*switches to non-spoilery icon*

Over the hols, I've been cultivating an AU-bubble to keep myself amused, where all my AU Dark Lord Defeaters (a Harry Black (raised by Regulus and Narcissa Black), a Slytherin Harry Potter whose mother is still alive, and a Tom Riddle who began to find the war rather tiresome) are dragged into the canon Potterverse and told that they can't go home until they help the Order win (shades of Manipulative!Dumbledore). Well, Tom took a look at the Daily Prophet yesterday, and began to rant rather spectacularly...

( Dolores Umbridge is an evil cow - DH Spoilers )

Exams = bad.

*sigh* I did a retake of FP1 this afternoon, and I still haven't recovered. And the thing is, the fuss was probably worthless because I don't think I've done much better than the last time I took it. -_-;;

( Fic Blah )

You know who is becoming a really cool character to work with? Evil!Lily, who works in the Department of Mysteries and seems to have acquired a Hermione-esque 'Ends mostly justify the means' kind of attitude during the course of her work. And she has a licence to preform the Unforgivables, which she abuses when in the market for a Secret Keeper. And using that Secret Keeper as a human 'coin to be flipped'.

It's fun, this AU.

*tries to shove it away to revise, but fails*

5500 words after two days! *punches air*

( Wormtail is so evil )

Also:

Dear American Harry Potter Fanauthors,

The word you are looking for is porridge. Porridge. Not 'oatmeal'. Porridge.

Thank you ever so much,

Tamar Rowe

Huh. I can write Snupin, and I can write Remus/Peter, and I can write Sirius/James, but Sirius/Remus eludes me completely. I just can't get a plotline for it - in my mind, James is always the one most important to Sirius, even after the wedding, and then as soon as he dies Sirius is in Azkiban anyway.

So, er, I'm writing fic in which The Prank 'succeeds' and Severus Snape becomes a werewolf. And there is Snupin, because of two years of sharing the Shrieking Shack on Full Moons fosters a sense of some sort of camaraderie.

...

*moans* The last three nights, we've been having some of that Cider after tea, and today I was all 'Hm, I want something else, something specific, but what?' And it's that bloody Cider.

*has a cup of tea instead*

Well, today's been good - not only have I made headway with SlashNotSmut, I've finished the 'backstory' chapter of Another Time/Eleven Misplaced for the second universe. An alternate titles could be 'In which Wuya and Chase react completely differently to their warnings, and Dashi doesn't get any good moments' XD

I can't decide whether it should go before or after Omi's next chapter, though. On the one hand, you could be just as confused as Omi but I'd repeat myself. On the other, you could know things in advance... *ponders*

Anyway, here's the full version of #9, which I couldn't even try to strip down, so I rewrote for the drabble-series:

*

( Another Scribble: Chase seals away Hannibal Bean, but loses. )

"There's no such thing as a Heylin Truth Spell." - Doesn't seem like such a hard sentence to work into a fic, does it? Except that of the, say, seven people who would know this, three of them have been 'dead'* for fifteen hundred years, one cast said 'Heylin Truth Spell', another one was in on it, and the other two would have no reason to bring it up.

*sigh*

*dead or otherwise locked in a puzzlebox.

...

I'll put up the first part today - maybe once it's published I'll stop poking it and work on hpslashnotsmut!

BTW, sorry for posting so much this weekend - I'm a tart. Is anyone out there?

ETA: Oh bloody buggering hell - ff.net isn't giving out alerts. This is inconvenient, but does explain why I've had so little email lately - most of my email tends to go through ff.net, LJ or Feedblitz. ^^;

...

Well, what do you know? Sticking that drabble series on ff.net really did help with hpslashnotsmut! *suddenly has a beginning, plot, and peter!characterisation*

And I'm just over a hundred quid up, yes! *punches air* ... But we're going shopping tomorrow, so it could all be for naught.

I've just finished putting all of my old CDs into iTunes (just in time to have the laptop over to my sister, grumble grumble), and I never realised how much I associate the Keane song 'Atlantic' with writing fanfic. O_o

Speaking of such, the good!Wuya fic gained a fair bit of backstory during my lunch break (What, use lunch to eat? Why would I do that?!), and I've decided that although I'll reuse some backstory from 524 and Why Now?, it won't be totally in continuity with either.

After all, I'm not going to wait until I've finished 524 before posting this. That would be crazy!

It also gained a beginning. I'm a lot better at ends than beginnings, which is why I always start with the middles of things. ^^; (Remember how 524 started with what was basically a random encounter? I could never have done what avi17 did and started from the beginning.) Anyway, I now have a 'why are these two talking?!' part, and now I just have to avoid infodump, because that would be bad.

I just found, in the bottom of a drawer, my notes for the /original/ part four of my epic Raimundo-had-a-secret-elaborate-plan fic. Evil!Dashi! Good-but-only-in-comparison!Chase! Sue!Raimundo! Has-a-secret-crush!Katnappé! Omi-Cat! Confused!Everyone-else!

... That one went all the way to Saving Omi before looping, instead of having so many mini-loops. And they didn't go to Chase's Evil Lair until near the end... Hm. *missed out on lots of lair!fun* Oh well - the feedback I've been getting has been mostly 'Yay actual Action/Adventure!' rather than 'Yay RaiJack!' so... yeah. Might be for the best.

Losing those notes meant that I never really got around to writing 'Sequel to Saving Omi', which is why I've been continuing so well with 524 - it no longer needs to be in continuity with the Sequel fic.

Though, it was thanks to eye_of_clotho/Shiva's Avatar's review that I actually went looking - he was very confused. XD It made me remember what I was originally trying to do with the fic - and some more of my original plotlines (which I intend to fully carry out now that they're make in my mind).

( I'll list some of them now, so that I don't forget: )

Ooh, I can even date this notebook, because it has the first draft of 'The Beginning of Something' in it!

And I keep finding things - here's the start of that Raimundo/Clay/Jack PWP that I was doing for the xiaolin_ho_down threesomes challenge. *ponders finishing it*

Or I could just work out what I'm going to do before doing it - though really, whatever I do do I have a follow-on planned, so it's more the subplots not wanting to be forgotten than the fear of writing myself into a corner. ^^;

Though, I can't let the characters know too much.

[ending post now, really]

(Maybe not.)

I also found the plan for that Kimiko&Megan fic. Turns out that I was going to write it, but never actually got around to it. ^^;