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Sunday, December 6th, 2009

sams_cafe

2:05p WINTER IS UPON US. Not that you'd know it here in Chicago, where it's sunny and cool out and has snowed ONCE and it's DECEMBER. *shakes fist at the sky* But I can pretend, after all. viggosterri and pinkfinity both sent me a lovely snowflake via LJ (thank you! It's like a flurry!), and I've been curled up pretending it's snowing and watching videos. bluejeans07 linked me to DOCTOR CLAUS: Less Christmassy, but no less hilarious, is cluegirl's accusation that I am secretly one of these gentlemen, professing my love of typeface. I WISH. And finally -- this was one of my favourite films as a child, around the holidays. Most of the actual cartoons in it are old or clipped from barely-relevant films, but I loved the little intervals with the dancing toys and the incredibly stupid lyrics. This is just part one; you can find the rest on youtube pretty easily.

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snarry_holidays [ snarryhols ]

9:53a Fic: It's Harry, Remember - for pollicem Title: It’s Harry, Remember Author: We'll never tell! Giftee: pollicem Word Count: 7700+ Rating: PG Pairing: Severus/Harry pre-slash Warnings: Sadly, none. Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. Summary: Harry has only ever wanted to be normal. Believing he will never stop being harassed in the wizarding world, he leaves. What happens to bring him back? Author’s Notes: Thanks to nefariousandrea for doing the first round of betaing for me. This story would not have been nearly as good as it came out to be without bewarethesmirk, helping me whip it into shape. The two asterisked lines are direct quotes of the first Harry Potter book and movie. pollicem I hope you like it! ( It’s Harry, Remember )

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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

blue_soaring

10:09p The Men Who Stare at Goats. Hippie sex magic fic GO. Originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Please comment there using OpenID or ask me for an invite code. :3

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snarry_holidays [ snarryhols ]

8:55p Fic: In the Beginning - for roozetter Title: In the Beginning Author: Might just be Luna Lovegood Giftee: roozetter Word Count: 3360 Rating: PG-15 Pairing: Snarry Warnings: * It’s a little angsty. Passing mentions of chan.* Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. Summary: Harry finds Snape de-aged after the war. ( In the Beginning )

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sams_cafe

3:15p AND THEN I SLEPT FOREVER. Okay, till 10, which is still late for me. Since then I have essentially goofed off. I did try to get the student loan application finished, but they need my Borrower PIN, which I left at work in my Giant Spreadsheet Of (Oh Shit Nobody Better Steal This Or They'll Have All My) Passwords. I do have a few links to share -- one, tripping_doozer asked me to signal boost a campaign to Bring Anya Home, a letter-writing project to help unite two sisters separated when one of them was adopted to the United States. Two, ljgeoff is having an End Of Time party on January 2nd in Chicago. Locals should go check out the preliminary post and drop an email if you're interested. In other news...this is tough to say without sounding like an asshole, or like I'm angry (which I'm not) but let me try: At this time of the year there are many charitable appeals, and nearly half of all charitable giving occurs around the holidays. I want to remind everyone that while I like to publicise good causes when I can, the primary function of this journal is still a journal, an account of my life and the events therein. I feel bad turning people down for help in publicising or signal-boosting, and I will often post for friends who ask, but I can't always say yes, especially depending on how relevant or local the cause is to the readership I have here. If I did post everything I was asked to post, copperbadge would basically be a messageboard for other peoples' causes and concerns, and the whole point of my ability to reach a wide readership would become moot. (As an example, six people asked me to publicise events or causes for them yesterday.) I appreciate your understanding. :) It's not easy for me to say no, but sometimes I have to.

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ariadneelda

8:27p I got fic, wheeee!!! I got my Kinky Kristmas wish at daily_deviant yesterday and I'm so very lucky because this is wonderful. :) Idle Threat by Anonymous (Sirius/Regulus, Severus/Sirius/Regulus; NC-17; ~4,400 words) Severus finds Sirius and Regulus doing something brothers should not be doing, and exacts payment for his silence. Warning for dub-con bordering on non-con, and incest, obviously. This is rather dark, and oh, so, so good! The kind of fic you don't often see anymore - it felt quite oldschool to me. :) Marauders-era, and I loved how there's clearly deep affection between Sirius and Regulus despite their family issues, and then there's Snape, who's malicious and cruel as he jumps at the chance to extract revenge on Sirius for all his bullying. The Snape/Sirius dynamic is perfect as for me, very canon. The fic is power games and blackmail and wrongness and great dialogue. And there's angry-wrong-hot sex, too. It all filled me with such glee. I definitely recommend it and not just because it's my gift, though it is a marvellous gift! :D ~*~ I'm super busy with work and stuff till Dec. 17, but I'm still trying to read and look at anything that grabs my attention, so there might be holiday fest recs at some point. (As long as I get out of my latest bad habit of posting only once a month. >.>) current mood: very pleased

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cluegirl

10:51a People Unclear on the Concept. So there's this site that's got me rolling my eyes and gritting my teeth today. It's touting a Shub-Niggurath Solstice Sacrifice, and asking people to donate to the altruistic charity Heifer.org, in order to procure the goat which they intend to sacrifice to Shub-Niggurath, (Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young, Empress of Madness, and also entirely made-up by HP Lovecraft and his buddies,) As a witch, I call major shenanigans here. I don't care if you're making sacrifice to something that isn't real -- there are plenty of hungry beasts out there which will be more than happy to suck down what you're offering up, and to step into the thoughtform you're providing. Every force evolves a form, and this force you asshats are giving lip service to wanting to see is going to be ENTIRELY not what you thought you wanted once it follows you home! As a human with ethics, I call major shenanigans here. Heifer.org was created to help people who are STARVING. People who have no resources, and who need such basics in order not to fucking die. I don't care if you're tired of hearing Christmas Carols, and of not being able to find a place to park at the mall, what you are doing is actually taking help and sustenance away from someone who actually DOES need it. All because you're in a pissy mood and feeling a bit scroogeley? Grow the FUCK UP, sunshine! You need to go hungry a LOT, if you think that joke is fucking funny. As a person who has READ Lovecraft, I call major shenanigans here. Okay, moron, here's Lovecraft's Unspoken Law #1 -- The acolytes who do the summoning ARE the offerings, NOT the apperitif that's tied to the altar. THAT life force just opens the door; it's YOUR life force that tempts the entity to come through it. You're invoking a God of Madness, and expecting gratitude? Forebearance toward you? That she wouldn't reach for the first meal to hand -- YOU, -- and make a bite size crunchy of your mind, soul, and/or bodyparts? You don't invoke what you cannot banish. Anyone who's read even a single fantasy novel has grasped that concept. Except you, apparently. Ghod, some people just need to be knocked down... (No, I am not going to share the URL. I don't want to encourage traffic to this site, not even as a joke. We could wind up with Shub Niggurath running for President in 2012 on the HyperConservative ticket, on the winds of that kind of humour... Oh wait... nevermind.)

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snarry_holidays [ snarryhols ]

9:58a Art: The Boy Who Was Enthralled - for marauderswolf Title: The Boy Who Was Enthralled Artist: We'll never tell! Giftee: marauderswolf Media/Medium: Photoshop CS2 Rating: R/NC-17 - NSFW Pairing: Snarry Warnings: *Boy bits, creaturefic, slight blood* Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. All characters are portrayed here as 18 and older. Summary: Snape found a way to survive the Shrieking Shack. It didn't take much effort to convince Potter that he had to provide Snape with blood and other (more pleasant) things. Artist's Notes: I squealed when I saw creature!fic and vampire!Snape! I knew that's what I had to do. I'm super happy with this piece, I hope you really like it too!! ( The Boy Who Was Enthralled )

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blue_soaring

3:34a Blues are nocturnal. Tonight so far has included yoga, the DVD commentary for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, some very strange and random urge to clean the grout in the backsplash above my kitchen sink with a toothbrush, digging through the external hard drive and rediscovering the OST for Chrono Cross, my neighbour orgasming incredibly loudly, downloading anything and everything that involves Robert Downey Jr.'s face, and rearranging my attic while muddling over the issues of identity and existance in Chrono Cross. Not sleeping is certainly productive, but not in that way where it's useful. I haven't gone to bed in three days now! It is very strange to subsist on random couch naps, lemme tell you. Tomorrow is movie day, as Roomie's retroactive pay finally showed up, so we're gonna go see 2012 and The Men Who Stare at Goats. As much as I want to see both, I really wish Sherlock freakin' Holmes was out already. In other news, I want to write fic but I don't want to actually write. This presents an obvious problem. Originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Please comment there using OpenID or ask me for an invite code. :3

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lilyseyes

12:40a Dec 5, Harry Potter, HP, Decorating Title: Decorating Fandom: Harry Potter Rating :R Pairing: Harry Potter Author: lilyseyes Word Count: 100 Prompt: #5/Ornaments Warnings: *AU, Harry is 5 years old, implied child abuse/neglect – my take on Harry's childhood. P.S.: These will have a happy ending!* Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works. Summary: Harry wasn't included in the Dursleys holiday decorating, but that didn't mean he couldn't do his own. ( Decorating ) current mood: accomplished

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Friday, December 4th, 2009

bewarethesmirk

9:16p Fic: Like This (Morgana/Nimueh, NC-17) Merlin, Morgana/Nimueh, ~350 words, NC-17 Warnings: explicit rimming, straight-up PWP, nasty Summary: There are many ways to be fucked. Hey, I needed a break from writing fest fics. And b_hallward seems to like this pairing. *g* ( Like This ) current mood: naughty

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snarry_holidays [ snarryhols ]

8:56p Fic: Of Hope Restored - for leela_cat Title: Of Hope Restored Author: Severus Snape is displeased people are writing about his various appendages. Giftee: leela_cat Word Count: 20,078 Rating: NC-17 Pairing: Um...Snarry? Warnings: *AU after OotP* Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended. Summary: In order to gain hope for the future, Severus first needs to remember and accept what has been lost. Author's Notes: Many thanks go to WhiteCotton for help formulating a plot, then helping it along, then going back and betaing the entire thing. Darling, I am so grateful to you. (Of Hope Restored)

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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

kennahijja

12:57a Compilation of RL, Alex Rider, Audiobooks... Had a very lovely plate of lasagne at our office's end-of-year dinner, which was fun and relaxing especially since I'm lucky enough to avoid the 'official' Christmas party by going home earlier on the same day. Yay - hate those! Small talk and dress-up and alcohol is what I believe goes on in the seventh level of hell. And I managed to write quite a bit of my Alex Rider ficlet on the train there and back. Well, I tried to write something for the flash_rider challenge, but it's already gone beyond 'flash' :( In a way, this might be pointing to a solution to my 'no more festfics because they *grow* and then I'm going mad trying to finish' problem... Sign up, then go at it, hell-bent to write a drabble. That will inevitably end up as a 1000 word fic, minimum length requirement, bingo. Because setting out to write a 1000 word fic won't work. I tried it here, and am at more than twice that length already, with more to come :(. BUT... am listening to the audiobook version of 'Eagle Strike' (library had no book version), and it's a strange sort of fun; first audiobook ever. The voice itself is distracting (sort of caging the imagination and clashing with how I feel it *should* sound), but the details are so much more present and memorable - no skimming if I don't try to do anything besides listening. I recall someone on my flist recently saying that one of their betas made an audio version of the fic they were betaing, and couldn't understand the benefit. Now I do. Weak and awkward constructions just jump out at you. The exciting bits most certainly do too. As always, ignore cutesy critter - it's just basking in views :). current mood: content

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