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What I managed to buy of Eclipse Hunter~. I received these in April! They're all second hand because these were only sold in conventions back in 2007-2009 or so. The novels had book covers on them. I haven't taken them off in these photos, so the covers are a little hard to see in the pics.


Illustrations were by Ya Sha.

( some more pics )

Yan/Yue book has been officially announced. The name of the book is 戮月牙. From the teaser posted, Bai Lian Yue seems to be the main character. The teaser happens when Bai Lian Yue is in high school. The cover is drawn by Wu Ling.

The book is much longer than I thought it'd be. It's 160 pages long~. The set comes with the novel, a 36 page comic, "I am king" decorative tape, a bag, and 3 postcards. The set will only be available at CWT while the novel will be sold online after the event.

Yu Wo's first actual BL book. XD;; But I wonder if it will mostly be unrequited love on Bai Lian Yue's part.

ETA: The comic is called "Cafe & Tea" and the cover features Ri Xiang Yan. :D The two covers match. The cover for the novel features Bai Lian Yue holding a bloody rose. A crescent moon is in the background. The cover for the comic features Ri Xiang Yan holding a crescent moon. Roses are in the background.

It makes me happy when characters I like are well received, hahahaha. (Or at least thought of as very, very awesome)

Yu Wo's Oct 3, 2103 plurk:

Pitting the Omnipotent Against the Even More Omnipotent
If you were currently the boss of a thriving business, who would you hire as your secretary?
1. Adair (He can fight on the battlefield, enter the kitchen, and grace the great halls. Personally approved by the Sun Knight)
2. Kyle (Isn't it Bill? Computer in hand equates to the world in his grasp. Since the Sun Emperor hung up the call and did not accept the interview, his personal approval was not acquired)
3. Charles (He has housework completely covered. After leveling up, he can part-time as a non-professional doctor. Ri Xiang Ye strongly recommends him but also asks you not to steal him away)
4. Bai Saya (Only specializes in taking care of children. Truthfully he is only here to even out the numbers. Compared to the above three, his only advantage and possibly the only thing that matters is that he is young and handsome)

(Adair is from Legend of Sun Knight, Kyle and Charles are from Eclipse Hunter/No Hero, and Bai Saya is from GOD)

The votes were predominantly for #1, Adair (亞戴爾). XDDD;; I would choose him without a second of hesitation too, hahahaha. Because he truly has everything covered. Kyle would be a good choice too for business, but he probably can't serve as a bodyguard. =P Charles is not a good choice for business. Neither is Bai Saya, hahahah. They're both too nice. Though, I think it would be very hard to steal Adair away from Sun. Not that any of the others would be easy to steal away either...

Yuletide nominations have ended. I managed to make my nominations (I have basically been passing out right after work nearly every day, so merely making time for nominations has been hard! :3;;; ). It's a good thing that the deadline for Yuletide is during the holidays when I have time off, so I should be able to participate in Yuletide once more. ♥ I'm completely unsure what I'll be requesting and offering yet. I'll decide once the tags are finalized. I did see lots of people mention series I'm interested in, so even if I hadn't nominated anything, I would have been totally fine!

As for NaNoWriMo next month... It's probably a pass for me this year. I doubt I'll have the energy! Over all of 2013 so far, I've only written around 50k words with everything over the past 9 months added together. No way I'd be able to write 50k in one month on top of my new job. :'D;;;; I hope I'll be able to make some progress on my current WIPs instead. If I can write 25k for my WIPs, I will be very, very happy! (I will be even happier if I can finish at least one of my WIPs!! At the top of this list are Bittersweet Sweetness and A Vice-Captain's Tale.)

Then again, it would be very nice to be able to print one of my stories... XD;;; I looove CreateSpace's offer of printing books. It always tempts me. XD

Good luck to everyone doing Yuletide, NaNoWriMo, or any other writing endeavor! ♥

Bought a whole bunch of merchandise from various Yu Wo series. :'D A whoooooole bunch. I totally splurged. General pics for now of new stuff I bought. Previously bought stuff isn't included. I think I'll do separate posts for each of these series in detail...when I get around to doing that.

Super bad quality pics ahead.


Ughhh, blurry. LSK first~. Posters, mousepad, playing cards, clearfiles, cards, etc... includes volume 3 of the manhua, Cloud's side story, and the new manhua chapter that covers the beginning of the 2nd novel~

( more LSK, Half Prince, No Hero and Eclipse Hunter, Kill no More, GOD, Female Warrior, Gong Hua )

Miscellaneous talk on Yu Wo's works. XD; I've almost gone through all her works... well, I still have three series left before I run out of things to read, so I guess I can't say "almost". No Hero, Kill No More, and GOD. Oh, and the crossover between 1/2 Prince and Kill No More. XD;

Female Warrior / 女武
More 女武! Yu Wo posted the 6th part, in which Sylvester stumbles upon a half elf. (A half elf!! He's yet to have been awake during his screentime... darn. I want to find out what he's like already!) Hee, I wonder if Sylvester is going to end up (literally) stumbling over each of the remaining of the Twelve Holy Knights? He's already picked up two strays this way!

Eclipse Hunter / 玄日狩
I loaded my Yuletide canon as well as all five volumes of Eclipse Hunter on my tablet. After finally finishing re-consuming the series I matched for Yuletide and planning out the fic(s), instead of actually writing, I thought, "hm, maybe I'll take a peek of Eclipse Hunter... I've been meaning to read it since last year..." *facepalm* Two days later, I've finished reading all five volumes. I didn't have much clue about what the series was about, but I came out loving it a lot! It's third person, and the cast is a little smaller than the ones from 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight, but the main character endeared himself to me a lot with his naivety and his protectiveness.

I suppose this would be sci-fi instead of fantasy. LSK is more fantasy? GongHua/Black Flower is definitely fantasy. 1/2 Prince is... half/half? Hm, it wouldn't be too hard to cross 1/2 Prince and Eclipse Hunter... *watches the plunnies multiply* I know I saw someone start one crossover of these two series already. They are pretty easy to cross. XD


( more mostly non-spoilerish blabbing )

Black Flower / 公華
I realize I haven't talked about this (I think...), but I bought volumes 1-3 at the same time as I bought v8 of Legend of Sun Knight! \o/ I read 1-2 already, so I delved right into v3. When I started reading EH, I immediately made comparisons between EH's main character (the younger brother) and GongHua, Black Flower's main character. GongHua, as a "flower", isn't human and doesn't know anything about human feelings or human behavior, so he starts off almost like a blank slate, asks a lot of questions to learn about the world, etc. He's also fiercely protective of certain people, a trait that DarkSun shares. While the protagonists are similar, EH has comedic elements while Black Flower's meant to be tragic. I felt things took a turn for less tragic in v3, but now I feel even more unsettled for GongHua because there are totally signs for a tragic ending. If this were any of Yu Wo's other series, I'd feel safe knowing that the protagonist would probably come out unharmed and that there'd be a happy ending... but with Black Flower... who knows? Anyway, GongHua and the protagonist of Eclipse Hunter are both somewhat like... hm, Senri from +Anima? Though they're a lot more talkative. Perhaps like... Sunshine? A mix of Senri and Sunshine? I think I've just found another of my favorite character types. XD;

( more blabbing )


Anywayyy, Yuletide. XD; I already have two gifts waiting to me since... the beginning of this week, I believe. SO ON TOP OF THINGS, MY WRITER(S). And now I've just checked and saw that the number has increased by one. :O *flails is it Yuletide yet, can I open my presents, oh wait, I haven't finished writing my fic yet, don't come just yet, Yuletide!* With no restraint at all, I totally checked the fandom page as my gifts appeared, so I think I even know which order the fandoms will be in. XD;

I feel very guilty about my progress. I want to write so many different things but my progress is terrible! Back to plotting, or I guess I should stop plotting and write more instead... except re-visiting my recipient's letter made me consume another new canon, and trying to understand that led me to another canon that is somewhat related (only peripherally)... my ways of procrastination never cease to amaze me. OTL I'm starting to feel this fic is too huge for me, the scope of it is scaring me... maybe I should manage some shorter, stand-alone snippet sort of fic to make sure I don't accidentally end up defaulting if it turns out I don't manage to finish this before the deadline... and here I wanted to write treats. I'm leaving myself no time for treats like this! *flails* I don't exactly have all that much time left... where has December gone? T___T; Stop flailing. Write more!