Anya

Proooobably going to sign up for this too. Not exactly pro at drabbles, but I think it's a craft it couldn't hurt to hone. Also fun. Yay!


Snarry LDWS

So, in October I am probably going to go to The Hub 3, and while I was browsing the site and trying to justify the price of train and hotel to myself, I came across an ad for Muggle Mayhem. Is this exciting or meh? Has anyone heard of it? Is it going to be all younguns and movie fans? It's cheap and charity, so tempting anyway, but of course once you factor in the hotel and travel from Devon it's a bit less worth it. Also, I spend absolutely no time on Mugglenet... so hmmm. Anyone know anyone who's going?

Edit: so like, I assumed Muggle Mayhem was 2010... but lolno. They just haven't taken the ads down. Ah well. DEFINITELY doing the Hub then. Exciting!

I have never been more excited in my life. Okay, slight lie, I get squee-level excited all the time, but I am very very excited at this moment, because Muse are playing their new album in the Teignmouth, the town of their childhood, which just happens to be a different point on the same sunny Devon coastline as my (decidedly similar) home town.

And I have tickets.

I AM SO SO HAPPY.

Curses! Memed again!

When Sarah Rees Brennan's book, The Demon's Lexicon, came out, I was terribly, secretly, guiltily concerned that I would not love it in the same way I loved her HP stuff. That the writing would be great was obvious, but I have a relationship with the HP universe that I simply haven't formed with anything else, and I was afraid that not having that assumption of shared knowledge and appreciation at the start would make it far more difficult to... bond with the book, I guess. Which is actually quite rational, but made me feel bad, because I think she's a brilliant writer and a lovely person and I think she greatly deserves heaps and heaps of success and adoration.

Turned out I was right about struggling to like the book as much as I wanted to. There was all the weight of hype and expectation (mostly self-generated), and the strange position of reading the "first" book of someone whose writing has been in my heart and soul, not to mention my own writing style, for what feels like a very long time, and so I'm still not sure what I feel about it. It was a great book, and a fascinating universe, but I'm not sure I would say I love it. Nor would I say I didn't love it. It's complicated, baby.

But I can say, with overwhelming confidence, that I LOVE THIS STORY. Ohhh, I love it to tiny little pieces. The second part has just gone up, and the whole story is lyrical and emotional and beautiful and dark and oooh, shiver-inducing in parts. I'm overwhelmed with love for the POV character, as well as all the glimpses of the characters we already know, and while I think everyone should buy the Demon's Lexicon anyway I especially think you should because then you can read this story. I don't know if it's because I wasn't anticipating it in the same way, because the groundwork of the universe is done (though I think there's plenty more to see, in the story and beyond, and I'm excited for it now) or the lack of editor (because the book seemed to have far fewer of the markers of SRB's structural style, and I don't think that's a good thing) but I'm truly in love with this story, and the world with it. So... go buy the book, and then go read it!

HOLY CRAP IS DREAMWIDTH LIKE, THE AWESOMEST?

Importing... automatic cross-posting to LJ and IJ... pretty... ideologically sound... okay, I am writing everything on Dreamwidth now. <3

So, instead of making a decision on what I like to think of as my hate-triangle fic, I am instead exorcising my finished-but-not-posted folder and posting something that I still can't form a solid opinion on. Probably because it is so out of my usual repertoire. For a start, it's het. Also, Ginny-centric. Also, Epilogue compliant. Even JKR-interview compliant, to a point, and I don't consider that canon in the slightest.

But I think I like it.

The Affair, NC-17, Warnings for, surprisingly enough, adultery. Hosted at my site.

Actually, it's not exclusively het. Harry is not a straight man in my head. It's also an attempt to bond with Ginny, although it got rather out of hand, and I am not sure if she is actually at all sympathetic. Opinions are love.

Work and stuff has kept me well away from computers for some time, but now I am settled into something resembling a routine and so back trickles the nagging urge to write. Except I suck so hard at finishing anything! For some reason, despite my ability to finish things in a fairly small amount of time I just... don't. But I start them. For the past few weeks I have been regularly scribbling something in a notebook, on workdays while I am waiting for my lift home. Something with a sad lack of Snape but which will definitely eventually feature H/D and also lots and lots of Lucius/Harry power struggles and/or sexual tension. It also promises to be looooooooong, extrapolating from my current word count and where I plan to go with it.

The question is... do I wait until I am all finished, or do I post a part now? Will a possible reader or two increase my drive to finish? And, more importantly, does anybody actually care to read it?

And to those that went, I hope Azkatraz rocked out. I am so green with envy.

If there's anyone who hasn't got a Dreamwidth account and wants one, I just got two codes. Drop me a (screened) comment or a PM with your email I can send them along!

I have just been doodling ALL DAY. No fanart; just naked ladies. Opinions?

http://anyaelizabeth.deviantart.com/art/Melancholy-Woman-122631760

http://anyaelizabeth.deviantart.com/art/Veiled-Lady-122630125

Been on a TV bender recently, mostly Torchwood, mostly to avoid the piles and piles of work I should be doing. Half of said work is done, now, which means I am free! For a little while, at least. Free to stay awake til the early hours, certainly.

Just spent a while thanking everyone for all the wonderful wonderful comments on my snape_potter Snarry-a-thon entry. I didn't know if I was going to, but it occurred to me that it wasn't really in the spirit of my commenting vow not to thank everyone, since the whole reason I made the vow was to break myself into saying things rather than just thinking them – and the positive response has me bursting with happiness and gratitude.

I still have piles of Snarry-a-thon fics to go through, but I think I'm going to put it off for summer reading, rather than dangerous exam-time procrastinating. Same goes for writing anything new. Still, how much I have to look forward to! Especially what with the Snarry Games being announced too. Although I am sad about 'possibly the last time' because not only is it the major highlight of the Snarry year, I always dreamt of participating sometime ('maybe when I don't suck any more' always being the mental addition to that sentiment, but I'm banishing that sort of talk).

Still. Madly excited, all the same.

I have just spent an unusually long time link-trailing my way around LJ and IJ, and I have come across something frightening...

Everyone's not going to go off to Dreamwidth, are they? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease no! I don't even like having two! My tiny brain gets confused! I know IJ is ugly as shit and slow... and I know LJ is evil*... but I am not feeling up for another journal to divide my loyalty between. And I would probably find myself maintaining all three because not everyone will move. And I know I already miss masses...

Oh, well. We'll see?

*Well... pretty evil. On the one hand, I can imagine quite vividly the notion of having my internet life deleted. Nigh unforgivable. And their policies have been...stupid. But on the other hand, LJ's better than IJ in many ways, and busier, and my other fandom is there, and it's getting faster and cleaner and more usable all the time, and what with the fusses that have been made I don't think that something like the strikethroughs would happen again. And with back up journals, it'd be okay to risk it again. I'd rather encourage change in the system than desert it. Ditto IJ really.

Oh, and – it's my birthday! Happy birthday me. I may have finally made it out of the teens, but I've been like a child all day. Perhaps that was the pink fizzy stuff the bloke bought me to go with the M&S picnic we had in the park. There were gorgeous tulips and blooming cherry blossoms and it has been unseasonably sunny. <3

So! The Snarry-A-Thon is in full swing, giving me an excellent reason to keep up my Commenting Vow. I have fallen behind in my reading already, but I have been moving back up to Uni so I suppose I can be forgiven?

As procrastination, have a meme from Perverse_Idyll's journal: Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!


( I have about a zillion, so I am only posting ten HP ones. )

Conclusions? I am a boring sod. Well, or at least I write simple, which is probably pretty much true. Of course, I don't think much about first sentences and hooks and all that, especially not in a WiP; I am not fond of blank page syndrome so I just jump in.

Some of them will probably never see the light of day, I fear. Anyone want to hear what any of them will be/were going to be?

Screw New Year. I am making an Easter Resolution. I feel there is less pressure and more birthday-related cheer to spur me on...

I solemnly swear that I will leave feedback on every single thing I read/view from now on. Regardless of whether there are three million comments or none. I will not be ashamed if it is only one sentence. I will not be ashamed if it is an essay. I will only refrain from commenting if I truly have nothing good to say and concrit is not requested.

Lurking is not for the land of feedback! This is my vow, just in time for the Snarry-a-thon. I am tres excited :)

art by accioslash and banner by swtalmnd

Hoorah! Exciting!

I GOT THE MOST AWESOME EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER.

Title: HP Slash: Snape and Harry
Artist: emilylikesyou (blank journal, but active DeviantArt)
Rating: PG-13 I guess
Notes: Dearest Emily is a H/D shipper for the most part, and not a Snape fan, but she has loyally read my fic anyway and offered invaluable advice (and hilarious comments). In return I have written her some H/D (although that's not much of a trial) and vocally adored her art (even less of a trial), and now she has done what I barely dared to dream of, and drawn me some Snarry.

See my icon for a thumbnail :D

( Largish image under cut, clicking takes you to the (currently locked deviantart page )

My Snarry-A-Thon fic is like, done.

I have never been this early with anything that has a deadline attached. Ever.

HOORAY! Now to edit...

Uni work is stressful atm, but thanks to half-asleep epiphanies my snape_potter Snarry-A-Thon fic is coming along rather splendidly. I suspect this will mean that in the last few days of March I will decide I hate it and end up staying up unhealthy hours trying to finish something else. Although I have already had a burn-and-start-again moment.

The boyfriend is leaving for San Francisco in a week for GDC. This hurts, because not only will I be alone for a week, it also reminds me that there is no way in hell I can take a similar holiday... and I want to go to Azkatraz so hard. I could do it for about a grand, maybe £1400, which is both small enough to seem possible and yet utterly beyond my means at the moment. If I won a thousand pounds tomorrow, or if I lived on the streets of SF for the week, I could maybe do it... and at the moment I have never wanted anything more. Being absolutely sick with jealousy is not a feeling I am accustomed to, specially not directed at Lukey.

But hey, maybe something will crop up. I am still counting on that lottery win. And, y'know, I'm pretty privileged anyway, so I'm sure I'll get over it.

Art!

Title: Pansy Defiant
Rating: G
Notes: I am spending a lot more time on my tablet at the moment than I am writing, for a myriad of procrastination-based reasons. I was playing with openCanvas and Pansy appeared. I will maybe tidy it up a bit someday.