Just a little update. A Vincent birthday memoriam. Happy Birthday, Vincent. I know it's a day late, and perhaps a dollar short, as the saying goes. My apologies. A major computer issue reared its ugly head, demanding I deal with it. I've renamed my computer...Kefka. Ah well. More updates soon. Watch for it. Until later. Take care.

Well...pick me up and throw me down, as a friend used to exclaim to express utter shock. She also used to complain that it was hotter than a grasshopper on a freight train. Not sure how hot that is (And it sure isn't that now in the Plains States, my friends)...but...neither here nor there. Fact is, I'm back. After much feverish questing, I have finally rediscovered that invisible hole in the space-time contiuum which I inadvertently wandered through, and made it back from that crazy world where reality reigns and nothing seems right to find Legalos still ably guarding the homestead and Vincent the action figure attempting to distract Cloud the action figure long enough to steal his ride. He's got a map and girl to take on the road. All that aside, I just wanted to report that I have finally...finally...updated the Dark Gallery (well...offically...since the pages have mostly been up for a couple of weeks, if you've noticed. Truth is I had a couple of creative matters to complete and my creativity well suddenly dried up and left me with nothing but wispy cobwebs and a couple of dessicated locust shells...a ragged feather...a crunched up leaf...you get the picture. Anyway, I ate a giant piece of red velvet cake and swigged a liter or two of Diet Pepsi and...recovered...seemingly. Although all evidence suggests that it merely made me...hyper. ????)

~Screeches brakes on the babbling.~

Okay, as I was saying. Lots of new art to look at in the Dark Gallery. Go check that out Here And enjoy. Domo arigato to the artisans of Vincent Valentine and his...love, for contributing their compelling artworks to the well-deserved glorification of said man...and his love. He thanks you (crimson eyes glare), I thank you. The world thanks - Okay, maybe the ex-Turk doesn't thank you, but too bad. Tifa is grateful enough for both of them. Anyway, there will be more artworks posted ere long, and I will continue upgrading the rest of Dark Reverie. In the meantime, Feathers is currently my sole project. Do not think ye olde tale dead just yet.

Take care. Love and peace. Laters...

My apologies. This is merely a progress update. And to apprise you of some changes to the site. For my remarks about the progress of Feathers in the Maelstrom please go here.

Also, I wanted to let everybody know that my mailbox was down for a time. I'm not sure what was going on with the thing, but I couldn't open emails that were received over that period which extended several days. It is working now, however. Also, I didn't realize it until one day, just as I clicked my mouse on 'delete', that the mailbox had routed an email regarding Feathers into my Bulk mail. As I had gotten complacent about finding only spam mail about pharmaceuticals, sexual enhancements, mortgage loans from dubious lenders, various versions of the Nigerian scam, etc. in my bulk mail, I routinely delete the whole lot of it. Now I'm not confident I haven't deleted a few non-bulk mails. So if you've sent me an email and have not heard from me, and still wish to hear from me, you might drop me another line. I assure you I will check my bulk mail more carefully from here on out.

Lastly, I'm going to be revamping the galleries, in the Shrine and in the general galleries, and I plan to take them offline for a time as they will be a mess while I'm working on them. It's likely I will take down my poorly scanned photographs until such time that I decide to rescan them, which might be...forever. So if you are partial to any of them (although I can't imagine why) and wish to save a copy for your own personal perusal, better grab it.

That's all for the moment. Love and Peace. And...laters.

Hi all. I put up a little birthday page for Vin. Tis his day after all. Or...would that be Valentine's Day? Oh well, he can have them both. Check it out if you wish. And sing "Happy Birthday" to him. It's past my bedtime...so...catch ya laters...

Oh yeah...I almost forgot. You can see the birthday boy here

I'm really going this time. ~Poof!~

Alrighty then. I've finally posted a new chapter of Feathers in the Maelstrom. Which because of its length has now split like an amoeba. So...yeah...Part 2 and Part 3 of Chapter 22 - In Your Dreams can be read right here. And here.

If you read Chapter 21: Part 2 before July 10th you might have missed the Addendum I added. You can find that passage here. Chapter 21: Part 2 Addendum

Anyways...hope ya enjoy the long read. hehheheh. Laters...

A new chapter of Feather in the Maelstrom is posted. Part 1 of Chapter 22: In Your Dreams can be read right here. In case you're wondering, the chapter that would have been Part 3 of Chapter 21 was morphed into Chapter 22 due to a second general theme overriding the first.

I also added a passage to Chapter 21 - Part 2 due to chronology issues. If you've read that chapter recently, you've must likely seen it. If you haven't, you'll want to read it to be up to date on events. You can read the new passage here. Chapter 21: Part 2 Addendum

Enjoy the read. Sun's up so I'm going to bed now. Nighty night.

I've posted a new FFVII short story, one I wrote a long time ago and decided to clean up and post. More Feathers coming soon, now that I've discovered some spare time. Don't give up in despair yet. Until then, check out "A Summer Night In Junon" here. Go read and enjoy.

Lots of beautiful new mostly VinTifacentric art in the Shrine Dark Gallery. If you haven't noticed it there yet, hie thee off to the Dark Gallery posthaste and check it out. More coming soon. So check back.

Off to work on Feathers now. Ta-ta.

Part 2 of Chapter 21 of Feathers in the Maelstrom is finally up, in all it's insane glory. Read here Enjoy.

Laters, Gators.

Anyways, gotta run! Lots more to finish revising! Buh bye! Oh, and Happy New Year's everybody. May it be a great one.

Anyways, gotta run! Later! Ta Ta!

So catch ya later. I'm off to catch up on me email and entertain myself by deleting tons of spam. Love and Peace.

The best is yet to come...

Off to catch some zzzz's now. Later Gators.

And...if you have not spied Darknightdestiny's newest artwork of our angsty Mr. Valentine entitled "Self Restraint", you definitely should go check it out in the Shrine. ASAP.

Laters...

Two new chapters of Shades of Green, that most intriguing of FF2 tales by Carla. Go check it out and see what the greenhaired heroine and the stoic dragoon are up to now.

Also, be sure to make a trip to the Dark Gallery and check out the wonderful artworks of Arianrhod Haziel and Darknightdestiny who were both kind enough to allow me to post their artistic works on my humble page. So pull up a chair and feast your eyes on Mr. Valentine to your heart's content.

More soon, so stay tuned.

See ya later alligator...after while crocodile...

Rockin' around the Christmas tree...

^_^

Until later...Ta.

Wait! Before you go! That's not all! Something new in the Shrine of Vincent Valentine: Dark Miscellany. Iron Phoenix has labored very hard to create the most wonderful Vincent Valentine desktop wallpaper, and he's generously offered to share it with all of us Vincent lovers worldwide. So go get Vincent HERE. Guaranteed to elicit a few vocal "WOW"s from passersby. And don't forget to thank him.

And if you haven't read Chapter 17 of Feathers in the Maelstrom, then get on over there and read already. ^_^

So...until next time...see ya...