Good luck to everyone among my Friends here who are doing the NaNoWriMo this year! I'm about to start mine. We'll see if I can make it this time, with everything else that's going on. Wheeee!

I am so! excited! Now that the full voice cast for the English dubbing of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has been announced, I am thrilled that almost every previous actor is returning. I am most especially happy that the voice of Roy Mustang will again be done by Travis Willingham, and Maes Hughes will again be Sonny Strait. My two favourite characters just wouldn't have been the same with different actors.

It's going to be weird enough that Alphonse will have a different voice.

Meanwhile, in totally other news -- NaNoWriMo is coming again soon! 19 days! Eeeeek!

Can I add 1,667 words each day to the all-day-long writing I already do?

Lord. Who needs sleep??

If I do manage to get the NaNo done, as before, I will be posting it at my kashiwrites writing journal. We'll see how long I can keep up before collapsing and giving up.

Those who know I'm a big Bollywood fan will know why I love love love this amateur video from, of all places, Tajikistan:

A week or so ago, mfelizandy and I were talking about her latest obsession with model trains. And, being the good little Fullmetal Alchemist fans that we are, not to mention Roy Mustang fans, naturally we started talking about model trains in connection with him. He doesn't, on the surface, seem like the type who would be interested in model trains. So making a connection between him and them would require other elements to be present. His own obsessiveness would be key there.

The result was that we challenged each other to write short fics on the subject. She's posted hers already (Satisfaction Guaranteed) and now I've put mine up (Control).

I must be insane, considering how rarely I've been on LJ lately, but here I go again. (I blame ishte!)

Thank you to sevlow, in whose post yesterday I first saw this.
And this is doubly hilarious for me, because of my ancient past, when I would have taken the Left Behind series more as documentary than as fiction. Heehee!

This is a really superb article about the writing of fanfiction: When Harry Met Bella: Fanfiction is all the rage. But is it plagiarism? Or the perfect thing to encourage young writers?

It's a great summary, both explaining what fanfic is, and talking about where it should be posted, matters of copyright, and so on. Really excellent.

Happy birthday to maiac!!!

Not a birthday cake, but I don't think she'll mind:

You know, there are fun things about being a book blogger, completely apart from, you know, talking about books! (Which would be reward enough on its own.)

( The nice thing that happened )