Weasley Loving

Title: A Happy Memory
Author: Leela (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 )

* Hope all who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful time spent with family and friends.

* The Girl Child went to the Black Friday sales this morning. At 4:49, while I was doing some serious sleeping, she texted. Scared me to death. Why did she text at that unholy hour, you ask... because she spotted John Travolta at the mall. Jesus. She's a freak.

* The Boy Child had to work today - so no shopping for him. Instead, he gave the Girl a list and his debit card. He gave his sister his fucking debit card. When she was going to a mall. The boy is an idiot. Honestly.

* It's chilly here in the Sunshine State tonight. Lovely thing, that. Right along with the Criminal Minds marathon on A&E.

* And, on a Criminal Minds note, this week's episode killed me. Dead. *pets the CM team*

Torquere Press is having a big sale. And lots of books that I want are 25-50% off. I want to buy those books! But I can't. For some reason, when I go to check out, the order form says: "We are unable to find a USPS shipping quote suitable for your mailing address and the shipping methods we typically use."

That isn't true. Back in July, my mailing address worked just fine. And even I know that they have a standard of $ 13,95 for oversea shipping. Why doesn't the stupid form know that?

The lady from TP told me they haven't changed anything and I should be able to order. Yeah. Should be. But I'm not.

I'm very annoyed, to put it mildly.

Fandom Primeval
Claim Blade

001.	Autumn.	002.	Spring.	003.	Summer.	004.	Winter.	005.	Amused.
006.	Balance.	007.	Betrayal.	008.	Bunnies.	009.	Cemetery.	010.	Chocolate.
011.	Cranky.	012.	Curious.	013.	Decisions.	014.	Destiny.	015.	First Glance.
016.	Love.	017.	Lust.	018.	Energetic.	019.	Famous.	020.	Fight.
021.	Flame.	022.	Found.	023.	Lost.	024.	Frustrated.	025.	Giggly.
026.	Gun.	027.	Knife.	028.	Heartache.	029.	Justice.	030.	Leather.
031.	Education.	032.	Lessons.	033.	School.	034.	Teacher.	035.	Encounter.
036.	Naughty.	037.	Monsters.	038.	Movie Night.	039.	Need.	040.	Otherworld.
041.	Peaceful.	042.	Promise.	043.	Ritual.	044.	Silk Sheets.	045.	Sinful.
046.	Skating.	047.	Years.	048.	Space.	049.	Toys.	050.	Watching the Clock.

I seem to be in drabble/ficlet mode today.  So far I have written a Kingsley/Nevillle

Here....

http://kaellite.livejournal.com/390486.html

And a Charlie/Kingsley

Here

http://kaellite.livejournal.com/390889.html

So...

As I want to write more, if you want to request a combo (one from column A and one from Column B) from the following charries (no Charlie/Kings as I have already written close to 700 words today on them)..and give a smutty prompt...I will write

Charrie List:

1 Roger Davies                                               1. Colin Creevey
2. Oliver Wood                                                  2.  Terry Boot   
3. Twins                                                             3.  Dennis Creevey
4.  Kingsley Shackelbolt                                 4.  Euan Abercrombie (See the opening feast in OOTP)
5  Neville Longbottom                                     5.  Jimmy Peakes

Pairing: Kingsley/Charlie
Rating: NC-17
Word Count-684
Warnings; Slash, Dom Kings, Sub Charlie, Unbeta'd

Disclaimer: Not mine, I do not own.  I am not making a profit from this, it is purely for fun (though if they were mine...Rocks Fall, Everyone dies..especially Fred and Colin, wouldn't have happened."

Author's Note: Ficlet for Mal, my favorite AIM RPG partner (Love her Sirius and Charlie, or my Chris Creevey and Neville do), and just a great friend.

Summary: Charlie allows himself this treat only at Christmas time

 

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Title: Venus' Nipples
Author: faynia
Prompt: #305 (first prompt) by marguerite_26
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Summary: When Private Investigator Harry Potter is hired to investigate the strange behaviour of his client's wife, he stumbles into the last person he expected to find.
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 10,000
Author's Notes: Oh mods, how I love thee, let me count the ways. Without you, and your patience and gentle (and encouraging) prods, I might never have finished this thing. ♥!

And a special thank you to both leemarchais and aislinntlc for taking the time to read through this and point out my many flaws. You're both the greatest!



Venus' Nipples is now posted over at hd_career_fair!

GUYS, LOOK, IT GOT POSTED. FINALLY. Awesome.

Pairing: Kingsley/Neville
Rating: R/NC-17
Word Count: 227 (So it''s not 100 words, exactly, sue me...you wont' get much)
Warnings: Um..slash...

Disclaimer: Not British, not rich, not addled (Rocks Fall everyone dies. anyone?), just playing with them

Summary: It is time for Neville's Christmas Bonus

 

( Ficlet for Softly Sweetly )

...after I've been up for the requisite number of minutes or hours (they were always as changeable and unpredictable as the mood of a cat), I'm supposed to have an annoying white cat trying to curl up on my work laptop. (Which, if this were a normal Friday morning, would be open because I'd be trying to get actual work done on it).

I'd be half-annoyed and half-amused, and trying not to give in to the urge.

On Wednesday, I gave into the urge and let the Luna-chick sleep with her head on the keyboard of my open laptop. Later that day, a vet gave up part of her lunch and we had Luna, our beautiful white cat, put to sleep.

We only had her for about a year and a half, but she clawed her way into our hearts and claimed space in our lives and our home.

Miss you, LunaTiCat.

1. The numbered-post posting, I mean. I like lists. :)

2. My Snarry Swap fic is progressing nicely. Added about 3k today. And a bit of solo smut. I'm at a total of 24k now, and half-way through my outline. The old outline. Today, I added #14 to the outline. But that's a bit of an epilogue, so it doesn't count.

3. Thought about writing a sequel to my hp_yule_balls fic. Probably should wait until it's posted.

4. Talking about the hp_yule_balls fic: it's due tomorrow and still needs a title. *ponders*

5. The other day, I once more came across an old post of jodi_payne on torquere_social. In that post she said that she and chrisowen are working on a fifth Deviations novel. It will be set after the series, will be novel-length, and mostly about Phan. I am full of squee.

6. I won a book! In a contest over on torquere_social I won one of tc_blue's contests. I wished for Matchmen, Ltd. Finished the first story. More squee. I think I've found another TP author to fangirl over. Which is brilliant. I love having authors I can buy blindly. :)

7. I went to the post office just now to mail a bunch of books. The post office was closed. Because it's Friday afternoon. For some reason, I was still on Thursday. Stupid post office.

8. On the way back, while I was waiting at a stoplight, I saw the add for a horse show. There was a bunch of white horses in it, and the pale images of a boy and a girl. My reactions to the add went something like this:
a - Oh, pretty horses!
b - Something is wrong with that add.
c - Hey, that boy looks a bit like the Scorpius from hp_cross_fest!
d - The girl looks like a stupid bint.
e - There ought to be a good-looking, dark-haired older gentleman with glasses next to the boy.
f - Think you're reading too much HP fanfiction?
g - No, bunny, GO AWAY!!!!
h - Oh, it's green.

9. Remember my Assessment Centre report? A week ago, I had another appointment with a Minion and I got to read the Top Sekkrit Report that psycho-man wrote. It said almost exactly the same things that I wrote in that post. And then the Minion offered to xerox it for me. Top Sekkrit. Uh, yeah.

10. I discovered a new writer on fictionpress, too. The name's Qui, or qui_te. Will stalk journal now.

I lied :D Fic will be done tomorrow instead. It turned into a different prompt from the one I was intending to write lol.

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IT IS ONLY TWO MONTHS BEYOND THE DUE DATE. ONE MONTH SINCE THE END OF THE FEST. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IT IS DONE!

I FINISHED THE HELL OUT OF THAT hd_career_fair FIC, AND IT IS DONE. EDITED AND SPARKLY AND DONE.

:D



The capslock was necessary. Sorry.

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The Yule Balls fic is done and sent to beta.  That is something truly to be thankful for.

Turkey day actually went well.

 

The Parental units did not try to 'convert' the nephew to the hetero world. (Crosses fingers that Christmas will be just as peaceful).  The niece was home from college and wonder of wonders it was good for her.  She now seems to understand that the world does not revolve around her.

We had grilled turkey and roast veggies; sweet potatoe fries (baked in the oven) instead of casserole with marshmallows on top.  Essentially we had a relatively healthy Thanksgiving Dinner.  Even dessert: we forewent the fat laden pecan pie for pear tart and apple crisp.  No pumpkin pie either, pumpkin soup instead.  Not nearly as fattening.

And wine. very nice wine.  I am happy.

Happy Thanksgiving!

(To those of you who celebrate it, that is.)

they need views. off to watch Star Trek on dvd!~

and now, deeeep thoughts....

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I promise I'll try and have some fic for tomorrow

( Shinies )

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

1. To all my American Friends, Happy Thanksgiving! To everyone else, Happy Thursday!

2. Somehow I was reading Reasons to Date My Dad by Al Potter, Age 9 and a sequel was born. I brought my computer to bed with me last night, so this, like 'Reasons' is a naked morning writing experience.

Anyway, anyone wanna beta? It's about 1200 words, really easy and fluffy. It takes place a couple of days after Harry and Percy announce their relationship to the kids. Leave a comment and I will allow you to read and edit on Google Docs. That will be easiest since I won't be at home today.

3. Last night I baked a chocolate cake and a strawberry punch bowl cake. If I remember where my camera is, pics will come later.

4. Time to shower and go to mom's to put the finishing touches on the holiday meal. See y'all later!

To all my dear friends celebrating Thanksgiving I hope you have a wonderful holiday!



"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you', that would suffice." ~Eckhart von Hochheim

... for the Lebenshilfe Verein (Life-Aid Society). The Lebenshilfe Verin is an organisation that organises, runs, and oversees house sharing for mentally disabled people. Some time ago, the chairman bought two cars for the society. He told the car dealer that there were three houses that still needed washing machines to be ready for occupation. The car dealer contacted the owner of an electronic shop, and together they donated the lacking washing machines.

I loved that story for the headline alone. :)

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Happy Turkey day, everyone! Thanks to the most wonderful sassy_cissa for playing dragon catcher for us! She has some awesome dragon egg mojo cause I've been trying for days and nothing.

Little Secret's scroll and eggies: ~*~ ~*~
~*~

Halo's scroll and eggies: ~*~ ~*~ ~*~

1) I'm grateful for my family, friends, and pets. (hugs f-list)
2) I am glad to be able to help prepare a big meal for family tomorrow.
3) I'm grateful to the stock people at the store who work for corporations and not the grocery chain that were smiling, happy and helped the short person reach things.
4) I am glad to be able to pay most of my bills on time.
5) I'm grateful to have one of the girls home for this holiday, even if she does leave the house lights on at all hours.

~~

So, what are you all grateful for this week?

Nearly forgot to post today for NaBloPoMo...

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( More tigers, more frogs, more sushi... )

and now, deeeep thoughts....

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OMG... have y'all seen this???





I shall just let it speak for itself and just say... Totally. Awesome.

I thought I'd share my recipe for sweet potatoes with everyone. They are always a favorite at our table.

( Apple Pecan Sweet Potatoes )

That is the final word count before my fingers fall the hell off. I hit the 50k, my original 75k and almost made it to 100k.

Now I just have my last homework assignments to do, an essay to write for English, and some programs to finish coding. Icy/Hot, you are my friend today!

Jenn

I just had to say that, because I will be baking myself into oblivion today. Mom has taken over the reins for Thanksgiving this year, because the Salt-Encrusted Ham of Doom convinced her that the Flaky Sister just... should not cook for Thanksgiving. I mean, it wasn't just the ham, it was many, many other things, mostly... it's because after cooking since she was old enough to stand at the stove and stir a pot for our mom... the Flaky Sister just... can't cook. Mom and I were chatting about it a few weeks ago, and reliving last Thanksgiving, and then went on to talking about other meals we've had at the Flaky Sister's, and... *shakes head*
( Cut because of length and pictures, omg! )

Yeah yeah, is still November, consider this the Black Friday deal :P (Cause realistically that's when these will get done with Thanksgiving tomorrow. And do this while have time rather than hope for some in Dec craziness w/ all the birthdays and relatives and Christmas)



From now until Dec 1 reply with 1-5 pictures-- you have to supply the pictures, either comment & email the pic to me (with hey ij/lj user name is me noted in email please), or put them in the comment and I'll make an icon/icons.

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I am a guest at this weekend's LOSCON 36, a science fiction and fantasy convention, Nov. 27-29. You can find out more about the convention here: http://www.loscon.org/36/html/mainmenu.html

The's a list of panels I am speaking on HERE.

Let me know if you'll be there!

Last week, I mentioned how the maternal unit's doc likes to spin the wheel and come up with scary shit to pay off his condo had diagnosed Mom as having major scary illnesses. This has happened each holiday season for the last three years.

Recently, some kind soul who I am sure meant well emailed me a link to a medical article. This was the type of thing written in highly detailed language and will hopefully in the future either be refuted or be dumbed down so the lay person can understand it better.
The way I interpreted it (remember, I put sexy in dyslexic) was that fibro is related to multiple scro - M.S.
I tried to read this thing in a brighter light. Couldn't manage it. Now, I am wanting to send a reply email to the alarmist jerk person who thought they were being nice.

What do you think of this:

Thank you so much for that little ray of sunshine. Would you care to pee on my Post Toasties to make my day complete? Just in case you missed the memo, Sg is a depressive along with having fibro. This lovely article has set me to thinking all sorts of lovely thoughts more appropriate to a chainsaw massacre than to the holiday season.
In conclusion, I really hope you drop a frozen turkey on your foot, get backed over by a semi and that a 50 pound buzzard takes a dump on your head.

So, is this too snarky?

Gotta share one happy link check this out I think unbroken_halo and I need this tote bag.

In the meantime, I'm going to curl up somewhere and wait for unsuspecting feet to lick nibble on. Anyone want their toes chewed?

I have written drabbles.  Four to be precise.  True drabbles; as they each are 100 words exactly.

They will not be posted until 12/1/09 as they are for the Advent Drabble com, but they are written.  While it is doubtful the other 21 will be that precise word count, I will take my victories where I can find them.  I wrote them on my breaks and lunch.  Tonight I should be writing the smut portion of my fic (I did come up with perfect end line today as well) but my eyes are drooping as I type this.

Sigh.

So, it is bathtime, then dinner and a glass of wine.  If, and it is a big if, I get a second wind I will write more of the fic.  If not, I will stay up late tomorrow and finish.

 

Regardless, with the help of my wonderul and patient beta (and she knows who she is) I will make my extended deadline.

 

I made myself one for my LJ (this is being crossposted to LJ and IJ) here and one for my IJ here.

I can make one in that style if anyone wants it or I can do one with a banner at the top, with or without section headings. Personally I would *not* recommend the style I have unless you really want to faff around with the text for ages to get it to fit exactly (too short and it looks silly, too long and it protrouds from the top and bottom of the layout and also looks silly), but that's your decision :D

Depending on what you want you may need to provide me with pictures. You'll get the graphic bits and the code and just have to paste your own bio text into it and if you really have issues I can probably talk you through it :D

Gil is technically first in the queue but until her internet comes back on I can't really get into what she wants lol.

So apparently my mother's side of the family - the only family I've been in contact with these past two years - is falling apart as we speak. I don't mind so much because of Things I will summarise behind the cut, but my mother minds very much, which is why I'm very very angry about this.

( tl;dr about Jules' family which you might or might not want to know - touches some sensitive stuff )

I'm thinking it's getting clear why I'm not so hot on the family stuff.

Now this feels a bit better. A tiny, tiny bit.

More icons for everyone :D There's still loads of these to go. I got carried away downloading images lol.

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Title: Sacrifices
Author: dandru
Team: Death Eaters
Word count: 100
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Challenge: Written for dracoharry100 on LJ Challenge #141 Wand of Pleasure
Disclaimer: All characters belong to JKR. I only play. I assure you, no one would pay me.
Author Notes: Smut... wonderful smut. I blame this hilarious commentary for my overwhelming need to write about toys. ;)

( Sacrifices )

Tags: drabble, pairing: harry/draco, rating: pg

Well, catching up with comments and such not so much, but I have been all sorts of accomplishy offline here on things around here. At least to the somewhere on things around here. At least to the usual state of disarray and chaos rather than mom's sick wreckage.

I've got a handful of ficlets going up later this week I hope. Also hopefully (finally) the next bit of Away with the Boys in the Band. Also possibly next of A Little Bit Backwards.

I've got a few bright ideas here for the holidays. Vaguely the idea of an advent calendar but we'll see how many days I actually hit from now until the first of the year.

(note I'm already a day late because this was supposed to be posted last night and I got monkeyed ~laughs~)

Mondays are for music though Cause I R CLEVER like that. ~snorts~

( stuffages )

Now for more coffee. IEP this morning.

I saw this on tray_la_la's journal some time ago, spent some days thinking hard, and came up with my own. :)

Step One

* Make a post to your LJ with a list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, big or small, expensive or free, fandom-related or not. The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

* If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

* Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

* Surf around your friends list to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use—or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free—do it.

* You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf—to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not — it's your call.

* There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Cira's Wishlist )

Title: Spoils of War
Author: CiraArana
Pairing(s): Harry/Ginny, Harry/Severus; also mentions Ron/Hermione and other canon pairings
Rating: R
Word count: ~ 11,000
Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction set in the Harry Potter universe – all recognisable characters and settings are the property of J. K. Rowling and her associates. No copyright infringement is intended. No profit is made from this work.
Warnings 1: het, slash, violence, blood, sex, nastiness in the past, AU
Warning 2: Attention! This story is a carnivore! It has eaten five betas so far. Please, do not attempt to proof-read – you won’t make it past the second chapter, and I’ll never hear from you again.
Summary: The war has changed Harry. His loved ones have to deal with that.
Author’s Note: In response to the_flic's pleading for more Snarry, I've decided to post this fic. It's not very good, I'm afraid. It was my first attempt at Snarry, written pre-DH. The essential idea behind the story - the idea that sparked this fic - isn't as well-explored and clear as I wanted it to be. I think. You might think otherwise.


( Spoils of War )

( Spoils of War - Epilogue )

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Title: Clearing the Clutter
Author: joanwilder aka RaeWhit
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 501
Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowling and her book and film companies.
Summary: Harry worries when Severus begins to clean house.

A/N: This is for accioslash for her correct guesses in the snarry_ldws competition. I have a suspicion she was using that 8-Ball of hers to make her guesses... Still to come for you, Accio, is a Snape/Draco ficlet!

( Clearing the Clutter )

By now many of you have seen or heard about the situation with HPFandom and Hex Files. At this moment in time, HSSHSH is only currently located in its full capacity at The Silver Snitch 2. AFF continues to maintain that SLS does not exist as a member. Although you can still access the story there, it is missing the 2 most current chapters. It was decided that we needed one place that would be able to house everything, just in case of possible loss of data and have come up with a solution.

We have opened a community on Dreamwidth to house the fic and all of the side pieces. We will be uploading the entirety of HSSHSH as well as all the fics from Stirs at this new location.

hols_verse

I know... another comm to join? Well, maybe. DW has the largest posting limit of the three journaling sites and it can be accessed by OpenID as well, so we felt that this would a perfect place to house Hols in its entirety.

UH and SLS

Title: Harry Potter and The Charming Prince (Book Seven in The Bound Prince Series.)
Authors: slashpervert, with co-authors sayingsorry_hh and brknhalo241.
Betas: asm614 and Mini Mouse.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: ADULT
Genre: Romance, Smut
Pairing: Draco/Harry. Others (Mark to Read): One time - Harry/Draco/Fred/George
Book Length: 130,000 Words (41 Chapters)
Warnings (Mark to Read): Language, M/M Explicit Sex, Anal, Oral, Rimming, Bondage, Dom/Sub, SM, Jealousy, Consensual Non-Monogamy, Foursome, Mpreg, Exhibitionism, Character Death (not D/H).
Summary: Harry and Draco have the peace and happiness of which they dreamed. This is an extended epilogue to The Bound Prince series with “snapshots” of Harry, Draco and their children's lives in the ten years after book six.
Notes: sayingsorry_hh and slashpervert wrote the first draft of this volume in the winter of 2008-2009. sayingsorry_hh left the project then, but gave slashpervert and brknhalo241 permission to finish writing and editing the book without her. AU from Chapter 24 of HPB. BP books 1-5 written before the release of DH. This is book seven, immediately following Harry Potter and The Dragon’s Treasure. The beginning of the story, book one, is Harry Potter and The Bound Prince. Icon adapted by slashpervert from THIS ART by isinuyasha.
Disclaimer: This is a non-commercial work of fan fiction intended for adult audiences only. No copyright infringement intended. (Full Disclaimer!)

Chapter Number/Total: 41/41
Chapter Title: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
Words: 1366 Words

( Chapter 41: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters )

This is an unusual recipe for Chocolate Pudding, in that, you bake it in the oven rather than on the stove.  Doing so eliminates the need for cornstarch, and makes for a very silky pudding..

Oven baked Chocolate Pudding

 

 

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