I know that sometimes doujinshis - and stuff produced by very popular doujinshi circles - can be expensive. I have, on occasion, payed a hefty price for a doujinshi that I was looking for, or that was still missing from my collection.

But sometimes...

I spotted this auction on Yahoo!Japan last week. I had my proxy bid on it - but not too much, because it wasn't *really* high on my list of 'must-haves'. But I thought I'd follow the auction, just out of curiosity.

It finished up at 12,0000 Yen! That's $ 137 at the current exchange rate!

For a fan.

And a small fanbook/doujinshi type thing.

Right now, that set is up on Yahoo!Japan for 12650 Yen - approx. $ 145.

I love Finalworld's stuff, but... no. Just... no.

My heart bleeds but... not for $ 145. Never mind the fact that I don't even *have* that kind of money right now...

That just goes to show that not every doujinshi or fanproduct goes for $ 2,50 - even though a lot of fans seem to think that...

*bangs head repeatedly on keyboard*

I seem absolutely incapable of writing short smut. All I wanted was to do a nice, hot, smutty kink piece. Now they're *TALKING* to each other! And inserting plot!

Maybe if I dangle my muse out the window for a bit?

*sigh*

Nope. Don't think that's going to work...

Back to typing...

When I was looking for lifestream pictures to use for my own website, I never found any that weren't covered with text or other images. So I made my own.

Then I say a post over at the Lifestream Forum where someone was also looking for lifestream images.

Seeing as there seem to be more people looking for that kind of image, I went and put together a set of lifestream stock images that you can download from my DeviantArt account. There are over 50 images in the zip file that you can mix and match to make your own lifestream image. :)