Hello, everyone!

You have reached the rambling, the fangirling, and the general chill-pad of theOtaku's NightBeck, a.k.a Becky, a.k.a Crimson Lotus the Irish Ninja.

... okay, maybe not the last one. But people will be calling me that one day.

This is your place to chill, talk about life and fandom, and be generally crazy. So go on. Play nice, be good to each other, don't make me hurt you.

My favorite series: Princess Tutu, Ookiku Furikabutte, Mushishi, xxxHOLiC, Monster, Black Lagoon, Ergo Proxy, Escaflowne, and Baccano!

My writing: Cafe Cliche

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I AM HERE, OTAKUITES. I am merely lurking in the shadows. A bit like Batman, really. So after several weeks of work-by-day, revisions-by-night, I am actually going to try to relax a bit this week. (That's sort of a foreign word now. Relax! ...

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It's been a while, but I have some news after all

I don't believe in fairy tales. At least, not where publishing is concerned. True, some people have those fairy tale-esque success stories, but those stories have a lot of hard work behind them. Those people wrote, completed, and edited a n...

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Wow...

Sorry for the prolonged radio silence, guys. I was sick with bronchitis last week and didn't have the energy to do much but lay around. And... well, the country I work for is going through a crisis right now obviously, so I've been pretty drained....

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Various and sundry

So I am sitting around watching the Oscar pre-show after a fairly low-key weekend. I mainly took time off from writing (though I still wrote a couple scenes) because for the latest time in this story, I think, I'm at a pretty natural stopping plac...

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This week in fandom

The King's Speech This movie! ♥ THIS MOVIE. It's like they took the usual Oscar-bait formula and made it charming and adorable. And now I know why Colin Firth has been going around calling Geoffrey Rush his "geisha g...

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