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le 07 novembre 2009

This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt

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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm</a></p><div style="width:168px;float:left;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"> <img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/G/c/X/2/800px-Maccari-Cicero.jpg"alt="Cicero"="width:168px;height:104px;border:none;" /><br/>Cicero Denounces Catiline: Fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919)</div> In 63 B.C., the discontented patrician Catiline and his largely equestrian followers gathered an armed force to march on Rome. Catiline was upset because he had lost his bid for the top office (consul) after a politically charged campaign, in which he had promised debt cancellation, and an election in which Cicero wore a breastplate for personal safety <a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/258536.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt">Email this</a></p>

This Day in Ancient History - November 7

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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm</a></p><div style="width:148px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/0/Y/2/Augustus_10_th.jpg" alt=""="width:148px;height:170px;border:none;" /><br/>Augustus Photo &#169; Clipart.com </div> On this day in 8 B.C., one of the great patron of poets, <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maecenas.htm">Maecenas</A>, died. His lineage was Etruscan, and it was probably from his family that he acquired great wealth. He was an advisor to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, which also made him a powerful Roman. Among the artists he helped financially were Vergil and Horace. Horace addresses Maecenas in his first Ode.<BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/horace/index.htm">Horace</A><BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aeneid/a/VergilTradition.htm">Vergil</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">This Day in Ancient History - November 7</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:03.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - November 7">Email this</a></p>

Comic update and an arrrgh.

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*smacks head*

Good news: Starfighter has been updated!

Bad news: I FORGOT ABOUT IT WHEN YULETIDE NOMS CAME AROUND. And it didn't make the list from anyone else either. Arrrgh.

le 06 novembre 2009

6th November 2009 20:34 - Lost and Held

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Title: Lost and Held
Author: [info]gatewaygirl
Characters: Sirius, Peter
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Castration, sex, cross-dressing, manipulation
Themes/kinks chosen: Eunuchs/Castrati, Costumes
Word Count: 5,317
Summary: An accident gives Sirius and Peter a shared secret
Author's notes: November prompts included the theme "eunuchs/castrati". It's listed in the tags as "castration", which would have been a rather different story. I have been as accurate as I could manage with the theme, but certainly do not guarantee all details are correct. ;-) Thanks to Clauclauclaudia for very short-notice beta work.


Lost and Held )

Friday Issue

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One Shots:
[info]alisanne: Immovable Unspeakable meets Irresistible Hit Wizard - (Harry/Draco, Percy/Hermione (implied); NC-17)
[info]torina_archelda: Healing - (Severus/Harry; PG-13)
[info]leela_cat: There Had Been a Plan - (Severus/Harry; PG)
[info]paukenfrau: One Dark and Stormy Evening - (Al/Scorpius; NC-17)
Anonymous in [info]fall_fantasia: The Deluxe Tour - (Draco/Charlie; NC-17)

Works In Progress:
[info]the_con_cept: It Sucks to be Severus Snape, Part 11 - (Severus/Harry; PG-13)

Drabbles:
[info]alisanne: Seeing Stars - (Harry/Draco; PG)
[info]ellid: Chasing the Wolf, X - (Severus/Remus; NR)
[info]alisanne: New Game - (Remus/Severus; PG)
[info]sweetmelodykiss: Subtle Communication - (Severus/Harry; R)
[info]mailroomy: Friends and Allies - (Severus; PG-13)

Art:
[info]didodikali: The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom - (Albus, Gellert; NC-17)

Community News:
[info]snupin100: Posted a new prompt - 233 - The Games We Play

Newsletters:
[info]quibbler_report: Posted a new issue - 5 November
[info]dailysnitch: Posted an issue - 5 November
[info]snapenews: Posted a new issue - 5/6 November

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I have decided to start a temp agency. If you are looking for work or looking for prospective hires, you may want to check out this post over on LJ. :)

News of me

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I've got internet! I'd like to thank my new ISP SFR, who managed to give me internet access a whole 10 days before the estimated day, yay!

My new address is available in friends- or access-locked posts on DW, IJ, and LJ. If you want to send me a card and can't see any of these posts, let me know. Speaking of cards, have you signed up for your Holiday Card?


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Who Was Agrippina the Younger?

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<p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm</a></p><div style="width:300px;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/w/x/2/1194039449_bb04c86df6.jpg" alt="Agrippina minor"="width:300px;height:274px;border:none;" /><br/> &#169; The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.</div><br/>On November 6 in 15 (or 16) B.C. <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/agrippinayounger/g/AgrippinaYounge.htm">Agrippina the Younger</A> (Agrippina minor) was born at Ara Ubiorum, in Germany. Her name was Julia Agrippina. She was a daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the very popular Germanicus Julius Caesar. Emperor Caligula was her brother and Emperor Claudius was her uncle, as well as a husband. To an earlier husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Agrippina the Younger bore Nero, who became emperor after the death of his step-father Claudius. Agrippina was suspected of poisoning her imperial husband after he made arrangements for Nero to succeed him. She also wrote memoirs <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal the satirist</a> may have used as reference material.<P>References:<ul><LI>John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Antony J. S. Spawforth "Agrippina" The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press, 1998.<li>To Those Who Fell on Agrippina's Pen, by Jerry Clack The Classical World © 1975</ul><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Who Was Agrippina the Younger?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 14:40:31.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm&zItl=Who Was Agrippina the Younger?">Email this</a></p>

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It may not shock you to learn that after six months of intense RPG action, the Askworld kids have kept in contact. Because we both work for nonprofit agencies, [info]snaxcident and I tend to have the occasional "Hey, NFPs could use this!" moment, which I swear is all that I intended when I sent an innocent email...that prepared me for WORLD DOMINATION.

Canadians fucking love webinars. )

Between this and getting metaquoted last night, my conquest of the internet continues apace.

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So, a lot of you asked for the recipe for/location of the peppermint-tea ice cream. WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN!

Basically all the ice cream I make comes from one recipe.

Universal Ice Cream Custard Base )
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Winter skies

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After days of wind and rain, the weather calmed down.



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HEY GUYS

WE SURVIVED THURSDAY

And now I have freshly made peppermint-tea ice cream in the freezer, and fresh bread for gashouse eggs for dinner tonight.

And I'm hauling a bunch of stuff home from work so I get to take a taxi, and tomorrow I'm going to the Art Institute (!!) to see the exhibit of Caldecott book art and the Victorian photocollage and the freshly opened Apostles Of Beauty.

And it's member discount week, so I am going to treat myself to the fancypants restaurant instead of the cafeteria for lunch. I love the fancypants restaurant!

*MAKES RESERVATIONS LIKE A MOFO*

This Week in Ancient History

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Emperor Theodosius who outlawed paganismOn this week in ancient history, the Ludi Plebeii 'Plebeian Games' continued; Emperor Theodosius banned pagan worship; the future emperor Nerva was born; and two important Christians, Martin of Tours and Augustine, died.
Read more about this week in November in Ancient History

Emperor Theodosius Coin Photo © Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme

This Week in Ancient History originally appeared on About.com Ancient / Classical History on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 09:07:06.

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Sniffles and has cold

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So I'm looking for a new flat, because although I seem to be freeish of bed bugs, I'd like one where the roof doesn't leak.

Fussy, I know.

So I have one set of agents that cll me all the time asking me if I'm still looking. But have no actual properties. Certainly none they want to show me by email. I'm just supposed to turn up on spec. I don't think so. The last time I did that it was Limehouse and next to rubble and condemned flats. Or as I like to call it rapists' ally. Certainly led me to refine the search by removing Docklands light railway from transport routes. Huge stairs, one small lift for the whole of the commuting mass? Not going to work.

I have one set that deigned to talk to me, have arranged a viewing, but not given me the address. Because that would be too easy.

Another set talked to me and showed me some nice properties but the one I really liked isn't available until 31 January which is too late for me. The one next door is one bed and the same price. V odd, but I'm going to have a look.

Another set called and left a message. The flat is south of the river. ~is brave and open minded~ They had another one listed, a beautiful converted synagogue (which would have felt odd and wrong in a way that converted churches are not) but then I used google view and found it was in Tower Hamlets! Tower Bleeding Hamlets! One of the most deprived places in London, and all the flats I'd have to walk past to get to the tube were glazed with cardboard cf Rapists Alley 2.

In short, this is all being rather difficult. And estate agents are shits who can't do their job properly.

And liars. How they lie.

Joyeux anniversaire

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[info]duniazade. J'espère que tut trouveras un peu de temps pour toi aujourd'hui, car c'est ton jour. Je t'embrasse fort.

LONG(ish?): One Dark and Stormy Evening (Al/Scorpius, NC-17)

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Title: One Dark And Stormy Evening
Pairing: Al/Scorpius
Rating: NC-17 for language, graphic sex
Word Count: about 2,050
Summary: Al and Scorpius drink Polyjuice to look like their dads; hilarity and fucking ensue.
Warnings: They're both 17 and acting their age.  Does teenage stupidity need a warning? 
Disclosure Statement: two large bags of Chili Cheese Fritos and a nice bottle of Riesling were killed in the making of this fic. 
Notes and thanks: Happy belated birthday, Jana!  I tried to combine your present with this month's drunken fanfic challenge -- hence the title, stolen from the prompt -- but didn't get off my arse in time to post it there, so it morphed into something even stranger.  Hope you enjoy it.  :D

ETA: Jana got the bunny for this fic from [info]bryoneybrynn 's hilarious work of staggering genius, Another...and Another...and, Fuck It, Just Leave Me the Bottle.  It's 1,200 words of sheer brilliance.




The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom.

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Title: The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom.
Artist: [info]didodikali
Media: pencil.
Characters: Albus, Gellert.
Rating: NC-17.
Warnings: Haha. No.
Themes/kinks chosen: costumes, symphorophilia

Rarrrgh! Rahhhr! Graaahr! Arrrrhahahahahaha! )

le 05 novembre 2009

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The hell is up with this day? Everyone I know has had a rotten time of it today. I burned myself baking bread. Now every kitchen implement I use regularly has officially bitten me at some point.

THIS DAY IS MORE THAN FIRED. I'M PUTTING OUT A HIT ON IT.

To the brave soul who inhumes this Thursday (never could get the hang of Thursdays) I offer a scoop of peppermint ice cream and a glass of Sonic Screwdriver (one part vodka, one part blue curacao or in my place rum hurricane mix, and four parts lemon-lime soda. It's evil in a glass).

I did get 1200 words on Valet of Anize today, though.

Hey, does anyone know the supposed reasoning behind drinking hot tea in the summertime? This is my supposition:

"In Anize, we drink hot tea even in the summer," she said, as I stood awkwardly by the desk. "Sit down, Carry. I think it's a mixture of masochism and common sense. Supposedly," she continued, as I settled on the edge of the bed, "the tea either raises your body temperature, making you more comfortable in the heat, or it makes you sweat to cool yourself. On the other hand, as a country we seem obsessed with discovering who can survive the worst heat."

Are either of those correct? Are there other theories? I'd love to hear superstitions about tea. :D

Thursday Edition

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One Shots:
[info]alisanne: Required Relief - Neville/?; NC-17 *warnings*
[info]snegurochka_lee: Office Boy - Harry/Draco; NC-17 *warning*
[info]whitecotton: A Dinner for Seduction - Severus/Multiple; NC-17
[info]bertas: Verus - Severus/Lucius; PG
[info]shadowess: Ficlets - Severus/Harry; G - NC-17; *warnings* Under-18 having sex
Anonymous in [info]fall_fantasia: Unconventional - Severus/Harry; NC-17 *Warnings*

Works In Progress:
[info]azure_rosa: Standing Outside the Fire - began with part one - Severus/Remus; NC-17

Drabbles:
[info]alisanne: Firsts - Harry/Severus; PG
[info]ellid: Chasing the Wolf, IX - Severus/Remus; PG
[info]mailroomy: I Thoughy You... - Severus, Remus; PG-13

Community News:
[info]neville100: Posted prompt 94 - Neville and his women
[info]snarry100: Posted challenge 187 - Methods of Communication

Newsletters:
[info]metafandom: Posted a new editon
[info]quibbler_report: Posted a new edition - November 4
[info]dailysnitch: Posted a new edition - November 4
[info]snapenews: Posted a new editions - November 3-4

Various:
[info]accioslash: Reports on the ACTA copyright legislation - And it's not looking friendly

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Oh, hey, so, I got the internet back. And then the entire company ran amok. It's just been one of those weeks. I blame the full moon, because like all humans I seek meaningful structure to the essentially chaotic nature of existence, or something.

And also I want a Snickers bar.

Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy

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In his first satire, Juvenal asks if he has to sit back, listening to all the rantings going on around him. By line 30 he has covered so much of what he thinks is wrong with his society that he comments
difficile est saturam non scribere
'It's hard to not-write satire.'

This programmatic satire flashed through my mind when this morning's Today Show announced that Goldman Sachs had received 200 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. If there were adequate supplies to go around, it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow, but there aren't, yet. Immediate questions are of the type: Why does Wall Street get government-funded vaccines ahead of, say, the school-aged (statistically said to be more at risk than healthy adults) kids in my town? There are explanations for it (see Amid shortage, big NYC firms get swine vaccine), but before I read them or even thought seriously about the pros and cons, or researched whether the vaccines were actually being distributed gratis, or checked whether Goldman-Sachs routinely employs statistically-at risk individuals, a topical word for this week's Thursday's Term, Plutocracy, had lodged itself in my brain. I'm truly sorry I can't produce a Roman satire -- in dactylic hexameter or anything else.

Plutocracy comes from two Greek words, ploutos 'wealth' and kratia 'power'. Ploutos should be familiar from the name Pluto that belongs to a former-planet. It comes from Greek mythology: the Underworld god is often called Pluto. The name Pluto suggests the god is the giver of wealth, since it is from the earth that metals come. Plutocracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the wealthy -- that would be plutarchy; however, the Greek-English lexicon Liddell-Scott defines ploutokratia as an oligarchy of wealth, and cites Xenophon's use of the term.

Among other instances, plutocracy has been used to describe the late archaic and classical age Spartan system, where the elite paid high taxes in order to keep their full political rights, according to "Population Patterns in Late Archaic and Classical Sparta Population," by Thomas J. Figueira. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 116, (1986), pp. 165-213.

Previous Thursdays' Terms to Learn:

Thursday Updates

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From the Corner by coffeeonthepatio
Rating: T
Summary: While Hermione, seeing her marriage is at a dead-end, moves back to her parents with Rose and Hugo, Snape finds he is no longer alone in his apothecary in Knockturn Alley - her name is Ophelia and she's four. And Ophelia's his.
Updated to 36 chapters

The Problem with Purity by Phoenix Writing/Silver Birch
Updated to Chapter 52
Rated M
Summary: As Hermione, Harry, and Ron are about to begin their seventh and final year at Hogwarts, they learn some surprising and dangerous information regarding what it means to be Pure in the wizarding world.

Correspondence by belle4life
Rating:MA
Updated to 6 chapters
Summary: A mystery admirer begins a correspondence with Hermione. When she learns who it is, they develop a friendship, which morphs into something more than that.

Raven by gersknightlady
Rating: T
updated to 42 chapters
Summary: Having fled the Wizarding World, Hermione comes face to face with her past.

Am I the only one?

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Who clicks on the links that warn that something may have scenes of a violent and sexual nature and thinks...

I bloody hope so, this is why I am here.



Also, the drinks machine at work has a very annoying exclamation mark. When it runs out of plastic cups it says - No more plastic cups, use your own! - as if it's my bleeding fault that I want a drink, or that it's run out. Hah! Don't take that tone of punctuation to me you jumped up machine. Pay more attention to your own job, which is dispensing brown fluids masquerading as tea, coffee or hot chocolate, in cups!

Exclaim that!

I'm a mess

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...


I hope everyone has been well. I was awfully ill last week, and before that things were such that I haven't been able to go properly into lj, ij, jf and dw for a long time. The end result is that my email accounts are a mess and I daren't dnld mails to outlook express till I clean them up online first. I'll be doing that from afternoon today. I feel almost nearly myself today.

Almost.


Also, I plan to buy the paperback of 'Unseen Academicals' as soon as it is out !

But that's a long way away :(

...

Fic: Required Relief (Neville, NC-17)

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Title: Required Relief
Author: [info]alisanne
Characters: Neville Longbottom/?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM.
Themes/kinks chosen: Clamps
Word Count: 1850
Summary: There are some nights the Neville just needs a break from being in command.
Author's notes: Thanks to [info]sevfan and [info]eeyore9990 for their assistance.
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Required Relief )

le 04 novembre 2009

Fic: Office Boy (Harry/Draco, NC-17)

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Title: Office Boy
Author: [info]snegurochka_lee
Characters: Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: EWE, probably. Also, see theme.
Theme chosen: Nipple clamps
Word Count: ~2,500
Summary: Harry watched the single bead of sweat slide down the side of Malfoy's face, slipping behind his ear and disappearing into his hair, and Harry's body gave a shiver at the thought of what was causing Malfoy's tension.
Author's notes: This is for [info]marguerite_26, who was the most insanely tireless cheerleader and beta for my [info]hd_career_fair story last month when I turned into a whinging snowflake of epic proportions and was wringing my hands over ever having been mad enough to sign up for an H/D fest. :) She suggested Harry/Teddy, actually, when I insisted on writing her a reward, but that shall have to wait for another day, because lo, now it seems my brain is all LET'S WRITE MOAR H/D OKAY. :/

Office Boy )

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Hilltop Cottage by neelix
After the war, Hermione needs a break. A small house provides more than the sanctuary she needs.

Chapters: 5


In the locked community [info]hermione_smut

Title: While the Music Lasts
Author: [info]literaryspell
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 5300
Warnings: Explicit sex
Summary: In Paris, Hermione tries to escape her past, but it won't be left behind. In a beautiful city, surrounded by music, Hermione and Snape share a moment. But a moment is never enough...

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I've been working on Valet of Anize at a more intense pace since NaNo began; I'm a punk NaNo bootlegger, and I defy the Man by never signing up formally and subscribing to Simon's radical opinions on the topic of editing and rewriting, but that's okay because the essential concept still works. (More on this later.) Miraculously I've maintained almost a thousand words average a day, and will keep that up if I can do a little more tonight.

I find that as much as I love writing Carry and enjoy building Carry's view of Leigh Anizin, I have to work very hard to keep Bart and Stick at the periphery of the story where they ought to be. They're funny and weird and Bart's built on a sexual Jack Harkness model and Stick's kind of a kicked puppy of a puritan, and they're just so much fun.

Which informs me that even in stories I write, I prefer the sidekicks.

And given that I chronicle my life here with what I think is a reasonable amount of dry amusement, I think it's safe to declare that I am, in fact, my own Watson.

I suppose this is better than being someone else's Watson, but at least if that were the case sometimes it wouldn't be me breaking limbs and catching the plague.

Wednesday Edition

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One Shots:
[info]fancypantsdylan: What makes Draco shiver - (Harry/Draco, R)
Anonymous in [info]fall_fantasia: Unveiled - (Draco/Sirius, Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)

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I have many things to say today!

Actually I have many things to say every day, but a lot of time I don't have the time to say them.

First, [info]cassie_phoenix and [info]linlesiryn, if you're reading this, can you email me? Copperbadge at gmail. You have no contact info on your LJ pages and your numbers are up for Nameless signed copies. :)

Second, Adaigo Tea is doing The Roots Campaign, which is a cool setup where they profile a different tea farmer every month, and 10% of the sales of the tea they provide will be donated directly to them. Last month they raised something like $650 for the farmer (above, of course, what they pay for the tea to begin with). It's also an interesting look at the life of various tea farmers around the globe. And Adagio's a good company, I buy all my loose-leaf from them.

Third: If you are the USDA, and there is a major beef recall, surely the major beef recall should be linked from your home page. Or at least "food recalls" should be linked, instead of totally absent in any way from any area that a customer would intuitively visit. I know I should know what brand of beef I buy and where it comes from already, but I buy from Costco and then repack it in small serving sizes when I get home. I try to buy green and local, but sometimes I just don't have the energy to save the world through my choices in food consumption. Anyway, for everyone's reference, the USDA recall information page is here.

I also have some stuff to say about NaNo and some of its trends this year, but it's on the netbook and the netbook is at home. And by the time I prep it to post it might be irrelevant, so we'll see.

OH ALSO even my mother was less than impressed:

I didn't care much for the NCIS last night...seemed to much like a rehash of past shows and I don't like that guy Gibbs used to work for. Are Ziva and Tony ever going to go out?

<3 her.
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