Your daily dose of tranquil imagery

Went to Maleny on the weekend.  It's a little town up in the Glasshouse Mountains area, which I guess is kind of on the edge of the Dividing Range.  Very pastoral.  Might have been more fun if I wasn't dressed up in painful shoes for a wedding.  I'm really starting to hate weddings!  Luckily, this was a first wedding so this time I wasn't tempted to say something like 'better luck this time!' (Ooops!).  Also, it was in a church.  This shouldn't have surprised me, but the past few weddings I've been to have been civil ceremonies!  Blindsided there.  I kind of haven't been to church in, um, eight years.  It put me in a ranty mood.  So here's some tranquil countryside pictures:



I mean, look at this.  This is practically a dairy ad.  I swear I've seen this on a milk carton before.

( A couple more pictures under the cut )

The Fifth Act, Chapter 1

Title: The Fifth Act

Rating: T for violence.

Summary: FFVII Time-travel.  Gen.  Cloud has an accident with a Time Materia.

Author's Note: FFVII Time travel fics are almost as ubiquitous as Harry Potter time travel fics - a sub genre unto themselves.  I approve of this!  Time travel stories are a guilty pleasure of mine.  And since I’ve been happily smothering myself in FFVII fandom after the double-whammy of Crisis Core and Dissidia, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I wrote this.

It’s by no means special or original, just a personal indulgement. Hasn’t been beta’ed, either, so please point out any mistakes. The urge to completely rewrite this is powerful, so I have to start posting if I ever want to finish it. Updates should be roughly twice a week, might up that pace down the line if I finish earlier. (Normally I try to finish a story before I start posting, but I already have the ending plotted out, and a twenty chapter head-start ought to be more than enough leeway, and may actually serve as incentive to write faster.) 


( Chapter 1 )