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Current Location: Mandala House
Current Music: bagpipes

Title: Daily Celebration
Author: alisanne
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snape100's prompt #313: Snape’s Holiday Season
Word Count: 100
Warnings: kinkiness implied. ;)
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.

( Daily Celebration )

Current Mood: hopeful

For those participating in Yuletide who might not have heard, there's a serious problem with Yahoo that's preventing the mod from sending out email for pinch hits.

Thanks to those who responded to my post of woe from last week; the kind words and thoughts were appreciated. :) I spent the last week baking in preparation for a family gathering that occurred this past Sunday, and I knitted a hat and a pair of thick house socks, and I wrapped most of my presents. A couple aren't finished yet, and I need to pick up some things either today or tomorrow.

I also finished and uploaded my Yuletide story, which is nerve-wracking because I've never done Yuletide before and I haven't written anything out of HP in 2-3 years, but hopefully my recipient will like it. I wasn't going to participate in Yuletide Madness, but I saw a couple of things on the pinch hitter list before Yahoo shut it down that are tempting me. I don't want to commit to do a pinch hit, but if I have the time and energy, I may write something short for Yuletide Madness.

Yesterday, I uploaded some late gifts to the Snupin Santa site, so I'm caught up with that. Today is laundry day, and it may turn into errand day this afternoon. Other than a few last-minute gift buying-finishing-wrapping things, I'm ready for the holidays. I think I've finally reached the point where I can sit back, take a deep breath, and relax. I may even venture into looking at the various fest posts again and see what I want to put into my "to read" folder.

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Current Mood: okay

Passing a message on from elynross regarding pinch hits for Yuletide:

Apparently Yahoogroups has changed some policy, and the wave of pinch hits sent out has DISABLED MY YAHOO ACCOUNT. I can't post to it to tell the pinch hitters why I'm not responding to claims. Of the 20+ groups I belong to or own, only 3 are displaying, presumably because the rest are on the email address that has been disabled. I... am not a happy camper.

At this point, I need to sleep, and there's very little I can do about this. If you want to claim a pinch hit, you'll need to *forward* or otherwise get the info to my personal email (elynross@gmail.com), and I'll work with that, and try and respond when I get up in a few hours.

Please boost the signal on this, to try and reach other people on the pinch hit list. I'm not sure how the second half of the pinch hits are going to go out, but we'll figure something out.

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Why are there so few hours in a day?

Why is it always the not-so-good writers that are the most prolific?

Why does my creative writing muse demand hours of peace and quiet to flourish and create, when I can only give it scraps of time at the end of the day?

Unrelated to my own childish whinging, I'm curious as to the widely variant and often completely opposite "squicks" that people have. What squicks you in reading fanfiction (or any fiction)? Why does it give you those heebee-jeebies?

( And other pointless ramblings. )

Thanks for listening to my whinge. Feel free to participate in the HP fandom "what squicks you" discussion as you wish.

Cross posted to my Live Journal shanti_writes

Current Mood: melancholy

Title: Light in the Darkness
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating :R
Pairing: Harry Potter
Author: lilyseyes
Word Count: 300
Prompt: #20/Snowman
Warnings: *AU, Harry is 5 years old, implied child abuse/neglect – my take on Harry's childhood.*
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.
Summary: Harry feels very sick and can't tell his memories from his dreams.
Note: This drabble series was inspired by the fabulous art drawn by oldenuf2nb of little Harry in his cupboard - Christmas under the Stairs.

( Light in the Darkness )

Current Mood: sleepy

Title: Well Fortified
Author: alisanne
Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Bill Weasley
Word Count: 100 x 4
Rating: PG overall
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
Beta: sevfan
Challenge: Written for neville100's prompt #100: Century
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.
A/N: Happy 100th prompt, neville100!

( Well Fortified )

Current Mood: sleepy

It's midnight and I am finally checking my mail. *rolls eyes at self*
Thanks to everyone whose Holiday cards and gifts I received today:

♥ swtalmnd, I love the Snarry card, thank you!

♥ mahaliem, the carousel card is gorgeous, I can't stop playing with it. *g*

♥ minuial_nuwing send me a lovely card with a winter scene, thank you, sweetie!

♥ My darling sevfan sent me a sparkly snowman card, thank you, luv!

♥ softly_sweetly sent me an adorable card with deer and tree confetti *plays with confetti*

♥ knic26! OMG, I'm amazed at how grown up he is! *boggles*

♥ dementordelta! I got it today and iI cracked up. Dude, we are SO playing with this at the next con. ;)

♥ fancypantsdylan gifted me with a snowglobe on my user page, thank you, sweetie!

You all made my day! *glomps tight*

Current Mood: jubilant

Title: The Wedding Lesson
Author: joanwilder aka RaeWhit
Pairing: Harry/Severus, Harry/Ron
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Word Count: 4250
Disclaimer: The Potter universe belongs to J.K Rowling and her book and film companies.
Summary: Such many things had happened on the day Bill and Fleur were married, so it was reasonable that Harry would forget one of them.
A/N: Written for jadzialove FOR HER BIRTHDAY TODAY! DEC 22! Happy Birthday, Jen! Serendipity might've started us, but I'm so glad we've kept it going, my friend. There is art to go with this; you'll find it within the story where the actual scene depicted occurs. Thanks, veridian_dair! She's also posted this art on her IJ HERE, if you'd like to feed the artist in her own cage. :) Of course, you can also leave her comments on this post as well.

( The Wedding Lesson )

Title: Reindeer Post
Author: alisanne
Rating: G
Pairing: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Summary: Harry knows not to get in Draco's way.
Word Count: 300
Genre: Humor
Warnings: None that I am aware of.
A/N: Written for dracoharry100's Christmas prompt: Reindeer, and for slythindor100's Advent prompt: Lit outdoor tree
Beta: leela_cat
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Reindeer Post )

Current Mood: pensive

Brain hiccup - forgot to say thanks to mrowe and swtalmnd, whose delightful cards arrived today - thank you!

Current Mood: embarrassed

Yuletide fic is done, I've started on SO's gift vest (cut & marked all fabric tonight - had to recut one piece, luckily had enough extra fabric to do so), got my hair cut, purchased some red napkins (one of the four we had having mysteriously vanished about 10 days ago), and made pizza for dinner. And we walked Juno. Tomorrow: do laundry, work on pinch hit, go to the dentist, walk Juno (solo; SO is going in to campus), continue working on vest. Maybe Wednesday I can read some fic?

Today's 3fan_holidays is a plotty Severus/Harry/Draco. My drabble offering today:

• Offering [Poppy/Severus, general]: Severus might not be to every witch's taste, but Poppy appreciates his qualities. Here at IJ.

Current Mood: sleepy

The wagon draws up to the Forge of the Maker
Thrice the Dark Man sets his hand to the door
"You're needed, Bright Lady," he cries o'er the threshold,
"As you have been needed so often before!"
And in the last light of the shortest day's ending
The Maker, the Midwife with hair like the snow
And eyes like the spring heeds the Cartier's summons
And takes her bright flame with the Sun down below.

While we in the world where the darkness has gathered
Give light to the fire we shall tend until dawn,
And offer the cup unto all who come knocking
For all here are kindred till morning comes on.
In the long Hallow, our Mother she labours
To bring forth the Sun and give birth to the year
With Fire for midwife and Shadow for lover
While we keep the vigil in merry good cheer.

We sing our Wassails to the Kings of the Seasons;
The Oak and the Holly, the Robin and Wren,
Remember the stories of triumph and treason,
And how that which falls will arise once again.
The old year gives way for the birth of another,
Some hopes we may cherish, while others we'll mourn
For life is a gift from a generous Mother
And out of her labours are all futures born.

Ere long the sky shivers from ebon to pewter,
The dancers gone clumsy, the singers like crows;
We'll stir the Yule fire to mighty last blaze
And we'll offer our prayers for all good things to grow
Then when the sky lightens from silver to amber
We'll stagger outside where our breath steams the cold,
Climb high as we may and stretch arms to the day
For the dark is turned back in that first kiss of gold.

Let all who have gathered give thanks to our Lady,
Let all raise their glass to Her labours this night
Then settle like coals as the last flames are fading,
And sleep for awhile in the Infant King's sight.

-- Catt Kingsgrave

So apparently my Solstice Present showed up tonight. While I was in the bathtub. Yyyeah. She's a sense of humour on her, does my Lady, and I'm sure it was amusing watching me try to keep my ink and bathwater separate while my couplets were overflowing.

As should be obvious from the VERY rigid scansion of this, it's a song rather than a poem. And yes, it came with a tune, but seeing as how I can compose just fine, but can't write music for shite, the singing of it will have to be a hypothetical thing until such time as I can lay hands on a halfway decent USB mic, and commit it to electrons. For the short term, it could be sung to the tune of The Bells of Paradise in a pinch and come out just fine, if a little repetitive.

Slainte, all my Witchkin, and Happy Solstice to you all!

Er, would anyone be interested in writing Hermione Granger in Breaking_Point RPG?  Yell, comment here, or contact Titti@LJ or IJ.  The mods are currently looking for one to fill in on short notice. They've got a list of other wanted characters that didn't make it to the cast page yet...

Thanks for petting the babies.

ETA: Have addicted the husband as well. He now has his own scroll after listening to Little Halo and I chatter about the new dragons. Mwahahahah!

Little Secret's scroll and egg:

Little Halo's scroll and hatchlings: ~*~

Halo's scroll, hatchling and eggs: *~* *~*

Mr. Halo's scroll and eggs: *** ***

Happy Birthday today to

geekus_feminina!

Many happy returns! :)

Current Mood: optimistic

Merlin: Watched "The Last Dragonlord", the last ep of Season 2!
( Cut for spoilers )

White Collar: Watched ep. 2, "Threads". Fun and charming, again. And inspiring! (No, I don't feel like writing fanfiction in any TV-based fandoms. But this show makes me want to write original stories about classy bandits.)

Current Mood: nostalgic

Title: Something to Be Said
Author (Beta): the_minx_17 (vl_redreign)
Fandom (Pairing) — Rating: QAF (Brian/Justin) — Adult
Word count: ~660
Summary: *snort* Is porn. Really.
Highlight for Warnings: * *
Disclaimer: Nothing about Queer as Folk is mine. Well, except the fricking addiction.
AN: Written for the Snowbound theme at BJ Action.

My Yuletide story is uploaded, wh00t! :D

On LJ, I'm paid for the next three days, so I can send the coupons to anyone who will need them. Passers-by welcome, just ask :)

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I've been seeing far too many sad stories on my f'list recently (and one of them - about Brianna Lacey, a missing 15 year old from Chicago needs all the signal boosting it can get), but this story hits far too close to home...

We learned yesterday that schadenkatze, someone I've known through fandom for more than a dozen years, lost her life to in a house fire early Sunday morning. Her twin schaden_freude (another long-term friend, and someone who had suffered a major loss not so many years ago), was only able to help their elderly mother from the home the three shared. The house itself and almost everything it contained was, as you might imagine, a great loss, but the loss of her twin sister is...unimaginable.

***

From the Springfield News-Leader:

Three people in the home -- a mother in her 80s and two daughters -- were asleep when the fire began. Scott said the deceased -- one of the daughters -- died from smoke inhalation... The mother was in serious condition at St. John's Hospital.
The other daughter was not reported injured.

lunaris1013

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