This journal is now friends locked. Comment here to be added. :)

PS: If we're already friends, don't comment, for goodness' sake!! I didn't defriend anyone! I'm just not going to be having open posts any more, for the most part, so this is a general invite to climb aboard! :)

OMG, artses! tojoon made beautiful art to go with Glamour, over here. Go see, go see! ♥♥♥♥♥

Title: Glamour
Pairing: HP/DM
Genre & rating: Porny romance; NC-17
Length: 22,340 words, 1 chapter (posted in three parts for length)
Summary: On his final assignment for Year One of the Ministry's Auror training program, Harry is to assist Draco Malfoy as he attempts a month-long diguise for a Stealth requirement, an attempt which ultimately reveals more than it conceals.
Warnings: EWE! (Not epilogue-compliant!), gender-bending.
A/N: Thanks to moonflower_rose for the beta job!

Start it here

Read it on Skyehawke

( Glamour, cont'd again )

Title: Glamour
Pairing: HP/DM
Genre & rating: Porny romance; NC-17
Length: 22,340 words, 1 chapter (posted in three parts for length)
Summary: On his final assignment for Year One of the Ministry's Auror training program, Harry is to assist Draco Malfoy as he attempts a month-long diguise for a Stealth requirement, an attempt which ultimately reveals more than it conceals.
Warnings: EWE! (Not epilogue-compliant!), gender-bending.
A/N: Thanks to moonflower_rose for the beta job!

Start it here

Read it on Skyehawke

( Glamour, cont'd )

Title: Glamour
Pairing: HP/DM
Genre & rating: Porny romance; NC-17
Length: 22,340 words, 1 chapter (posted in three parts for length)
Summary: On his final assignment for Year One of the Ministry's Auror training program, Harry is to assist Draco Malfoy as he attempts a month-long diguise for a Stealth requirement, an attempt which ultimately reveals more than it conceals.
Warnings: EWE! (Not epilogue-compliant!), gender-bending.
A/N: Thanks to moonflower_rose for the beta job!

Also available at Skyehawke

( Glamour )

Omg, fic is DONE!!! It needs a serious round of edits before it will be post-able, but it's done! And it is (before edits, at least!) exactly 22,000 words, on the nose! You have no idea how pleased I am about that! And I'm ridiculously pleased that I actually managed to finish it in the first place! This is my first (complete, posted) fic since August 2007 and I am mighty pleased about that! And I'm totally going to end everything I say in this post with an exclamation mark! Yay!

*breathes*

Okay. It's not the best piece of literature I have ever penned. Let alone anyone else, haha. In fact, it's little more than a plot to support a porny device, but be that as it may, it's finished and I'm so happy about it! Whooooo!

Now I'm going to bed!

I just hit the 10,000-word mark in my fic!! It looks like I'll actually be finishing and posting this one, folks! I'm sooo happy about that! (My first complete/posted fic since August 2007!!)

*whispers*

Guys, I'm... writing! I'm trying not to scare off the muses, but there is fic happening, and I haven't gotten stuck or lost interest yet! This is cautiously hopeful! Naturally, it's not on any of the lovely prompts any of you were so kind as to have given me the other day, haha! My muses may actually be back.. ish? I'm trying not to scare them!

I'm afraid to go to bed and stop writing, lest I lose momentum!

Here's a riddle: what's more nerdy than foodies or photography geeks? Answer: people who make a hobby of photographing food. There are a surprising number of these people out there, you may be startled to learn! I started following picturing_food about a year ago when someone else linked me, and as I have interests in both cooking and photography, I guess it appealed? It's an interesting place. I just made my inaugural post there tonight! It's a few pictures of croissants and other pastries from a Montreal bakery.

Secondly, as long as we're on the topic of food, I've been thinking for some time of deleting my cooking/recipes/etc. comm for awhile now. While never the busiest of comms, during my hiatus it seems to have died altogether, but I thought perhaps I would try to rouse some interest in it. It's a place to share recipes, with or without pics (lol), ask cooking-related questions, pose challenges to your fellow cooks, and whatever else you like. If you're a person of such inclinations, go have a look at the_epicureans. ♥

OMG yay!! Thank you, anonymouse! ♥♥♥♥♥

I shall make a celebratory poll tonight! You just made my day, whoever you are. :) :) :)

*sigh*

Well, children, the day has come. Or perhaps I should say that "a" day has come, and maybe it will one day go away again, but I suspect that at least some of you have suspected this was coming for awhile now already. I have to say that this journal is sort of officially on hiatus now. This shouldn't come as too huge a surprise, given how infrequently I've been posting, I suppose, but there it is. I do have a bit of an explanation.

When I first came into the fandom, it wasn't because I was looking for other people who liked HP or writing or anything like that. I was just writing, not looking to meet anyone at all - just hoping for readers, pretty much. Meeting people was an entirely unexpected bonus, and it has been a huge one. I've met some of my favourite people in the world through this little fandom of ours. At the time, I was finishing my third undergrad degree and I was busy and stressed out. Most of my closest friends had moved away from my city and I felt a bit isolated in a lot of ways. Writing fanfic became a harmless escape, though an increasingly time-consuming one.

( Oh good, I still remember how to do cuts. Lol. )

Hello, lovely people!

I promise to post again later on about something not this boring! This is (yet another!) cry for technical advice here: for those of you who know how to make websites happen, how does a person get one published? My friend is trying to make such a thing and isn't sure. He's using iweb, if that helps, and he's built it on a mac. He has also purchased the domain name, but when you enter it, it doesn't come up. Does anyone know anything about this?

I owe you people, seriously. ♥♥♥

ETA: Thanks, you guys! ♥ Solutions have been achieved. Much appreciated!

There are two things I need to do. Well, lots more than two, but it pertains to LJ, first I need to stop making posts before I've answered comments on previous posts, and I also need to make the post I keep alluding to in veiled threats hither and thither. In addition to that, I also need to email Penni, my father (haha, so behind on both!! Sorry Penni!!) and learn two operas really fast. Hahaha! *panic* Lol. Um.

But before I do all that, I also really, really need to rec this amazing piece of art. It's reallycorking, so of course it's fabulous already, but this one is especially fabulous!

Seven Potters [PG]. Check it out, it's wonderful! There's also a fantastic sketch of Fleur!Harry/Bill. ♥

I was so very about to go to bed when I forgot to check on something and re-opened my internets, and lo and behold: an official reason to hate Crocs, if the appearance wasn't enough crime already. That poor kid in Singapore!!

*disgusted*



Really going to bed now. For real.

Lol, Lewis Black on the Emmy's! I approve! There's something wonderfully incongruous about a man like that on a show as full of bullshit as this.

I'm also snickering mightily at the most incongruous duet partners ever. Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera, really?????? Who the fuck's idea was that piece of spectacularly mediocre trash??? A hearty lol for you, sir/madam!





( Emmy spoiler under here )

What the hell? Is it "post a joke in your journal" day today or something? Did I miss the memo? I love you flist, but my, what corny senses of humour we all have today!

*bemused*

Also, ahahahaha, I just read a fic search where Harry apparently goes into heat every few days. I'm not saying this is by definition a bad fic. Just that I'm extremely amused by that much alone. :D

Some people rearrange furniture when they're bored. And by "people", I mean women. I have never known a man who does this. Other people fuss with their layouts endlessly. After about 181 takes... autumn has arrived in my journal! Lol.

silentaurorsilentaurorsilentauror

Fic! Sequel to Promises to Keep. Just a wee one. :)

Title: Worth Keeping
Pairing: DM/HP
Genre/Rating: Romance-ish; soft R
Length: 4,719 words
Summary/notes: This is a wee sequel to Promises to Keep. It's the Epilogue as re-told in this universe, from Draco's perspective.

Read it at Skyehawke or IJ.

( Worth Keeping )

I just heard that one of my longtime favourite authors, Madeleine L'Engle, died. This summer has been big for losing icons of my worlds - Beverly Sills, Regine Crespin, and Luciano Pavarotti all this summer, from the opera world, and now one of my favourite writers.

( A brief epitaph )

Quick question, loves: does anyone know if JKR has publicised when Scorpius Malfoy's birthday is? Just checking! Thanks!