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29 November 2009 @ 07:01 am
- 07:14 Took two tries and a special trip to get a flashlight (furnace chambers are DARK) but heat should return to house RSN. #
- 07:33 Wind was really hoooooowling last night -- patio umbrella knocked most spectacularly out of the table! #
- 09:18 Amuse me, internets OR ELSE! #
- 10:19 the mogg blogg: Don't Laugh ow.ly/GthF #
- 10:27 Countdown to Thanksgiving: Not a Craftastrophe -- ow.ly/GtmM -- Genetically engineered turducken in the wild! #
- 10:45 I'm not convinced this isn't a Sunday. Of course, I felt like Thursday was a Sunday, too. #
- 12:53 Making a flying visit to Whole Foods -- almost literally, given the wind today. #
- 15:12 Wore my new winter/hiking/parcel delivery boots for the expedition, and they felt good! #
- 17:45 Back to playing with PHP, but I'm going to take a Wii break next! #
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29 November 2009 @ 02:55 am
Title: I Like It Rough!
Author: mariposasabrosa
Rated: T... maybe M later.
Genre: Romance/Friendship/Adventure
Era: From Marauders-at-Hogwarts to Philosopher's Stone
Pairings: S/R; J/L
Warnings: Language, non-graphic violence and sex, some Italian dialogue (but always with English translation).
Words: Idk. A lot! Each chapter has between two thousand and five thousand words. You do the math!
Summary: Don't let the title mislead you; this isn't a smut piece. Life is rough with love in the world. Even in a magical world like Hogwarts, there's still things you "can't do," powerful forces we can't even accept within ourselves. Exploratory, questioning story about our two favorite puppies growing up and sticking together!<3 Will be AU in the future (once baby Harry comes into the picture).
Chapters: 10, so far. Yesterday I had 8. But, I took 7 and 8, divided them up a bit to make 7, 8, and 9, switched them around, and then added a new one! It's just so that the order of things goes more smoothly :)
Chapter 1 (for those who haven't started it yet)
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9 (new)
Chapter 10
GO, GO READ!
Ruff ruff! Aauuuu! ;)
29 November 2009 @ 02:36 am
Title:
Playdates
Warnings:
ANGST. NC-17Slashysex, mentions pf child abuse.
Word Count:
6850
Summary:
No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
Notes:
Thank you to cacklesthewitch (for sheer awesomeness in the face of my panic attack) and Polyandra (for being a super speedy and all around great beta) This was my entry for the![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
rs_games 2009. my prompts were Orange; Healing and Understanding
( A successful parent is one who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his/her own psychoanalysis. )
--
Title:
Motor Oil Rainbows (5/?)
Summary:
Having an orgasm and keeping a motorcycle upright is hard as hell. I’ll tell you that Playdates
Warnings:
ANGST. NC-17Slashysex, mentions pf child abuse.
Word Count:
6850
Summary:
No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
Notes:
Thank you to cacklesthewitch (for sheer awesomeness in the face of my panic attack) and Polyandra (for being a super speedy and all around great beta) This was my entry for the
rs_games 2009. my prompts were Orange; Healing and Understanding( A successful parent is one who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his/her own psychoanalysis. )
--
Title:
Motor Oil Rainbows (5/?)
Summary:
Sirius/motorcycle, Sirius/Remus
( Ready to Ride? )
28 November 2009 @ 09:03 pm
28 November 2009 @ 08:33 pm
28 November 2009 @ 09:27 pm
Ohai, I'm new here. :B
I've always kind of adored R/S and believed it to be canon but it's only recently that I've really fallen hard and fast into the Harry Potter fandom enough to actively seek out fic (and to write some!). ♥ You lovely people keep me going!
So, uh, I come bearing fic. :D
Corporeagua, by yours truly. Upwards of 13k words; probably about a PG-13; Marauders-era, and really Marauders-centric (James and Remus being bros ftw!), but with lots of cutesy R/S on the side. :)
They're staying for two weeks, as they have every summer since the one after second year - the year in which, to Remus, they officially solidified as that infallible brotherhood the Marauders. And ever since then, it seemed as though their time at the lakehouse was the time in which the greatest, most earth-shaking revelations would be made and conclusions would be reached.
Corporeagua
Also, I know the rules say not to make community promo posts unless they're specifically R/S, but it'd mean a lot to me if people could givehaporemo a look-see, just for a second. :3 If that isn't okay I'll come back in and delete this part of the post, I promise!
I've always kind of adored R/S and believed it to be canon but it's only recently that I've really fallen hard and fast into the Harry Potter fandom enough to actively seek out fic (and to write some!). ♥ You lovely people keep me going!
So, uh, I come bearing fic. :D
Corporeagua, by yours truly. Upwards of 13k words; probably about a PG-13; Marauders-era, and really Marauders-centric (James and Remus being bros ftw!), but with lots of cutesy R/S on the side. :)
They're staying for two weeks, as they have every summer since the one after second year - the year in which, to Remus, they officially solidified as that infallible brotherhood the Marauders. And ever since then, it seemed as though their time at the lakehouse was the time in which the greatest, most earth-shaking revelations would be made and conclusions would be reached.
Corporeagua
Also, I know the rules say not to make community promo posts unless they're specifically R/S, but it'd mean a lot to me if people could give
haporemo a look-see, just for a second. :3 If that isn't okay I'll come back in and delete this part of the post, I promise!Current Music: "Listen To Your Heart" from Me & My Dick
28 November 2009 @ 06:16 pm
I got into Highlander around the time the last episode aired, so catching up on canon's been haphazard. As I've been laid up this afternoon with a sprained ankle, I figured I'd finally see "Comes a Horseman" and "Revelations" back to back. Day-um, that's some angstastic, slashy goodness. I have to ignore some feminist concerns, but that's hardly a first with, well, pretty much most fandoms.
Anyway, I'm now in the mood for some nice, hot, post-Revelations D/M slashfic. If anyone felt like dropping some links in the comments, please, that would be fantastic.
And now to consider the wonders of Chinese delivery for dinner.
Anyway, I'm now in the mood for some nice, hot, post-Revelations D/M slashfic. If anyone felt like dropping some links in the comments, please, that would be fantastic.
And now to consider the wonders of Chinese delivery for dinner.
28 November 2009 @ 06:01 pm
- 14:11 Celebrating an American tradition: standing in a long airport security line on the way home from thanksgiving. #
28 November 2009 @ 02:05 pm
Last night, after spending quite a long time flopped on the couch with a heating patch and a buckwheat pillow on my neck, I stretched and moved my neck around and was rewarded with an amazingly horrible popping noise. (The reaction from the Stroppy One: "Was that your NECK?!") And then the pain started to loosen its grip on me, oh thank goodness. Today, no migraine! I'm still going to my bonecracker chiropractor on Monday, though.
Hey Seattle peoples! If you don't have other plans, you should go to the Blackbird Orchestra CD release show! I think Blackbird Orchestra are wonderful, and am sad that I will not be able to attend this show.
Mind you, the reason I won't be at the show is because I'm going to a birthday party for one of my dearest friends, so while I'm sad about missing Blackbird Orchestra, I'm happy about socializing. Even if it involves a group outing to go see that movie with the teen werewolves and the sparkly vampires.
Yes. I'm seeing New Moon tonight. But I learned my lesson from when I was carted off to see Twilight, and I'm going to be filling the coffin flask with something stronger than rose liqueur. I'm thinking absinthe is needed.
The other thing that will get me through the Sparkle-Apocalypse is the knowledge that![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
cass404 is coming up tomorrow so we can GO SEE MORRISSEY!! Dear Powers That Be, it would make me very very happy if the sainted Moz were to perform "Last Of The Famous International Playboys". I'm just saying.
Okay, back to doing laundry, stirring a pot full of pink RIT and a jacket, and figuring out which purse my coffin flask best fits into.
Hey Seattle peoples! If you don't have other plans, you should go to the Blackbird Orchestra CD release show! I think Blackbird Orchestra are wonderful, and am sad that I will not be able to attend this show.
Mind you, the reason I won't be at the show is because I'm going to a birthday party for one of my dearest friends, so while I'm sad about missing Blackbird Orchestra, I'm happy about socializing. Even if it involves a group outing to go see that movie with the teen werewolves and the sparkly vampires.
Yes. I'm seeing New Moon tonight. But I learned my lesson from when I was carted off to see Twilight, and I'm going to be filling the coffin flask with something stronger than rose liqueur. I'm thinking absinthe is needed.
The other thing that will get me through the Sparkle-Apocalypse is the knowledge that
cass404 is coming up tomorrow so we can GO SEE MORRISSEY!! Dear Powers That Be, it would make me very very happy if the sainted Moz were to perform "Last Of The Famous International Playboys". I'm just saying.Okay, back to doing laundry, stirring a pot full of pink RIT and a jacket, and figuring out which purse my coffin flask best fits into.
Current Location: The Library
Current Music: Tomorrow - Morrissey
28 November 2009 @ 01:09 pm
I miss the randomness of personality in Sims 3. It was fun for me, in the second game, too see what kind if personalities the kids inherited from their parents. They would usually be an amalgam of both parentd, and it was fun to see jow they'd end up.
They don't do that anymore. Now you pick the traits as they age up. And that's fine for those telling more specific stories, who want more control...but I often enjoyed the wildcard effect. Sure, you could get some randomness if you were willing to neglect them, but then you'd end up with a lot of negative traits. Someone should make an ap for my phone that would mimic that process. You could input the traits of their parents. There should be some adjacent traits, that are close to traits of the parents that would also be available. And there should be a small chance that they will get one trait that is completely opposite from one of theirs. Or maybe I to get me some many sided dice or something.
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Current Location: The Farm
28 November 2009 @ 03:12 pm
I only remember one particular scene in this fic, so I would be incredibly amazed and thankful if someone could remember its title!
It's a Remus/Sirius fic (of course) featuring Regulus prominently. Regulus is a redeemed Death Eater who is now spying for the Order, but (I think, details are a bit hazy now) he's pretty sure he's going to get killed soon. There is a battle where Bella casts Avada Kedavra at Sirius, but Regulus leaps in the way (this is while he's dressed in Death Eater garb) and takes the blow for Sirius, who lifts his white mask and sees the lifeless eyes of his brother. He apparates away from the scene with his brother's body to James's flat, where James, Remus, and Lily (and maybe Peter?) follow shortly thereafter. Sirius tells the story of how he and his brother used to play in this one meadow before they got sorted into different houses, and goes there to bury him. Remus and Sirius dig a spot for a grave together. Sirius carves a headstone and says a few words to his brother, alone, before apparating back to James's flat. (I remember this was rather reminiscent of the scene with Dobby in DH.)
Sorry for the lack of detail; this was only one scene in the entire story, but it just about killed me when I read it because Sirius was so devastated. I'd love to find this fic again, and would also welcome any recs involving Regulus as a major character :)
It's a Remus/Sirius fic (of course) featuring Regulus prominently. Regulus is a redeemed Death Eater who is now spying for the Order, but (I think, details are a bit hazy now) he's pretty sure he's going to get killed soon. There is a battle where Bella casts Avada Kedavra at Sirius, but Regulus leaps in the way (this is while he's dressed in Death Eater garb) and takes the blow for Sirius, who lifts his white mask and sees the lifeless eyes of his brother. He apparates away from the scene with his brother's body to James's flat, where James, Remus, and Lily (and maybe Peter?) follow shortly thereafter. Sirius tells the story of how he and his brother used to play in this one meadow before they got sorted into different houses, and goes there to bury him. Remus and Sirius dig a spot for a grave together. Sirius carves a headstone and says a few words to his brother, alone, before apparating back to James's flat. (I remember this was rather reminiscent of the scene with Dobby in DH.)
Sorry for the lack of detail; this was only one scene in the entire story, but it just about killed me when I read it because Sirius was so devastated. I'd love to find this fic again, and would also welcome any recs involving Regulus as a major character :)
28 November 2009 @ 10:25 am
In the "it's always something" department, the appraiser for the refinancing called yesterday announcing that he would be by Tuesday to appraise the house. I had counted on a couple of weeks' delay; apparently this refinancer moves fast. That means that the rest of the holiday weekend, plus an emergency visit from Clutterboy Monday, will be spent making the inside of the house presentable. AIEEE! Thank God Clutterboy had the time available.
Am following the Irish priest-sexual-abuse scandal. It's following what is by now the established pattern, with the hierarchy resisting any investigation as long as possible, then doing what they are forced to do, then announcing that they're sorry, but they won't do it again, so there's really no need for any more investigation. (There have been only two limited-scope investigations, none covering the entire country.) Furthermore as usual, the Vatican has refused to comment; they wouldn't cooperate with the commission's request for information unless it came through diplomatic channels, and the commission refused to go through diplomatic channels because it was "an independent body", making a nice little knot. The Irish Times called my attention to a refinement of which I was not aware, the "mental reservation". I'd be curious to know if the Times is accurately reporting the practice; the canonical (sic) example is of a priest who doesn't want to deal with a parishioner directing the curate to say that "the priest is not at home", with the mental reservation of "to you". Here's a specific case cited by the Times.
Finally, the New York Times has a somewhat cooler-than-thou ("Does anyone really feel the need to hear “Happy Together” again?" Well, I do) review of a PBS fund-raiser, a compilation of Ed Sullivan rock performances. The review has a great peroration, though.
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Am following the Irish priest-sexual-abuse scandal. It's following what is by now the established pattern, with the hierarchy resisting any investigation as long as possible, then doing what they are forced to do, then announcing that they're sorry, but they won't do it again, so there's really no need for any more investigation. (There have been only two limited-scope investigations, none covering the entire country.) Furthermore as usual, the Vatican has refused to comment; they wouldn't cooperate with the commission's request for information unless it came through diplomatic channels, and the commission refused to go through diplomatic channels because it was "an independent body", making a nice little knot. The Irish Times called my attention to a refinement of which I was not aware, the "mental reservation". I'd be curious to know if the Times is accurately reporting the practice; the canonical (sic) example is of a priest who doesn't want to deal with a parishioner directing the curate to say that "the priest is not at home", with the mental reservation of "to you". Here's a specific case cited by the Times.
So the Archdiocese of Dublin and Cardinal Connell were not lying when in a 1997 statement it said it had co-operated with gardaí where Marie Collins’s complaint of abuse was concerned.
A spokesman for the archdiocese put it like this “we never said we co-operated fully”, placing emphasis on the word “fully”, the report commented.
Is anybody on the flist familiar with canon law? Does everybody get to make mental reservations, or just priests? It would seem to offer wide scope: "I didn't steal the communion chalice", with the additional "On Tuesday."Finally, the New York Times has a somewhat cooler-than-thou ("Does anyone really feel the need to hear “Happy Together” again?" Well, I do) review of a PBS fund-raiser, a compilation of Ed Sullivan rock performances. The review has a great peroration, though.
And the host for the pledge breaks, T J Lubinsky, tries a bit too hard, as when he talks earnestly about “the music that just takes us back to that moment when we were innocent, and things were different.”
“Yeah, there was rough times happening around the country,” he continues. “However, the thing that got us through all these times, good and bad, was the soundtrack.”
“When we were innocent?” “Got us through?” Can we see your driver’s license, Mr. Lubinsky? Hmm, says here you were born in 1972. Trying to siphon off old hippies’ money is one thing; trying to steal their decade out from under them ought to land you in the same cell as whoever designed those hideous garments the Mamas and the Papas are wearing.
“Yeah, there was rough times happening around the country,” he continues. “However, the thing that got us through all these times, good and bad, was the soundtrack.”
“When we were innocent?” “Got us through?” Can we see your driver’s license, Mr. Lubinsky? Hmm, says here you were born in 1972. Trying to siphon off old hippies’ money is one thing; trying to steal their decade out from under them ought to land you in the same cell as whoever designed those hideous garments the Mamas and the Papas are wearing.
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28 November 2009 @ 03:41 pm
Title: In Between Days
Author:batmanboxers [Sarah]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 2,020
Summary: “For a librarian, you have such poor taste.”
Disclaimer: I am not JKR.
Warnings: None.
Author Notes: Fourth in what I am now calling the Stacks ‘Verse (the Remus!Librarian series). I hope you all like it and forgive me for taking so long with it. The other parts can be found here in chronological order: Stacks, Here Comes The Key, & The Last of The Famous International Playboys. If you guys can think of anything you’d like to see in this series feel free to drop me a comment about it. ♥
Author:
batmanboxers [Sarah] Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 2,020
Summary: “For a librarian, you have such poor taste.”
Disclaimer: I am not JKR.
Warnings: None.
Author Notes: Fourth in what I am now calling the Stacks ‘Verse (the Remus!Librarian series). I hope you all like it and forgive me for taking so long with it. The other parts can be found here in chronological order: Stacks, Here Comes The Key, & The Last of The Famous International Playboys. If you guys can think of anything you’d like to see in this series feel free to drop me a comment about it. ♥
Oh, shut up you, and watch the movie before I beat you to death with your own cushions
28 November 2009 @ 03:39 pm
Title: Portrait of a Young Man
Author:batmanboxers [Sarah]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 3,730
Summary: But Padfoot, it is the National Gallery, I’m pretty sure two minutes in and you’ll want to beat yourself to death with the Mona Lisa.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR.
Warnings: None
Author Notes:I am finally getting to post this. I wrote it for thers_games as part of Team Canon. My prompt was magic/art. The games this year were absolutely amazing and I adored every second of them. Thanks to xrainbowcloud the beta service.
Author:
batmanboxers [Sarah]Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 3,730
Summary: But Padfoot, it is the National Gallery, I’m pretty sure two minutes in and you’ll want to beat yourself to death with the Mona Lisa.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR.
Warnings: None
Author Notes:I am finally getting to post this. I wrote it for the
rs_games as part of Team Canon. My prompt was magic/art. The games this year were absolutely amazing and I adored every second of them. Thanks to xrainbowcloud the beta service.28 November 2009 @ 10:26 am
So, I need a bunch (like 50 or so!) yew wood twigs for Yule, but cannot for the life of me find places to buy such online, and they don't seem to grow here in Michigan. I can find plenty of people who'll sell me yew wood bow staves or pen blanks, but I want are wee twigs, like you might use for rune carving, and so, I turn to you, O Beloved Intarweb...
Any of you know where one can get some, or happen to live near some yew trees and be willing to gather up a bunch of deadfall and ship it to me? I'll PayPal the money for shipping, at the very least.
Help me, LazyWeb, you're my only hope!
Any of you know where one can get some, or happen to live near some yew trees and be willing to gather up a bunch of deadfall and ship it to me? I'll PayPal the money for shipping, at the very least.
Help me, LazyWeb, you're my only hope!
Current Location: The House of Cats
Current Mood: 
busy
busy28 November 2009 @ 06:30 am
What was happening with me yesterday? Oh, right:
- 10:34 Pumpkin sourdough pancakes came out pretty tasty. Goes well with this damn good cup of coffee #fb
- 12:32 Finished carving the turkey so as to free up the bones for stock. Still have over 2lbs of meat.
Got three more servings of those in the freezer, yay!
Think I have enough to make some Turkey Tetrazzini and (my favorite) Turkey Pot Pie. But not today. Enough cooking the last couple of days...
Current Location: Loveseat
Current Mood: 
sleepy
sleepyCurrent Music: Wind, Time Warp on the Discovery Channel
28 November 2009 @ 07:01 am
- 07:18 Spare Cat managed to turn on iTunes on my computer this morning before I got up. She must really like my choice in music. #
- 09:25 Wow, you can really tell it's the day-after on Twitter, unless, that is, my feed is screwed up. #
- 11:02 It's probably not good to count popcorn as a vegetable, right? #
- 20:31 Modern Marvels' subject o' randomosity today: "Coin-operated." #
- 06:56 Thought I was cold when I woke up, turns out furnace is out -- probably wind in the night blew out pilot light. 1st relighting of season.... #
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27 November 2009 @ 11:39 pm
Heh, I'm definitely going to have to start early here! 83 comments on the first day! Woo-hoo!
Can I have something with Harry, Ginny, and a young Teddy please? forlollapulizer
( Steps )
The birth of Regulus and Lily's first child, if you don't mind? Maybe he/she could be born around Christmas just to keep the holiday theme there forsonetka
( Family Portraiture )
Something romantic with Hermione and Ron please forstepinsidelove
( Things That Sparkle )
Can I have something with Harry, Ginny, and a young Teddy please? for
lollapulizer( Steps )
The birth of Regulus and Lily's first child, if you don't mind? Maybe he/she could be born around Christmas just to keep the holiday theme there for
sonetka( Family Portraiture )
Something romantic with Hermione and Ron please for
stepinsidelove( Things That Sparkle )
27 November 2009 @ 10:35 pm
We've had satellite for yonks, which was great in Ohio, spotty here in NE Florida, but still a better alternative than cable 'round these parts. We're trying to decide which way to go in Seattle-- we love satellite, but HATE the current DVR we have from Dish. (Still miss my Tivo... *sob*)
So a few questions:
1) If you have satellite, does the cloud cover interfere a lot with reception?
2) Does anyone have a Tivo Series 3 and if you're using it with Comcast how much are you being charged for the cable cards? (Comcast here wanted to charge us way too much for the second card)
There might be more, but that's just to start. If you want, email answers to Fashionista35@comcast.net
So a few questions:
1) If you have satellite, does the cloud cover interfere a lot with reception?
2) Does anyone have a Tivo Series 3 and if you're using it with Comcast how much are you being charged for the cable cards? (Comcast here wanted to charge us way too much for the second card)
There might be more, but that's just to start. If you want, email answers to Fashionista35@comcast.net
Current Mood: 
curious
curiousCurrent Music: House Hunters International