I am so unable to resist my own rhetoric that I've signed up for, God help me, ANOTHER fest:



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The idea is you take a famous couple and retell their story HP style, any pairing you like. So I went for Anthony & Cleopatra, starring... you guessed it, Ginny/Scorpius :D I'm really looking forward to writing these two again... *is happy*

There is no restriction on pairings and it'd be nice to see some more nextgen people there :)

So I can't draw, at all, in any way shape or form. But I love me some Ginny/Scorpius and as far as I am aware there is no art whatsoever for this teeny tiny little ship.

Faced with this dilemma, I made ( this )

(If you know of art - or fic! - in this ship, oh my, rec me rec me rec me, I wantssssssss it!)

So... I didn't finish my Nano. But I'm not really disappointed - I think honestly I was just writing complete drivel and although I understand the purpose of the exercise is to stop caring about that - I couldn't. *shrug* So my novel gets finished later and perhaps with some quality. Congrats to all those who did make their deadline though!

On a rather more OMGICANTBELIEVEIT note, I won round 2 of the harryscorp100 LDWS! *does the dance of joy*

Many thanks to all who voted and cheerleaded (cheerled?)

Title: The Old School Tie
Rating: PG-13ish
Word Count: 298
Warnings: Bondage, ADW: not explicitly referred to but Harry is 26 years older
Notes: I <3 my beta, la_dissonance!

( The Old School Tie )

Title: Public Affairs
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria, past Harry/Ginny
Summary: Even the best of Slytherins will crawl over everyone else to get what they want. Harry never could have foreseen what would happen when he teamed up with Draco Malfoy to improve the public perception of Slytherin House.
Warnings: Um, it’s got some rather random cameos, some very vaguely implied femmeslash, some question of infidelity and it’s cleaner and angstier than I usually write. Loads of angst, in fact
Word Count: ~17,500
Author's Notes: Written for the hd_career_fair, this fic was extremely hard to
Beta’d by Dollface who is so awesome I can barely express it.

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( Public Affairs Part 2 )

Title: Public Affairs
Rating: R
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Draco/Astoria, past Harry/Ginny
Summary: Even the best of Slytherins will crawl over everyone else to get what they want. Harry never could have foreseen what would happen when he teamed up with Draco Malfoy to improve the public perception of Slytherin House.
Warnings: Um, it’s got some rather random cameos, some very vaguely implied femmeslash, some question of infidelity and it’s cleaner and angstier than I usually write. Loads of angst, in fact
Word Count: ~17,500
Author's Notes: Written for the hd_career_fair, this fic was extremely hard to write so I'd like to thank those who supported it, I appreciate it loads :)
Beta’d by Dollface who is so awesome I can barely express it.


( Public Affairs )

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So the harryscorp100 LDWS has begun and I've survived the first round - woot!

Title: The Occasion of Your Birth
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 293
Prompt: Age Disparity
Warnings: ADW 45/19
Notes: Cookies to la_dissonance for the speedy beta (seriously, she's scary when cookieless). Many thanks for helping out :D

( The Occasion of Your Birth )

I kinda didn't realise the deadline for the HarryScorpLDWS was, well, today. Can anyone beta my drabble like, in the next couple of hours? Begging and pleading will ensue, cookies can be offered...

Let the cross-posting begin!

Title: Life in Monochrome
Rating: PG-13
Main Pairing: Albus Severus/Dean Thomas
Secondary Pairings: Scorpius/Rose, Harry/Ginny, James/Teddy
Summary: All art is useless, all love is unrequited
Word Count: 2215
Author's Notes: Written for hp_cross_fest for the prompt, Two artists inspire each other's work Therefore, obviously, contains cross-gen.
Many thanks to lovestoned0_0 for the ever-awesome beta :D

( Life in Monochrome )

Oh, lord.

So, I have signed up for: hp_nextgen_fest, wizard_love and the harryscorp100 LDWS, PLUS offered to pinch hit various fsts, which may or may not give me assignments. Oh, yeah - and I played the number game at rarepair_shorts and the pairings I got... Just. Fuck.

Bear in mind I can't start work on any of these until Dec 1 - my Nano may be going nowhere fast but I am determined that it go SOMEWHERE.

And then I see acciovalentinus, a nextgen valentine fest and I think, "Shiiiiiiny!"

This is going to be like September, when I was killing myself trying to do hp_cross_fest (twice), hp_darkfest, hd_career_fair and hp_triangle

I need my head examined.

Hello, new friends :) And old friends, too. I feel churlish for failing to respond to those of you kind enough to respond to the other week's whiny emo post - in my defense, I did catch the flu though mercifully it was not H1N1, just the regular kind.

There will be a flurry of cross-posting soon (TM) as the careerfair and crossgen reveals are both up. I have mixed feelings of pride regarding my current writing - my yuleballs fic is finished and I really like it, but my Nano... oh dear. Oh dear.


Have a drabble:
Gen, Gregory Goyle

( Late Night Shenanigans )

Placed 3rd in the hih_insomniacs late night shenangians challenge :)

I don't know if you remember ages ago, I asked for prompts from this table but in the process of hiding from the Nano I ate, I've written a couple more. Sorry for the long delays. Should avoidance continue, I'll try to finish the ones owed others in the next couple of days - shorry it's taken so long. If you wish to prompt, feel free to choose one from the table, many remain - although it may take you 1 month+ to get your fic. Mostly because I felt bad about hrymfaxe not getting her Blacks-fic from me. Enjoy!

( Harry/Draco – Thought I needed this )

( Harry/Draco – I pity you )

( Regulus Black gen– This isn't about you at all )

From unlove_you

wizard_love, a het exchange, has signups until Nov 11th so how about getting some more R/P written?

Also, I will be rec'cing said pairing on the crack_broom this month :)

And doing NaNoWriMo.

On a fail, I had to drop out of hp_toujours after my last laptop fail ate my fic - and I just couldn't face the thought of doing it over. Le sigh. When will I learn? Well, now actually - I just bought an external hard drive. Good work!

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you...

(Because it would be nice to know people just a little better :)

Title: Selling Spring
Rating: R
Word Count: ~20k total
Warnings: Sexual situations: Pansy/Ron, Pansy/OMC, reference to R/Hr inc. possibly infidelity. Refers to the Japanese sex industry, frequently.
Summary: This shouldn't be happening. Pansy's a borderline prostitute who's borderline alcoholic, and Ron's such a loser that his high school sweetheart kept him dangling for three years - and neither of them even knows why they're in Japan. But here they are, kissing wildly on the streets of Tokyo...
Author/Artist's Notes: Betas: dpa06 and the lovely V.
This was a gift for artemis_sparks over on ronpansy_fest. artemis_sparks prompted, "Ron and Pansy meet somewhere unexpected" and as one suggestion was Tokyo, how could I resist writing about my beloved Japan?
Dedicated to Sara, who left Japan in spring.

Sorry to clog the f-list.
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( Part Three: Selling Spring )

( Part Four: Rising Sun )

( Epilogue: Cherry Blossom Season )

Title: Selling Spring
Rating: R
Word Count: ~20k total
Warnings: Sexual situations: Pansy/Ron, Pansy/OMC, reference to R/Hr inc. possibly infidelity. Refers to the Japanese sex industry, frequently.
Summary: This shouldn't be happening. Pansy's a borderline prostitute who's borderline alcoholic, and Ron's such a loser that his high school sweetheart kept him dangling for three years - and neither of them even knows why they're in Japan. But here they are, kissing wildly on the streets of Tokyo...
Author/Artist's Notes: Betas: dpa06 and the lovely V.
This was a gift for artemis_sparks over on ronpansy_fest. artemis_sparks prompted, "Ron and Pansy meet somewhere unexpected" and as one suggestion was Tokyo, how could I resist writing about my beloved Japan?
Dedicated to Sara, who left Japan in spring.

I really hope you'll give this a read as I absolutely loved writing it :)

Selling Spring
( Part One: Water Trade )

( Part Two: Song, Dance, Action )

There was a lil competition on hogwartsishome to rewrite a scene from one of the HP books in the style of a bodice-ripping trashy romance and I won :D I knew all those terrible teen novels I read would come in handy some day :D

( For your mocking pleasure )

So, yeah – I've been writing in a vacuum for a really long time now, it feels. If it weren't for my betas I'd have no contact at all with fandom people right now because I'm digging my way through all the fest fics I'm trying to finish. Aaargh, aaargh, woe is me etc. One of them is probably going to have to be submitted unbeta'd at this point because it's due scary soon and I just can't finish the damn thing! Gah!
/unwhine.

Anyway. Back before I had driven myself mad with fic-writing, I penned this for the remixredux09. Remixes are very interesting to me – rewriting someone else's fic from a different perspective. I went gen for this fest and took a cheery little post-HBP piece and rewrote it post-DH:

Title: Living the Creevey Life (The Fallen Leaves Remix)
Summary: Robert Creevey doesn't really have dreams any more
Rating: PG - Deals with canon character death
Title, Author and URL of original story: Living the Creevey Life by nopejr, http://nopespace.com/hp3/ltcl.htm

( Living the Creevey Life )

Also, if you're one of the few, lovely people who read Cicatrix, that was the fic of mine chosen for remix and I have to say the remix puts my original to total blushing shame. Read it, read it now, even if you never saw the first fic. Who can resist the sisters Black, after all? Addicted to Blood

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Go check it out! Prompting is open and the low-pressure nature of the fest makes it ideal for those too overloaded for the more demanding fests - or of course, do both like a crazy person. I signed up for yuleballs, why, God am I doing this to myself?

Because it'll be awesome, of course.

Dear F-list, I beg you for aid!

With both (!) my usual betas occupied elsewhere, and a fist full of fest fics due over the next couple of weeks, I turn to you to beg for help.

I am in the process of completing 3 fics for various fests. One is fairly standard, though angsty. One is full of sub/dom moments. One is incestastic.

I'm hopefully going to have the buggers finished by next weekish. Can anyone help me out?

*big eyes*

Two more ficlets for your consideration :) Anyone else who wants one - or maybe you want another? - the table is here:
http://hereticalvision.livejournal.com/13260.html#cutid1
Het, slash, gen - I'm easy, bring em on :D

17: Draco/Neville for saurab

( Wish I didn't love you )


14: Ron/Draco for brissygirl (but I'm cheating because it's the sequel to "Desperation in action" that icanhaspancake wanted, too)

( I'm awake and you're breathing )