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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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11:04 pm - Dear Yuletide Writer...
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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4:02 pm - just a quick flying plug
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| Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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1:40 pm - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5: Statistics
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So I went and counted the ships at the Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon, while ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bethbethbeth kindly counted the characters in all 132 drabbles and ficlets (and one drawing, H/D).
( Beth's character count: 27.2% Snape, 15.9% Draco, and 3% Various Kittens... )
And the diversity of ships looked like this.
Het: Draco/Hermione (3), Snape/Hermione (3), Snape/Lily (2), Neville/Luna (2), Remus/Tonks, Albus/Minerva, Ron/Hermione, Neville/Ginny, Neville/Veela, Bellatrix/Neville, Rita/Neville, Fred/Padma, Harry/Ginny, Harry/Hedwig, Hogwarts/Harry, Kendra/Percival, Lucius/Hermione, Lucius/Narcissa, Snape/Narcissa, Bellatrix/Barty, Voldemort/Bellatrix, Charlie/Tonks, Scorpius/Rose, Draco/Luna, Dean/Luna, Dementor/Dementor, Dementor/Daphne.
Slash & Femslash: Harry/Draco (9), Snape/Harry (5), Snape/Lupin (5), Sirius/Remus (3), Harry/Ron (2), Snape/Lucius (2), McGonagall/Hooch (2), Draco/Ron (2), Charlie/Harry, Lucius/Charlie, Kingsley/Draco, Remus/Harry, Teddy/James, Ginny/Luna, Bill/Remus, Dumbledore/Grindelwald, Neville/Dumbledore, Snape/Dumbledore, Snape/Squid.
Threesomes: Dumbledore/Grindelwald/Luna, Snape/Lupin/Hagrid, Fred/Angelina/George, Ginny/Lucius/Hermione, Harry/Snape/Draco, Harry/Ginny/Luna.
And lots of gen! Go read some excellent gen, such as these:
- Luna knits by ellid
- Tonks impersonates Nagini by vulgarweed
- book!Hermione meets movie!Hermione by gehayi
- Albus Severus meets Voldemort by archon_mentha
- Umbridge fails to impress Slughorn by jetamors
- Neville, gardening by miramiraficfic
- Snape and his mask by ladyofthelog
- 2 x Knight2King (Ron is Dumbledore): one by jetamors, another by anitaray
current mood:  geeky
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| Monday, July 27th, 2009
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10:23 pm - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5: Epilogue... yes, all is well.
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Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5 was made of win. THANK YOU so much to all involved, writers (and artist) and readers! :D :D :D
Thanks to bethbethbeth and everyone else who pimped this thing in their journals and encouraged new people to come and drabble for the kitties. Thanks to the prolific reviewers - especially bonfoi, who commented on everything (and, in a nice bit of karma, received three responses to that "Snupin adopting a cat" prompt). Thanks to moreteadk for squeeing madly and staying up late two nights in a row and posting drabble-recs.
All prompts now done. Some more than once, thanks to enthusiastic pinch-hitters.
I've updated the links on the big list, so you can just click on the done! next to each prompt. There were 123 participants, and we only lost seven along the way (a few turned up late). The final count is 132 creative items: 100-word drabbles, ficlets of various sizes (up to 1,664 words when femmequixotic couldn't stop Dracoing), and one drawing.
Something for everyone's tastes, definitely! Come over and browse! *offers biscuits*
Now the cats are sleeping it off, and I'm curious: participants and passers-by, did you have a good time? Which prompts were you hoping to get? And which prompts were you totally scared of getting? Snape/Squid? (done! by _lore) Do tell. :)
Anyone else notice lots of Neville? And lots of Luna, too. Lots of Snape, as usual! And three prompts with Snorkacks. And a fair bit of McGonagall, Draco, Hermione, Lupin, Tonks, and Weasleys. Not so much of the next-gen characters.
I think I might compile a ship-count. Don't have time to count characters too. Any volunteers to scroll through six pages of comments and count the Neville-related drabbles? (Or Luna, or Snape.)
current mood:  pleased
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12:50 am - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon: pinch-hitting opportunities
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Time's up, drabblers! You've had your 24 hours. And you all rock! The cats and I have had the best time watching the brilliant diversity roll in! :D
The usual Murphy's Law of Ten Percent applies. The following prompts weren't written in the 24 hours, so now they're available for anyone who feels like having a go. No claims - more than one writer per prompt okay.
Potential pinch-hitters: please add your drabble as a comment on the Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5 post. Please read the posting rules first.
- SCREW YOU, RON IS STILL DUMBLEDORE. Expound! - for nextian
- The death of Tom Riddle and the birth of Voldemort - for jtav
- Lucius, Hermione, blond ambition. - for shiv5468
- Dementors in love - for tania_sings
- Draco/Hermione/Astoria; NOT a threesome. - for mistr3ssnabby
- In the library, no-one can hear you sneeze. Ravenclaws, shenanigans. - for jedilora
- Neville finding something exciting to him. - for shouldknobetter
- Neville and Luna get lost in the forbidden forest. Only sex magic can protect them and lead them out - for venturous1
- Draco cupcakes "Potter" sticky - for noeon
- Remus/Severus, fearless, adopting a feline - for bonfoi
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| Sunday, July 26th, 2009
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9:17 pm - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon: go read!
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12:00 am - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5
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| Saturday, July 25th, 2009
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6:12 pm - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5: update
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The poll is closed. The Sorting Cat is doing her thing. All is well. :)
Purrs and chocolate for the 123 people who signed up!
The big list of Who's Writing What For Whom will be posted on my LJ at midnight on July 25/26, British time (five hours away and counting). Then you'll have 24 hours to write your drabble and add it as a comment on that post. Any prompts still unwritten at that point will become available as an open challenge for anyone who cares to grab one and pinch-hit.
Thanks to everyone who's been spreading the word about this - and please keep doing it, so we get lots and lots of readers for 12,300+ words of extremely miscellaneous HP-ficcage.
current mood: excited
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5:58 am - The Sorting Cat wants YOU.
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*prods fandom* You have about 12 hours left to sign up for the fifth Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon.
Go on, you know you want to... You'll enjoy it, really! (And even if you hate it, at least it's over quickly - all done in one weekend.)
Delighted to see about 90 people there already. (Yay!) And the Drabblethon's diversity is doing very nicely this year: go look at the prompts. Ahh, I do love watching them accumulate, drawn together from various corners of the fandom into one glorious eclectic heap... which the Sorting Cat is just itching to pounce on. Muaahahaha.
The big list of Who's Writing What For Whom will be posted on my LJ at midnight on July 25/26, British time. Then you'll have 24 hours to write your drabble and add it as a comment on that post.
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| Friday, July 24th, 2009
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6:00 pm - Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5: the sign-up post
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The big black cat just threw up a hairball. Must be time to get things rolling.
Welcome to the fifth Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon!
It's an exchange. It's HP-only. It's eclectic. It all happens in one weekend - starting NOW.
And it usually happens in April, but better in July than not at all, right? FYI, the cats (who can't read calendars) are 10 years old (Bestia the Sorting Cat) and five years old (Imperio).
How this works: Think of a prompt for somebody else, and the Sorting Cat will give you somebody else's prompt in exchange.
ETA: Poll closed! It's past 6 p.m. British time, so the Drabblethon has stopped accepting prompts now. The Sorting Cat is doing her thing. Assignments will be posted at midnight British time.
The prompt-collecting poll is over here. Go add your prompt!
If you make a mistake or change your mind, you can edit your answer by clicking this link again and re-submitting.
By throwing a prompt into that poll, you're signing up for this 'thon. That means a commitment to write 100 words (at least), this weekend, on whatever prompt the Sorting Cat throws at you. Fair warning: the prompts get very diverse, and you could end up with anything. Blame the Cat.
Go read Cat's Birthday Drabblethons 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 to see how eclectic this gets. "Anything" means gen, slash, het, crack, angst, fluff, smut, humor - any genre, character, pairing, whatever. The only restriction: no crossovers - must be HP.
Sign-up poll posted at 6 p.m. British time on July 24, open for 24 hours. (ETA: Time's up! Poll closed!) At 6 p.m. on July 25 the poll will shut down and the Sorting Cat will use her Paw of Doom on your prompts.
Six hours later, at midnight on July 25/26, I'll post the list of who's writing what. You'll have 24 hours to produce your drabble and post it as a comment there: until midnight strikes on July 26/27. Any prompts still unwritten at that point will become available as an open challenge for anyone.
We're using the Hogwarts timezone - British time. [What time is it over there now?]
By contributing a prompt for somebody else to drabble on, you're also solemnly swearing to write 100 words yourself on a prompt contributed by somebody else. Word limit not strictly enforced - okay to write more. Fan-artists may draw instead of writing - you decide what the art equivalent of a drabble is.
Have fun! :D
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| Monday, July 20th, 2009
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9:20 pm - The Sorting Cat wants YOU.
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Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon coming up this weekend!
Prompt-collecting poll will open Friday evening, British time, and stay open for 24 hours.
I've been reading through previous Drabblethons - much awe at the cleverness! Occasional giggling and flashbacks. Picking some random highlights.
Remember the Inferi from Drabblethon 2006? Blame HBP. :D
Inferius, Pervy by corvidae9 for redcoast (Harry/Ginny/Luna, R)
Prompt: Het pairing of your choice, female dies and male attempts to bring her back as an Inferius.
Inferius, Creepy by xylodemon for pushdragon (Snape/Harry, PG-13)
Prompt: Properly mastered, Inferi can be put to creative use around the home & workplace.
Inferius, Hilarious by marksykins for medusalethe (Harry, Draco, James & Lily, PG)
Prompt: Harry discovers his parents are now Inferi.
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| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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5:43 pm - hair/hare + breath/breadth + reminder
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Damn these idle thoughts.
Two easily-confused words together? Never a good thing. (Try googling "Deadly Hollows" - Q.E.D.)
Here's a phrase that's truly hexed.
- hare's breath ["Call for you, Ms. Writer... heavy-breathing bunny on line one..."]
- hair's breath [But where does it keep its itty-bitty lungs?]
- hare's breadth [The distance between Alice and the Mad Hatter.]
- hair's breadth
The last one is correct. The others are just variations that keep popping up in fics and giving me Odd Image Moments.
Reminder: Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon coming up on the weekend of July 25-26!
It's an exchange thing - you contribute a prompt, and the Sorting Cat will give you somebody else's prompt. Any HP character, ship, genre - so the prompts get very diverse: see Cat's Birthday Drabblethons 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 or the 2007 sign-up post.
P.S. People going to Azkatraz - have fun! With you in spirit. *waves* :)
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9:52 am - "It is our flashbacks, Harry, that show what we truly are..."
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From a quiz I made in December 2002 (before OotP was published). Just looked at it for the first time in years, and giggled a bit at this question.
[choose one or more] If this ever happens in canon, you'll cry.
- Dumbledore dies.
- Hagrid dies.
- Blaise Zabini dies without disclosing its gender.
- Ron turns evil.
- Percy turns evil.
- Draco is redeemed.
- New DADA teacher is paired with Snape.
- Arabella Figg is paired with Sirius.
- It is revealed that Snape was in love with Lily.
- It is revealed that Snape is Harry's father.
- Harry turns out to be the Heir of Gryffindor.
- An American transfer student comes to Hogwarts.
current mood: nostalgic
current music: New Order - Age of Consent
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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11:32 am - Cats, sleeping. Cats, in action.
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The further adventures of Bestia the Sorting Cat and her devoted fangirl, Imperio. After the epic sleep (shown above), they woke up and did their grooming thing, right in front of the webcam. For anyone who cares to look, here's 40 seconds of kitty action (.wmv, 4.2MB): http://www.sendspace.com/file/xuwdet
And my script for the 40 seconds.
Imperio: I'M BORED! Wake up, Big Cat! *licks Bestia, persistently*
Bestia: *wakes up* ...Wha? Huh? Oh, it's you. *licks Imperio*
[simultaneous reciprocal grooming ensues]
Imperio: I'M BORED! *licks self*
Bestia: Tough shit. *licks Imperio, forcefully*
Imperio: I'M HUNGRY! *leaves, heading for cat food*
Bestia: *licks lips* Well, that was almost worth waking up for.
current mood: feline
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10:50 am - Cat's (belated) Birthday HP Drabblethon, coming up!
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Yes, the Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon is back! :D Rather late this year, July rather than April, but hey - at least it's happening, and cats can't read calendars anyway.
July 25-26 weekend. On my LJ.
Fastest fest in the fandom - rather the opposite of a Big Bang - all happens in one weekend - and it's open to all genres, characters, pairings, whatever. Basic requirement: being game to try writing at least 100 words in 24 hours, no matter what prompt the Sorting Cat may give you. (That "no matter what prompt" should be in big neon lights.)
More detailed instructions as the event approaches. For now, the links to what it looks like in action: Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethons 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. Over a hundred eclectic drabbles/ficlets in comments on each of those posts.
Wanna do it again, fandom? *cackles gleefully, pets the cats*
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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8:31 pm - fly away, little rabbits!
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Leftovers from the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ownficfest prompt-brainstorming process. These are the ones I didn't submit - so permit me to shoo these bunnies out of my brain and give them a chance to infest somebody else's. Want one? Take it.
* Die-hard purebloods decide to leave the country after the war and establish their own community somewhere. Draco's going with his parents. Another character tries to convince him to stay.
* The Giant Squid is a Horcrux. Destroying it is easier said than done.
* Harry pushes Dumbledore aside and drinks the green potion in the cave.
* Draco is Head Boy and a Veela seeking his mate - he shares private rooms with Hermione, who is Head Girl and has to marry Snape under the new Marriage Law; Snape is Harry's father; Ron plays chess, and talks with his mouth full.
* Hermione (or Draco) is haunted by Grindelwald's ghost.
* Snape is Dudley's father.
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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11:14 pm - the Snape we love is unredeemed [verse, gen, G]
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the Snape we love is unredeemed
with ugly nose and greasy hair
with bitter eyes and viper tongue
the boy in old grey underwear
his real Patronus is a bat
his Potions skill is much esteemed
he never spares the Potter brat
the Snape we love is unredeemed
he'd never leave a Snape-shaped hole
he'd sneer at any marriage law
he took the Mark for Voldemort
he split his soul for Dumbledore
the Snape we love is unredeemed
there's more to him than Lily's loss
he doesn't think they sort too soon
he really couldn't give a toss
forever more than what he seemed
forever doomed, yet made of win
the Snape we love is unredeemed
the quintessential Slytherin
[with apologies to the boys i mean are not refined by e.e. cummings]
current mood: back and rhyming
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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12:58 am - Summary Executions Part XLIV
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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7:35 am - mctabby @ Dreamwidth, now existing
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Ahem. Hello, world. *points* -> http://mctabby.dreamwidth.org/profile
Seems appropriate, somehow, to mark the anniversary of starting a journal by starting another journal.
mctabby@LJ: Created on 2002-06-19 13:09:25 (#600147)
mctabby@DW: Created on 2009-06-18 23:04:14 (#410039)
DW impressed me by importing 1,675 entries and 68,750 comments from LJ with no trouble at all. (Any form of backup that doesn't require me to download my LJ's contents via dial-up is a good thing.)
My thanks to ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) cjk1701 for the DW code. :) Gave me flashbacks to the code-giving days at LJ - at least enough to repeat-thank Faith Accompli for that first code, seven years ago.
P.S. Anyone feel like adding sparklypoo and ron/teaspoon to their interests at DW?
P.P.S. Why doesn't my fave Slytherin color-bar display properly on my DW profile page? Question answered by ct at LJ cross-post, thank you!
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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4:54 am - cats, pics of
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That's Imperio - the grown-up version of the kitten in my icon - now five years old, not five weeks. There's also a big black Bestia, ten years old, known to fandom as the Sorting Cat.
So I'm using a borrowed notebook. Thought I'd try out its webcam on the cats. Picture quality: rather webcammish. ( More cattiness within... )
free bonus cat vid: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4zj6cb
if you want 1 minute 13 seconds of Imperio sitting on a lap, getting petted (.wmv 6.8MB)
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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12:25 pm - HP Fandom: misspelling Horcruxes since 2005
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Further to Misspelled Horcruxes (September 2005) and More Misspelled Horcruxes (May 2006) - I'm tickled to report that the fandom is still coming up with new and creative ways of misspelling those soul-splitty things.
Spotted three in the past week.
* But, if they found out that Harry was after Voldemort's Hurcroxes, she wouldn't be the only one in danger...
* its the holidays after harry 6 th year what will ahppen harry ginny together? horruxes? read to find out
* Yes I defeated him and in the process I died since I was one of his Horcoux's but surprisingly I came back to life.
[This post is brought to you by the letter H and the number 7.]
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10:39 am - so, anyways...
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On the topic of anyway fluttering around with an extra s... I keep seeing it, and it's twitch-inducing.
It's not a word, you know? Not in standard English, either side of the Atlantic. It's one of those things like gonna or ain't or innit - okay in dialogue for appropriate characters, but not in the non-dialogue parts of your story.
My impression is that it's more of an American thing, and I don't think the Trio would say it. (Can somebody grab a British teenager and check this?) The teachers at Hogwarts really wouldn't say it; and Dumbledore or Lucius saying anyways is brain-hurting territory.
Yes, this is another of those futile flailing "OMG, stop it now!" rantlets that preach to the converted. Probably. And if you've moved on to some fandom based on American TV, I guess you don't need the advice - go wild with the anyways in your dialogue, and good luck to you. But in HP - OMG. Stop. It. Now.
I'll be back later today with cat photos! :)
current mood:  quixotic
current music: Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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6:55 am
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The skin of the snake called Nagini
Made a very attractive bikini:
Worn with a cape
In remembrance of Snape
By the lovely Ms. Granger-Zabini.
(Meant as a shout-out to the SS/HG folks, but the limerick tried to grow a plot.)
You know what kinda tickles me in reviews? Context. A hint or two at the reader's surroundings or circumstances. "I read this in the library/in the park/in bed... stayed up till 3 a.m. reading your fic... laughed so hard I woke the cat/parents/roommate... reading accompanied by tea/coffee/caviar/whole pack of chocolate biscuits..." - It's just fun to picture.
Currently reading: Their Phoenix by lomonaaeren [Snape/Harry/Draco, NC-17, WIP]
Any good? *nods* Enjoying the slow build and the complicated post-war wizarding world.
current mood: recumbent
current music: The Sports - Who Listens to the Radio
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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3:10 pm - nostalgia, or: gonna party like it's 2004 or thereabouts
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Sort of interesting, and disorienting, to wander back into the HP fandom on LJ and see a bunch of unfamiliar names producing fic (ooo, new writers to explore!) while others have moved on to SGA, ST, Merlin, whatever - but a whole bunch of Potter-flisters are still here, so - hey. *waves*
And nothing kicks the nostalgia up a few notches like a bit of new HP fic from pogrebin. Check it out.
revisionist history [Albus/Gellert, 1,500 words, PG-13]
Gellert spends his nights reading the Bible like it is a bestseller. Separated from a British literary and critical tradition-- whose root practices, however now altered, grew from and alongside Biblical exegesis-- he reads the Bible like Milton would have read the Mahabharata if only he had gotten his hands on it. He sends Albus letters in Sanskrit and Latin, curses in Aramaic and finally stops talking at all.
Now, that 15 Memorable Books meme - gacked from everyone.
Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you -- The first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes.
1. Precious Bane by Mary Webb
2. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
3. The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch
4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (series)
5. Small World by David Lodge
6. Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson (series)
7. A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
8. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
9. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (series)
10. Andra by Louise Lawrence
11. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
12. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
13. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
14. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
15. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
current mood:  nostalgic
current music: Bauhaus - Bella Lugosi's Dead
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| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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11:10 am - meme + plug
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| Friday, January 9th, 2009
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3:09 pm - *sings* "Happy Birthday, dear Severus...!" *dodges hex*
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| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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7:49 pm - oh, not again...
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Another LJ-scare? :(
I'm listening to the "Don't Panic" messages. And I can't really use any of the backup-tools being recommended. Old computer, dial-up Internet - can't cope with backing up over six years of LJ posts and 68,000 comments. So - crossing fingers for LJ to continue existing.
Anyway, the Horcrux is mctabby at InsaneJournal.
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3:22 am - fannishness, misc.
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Think I've just about recovered from Yuletide now - or, at least, emerged from the total brainsuck that starts when fandom nominations open and ends with replying to comments on reveal-post. That's it, until October '09.
2009. o.O (Still getting used to that new number.)
Spent a little time spring-cleaning at FF.net, as I usually do around January - fixing or updating whatever needs attention. Finally finished dealing with FF.net's decision to remove the PRE tag from their severely restricted list of permitted HTML; sometime in mid-2008? I wasn't paying attention, so I don't know if they actually warned authors about this (probably not). First I knew of it was when some puzzled reviews came in. My Seuss parodies and the old SS/HG parody had been up there for years in nice harmless Courier, just how I wanted them - until the PRE tag vanished and took all their line-breaks. *headdesk* I fixed the Seuss parodies in August, and dealt with PtQ in a Nutshell just now.
Finally finished watching season two of Rome. (Got the DVDs last year, but distraction struck two episodes from the end.) Antony/Cleopatra incredibly cheesy. Servilia wins. Octavian: casting excellent, characterization middling. Must take another look at those Vorenus/Pullo Yuletide fics.
Haven't even looked at HP seasonal fests yet. This week I'm having another go at finishing that Little Women het melodrama, so I've nudged my brain into Alcott mode. Wish me luck.
P.S. I don't give a skrewt who the new Doctor is.
P.P.S. Only three days till Snape's birthday!
current music: Slow Train to Dawn (The The)
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| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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6:02 am - What's the opposite of "decimated"?
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In October 2001, when I first looked at FF.net's Harry Potter category, it had about 38,000 stories (the number stuck in my memory for some reason).
It now has 384,359.
current mood: nostalgic
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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8:11 pm - Yuletide fic, outed! Secret Fandom = Mansfield Park
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Susan/anatomiste's request: "Femslash with Mary Crawford and *any* of the cousins would be great."
Title: As the Starling Said (long version)
Author: mctabby
Pairing: Mary Crawford/Maria Rushworth
Rating: R
Wordcount: 7478
Fandom: Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Summary: Let other pens dwell on Edmund/Fanny. This is Mary/Maria, in the disagreeable aftermath of Mary/Edmund and Maria/Henry.
Much thanks to reviewers, and to hafital for her rec. :D
If the pairing isn't your cup of tea at all, here's a cut-down gen version of this story (posted when I'd despaired of getting the long version to work out in time for Yuletide's deadline).
Title: As the Starling Said
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 2687
Summary: Maria is an ex-Rushworth, and Mary is almost purely helpful.
And I did start a Yuletide-writing diary, but it degenerated to cryptic notes and died entirely towards early December, when I got busy. I'll try again next year. Meanwhile, here's the tale of how this story came to be. ( Mansfield Park Ate My Brain: the tl;dr A/N starts here... )
The Reveal has also brought forth the names of the lovelies who wrote fic for me: wren_chan with A Tale of Two Princesses (the fabulously feline Alice in Wonderland/A Little Princess crossover), karrenia_rune with Working without a Net (Alice in Wonderland), and hhertzof with Coming Home (Little Women, Bess/Dan). Thanks again to all three, and I hope you had a fine Yuletide! :)
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