Kappa Tracks

"A story is made up of words and characters. Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest is literary gossip."

My six decade love affair with the English language compels me to offer a list of authors whose work meets my critical standards. The single criterion operant is the quality of the prose as composed by the writers. I have made no discrimination whatsoever as to subject matter, theme, or plot.

Therefore be warned!

A great many of the works here listed may involve themes or subjects repugnant to some readers. I can only advise that if a particular story cannot be stomached, go on to the next; you will find at least a few to be to your taste.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Insects..

as in, these things have been bugging me..
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1)a moment in Movie IV-Leo's fist/fingers flexing
around his sword hilt as he braces for the final
clash with Raph--there are those who aver
that he is deliberately rotating the weapon
so that the next stroke will fall dull edge foremost..
now then, does anyone recall, from one of the new toons,
a similiar motion on his part-a flexing of fist around a sword's hilt?
only, this time, his hand is enclosed in a gauntlet..
and the sword is the demon sword of Tengu???
(p.s.excursus-that gauntlet--every view we had of it,
seemed to show it as a true glove, with four fingers
and a thumb... we may speculate that interiorly,
it was really a 'mitten' and a three fingered hand
could wear it quite comfortably...)
But we may never know...
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2)some of the Marx Bros. movies are available on DVD...
& if anyone cares, they're worth viewing...
but I'm just old enuf...
I think it's (NT) "Search for Splinter, pt.2"-
they're infiltrating the TCRI building..
& there is a sequence of entering and exiting
multiple doors of rooms that all look the same..
(pay particular attention to the soundtrack
playing during this compounded confusion)
!!!!!!!!!!
sheer and pure Marx Brothers!!
(in case you didn't know -- there really were
four of them, too)
I know that in one of their films, the four
Marx brothers did just such a scene-
& I recognized it when four mutated turtles
went thru the same hilarious antics.
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10-07:here's another one--belated...
"momentarily visible along the shaft
of light thrown through the opening doors,
his shadow preceeds him...."
haven't we 'seen' this particular
imagery before?--think: Movie I...

Sunday, May 20, 2007

the woodwork..

as in, they're coming out of....
seems that movie reawakened some
childhood memories...
as in Sat. morn carns..*
been a slew of new**-to-T-fandom
entries in the ff place.
some are quite worth the reading..
& I'll be listing them here.


*OT
**new, as in this century.
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MTAngeli (o) Mta [6-07] or:
Tori Angeli (Ta)
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1301550/
or:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1301550/Tori_Angeli
(6-08:changed???
same story titles, different pen name)
Just Once(9-07)
fr.Mirage v.1: 'Weedhopper'
Messed Up(6-07)
wasp/tarantula
(title is a euphem.for f---ed(R!)
How To Tell the Difference(6-07)
Klunk is...!!?
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a three part magnum opus..
if you can stand the horror---
Eighteen Minutes(6-07)
R&CJ & a stolen kidney(!)
& its 'followup':
The Halfway Point(5-08)
& more...
Endgame(2-09)
further complications...
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The Quality Time series:
Working Overtime(6-07)
Pain Relief(6-07)
To The Rescue(7-07)
No drug can keep Raph
from a fight...And!
a tidbit for GW:
To Leonardo, a fight was like a dance.
All it took was preparation & concentration, &
in its performance, he only had to do what
he had been trained to do.
The rest of his mind was caught up in the
exhilaration of the fight.
He was focused, calm, at peace and
having the freakin' time of his life.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Only Roses(7-07)
A Question of Worth(7-07)
Time Elapsed(7-07)
I Am The Very Model..(7-07)
(parody of G&S by Donatello)
Tooth(8-07)
finally, someone realizes that
even ninja Turtles might need
dental care!!
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There Was the Costume(11-07)
The Stairway of the Mind(12-08)
Unafraid,ch2-6-5-09
^^^^
One Real Fantasy(3-08)
DxA-house cleaning..
Counterplay,ch5-12-15-08
beginning-the A.O. considers
Splinter's sons..
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Kappa's n.b.: go to author's LJ(via 'homepage')
for works not appro. to FF)
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Real Life Batman(11-08)
one of NW's more obscure adventures...
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The Circle(10-08)
"set in AL's trilogy"
The Vessel(11-08)
Spl's early beginnings
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The Orphans,ch7-8-28-08
L.gone; his bros feel...
Invisibility Check(6-08)
a T-shirt from Costa Rica..
OOC-xtreme 'crack'

sonofwolf (o) slf [5-02](?)
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/213839/
I Wish I Had Casey's Girl(5-07)
D with Polaroid pict.
What If(5-07)
D:"Wonderful Life" redux
Goodbye, Mr. Bear(5-07)
what happened to that stuffed toy
M. had in 1st movie?
To Boldly Go(4-07)
space trav. OC:Cho
(removed fr.FF-6-04:needs revision)
Gloomy Sunday(5-07)
L.visits K's grave
Who Needs You(6-07)
Spl.can't handle the conflict
bet. R.+L. any longer-
drastic measures.
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Kalenthi (o) Ki [3-07]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1243457/
A Study of Sleeping Hearts(5-07)
pre//D/L
City Under the Sun(4-07)
April's Artifact-accident 'nother
dimension-capture
In Hope(4-07)
D xplains his 'time-out'SAINW
Lessons in Defense(4-07)
chibi R.1st sai
Narrative of Soul Against Soul(4-07)
D+L:fr.NT ep.:const of BShell+
R's SCycle
City Lights(6-07)
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AnthyRose (o) An [12-00]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/31676/
White Houses(5-07)
NW not being R.
11yrs after L.return
"unresolved bitterness, anger"
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ShyLight (o) Sl [9-04]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/677372/
Murphy's Laws(5-07)
M.loses bros'weapons-(trap)
"dropt clue", tries to get them back.
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Sasshaia (o) Sh [3-07]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1248637/
Falling Stones(p)(4-07)
Fixing It(4-07)
M trying take D.'s place
when D. killed
Remembering From a False Hero(4-07)
R.stream thought as M.dies/leuk.
Suiken* Party(5-07)
*"drunken fist"
Splinter & alcohol
(Aw Crap!)
The First and the Last(4-07)
Shadow/R./bar-
only her, her dau.& R.left alive
Who Decides What Is Right:ch.7-7-13-07
D. w. 'powers'-OC-kid-"Joss"
Donny Pwned(7-07)
The Choice to Protect(12-07)
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Scoundrels(7-07)
D. very OOC-& so is
everybody else!
but good!
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Sam & the Green Men(11-07)
Andrew's autistic brother watches
the rooftop antics of some
'green' people...
(spiritual story)
Instincts(7-10)
recently posted, a dab of erotica..
with an hilarious comment by
a brother...snerk!*
*(smirk& snicker)
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sunbune (o) sb [3-06] pron:"sun-bunny"
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1012961/
(adding some humor to the fanon)
(5-07:"decided to share my ninja turtle stories.."
Potential(5-07)
L+K(prisoner)1st 'date'
gets advice fr. 'xperts'
^^^^^^^
Mem.Quote:
"I can't believe you would turn down a date with
the Shredder-ette herself! The Bushido Babe!
The Fox of the Foot..."
^^^^^^^^^^
You Are My Sunshine(5-07)
basking, it's a turtle thing.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Mem.Quote:
"...you going to start feeding us
minnows now, too?"
^^^^^^^^^^^
Shade of Blue(8-07)
the Dark Leo fr. a FF(NT)episode..
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Nekotsuki (o) nek [1-03]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/330325/
The Legacy(5-07)
Leo challenged by Karai.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Mem.Quote:
"Don was still sitting at the table, head
hunched down as if he was trying
to pretend very hard that the bodies
flailing in the water didn't belong to
anyone he knew."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Grandfather Paradox6-07
Fast Forward episode:"Timing is Everything"
Leo facing earliest Shr.
Underdark(6-07)
The 'summary' for this fic(on the ff)
is exquisite perfection-one of the
finest wrought of such that I have
ever read! "He’s hanging upside down in the middle
of the great underdark, weighed down by a half hysterical turtle
in the middle of a bunch of pipes and water and rock
that are conspiring to kill us both off,
and Leo still manages to sound like he Has A Plan."
Black Danube(8-07)
post 'Fast Forward'-
refrain fr. killing Bishop...
unless...
The Line You Should Not Cross(8-07)
after 'Sam.Tourist' NT episode...
something has been stolen fr.M.
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Softening the Edges(8-08)
CJ&M 'on the town'
(pre Movie IV-CJ knows who NW is)
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ProcurerFaith (o) PF [10-00]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/21993/
wanna death fic? or two?
heavy on the angst &/or gore?
here's two real nice* ones...
Punishment(5-07)
& what may be its seq:
Evergreen(6-07)
*you do realize that "nice" is
one of those 'four-letter words',
don't you?
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No Substitute(10-07)
Don by Leo's deathbed--
"...cannot be your replacement..."
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Vile Vial(7-07)
Bishop launches a deadly virus-
Fugitoid an ally; almost lose Don.
Leo fights on the astral plane
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Pieces of Me(9-07)& its prequel:
Afterglow(11-07)
Barbed(5-08)
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yoyo-anarchy (o) yo [4-07]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1250916/
Downtime(6-07)
Desperation(9-09)
a broken leg, Leo still manages..
Depth(4-07)
Duty(5-07)
Heat,ch2-6-7-07
"Where oh where was the big shiny red
button that universally meant 'goes boom'?"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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in the meantime, here's a few
that were rediscovered on my
2nd pass thru the 100+ pp.
of the TMNT-FF place:
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Marl (o) Ml [7-01]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/88119/
Long Holiday(7-01)
one long chapt.never updt.
very good writing..
xcellent plot begin.
R. as fugitive fr. NYPD
atmos./composition,
char.one of best.
(violent complaint fr. Kappa:
never finished!!)
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Kamara (o) Km [8-00]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/16619/
Five(9-00)
5 in jar? "Picasso"
a t.gone bad...
Revenge(9-00)
chron:after early movie
Shred's da.seeks retribution;
seduces L.(!)
n.b.: this author's 'homepage'
contains an 'essay' written for one of her
lit.crit.classes-worth reading!
(def.'family'+contrasts Movies I & II)
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& a few more "coming out of..."
Catalyst(o) cy [1-00]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/6756/
Odd Turtle Out(4-07)
5T-ea feel alienated-
5th is ?
Descent -continued(6-07)
D.has a 'guest'...
(fic abandoned by HH)
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Winnychan(o) W [5-07]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1288149/
The Talk, ch13-12-18-09
Spl.assigns D. a noisome task
in deference to his greater xpertize
12-09:JOY! a new ch.to this
wonderful writing!
Influence, ch9-11-15-07
L.trying reassert his leadership role-
drag bros fr.bad habits
Spoiled(8-07)
D.has a most welcome visitor..
Support Boundaries(8-07)
be nice to your tech support person...
you have no idea what he/she could do to you...
"deranged little giggle"-- 'goat porn'
Nulltime,ch1-12-4-07
A/N:"within other two major fics"
D-POV:Renet talks too much!
Mistaken(12-07)
R.fumbling with his coat's buttons...
Perseus(5-09)
(title refs to an 'arm' of the MW galaxy..
D exploring all alone...)
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memyselfandi89(o) 89 [7-06]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1089575/
A Weapon to Match(4-07)
R.likes his chosen weapon
for more than one reason..
On the Couch(6-07)
ea.T gets a session with
analyst(also Spl.)!
attended by Grim Reaper
This Won't Hurt a Bit(6-07)
an evil side to D.
attending to bro's wounds
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Bunny MacCool(o)BMC [11-00]
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/26800/Bunny_MacCool
Heaven Enough(9-07)
Ain't No Love(6-07)
Ignore The Ghosts(5-07)
Gloomy Sunday(5-07)
Three Sheets to the Wind(6-07)
Say Goodnight, Not Goodbye(6-08)
an FF timeline; fr.Cody, Leo finds out
who lived the longest...(author pulls one of
those sci-fi time 'tricks'--nicely done!
Raph hid a message in one of the bandana masks)