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snarry_holidays sign-ups begin August 5th at 12:00am EST. Sign-ups will continue until August 12th, or until we reach the cap -- 80 participants.

We are here on IJ (snarry_holidays) and also on LJ.

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Pretty banners are coming soon. :)

Hmmm, is LJ down?

Edit: It's back :D

I demand encourage any interested parties to bid at livelongnmarry tonight, no matter the auction.

But, just to mention, I am offering an option for fic. My auction is here and bidding is open until 12:01am PDT tonight. Bidding is up to $40.00. (rospberry, it's not that I want you to be outbid, in theory! ♥)

I haven't been able to bid on anything because of lack of funds, but I do hope I'm contributing something by writing.

Oh, this one is fantastic. ♥

Title: Completely Inappropriate Things
Author: Anonymous in weasley_fest
Pairing: Fred/George/Remus, mentions of Remus/Sirius
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Double penetration, twincest, implied Weasleycest.
Summary: The holidays can be a depressing time of year, but Remus has Fred and George looking out for him.

Well-written and very well-characterized and fucking hot.

Nothing like traveling to throw your life into a frenzy of OMGZ I have so much to do!

While I was visiting lesyeuxverts we took drabble requests. We wrote some of them, and we'll finish the rest of them soon. ♥

And I have drabble requests of my own of them to honor. Some of them rather great ones. :)

Title: Happy Endings
Author: bewarethesmirk and lesyeuxverts
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Neville/Charlie
Prompt: "two person sleeping bag"
Disclaimer: Not mine.
AN: For kaellite

( Happy Endings )


Title: Some Comfort
Author: bewarethesmirk and lesyeuxverts
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus/Kingsley
Prompt: gin and tonic in a hammock
Warnings: Umbridge
Disclaimer: Not mine.
AN: For snapesgirl_62

( Some Comfort )


Title: Promise
Author: bewarethesmirk and lesyeuxverts
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Prompt: captive
Disclaimer: Not mine.
AN: For alisanne

( Promise )


Title: Simple Truths
Author: bewarethesmirk and lesyeuxverts
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Pairing: Percy/Harry
Prompt: whether or not
Disclaimer: Not mine.
AN: For celandineb

( Simple Truths )

hp_cross_fest sign-ups have opened. I am participating. :) I'm requesting the following pairings: Draco/Teddy, Draco/James Jr., Snape/Harry, Harry/Teddy, Ron/Al.

snapenews is still looking for a Friday editor. :) Comment for more info.

sirry_slash is gauging interest for a Sirry Secret Santa 2008.

livelongnmarry is underway! Go bid on some fantastic things! My post is here if anyone is interested. Bidding is up to $30. :) (*snuggles bidders*)

I help to post some fics for snarry_holidays last year, and I will also be helping lesyeuxverts and faynia to mod it this year.

I'm sure most of you might have seen it by now, but in case you haven't:

The Snarry Holidays schedule is up

Be aware that the sign-ups occur while Terminus is going on, so you might want to arrange for someone to sign-up for you, if necessary, or take some time out to do it at the con.

Tagged by zalil_z

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

Actually, I really hate tagging people for these types of things. I'll say rospberry, lux_astraea, so_severus, friarlawrence, siriuslysnogged, treeson, and who_la_hoop if any of you want to do it. Meme taggage can be annoying. :P

( Seven Habits/Quirks/Facts )

( My night )

( OMG WIZARD WROCK! )

I'm offering fic for livelongnmarry.

Some of you already know all about this. For those asking "WTF is this?", here:

BIDDING OPENS ON JULY 1, 12:01 AM PACIFIC TIME, AND CLOSES JULY 15, 12:01 PACIFIC TIME.

What is this?
Live Long And Marry is a fandom auction to benefit marriage equality. Bidding begins on July 1, 12:01 Pacific Time, 2008, and closes on July 15, 12:01 Pacific Time, 2008. Please do not bid until bidding opens.

What's the cause?
The auction will raise money for the fight against the California initiative which will legally destroy existing same-sex marriages and ban any further ones. If the initiative passes, it will write discrimination into the state constitution, annull existing marriages, and make Mr. Sulu cry.

How can I help?
You can bid on fanfic, original fic, vids, cookies, memorabilia, critique/betas, and much more! Or you can offer your skills and services as a writer, vidder, baker, knitter, or whatever else you'd like.

Read more in the userinfo.

I am contributing fanfic and here's my post in case anyone's interested:

Offer: I will write no less than 5,000 words of fanfic. I primarily write in the Harry Potter fandom, but I also can write in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, and Queer as Folk fandoms. I primarily toy with writing m/m slash these days, but I can and do write het, femmeslash, or gender-queered pairings/interactions -- or gen! I will write any pairing from any of these fandoms. I'm not that shy about writing kinks, so if you have something particularly kink-worthy in mind, I'm probably open to it. If you want to ask me first, feel free.

Contact: bewarethesmirk [at] gmail [dot] com

Delivery: I'll have your story written, polished, and finished by November 1.

Minimum bid: $20

Buy it now: $80

Please consider participating. There are tons of wonderful HP writers offering their services, and a lot of people writing in other fandoms and/or offering miscellaneous things.

Title: Things Lily Thinks But Never Says in Fourth Year
Author: bewarethesmirk
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Summary: Lily Evans thinks fourth year will be the same as third year, but she’ll be proven wrong on more than one occasion by none other than her friend, Severus Snape.
Author's Notes: Written for peskywhistpaw in the less_for_you exchange! Thanks to treeson and rospberry for the beta. At least, Ros, I think you betaed this one. Correct me if I'm wrong. :P

( Things Lily Thinks But Never Says in Fourth Year )

♥ Thanks to everyone who offered birthday wishes for me! *smooches* There are too many to name. :)

I'd like to point out two adorable ficlets written for me:
Hit the Beach by enchanted_jae (Harry/Draco; PG)
The prompt I gave was: Draco's first time at a Muggle beach.

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall by softly_sweetly (Harry/Draco; NC-17)
The prompt I gave was: obscene magical mirror

If you wished me happy birthday and I haven't responded, I must not have seen it. Please point me in the right direction. *haz greed*

On my birthday, I ate Indian with the roomies, and then friarlawrence and I went to the mall and saw Narnia 2. I got $100 from my Mom and a $100 from my grandpa. Can't complain about the money. But the best birthday present I received was Obama clinching the Democratic nomination. *icon*

♥ I've been sleeping waaaaaay too much lately. I mean, really. I need to stop.

♥ I'm going to pack up my stuff, run a few errands, and then go to my grandparents' for the day/night. It'll be nice to have a functioning TV again, with cable, so I can get a politics fix.

♥ I've two H/D novels I'm working on now--and when I was in the shower I got an idea for a Snarry. Argh!

♥ It's going to be 100 again today. *cringes* I did have a productive talk with one of my roommates about the A/C.

ETA! I forgot to mention I have a job interview Monday! *cross fingerz and toez and other appendagez*

Title: Distraction
Author: rospberry
Pairing: Remus/Harry
Rating: R
It's a ficlet--very short but adorable! :D

Title: His Own Sun
Author: Anonymous at hp_wankfest
Pairing: James/Sirius
Rating: R
Warning: Angst, wanking, adultery, voyeurism

Title: Sweet Halcyon Haze
Author: Anonymous for now :)
Pairing: Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: See link.

Title: The Rules of Malfoy Manor
Author: Anonymous at the_ass_fest
Pairing AS/S, implied H/D
Rating: R

Title: A Man's Greatest Treasure
Author: Anonymous at less_for_you
Pairing Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Intercourse (both aged seventeen), fellatio, masturbation, fluff, severe lack of canon compliance.

Title: A Little D/s and its sequel, A Little More
Author: lavillanueva
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Bondage, D/s, orgasm delay (kind of)

Title: Close Your Eyes
Pairing: Sirius/Hermione (kind of)
Rating: R
Warnings: UST in a big way. Creepy!Sirius. Hermione is 16. Non-con/darker innuendo. Please don't read if underage and sexual coercion squick you.
Words: ~1,300
Summary: More and more, the war is threatening to break Hermione's nerves of steel. Sirius willingly proffers a method of relaxation.
Notes: Betaed by coerciveconsent. Mistakes are my own. I might write more.

( Close Your Eyes )

Just quickly, in case anyone wanted to know something. If you're interested in hearing any of these songs, I'd be happy to upload some. Most of the songs were guessed!

( Original instructions )

( Answers to Songs Not Guessed )

( Songs Already Guessed )

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

siriuslysnogged gave me the letter M - M is for Mmmmmmasturbate.

1. Me and Mia - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
2. Me and the Moon - Something Corporate ♥
3. More for Me - Tegan and Sara
4. My Dad is Rich - Draco and the Malfoys ♥
5. My Love (You're Never Gonna) - En Vogue

I feel like I'm copying gossymer because she posted her H/D survey as I was completing mine, but that's okay. :D sansa1970 posted about a new community, hd_readers (on LJ), which I hadn't heard about yet.

But, seriously, consider checking out hd_readers if, er, you like to read H/D. The community will choose one fic a month for readers to discuss and hopefully have the author featured in some way, too. There's also a poll up right now on non-con in fic.

I filled out an H/D survey for the community, and here's mine:

( H/D Survey of Doom )

Let it be known to all and sundry that I hate electronic job applications which require answering 36 pages of questions asking "SD, D, SA, A." Many of these questions are repeated a hundred times and purposely contradict each other. Make them all on one page. Ask a few of these questions. Interview me to ascertain if I have these qualities or call my references. I'll write an essay detailing my qualifications for fuck's sake, but filling out pages and pages of this bullshit is absurd.

*grin*

Can you tell I've been out applying for jobs?

I've been been taking care of a lot of long delayed things today. In order to get my BA, I'm completing one more political science course in Summer Session II (Lack of Civil Liberties in the US). I'm working on taking a French course at NC State University in Raleigh (*waves at winterthunder*). Arranging for this French class has been and will be a pain in the ass. It's also going to conflict with Portus and Terminus. I'm still going to both, but my time is going to be cut short--aka I'm going on weekends. I still have to find money for the French class. Which leads us to...

Jobs. I'm looking for anything, really. I've even been applying for positions in restaurants, which is a declaration of my desperation. I'm going to apply for Borders and Whole Foods later. And then there's the Real Job search which will probably begin in July. Washington, DC, here I come (I hope!)

I'm at an awesome coffee shop on Duke's campus (*waves at pennswoods*) right now. I was in Durham applying for jobs and so I'm here. :P It's only about 30 mins from my apartment anyway.

Congratulations to legomymalfoy. Congratulations to LJ (or someone in LJ) for utilizing what I'd call commonsense with the new LJ policy. I've not read the whole thing yet, but from the commentary on my flist (pir8fancier and nqdonne included!) it seems--at the very least--promising.

Title: Porn Night
Author: who_la_hoop
Pairing: Harry/Ron; Seamus, Dean and Neville in attendance
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rimming, voyeurism, swearing
Word Count: ~5,000
Summary: There was an invisible line they didn't cross – they didn't touch each other while they did it, and they never – ever – treated it as anything more than a light-hearted competition. Hence the rulers and the Penis Games, and the fact that Seamus had constructed a Winner's Cup out of wadded (but clean) tissues and rubber bands.

Read it here!

This is who_la_hoop's first daily_deviant post. *eg* And it's wonderful, of course. The entire scenario is hilarious and fun, all the usual Gryffindor boys (Dean, Seamus, Neville, Ron, Harry) gathered together for a a spot of porn. Amusing though it is, the sexual tension is cut-with-a-knife. There's much hotness and a wonderful resolution. Harry's stuttering, panicked voice in the story is authorial genius.

Here it is, here it is, the reveals are up!

First of all, congratulations to Team Epilogue. What a team of talent. :) Some of my best fandom friends were on this team, so I'm very happy their hard work and excitement was rewarded! I also think this says something very positive about fandom--that after DH we can go on and write anything.

My own thank-yous:
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much to Team EWE for being fucking fantastic. First of all, to sansa1970 for being an amazing captain. Sansa promoted cooperation and was always there to help. I'm so happy I was on a team with my good friend, winnett, and the often-stalked-by-me captain_tulip. I made so many new friends, many of which are now on my flist and maybe reading this. :D Thanks to Team EWE for being so fantastic and making it a pleasure to work with you all.

..And for the reveal:

I wrote Smile, You're On Camera for The Devil. Thanks so much to captain_tulip who looked over this less than two hours before the deadline. I owe you my life. Also, thanks so much to rospberry, eeyore9990, and lesyeuxverts00 for all your help. rospberry also contributed to the much-needed Britpicking. If there's anyone I've forgotten, please hit me over the head with a reminder.

For right now, I'm going to link to my fic as it's posted on hd_worldcup. I'm going to do a bit of editing before I put it on my journal. The ending of the fic was written in a rush, and while it was betaed, there's some more tweaking I want to do. :) If you haven't read it yet and want to wait to read it in its soon-to-be completed form, I won't blame you a bit.

For now:
Title: Smile, You're on Camera
Team: Team EWE
Prompt: The Devil
Wordcount: ~14,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: A bit of Harry/Ginny but nothing serious or explicit.
Summary: Harry Potter has lost sight of what it means to listen to himself—he's depressed and confused, moving through life only to please the Ministry and the press and his friends. One day he wakes up on a train next to Draco Malfoy and that all changes.
Author's Note: Thanks so much to sansa1970 and all the Team EWEers. Thanks to betas: captain_tulip, eeyore9990, lesyeuxverts00, and rospberry. Thanks to rospberry who performed Britpicking duties. Thanks to all the readers/commenters/watchers of the fest! :)

Smile, You're On Camera

I don't think anyone has done art for this fic, but if art is in existence, please comment here or email me at bewarethesmirk at gmail dot com to ensure it's credited (and that I, erm, actually see it).

My hds_beltane fic was posted a few days ago, and I was finally able to give it its proper comment a few moments ago. And on that note, I shall rec:

Title: De Novo
Author: Anonymous for the moment (*scratches head*)
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 26,685
Summary: Harry and Draco are given a crime to solve – and an opportunity to begin again.
My Comments: Hermione and Draco are both teaching at Hogwarts. It's obvious from the get-go Draco holds some sort of feelings for Harry, and you'll soon find out if any of the feelings are returned. :) Harry and Draco come together when a student is attacked (raped), and Harry the Auror investigates the goings-on. There is--as per my request--an awkward date, a bit of clubbing (which serves more as apart of the undercover investigation) and hot sex. And there is a cute and happy ending.

Read it here