prompt house evolution (Pinterest prompt)

She had lived her entire life in this house, but she was standing in a hallway he had never seen before.

She looked around behind her. “I must be really tired.” She started walking back towards the bathroom door.  She walked in, yawned, and turned on the cold water.  She splashed her face with it and rinsed out her mouth.  “I’m probably ruining my make-up, but I don’t care.” After patting her face dry, she re-did her pony tail and walked out into the hall. “See, there’s nothing there.” She looked into the darkness at the end of the hall, which the light somehow just didn’t seem to illuminate.  Well, I don’t see anything now.” She walked down the hall the other direction.  Her small home she rented with her roommate wasn’t very large, just large enough for them to be comfortable.  

The boy who lived in the woods

There was a boy who lived in the trees. He used moss and soft leaves for clothes and drank the crystal  stream water and ate blackberries.  He wandered through the forest.  At night, he hid in the hollowed trunk of an old redwood and watched the fairies dance until he fell asleep.  He gathered acorns and dug up tubers to eat.  He had a raven friend who talked to him.  He laid out berries for the raven.  The raven told him about flying through clouds, lightning almost hits, and massive storms.  The raven told him about things that he saw from the sky, like odd things that looked like the boy who lived in squares and all kinds of animals.  The brown bear who roamed the forest was skilled at fishing where the river got bigger and the boy would watch and wait for an opportunity  to sneak in like the wind while the bear was preoccupied and steal a fish.  The bear would roar at him a bit, but had so many other fish to eat that he didn't bother coming after the fleet boy, who would run off like a breeze.  He had a knife that he'd found, and sharpened it on a piece of metal he'd found.  The rocks that were near one of the caves by the green stream made sparks when he hit them with his knife, so he used them to light up dried pieces of moss and twigs for fires.  After slicing up the fish, he would light a fire and cook it just a bit.  The clean smoky flavor was one of the best things he knew about.  Sometimes he would follow the herds of deer as they moved around, always just out of sight.  Once he found a lame fawn whose leg broke somehow.  He thought of cooking and eating it like he did the fish, but it looked at him with such wide eyes that he let it get away.  The boy noticed its corpse having been mangled by wolves the night before.  He pulled some bones off to chew on later, and skinned it as hastily as possible before the wolves returned.  He stretched it tightly between the branches at the top of one of his favorite trees so that the wolves couldn't find it.

Great Song by Jarryd James

Love this song by Jarryd James: 'Do You Remember'.  Can't get enough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_4nXkJtNo

Fabulous Victorian Fashions

Just love this blogpost showing Victorian fashions in varying levels of elaborate casual or dressiness. Veeery beautiful.

http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2013/06/mme-demorests-illustrated-portfolio-of.html?m=1

Jennifer Rardin's Strangely Mysterious Cause of Death

Jennifer Rardin is the author of several novels that I have been recently interested in reading. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" is the one I'm most interested in.  I am a huge fan of the kick butt chick vampire killer novel genre.

 They were not available on the free online site I use so I was about to buy one on Kindle when I noticed that she had already passed away.  She died at age 45 when she was about to go on tour.  I realize that it is nice not to bother families of the bereaved, but  Jennifer Rardin passed at the ripe old age of 45. I would want people to be a little curious if I passed that early too.

Wikipedia suspiciously does not even mention a cause of death, and usually you can depend on Wikipedia entries to be pretty thorough.  They only have five sentences on Jennifer Rardin, however.  It's just weird - usually you can find ANYTHING on the internet, but all that I saw was a few comment line entries.

Does anyone know how Jennifer Rardin died? I read on one site a comment whose author claimed that they had read a police report that listed her death as an “apparent suicide” when she had just been happily blogging the day before and was about to launch a new series, “The Book Club of Death.” Seems a little weird. If anyone has any information on this I would like to hear it.

I love this song

Jarryd James "Do you remember"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7XJG0Z2ho

Love it so much

Manga to Read that you haven't heard of

Everyone knows "Orange Marmalade," "Skip Beat" and "Vampire Knight," but there are so many lesser known manga out there.  I want to aide the seekers of incredible and innovative reading material.  Some lesser known ones bring a bit of fascinating difference to the shoujo/josei manga scene and definitely should not be overlooked.

"Kuragehime" ("Jellyfish Princess" - left) is about a late teens early twentys girl who lost her mother at an early age and is obsessed with jellyfish.  She meets a cross-dressing beautiful boy by chance who falls in love with her.  This boy manages to be beautiful as either a boy or a girl, which interestingly, is a common theme in manga.  As far as I am concerned, he does look good as a boy, but I am not so interested in seeing him as a girl and the mangaka does seem to draw girls more better than she does boys.  A little more bishounan in this manga would be preferable.  Overall, the manga is outrageously funny and romantic.

Another manga that I have not heard much about is "Kirikagohime to Mahoutsukai" (below right) set in what

seems to be mideaval Europe about a highly skilled magician-collector who saves a rare fairy.  This manga is very beautifully drawn and has lots of romantic comedy.

Lastly, "City of Dead Sorcerer", a horror-action style shonan manga.  I know that's unlike me to recommend a shonan manga, but I find this one particularly interesting.  It is a detective-type manga set in the future with some people with superhuman powers.  It has a very mysterious air, and continues to interest me.

I hope that this helps some of my fellow manga questers who seek manga beyond Ouran and Fruits Basket.  Thank you and goodnight! Lol