drabble for nannete -- Favorite Story

Title: Favorite Story
Requester: nannete
Series: Bleach
Requested Topic: Urahara. Ururu. Bedtime story.
Due to http://liralen.livejournal.com/769598.html.

Ururu ached under her covers. She still couldn't remember hitting the Arrancar.

Candlelight flickered over paper walls. The door slid back to allow a striped hat to poke into the room.

"Can't sleep?"

She shook her head.

"How 'bout a story?"

Getaboshi sat down on her futon. Greatly daring, she crept into his lap; he held her close and she sighed.

"Gunnam? Please?" she pleaded.

"Certainly..." He tucked her under his chin and started her favorite story of all.

"Once upon a time there was a weapon who dreamed she was a girl; everyone knew her as Battle Angel Alita..."

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drabble for nannete -- Favorite Story

Title: Favorite Story
Requester: nannete
Series: Bleach
Requested Topic: Urahara. Ururu. Bedtime story.
Due to http://liralen.livejournal.com/769598.html.

Ururu ached under her covers. She still couldn't remember hitting the Arrancar.

Candlelight flickered over paper walls. The door slid back to allow a striped hat to poke into the room.

"Can't sleep?"

She shook her head.

"How 'bout a story?"

Getaboshi sat down on her futon. Greatly daring, she crept into his lap; he held her close and she sighed.

"Gunnam? Please?" she pleaded.

"Certainly..." He tucked her under his chin and started her favorite story of all.

"Once upon a time there was a weapon who dreamed she was a girl; everyone knew her as Battle Angel Alita..."

Hm... Rules Change and Fast Input

I edited the scribbles entry to say that anyone that guesses at all gets a drabble. *grins* It wasn't about people getting it right so much as *me* getting as much as I could right.

Uhm, yeah, the chapter(s) are now off, as you can probably see, due to the relative flood of drabbly goodness.

And, uhm... yeah... I read all of the first "Dogs" series so I'll add Dogs to the list, as I'm really likin' Mihai (and the short shot of Ian), Badou, Haine (I really like him a lot for some reason), and Naoto (far more than I should, perhaps, the knife fight against the katana had me analyzing each move... *laughs*) and I'm a little ways into the longer series.

Uhm, and, yeah... I also read Bones of Faerie. Twice. I'm on a third read-through but Jet's having his all-day birthday party today and we did our taxes. So I have excuses. *laughs*

It is hauntingly, painfully good. About a girl growing up in a post-Apocolypse world where Faerie and Humans annihilated each other, where all magic is deadly, everything suspect, and her father makes sure everything is "safe". There is violence, some of it which made me flinch (unusual for me), and it reminds me of just how much kids want and need to read things that are "older" than they are.

It's also the first thing I've read that never made my new-fledged internal editor cringe, and, in fact I was like... wow... I want to something like *this*. It's so densely packed I think even gogoangelgunboy would have a lovely time with it, if I could actually tempt him with fantasy... *laughs*

amberley gave me my copy, so I'll happily give a copy of Bones of Faerie to the first person that asks for a copy in a comment.

[Edited: The offered copy has been accepted!]

Hm... Rules Change and Fast Input

I edited the scribbles entry to say that anyone that guesses at all gets a drabble. *grins* It wasn't about people getting it right so much as *me* getting as much as I could right.

Uhm, yeah, the chapter(s) are now off, as you can probably see, due to the relative flood of drabbly goodness.

And, uhm... yeah... I read all of the first "Dogs" series so I'll add Dogs to the list, as I'm really likin' Mihai (and the short shot of Ian), Badou, Haine (I really like him a lot for some reason), and Naoto (far more than I should, perhaps, the knife fight against the katana had me analyzing each move... *laughs*) and I'm a little ways into the longer series.

Uhm, and, yeah... I also read Bones of Faerie. Twice. I'm on a third read-through but Jet's having his all-day birthday party today and we did our taxes. So I have excuses. *laughs*

It is hauntingly, painfully good. About a girl growing up in a post-Apocolypse world where Faerie and Humans annihilated each other, where all magic is deadly, everything suspect, and her father makes sure everything is "safe". There is violence, some of it which made me flinch (unusual for me), and it reminds me of just how much kids want and need to read things that are "older" than they are.

It's also the first thing I've read that never made my new-fledged internal editor cringe, and, in fact I was like... wow... I want to something like *this*. It's so densely packed I think even gogoangelgunboy would have a lovely time with it, if I could actually tempt him with fantasy... *laughs*

amberley gave me my copy, so I'll happily give a copy of Bones of Faerie to the first person that asks for a copy in a comment.

[Edited: The offered copy has been accepted!]

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Oh oh OH!!! GO LOOK!!

aruarian_dancer gave me something utterly gorgeous for her gift from the gift meme! It's a lovely, lovely rendering of the Kayuya Hime just before her ascent/return to the sky from a scene near the end of the the story "Taketori Monogatari"... *giggles* For some of my flist, who have played Okami and know the story of the girl who fell from the sky that was taken care of by the bamboo carver and his wife, this is an absolutely GORGEOUS picture of her in full regalia.

I've been very inspired by aruarian_dancer's "doodles" as she's just started drawing again after a haitus. And I told her I'd do a little doodling, too, beyond just the painting, which is why I'm actually drawing manga people again after getting kind of discouraged. So I'm really amazed by her sense of color, ability to do astonishing detail, and how beautiful her drawings are. *happy sighs*

GO LOOK!!

Oh oh OH!!! GO LOOK!!

aruarian_dancer gave me something utterly gorgeous for her gift from the gift meme! It's a lovely, lovely rendering of the Kayuya Hime just before her ascent/return to the sky from a scene near the end of the the story "Taketori Monogatari"... *giggles* For some of my flist, who have played Okami and know the story of the girl who fell from the sky that was taken care of by the bamboo carver and his wife, this is an absolutely GORGEOUS picture of her in full regalia.

I've been very inspired by aruarian_dancer's "doodles" as she's just started drawing again after a haitus. And I told her I'd do a little doodling, too, beyond just the painting, which is why I'm actually drawing manga people again after getting kind of discouraged. So I'm really amazed by her sense of color, ability to do astonishing detail, and how beautiful her drawings are. *happy sighs*

GO LOOK!!