Not much to report from this weekend. Got a great new haircut - fierce! Started watching Veronica Mars - loving it. Had a big-ish fight with the best friend - still not quite sorted - will be days of oddness before it is all back to the status quo. Boring. Just get over it already - you know it means nothing in the scheme of things.

Oh - I made Quinoa & Cumin Hash Browns for breakfast - they totally rocked. Yummy.

The hot DVD store guy told me I was coming in too often and I was not to come back for at least a week. Bless him. Then told me he has the same problem at his favourite bookshop - and I'm like - snap - I work in a bookshop and have thousands of books. Then he had to go serve some other customer - oh well - tbc next time.

Now I'm starting to get serious Sunday Night Blues. I hate Sunday nights - I always sleep so badly. I'm lucky if I get 3 hours.

Title: Too Good to Hide
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Word Count: 100
Genre: Humor
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
A/N: Written for centaury_squill, who correctly guessed which fic I wrote for the snarry_ldws. Her request was Snarry, prompt: Kilt.
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.

( Too Good to Hide )

Happy Birthday today to

mom2enk!

and



phoenixsong71!

Many happy returns! ♥

Title: Malfoy Mistletoe
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Hermione Granger, Severus Snape/Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Summary: A Malfoy always has a plan.
Word Count: 520
Genre: Humor, romance
Warnings: Potential threesome.
A/N: Written for for, who correctly guessed which snarry_ldws story was mine. Her request was for Lumione, prompt: Mistletoe.
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.

( Malfoy Mistletoe )

Title: Reminder
Author: alisanne
Character(s): Severus Snape, Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Innuendo
Challenge(s): Written for slytherins100's prompt #97: Fluke
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Yay for fluff week!
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.

( Reminder )

You know what?
I love Galaxy Quest. I love it so much that I got the Blue Ray and I just spent an hour watching it dubbed in Thurmian. O.o
*g*
I think it's time to go to bed.

/random

Okay, I should have known better. But I was enjoying the SGU thread on TWoP, with all of the lovely snark. And I appreciated the fact that most of the posters seemed to get why having sex in someone else's body was skeevy, and why it's problematic that the black guy in SGU is yet another Angry Black Man.

( Seriously--I should have known better. )

After months and months of not touching the keyboard, thanks to mini_nanowrimo, I'm back to writing daily. Each day in November (so far), I've managed to write at least 100 words. Go me!

But that's not the object of this post.

I've been thinking about what to do when Mini Nano is over. How to kick my butt and stay with the writing daily? And I've come up with an idea:

Is there anyone who'd like to open up a writer's group, so to speak (via email or whatever), where we can report our word counts, keep each other on track, and squee about our writing? I was thinking maybe we could give out prompts if someone fails their target or some such. What do you think, anybody for it? *puppy eyes*

Interesting article on AfterElton: Why are Women Interested in Gay Men? It's Not Because They Want to Sleep With Them!* Fortunately it dispels the myth that gay men/slash just appeals to straight women -- 38% of these polled identified as lesbian/bi/other -- and the explanations offered are a little more sophisticated than the usual "it's just like men liking lesbians." I'm less happy that the wording on some of the questions assumed heterosexuality (bad, AE, bad!) and were painfully American-centric, but some of the comments quoted manage to go beyond these limitations. All in all, pretty interesting read.


* Thanks to gealach_ros for the link!

Title: Big Difference
Author: alisanne
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snupin100's prompt #235: The Pensieve
Characters: Remus/Severus
Beta: sevfan
Authors Notes: A continuation of fluff week. ;)
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Big Difference )

I. Love. Gossip. Girl.


...and want to roleplay it like badly.

Thanks (I think) to fjm on lj for pointing me at the winners of this year's Bad Sex Awards these are definitely NC17, all het-male pov and confirm my belief that, in this area at least, amateurs do it better.

Though I have to admit that I don't think that Richard Millward belongs in this company - his scene has an authentic ring to it, and at least has the virtue of being intentionally funny.

Title: Perfect Evening
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Summary: Severus learns to deal with distractions.
Word Count: 100
Genre: Romance
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
A/N: Written for sweetmelodykiss, who successfully guessed which fall_fantasia fic was mine. Her prompt: Starry night
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.

( Perfect Evening )

Title: Probed
Author: alisanne
Rating: R
Word count: 100
Characters/pairings: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Challenge: Written for dracoharry100's prompt #140: Pulsating
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
Beta: sevfan
Authors Notes: Silliness, just like the prompt. :P

( Probed )

Title: In the Family
Author: alisanne
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: G
Challenge: Written for snape100's prompt #308: The other family
Word Count: 100
Warnings: AU. The prompt was 'to imagine what might have happened if, at some point - probably before Severus started at Hogwarts, but possibly later - Tobias and Eileen Snape were no longer in the picture (for whatever reason) and Severus was taken in to be raised by another family.' This is what I hope would have happened.
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.

( In the Family )

Yes!!! I'm done. I have 50k. It's not official, as the verifier isn't online until the 25th. But my wordprocessor says I'm done.

The story, however, is going to take another who knows how much to finish. all I have left to do is the wrap up.

But, YAY!! and WOOT!!

50000 / 50000 words. 100% done!

I dropped my PSP. I had it on the side table, charging up, and I caught my sketch book on the cord and pulled it off the table. It hit the floor rather hard. I picked it up and turned it on. It's ok.

But I lost all the progress I'd made on Disscordia. 40+ hours of game play, three characters at level 17 or above and I had all the dark characters open and Sephiroth was at level 12. I had the museum open. I'm so pissed. And I have no one to blame but myself. I should have put it on the floor between my chair and the table like I usually do.

*POUT*

Ottawa is nice. Stable. Practical.

Montréal is not.

Montréal has shopping!

Mad crazy shopping that just sweeps you up and hijacks your credit card and you don't even care. Even department stores that you'd expect to be the same everywhere are sparklier in that city. Like the Bay. Even the boring old Bay, when it's plopped down in the middle of Ste-Catherine's, is suddenly magically filled with irresistible baubles and fashions that make me look fashionable.