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	2009.11.22  16.04 Highlander Fic Search (yeah, fat chance...) Ok, this is weird, old, and not a little twisted but I just rewatched scenes from the 'Horsemen' episodes on Youtube... You out there who once dabbled in 'Highlander' - ever come across fic pairing Kronos and Richie? I've been wanting this ever since Kronos turned up, and there seems to be *nothing* out there I can find, and it's just a crime against darkfic! Halp!?! Mood: frustrated Music: Soul to the Skies, Tarot

	2009.11.17  23.57 FICLET: Resurrection (Rose, Albus, Scorpius, PG) Title: Resurrection Characters: Rose, Albus, Scorpius, and… well, you'll see :) Rating: PG Note: Written for melfinatheblue for the prompt "Next Gen, a New War" (and this was the most fun of the three to write, I have to admit, *g*). About 1330 words. ( Resurrection ) Mood: devious

	2009.11.17  02.22 FICLET: Fugitive (Percy/Penelope, PG) Another of those ownficfest ficlets - the real full-fledged fic is still with the beta (yeah, 'after the fact'... which'll tell you just about how late I was turning it in...). Title: Fugitive Pairing/Characters: Percy/Penelope (mostly gen) Rating: PG Note: Written as 'drabble' for lady_green_bat. ( Fugitive ) Mood: blah

	2009.11.16  14.57 FIC REC (omg!) Ok, I was going to do the sensible thing and sit on my recs from hp_darkfest and others until I have a sizable lot and throw them out all at once. But then I read *this*, and there's just no way I can't share right now: Descent by anonymous (Harry/Lucius, Harry/Draco, Snape/Lucius, NC-17) Summary: Harry seeks distraction in darker spaces. This pretty much hit all my buttons and kinks at once - hatesex, mindfuck of the most twisted kind, deathwish!Harry (my guiltiest pleasure), plotting, power play, dark without going over the top... It's the sort of old-school Harry/Malfoys fic that made me fall in love with both H/D and H/L way back, and that's incredibly rare nowadays - the type of fic that calls to mind the early Beloved Enemies group before it turned into L K Hamilton-type fluff and then was pulled by Yahell. But it isn't *just* nostalgia - it's also extremely well written, the psychology is excellent throughout (especially when it comes to Harry's state of mind), and the sex is scorchingly *hot*. Anyway, it turned me into a gleeful bundle of squee despite still being under the weather, so... Do give it a shot - it's awesome :). Mood: bouncy

	2009.11.15  03.26 Drabble: Refuge (Tom, Slughorn, PG) Am ill like heck with stomach bug, monthly TMI, headache from hell and cough all rolled into one (not a good combo, believe me), and should be in bed really, only that I can't lie down any more. I did a handful of giftlets for ownficfest that were intended as drabbles, but well, it never quite works out... Title: Refuge Prompt: Tom, Slughorn: refuge Rating: PG Note: Written for the lovely lareinenoire ( Refuge ) Mood: sick

	2009.11.10  22.35 Life... or Squee, Part 2 I've been a miserable LJ writer recently, and not even for lack of events. There has been... HP Halloween at CadhayMalfoy Manor near Exeter, which rocked too much for words, and I got to see a lot of my favourite people again! We had a real manor to play in, with all the historical atmosphere and none of the drawbacks, and a maze and otters (omg, the *otters*!) and owls and birds of prey and wandering kittens and the most adorable toy otter from lazy_neutrino, and HP Halloween dinner with serpentine chocolate fountain dessert, and chattering about fanfic on lazy mornings, and playing Aurors and Death Eaters after midnight in the moonlight (ok, the moonlight didn't favour the Aurors, but...). It was gorgeous and fun and *way* too short, but with enough happy memories to fuel an entire stableful of Patroni. There was the road trip with chthonya and lkaet before and after, which took us back via Gloucester Cathedral (omg, Hogwarts corridors, and the grave of Edward II of Marlowe and Jarman fame and amazing modern stained-glass art). And on the way down, I decided that the Yorkshire Moors are among the most beautiful landscapes ever. Bleak makes me happy, and it was the most stunning sort of bleak imaginable. Then, back home, there was ownficfest to wrap up, drabbles to write, work going insane again, flat cleaning to be postponed... Last weekend I got a ticket to the E-Town Light Orchestra concert, which was great fun, and reminded me of how totally I've neglected a budding love for classical/orchestral music over the past, well, decade or so. And tonight I came home to a lovely postcard from liriaen, who pretty much travelled to my hometown to send it :). So well... life has been *very* good, but also very busy. And suddenly it's almost Christmas, oh noes! Mood: exhausted Music: World of Stone, Blackmore's Night

	2009.11.10  22.34 Squeee! Here to the ownficfest Masterlist. Oh *yes*!!!! :) Mood: accomplished

	2009.10.10  18.28 Emergency Recipe Woe! I had scones ready, and clotted cream, and then my strawberry jam had gone... well, pretty off. So I substituted with honey (the grainy, non-liquid one), a touch of cinnamon, and one or two drops of whisky on top of each half, which turned out a bit sweet, but very jummy. The whisky toned down the sweetness just enough. 'twas good. :) Mood: groggy

	2009.10.02  00.10 Public Service Announcement... ... ownficfest has started posting today over on LJ (omg, can't wait to share more gorgeous fic!). And if you hear a faint *thump* in the distance in a few minutes, that's me crashing into bed. Work's been utterly, utterly crazy this week! Mood: exhausted

	2009.09.28  23.34 Elections and Beauty In honour of the German election result, I give you a spectacularly fitting quote by Barbara Hambly: "There seems to be one immutable force besides Death and Time and Change - Stupidity." And before I stop procrastinating and go back to writing, have a Lolcat on the meaning of Beauty ;). ( Read more... ) Mood: thirsty

	2009.09.28  20.10 Mishaps While Writing There are timeline problems - I'm sure lots of you have encountered those before. And then, there are timeline mess-ups spanning 35 bloody *years*! Argh, argh, argh, argh, ARGH! I think this calls for bringing out the chocolate-covered peanuts which symbolise my brain. And we tend to tease Teh Cat for having half a peanut's worth of brain... And then could someone please rid me of that Hugo/Lucius slavefic bunny that's trying to take over my brain. This is not the time, dammit! Mood: embarrassed

	2009.09.27  04.32 A Parcel of FIC RECS Here's a handful of recs I've been sitting on for quite some time... Malefesto, Destroyer of Worlds by alyxbradford [Marauders, gen, PG] Summary: In his fourth year, Sirius sends away for a mail-order pet, and gets a lot more than he bargained for. Hilarity ensues. Hilarity describes it well. It's wonderful, tongue-in-cheek Marauderfic with beautiful characterisation all round, shiny writing, and a plot that manages to pull off crack and canon in a perfect mix. Said The Irresistible Force To The Immovable Object by lavillanueva [Harry/Scorpius, NC-17] Summary: Meet Scorpius Malfoy: sixteen, blond, blue-eyed, and the bane of Harry Potter's entire existence. Seductionfic at its best - Scorpius is like an inventive force of nature, and poor Harry really doesn't stand much of a chance. Although he tries :). Adorably cute and very funny. Memoria in Aeterna by potteresque_ire [Draco/Albus Severus, NC-17, 4 parts] Summary: At age fifteen, an incendiary political debate had made Albus Potter the victim of a hideous crime. Three years later, he was living a life of drugs and promiscuity in the rookery at Knockturn, the newly established Preservation District for the pure-blood families of Wizarding Britain. Y'know, that thrill you get when you read something that's taking a really innovative, different look at the wizarding world? Mix in absolutely superb style and imagery? This fic has all of it. The most unique thing I've seen in ages, with an emotional impact that left me reeling. The Unicorn Incident by who_la_hoop [Scorpius/Albus, NC-17, 2 parts] Summary: Growing up is hard to do, especially in the shadow of your father’s reputation. Scorpius Malfoy has a tough time keeping his resolution to be the best Slytherin he can be when schoolboy games, unicorns, incompetent friends and a beloved enemy all conspire to teach him something different – and rather wonderful – about himself. who_la_hoop is doing some of the most brilliant Potter/Malfoy slash around, with a perfect mix of humour, vivid characterisation and scorching hotness. Meet Albus Potter, reluctant Slytherin, and Scorpius Malfoy, who just can't stop obsessing about him... And finally, my subjective favourite - well, there's no rule saying that recs have to be HP recs, right? The Via Lata Diaries by liriaen [Lucifer/Jeshua, PG-13 to hard R, chaptered] Summary: At the end of time, there's a prize to be to won, a price to be paid, and one or three lessons to be learnt. Semi-apocalyptical present-day bible slash with some of the finest writing you'll find. Yes, the subject matter may creep me out on one level, but this series is the most twisted and beautiful thing ever, and it keeps me pouncing on every new chapter like Teh Cat after a piece of string. I have the pleasure of having a lot of amazing writers on my flist, but if I had to pick one I'd want to see published, it's liriaen - for originality and style and cutting amazingly deep in that remarkably sparse way of hers... Mood: nervous

	2009.09.20  18.04 Fanartly Squee First of all: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to melusinahp and midnitemaraud_r! *hugs* I hope you had a lovely time! Yesterday was my lucky day. First, I got a postcard from liriaen from Japan (*squishes* - liriaen, not the card, obviously!). And then I received in the mail a beautiful two-volume collection of fanfic in Chinese. Now, obviously I can't read anything, but it has great pieces of artwork throughout, which I was happily hunting through. It's a collection of translated and original fanfic, and one of the fics is a translation of Kings of the Wheel. Including two gorgeous (and wheee, worksafe!) Harry/Lucius illustrations. Not only did they mail me the collection (which gobsmacked me altogether), but also a poster and beautiful assortment of bookmark art with all my favourite characters :). Which will join pennswoods's lovely OotP illustration, also a gift from last week... *squees incoherently* This has been a really great fandom week! Mood: bouncy Music: Kentucky Woman, Neil Diamond

	2009.09.12  22.36 Salt-drenched waffling, ending in fic search Today was set aside for finally stepping up writing my ownficfest piece. Then the weather was no end of gorgeous and I went to the beach instead, which is, say, 500m from my door (ok, it's a teensy one and lots only accessible at low tide, but...). Walked the breakwater, and then just sat there for a couple of hours. The sea does that to me - saps every desire to move or be elsewhere right out of my bones. I sort of needed that, though - the week was stressful as hell. I *did* mull over the fic, however, whose middle part is giving me grief... beginning and ending are bagged, but the middle 'chapters' require an effective mix of saying everything they need to say and being crisp and concise while at the moment I'm just waffling along. It just needs to sort out in my head before anything else (and doesn't have much time to do so, damn!). Came home smelling like a herring gull, had a shower and a nap, then made a pot of potato soup which didn't even turn out too bad (as anyone who knows my cooking will note with astonishment). Turned on the computer to find one of the most blush-inducing lovely bits of feedback *ever* in my inbox, which was the cherry on an already pretty good day :). Bought books by Peter Morwood, Louise Cooper and Ricardo Pinto on Friday, and finished Ellen Kushner's 'Swordspoint' this morning, which is *excellent* (the short stories too!). And now I suddenly have this craving for AU fic where Harry goes to St Brutus' instead of Hogwarts. I'm sure there's such an animal out there (there's *everything* out there), but where? Mood: content Music: Bittersweet, Within Temptation

	2009.09.11  23.42 SPN Nonspoilerisque Let's just say, I'm all giddily excited that Supernatural is back again after last season's rather frustrating finish :). Yay! Fun! Mood: excited Music: Marriot USA, Joan Baez

	2009.09.09  22.32 No Cats? Like Heck! There's talk about this being the 'Day Without Cats'. ( This Cannot Happen! ) Mood: offended

	2009.08.27  00.51 'nother One of Those Navel-Gazing Memes ;) (filched from erastes) ( Read more... ) Mood: okay Music: The Poet and the Pendulum, Nightwish

	2009.08.23  05.38 On Spiders, Dreamwidth and Olives... Dear mini-spiders in my bedroom! In principle, I don't mind your presence because you're relatively tiny, as long as you stay out of my way. However, dangling from the ceiling on a bit of webbing, right above my face when I'm lying in bed? Not on! Neither is running round the lightbulb above my stomach. Sorry, I hope the trip through the toilet wasn't *too* wet. Agh! I didn't quite need the mental image of you happily dropping on my face when I'm asleep! That said, I spent today sorting out my dragons and updating my Dreamwidth reading list (as some of you might have noticed, *g*). Including a few names I've seen attached to fic I loved and hadn't worked up the nerve to friend on LJ :). Am feeling like some weird stalker now. That said, is it just me who'd feel bad about subscribing to someone's journal without giving them access? Don't think I've figured out Dreamwidth entirely yet... Had pizza for dinner, yum! But walked 45 minutes to get it, so it's not too bad ;). Realised I've developed the strangest affection for olives - which I hated until about a year ago, and suddenly am in love with. Weird, because my taste hasn't otherwise changed since my late teens... And, um, if someone should still feel inclined to volunteer betaing for ownficfest writers (or to mention it to others who might?), they could (purely hypothetically, of course!) do it here :). Mood: ugh! Music: Pack Up Your Sorrows, Richard & Mimi Farina

	2009.08.21  02.01 Calling Beta Volunteers (not for myself, this once) Pointing those of you with beta-reading inclinations over to ownficfest, which has just posted a request for beta readers for fest participants. If you're so inclined, you can sign up to volunteer here. Pleaze? Fics will come due on September 25, so requests will probably turn up during September and early October. Mood: optimistic

	2009.08.18  23.42 What's Your Word? Meme Your Word is "Peace" You see life as precious, and you wish everyone was safe, happy, and taken care of. Social justice, human rights, and peace for all nations are all important to you. While you can't stop war, you try to be as calm and compassionate as possible in your everyday life. You promote harmony and cooperation. You're always willing to meet someone a little more than halfway. What's Your Word? Mood: hopeful

	2009.08.18  00.50 Fannish Top Fives Catching up with the Fannish Top Five Meme... Top Five Harry-Lucius Fics for melusinahp 1. A World Not So Black or White by amanuensis1 2. Scarification by Lady Lazarus 3. What Do You Get for the Death Eater Who Has Everything? by amanuensis1 4. If Thine Enemy by switchknife (incomplete) 5. Relinquary by pushdragon Top Five Moments from Canon for rickey_a (book canon only!) 1. Harry realising that he has to die in DH 2. The Riddle graveyard scene in GoF 3. Dumbledore's death on the tower in HBP 4. Harry and Tom Riddle in the Chamber in CoS 5. The Other Minister in HBP Top Five HP Pairings from Canon for jaelle_n_gilla 1. Dumbledore/Grindelwald (this once, I'll count interviews as canon, *g*) 2. Lucius/Narcissa 3. Ron/Hermione 4. Bellatrix/Rodolphus 5. Hermione/Viktor (hey, it was canon for a mo!) Top Five HP Pairings I Would Have Loved to See for jaelle_n_gilla 1. Sirius/Remus 2. Dumbledore/Grindelwald (it was subtext, but not properly canon...) 3. Harry/Ron/Hermione 4. Draco/Pansy 5. Ron/Luna Mood: amused Music: Famous Blue Raincoat, Joan Baez

	2009.08.16  05.05 Meme before Bed Ask me my fannish Top Five. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post. [Tomorrow] Mood: tired

	2009.08.16  04.12 FIC: Babysitting the Cub (Teddy Lupin, G) Agh! Slept 15 hours just now after a bout of migraine, but think I've got the cold by the throat and am in the process of shaking it to death... *crosses fingers*. Anyway, here's fic again - guess I've entered a non-racy writing phase ;). Title: Babysitting the Cub Author: Hijja Character(s): Teddy Lupin-centric Rating: G Length: 1666 words Summary: Little Teddy Lupin meets a strange wizard during an outing in Diagon Alley... Note: Written for and dedicated to kikei with lots of love. Beta-read at warp speed by melusinahp - thanks, dear! Title has been filched from 'Deathly Hallows', and concrit is still love ;). ( Babysitting the Cub ) Mood: listless Music: The Circle, Blackmoore's Night

	2009.08.14  01.33 FICLET: Digging (Hermione/Snape, Hermione/Ron, R) Omg, I wrote het... ;). Title: Digging Author: Hijja Pairing(s): Hermione/Snape of sorts, Hermione/Ron Rating: R-ish Summary: Her post-war relationship leaves Hermione with strange memories and urges... Note: A missing scene in HBP, written for bethbethbeth's birthday :). Crit is love! ( Digging ) Mood: sleepy Music: Bread and Roses, Joan Baez & Mimi Farina

	2009.08.12  18.55 Waffling on Returning to Civilisation Have dropped of parental unit at the airport, made sure she was on board during takeoff, and am now awaiting late-night confirmation call that she arrived home safely to be greeted by an ecstatic cat. No, I don't get remotely as much love upon arrival from Teh Hexe :). ( TMI on holidays and stuff ) Mood: morose