For those of you who knew likesthesilence and would like to leave a condolence message for her family, her online obituary is here and the 'book of memories' section is here. Please feel free to share this with anyone you know who knew her.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me personally a message of condolence in the last few days. This is still unfathomable to me.

Title: Avengers and Alchemists

Author: Lady Norbert

Genre: Fantasy/Humor

Rating: PG-13

Word Count: 6,291 (not counting the author's note)

Pairing/Characters: Team Mustang, Fuhrer Grumman, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Odin, Frigga, and of course Loki. Royai and Clintasha implied by the ending.

Warnings: This might not make a lot of sense?

Summary: Based on artwork by Sarlyne. Clint Barton pays a visit to his sister Riza Hawkeye in Amestris, in order to be on hand for Grumman's inauguration. But when Loki escapes Asgard, Amestris looks like the perfect place to hide, so the Avengers team up with Mustang's group in order to bring him to justice... again.

Author's Note: This is, quite obviously, an AU. For that reason, the details of Clint Barton's background will not be presented entirely accurately as they are known in the Marvel universe. I did review his history on Wikipedia before beginning this project, so there will be some details that are right and some that are not. I hope no one is too deeply troubled by the alterations. The ending might seem a little familiar to people who have read my other FMA works. It's possible that at some point in the future, I will continue this, but for now, please just enjoy the silliness. :)



Special thanks to my artist, sarlyne, for giving me such a fun piece to write about; to my friend tk31085, who helped me puzzle out a number of plot points over lunch; and to my wonderful and patient beta reader, bay115, for her many helpful suggestions. Credit for Grumman's first name goes to jellyjay; I stole it from her.



Oh, and Coulson lives. Because I say so.
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Does anyone remember a couple of years back when I was writing Legend of Zelda fanfic? Probably not too many of you, but I digress. protect_vester had requested of me, at that time, a Ganon/Zelda story which focused on the elemental connections of the three characters. The result was my least-reviewed piece ever, "Burn."

Flash forward to yesterday, when a reader tracked me down to ask my permission to record a podcast of herself reading the fic. The post is finished and up on Tumblr, and I'm still dazed at the whole idea.

Listen to my fanfic (it's quite short) HERE!

The official synopsis:

One fateful night in a rustic inn, a teenaged boy named Tobiah inadvertently gets involved in a fight revolving around a mysterious hooded woman. She turns out to be the fabled Lady Gray, a figure of legend that the majority of people fear. He ends up joining Lady Gray and her companion, the surly warrior Sabastian, on their quest to defeat and capture twelve demons, known as shades, who have escaped into the world. Gradually, Tobiah begins to piece together the truth about the lady, whose history is as tragic as her fate.

The story, which is up to six chapters, is over here. I've also given it a Facebook page and a page on TV Tropes.

Passing this on for a friend of a friend.


ilyena_sylph is doing a fundraiser to get killing_rose away from her abusive living situation. She needs to raise a lot of money, since killing_rose is moving from Alaska to the lower 48, but if you could even donate $5, it'd help a lot. If you can't donate, please, please signal boost.

Fund-raising post here.

Thanks so much.

If you want to copy this post to use as your own signal boost post, copy/past this into your html post creator: NOTE: this code should work on dreamwidth AND livejournal AND any other kind of blogging site that allows html. It's all the same code, you don't have to change anything.

If you want to copy/paste the code for yourself, go here

In light of all of the recent SOPA talk here, I thought this might be of interest

The Dragon, actually. I was a little surprised to realize that it's the Year of the Dragon again, and then I remembered that on my birthday later this year I will indeed be turning a multiple of twelve. We had a long talk about the Chinese zodiac one night in my family, and when my stepfather found out which one was mine, he laughed and said it was utterly unsurprising to him that mine is the only animal in the zodiac that doesn't actually exist.


(he thinks, anyway)

My default answer to this question has always been 'no,' but I'm going to amend that to 'probably not.' I've had non-elective surgery and it sucked, so the idea of having surgery that I don't require to continue breathing makes me a little twitchy.

That said, I've found myself occasionally wondering if it would be a good idea to have surgery to remove the scar from the non-elective surgery. It remains the single biggest body issue I have, thanks to merciless mocking from schoolmates at the town pool and in the locker room, and even over twenty years later it's kind of hideous. My husband is fine with it, but the idea of much of anyone else seeing it upsets me in the extreme. So if I'm ever in a financial situation where such a procedure is an actual possibility for me, I will consider it.

I decided this ages ago. It would either be Go Play in Traffic (something my parents used to tell me as a child, until I actually did get hit by a car) or Painkillers and Mountain Dew: A Life Lived Between Headaches.

Please spread the word: Tracy Williams, employee of Technorati.com, disappeared on November 2nd and has not been seen since.

If you're a reader of my blog (and I hope you are), I invite you to participate in this feedback survey I whipped up last night. It's only ten questions, won't take long, and leaves a surprising mint aftertaste*.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R2DBPL5



*Mint aftertaste not guaranteed.

Because I have repeatedly proven I do not have the diligence to do these daily meme things, I'm doing it all in one post. ( Try and stop me.Collapse )

Every article puts me one step closer to internet fame and - hopefully - fortune. ;)

http://angryweb.net/2011/09/13/more-skyward-sword-details-released

Newest article is up on AngryWeb. Comic book fans would be especially interested, but I think geeks of all sorts should check it out. A special needs Superman fan had part of his prized collection stolen and there's a call out to help him.

http://angryweb.net/2011/09/08/its-hero-time/

Please feel free to share this link with anyone you think might want to read it.

Please, guys, spread this to your own f'lists. My dear friend naiadea had brain surgery not long ago, and needs help.

http://good-idea-time.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-is-where-you-hang-your-hat.html

"thehawkseyes" did another picture from the Elemental Chess Trilogy - this time she drew Ed and Winry's wedding. (That's not a spoiler, they get married in the canon.) It's adorable and I want everyone to see just how adorable it is!

Edited to correct html oops.

So seta_suzume offered to do FMA arts for anyone who sent her one of those 'Help' virtual gifts. (I think it was Help the South.) So I sent her one, and she did a picture from the Elemental Chess trilogy. To quote a commercial that was on for a while, it's so cute it's stupid. XD

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irisbleufic pointed me thisaway. If you also have a thread, please let me know where to find it.

THE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MEME
Me

*sobs*

Someone drew the first piece of fan art for my FMA trilogy...completely unsolicited and unexpected.

http://thehawkseyes.deviantart.com/#/d3g056j

Since I'm participating in the fma_fic_contest and actually placing once in a while, I thought I'd set this up as a place to store my banner prizes. Because they are pretty and worth keeping! ( Read more...Collapse )

Pong, yo. Because I am just that old school. ;) I enjoyed it, because I was four years old and it was something fun to do with my grandmother, who owned the Pong system.

The 2011 BookCrossing DVD is now available for purchase. Among its contents are interviews with a bunch of real authors, and also me. melydia is awesome and has really worked hard on this convention, so please support her!

(No, seriously. There are people on this DVD that you might have actually heard of. What the heck am I doing there?)