Anna Fugazzi

AKA Happy Birthday Hermione :)

I must confess I was never a particular fan of hers, until I read In praise of Joanne Rowling's Hermione Granger series and realized... hey... talk about having to work twice as hard to be considered half as good :(

Anyway. Happy 31st birthday, Hermione. Long may you pontificate.

( Lyrics )

"...so what am I?"

Kids stare at me blankly, then get it and start to snicker. "I think you're a little old to be starting at Hogwarts, Mama," says my eldest.

"Plus you've missed the train," says my youngest.

Damn. I was getting all excited. Sadly, all that's happening is I'm getting fitted for my call to the bar ;)

I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in I'm in!!

::ahem::

Don't mind me. Just happy about hd_holidays :)

First off, late to the party as always, I still squeeeed over my chocolate heads. Thank you thank you thank you!

From taradiane:




Last: The Movie! Saw it! Loved it! Had a few huuuuuge quibbles but otherwise, Eeeee!!!


( Quibbles )


( SQUEEES!! )

Gross as in 144, not as in disgusting ;)

Wow, I think I'll brave my basement and try to tidy up the boxes and piles of crap down there. It's sure to be easier than sifting through my various online habitats and trying to do the same. Yowch.

So, in my e-wanderings I discovered that I never re-posted last year's HP April Fool's entry on my own site. Then discovered that last year's pictures are gone from the hp_april_fools site. Doh! And I can't find my copy of the gift I got! Much sadface.

Anyway, I'm reposting the gift I drew, for my own peace of mind. So, ( nothing new under the cut link )


On a totally unrelated note, I'm not sure who thought "harder penis erections thunderous climax, thunder hard super massive penis pill" was a good Subject line for the spam I got this morning, but personally I find it quite unattractive. It sounded like, if I was a guy, it would make me run shrieking for cover, protectively covering my bits. To each his own, I guess.

So, hp_april_fools has posted its reveals!

So now I know that my own gift, "Can I Buy You a Spatula?, was done by good_witch. Must go thank her!

My entry, for wallflowergirl, was "The Silver Doe." I got the Golden Squid for Sweetest Lego Romance :)

Pairing: Harry/Ron
Rating: PG13
Warning: Silliness?
Medium: Lego and four P's: Photography, Paint, Photoshop, and Plasticine.
Artist's Notes: This is in three parts:
Part I: Word-free :)
Part II: Canon text of The Silver Doe, in black font
Part III: Red font appears and the Canon Silver Doe goes kinda... sideways ;)

My giftee asked for, among other things, "Harry/Ron, hand holding, water, wandless magic, and lots of kissing." I could not manage wandless magic, and getting lego to kiss and hold hands is way tougher than I imagined, but I hope you'll like it anyway :)

( Warning: Image-Heavy Post )

The fest version, with smaller pictures, can be found here :)

So, before anything else, here's a note from one of my kids:

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Hi, my name is J. I am doing a project about the History of History and I have some questions for you:

1. What comes to mind when I ask you what are the different kinds of history?
   
2. What are some huge historical events that changed how we think of history? Or that changed what we think of as history?
   
3. When would you say history started?

Your help is appreciated :)

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• hp_april_fools continues to rock. Here are some of the posts this week:
  
  
  • "Wait until you see my version of ... The Silver Doe"
    Pairing: Harry/Ron
    Rating: PG13
    Warning: Silliness?
    Medium: All P's: Photography, Paint, Photoshop, and Plasticine.
    
    
  • Do I Dazzle You?
    Medium: cosplay, photoshop
    Pairings/Characters: Mrs. Figg
    Rating:G
    Warnings/Kinks: Gratuitous amounts of cute and adorableness.
    Summary: The wizarding world has taken over royal palace and had a contest to appoint the next Queen (slid into place so the muggles don't notice).
    
    
  • It's only time
    Medium: Adobe Illustrator
    Pairings/Characters: Tonks/Tonks
    Rating: PG-13 or R
    Warnings/Kinks: nudity
    Summary: One night at the the Ministry, Tonks comes across a Time Turner...
    
    
  • Chickens
    Medium: umm crafts?
    Pairings/Characters: Gilderoy Lockheart, OFCs, Mirror of Erised
    Rating: PG
    Warnings/Kinks: none
    Summary: Lockheart finds a mirror while exploring the castle.
    
    
  • I Just Keep Smiling
    Medium: Power Point with photos from Google; colouring MS Paint
    Pairings/Characters: Ron Weasley/Terry Boot
    Rating: NC-17
    Warnings/Kinks: public (if unnoticed) sex in Muggle London
    Summary: Ron finds out that randomly gay Terry Boot is randomly gay for him
  
  
  
• Random fic rec #1:
  The Coolest Girl He Ever Knew, by ozmafics
  Pairing(s): Charlie Weasley/Tonks (Remus/Tonks mentioned)
  Word Count: 1800
  Rating: R
  Summary: At eleven, he thought she was annoying. At twenty-four, he told her he loved her. At twenty-five, he lost her. How Charlie Weasley remembers the love of his life.
  Warnings: Adultery. Angst. A certain amount of Remus-bashing, (understandable, given that he is a rival) canon character deaths.
  Rec: This makes me fall in love with Tonks all over again. Which is saying something, after the less than ultracool treatment she got in Deathly Hallows :(
  Excerpt: At twelve, he watched her take on a large fourth-year Slytherin in defense of a Hufflepuff firstie, and win. He liked her a bit better after that.
  
  
• Random fic rec #2:
  Marginal Notes, by blamebrampton
  Rating: G
  Word Count: about 9500
  Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
  Summary: When you’re 18, and nothing is as it was meant to be, sometimes it can be hard to let the right people know what you are thinking.
  A/N: Dear ladydeth12, thank you for always being so interesting and so encouraging to everyone on your flist and in fandom generally. I was aiming for an epic tale of love and passion that met all of your prompts, but with months of overwork that left me writing while travelling, it turned into a little comedic confection that had met your prompts in a dark alley and could vaguely remember what they looked like. I hope it will entertain you anyway. Thanks again for all your support!
  Rec: Author Note = why I love all of blamebrampton's writing :)
  Excerpts:
  ‘Off you go. If it turns out Justin is pining for a woman’s touch, you are to tell him about my loveliness and virtue.’
  
  ‘I will construct a plausible work of fiction on those very qualities.’
  
  ~~~
  
  ‘Death Eater,’ one of them muttered.
  
  ‘Failed Death Eater,’ Draco corrected. ‘Bigotry is no excuse for inaccuracy.’
  
  ‘You tried to kill Harry!’ another snarled.
  
  Draco was affronted. ‘I most certainly did not. The Dark Lord would have Crucio-ed me if I’d tried. As has been well established, I am an absolute failure at killing. Again, you are very misinformed. Do they teach young people nothing these days?’

::trapdoor creaking open::
::dusty creature emerging from below, eyes squinting in the harsh light::
::cough cough::

"Internets? Is that yooou?"

So, yeah, no idea how it got to be two months since my last update. Or, rather, I have a very good idea: I've been writing like a fiend, but only for legal reasons. Like, the watersports treatise I recently wrote? No fun at all, and not just because I'm allergic to anything remotely non-vanilla; it's because writing or reading about the medical/legal usefulness of urine samples is duller than watching paint dry.

Anyway.

• So, April 1. No, I'm not dusting off this lj just to post on it and say "Hey, I'm back!" only to disappear again tomorrow as an April Fool's joke. I'm posting because there's a fest I'm actually involved in this year, and it starts posting today. It's the April Fools Fest, dedicated to encouraging writers and artists to make fools of themselves by creating outside their comfort zones. My last year's effort was this, and trust me, this one's is far sillier um… foolisher ;)
  
  Note: This link goes to nowhere right now. It will point to the first fest post when it goes up.
  
  
• Also, as it's George and Fred Weasley's birthday (George turning thirty-three and Fred... um, not), I'm reposting a link to April Fool's, a George Weasley-centric ficlet that I wrote a while back, and then took down, and then reposted. No, I'm not an emo-laden writer who gets all kerfuffled and does a Goodbye Cruel Internets and takes down all her fics when reader response is not what she wanted; I just play one on TV ;) ^*
  
  And here's another ficlet, same theme, different feel, not by me: Lest We Forget, by Farmgirl
  Summary: You're never too old for a heart-to-heart talk with your mum.
  
  
• Oh, and!
  
  And and and!
  
  So excited about this year's H/D Remix! Have not read most of the fics, but the buzz I saw going around says they're totally fantastic. Must track some down. Help, anyone? I've tabbed a few of the ones most buzzed about, but in case there's anything anyone's thinking must not be missed, could you link me to it? Please? ::bats eyes winningly::
  
  
• The new trailer for Deathly Hallows Part II: does anyone know where there might be screencaps of it? Does anyone have a link to the trailer itself?
  
  
• Lastly: any Criminal Minds fans on my flist? Does anyone know where one can go to find good Criminal Minds fanfic? Slash or het, doesn't matter, I'm just rather leery of going back to the Pit Of Voles. Last time I searched… let's just say it wasn't pretty 80

^* Um, in case anyone thought I was serious: taking down the ficlet had nothing whatsoever to do with response. I had just written it as part of a larger story, then decided the larger story would never be finished so I posted it as a stand-alone, then suddenly got inspired to finish the larger story it was part of, took the ficlet down because it was supposed to be part of a larger whole... only to realize, much later, that the ficlet didn't really fit any more. Response was fine; I'm just a twit.

Pairing(s): George/Luna, hints of George/Angelina and George/Hermione, but mostly Gen.
Rating: R
Summary: Nobody expected the year after Fred's death would be easy. But nobody expected George would have to lose so much, just to live through it. Or: George is doing his best to make his way after the war and Fred's death. Everyone is trying to help, and he wishes they would just stop. Especially Fred.
Warnings: Angst, suicide issues, and occasional inappropriate humour.
Author Note: Thanks to twistedm, tree00faery, and vanseedee for beta above and beyond the call of friendship.

Right, so I was going to just post the last chapter and sort-of-epilogue, but then remembered the last time I did a double post, two people were rather miffed at me because they read the second post before the first one or... something. Anyway, Epilogue gets posted Friday :)

Part 1, Hogwarts
Part 2, The Burrow
Part 3, Wheezes
Part 4, St. Mungo's
Part 5, You Can't Go Home Again
Part 6, Christmas Cheer
Part 7a, Rock Bottom
Part 7b, Rock Bottom
Part 8, Lethe
Part 9, Severance

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