I got a fuckton of books from Dollar Tree - where everything is $1.

Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie DiRisio, Illustrated by Linnea Gear.  I am hoping this might give me some writing ideas outside of therapy notes on my LJ.

The Silver Rose by Susan Carrol.  A novel set in 1585 France that deals in ( Read more... )

No good, obviously.

I've been having fun rereading Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. After rereading Northanger Abbey I was inspired to do some more research on my Rococo Steampunk idea (what if airships were invested in more during the middle of the 18th century) that originally started as the PotC fanfic Rigid Airship. I'm wondering though ( Read more... )

...and I can't help but think it is Black Widow and Lucius Fox.

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And it was pretty awesome.

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( A fic idea inspired by the film, you can skip to just my reaction by clicking the cut below )

So, I had a Snape/Hermione dream where Snape survived the bite wound in the Shrieking Shack and left Hogwarts to pursue full-time potions research and development [because he is so fucking done with Hogwarts].  Hermione went on to become a wizarding lawyer [because she is going to save the wizarding world from itself one case at a time].

The ( Read more... )

In all my years in the fandom I have never once come across a fic where Norrington has asked Gov. Swann for Elizabeth's hand in marriage.  Maybe I never saw one because I wasn't looking for one, but we know it happened.  Gov. Swann knows and approves of the asking during Norrington's promotion ceremony.  Elizabeth seems to know too, maybe she was ( Read more... )