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And the last update for the month ^_^

Found a better version of Squall's poster, so I've uploaded that one. Just a little note, if you saved the old version of something...

Thanks to people for adding their Theme Songs to the Quad. They're great! ^_^ Now I gotta go listen to them.

Only have time for a quick update, FF8 Quotes is up in the Quad. We've formatted them to fit into a conversation, nifty, ne?

Made a new banner! And changed the old one... You can find them both on the Links & Webrings page.

Updates for the Fushigi Yuugi Apocrypha: Scrolls:

• New author Night~Mare is letting us host her epic: Heavenly Playground, which is about the very beginning of the Four God's reign in Shi Jin Tenchi Sho. It's cute! This is one of my favourite FY fics, so I'm very, very happy ^_^

Updates for the Garden: Card Catalogue:

• New author Gayguy's SeiferxSquall fic The Memory Remains has been added to the archive.
• The sequal to BlackRose's Tease, Would You? Could You?, another LagunaxSquall is up.
• Latest chapter of Scarlet Fever's epic, Xerampelinae, has been added. Chapter eleven is now available ^_^
• Latest installment of Scars: Rooftops, by Glittergirl has been added to that chapter. So to read the latest bit at the end, scroll to the end of the updated chap, s'kay?
• Chapter nine of Sniffle's Don't Try To Save Me is up.
• And Jeremy Chapter's latest work, The Stray, an alternate sequel to Arian's piece, "Reviresco", has been added to the archive.

Today I mostly just fixed up what I didn't get enough time to fine-tune in my mad rush around the site yesterday (shouldn't waste so much time browsing -_-). For some really annoying reason, uploading was taking ages, so I didn't have enough time to do anything but update the Garden Card Catalogue indexes - I didn't even update the author's pages... Very bad.

Also a note about the Card Catalogue: You might've noticed we've split the Main Archive in two. The reason was, the file was getting too big, and I figured it would slow down peoples' downloading, and hence, reading, so now it's in two parts: A-M and N-Z. Sorry if this causes any initial inconvinience.

Oooh! Forgot to mention: finally found some profile pics for Irivine, Cid, and Adel. Many thanks to Namikata Kaoru for letting us use her pics ^_^

Added Theme Songs to the Quad. Come and add that song that reminds you of a character from FF8.

Added more images to the Garden Cafeteria. I don't know why we have so many pics of Squall, it just turned out that way.

Messed around with K-chan's baby, the Garden Quad - it still needs a lot of work.

Fixed some of the links, cos some are just dead and we can't figure out if they've moved or not.

The holidays have finally arrived! YES!! And again with the major update. We should update more often *_* Seriously, uploading over six megs at once is starting to stress me out. We actually started updating yesterday, but didn't finish... gomen.

Added the Quad to the Garden. You can take Polls now ^_^

Added the Cafeteria, too. Go gorge on lotsa eye candy! The image galleries have arrived! Finally!! o_O They're all up - and there's a quite a few of them. Over five megabytes worth of piccies.

For the Garden: Card Catalogue (y'know, the library??) we have four new authors, and quite a few new fics:

• Chapters seven through to ten of Xerampelinae by Scarlet Fever have been added, as well as her new fic,
• Silence Is Golden, the sequel of Something's Burning. It's a great SquallxZell ^_^ haven't seen them in awhile...
• From our new author Krystiana we have three SeiferxZells: Dream Encounter, Good Chicken, and Words.
• From another new author Glittergirl, Scars, a new SeiferxSquall - inprogress, so expect more...
• And her sister Flygirl's also joined us ^_^ Kurai Kaze, her SeiferxSquall SquallxRinoa is up in the archives. It's the first SquallxRinoa I've liked... probably for the other pairing, but hey.
• Chapters five to seven of The Bloodcross Key: Reversals by Lady Tempest have been linked.
• And from our last new author - who barely got in this update (lucky I was checking my email before uploading o_O), Angelcake52's sent us her cute lil SeiferxSquall fic, Punishment, Indeed.
• From Sniffles, two new fics, both featuring Irvine (betcha someone's happy ^_~): Can You Keep A Secret, a little SquallxIrvine, and
• Strawberries and Cream another IrvinexSomeone fic. You gotta pick out who the 'someone' is ^_^ We've got a few ideas...
• Also from Sniffles, chapters six to eight of Don't Try To Save Me are up. See? The author's are writing faster than we can update!
• And something I should've done ages ago: added the revised version of BlackRose's Eye of the Beholder.

Ah, but we're not finished yet! We also have two new fics for the Fushigi Yuugi archive from new author Aeanagwen. Added to Apocrypha:

• Duty of Heaven, an interesting take on why Seiryuu demolished Tokyo, and what was going through the dragon's head, and
• Prayer in Open D, a nice little reflective songfic about Seiryuu. Did I mention I like dragons?? ^_^

And I think that about does it for this update. Doesn't seem enough to warrant over five hours worth of uploading time, what happened?? Oh, btw, I have J. Marie's newest SeiferxSquall, but it won't be up until the next update. I've still gotta read it through ten times (for fun, I always do this to fics, I swear ^_^), and then format it and put it up, so don't hold your breath. It's up on her site though, if you wanna read it before next week ^_~

Alright. And here's the major MAJOR update I've been promising. There's so much stuff to put up, I'm not sure I'll get 'em all in...

The Fushigi Yuugi section has been added. Check out Fushigi Yuugi: Apocrypha - I've written a fic, but haven't gotten around to posting yet...

Fixed the Links section. Added lotsa links and put 'em on separate pages.

For the Final Fantasy VIII Fanfic Archive, we have three new authors and over fifteen new fics:

• Added Chapter Six of Xerampelinae by Scarlet Fever.
• Needs chapter two by Alix Vitesse has been revised/rewritten and is now called Frustrated.
• Life in the Big City J. Marie's newest SeiferxSquall epic.
• From Sniffles two new fics: Fur Immer - Ich Liebe Dich , a new SquallxLaguna, and
• Don't Try To Save Me, SeiferxSquall
• BlackRose has written two new parts for her Battle Grounds Series: Calm Before the Storm, and
• Fear, Like Death. Both are IrvinexZell.
• Also from BlackRose, our first CidxEdea fic (and it's a cutie! ^_^) A Knight of Honor.
• The second part of Lady Tempest's Bloodcross Key story arc is up. Reversals, chapters 1 through 4.
• From new author twentysix years of therapy, Broken, a new SeiferxSquall fic
• Ryan Wong, the second of our new authors, has also written a SeiferxSquall fic: Betraying the Lion's Heart
• And last, but not least, Angie has written seven fics which are up in the archive. Just briefly they are: Birthday Joys, SeiferxSquall
• If, SeiferxZell
• Dona Nobis Pacem, IrvinexZell (heh, I play a piece called that.... *_*)
• An Untitled fic which is a SquallxIrvine, SeiferxZell fic thus far.
• I Wish, a reflective Squall piece
• A fic where the guy's haveta dress in drag for their latest mission ^_~ Queen For A Week
• And a parody! Plan B.

Heh. I did promise a few people lots more SeiferxSquall fics... ^.^ Gosh, and that's just the FF8 archive.

Added a coupla Quotes, and the I am Woman file (been meaning to do that for ages...).

And basically just messed around with the index page - and toyed with the idea of making a mirror, but after actually attempting it, and making progress in the negative values, gave up.

Nothing much done today. Just changed the look of the main page a little - converted the text links into images and such. Nothing fascinating, but it did take me three damn hours to make the gifs *_*

Finished uploading the rest of the site because now I luv Angelfire ^_^ It's all working and doesn't bitch at me!!

In regards to fanfics: added the link to the two newest parts of Lady Tempest's fic 'The Bloodcross Key: Shattered Knight'. Of course that's in the FF8 archive ^_^ It's the only archive up right now!

Added the Links & Webrings, Poetry, and basically made sure the silly pages were working.

Added two new fics by J. Marie to the Final Fantasy VIII Library Archive:

• The Oedipus Complex, and another installement of the 'Meant For Each Other...' series
• That's the Way Love Goes.

They can be accessed through the Main Archive, Author Index under J. Marie, and the Pairings Index (but that assumes you know what the pairings are! ^_~)