Just An Earth-Bound Misfit

Title: In Chains
Author: mizBean
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Word Count: 100
Rating: NC-17.
Challenge: Chains. (Originally posted 3.30.08 on hd100)

( In chains )

Title: Winner-Takes-All
Author: mizBean
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Word Count: 100
Rating: R
Challenge: Game (Originally posted on 4.20.08 hd100

( Winner-Takes-All )

OMG! I wrote het. This is my first real stab at writing het, and was written for wook77 for hp_springsmut
Title: Love Is A Hard Waltz
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Seamus/Lavender
Summary: Of falling and falling in love
Warnings: Parallel timelines
Word Count: 9,100
Author's Notes: Wook had requested the following things, which I tried to incorporate into the fic: romance, exploration of Lavender's injuries, a believable seventh-year fic about those left behind, kissing and OMG!more kissing. Lavender's family history has been completely fabricated.

( For a moment, time stood still. She was falling, her wand clattering to the ground below her. She opened her mouth and screamed. )

Passing this along to those who may not have seen it.

A memorial fund has been set up in the memory of Anjali Pai. More information here along with a message from her father.

It's snowing. When in the fuckity-fuck is spring coming. Argh! Here are some more ask me meme answers.

ella_bane asked three questions: What's the latest movie you watched? What movie coming out soon would you like to watch? What's your favorite movie adapted from a book?

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aqua_eyes asked, "What's your guilty pleasure?"

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stillaseeker asked, "What were you like in school? Have you changed?"

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Finally, lillian_cho asked me about my favorite number or color.

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I found this on Jezebel: 100 Unsexiest Men on the Planet. Mike Huckabee, Tom Cruise, Keith Urban ("Looks like Ellen DeGeneres with five-o'clock shadow." Hee!), Eddie Murphy... Yeah, I pretty much agree with their selections, although how Spencer Pratt lost the number one spot to Roger Clemens, I'll never know.

More ask me meme answers.

celandineb asked, "What's your favorite icon and why?"

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cyn_ful asked me about my first huge obsession.

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More answers coming up:)

What is this about?

I'm supposed to be traveling today, but it's snowing. Winter storm warning. 9" of snow forecasted. *checks calendar* Yep, it's supposed to be spring. *sigh*

frayach asked me to blog about Eliot Spitzer (former governor of NY who was publicly linked in a prostitution scandal). Specifically her question was, "Do you think Eliot Spitzer's wife should have refused to stand beside him at his press conferences?"

( My thoughts on yaoi, er Eliot Spitzer )

What is this about?

Borrowed from just about everyone.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post or comment about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal (if you want) so that we can all learn more about each other.

I've been hibernating too long. Break me out of my shell.

I've spent the last half hour reading up on the Heather Mills/Paul McCartney divorce. What in sweet Merlin is she wearing? And now she is talking about coming to the States. Do not want.

My hp_springsmut fic was posted today, and it's Harry/Ron!

life in the subjunctive case by anon. [R]
Summary : Friday evening is pizza from the shop on the corner and fire whiskey, and it’s easy (almost too easy, Harry thinks) to brush his fingers over Ron’s knuckles while reaching for a napkin.

You know, I could tell from the summary alone that I was going to love this, and I was not disappointed. I prefer my Harry/Ron fics to be on the angsty side, and this fic captured the tone I wanted exactly. There's a bit of a bite, but it's not too heavy. Bittersweet would be a good word to describe it. Anyway, go read. There's also some lovely trio moments too.

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Okay, I looked at my posting calendar and saw that it's almost been a whole month since I've updated. I shall post a longer update at a later date, but suffice it to say I have fic deadlines looming, and I tend to disappear when that happens. My hp_springsmut contribution is dunzo, but I still have my hd_worldcup fic to finish. *frets* I'll get back in the groove soon, I promise.

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There's sad news today that Patrick Swayze is dying of cancer. Get well:-(

( My thoughts )

Here is my hd_holidays contribution, written for sherant, who gave me a prompt of autumn.

Title: Three Septembers and a January
Author: mizbean
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny
Summary: In September 2002, Harry walks into a pub during a rainstorm and his relationship with Ginny changes forever.
Rating: R
Disclaimer:All in good fun. Don't sue.
Warning(s): Infidelity.
Deathly Hallows compliant?Yes, including the epilogue.
Word Count: 6,000
Author's Notes: Thank you to ella_bane for her feedback, and the mods for running the fest and their patience. I borrowed the title from one of Neil Gaiman's awesome Sandman stories.

( Three Septembers and a January )

Thanks to everyone who left me comments in the Snaps Cup meme. I will be replying as soon as I get home:)

I keep forgetting to post my journal entries over here. Anyway, here is a short little fic I wrote for celandineb's 3fan_holidays exchange. This was written for sassy_cissa.

Title: Special Delivery
Author: mizbean
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: References to cross-dressing.
Summary: ~1700 words. For his crimes against the Wizarding world, Draco was given the cruelest of punishments: The task of opening Harry Potter's fan mail.
Notes: Apologies to Dr. Suess for stealing two of his most famous lines.

Please go read the smashing ficlet juniperus wrote for me: Is that a Dagger in your Scabbard or are you Just Happy to See Me? [Harry/Draco] and the rest of the fics and drabbles that were part of the 3fan_holidays Exchange (all under 2,000 words) covering the HP, LotR, and PotC fandoms.

( Special Delivery )

In case you haven't heard Dumbledore is gay. No really.

But seriously, I wanted to post a reminder that the deadline is looming for submitting suggestions for hd_fandomchoice. 12 am GMT, October 21, people. Unless I'm doing my math incorrectly that's only 8-11 hours away for us North Americans.

So if you think these fandom-wide rec lists never reflect the types of fics you like to read. Rec something. Or if you're wont to complain that so-and-so's epic fic never gets the love it deserves, make sure it's on there. Or even if it's a well-known fic. Rec it. As we all know there's always at least one well-known fic that falls through the cracks. Meanwhile I've got my own suggestion list to finish.

serpentinelion is hosting a cliché fest, and that got me thinking. What are some of the popular Harry/Draco clichés? Of course, we have Cassandra Clare to thank for Leather Pants!Draco, and then there's the ever popular snarky! Draco or the ice prince! Draco or even the danceclub! Draco, grooving to his inner Brian Kinney in a mesh t-shirt as Harry mouth hits the floor. And let's not forget about Harry. We have CAPSlock! Harry, virginal!Harry, clueless! Harry, Auror! Harry, not to mention Auror!Draco. We have tie porn! wall sex! detention! sex and yummy, yummy Quidditch sex.

So what is your favorite Harry/Draco cliché, and which is your least favorite? And why aren't more people writing tie porn?

Fill out my poll on my livejournal.

To start things off, one of my favorite H/D clichés is tie porn! Alpha!Harry. Nothing pushes my buttons more than a Harry that's in charge, whether he's taking down a row of Death Eaters with a flick of his wand, or telling Draco to wipe that pissy smirk off his face and get those damn robes off. NOW! (And Draco loves to get Harry all hot and bothered. He just won't admit it.) And one of my least favorite clichés is a Draco who is obsessed with his hair. I'm not sure who we have to blame for Hair Product! Draco, but unless it's done in jest, it makes me cringe every time I see it.

So what's yours? Feel free to elaborate in the comments. I will be posting the results at a later date.

This was written for hd_remix's second round, and is a remix of corvidae9's truly awesome fic: Take What You Can Get

Title: Take Me Down (War Is Hell Remix)
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mixed up timeline. That's it. Also not DH-compliant. (The original was written in a pre-DH world, and I decided to keep to that universe.)
Summary: Draco is practiced in the art of self-deception. He learned from the best.
Word Count: 3,500
Disclaimer: All for fun. Don't sue.
Author's notes Thank you to corvidae9 for writing such an awesome story, sesheta_66 for the beta, and coffeejunkii for running the fest. Go check out the Masterlist here.

( Take Me Down (War Is Hell Remix) )

1. hd_remix is now into its second week of postings. There's a lot of great, new Harry/Draco fic being posted over there, which admittedly I'm behind on my reading, but a few have stood out so far: Une fois de plus, avec sentiment, which is beautiful one year on continuation of shikishi's Je t'aime aussi, one of my favorite kishi fics, and Graphite Transference (The Slow and Not So Steady Mix), a remix of three of dacro's fics, which I have to admit I haven't read. Exquisitely written angst with a happy ending.

And, of course, I would be remiss if I didn't direct you to Walk Back, which a lovely anonymous person wrote for as a remix of my Harry/Draco/Ron threesome fic Walk On. Go read, my remixer gave it an alternate ending and took it several weeks into the future, so it's quite different from the original, and can stand all on it's own. Really, it's lovely, especially if you like angsty relationship pieces where emotions can get messy, but there is still genuine love and affection running underneath.

2. Separately, I was thinking about how I have been approaching the remixes in this fest. Ideally, I suppose, the reader is supposed to read the original first and then open the remix. I haven't always been doing this. In fact, more often than not I'm not doing this, and a few occasions I've gone back to read the original after.. I wonder if I'm the only one who does this.

3. Thanks to professor_mum's post today on hp_essays I spend the morning reading Daniel Hemmens' 4-part review of Deathly Hallows and had quite a few laughs at JKR's expense. Even though I liked DH, much more than HBP, it doesn't mean I can't enjoy a good sporking, and there are some valid points of criticism made in the essays as well. Unfortunately, the four essays aren't linked together so here they are:

Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four

~ As for me, work has been keeping me on my toes. My son started Kindergarten last week and my daughter first grade. I never thought having school-aged kids would make me so busy, but between after-school meetings, before-school meetings (I seem to have found myself on a parental advisory committee) and soccer practice, I haven't had much time to myself. Yesterday was spent at my daughter's soccer game and then a mad dash downtown via bus and train to go to her classmate's birthday party. (Why are children's birthday parties so utterly exhausting? I felt like the marrow was being sucked out of my bones.) By the time I finally got home at 6pm I was ready for bed. literally. I watched a Godzilla movie on TV and then fell asleep. Today I'm doing nothing but clean the house and do laundry. It's an exciting life I lead.

1. I want to talk about doctor's appointments. When I make an appointment at say 10:30 to take my children in for their school physicals and arrive on time, I don't expect to be there for two frickin' hours.

Yes, it was a morning well spent, locked with two bored, hungry kids in a generic dull doctor's office, occasionally yelling "Don't touch that!" at the top of my lungs, and trying desperately not to lose my mind.

Additionally, (and this is addressed to the attending nurse) please to not be giving me the eye roll along with the generic answer of "soon" when I ask, in an admittedly harried voice, "How much longer?" Dude, two hours. I would have packed a lunch if I'd known I'd have to wait that long.

2. Moving on. It was a rainy weekend, so all-outdoor activities were cancelled. We saw Stardust on Sunday, which I thought was slow to get started, but once the action picked up I enjoyed it muchly. My 7-year-old daughter loved it. (She wants to go see it again!) I only mention this because I read a review after that warned that the film wasn't suitable for children, which puzzles me as it didn't seem any more violent than Spider-man 3, and both my kids enjoyed it. (Admittedly, my 5-year-old was a little bored, but he loved the flying pirate ship).

This also coincided quite nicely with me being on a Neil Gaiman kick lately after I discovered my local branch library carries the Sandman series, and on the fannish front, this just demonstrates how much books have an allure for me, and why I'll probably never have the urge to write fic for a TV-based fandom.

3. I didn't make the smutmas cut, so I'm at a bit of a loss on what to with my fannish time. I decided not to do harry_holidays after noticing they were screening the sign-up posts. I can't be the only one who likes to know what she is getting into, but I'm also leaning against hd_holidays this time around.

4. I do have my hd_remix fic to finish tonight. (I will not be signing up for any more remixes; they're too hard to write). And my eros_affair fic to resurrect after letting it lanquish when I wasn't sure if the fest was on hold. Other than that, I'm free to poke at my Neville fic, which can't decide if it's gen, het, slash, or all of the above, and I'm quite certain only a handful of people might be willing to read.

5. That's it:-)

Okay, this journal migration is not all that and a bag of chips. I just tried to back up my recs journal to IJ, and ended up backing up another copy of my mizbean journal instead. That's right. I backed up my journal twice to the same journal. Two copies of every frickin' Livejournal post I've ever made.

Fuck it.

I don't suppose there's an easy way to delete posts without going through every single one?

I will now be cross-posting my recs to IJ here: the beanery if anyone's interested.

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Okay, to make this entry not a complete waste of time:P
~ Photoshop? Y/Y Has she ever looked that good?

~ Sexy, scruffy Harry by Glockgal *pants*

Oh, fandom. I can't keep up. There was a time when there were fic posts and squees about canon to help my ply my spare time. Or rants about shipping or DanRad's hair. Sure, that stuff is still here, somewhere, but it's getting drowned out by posts from innocence_jihad or fandomtossed. It's not that I don't care. I do. I'm just finding this situation exhausting. I don't do change well, and seeing my flist fragment to four different journaling services is depressing me. Fandom used to be a place where I escaped to. Now I find myself wanting to escape fandom.

This is me being grumpy about the whole situation. I'll get over it. Just give me a few days.

So, housekeeping.

I backed up my entire livejournal to my InsaneJournal account, and that will be my secondary journal until a shiny fandom-friendly service like Scribbit is created. As it stands, I'm probably not going to do much with my Greatest Journal account, except to post fic and other fannish stuff. I won't be making any personal posts there.

Oh, I also have a journalfen account. I think I'm going to post my fic there too, and I may back up my journal up there too.

But, that's the thing. I've made little effort to add icons or spiff up my layouts in my mirror journal. I'd just rather spend my fandom time doing something else like working my Neville fic or my hd_remix fic.

Speaking of fic writing. I wrote explicit het for the first time three days ago. Whee! It was fun. I don't know why I was so skittish about it before.

One more thing! I threw my name in the Epilogue Meme here! Have fun!

I just spent my entire lunch hour trying to keep up with friending sprees going on at GJ and IJ, so I thought I should make a note here that I'm not going anywhere. Yet.

I'm still keeping this LJ. I will not be locking my fic or anything else fandom related. (However, I have gone back and locked some of the recs I've made.) If my LJ gets suspended so be it. Everything is backed up as of last night, and my fics are archived elsewhere, or at the very least saved on my home computer.

However, if there is a fandom migration elsewhere, I'll certainly follow. It's not that I'm not especially enamored with LJ at the moment, it's just that I've put down roots here (3 years and counting), and I enjoy the people of my flist too much to give it up.

Still, in case you missed it, here the links are my alternate journaling sites.

http://www.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=mizbean
http://mizbean.insanejournal.com/profile

I've heard a lot of people touting journalfen today, but from what I hear account creation is currently turned off, so I'm not sure how viable a solution that is. And, frankly, some of the people on journalfen scare me.

Anyway, I'm going to turn off LJ, GJ and IJ and get back to work on my Neville fic. And take a deep breath.

Links:
~ Ponderosa121 is talking about an alternative journaling fan site here.
~ So is twocorpses: here.
~ fandom_flies: a community dedicating itself to finding a fandom-wide solution if we do need to make an exodus elsewhere.

I just spent my entire lunch hour trying to keep up with friending sprees going on at GJ and IJ, so I thought I should make a note here that I'm not going anywhere. Yet.

I'm still keeping this LJ. I will not be locking my fic or anything else fandom related. (However, I have gone back and locked some of the recs I've made.) If my LJ gets suspended so be it. Everything is backed up as of last night, and my fics are archived elsewhere, or at the very least saved on my home computer.

However, if there is a fandom migration elsewhere, I'll certainly follow. It's not that I'm not especially enamored with LJ at the moment, it's just that I've put down roots here (3 years and counting), and I enjoy the people of my flist too much to give it up.

Still, in case you missed it, here the links are my alternate journaling sites.

http://www.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=mizbean
http://mizbean.insanejournal.com/profile

I've heard a lot of people touting journalfen today, but from what I hear account creation is currently turned off, so I'm not sure how viable a solution that is. And, frankly, some of the people on journalfen scare me.

Anyway, I'm going to turn off LJ, GJ and IJ and get back to work on my Neville fic. And take a deep breath.

Links:
~ Ponderosa121 is talking about an alternative journaling fan site here.
~ So is twocorpses: here.
~ fandom_flies: a community dedicating itself to finding a fandom-wide solution if we do need to make an exodus elsewhere.

Only a placeholder at this point, but you're completely welcome to friend:-)