Or will in about a week, if things keep up. I'm voicing Albus Dumbledore (barmy_old_coot) in the LJ interactive fiction community hp_dungeons and having great fun. I even have a timeline for his life. Yes, all of it. And you know what really, truly makes my Albus Dumbledore special? He remains the only living being to have seen the Red Sox win a World Series. And I swear I ( Read more... )

Eight minutes, actually -- and I'm going to use that as an excuse for any quality control posts.

( HP-verse. Random characters. R for subject matter. 130ish words. )

So il_mago refused to tell me what a Muggle is. But a Google search surprised me into going OOC -- I had no idea that the word's been accepted into the OED.

( Draft definition and some ruminations on word origins and politically correct speech )

This is the first time (out of three tries) that I've actually managed to complete a 15minuteficlets assignment (this week's word here in the alloted time span. It's rough, but it's legal! (Wow, I should write some smut around that last sentence, huh?)

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( AD, gen, G, chardeath )

It's annoying to put aside time to write in a fairly busy schedule, only to find that you can't actually write anything during it. Every piece of fic I've been working on just doesn't want anything added to it right now. Frustrating.

But at least I managed a belated, if not quite on-time (23 minutes instead of 15) response to this week's 15minuteficlets ( Read more... )

Seeing as I am too medicated to work on anything else atm, I decided to try the current 15minuteficlets challenge. I kinda failed -- finished it in 20 min. But here it is, in all its rough, unbetaed glory. Better something than nothing.

( Luna at the end of OotP: G, unbetaed, unedited, asterisk marks the end of 15 minutes )

As you can see from my new icon, I'm having way too much fun with this doll site (works in IE only).

And Sluggy Freelance's parody of the second HP book, Torg Potter and the Chamberpot of Secretions, is up and running. Tis the sequel to Torg Potter and the Sorcerer's Nuts. The Flash extras (which include a Sorting) are also amusing ( Read more... )

I recently became aware of a marked disparity between the number of great stories that I read and the number that I rec here (lots to zero). So it's time to make reparations.

atdelphi's AD/SS work is amazing. The deservedly much-recced "Winter Kept Us Warm" (sex, love, power, Legilimency and some of the loveliest descriptions of a mind since Hannibal's ( Read more... )

Back in the US again, and oddly missing rash-inducing humidity. Listening to a lot of remakes and remixes lately, which seems somehow appropriate for someone devoting a fair amount of time to fanfiction. A lot of the stuff I've collected has been (3rd wave) ska -- e.g., Reel Big Fish's re-dos of "Brown Eyed Girl," "Gin and Juice," "Take on Me" and ( Read more... )

I finally completed hp100 Remedial School -- I've now answered all the challenges at least once. I also managed to fulfill my other, sekrit requirement: to feature the Giant Squid in all of this week's drabbles (to atone for my ferocious consumption of various cephalopudlian culinary delights this week ( Read more... )