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So Wai-con was fantastic, but damn it's nice to have the free time to do stuff like this again.

This would be the first of two short epilogues to conclude my xxxHolic/Discworld crossover series - just a few hundred words this time. The last part will be a bit longer, and I'm hoping to have up up within a week at the latest.

Title: The Luggage
Summary: In retrospect, introducing Himawari to the luggage had been a mistake.
Spoilers: This was written with certain revelations from the last xxxHolic arc in here in mind, but the references are vague enough that I don't think they'd count as real spoilers.

Previous parts:
Part 1: Just Another Tuesday
Part 2: Binky
Part 3: A Death in the Family
Cripple Mr Onion (not a chronological part of the series, but part of the same crossover)

( In retrospect, introducing Himawari to the luggage had been a mistake. )

Sequel to Just Another Tuesday, expanded from the previously posted version here (although unrelated to the Granny Weatherwax one, except by the series being crossed over). Huge thanks go to rhap_chan for kindly volunteering to beta this for me.

Title: Binky
Summary: Watanuki, Doumeki, and a horse borrowed from a shinigami from another dimension. Just another job when you work for Yuuko.
Spoilers: Reference to certain facts regarding Doumeki’s childhood revealed in chapter 102, plus a couple of blink-and-you'll-miss-them* references to certain outcomes of the spider arc.

*Look, I swear I didn't realise how appropriate an expression that was until after I'd written it!

( It had been one of those mornings when Watanuki absolutely dreaded going past the temple. )

If the last few months of posts weren't proof enough, I've been writing rather a lot lately.

( A few things which turned up while writing for Discworld or CLAMP recently: )

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In related news, I sat down earlier and made a list of everything I've got in the to-do pile right now. It's long. Okay, it's always long, but the surprising part is I think there's actually a decent chance most of it will get done within a few months.

So it looked like it was time to dredge out that old unfinished-fic-meme, even if this is going to be mostly for my own reference:

( The ones I’m working on now (xxxHolic, Discworld, Tsubasa, Kingdom Hearts) )

( The ones I’m going to work on just as soon as I clear that list a little (Kingdom Hearts, Tsubasa, Full Metal Alchemist, Final Fantasy VII, more xxxHolic) )

( The ones I haven’t touched in ages but still sort of plan to get back to (Naruto, more Kingdom Hearts, more FFVII, Original) )

That's sixteen different projects. Gonna be busy for a while over here.

Anyone else wondering when this started turning into a fic journal? ^^;;;

I was browsing through some XXXHolic fic recs, when I ran into a particularly brilliant little piece called A Wizard's Staff, in which a certain song from Discworld is sung to a certain magician from CCS. Which was all very well and good, but then the writer just had to go and make this little comment at the end that as far as Discworld crossovers went, one where Death meets Watanuki (who let's remember, sees spirits and nearly gets himself killed every other week) would have to be the next logical conclusion.

I don't think she meant to use that idea herself. That means it's free to leap out at the next poor person who wanders by and demand to be written for the taking, right? Right? XD

Title: Just Another Tuesday.
Summary: Crossover with Discworld. Watanuki meets Death, though fortunately not on official business.
Spoilers: Scattered reference to a few events from later chapters, but no big spoilers, I don't think.

( The one good thing about the situation to that point was that the spirit, or youkai, or shinigami, or whatever it was today was not likely to be the sort to tell Watanuki he screamed like a girl. )

To my flist: All the XXXHolic manga to date can be found here. You want to read it. Some of you just don't know this yet.