Title: Eggshell
Length: 997 words
Pairing: ensemble gen
Other: Spoilers for recent chapters of xH/TRC. Useless canon speculation on end of series. The one in which Watanuki's new customer might be more than she seems.

Excerpt: Before she could stop herself, she was stepping through the gate, walking down the path. The house was well-lit, but at the same time, she thought to herself that the owner was out. It had that feeling of unoccupancy.

Title Wait
Artist Uozumi
Character(s)/Pairing(s) Fuji Shuusuke, Kawamura Takashi; FujiTaka
Note For my friend Toshi-chan's birthday. :D She wanted something from Prince of Tennis that was romantical, so here it is :D Happy birthday, my bestest buddy! :D :D :D ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


Wait by ~Uozumi on deviantART

Title: U-17 Beach Volleyball Selection Camp
Characters: Rokkaku (minus Bane and Davide)
Rating: PG
Genre:: General/Comedy
Summary: What on earth was the rest of Rokkaku up to during Shin Tennis no Oujisama?
Notes: This is funnier if you’ve read at least the first few chapters of the new TeniPuri. But in retrospect, it’s still really lame DX;; I’m sorry!

( Don't you think we should have gone to that tennis camp? )

Branch presents:

The Overarching Sky

Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Vongola Eleventh gen, Tsuna, Reborn
Word Count: 4526

Summary: Part of the Generations project. Mari chooses her Guardians, which runs into occasional trouble with both family and Family foibles.

"You wanted to see me, Father?" Mari closed the door of the study behind her, noted her father's expression, both affectionate and harried, and looked around for a baby in a suit. Sure enough, Reborn was in one of the armchairs with a tiny cup of coffee. "Reborn, welcome back."

Yesterday I was feeling like making something fancy. An unplanned 3-hour nap took away the cooking urge a bit, but I did eventually make this up, rocky road candy!

( Pics and recipe... )

I'm at a conference, and realizing that no one in this country is doing anything interesting. I've only learned new wonderful stuff from people from Spain, South Africa, and Canada.

Well, the GRE wasn't as utterly horrible as I thought it would be, though there were some questions that made me want to stab myself in the eye with one of the #2 pencils. The analytical part was actually pretty fun. I have no idea if I did any good on it, but it was fun. If nothing else, in the portion where I got to pick apart the logic of someone's argument, I got to invoke Spiderman. Which means it was a good day.

So, at the end, I did see my scores, and I did write them down, but like a bonehead I didn't write down which was for which portion of the test. I was feeling pretty down about it at first since for some reason I thought the scores were out of 1000, but since I looked up the scores and found out that they're out of 800, I'm now very pleased with myself and will no longer threaten to retake the test or commit seppuku like I was originally intending.

So, the scores:
720 in ?
790 in ?

It looks like on average people score better in the quantitative than the verbal, so maybe 790 is my quantitative score, but that just seems kind of weird to me. At least on the SATs, my verbal was significantly higher than my quantitative score, and I felt like I struggled more with the quantitative stuff. (I got down to the wire on time, if nothing else!) So who knows. I'll get my print-out next week or the week after I think, so then I'll know for sure then. But either way, I think I did pretty well!

(Just wait. I wrote them down wrong and I will have to commit seppuku after all once I get the print out.)

And now I'm off to get my luggage packed for TAM. Woohoo, fun weekend ahoy!

Title: De sa naïveté le ciel déjà lointain
Author: xoshimmystarox aka causticcupcake
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Pairing: Mostly gen with a little Haru/Kyoko and mentioned one sided Haru/Bianchi and Kyoko/Bianchi [Bianchi/Reborn and Tsuna/Kyoko mentioned]
Summary: In the pallid light of languishing lamps, In deep cushions redolent of perfume, Hippolyta dreamed of the potent caresses That drew aside the veil of her young innocence.
Rating: PG-13 [one underage kiss between two people of the same age, some wondering on Haru’s side]
Word count: 1892
Spoilers: Up to and including chapter 237
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of this.
Notes: The title is from “Femmes damnées (À la pâle clarté)” [Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer)] by Charles Baudelaire. The title means “The already distant skies of her naiveté”. Summary, title, cut text are all from the same poem. The poem is here
Article on scent here [this is the first thing Bianchi explains to Haru that makes her blush] Article on scent and memories here Other pages are wiki perfume pages explaining top, bottom and middle notes. I used basenotes a lot. Lastly the perfumes Bianchi talks about in order are Anaïs Anaïs by Cacharel; Chanel No.5 by Chanel and Love in Black by Creed. You can find them all on basenotes.

http://www.branchandroot.net/archive/2009/07/the-overarching-sky/

http://www.branchandroot.net/archive/?p=552

Mari chooses her Guardians, which runs into occasional trouble with both family and Family foibles. Drama, I-3

"You wanted to see me, Father?" Mari closed the door of the study behind her, noted her father's expression, both affectionate and harried, and looked around for a baby in a suit. Sure enough, Reborn was in one of the armchairs with a tiny cup of coffee. "Reborn, welcome back."

I used to doubt the bacon and sweets combination. I sneered, I claimed nausea at the very idea. Then I had a Maple Bacon Bar during a visit to Portland. I was converted.

These cookies are a wonderful combination of the sweet maple-y flavor, nuttiness and an almost subtle smoky/salty flavor from the bacon. I'd previously made a batch with less maple and chocolate chips added, but I find this combo to be more of a "breakfast plate in a cookie", which is kind of what I was hoping for. :)

Recipe here!

This is the result of a tiny inkling of a plotbunny I had over a year ago. Has anyone else written this pairing before?

Title: Challenging the Cliff, or A Cautionary Tale Revisited
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (original game canon)
Pairing: Holzoff/Yamski
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Holzoff has told his story about scaling Gaea's Cliff to many a mountain climber, but there are a number of details he always leaves out, particularly concerning his ill-fated partner, Yamski.

(cross-posted to a couple of places)

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http://www.branchandroot.net/archive/2009/07/relative-values/

Takes place somewhere towards the middle of The Queen and All Her Men. Tsuna and Kyouko have a favor to ask. Fluff, general audiences

Rokudou Mukuro came and went as freely as a Cloud--rather more freely than perhaps anyone other than Tsuna and Kyouko was really comfortable with, all things considered.

Title: Game Face
Author: lysapadin
Characters: Yamamoto, Gokudera
Rating: General audiences
Summary: Sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get things right.
Notes: For cliche_bingo, prompt: "There’s a first time for everything: First times." 849 words of fluff.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," Gokudera said, when Takeshi finally pulled back.

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Title: Relative Values
Author: lysapadin
Characters: Tsuna, Kyouko, Mukuro, Chrome
Rating: General audiences
Summary: Tsuna and Kyouko have a favor to ask.
Notes: Part of the Generations project. Takes place somewhere towards the middle of The Queen and All Her Men. Part of cliche_bingo, to the prompt "Relative values: Families". 874 words, and fluffy as all get-out.

Rokudou Mukuro came and went as freely as a Cloud--rather more freely than perhaps anyone other than Tsuna and Kyouko was really comfortable with, all things considered.