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Title: Do Not Taunt the Happy Fun Horcrux!
Author: pen_and_umbra
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,922 words (complete)
Warnings: Crackfic.
Disclaimer: I pour beetles down the waistcoat of the suggestion that I own these characters.
Summary: The Final Battle To Decide The Fate Of the World And ( Read more... )

I've been beset by work, yet again, and then I caught the flu from whichever level of Purgatory sadistic snotmonsters and Kleenex makers come from.

Ugh.

So I've been ill -- to the point where I had to admit to myself that no slashfest stories will get done this round, seeing as I had zero ability to form coherent sentences in my native tongue, let alone ( Read more... )

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Work has been several unmitigated and innovatively appalling levels of hell. I have been thisclose to stabbing the new business manager in the face with one of those wooden latte-stirring sticks several times this week. Cures have involved chocolate, booze, and plodding through The Brothers Karamazov (the fine line between "epic" and "tedious" is ( Read more... )

Title: Three Graces
Author: pen_and_umbra
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Snape/Karkaroff
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: JK Rowling pwns all. For fun only.
Word count: 4,138, complete

Summary: Snape had no particular desire to sleep with Igor Karkaroff. It was just that he had even less desire to sleep alone.

Notes: Many thank-yous to the fabulous furiosity for a speedy beta ( Read more... )

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Iconspam time!

Star Wars is assorted characters from Thrawn to Obi-Wan, including five icons from the awesome Clone Wars cartoon series.

Harry Potter is mostly icons from the Illustrated Guide to the Capture and Upkeep of Potions Masters (Snape, Snape/Harry), with a couple of Snape-Karkaroff icons and a Hermione thrown in.

LotR is one insanity ( Read more... )

OMFG. OMFG. If you buy just one classical music album this year, make it this one. I haven't liked Vivaldi this much since I was a precocious pretentious 14-year-old.

In other news, it brings me great happiness that Apple is ever innovating:


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More drabbles, as requested in the Drabble-a-thon post. This time, Harry Potter pairings that don't feature Snape; all are exactly 100 words, rated PG-13 at most. ...damn, some of these were effin' hard to write (I'm looking at you, f).

Previous rounds were Star Trek, Star Wars, Snape, and Sherlock Holmes drabbles.

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For furiosity: Harry/Draco, ( Read more... )

Statistical analysis pwned me like a pwning thing yesterday, but at least that's done. Now I have all the time in the world to watch DVDs write pr0n do diligent research on the paper I'm supposed to be writing this month. Yay. Ish. Sigh.

In any case, I ate some blueberry pie and had a glass of this fantabulous Pinot Noir, and this appeared:


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