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24 November 2009 @ 04:04 pm
24 November 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Hey everyone!
So I got in the mood for reading my all time favourite Dramione, Draco's Bitch, but apparently, Coloured Grey is still down. So if anyone could help me find this wonderful fic - a link, a download, or the new Coloured Grey, or whatever - I would be eternally grateful!
Thanks,
Sofia
So I got in the mood for reading my all time favourite Dramione, Draco's Bitch, but apparently, Coloured Grey is still down. So if anyone could help me find this wonderful fic - a link, a download, or the new Coloured Grey, or whatever - I would be eternally grateful!
Thanks,
Sofia
24 November 2009 @ 08:28 pm
Saw this advertised in another community. Doesn't do me much good, since it's apparently limited to Americans, but some of you might want to use it.
Get $3 to use toward anything at Amazon MP3
Get $3 to use toward anything at Amazon MP3
Current Music: Foreigner: Hot Blooded
24 November 2009 @ 10:47 am
* I am absolutely disappointed with the lack of attention I am getting for this fic on ff.net. Maybe I will have better luck here. Happy Reading!
Title: In Search of Absolution
Author: SaLiEnT ThOuGhTs
Rating: M
Warnings: none
Length: WIP
Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure, Mystery
Era: Hogwarts
Summary: 3000 years ago, three sisters bent on revenge cast a curse. Now, Hermione, Ginny, & Pansy must pay the price as they begin their journey, In Search of Absolution.
Why you enjoyed the fic: Well, It is mine, of course! No, really I love writing this because it was a way for me to vent my anger and frustration from a very similar situation and it ended up being, well... more. I hope you enjoy!
Link to the story: www.fanfiction.net/s/5507261/1/In_Search
Current Mood: 
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disappointed24 November 2009 @ 10:44 am
*Just thought I would put my new fic out there as it seems to be getting more attention than my first & favorite. Please let me know what you think.
Title: It Was Love
Author: SaLiEnT ThOuGhTs
Rating: M
Warnings: none
Length: WIP
Genre: Drama, Romance, Marriage Law
Era: Post-Hogwarts
Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Lord Voldemort has his final revenge. One year later, the Ministry of Magic notices a dramatic drop in the Magical birth rate. Only 1 in 500 couples around the world are able to conceive. In a desperate attempt to repopulate their kind, they pass the Marriage Edict only to realize their mistake 1 day too late.
Why I rec this fic: I came up with this idea while trying to brainstorm for my other fic, In Search of Absolution. I have no idea where it is going, but I hope you will join me for the ride!
Link to the story: www.fanfiction.net/s/5529255/1/It_Was_Lo
24 November 2009 @ 09:55 am
I'm going Zorbing tomorrow! I've heard that it's a ton of fun, so I'm pretty excited. There's not really all that much to talk about, so I'm going to go ahead and go.
For my picture of the day today, I'm showing you one of my favorite pictures that I took when I was in Antarctica last Christmas. I'm not even entirely sure why I like it so much. There's just something about it that's really beautiful to me. Mystical, in a way. It had been really rainy, foggy, and cloudy that day, but just as we were leaving to head back to open sea, the sun broke through the clouds and fog and turned this bit of mountain into something incredible.
The picture doesn't do it justice, but there have been certain moments in my life where I've looked around and thought, god, this is what heaven must be like. And if you don't believe in heaven, then it would be one of those times where you've sat down and just been in awe because what you're looking at is so transcendental and beautiful and amazing that all you want to do is appreciate the moment. This was one of those times, and it's a moment I'll remember all my life, regardless if I look at this picture or not.
Woo. I got all thoughtful there. Not used to that stuff.
Jenn
For my picture of the day today, I'm showing you one of my favorite pictures that I took when I was in Antarctica last Christmas. I'm not even entirely sure why I like it so much. There's just something about it that's really beautiful to me. Mystical, in a way. It had been really rainy, foggy, and cloudy that day, but just as we were leaving to head back to open sea, the sun broke through the clouds and fog and turned this bit of mountain into something incredible.
The picture doesn't do it justice, but there have been certain moments in my life where I've looked around and thought, god, this is what heaven must be like. And if you don't believe in heaven, then it would be one of those times where you've sat down and just been in awe because what you're looking at is so transcendental and beautiful and amazing that all you want to do is appreciate the moment. This was one of those times, and it's a moment I'll remember all my life, regardless if I look at this picture or not.
Woo. I got all thoughtful there. Not used to that stuff.
Jenn
24 November 2009 @ 09:40 am
That. Was. So.[Expletive]. Cool!
It was only a couple of weeks ago that, prompted by Hal Duncan's incredible essay on the state of vampire fiction
http://www.bscreview.com/2009/11/no
I posted
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/542
about how vampire stories hadn't done anything for me since the '90s.
I take it back--Langan's story "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" is an amazing piece of fiction.
Langan stories are the literary equivalent of three card monty: you know the ingredients, you think you know where they are going to land, but then Langan makes a few hard-to-track passes and blam! you're left feeling dazed and kind of awed, asking yourself, how did he do that?
A while back I wrote a review of Langan's novel _House of Windows_
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book
and I've been jonesin' for more of Langan's fiction ever since, so when I heard that he had a novella in the vampire anthology _By Blood We Live_ available through Baen Books Webscription ebooks
http://www.webscription.net/c-66-new-ar
I hunted it down and got a copy.
Good call, Ripley.
The dialogue in this story is exceptional, and most of the story unfolds through what the quartet of main characters say to one another. The vampire is not gay, not in existential angst, not remotely human--he's Nosferatu with a fucked-up makeover that updates his look for the 21st century.
But what really tickled the cockles of my media studies heart was the many media references Langan slips in. This is one of the ways in which Langan manages to shake up the vampire story, because there is none of that old cliched pretense that anyone in the group needs to have a vampire explained to him: they have the rich and eclectic language of 21st century media fans in which to define it, describe it, and discuss dispatching it.
I don't want to say much more about the story, because it is full of wonderful little surprises, but there are other aspects of the story which make it very current and relevant, and if there are any professors out there looking for a fast-paced vampire story to add to their syllabus, "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" should instigate some lively discussion.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that, prompted by Hal Duncan's incredible essay on the state of vampire fiction
http://www.bscreview.com/2009/11/no
I posted
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/542
about how vampire stories hadn't done anything for me since the '90s.
I take it back--Langan's story "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" is an amazing piece of fiction.
Langan stories are the literary equivalent of three card monty: you know the ingredients, you think you know where they are going to land, but then Langan makes a few hard-to-track passes and blam! you're left feeling dazed and kind of awed, asking yourself, how did he do that?
A while back I wrote a review of Langan's novel _House of Windows_
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book
and I've been jonesin' for more of Langan's fiction ever since, so when I heard that he had a novella in the vampire anthology _By Blood We Live_ available through Baen Books Webscription ebooks
http://www.webscription.net/c-66-new-ar
I hunted it down and got a copy.
Good call, Ripley.
The dialogue in this story is exceptional, and most of the story unfolds through what the quartet of main characters say to one another. The vampire is not gay, not in existential angst, not remotely human--he's Nosferatu with a fucked-up makeover that updates his look for the 21st century.
But what really tickled the cockles of my media studies heart was the many media references Langan slips in. This is one of the ways in which Langan manages to shake up the vampire story, because there is none of that old cliched pretense that anyone in the group needs to have a vampire explained to him: they have the rich and eclectic language of 21st century media fans in which to define it, describe it, and discuss dispatching it.
I don't want to say much more about the story, because it is full of wonderful little surprises, but there are other aspects of the story which make it very current and relevant, and if there are any professors out there looking for a fast-paced vampire story to add to their syllabus, "The Wide, Carnivorous Sky" should instigate some lively discussion.
23 November 2009 @ 10:38 pm
(This is all a bit jumbled, I know, but it's a journal, not a scholarly paper.)
There's a new comm in town,![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
hp_diversity, which I encourage y'all to check out. It's focused on the people of color in Harry Potter, giving a little love to the Angelinas and Chos and Padmas of the fandom. Rock on. I'm following it specifically because I want to read more diverse fiction. Helps with an idea that comes up in my head from time to time, specifically Draco Malfoy and his attitudes towards race as a child in canon and an adult in fic.
A lot of times, people ask me how Draco can be my favorite character when he's clearly such a racist. I have to say, it's because I can empathize with him. Not with his choices, necessarily, but with his thought process. I don't feel that Draco was a deliberate racist - by and large. There certainly are moments where he can be and is, but the majority of his attitudes and actions seem to be ingrained in him from his upbringing. I can see where he's coming from on that, because I was raised the same way.
I wasn't raised to hate people who weren't white. No KKK or Aryan Nation over here. But subtly, unconsciously, I was raised to think of them as "them". Other. Different. Those black folk. Them Mexicans. The whatchacallums, Japs. I was well into my teens before I learned that gypping someone was a reference to Romany, and I am still horrified by how absolutely long it took me to discover what the phrase I knew for 'bargaining' actually meant. "How'd I make out on that deal? Oh, I jewed him down." My god.
Other than the small portion of my life that was spent on military bases, most of my childhood and teenage years was spent in this area of the country, and both unconscious and deliberate racism are rampant. The ethnic makeup of this area is 99.999999% white. I went several years without seeing any non-white faces except on TV or shopping trips to the city. I grew up listening to people like my grandfather, or my granny, or any of my elders and family members talk about "those people", and I absorbed it all.
Because I trusted them. I loved them. They were fantastic, lovable, kind, and generous people, so clearly their attitudes couldn't possibly have been wrong. I remember how embarrassed I was when I learned that 'colored' was Not A Nice Thing To Say. As far as I knew, it was. See, I learned that from my great-great-uncle, who's now in his nineties, and who is quite literally the nicest man I've ever met. When he was my age, colored was the polite descriptor and he uses it to this day. I never considered for a second that I might have learned something wrong from him, and fortunately the woman who corrected me seemed to understand that I had not used the term on purpose to be hateful.
So, really, I can easily understand how someone could be raised that way and never think for him/herself otherwise. When the people you love and trust the most are the people who teach you these attitudes, you don't question it, often not for a very long time. I can understand Draco, that way. I can also understand how he could grow up and change. I really dislike reading fics where twenty years later he's still the little arse he had been all through school. People grow up, they get exposed to other ideas, they learn. I did. I'm still learning.
I still struggle with it, every day. Am I staring at that woman's goddess braids because they're beautiful or because they're 'different'? Am I listening so intently to that couple's conversation because it's a tonal language or because it's 'strange'? Do I think that man is attractive because he's hot or because he's 'exotic'? (And vice versa, do I think that man is not attractive because he's not, to me, or because he's 'other'?) I fight with this, all the time. I try very hard not to give in to my upbringing, and I'm always horrified when I slip.
... I'm not sure where all this was going. Something about Yes, Draco could become a better man as he grew up and Yes, Draco could easily go out with Hermione after school because of that growing-up process, but I sort of lost the thread somewhere. Think I better stop here before my brain entirely melts.
There's a new comm in town,
hp_diversity, which I encourage y'all to check out. It's focused on the people of color in Harry Potter, giving a little love to the Angelinas and Chos and Padmas of the fandom. Rock on. I'm following it specifically because I want to read more diverse fiction. Helps with an idea that comes up in my head from time to time, specifically Draco Malfoy and his attitudes towards race as a child in canon and an adult in fic.A lot of times, people ask me how Draco can be my favorite character when he's clearly such a racist. I have to say, it's because I can empathize with him. Not with his choices, necessarily, but with his thought process. I don't feel that Draco was a deliberate racist - by and large. There certainly are moments where he can be and is, but the majority of his attitudes and actions seem to be ingrained in him from his upbringing. I can see where he's coming from on that, because I was raised the same way.
I wasn't raised to hate people who weren't white. No KKK or Aryan Nation over here. But subtly, unconsciously, I was raised to think of them as "them". Other. Different. Those black folk. Them Mexicans. The whatchacallums, Japs. I was well into my teens before I learned that gypping someone was a reference to Romany, and I am still horrified by how absolutely long it took me to discover what the phrase I knew for 'bargaining' actually meant. "How'd I make out on that deal? Oh, I jewed him down." My god.
Other than the small portion of my life that was spent on military bases, most of my childhood and teenage years was spent in this area of the country, and both unconscious and deliberate racism are rampant. The ethnic makeup of this area is 99.999999% white. I went several years without seeing any non-white faces except on TV or shopping trips to the city. I grew up listening to people like my grandfather, or my granny, or any of my elders and family members talk about "those people", and I absorbed it all.
Because I trusted them. I loved them. They were fantastic, lovable, kind, and generous people, so clearly their attitudes couldn't possibly have been wrong. I remember how embarrassed I was when I learned that 'colored' was Not A Nice Thing To Say. As far as I knew, it was. See, I learned that from my great-great-uncle, who's now in his nineties, and who is quite literally the nicest man I've ever met. When he was my age, colored was the polite descriptor and he uses it to this day. I never considered for a second that I might have learned something wrong from him, and fortunately the woman who corrected me seemed to understand that I had not used the term on purpose to be hateful.
So, really, I can easily understand how someone could be raised that way and never think for him/herself otherwise. When the people you love and trust the most are the people who teach you these attitudes, you don't question it, often not for a very long time. I can understand Draco, that way. I can also understand how he could grow up and change. I really dislike reading fics where twenty years later he's still the little arse he had been all through school. People grow up, they get exposed to other ideas, they learn. I did. I'm still learning.
I still struggle with it, every day. Am I staring at that woman's goddess braids because they're beautiful or because they're 'different'? Am I listening so intently to that couple's conversation because it's a tonal language or because it's 'strange'? Do I think that man is attractive because he's hot or because he's 'exotic'? (And vice versa, do I think that man is not attractive because he's not, to me, or because he's 'other'?) I fight with this, all the time. I try very hard not to give in to my upbringing, and I'm always horrified when I slip.
... I'm not sure where all this was going. Something about Yes, Draco could become a better man as he grew up and Yes, Draco could easily go out with Hermione after school because of that growing-up process, but I sort of lost the thread somewhere. Think I better stop here before my brain entirely melts.
23 November 2009 @ 05:37 pm
Buffy and Spike videos. You know, I'm really shocked that the parents didn't complain about Buffy and Spike having sex everywhere, and sometimes it was pretty graphic, and yet they got all up in arms about a threesome on Gossip Girl!
23 November 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Someone, somewhere must have made a True Blood/Buffy/Twilight/Supernatural music video to Lady Gaga's Teeth. Or am I asking too much after only a week?
I am so into Fame Monster it is unbelievable; it's all I've listened to for eight days.
I have tickets for the NEC on 5th March... cannot wait!
I am so into Fame Monster it is unbelievable; it's all I've listened to for eight days.
I have tickets for the NEC on 5th March... cannot wait!
Current Mood: 
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cheerfulCurrent Music: Lady Gaga - Dance In The Dark
23 November 2009 @ 05:17 pm
23 November 2009 @ 04:23 pm
Current Mood: 
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busy23 November 2009 @ 02:04 pm
I am looking for a fic that I started about a week ago. It is a post-hogwarts draco/hermione. It starts out that Draco is dating an American girl named Bianca, but he and Hermione bump into one another at a ministry event and he begins to take an interest in her. Ron and Pansy are paired up and the point I had reached Draco had broken up with Bianca to date Hermione and it looked like she and Harry were interested in one another. Draco was an antiquities dealer looking for an Ankh belonging to King Tut. I forgot to mark it as a favorite and when I rebooted my computer it cleared my history. And since end of the semester in grad school is rotting my brain I can't remember the Title/Author/ or where I originally found it. I would be eternally grateful for any help.
23 November 2009 @ 06:48 pm
Author:![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
yourebrilliant
Beta:the_willows (sort of, I'm not sure how far she got so shout if you see a typo!)
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings:*deep breath* Handy/Rose, Alternate!Torchwood, Abby/Connor (implied), Jenny/Cutter (if you really squint), Draco/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, Ron, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Dean Thomas, Rubeus Hagrid, Greyback-the-Werewolf
Disclaimer: I really don't own anything here. Harry Potter is JK Rowling and Warner Bros, Doctor Who and Torchwood are the BBC and Primeval is ITV.
Summary: What if Primeval (s2 cast), Torchwood (post-JE alternate universe), and the HP gang (post-Hogwarts disregarding DH because Malfoy's on the right side) were all trying to solve the same problem in the same universe.
A/N: Let's be honest here, this is CRACK. But it's funny, silly crack. You don't need to know much about any of the three fandoms to enjoy it, it's very general. Also, it's my ficaversary (eek! one year already) and this is what I chose to post for it.
Fake cut to the crack
Cross-posted todwfiction time_and_chips s1_else dramione (if anyone knows of a Primeval comm let me know!)
yourebrilliantBeta:
the_willows (sort of, I'm not sure how far she got so shout if you see a typo!)Rating: G
Characters/Pairings:*deep breath* Handy/Rose, Alternate!Torchwood, Abby/Connor (implied), Jenny/Cutter (if you really squint), Draco/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, Ron, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Dean Thomas, Rubeus Hagrid, Greyback-the-Werewolf
Disclaimer: I really don't own anything here. Harry Potter is JK Rowling and Warner Bros, Doctor Who and Torchwood are the BBC and Primeval is ITV.
Summary: What if Primeval (s2 cast), Torchwood (post-JE alternate universe), and the HP gang (post-Hogwarts disregarding DH because Malfoy's on the right side) were all trying to solve the same problem in the same universe.
A/N: Let's be honest here, this is CRACK. But it's funny, silly crack. You don't need to know much about any of the three fandoms to enjoy it, it's very general. Also, it's my ficaversary (eek! one year already) and this is what I chose to post for it.
Fake cut to the crack
Cross-posted to
dwfiction time_and_chips s1_else dramione (if anyone knows of a Primeval comm let me know!)Current Mood: 
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happy24 November 2009 @ 12:02 am
Okay, so my iPod went all gay fifteen minutes ago, so I took it out then back then KABOOM when I synced it again, all my songs and videos were gone.
Nine hundred songs. Gone.
And when I look at the space capacity, there's 7 gig of what my iPod calls "Other". Like, unspecified shit in my iPod, which I highly suspect are my songs and movies. But they're nooooot! [/Paul! Paul! The Musical]
SHIT, THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!! Now I have like, a hundred songs and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
I'm so sad. :( I want to send my iPod to the Apple Service Center as soon as possible, but my week's so full. I dunno what to do but be sad. :(
Nine hundred songs. Gone.
And when I look at the space capacity, there's 7 gig of what my iPod calls "Other". Like, unspecified shit in my iPod, which I highly suspect are my songs and movies. But they're nooooot! [/Paul! Paul! The Musical]
SHIT, THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!! Now I have like, a hundred songs and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
I'm so sad. :( I want to send my iPod to the Apple Service Center as soon as possible, but my week's so full. I dunno what to do but be sad. :(
Current Music: "Million Dollar Bill"-Whitney Houston
23 November 2009 @ 07:58 am
23 November 2009 @ 11:42 am
Hi, guys!
Well, the other day I was wondering about Hermione's physical description. I know she has brown eyes and bushy brown hair. But I also noticed that in a lot of fics, they say she has some freckles too. Is it on one of the books? I was also wondering about her skin colour. Is she pale or is she tanned? I remember reading that she was tanned after her trip to France.
Another thing, I remember Harry saying they were the same height? (In third year, I guess) Does it mean she's short?
Hahaha... Hope someone can clarify this curiosity for me! :D
Well, the other day I was wondering about Hermione's physical description. I know she has brown eyes and bushy brown hair. But I also noticed that in a lot of fics, they say she has some freckles too. Is it on one of the books? I was also wondering about her skin colour. Is she pale or is she tanned? I remember reading that she was tanned after her trip to France.
Another thing, I remember Harry saying they were the same height? (In third year, I guess) Does it mean she's short?
Hahaha... Hope someone can clarify this curiosity for me! :D
23 November 2009 @ 05:40 am
2 pictures today because I'm feeling nostalgic. A few of the people that I miss the most from college...
Erica and Anna, I freaking miss the crap out of you two. Hopefully I'll be able to run into you again sometime soon!
Oh, Dr. Caldwell. You had some of the best quotes ever. And Noonay, I also miss the crap out of you. You were always there for me.
Erica and Anna, I freaking miss the crap out of you two. Hopefully I'll be able to run into you again sometime soon!
Oh, Dr. Caldwell. You had some of the best quotes ever. And Noonay, I also miss the crap out of you. You were always there for me.
23 November 2009 @ 05:27 am
1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifty words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.
1. Seamus Finnigan (Harry Potter)
2. Joey Potter (Dawson's Creek)
3. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
4. Barney Stinson (HIMYM)
5. Charlie Pace (Lost)
6. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
7. Pacey Witter (Dawson's Creek)
8. Lloyd Haythe (Undeclared)
9. Summer Roberts (The OC)
10. Effy Stonem (Skins)
( Randomness Ensues... )
2. Write a fic of fifty words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.
1. Seamus Finnigan (Harry Potter)
2. Joey Potter (Dawson's Creek)
3. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
4. Barney Stinson (HIMYM)
5. Charlie Pace (Lost)
6. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
7. Pacey Witter (Dawson's Creek)
8. Lloyd Haythe (Undeclared)
9. Summer Roberts (The OC)
10. Effy Stonem (Skins)
( Randomness Ensues... )