7 July 2008 Ok, you may have noticed that the featured video "Nephrite, Dark General" wasn't working any more. That's because the creator of it, FairBuccaneer, has replaced it with a new one she likes better. So check out "King of the Stars" as the featured video on the AMVs page, where there's also a link to it on YouTube. Enjoy!

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1 July 2008 Chapter 5 of Sub-Culture actually wasn't ready yet, so it's gone. Hopefully Tanzanite will get a break from her work schedule soon and be able to work on it some more!
*This time I have some wonderful fanart by Dark-elfa and TechnoRanma, which Fair Buccaneer brought to my attention. To thank her, I've made her AMV about Nephrite the featured video this time on the AMV page. She pointed me to a couple of other fanarts, and I'm waiting eagerly to get permission to use them too.
*Speaking of AMVs, another reader sent me a link to a new Nephrite-Naru AMV on YouTube. When I got there, I found not just one but a whole bunch of N/N AMVs I hadn't seen before. They're linked on the AMVs page, so enjoy!

13 March 2008 Okay, here's Chapter 5 of Sub-Culture. The plot thickens....
The next chapters of Enemy's Choice and Starfire don't exist yet, and I don't have Chapter 6 of Sub-Culture yet, so it may take a few weeks for the next update. However, I will continue working steadily, if a bit slowly. Also, thanks to Anna, who lives in Russia, I have some small corrections to the Russian parts of Remembrance, so I'll put those up sometime.

10 March 2008 Okay, here's Chapter 11 of Starfire. Not sure how much is left of this; I think Starfire and Enemy's choice are both approaching their conclusions, then I'll get to the next story waiting in the wings, which as of right now is about half-finished. Coming up next time: Chapter 5 of Sub-Culture. Back soon!

3 March 2008 Yay, another quick update. Chapter 11 of Enemy's Choice is up. It didn't take long because I already had the whole thing written, it just needed a little editing and then the coding. (Yes, I still hand-code my html.) Chapter 11 of Starfire will be up next; it's about half-written, so give me a few days.

1 March 2008 OK, that didn't take long, so far so good on the small but steady thing. New this time is Chapter 20 of The Darkest Road. This is the last chapter that I have, but obviously (you'll see when you read it) it isn't the end. If you'd like to see more, you can try e-amiling the author. I haven't heard from her in a long time, but you never know. In the meantime, I'm thinking of instituting a policy of not leaving unfinished fics up that are obviously never going to be finished. So if you like this one, you might want to save it to your own computer in case the time comes when I decided it's never going to be finished and take it down.
Also, a new AMV link. Very nicely done; I wish I could feature it as the "Featured Video" on the AMVs page, but the embedding for this one is disabled (I'm featuring another video). Enjoy it anyway.
give me a few days, and hopefully I'll be back soon with a new chapter of "Enemy's Choice."

28 February 2008 Yay, an update, a small one but an update nonetheless. Chapter 4 of Sub-Culture, which has been languishing on my hard drive for several months now. Sorry, Tanzanite! *oops* Dealing with some health issues, may go into more detail in my blog, nothing serious but it's definitely affected my quality of life and ability to get things done. I'm having to adjust to new ways of doing things in all aspects of my life, but that may turn out to be a good thing: as I, of necessity, break things down into very small chunks for getting them done instead of trying to do a lot all at once, I should be able to make small but steady progress on things for the site. Like posting contributor fics and *oops* finishing my own. Which reminds me, I'm still happy to accept contributions, so keep those fanarts and fanfics coming my way! Back soon.

19 October 2007 Updates to The Darkest Road and Sub-Culture, along with a whole bunch of art by Tanzanite to go with "Sub-Culture." Three cover images, including two (slightly racy) of Malachite with Zoycite and Nephrite with Naru, and what Tanzanite calls the Underwear Series. Though if, like me, you are of a more demure disposition, you can think of it as swimwear. You'll find the art on the index page for "Sub-Culture" as well as on the Story Art page.
Also a new song on the Dedications page. My new favorite song, I've listened to it about ninety bajillion times since I discovered it, and it's a perfect soundtrack for Nephrite's death scene. It's so awesome (and hard to find - it's a hidden track on a CD) that I've even included links to videos on YouTube that use it. Enjoy.

20 September 2007 Big fanfic update! Chapter 18 of The Darkest Road is up, along with Chapter 10 of Starfire. And a new goodie: the first two chapters of a new novel from Tanzanite (yes, the fabulous fanartist!) called Sub-Culture. This one's very different - hope you enjoy it! And as a bonus, there's also a new fanart from Tanzanite! And there's a new AMV link and a new featured video on the AMVs page.
*Couple of notes: first, I've started adding "next chapter" links at the bottoms of new chapters that I add, even though the next chapters aren't up yet. This is just to make my life easier, so I don't have to go back and add the links to the previous chapters when I upload new chapters. So if you read a newly-updated chapter and click on the link at the bottom to go to the next chapter and get an error page, don't panic. It just hasn't been added yet.
*Also, PLEASE take note of the many warnings against direct-linking (aka remote-loading) material from this site, ESPECIALLY images, and ESPECIALLY NOT fanart images. I had to spend a whole morning a few weeks ago changing the file names of a bunch of fanarts that were being direct-linked from some blogs. Direct-linking uses up my bandwidth that I'm paying for and displays the images without giving any credit or acknowledgement to the source. Basically, it's theft, both of bandwidth and of art. If there's a fanart or other image you particularly like, please get permission from the artist first, and then save it properly to your own webspace, and always give credit. If you're just mentioning it in a blog, please make the link go to the gallery page that the fanart is listed on. Same thing with fanfics. Please do not directly link to the chapters or the fic's index page; please link to the library index page where the fanfic is listed. I appreciate the cooperation of everyone who is courteous enough to do this the right way. (Oh, and it doesn't work to try to hide your direct-linking from me by making the blog entry "friends only." I'll find out anyway.)

27 August 2007 Quick update today. First, there's Chapter 17 of The Darkest Road. Also, a few more goodies from deviantArt: a couple of beautiful portraits by Kir-tat. Thanks to Tanzanite for pointing me towards these! As always, please support my wonderful contributors by visiting their websites and/or e-mailing them to tell them you enjoy their work.
*Plus a new poll for your amusement. Kind of a stupid question, but as I'm now officially the mom of a college student, I was kind of wondering.
*I'll be updating fics as the chapters come through the pipeline, so hopefully there won't be too much time between updates.

23 August 2007 What's this? Signs of life at the Nephrite and Naru Treasury international headquarters? Yes, I'm back, after a month or so of very preoccupying events, including but not limited to my older son moving away to college and my younger son starting junior high. Not a huge update - I think updates may come just a chapter at a time, at least while I'm getting caught up on a bunch of other stuff. Today we have Chapter 10 of Enemy's Choice, a new AMV (also a new featured video on the page), and new dedication lyrics from Miss Liss, which have been sitting in my mailbox so long it's embarrassing (I forgot to post them on the last update). Enjoy!

13 July 2007 Just a quickie - I figured out how to embed video from YouTube (duh, you copy and paste the "embed" code - for some reason I was having trouble with this before, don't ask...>_<;;;;) So now the AMVs page features a Nephrite-Naru music video that you can watch right there. I'll change the featured video each time I update (or that's the plan anyway...) AMV makers, contact me if you would like the links to a stash of video clips that Song has uploaded and is willing to share.

13 July 2007 Just a short update today, but a good one. Chapter 16 of The Darkest Road is up. I've got four more chapters of this on my computer; I think it's complete but I'm not sure. If you're enjoying this fic, please let the author know!
*Also a wonderful new drawing, Seduction, by Tanzanite. Amazingly, this was done all in ballpoint pen!
*I've also done some fiddling with the site. I put some code on the gallery pages so that the images will open in a new window. This will save you, the viewer, from having to hit your "back" button so often. I also re-wrote a lot of the fic descriptions on the library pages, to make them more interesting. The old ones were pretty blah. Plus I put "next chapter" links on all the chapters of the novels, to make it easier to get through them without having to go back and forth through the index pages. And did you notice the random fic quotes I put on the main page? That was fun; sometimes I just sit here, clicking the refresh button over and over and over just to see what quote comes up next :b and inflating my hit counter. Anyway, here at the Nephrite and Naru Treasury we're always looking for better ways to serve your Nephrite & Naru needs!
*Finally, the big news - I upgraded my Angelfire service, so I now have 3 Gb of server space ^___^ and a domain name!! Yes, the Nephrite and Naru Treasury is now at www.nntreasury.com. The old Angelfire address still works, too.
*And remember, for news about the site (will I ever post the next chapters of my own fics? How obsessive am I really about tracking my own stats? what's my excuse for not updating today?), check out my blog.

27 June 2007 Wow, it's been almost three weeks, but I've written four chapters in the last three weeks and I'm now where I'd like to be, fic-wise, which is a chapter ahead of where I'm posting. Enemy's Choice should be wrapping up in a few more chapters, but I think that Starfire probably has a way to go yet. You'll find chapter 9 of each of these in the Library along with chapter 15 of The Darkest Road and a wonderful poem that I came across on my scouring of the web for any Neph/Naru fanfics that I didn't know about already. It's Reflections: Osaka Naru by Ross TenEyck. It's part of a series of poems from the points of view of different Sailor Moon characters, and you definitely must go to his website and check out the rest of them.
*Also, some more beautiful fanarts by some more great artists I found at deviantArt: beautiful portraits by DraJien, BlueValentineRose, and Tanzanite.They're in the Other Fanart and Images section.
*In the Extras section, there's a link to a new AMV and also a fun new Hand Over the Anime banner. I don't know why I didn't do this one a long time ago, except I just got the idea from Greenstone, where Sarah-neko used these two pictures to illustrate the "perfect couple." I also made a matching link banner for the site. I also made some teeny-tiny 31x88 link buttons, because that seems to be a standard size and I didn't have any.
*A new link on the Links page, to The Oracle, a fantastic website with an encyclopedia, graphics, games, info, downloads, screenshots, and more. My new favorite general Sailor Moon site!
*You might remember, from the previous version of this site, my brother's essays. I took them down when I re-structured the site while I decided what to do with them, and now I've put a few of my favorites back up. They're linked from my About Me page.
*I've also started a blog in connection with the site. If you want to know what I'm thinking ("WHAT is she THINKING?!?"), what I'm up to, or what's up with the site ("Is she ever going to update again?"), you can check it out here. It's also linked on my About Me page.
*Wow, that seems like a lot of stuff this time. Back soon with more fics!

7 June 2007 Googling my own website to see what turned up was a very good thing, since it introduced me to the great deviantArt artists I posted last week, and it also brought me a fanart gem by Zox. It's in the Gallery, in the Other Fanart section. My brain is already churning with fic ideas inspired by this one! Make sure you check out Zox's website; he's got a lot of great Sailor Moon and other fanart, along with some fun crossover art, including a new look for Neo-Queen Serenity (hint: emphasis on Neo).
*On the fanfics front, Episode 14 of The Darkest Road is up. I also had a fragment of Chapter 9 of Starfire, which I finished and then, since it was so short and Chapter 8 was also short, I added the new stuff onto the end of Chapter 8. So even if you read Chapter 8 of Starfire last time, go read it again - there's a lot more to it now. Since I've been struggling so much with Starfire and Enemy's Choice, I want to get a couple of chapters ahead of what I'm posting, so give me a few weeks to get more of it written and then I'll start posting it again. I'm also still working on the new fic I started.
*I now have screen capture capabilities (bwah-hah-hah!!), so I've added a few illustrations to Things I Made Up, in the IMHO section. I also added something about Naru's age to that essay.
*I've added a new link, to The Chibi Project. It doesn't have a lot to do with Sailor Moon, except as it involves a Chibi Moon PVC action figure. It's hard to explain, but it's one of the funniest websites I've ever seen.
*Also a new Hand Over the Anime banner, and new link banners for the site, with the new name on them.
*I've been doing a lot of stealth editing, fixing broken links, refining things in fanfics that I wasn't happy with, etc. I don't bother doing an official update for those things, but if you look at something and it's different from how it was the day before, that's what happened.
*Zox's picture has got me thinking about how fanart can inspire fic ideas, and I've decided to issue a challenge to my readers: choose a fanart in my Gallery that you like, and write a fic (short or long) based on it. This isn't a contest or anything with a deadline; I'd just like to see what you all can come up with. If you've thought that you'd like to write a fic but you're having a hard time coming up with ideas, here's your chance.
*I'm going to take some time to get some stuff written, and then I'll be back with more fanfics!

1 June 2007 I'm doing the fanart happy dance! Over at deviantArt I came across some wonderful pictures of Nephrite and Naru by some fabulous artists - J, PingPong1, and Serenity Winner - who have been kind enough to allow me to post their pictures. I also answered a question that Inunokanojo had about an old N/N picture (this one) and asked her, if she was ever in the mood, to draw me some N/N art. It only took her a couple of days to present me with some wonderful gift art ^_^! You can see their work in the Gallery, in the Other Fanart and Images section. Go take a look; your eyeballs will thank you. (And make sure you check out their websites to see more of their great work!)
Also, lurking in my files I found the original scan of My Hero. I thought it would be cool to show it with the original magazine page background, so I've posted it, also in the Other Fanart and Images section.
In other great news, I think Starfire may be salvagable after all. I was doing some research at Project WikiMoon (which I've added to the Links page), and found that something I thought was an unsurmountable obstacle in the canon is actually a product of fan canon. Which means I can ignore it! Anyhoo, I've still got a lot of plot re-working to do, and may need to re-write some stuff that's already up. But for now I've posted Chapter 8 of Starfire, and more will follow as I get this thing worked out. (I'm still writing the other fic I thought of, that uses the same ideas; I'll begin posting it once it's finished.) Episode 13 of The Darkest Road is also up, along with Chapter 8 of Enemy's Choice. Enjoy!

22 May 2007 Okay, here it is *drum roll*: "Secret Romance," the doujinshi that I have several scans from posted in the doujinshi art section, now scanned and translated for your enjoyment! Sherrie, the wonderful artist whose work you can see here, has been studying Japanese for several years, and was kind enough to translate the main story and the two extras as a personal favor to me. This book is very difficult to come by, so I'm pleased to share it with other N&N fans. I hope you enjoy it! (Since it doesn't really qualify as either fanart or fanfiction, I've put it in the Extras section.)
Also for your reading pleasure, we have Episode 12 of The Darkest Road, and a new essay in the IMHO section - nothing really controversial, just an explanation of why I do some of the things I do in my fics.
Next time: more fanfic. I'm looking for submissions to the site, so if you want to send something in, don't be shy!

19 May 2007 Got a few new things this time. Chapter 7 of Enemy's Choice by Moon Momma is up. Over in the Extras section, there's a link to a new AMV (anime music video), a new poll to take, and another animated GIF from Song on the computer goodies page.
The special treat I've been promising is coming along. It involves a lot of scanning, transcribing, and coding, but it'll be ready on the next update. Also next time I'll have another chapter of The Darkest Road, and maybe some other fic. Depending on the writing.
I finally had to concede that Starfire is a lost cause. I am totally stumped on this one. So further progress on it is being suspended. Maybe I'll just post the next chapter I have, it's the last one that's any good, the rest of it is a mess. If anyone would like to pick this thing up and run with it, especially if you know a LOT more about the later seasons of Sailor Moon than I do and you already have ideas about where you'd like to see it go, contact me. In the meantime, I've worked out another novel using a few of the same ideas, that I'm much happier with, and I've actually got it outlined in detail from beginning to end and four chapters written! In just the last three days! So watch for that sometime.

11 May 2007 Okay, here's some of the update goodness I promised last time. We've got Chapter 11 of The Darkest Road, a couple of new song dedications, new polls, and a new link on the Links page, a Russian Dark Kingdom site that has been updated at some point this year! I don't know Russian, but it's just so rare any more to run across a Dark Kingdom site that's still being actively updated.
In case anyone's wondering, I am still actively looking for submissions to this site. If you'd like to contribute something, don't be shy! Just make sure you follow the guidelines.
More to come soon!

9 May 2007 Whew. I gave myself two weeks to do the site re-design, but here it only took 3 days. It's such a big job that I felt like I couldn't concentrate on anything else until this was done. Not a huge change, but I like the new background, colors, and title designs. Slight changes in organization - a bunch of things that used to have their own sections are now grouped under "Extras" and "Site Info." Look in the Extras section for fun things like links to AMVs, polls, and fun graphics for your computer. I debated long and hard with myself about whether to keep the title graphics for the fanfics; I felt they made the site graphics-heavy and took up a lot of server space. But then Angelfire upgraded my storage space for free ^____^, so that wasn't a concern. I also thought it might make updating easier if I just listed all the fics and their chapters on one main index page. But that would be a pretty long page, and it seems like almost everyone else lists their fanfics that way. In the end I decided to keep the old library organization and graphics because I feel like it's something unique about my fanfic library and the banners are kind of a nice way to give a little extra feel for what each fic is about. I also went through all the links to other sites, weeded out the dead ones (an awful lot of them *sniff*) and fixed the ones that needed fixing.
**I've tried to check and double check everything, but if you find any broken links, missing images, etc, please let me know!
I've got some more updating to do, including something that I think will be a real treat (not telling what it is though!), but right now I just want to get the new site up. So come back soon for more!

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