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Occupational Hazards - 8 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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Piera was sitting at her desk in her and Agapita's room and sharpening her throwing knives, which had had some opportunity to be dulled during their excursion to Sardinia the other day. She was scraping the edges keen again with a small whetstone, with a white cloth spread out underneath her to collected the flakes of metal shaved off by the abrasive rock – she treated the spreading speckling of black across the cloth as an indicator of progress. As Piera was testing the weight of one of the knives in her hand, there was a knock at the door. "Come in!" she called out. It was one of the grown-ups – Priscilla, the blonde. She was carr

Occupational Hazards - 7.5 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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For a second Avise was completely bamboozled by the sight of the Desert Eagle. If the sky could rain pistols, why couldn't the rivers flow with milk and honey and queuing at the Post Office not take all morning? He then remembered the patron who had boastfully shown off the pistol earlier – when Avise had kicked everything off the man must have thought that he could be some sort of hero, only for the clumsy amateur to get jostled and drop it in everyone else's scrum to get out. Giorgio seemed as surprised by the pistol's presence as Avise was, only noticing the weapon when his fingers brushed against the butt of its grip. Despite his lof

Occupational Hazards - 7 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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"Killing feels great…?" Giorgio tapped his earpiece out of 'transmit' mode and turned around from the television screen to look towards Avise, who was in amongst the other guests. "Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?" "Rich fruit indeed." Avise intoned, lifting his head back to look down at Giorgio cryptically. There was a smattering of laughter surrounding Avise, but it had a strained quality – the handler could easily tell that the sight on the screen and Agapita's energetic affirmation had unnerved many of the spectators. They had welcomed 'Columbina' to the Gladiator Games, but that was because they'd expected her to be a

Occupational Hazards - 6 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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Italy is the fount of Western culture, and being freshened by the very source of civilisation her people have cottoned on a lot earlier than most others that a damp, cold, soggy, sloppy bowl is no way to start the day. Instead, they breakfast on something sugary, charged, bright and sweet, to set you skipping down the road with a spring on your step and a sunny smile. …and then, there's coffee. While Agapita pushed her finger around the rim of her plate to scoop up the last flakes of pastry from her rich and succulent pain au chocolat, Avise was working one arm down the sleeve of his jacket, tipping up his coffee cup with his free hand.

Occupational Hazards - 5 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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The evening before the big day, Avise told Agapita to put on some outdoor clothes. Agapita stopped fastening her bra and looked at her handler strangely. "We're not eating in the restaurant?" She said in a perturbed voice, expressed not so much as a question as a gangster's deepening lead pit of realisation that the brother who's stood by him ever since they were kids fighting in the street has ratted out the whole job to the pigs. Avise grinned and hefted up a camo-pattern rucksack that you could guarantee had never been in any quartermaster's store. "No, dear – tonight, we shall dine al fresco." ****** It was only a short walk from t

Occupational Hazards - 4 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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"Gladiator Games," Donato shook his head in baffled amazement, "the very thought of it! The idle rich looking for some excitement, while still keeping their manicured hands clean. It's incredible. I've read thrillers with this sort of plot." His incredulity was plain to see. "Life imitates art, I guess." Jose shrugged noncommittally, and immediately regretted it as his wrist twinged. "Please keep still, Mr. Croce." Donato grumbled as he continued to apply plaster to Jose's forearm. "You were fortunate that this was only a simple fracture, but the worst clinical complications come from unco-operative patients." "I promise that I'll be careful.

Occupational Hazards - 3 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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"...On our foreheads the feathered hat; looking to the mirage of Rome in the distance. Soldiers, Bersaglieri of Italy, she sings the hymn of your fierce valour! She sings the hymn of your regiment that is precious to the Madonna, a history so proud that men cheer it from the grave! Oh Italy, in peace or war, should the Nation call to us, we sing proud and true sacred names of heroic virtue…" Avise burbled the song happily to himself, humming and murmuring a tune as he queued in the refectory for dinner. He was radiating good humour, and a few people in the queue around him even started bobbing their heads to their own personal theme tune

Occupational Hazards - 2 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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Agapita automatically swung an arm over to rub the wetness out of her eyes, and then realised that she was awake. Her pillow was damp again, but that was okay. At first, this had really vexed her, and Piera had watched with some bemusement as Agapita had fussed and fretted over the unsightly teardrop-stains speckling her pillowcases, all the while railing against her treacherous body. She had gone to her handler Avise and asked him to see if some internal duct had been improperly fitted or a valve was leaking. She'd gotten quite... aggravated about it, so tightly wound up over the fear of having something imperfect or inadequate within her, r

Occupational Hazards - 1 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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GUNSLINGER GIRL Occupational Hazards By Robert Frazer ***** "Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle" -Edmond About ***** Simon dreamed. Indeed, all told, he was something of a dreamer. All his life, dreams had welled up through him like a spring of imagination, the fountain that enlivened a planescape as vivid and bright as it was surreal and distorted. He used to write dream diaries – still kept them in a box, in fact, as they were worth a rueful chuckle from time to time. Melted clocks? Fish vomiting tigers? Salvador Dali had nothing on that shit. There had been some cachet in it, for a time. When he was a kid,

The Lamb and the Tyger - 3 by King-Robert-XII, literature

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The Lamb and the Tyger - 3

"You look like you've been dragged backwards through a bush." "Gee, you're a bright sunbeam of gladness in the morning." "Well, light shows up things as they truly are. Difficult morning.?" "Morning? Pah! It's still a 'late night'! This moody little shrew here hasn't given me a minute's peace." "She's being awkward?" "Awkward, he says! I'm warding her memory centres with a counterset duo-dodecahedric engram, usual textbook deal, but she's resisting it step by bloody step. Look at the monitor, it's impossible to reliably lock any structure. I've already had to reassemble eleven fractured vertices in the past hour." "...good grief, this is a to

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Dec 13
United Kingdom
Deviant for 19 years
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George Macdonald Fraser; James Clavell

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King-Robert-XII

Dec 30, 2010

Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt AMVs

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I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas. I haven't been writing much lately, and that's chiefly because I've had to take time out to scratch the video-editing bug once more. Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt is an anime that's given me a lot of pleasure over the last three months. It has shown a diverse range of subjects, blazing flair and a surprising amount of emotional awareness, all of which lift the show up to be much more than the 'rude send-up of Western cartoons' that it was perhaps over-simplistically billed as. Slick and smart, it's also been a source of inspiration, as I've cranked out three AMVs within mere weeks of each other:

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King-Robert-XII

Oct 22, 2010

Gunslinger Girl AMV: 'Collect The Set'

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If you haven't already guessed, I'm pretty keen on Gunslinger Girl. As I also spend some of my spare time composing AMVs, a homage to what is perhaps my favourite anime and manga of them was nothing short of necessary. I thus present to you for you delectation, edification and gratification, "Collect The Set" YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsUIia5BpY Download the full version from animemusicvideos.org: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=179010 It might seem to be an unusual pairing of anime and audio, but I think that you'll agree that it's twistedly fitting given the subject matter. Also, I t

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King-Robert-XII

May 10, 2010

Passion Lives Here: A Gunslinger Girl comic/doujin

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While my account has to date been occupied with prose fiction, that is not the only type of writing that I engage with. I'm a staff writer for the comics criticism website 2000A.D. Review, and any gamers amongst you may be interested to see a short article written by me printed in this month's edition of the Retro Gamer magazine. I also write comic scripts, and you can see some of my work in STC Online. Anyone that follows me will know of my ardent love for Gunslinger Girl, and I'm trying to express that enthusiasm in comic form as well, with the fancomic (or doujin, if you prefer), "Passion Lives Here", a tale of intrigue set against the bac

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2 days ago

Thank you for the fav !!!

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4 days ago

Thanks for the favorite!

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AnPonman

Apr 2, 2024

Maido! my new friend, "Maido!" is a greeting only found in Osaka. I am deeply moved by your works and very happy to have a relationship with you. By the way, the theme of my works is "Eroticism". At the same time, I'm also experimenting with painting style arrangements for my travel photos. Most of them are in Europe, which I visited by bicycle a few years ago. These are nostalgic places... O-kini! Greeting from AnPonman Osaka Japan.

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Mar 19, 2024

Thanks for liking Cass Sweeney, Lost in the Jungle 01!

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Mar 17, 2024