompt. (It actually won -- ye gods and little fishes!) Since water is one of the essentials of a Chinese garden and ponds with goldfish a common design element, I had yet another excuse to stud a 'fic with foreign words and idioms. Concrit welcomed with tartar sauce. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).
Dedication: For Renee, who reminded me that it's too long since I wrote something. Congrats on the successful defense!

One by one the goldfish in the pond beneath the willows die until only the goggle-eyed grandfather of them all remains. ( Read more... )

Animi Motus accomplished

Title: Ficlet: A Very Pine-Apple
Fandom: FMA (manga or Brotherhood version)
Character(s): Roy, Riza, Master Hawkeye
Pairing(s): None. (Again, for obvious reasons ...)
Rating: G
Word Count: 350
Warnings: None. Set pre-series.
A/N: I was going to submit this to

fma_fic_contest for the "canon couple" prompt, but sadly it turned out not to fit the criteria. Ah, well. The title is taken from a line in Richard Sheridan's comedy of manners The Rivals ("He is the very pine-apple of politeness!"), which also gave us the immortal Mrs. Malaprop. Concrit welcomed with cordwood. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).
Dedication: For

kanja177, who always studies hard and never gets into trouble. Ever.

Roy Mustang is as precocious a charmer as he is an alchemist because he's clever enough to notice that charm opens doors power and even wit can't force. ( Read more... )

Title: Drabble: Wildered With Reading
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry
Pairing(s): None. For reasons that will become obvious ...
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: The title for this one comes from Henry Augustin Beers's sappy poem, "On a Miniature" and the inspiration from rereading the slightly overwrought prose of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel (though the heroine thereof is less inclined to faint than rush off to save the hero, thank goodness). Concrit welcomed with vouchers for Almack's. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).

( And he wonders why she reads romances ... )

Sniggled from Anime News Network:

Fullmetal Alchemist Quote Wins Marriage Proposal Contest

Hee! (Kind of a shame they had to take it back.)

Shannon and Dean Hale, Rapunzel's Revenge (illustrated by Nathan Hale)

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: Rapunzel, for horse-thieving, kidnapping, jail-breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! Once upon a time there lived in a grand villa with her mother, Gothel, a very pretty, very venturesome, very, very bored little girl named Rapunzel. On her twelfth birthday she climbed over the wall surrounding the villa and discovered not only that she had been stolen from her real mother, but that Gothel was a tyrant bent on enslaving the entire frontier with her growth magic, which can provide a bumper harvest or prevent a crop from sprouting. Imprisoned in a tower for her defiance, Rapunzel plotted her revenge, waiting for the day when her braids would be long enough to lasso the top of a neighboring tree ...

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Highly recommended.

弓きいろ [Yumi Kiiro], Library Wars: Love and War 1

In the future, Japan's federal government imposes censorship of all media, backed up by a Media Betterment Task Force which confiscates unsuitable materials from bookstores and libraries by force if necessary. And it is necessary, because local governments have armed librarians under the Library Freedom Act to protect the public's right to read. Inspired by an encounter with a member of the Library Defense Force, Kasahara Iku has made it into basic training on the strength of her athleticism and dedication to the cause, but her instructing sergeant seems to have it in for her, her parents don't know she's chosen so perilous a career, and she can't even shoot straight. Sometimes only the memory of her hero and the slim possibility of finding him and telling him how much his intervention meant to her keeps her going ...

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I'll probably give the next volume or two a try on the grounds that armed librarians are cool, but unless the material gets a little more self-aware or takes a left turn into originality, I don't think I'm likely to follow this one far.

Dagnabit. My pre-order of v. 6 of the Pumpkin Scissors manga was just canceled, evidently because Del Rey has removed it from their publication schedule. Growl, mutter, mourn. I'd been hoping against hope that the translation would continue, but since it doesn't seem to be all that popular on this side of the pond ...

On the other hand, I also hear that Tokyopop will finally release the fourth and fifth Full Metal Panic light novels as a single volume next February. Yay! I'd given up on ever seeing any more of these, either, despite the popularity of the franchise. They're among the better written (and certainly among the better translated!) Japanese light novels I've read. Keeping my fingers crossed that the upcoming product retains the good qualities of its predecessors ...

ETA: Barebones Amazon listing for the latter!

Must record my impressions, tendinitis in my dominant wrist be hanged! [makes ill-considered emphatic gesture] (Ow.)

( Spoilers ho! )All in all, a satisfying read and a good ending. And now I shall go back to chapter one and start over, because I don't want the fun to end ...

Hey, does anyone remember what happened to that letter from Trisha Pinako gave Ed to give Hohenheim? Was that dangling plot participle ever resolved -- and if so, when? You'd think I wouldn't lose track of these things, being an English major, but I do. [hangs head in shame]

Locus At work (ssh!)
Cantus Taps

And then there was one ...

( Spoilers ho! )

Title: Ficlet: Snake Oil
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Al
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Warnings: None.
A/N: Written in response to the prompts "genuine" (provided by

artemisrae) and "glisten" (provided by

evil_little_dog) for the Just One Word meme. Concrit welcomed with a patent remedy guaranteed to cure what ails ya! Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).

Sometimes the Elric brothers know a lead's worthless, like an advertisement for Genuine Philosopher's Stone Chips peddled out of a medicine wagon, offering Relief For The Thousand Natural Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To (headache, earache, indigestion, constipation, arthritis, colic, and, er, female complaints) by Stimulating The Body's Natural Alchemy. ( Read more... )

Animi Motus accomplished
Locus Here
Cantus Rain on the leaves

Title: Drabbles: Angles of Reflectance
Fandom: Pumpkin Scissors (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Alice, Oland, Oreldo, Lionel
Pairing(s): Canon 'ships.
Rating: T (Oreldo doesn't go any lower)
Word Count: 300
Warnings: None. Takes place during the duel at the ball.
A/N: Written for a fandom that needs more love -- unfortunately, I think I need more canon before I can start imagining my own plots, but given that the anime concluded with the ball arc and Del Rey's release of the manga is proceeding at a glacial pace, that ain't going to happen any time soon. The fun here was writing character haiku: taking the existing concepts and paring them down to essentials in the appropriate voices. Concrit welcomed with three hots and a cot. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to

pumpkinscissors.
Dedication: For Laura Mulvey, for obvious reasons. ;-p

1. Narcissus

When she stumbles, awkward in the silks and manners her sisters graciously affect, Lionel catches her -- his lovely pawn, advancing rank by rank toward her apotheosis, ignorant of the game's subtleties. He woos her in clichés because he sees her thus: chess-piece, princess, callow maid.

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Animi Motus accomplished
Locus Behind the front lines
Cantus "Aoki Flamme" (Takahashi Yoko)

Eek. I didn't see THAT coming. Aren't the good guys supposed to have rescued the damsel in distress, killed the bad guy, and saved the world before matters reach this point? Ye gods!

I love Arakawa's plotting. I love how she upends my expectations. I can hardly wait to see what clever trick she's slipped up somebody's sleeve next.

Further discussion, with spoilers, over here.

ETA: And now it occurs to me that chapter 105 will emerge blinking into the light in the middle of Lent, when I usually give up reading fiction. Dagnabit.

Title: So Long at the Fair: A Story in Drabbles
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Al, Winry, Pinako
Pairing(s): None explicit.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1400
Warnings: None. Takes place after Ed and Al's Big Mistake, but before the story really gets going.
A/N: Written for the 2009 Fire and Ice Challege Contest -- wherein I am proud to say it made it to the tie-breaker -- and revised to the extent of changing one adjective to an adverb. Concrit welcomed with a day pass to the midway and a certificate for one (1) free ice cream cone. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

ed_winry,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).

The first train to Riesenbuhl leaves East City in the dark before dawn. ( Read more... )

Title: Drabble: With Weeping and With Laughter
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Ed
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: None.
A/N: Written in response to

evil_little_dog's Don't Forget Challenge. Unbeta'd and likely to mutate in small ways before it goes to archive. Concrit welcomed with scenes from my anecdotage!

When young and old in circle around the firebrands close;
When the girls are weaving baskets and the lads are shaping bows ...
With weeping and with laughter still is the story told,
How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old.

-- Macaulay, Horatius
Forget homunculi -- these days, when Ed visits Central, children ten times more persistent hound him. Tell us about the monster on the island! Tell how you lost your watch in Rush Valley! Tell about the battle on the train! Reticence fires their imaginations; rebuffs fall on selectively deaf ears. Ask your father. Ask your mother (and I didn't lose it -- it was stolen). Ask your uncle -- no, not your Uncle Roy! All right, listen, here's what really happened ...

Time has already cast its glamor over his youth; his best hope for theirs is to transmute legend into wisdom. Listen. Listen.

[Acknowledgments: Fullmetal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) was created by Arakawa Hiromu and is serialized monthly in Shonen Gangan (Square Enix); two anime of the same title were produced by Studio Bones. Copyright for these properties is held by Arakawa Hiromu, Square Enix, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Aniplex, Bones, and dentsu. All rights reserved.]

Title: Learner's Permit
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Winry and Pinako
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 100 (3300 in the whole series)
Warnings: None.
A/N: Incipient car ownership is eating my life, so I figured I might as well get a drabble out of it. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers, and

fma_fiction.
Dedication(s): Happy incredibly belated birthday,

artemisrae! Someday I'll finish that Avatar 'fic I was working on, but in the meanwhile ...

As soon as Winry can reach the pedals and still see over the dash, her grandmother teaches her to drive.

Locus *Not* at the DMV
Cantus Blissful silence

Title: An Inconvenient Season, Part 3
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry and a special guest villain
Pairing(s): Ed/Winry
Word Count: ~3200 (for this part; ~8900 overall thus far)
Rating: PG-13 (for language and violence)
Warnings: None, as long as you've kept up with Viz's English translation. Takes place in an imagined future seven years after the end of the series.
A/N: Part three of a four-part novella I drafted as an entry in the 2008 Ed/Winry Fire and Ice Challenge, but was unable to complete in time. (Part 1 may be found here and part 2 here.) Previously on An Inconvenient Season, a thuggish individual broke into the West City automail clinic where Winry was working alone; Ed, noticing something amiss as he came to pick her up, has just charged to her rescue. Concrit welcomed with pitons and nylon rope to haul everyone up off that cliff where they've been dangling. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_het,

ed_winry,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).
Dedication(s): For my father, who advised me that villains never fight fair.

( A door slammed. The maid screamed ... )

Locus On a writing holiday

Titles: A Circle Grazing the Confines of Space; The Secret of Eternal Life; Calenture
Fandom: FMA (anime or manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Al and Winry
Pairing(s): None.
Rating: G
Word Count: 300 this round (3200 total for the set)
Warnings: None.
A/N: Three more drabbles about Ed, Al and Winry as children -- one produced for this contest and the others just for the fun of it. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_gen,

fma_writers, and

fma_fiction).

Ed discovers alchemy; Winry reveals the source of Pinako's longevity; and Al mows the lawn.

Locus On a writing holiday
Cantus "Coffee Girl" (The Tragically Hip)

Title: An Inconvenient Season, Part 2
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Ed, Winry and a special guest
Pairing(s): Ed/Winry
Word Count: ~2700 (for this part; ~5700 total thus far)
Rating: PG-13 (eventually, for language and what I hope will be an exciting action sequence)
Warnings: None, as long as you've kept up with Viz's English translation. Takes place in an imagined future seven years after the end of the series.
A/N: Part two of a novella I first conceived as an entry in the 2008 Ed/Winry Fire and Ice Challenge, but was unable to complete in time. (Part 1 may be found here.) When we last left our heroes, Winry had just encountered an unpleasant intruder in the West City automail clinic where she works, but don't expect an immediate resolution to her plight. I believe in cliffhangers with the passion of a thousand skull-crushing hailstorms. Concrit welcomed with an Kevlar-reinforced umbrella. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_het,

ed_winry,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).
Dedication(s): For my father, who advised me that villains never fight fair.

( It was still a dark and stormy night ... )

Locus On a writing holiday
Cantus Whirling fan-blades

Title: An Inconvenient Season, Part 1
Fandom: FMA (manga version)
Character(s): Winry and a special guest; Ed, too, eventually
Pairing(s): Ed/Winry
Word Count: ~3000 (for this part)
Rating: PG-13 (eventually, for language and what I hope will be an exciting action sequence)
Warnings: None, as long as you've kept up with Viz's English translation. Takes place in an imagined future seven years after the end of the series.
A/N: I began developing this piece to enter in last year's Ed/Winry Fire and Ice Challenge, but it grew so much in the telling that I was unable to finish it on deadline. Revisions have been plaguing the life out of me ever since, but I think it's time this tale began to see the light of day. Hopefully enough people will want to know how it turns out that I will feel compelled to complete it with expedition. Concrit welcomed with a bread-cheese-and-pickle sandwich. Crossposted from

nebroadwe to Höllenbeck (i.e.

hagaren_manga,

fm_alchemist,

fma_het,

ed_winry,

fma_writers and

fma_fiction).
Dedication(s): For my father, who advised me that villains never fight fair.

( It was a dark and stormy night ... )

Locus On a writing holiday
Cantus "Linus and Lucy" (Vince Guaraldi)

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Fanfiction: Something Ere the End (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: The Honey of Earthly Joy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: Nian Nian You Yu (FMA)
Fanfiction: A Very Pine-Apple (FMA)
Fanfiction: Wildered With Reading (FMA)
Fandom: The sincerest form of flattery
Booklog: East meets West ...
Books: One door closes; another reopens.
Books: FMA 108th and last
Books: FMA 107
Fanfiction: Snake Oil (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: Angles of Reflectance (Pumpkin Scissors)
Review: Fullmetal Alchemist, chapter 104
Fanfiction: So Long at the Fair (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: With Weeping and With Laughter (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: Another Chibi Drabble
Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: Three More Chibi Drabbles (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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Entries tagged with manga

Fanfiction: Something Ere the End (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: The Honey of Earthly Joy (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: Nian Nian You Yu (FMA)

Fanfiction: A Very Pine-Apple (FMA)

Fanfiction: Wildered With Reading (FMA)

Fandom: The sincerest form of flattery

Booklog: East meets West ...

Books: One door closes; another reopens.

Books: FMA 108th and last

Books: FMA 107

Fanfiction: Snake Oil (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: Angles of Reflectance (Pumpkin Scissors)

Review: Fullmetal Alchemist, chapter 104

Fanfiction: So Long at the Fair (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: With Weeping and With Laughter (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: Another Chibi Drabble

Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: Three More Chibi Drabbles (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Fanfiction: An Inconvenient Season (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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