Something Awesome and In the Life of Minty

[snugglemint]

Firstly, let's talk about the awesome because I'm afraid you'll stop reading after I tell you the things going on with me.

THE MOST AWESOME THING HAPPENED TODAY WHILE I WAS TALKING TO MY MICHI! (Yes, mine. We're getting married. And we're going to have many, many love-plots together. Be jealous. >D )

Anyway, we were talking and we figured out that

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*is fresh out of the shower, wahoo!*

[michichu2]

I am soooo excited you are talking about this already!

Wank aside, sometimes RL things get in the way of writing, and it's absolutely awful. I also tackle big projects that I think are totally doable at the time, and then suddenly...stall. Hence why my multi-chaptered fics get stalled >>;;

We have to write the things that excite us, otherwise it just becomes a chore.

Also re: writing Lucius! Lucius is a bastard. He is a magnificent, magnificent bastard; he is manipulative, and scheming, and always in control. That's why we love him. He is a very Bad Man who is capable of Very Bad Things without batting an eye, and the only time we see him show any vulnerability is when Voldemort is basically berating him and beating him down and making him his bitch. That's when Lucius goes Oh Shit, Maybe I Should Have Thought Out This Plan for World Domination Better....

But other than that, he is generally a smug, nasty Son of a Bitch, and Better than Everyone, and um, He loves his family. But that's it.

*rolls around at the thought of this

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[snugglemint]

XD Your subject is that you got out of the shower, and your ending is you rolling around. Now you have to shower again!

I don't see how I can't not be talking about this already. It should have been talked about yesterday! Damn us for not being psychics!

Re:Lucius

I agree with all of your points, they're all correct and just scream Malfoy. (And thank you for reminding me of that. )

I'm trying to meld two images together though. Who he is... and who Draco makes him. I see a very changed man when it comes to Draco. A person that he didn't even know existed within him self. A person that only Draco can invoke. A person that Narcissa could only touch the edges of. (Still can only touch the edges of.)

Am I making sense? He's still that cold hearted bastard, but Draco thaws him for just a little while.

Perhaps not overtly mushy. Nothing like rainbows and sunshine and eternal, undying love. But definitely something softer than before. Something... cleansing, something that makes the sins of the world less important...

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[michichu2]

When you become a father, your whole world changes. "A person he didn't even know existed within himself." is it exactly. I agree with you whole-heartedly. It's all the egotism of seeing a little miniature copy of yourself running around, but then also realising you are responsible for this little person, and then the admiration of the little person surprising you by the way they differ from you. At first it would probably be an extension of his narcissism, but then he would discover the tenderness of loving someone else that he really can't experience for anyone other than his own flesh and blood

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[snugglemint]

Iiiii think that I might be able to do this. :D

With your input. It'd be best that we keep it as in character as possible, and being that I've never done Lucius, I might stray from the path.

[talekayler]

I think there's a lot more pressure put on exchange fests, which makes me nervous to join one. Quite honestly, I don't think I will. I like the prompted ones, but sometimes, I just want to take an idea from a prompt and work on it in my own time, at my own pace, no pressure. But if you're not feeling it, it's more pressure then you want what with RL. And fandom is for fun or for releasing emotions! Not for creating more.

Also, this story is making me excited too! \o/ It sound fun and exciting!

[snugglemint]

I KNOW! I LOVE IT TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

She did such a great job on that drabble. She wrote it to stave off the plot so she could finish her BB and such, but I don't know... it's kind of made me more ravenous XD

Sooooo gooooood.

[talekayler]

SAME WITH ME!! Now when I see her in chat, I'll be pestering her for two things. She had better be able to multitask!! xD

Also, I bet whatever you come up with next will be amazing too. ;) ♥

[snugglemint]

I know what I want to start with, I just have to figure out Lucius first.

[snugglemint]

I actually started to drop out of Beltane months ago, but we switched my prompt and it kind of renewed my hope that I could do it. I should have just dropped out then, but noooo.

The second time I dropped out way late... like... into extensions late. I tried really hard, but it just wasn't working. I feel guilty and rawr because I felt like I had a good plot going. I had all the pieces mapped out, I just couldn't write it.

Don't know what was wrong. :(

No more fests for meeee, but good luck with the ones that you got! :D

OR YOU COULD READ IT NOW! BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME AND AWESOMENESS SHOULD NOT WAIT! It's small, it'll take only a few minutes. XD

-Enabler-

Lucius, you pretentious prat! You need to help me with this! .... .-. Or just... continue looking through that spell book... trying to impress Voldemort. That helps me... not at all.

[scarletscarlet]

Hey, you can still totally be all with the fandom writing without fest participation. Me, I like fests and communities with themes etc (like daily deviant) because it usually gets me thinking in a different way.

Lucius/Draco <3. Love it. It's a short step from that very-close-family thing to adding a little bit of OTT incestuous decadence in a "we do things differently" kind of way :).

[snugglemint]

I need to relearn writing, I think. But that's what these drabbles will help me do. :) Thanks though. <3

Nngghhh. Lucius/Draco is SO. SO. HOT!

I can't even stand it. When I read that drabble, I was so close to flailing. My hand literally raised and was grabbing at air. It's so insane.

<3

Also... -GLOMPS- How have you been, bebe?

[songquake]

I hear ya about fests. I almost always need to ask for an extension because I take on too many projects at once and even my short fics tend to be 5k. Fest fics almost always run over 10k.

I still haven't finished my Beltane fic, and I fear I'm going to give thisgirl_is a stroke. (In fact, I should be writing it now rather than commenting on anyone's LiveJournal!)

On the other hand, if I didn't have deadlines to work toward and that extra bit of guilt/shame, I doubt I'd ever finish ANYTHING. And I like the exchange fests because I have that much more motivation to finish.

But I have recently made a commitment to myself that I shall not have more than two fests going on at a time, and then only if one is a porn fest (porn is easy for me).

[snugglemint]

Yeah, I think I already gave her a stroke with the run around I gave her. XD Bad Minty!

I thought that same thing with fests, that it was incentive for me to get things done, but turns out that it's not so much. ._. I've signed up for three fests and I've only ever completed one. And I have to wonder if I finished the first one because I actually knew the person and was trying to prove something to myself.

I should still be trying to prove something to myself, but something has shifted between now and back in october.

Good luck with finishing your Beltane! <3