been a long road to follow
been there and gone tomorrow
without saying goodbye to yesterday
are the memories i hold still valid?
or have the tears deluded them?
maybe this time tomorrow
the rain will cease to follow
and the mist will fade into one more today
something somewhere out there keeps calling
am i going home?
will i hear someone singing solace to the silent moon?
zero gravity what's it like?
am i alone?
is somebody there beyond these heavy aching feet
still the road keeps on telling me to go on
something is pulling me
i feel the gravity of it all

gravity, performed by Maaya Sakamoto, lyrics by troy, music by Yoko Kanno, from the album Nikopachi, copyright (c) 2003 Victor Entertainment Inc., Japan.
(One can buy the album here.)

Yes, it's supposed to be in all lower-case.
Yes, it's a Kanno/Sakamoto song that's in English.
Yes, it's yet another possible gate song ("been a long road to follow / ... / still the road keeps on telling me to go on")... but I'm thinking it's either to reach the Sailor Moon Step ("will i hear someone singing solace to the silent moon?"), or to leave a Step that brings Doug to despair ("are the memories i hold still valid?").
Edit: Come to think of it, this would be a good one for Doug to use to leave the Sailor Moon Step - "will i hear someone singing solace to the silent moon?" and "are the memories i hold still valid?" are both good lines for leaving that world, if canon holds and Doug's memories go the way of everyone else's...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

... a decent Suikoden fanfic?
Interested mostly because I've been finding nothing but shorts and/or stuff that doesn't really measure up, and I've become interested in the matter again since I've finally scraped together enough cash to replace my broken PS2 and get S:Tactics (five isn't out over here yet, sadly).
Come to think of it, the same would apply for Disgaea and most console RPGs.
-Griever
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm

The Stories Men Tell (drabble-ish, Star Wars)
The Emperor hid the secret of Darth Vader's identity well. Only a tiny handful would know the truth, until that fateful day over Endor.
The story was put about that Palpatine had sent his apprentice, Darth Vader, to negotiate the final surrender of the Separatist leaders. To bring an end to the war, to bring peace to the galaxy. He said that the Jedi sent asassains, as part of their rebellion against the Senate, to eliminate Vader, to carry on the war. That they killed the Separatist leaders in an orgy of mad violence.
As far as the public knew, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, heroes of the Clone Wars, died that day on Mustafar. Darth Vader simply appeared out of nowhere, already clad in the black armor that would be his trademark for twenty years of terror.
But I remember the truth. I remember the pain in his eyes. The fear he felt as he slid into the lava. And I remember, every night, picking up his lightsaber, turning my back on him, and walking away. Leaving him to die.
Every night I dream of it, out here in the desert, watching over his son. I dream, and I remember, and I hope that one day his nightmare will end.
-- From the journal of Ben Kenobi.
Watched 'Revenge of the Sith' for the first time the other day, and this popped into my head.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

As the title says. City of Heroes material. I just finished this a while ago, in one massive straight-line burst. 's pretty short, but it took me a bit to get it where I wanted...and...and I probably shouldn't actually post it until I've had a day or so to stew and make edits. But...I'm impatient.
Well, more critically, I'd like permission to reference the Legendary...and a particular character from the team (Minuet Mac Hine), and if I get that, then I'd probably change the appropriate paragraph accordingly. Why the Legendary, and why Min? Well, it's about Syndesis, my DM/Regen scrapper.
"Fifty"
-- Acyl

Both in the description of Step X.
The link to Legion's Quest gives me a "www.schollnet.com could not be found" error, and the link to SME gives me a page containing only a non-breaking space...
(So, anyone have links to these fics that work?)

-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

-- Bob
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I loot faster. -- Peggy Schroeck, D&D game, in response to a crisis situation that arises while she's searching the bodies of four recent opponents.

This is more of a joke sequence than anything else, and it came to me in the wake of writing something a bit more serious about Doug working with the Senshi. I'm not even sure if it will actually make it into the story at all, so I figured I might as well share it now. The setting is one of the classic all-Senshi study sessions. Enjoy.

For some reason I can only post when I'm at work. When I try to post from home, I get a timeout after clicking the submit button. I tried three different browsers across two different operating systems. Weird...

Well. I exhibit no surprise.
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

These were the winners of the Anime Boston 2006 AMV contest. There were a lot of *damn* fine AMVs this year, and except for the drama winner I was rooting for all of these.
Drama: Lost Ones - "Change the World" by Anberlin, set to The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
Fun/Upbeat/Other: Foxman Begins - Batman Begins trailer audio set to Naruto. This one had the entire crowd laughing hysterically.
Romance: Conter Les Heures - "Halleujah" as covered by Rufus Wainwright set to Chrono Cross. Very well done, however beware the spoilage.
Comedy: Fullmetal Hell - Various clips set to the Fullmetal Alchemist movie. Even for someone like me who has zero interest in FA this was incredibly funny.
Best Editing: true:FICTION - "Das Omen" and "Lauf der Zeit" by E Nomine set to various anime. The sheer amount of clips and technical wizardry in this AMV is astounding.
Action and Best of Show: Hold Me Now - Hall Om Mig by Nanne Gronnvall set to Princess Tutu. My friends and I were ecstatic that this won; in fact, it is quite possibly the best AMV any of us had seen. Watch it. NOW.
Side note: strangely enough, there were a large number of Bon Jovi AMVs this year; at least three or four.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
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