Zolia Lily

I have some weird magical thing going on that may help... Every time there's a guy i like and begin to crush on... he turns out gay. I don't know what it is, i don't know why, but every guy i like ends up being gay. So really - just point me at them, let me develop a little crush and before you know it, they'll be jumping out of the closet. Either that, or they end up dating my best friends

Thanks Marky. Just don't know how to go about this. I'm such a coward Will let you know how i get on...

Supposed to be finding a place to live with 2 friends. One i actually want to live with. The other i asked to join us out of a misplaced sense of duty. She's been a friend for years and is so lost i felt like i should help out.... She's basically been homeless for half a year and can't get her act into gear. But she's making my life a misery and i am so frustrated. I can't exactly tell her that she's annoyed me so much that i don't think we have a friendship left and i really don't want to be around her anymore. There's no nice way to say it. I don't know what to do. It's making me miserable and frustrated and i don't want to live with her anymore, but i can't exactly take it back now.... but if i'm this angry now, then living together is NOT going to be wise either. I am in a pickle and it's really. really. really getting me down

Ha ha ha - Loved this! Laughed right outloud at such gems as 'hung like a baby carrot' and the Jazz fanatic thing and the pizza / conscience balance. Priceless. Slightly worried by the use of canes in schools (as a fellow aussie, pretty sure corporal punishment is out, these days) but excellent for its part in the development of the story ! Thank you for brightening what has been a somewhat sour day! I sooo needed that laugh!

I was actually looking for the answer to the question in the 'PS' about "buick" and "quick".... oops...

Now that i have recovered from the pure awesomeness that is "not the sun" i thought i'd try again and leave a review that wasn't just me gushing.... * try* being the key word in that sentence... I really loved every chapter of this trilogy. I haven't come across a concept like this one before, and it was complex enough to make my head hurt (I may actually have to re read some patches to get myself up to speed again...). The pacing was good, it was really well written ( i think i spotted a grand total of three errors in 60 odd chapters ) and it kept me hooked and kept me guessing right to the end (BOY did it!). I loved the characters, the plot... and thought it was all faultlessly executed. I was also really impressed that you didn't take any easy ways out- not just in regards to what happened to Leia, but also to the ending. It would have been so easy and convenient to have time passing differently Charion and Earth and Bran and Jordan arriving back just after they left... There was one question i was left with though (or rather, woke up in the middle of the night puzzling over...) - What happened to Ralph?! (ps- i did it again, didn't I? I can't help the gushing! )

New favourite story - THIS WAS AWESOME!!!! * happy tears *

OOOOMG.... And now i have to start book three before i sleep! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

Aaaaand i'm not going to be able to go to bed until i know what happens now... FAR too engrossed in this. Also slightly terrified and more than a little desperate to figure this all out! This is exciting and terrifying and enthralling... I sound like i'm laying it on pretty thick but this is honestly just SOOO GOOD!!!

I am so glad i took the reviewer's advice and waited until i had plenty of time to settle in and read this! This is a fabulous story and i'm thorougly enjoying it! It's got everything - interesting characters, intrigue, action, romance.... and a concept which i think is pretty unique! I think of myself as a pretty avid fantasy ready and i've never come across an idea like this one before. Now i have to keep reading so i can find out what happens next!!!

Owchies.... And no worries I'm just trying to edit and write today. It's 4pm and so far i've been unsuccessful at both. Having a day where i'm angry at my friends, so i decided to stay home and now they're all like "why aren't you coming?". Um, because you've all really managed to piss me off? I'm normally really laid back, so it's not an easy feat. THAT"S how angry they've made me. Grrr. Maybe i should learn to talk to them about it so we don't go to pretending like nothing's wrong and then have the same trouble a few weeks down the track again. I just need some sunlight

My other favourite song of the moment - so very fabulously eighties :D

Ok. Finished over swooning over Tiziano Ferro again for a while now.... but THIS is currently the catchiest song EVER for me.... can't stop singing it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgtxQ8fJuok

What did i miss? What happened to your toe??? I'm a very tactile person- i hug loads. Nothing better I'm glad you have friends who can just drop by (even though i wish she'd been able to do more for you) - When i'm next in the neighbourhood ....

OMG Tiziano Ferro is GAY??? my friends at high school and I spent years ( 2004 / 2005) singing "non me lo so speigare" and swooning! * happy sigh *

LOL - i guess it's just different in English. Sentences aren't quite so long, sometimes, for example. Let me know if you want a hand, though! I'm missing french at the moment and would be happy to help where i can!

People who chew gum with their mouths open! I don't understand the idea of chewing gum at ALL (what are you- a cow? If you're hungry- eat something! Bored? find something else to do! Like the flavour? EAT something with the flavour!) but i can cope when you do it with your mouth shut. WIth your mouth open making all those wet noises right next to my ear on the tube or the bus and i'm trying really really hard not to turn around and scream!!!

WOw- Australia is popular! Free accommodation with me!!! ... when i get back home and have somewhere to live....... 1. Morocco 2. Turkey (have only been to Istanbul - would love to see more!) 3. Canada 4. Cambodia 5. Peru

Oooh you've tapped into two of my interests : grammar and translation! I think the French version flows better, but a bit of polishing would enhance that sense of loss and longing in the English version too... Lovely and romantic though Is this part of a longer piece or is it a fragment as is?

I was actually really surprised that so many votes went to Character! Then again - that's what i voted I do agree that both are important, but I really struggle with stories with 2D characters who just happen to get sucked into a plot and happen to have awesome hot clever girlfriends / boyfriends and happen to have hidden skills and talents to get through the plot line an author has thrust upon them and thence save the whole world. Ick. I much prefer something character driven. I could cope with the most cliched plot in the world IF the characters were well drawn and vivid. I'd probably read an awesome plot driven story with cliched cliched 2D characters too... but imagining that I see it more as a parody than a story i'd take seriously...

I guess I had a few non-conforming behaviours as a small child (never had a girly doll i liked, used to want to sleep with my tonka truck, never wore skirts or anything pink or frilly or girly) - but added to these some short hairstyles as a teenager, a rainbow peaceflag, my chronic single status, a joke my sister made about my DocMartens and my sexuality, and apparently my sisters friends all thought i was a lesbian for years. I think my mother still suspects it, too, given all the acceptance speeches i keep getting..... I also have a cousin who as a small child wore pink girls one piece swimming costumes and loved nothing better than playing barbies... but he's all grown up and into motorbikes and reptiles now... and engaged to his girlfriend. This stuff really interests me - and i like the idea of 'gender non-conformity'. To me, it seems like a way of saying 'i don't check those boxes and there's no label out there that fits, BUT...' - and i think it's important that labels aren't the be-all and end-all.

I'm with you there, Rustle! Everything always gets better. One of my favourite expressions is one that (or so i read somewhere i can't remember) was inscribed on a ring worn by a powerful leader in the ancient middle east. It read "this too will pass". It was to remind him that bad times wouldn't last, but also to warn him that being king / emperor was also not forever. I like it, because it holds the message that everything in life is transient. If today is a bad day, tomorrow might be better. If not tomorrow, maybe the next day. By the same token, rather than it telling me when i'm happy that one day i'll be sad again, i like to see it as reminding me to make the most of things. You are a bit of an inspiration, Mark! HUGS!

I hope you're ok too, Bee... and Acht-Acht, as i wrote in a recent story, i think "normal" is highly overrated.... As for hobbies... hmm. You've got baking covered, and i'm guessing veggie plot is probably done too.... Have you thought of perhaps choosing something that you might get satisfaction out of the outcome, rather than of the doing? Not to say choose something to do like strip and paint your whole house, but say, something you got something out of, even if it was tricky at times? Maybe an online course, or building or making something? Buy a book on how to draw / paint and have a go? LEGO!? Photography? Ok, so maybe i'm struggling here... but... i'm sure if we try we can find something What does everyone else do to take their mind of things / keep busy / for sheer enjoyment? And maybe we should try and get away from the reading / writing thing... not that we don't love it And what might you LIKE to do? (I just like to know stuff curious.)

Do you not normally get enough sleep, Bee? I always find that really effects my mood. That's kind of the best and worst part of having a full time job: I can plan to sleep the same every night, so theoretically my sleep pattern should be better..... but i miss staying up late writing, and if i do a little then there's no chance to catch up on sleep for a few days ...

LOL Bee... some of us just like to hug other people! Me and my friends hug to say 'hello', 'goodbye', 'thanks', and 'i love you'. It's an affection thing for us. Also can be comforting. I'll hug you when i see you