| The Appeal of Books |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|06:09 pm] |
Title: The Appeal of Books
Author: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alisanne
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) snarry100's prompt #190: Flourish and Blotts
Warning(s): None that I am aware of.
A/N: Books can be quite arousing.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
The Appeal of Books |
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| The Appeal of Books |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|04:16 pm] |
Title: The Appeal of Books
Author: alisanne
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snarry100's prompt #190: Flourish and Blotts
Warning(s): None that I am aware of.
A/N: Books can be quite arousing.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
The Appeal of Books |
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| Drabble: The Appeal of Books |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
Title: The Appeal of Books
Author: alisanne
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snarry100's prompt #190: Flourish and Blotts
Warning(s): None that I am aware of.
A/N: Books can be quite arousing.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
( The Appeal of Books ) |
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| A Very Nice Thansgiving |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
It was a very pleasant holiday. My dearest Chazpure and Odogoddess drove up from Los Angeles, and a friend of theirs from the Bay Area joined us as well. It had been a long time since the friend had eaten a "real" Thanksgiving dinner, so I did the whole traditional thing, with roast turkey, cornbread dressing with giblets, home-made cranberry sauce, baked fresh yams, biscuits and a relish tray. We had home-made apple pie for dessert as well. We were, also traditionally, as stuffed as the turkey.
I joined four HP fan fic exchanges this year, but I turned in the last of those last week, so that was off of my conscience and I was able to plow ahead on my NaNoWriMo novel. My house guests had fan fic of their own to write, have been heads-down over their laptops, and did not need to be entertained. I was free to wallow in the improbable plot lines that evolve through NaNo. I hit 50,567 words on Friday morning and posted the text to the word count validation program. Winner! That gives me a nice cozy feeling of accomplishment. I still have plot left over, so I'll be working on the book for the next week or so. After that, I'll let it rest for a month and then start making my revisions and corrections during January. That will be a nice way to start off the new year.
I also squeezed in a few pages for a monthly electronic science fiction apa that I joined a couple of years ago.
I feel incredibly productive!
This has been a very nice holiday and I hope that all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had one that was equally enjoyable. |
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| Holiday Fun |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|03:06 pm] |
Wednesday we got hit with not one but two low pressure systems hanging over the midwest. This meant I ached. I wanted to stay in bed, take prescription pain relievers and sleep it off.
( shopping )
sweet potato crunch scroll down a bit.
( Thursday's Guest )
unexpected guest
My mother and brother are avid photographers. They both stood at the back door watching while this bird strutted around the yard. Brother eventually picks up the camera and says: "The viewfinder is empty".
*head/desk* Yup, dingdong didn't take the lense cap off. By the time Mr. Sg got out our el-cheapo camera and got near a window, the bird was done laughing it's ass off at the humans and began to fly away. To add insult to this episode, he curved close to the house, out over the maximum part of the yard then flew out of sight. |
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| When Fandoms Collide |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|08:02 pm] |
I am having real problems with the demo dance currently on Strictly. I've always thought of Matthew as a model for 'my' Draco, and here he is dancing with a redhead (Ginny?) while this dead ringer for Harry is swinging a blonde Astoria round the floor.
Yes, I'm totally gaga. |
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| Don't eat while reading this. Eeesh. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | yuletide | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  aggravated | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Treasure Planet DVD | ] |
By the way, hearkening back to my earlier post--this doesn't spoil anything, since you can see on the Yuletide list of requested fandoms that no one asked for it--I did not get assigned to write for Richard Adams's The Plague Dogs. I decided, when I accidentally included it in the list, that rather than redo my list I'd just go read the book once and for all, even before the assignments came out, so I got it from the library.
I got through Ulysses easier than this. This is...guys, I have written some interesting metaphors myself in my time, some of them admittedly more purple than should be seen outside of crackfic, but this takes them all:
...Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus...
I can't even facepalm. It's too squicky. |
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| In which Lyv is a needy, needy thing... |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:03 pm] |
...errr. Anyone enjoying the holiday weekend enough to want to do some beta work for me? You need a break from eggnog and Christmas shopping, riiight? *puppy dog eyes*
These are the things wot I might need a teensy bit of help with:
1. a Kirk/Spock
2. a Remus/Sirius
3. a Sheldon/Leonard
Umm, so these are all for fests, except #3, so I can't give tons of details, but they're like, not at all scary, really. Nothing terribly squicky or sad or scary or anything. I can e-mail you details if you wants them.
Also, there is something that I am midway through writing (well. Not midway. but started, at least) and could use some cheerleading help on. If anyone is extra specially helpful, and wants to have capslocky chat conversations with me. Because capslock is love, and you know, I just need someone to help me focus on ficcage instead of pumpkin cheesecake.
Pleeeeeease? I will <3 you forever! |
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| Art Post: jin_fenghuang |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:08 pm] |
Holiday Drawbles Drive: For sra_danvers
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: PG
Media: digital
Warnings: none
Notes: This is part of my Holiday Drawbles Drive. Donate a dollar or two and get a drawble of you favorite pairing kissing.
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| Holiday Drawbles Drive |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:00 pm] |
Holiday Drawbles Drive: For sra_danvers
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: PG
Media: digital
Warnings: none
Notes: This is part of my Holiday Drawbles Drive. Donate a dollar or two and get a drawble of you favorite pairing kissing.
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| So, you know what I did tonight? I had a date. |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|03:34 am] |
:D
This is seriously the only way to summarize how I'm feeling right now. Can't lie about it. |
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| Drabble: Ready |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|01:28 am] |
Title: Ready
Author: alisanne
Word Count: 100
Characters: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for hd100's prompt: Teeth
Author's Notes: Draco is ready for anything.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
( Ready ) |
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| Drabble: In Vitro, PG, Harry, Kingsley, Severus |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|10:56 pm] |
Title: In Vitro
Characters: Harry, Kingsley, Severus . . . after a fashion
Word Count: 100x6
Rating: PG
Warnings: Unexplained plot, vaguely creepy
Disclaimer: Not mine. They belong to JKR.
A/N: Originally intended for snarry100 but it got weird. Too weird.
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| Wrisomifu...day 27 |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|09:00 pm] |
I love black Friday! I get up late, well late enough. I woke up at 10:30 and was to awake to try to go back to sleep. Then I laze around. Kids pretty much do what they want, and I don't cook a damned thing. (unless you count nukin left-overs as cooking) I think I even ended up taking a nap for an hour or so. Great kinda day in my book.
Is my cat the only one that chirps? I have never heard a cat chirp before we got this one. She hears the Pounce shake or open, and she is all chirps and merorows. Noisy thing. (She's a fat thing too, lol)
I got a reply from the IM. She still refuses to even meet me at the airport. But, the shuttle might not be as bad as I first thought. It is one you book your seat in a head of time. She could have saved me quite a bit of worry had she simply given me all the information, but she still seems to think that the longer the emails are the move evil they are. I might just have to mention that, most likely won't though. At this point I doubt it would do any good. It's really sad, the turn this relationship has taken.
Date night tomorrow. Going to see 2012, have no idea where we are going to eat. Jeff is doing the "I don't care." thing...I hate that.
Hugs to all! |
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| Moonshadow update |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:29 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  busy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Muppeteers, "If Just One Person" | ] |
Stories added to Moonshadow, the Snape/Lupin archive, during the past two months:
Title: Alpha Male (29 K)
Author: sweetmelodykiss
Title: Back (4 K)
Author: astopperindeath
The archive is located at http://www.ssf-moonshadow.com
Also, the Crack Broom masterlist-by-author is now current. |
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| Holiday Drawbles Drive |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:17 am] |
As some of you already know, I am doing a Drawbles Donation Drive.
1 or 2 USD for a smoochy drawble.
Sadly the website of the Grameen Foundation as small donation issues i.e. you currently can only donate USD15 and more. And while that would be awesome I totally understand that that is a bit much.
I am now accepting any reasonable tolerant charity organisation of your choice. |
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| November Blogging: day 27 |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:23 pm] |
Here's a piece of advice for anyone who is participating in any kind of LJ/IJ/DW based fest at any time of the year: when you email the mods, include your journal user ID, especially if your user ID isn't the same as your email address.
If your email address is the same as your journal ID, it makes things a little easier, but it would still be nice to include your ID nonetheless.
Here's the thing. Unless you communicate via email with the mods outside of the fest enough that it's reasonable to assume they know to associate that email address with you, chances are the mods will have no clue who's emailing them and will have to take the extra step of consulting a spreadsheet in order to figure it out.
When a fest mod is juggling 30+, 40+, 50+, or more fest participants, they are not going to remember who everyone is. They might not know you, they might not interact with you outside of the fest, or they might not remember. There are people who have participated in Snupin Santa just about every year, and I still wouldn't know them from an email address alone, much less know all the new people who rotate in and out each year.
So if a fest mod asks you to include your user ID and/or the name of your recipient in your emails, please try to remember to do it. It's not just a busy-work request; it can save the mod a little extra time (and let's be honest: a little extra irritation) if they know who they're dealing with straight-away instead of having to look it up. Trust me, trawling through a spreadsheet and looking for one person's email address out of 50-60 (or more) names is a pain in the ass.
This entry was originally posted at http://scribbulus-ink.dreamwidth.org/518068.html. It's cross-posted to LJ and IJ, and comments are enabled at all three journals. |
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| FIC: A Happy Memory (Bill/Neville ~ PG) |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:32 pm] |
Title: A Happy Memory
Author: Leela (![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) leela_cat)
Pairing: Bill/Neville
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 3 x 100
Prompt: neville100's challenge #97: Patronus
Summary: All it takes is a happy memory.
Beta: the_minx_17
A/N: For alisanne. Hope this makes your week a little better.
( Click to read A Happy Memory ) |
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