1. It's heeee-eere! Autumn, that is. Remember how I mentioned it would be coming soon? Yes, well, "soon" turned out to be somewhat sooner than anticipated. It's warmed up by now, but it was distinctly crisp and chilly this morning, and the leaves are turning lovely shades of gold and red and orange--just a bit right now, but it won't be long ( Read more... )

A toast to Dicky ( Read more... )

Yesterday was grey and overcast and thunderstorm-laden, from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep. I'm sure we needed the rain, because it had been over a week since we'd had any precipitation, but yesterday was fierce. The backyard barbecue/graduation party I was supposed to attend was canceled, which... I was not entirely ( Read more... )

But I actually wrote something and posted it this morning. For the first time in months, I feel capable of stringing two sentences of fiction together, which is frankly a relief. I think Azkatraz has done me a tremendous amount of good in terms of jump-starting my creativity and reinvigorating me. There was just such enthusiasm, so many ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this earlier... or at all yesterday... ~is hopeless~

But anyway, I actually managed to put together a drabble for the Polyjuice challenge on snape100 this week, and it's here: In His Shoes. It's gen and a little slip of a thing and it features teen woobie Snape, so be warned that it is pure angst. I can't write about that boy and ( Read more... )

And here's today's installment of holiday fic! This is actually the only one that resolved itself into a drabble series, too. It was written for asperias, who asked for SS/HG and the best present for one of them. Well, asperias, I'm sure you probably had something more romantic than this in mind, but it was such a good prompt that it got me thinking about what ( Read more... )

Here's the second installment of the holiday ficlets--different plot, same players. ;-)

This one was inspired by cflower3, who asked for something set at Hogwarts, romantic but not mushy, that paid attention to the little details of Snape. I know you like a younger Hermione, cflower3, but I really hope this story fits the bill for you anyway. It's Postwar SS ( Read more... )

(I meant to post this last night, but a migraine got in my way and I went to bed very early. :-P I'm 100% better this morning, though, so no worries. Anyway ( Read more... )

Some kind of virus or cold hit me like a freight train last night: swollen sinuses, sneezing and coughing, chills, the works. I loaded up on decongestant and vitamin C and such and went to bed early, but a night of sleep did nothing to help. This morning I'm feeling like something scraped off the bottom of somebody's shoe, and I have an ( Read more... )

I was going to post this earlier, but then there was the phone call about Dad's results, and I had other business to arrange and some research to do and appointments to make and... ~flails~ Anyway, now I'm getting around to posting another mess of Snape-centric drabbles, mostly from snape100 challenges ( Read more... )