Fics, fics, fics

Most of these are fics that I've *alread* bookmarked, so they're not recently found. But some of 'em do have updates to them.

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Okay, first of all, Mysterious Rurouni (RK), by Mieren has updated on ffnet. Hilarious as heck. The latest chapter features Kenshin and Chichiri taking turns making Amiboshi's life miserable in the funniest ways. Poor Amiboshi... poor Suboshi who has to experience everything that happens to his twin. *snicker*

Secondly, I've been hearing good things about the Stories of Arda LOTR fanfic archive. It's somewhat alike to Henneth Annun in that it doesn't have as much of the lowest denominator quality fics as ffnet... much less Mary Sues and more canonical adherence in general... though I think it's harder to navigate and there's more WIPs on it - but that might just be 'cause I haven't gotten the hang of it yet.

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Manga reviews

Since I was going to do some shopping for tomorrow's lunch, I stopped by the local Borders bookstore before I hit the supermarket. Boy, they've got a pretty big manga section.

cashew might be glad to know that I saw Vampire Game 4 there, so it should be out in the Barnes & Nobles or Comic Relief at Cal, hopefully. It was hilarious, as usual. Book 4 resolves the whole mess in La Nan and the ending starts off on another mess elsewhere (Xicanda or whatchamacallit).

Memorable quote (paraphrased slightly, of course. My memory's not that good):
Duzzie to Ishtar - "Why do you keep trying to set me up with other guys?" -_-;

While I was there, I also skimmed through a couple volumes of OMG.

Also read this hardback manga volume by Clamp title "Shirahime", or snow princess, which contains 4 short stories (possibly folktales?) concerning the legend/myth of the snow princess. Or it could be just typical Clamp made up stuff. I dunno. As most of the time with Clamp, I reading more for the artwork than the story.