| Another meme |
[Feb. 1st, 2010|11:59 am] |
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1. The first character I fell in love with: Harry, in a vague sort of wanting to know what happens to him next kind of way. Then as the series progressed I came to acknowledge the wondrous complexity that is Snape and so Harry fell by the wayside (unless Snape is shagging him, of course.)
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Lucius, probably because of Jason Isaacs. Mmm, Lucius...
3. The character (most) everyone else loves that I don't: Ron. I can put up with him being not particulalry bright but his lack of loyalty annoyed me.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Well, I doubt if that many people hate her, but I really relate to Hermione. I was a swot and I was always terrified of breaking the rules.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Like everyone else, Dumbledore. Bastard. What he did to Harry was bad, but the way he treated Snape was evil.
6. The character I would shag anytime: Lucius.
7. The character I want to be like: Minerva. A powerful, brave, intelligent witch with a career, responsibility and respect.
8. The character I'd slap: Ron, because he could be so much better. The Dursleys, Umbridge and Voldemort were various flavours of evil, but Ron was essentially good but a git.
9. A pairing that I love: Snarry
10. Two pairings that I hate: anyone with Ron leaves me cold, and I shall cheat by saying any pairing with a huge imbalance of power, so even Snarry under some circumstances.
11. Favourite character: Need you ask? Snape.
12. My six favourite characters: Snape, Harry, Hermione, Minerva, and if written well and redeemed, Draco and Lucius
13. My five least favourite characters: Sirius, James Potter (Snr), Lily (for the way she rejected Snape so thoughtlessly and married a snobbish bully), Molly (ghastly earth-mother type who controlled people under the guise of loving them), Umbridge
14. Which character I am most like: Hermione but with a large streak of cowardice.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: I like mpreg. *nods* |
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| Meme thingy |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|08:05 pm] |
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Tagged by ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hambares
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
Shan't tag anyone because those who want to do it, will have done it by now. So I obeyed the letter of the instruction above, if not the spirit.
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| Happy 2010 Everyone |
[Jan. 4th, 2010|11:20 am] |
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I hope that you all enjoyed the New Year celebrations and will have a happy and successful 2010, filled with excellent fanfics with any luck.
Since everyone else has been reviewing what they wrote in 2009, I thought I should do the same. Then I realised that I only wrote one fic, for the Snarry Games, plus an out-take. Conclusion, needs to try harder. *g* More writing and less reading is required. So watch this space. |
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| Happy Christmas, flist! |
[Dec. 26th, 2009|11:36 am] |
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| I say, old fellow, the hunt is on! Come, Watson, we have Wizards to battle... |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|06:17 pm] |
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The last gingertart fic to be posted was in the Snarry Games 2008 Getting Familiar. The muse then went AWOL. Now she's back, although God only knows where she got the inspiration for this. It was an experience to write, I have rarely had such fun in my life.
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Fandom Crossovers and Literary and/or Historical
Prompt(s): Code of Honour
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG; None
Word Count: ~ 56,500
Summary: From the private journal of John. H. Watson MD; not intended for publication. Being an account of the strange case of the Fourth Deathly Hallow; in which Dr John H. Watson and Mr Sherlock Holmes save a life, discover the true secret of Professor Moriarty, unravel a time loop or two, encounter a femme fatale, imbibe potions, break into and out of a wizarding mansion, hide in a male brothel, go shopping, track down a magical artefact, almost attend a ritual sacrifice, fail to be Obliviated and totally ignore the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692, all in the company of a lank-haired, irascible but secretly besotted schoolmaster, a bemused aristocrat and an increasingly perceptive and enamoured young hero.
The Fourth Deathly Hallow is now up at the Snarry Games 2009. Beware, this plot-bunny is a big bastard. It had me by the throat a couple of times and it took the combined efforts of LeelaCat, Lesyeuxverts, Klynie and WhiteCotton to beat it (and my stray punctuation) into submission. Thank you, ladies, your help was invaluable. |
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| Snarry Games fic rec |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|01:18 pm] |
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Another wonderful fic and a very, very long and satisfying one this time - Anachronism by Starcrossed. A mystery (a very big one with some minor ones lurking around in it) which is solved at the end in a stunning and unusual way, a gradually evolving relationship with angst in parts but an ending that made me happy, some great details and well-written other characters, including Ginny, but the best thing about it is Snape. He is wonderful, in that fierce, protective, articulate, bitter, emotionally repressed and damaged way that we all love. Harry is very well realised too but it is Snape who makes this fic so good, Snape in all his snarling glory. Go and read about him and vote and comment! Even if it is for the Other Team. Bah!
(I Brit-picked this fic and at almost 100,000 words, a fic has to be good to get me read it twice in a few weeks; in this case it was a pleasure.) |
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| Snarry Games rec! |
[Sep. 2nd, 2009|02:34 pm] |
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Today, it is grey and damp and cold, and I have a day off work so a bloke could come and fix my washing machine, and I wondered if there would be a good fic in the Snarry Games. A mug of hot chocolate and a nice comforting Snarry, I thought.
Comforting? No. Heart-wrenching, brilliant and compelling, yes. Rook Castling Kingside by WhiteCotton is the latest offering from Team Snitch and boy, is it stunning! An emotional roller-coaster ride, with a clever use of flash-back and subtle twisting of canon, a wonderfully real Lucius with humanity as well as pride, relationships that need only a slight tweak away from canon to sent the story careering along a parallel path towards triumph or tragedy and descriptions to die for.... seemingly throw-away words or lines that resonate long after I finished reading. Clouds, broken doors, Harry asking Snape, in seemingly simple innocence, if Snape was a copy of his own father, since he obviously believed that Harry must be like James, forcing Snape to rethink everything about him.... Snape's relationship with Albus, and the palpitating delicacy of Snape's friendship with Lucius, their communication carried out in hints and the angles of their gaze. This is a DH-compliant classic and I loved it. |
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| SNARRY GAMES! |
[Aug. 23rd, 2009|02:24 pm] |
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RL - Exams, puppy, malevolant household appliances, new job applications - thank Merlin there are the Snarry Games to escape to! I'm in Team Snitch but I just have to rec some Team Cauldron art and fics as well, because they are so good. Heh, mea culpa.
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| Reccy sort of post |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|02:26 pm] |
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1. Snarry Games. YAY!  Support Team Snitch - Reaching for Gold!
Fabulous fics and stunning arts from both teams
2. ...a hurt/comfort post-DH Snarry romance written in thirty-three Spenserian stanzas here - brilliant!
3 It is small, with dark eyes, floppy ears, a little black nose and waggy tail, and it is like a Transformer, mutates in a blink of the eye into a puppy from hell. Heh. (Crap picture, but she either looks like a black blob or I have to ramp up the contrast until she looks kind of faded.)
http://pics.livejournal.com/gingertart50/pic/00012agr/ |
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| Anyone on my flist like BPAL? |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
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*waves*
I'm still here, busy writing a monster fic o'doom for the Snarry Games (Yay! Go Team Snitch!) Ahem. Where was I? Does anyone on my flist *hugs flist* like BPAL perfume oils? I have just bought a big job lot of BPAL imps and I'm working my way through them in a state of utter confunded bemused perfume-drenched besottedness. How can one not want to try a perfume with the name A Countenance Forboding Evil (is that Voldemort's aftershave?), Slobbering Pine or Screeching Parrot? I keep going back to ebay and my mouse hovers over the 'bid' button even though I have enough damn perfume to drown in. I'm currently sitting with nose pressed to my wrist in between typing words, sucking up the current trial sample. I shall not start describing them, there are communities devoted to that and the fic needs writing first.
*runs back to lurkdom* |
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| A Snarry rec |
[May. 10th, 2009|02:10 pm] |
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Go and read the latest fic in the hds_beltane exchange fest. It's a Snarry and it is utterly beautiful. Eurydice's Answer - “No magic can bring back the dead.” But it might bring back the almost- dead. Harry knows he has to try. Where potions and the underworld come into it is an open question. Go, read, enjoy and comment! |
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| Nostalgia Fest |
[Feb. 7th, 2009|06:52 pm] |
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| Fics and a rec |
[Feb. 1st, 2009|10:55 am] |
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I'm supposed to be writing and illustrating *gulp* my fic but I'm following a few fests in the times when work and bronchitis have left me too knackered to be creative. I only write one pairing regularly although I have dabbled with a few others in drabbles and short fics, but I read a wide range. I love Harry/Snape and threesomes with those two, and I read Lupin/Snape, and Harry/Draco, Snape/Draco and Snape with a range of others.
I've recently started reading het *makes sign against the evil eye* and I'm following the Snape/Hermione fest over on lj. There have been some great stories there. I love Snape/Hermione as a pairing for similar reasons to Snape/Harry; the characters strike sparks from each other. The latest fic was absolutely brilliant, hilariously funny and with another character whom I love, the gloriously snobbish, elegant and witty Lucius Malfoy. The fic is A Taxing Affair and it stars Hermione (who by now runs the country), Snape (spying again) and Lucius (having to go Muggle against his better judgment), Prime Minister Gordon Brown battling with the budget and a thoroughly unpleasant tax collector. For those who don't read het sex, treat it as gen, because the sex isn't explicit. It'll be worth it for the wonderful banter. When Hermione decides she wants Snape, she finds that his best friend comes as part of the package... |
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| I wanna pick your brainzzzz..... |
[Jan. 15th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
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I haven't got time to re-read DH 'cos I'm writing a rather hooj fic for a fest, so can anyone tell me, how good (or bad) were Harry and Draco at wandless magic, by the end of DH? Could they do anything at all without their wands? Your thoughts on this would be very welcome. |
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| Reccy-rec rec..... |
[Jan. 10th, 2009|11:30 am] |
This is another utterly wonderful, beautiful fic. If you like Snape/slash, go and read Illuminations de Noël - Snape/Draco [NC-17] by Anon Author in snapelyholidays. Please don't let the pairing put you off! This is being recced by others but it deserves a lot more love, it should have hundreds of comments on by now because it is just so lovely. Chocolat and cigarettes in Paris, with Snape. Mmm.
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| Bunnies, peacocks and zombies hoorah |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|09:50 pm] |
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As if I didn't have enough to do, I've just discovered yet another terrific fest, over on lj. It's the Severus Snape Hermione Granger exchange, here and the quality so far is just wonderful. I almost choked on my port and peanut-butter-and-spiced-quince-jam sandwich. I'll read het pairings if they're with Snape. Yummy. |
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[Jan. 7th, 2009|02:57 pm] |
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In 2009,  gingertart50 resolves to... Give up writing. Apply for a new fanfiction. Connect with my inner freedom-of-speech. Lose ten karenkks by March. Find a better sealcat. Overcome my secret fear of lilyeyes.
Poor Karenkk and Sealcat! And I'm not sure what Lilyeyes did, either. I've been wondering about the first one for some time..... *g* |
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| More blehhhh |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|01:39 pm] |
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I've got the Ebil Snotty Cold of Doom with the Cough from Hell, and I've just been to the dentist with excruciating pain which might have been an ear or sinus infection but in fact turned out to be a back tooth requiring root canal work/nerve removal. And the heating has failed at work, which is another reason for not being there. And I need to take the doggette to the vet and my car is sick too and is booked in at the garage on Thursday and it was bloody minus 4 degrees this morning and so just - blehhhh.
*sulks* |
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| blehhh |
[Jan. 5th, 2009|08:50 pm] |
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Can anyone suggest why my HTML code gets screwed all to hell when I copy and paste it into ij? I tried doing that New Year resolutions meme and it splattered the page with code instead of giving me a nice neat little print-out. Although I think someone is trying to tell me something. The first line was 'Give up writing.' Erm, yeah, ok. But I've just joined a fest.... |
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