Dear JKR,

when are you going to publish that so talked about Encyclopedia of yours?

I need realistic timelines for my fics, damn it!

Love always and forever,

Your devoted fan that needs more information to write pr0n about the characters you created

This feels like a stupid question to ask, but I know many here on IJ loves Snarry stuff.

Anyway, my stupid question is: Where is the best place to post Snarry artwork?

I know LJ has many comm for Drarry art, but if I'm not mistaken, most Snarry lovers are here on IJ, right? The reason I'm asking is because there is a fantastic artist I know on LJ and I'd like her to post her work where it can get the most recognition.

Thanks!

Spotted this Harry Cocker by Profound_Yaoi, still WIP and the author said "That's it" for now... and left it hanging for another fic, sigh~ Dog!Harry
( Summary of the said fic and it's kinda cute... is now reading it )

It's been one of those up and down weeks, tell me about it.

Spent much of today being spammed. Posted something on ONTD and forgot to turn off comments. Shit.

But my 'stupid' mistake last week on booking the 'cheap cheap' sale fare from here to Rome and back via Honkers has turned into an opportunity.

After clicking all the right buttons, and swiping the plastic, I realised we had a 17 hour stopover in Honkers (Hong Kong, if you didn't guess). 17 flippin hours in the airport... and I thought 7 in Sydney airport on a delay in the Qantas Club was bad enough.

Helen sorted me out and I <3 her. Hong Kong International has 24 hour checkin, so even if our bags don't get carried across from one airline to the next (we're swapping from Cathay Pacific to Qantas there), we can still put our bags in.

Turns out we can escape the airport, and do at least a few things in the only Asian city that has held any interest for me so far. A rapid train into central, up the peak on that vertical train, then back down and a ferry across Victoria Harbour, some 'real' Chinese takeaway (perhaps even scorpion), and dinner by the harbour before heading back to the airport.

Sounds like a plan.

( and in other news... )

Crazy, huh?

The upshot of having to talk to MIL? She is now also on my faceachebook. Damn. Boss, supervisor, and Mother in Law all on facebook. Thank goodness I can still bitch about them on Twitter, and here.

http://community.livejournal.com/snarryficfind/1425752.html

My first real "weekend" since the end of September.

All the month of October, my boss at the apartment complex decided to take all the Fridays off as vacation time. I support her doing this since working full time at the apartment complex is very stressing and all our residents or at least a majority of them, are completely insane. Anyway, since M. took Fridays off, that means I've been working those days for her. That means for all of October, I've been working six days a week. Great paycheck, but not enough time off from work.

And this past Thursday and Friday has been my first weekend in a month. :) I'm feeling very good.

Went out to dinner at his Italian restaurant earlier this evening to celebrate my friend's b-day. The food was fantastic and pricey. Next week we'll be hitting a club to go dancing.

Today was also my Daddy's b-day. Too bad he had to work, otherwise, I'd have taken him out for lunch or something.

Took the baby monster to get her H1N1 vaccination this morning. Waited an hour and a half in line. She said it smelled like chocolate. How freakin' cool is that!? :D

Then we hit up the bookstore (got her Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy - cute story), and the Jamba Juice next door. The drinks were good like they always are, but the sandwich wrap wasn't anything to brag about.

Cleaned out my car since it was a nice day (and like any good packrat, crap had been piling up in my car). All that's left is to take it down to the car wash.

Ugh I was ready to go to bed and then I realized I didn't do my WriSoMiFu.

Title: Despoil
Author: shadowess
Word Count: 327
Rating(s): NC-17
Challenge: Threesome
Warning(s): Threesome
Summary: Severus, Harry and Draco enjoy an evening at home
A/N: Written for WriSoMiFu and My Table of Warnings/Prompts can be found Here

( Despoil )

*smacks head*

Good news: Starfighter has been updated!

Bad news: I FORGOT ABOUT IT WHEN YULETIDE NOMS CAME AROUND. And it didn't make the list from anyone else either. Arrrgh.

http://community.livejournal.com/snarryficfind/1425515.html

Any fics goods fics you can recommend where Harry wakes up in an Alternate Universe or the future and finds his other self was in some kind of relationship with Snape? This relationship can range from just about anything.

Thank you in advance!

Title: Diamonds, a Club, and a Couple of Hearts
Author: Flora (florahart)
Artist/Mixer: elanorofcastile
Beta(s): Several people have read bits and parts; lauriegilbert has been the most involved culler of commas and shortener of sentences (half of which I defied her about anyway).
Series: Reboot/ST XI
Characters/Pairings: primary pairing is Kirk/McCoy; however, there is a Kirk/Gaila scene and Spock/Uhura and Pike/Number One are referenced.
Rating: NC17
Warnings: mostly just smut (het and slash), AU.
Word Count: ~23,500
Summary: Jim Kirk is a hotshot new shortstop in the Constitution League. His team is young, but they have a lot of potential, and oh by the way, the team doctor? Is hot.
Notes: Written for startrekbigbang. Baseball AU in which all the characters are human, and the setting is some nonspecific time between now and 2258. Lots of nods to various baseball movies mashed up with lots of moments from/rearrangements of ST XI. Lots of other nods to things from the Trek canon (of any timeframe/reality) and para-canon, such as character names and backgrounds. Concept is inell's fault.
Art: here
Fanmix: here

( WriSoMiFu Day 7 - The Process of Determining What to Rec )

http://community.livejournal.com/snarryficfind/1425286.html

MY POST IS NSFW.

But first, a Word Count update! \o/





And now, because you've all been indulging me lately, a tasty snippet.


"Malfoy…Draco? Your cock it's…" Harry smirked, swiping his thumb over the wet head. Malfoy's hips jerked beneath him. "It's crying. It's crying tears of sperm."

A pillow smacked him in the face, and Harry fell over laughing.

"I abhor you, Potter," Malfoy grunted into the mattress.

Harry only laughed harder.


Now, to cut this or not to cut this. That is the question.

( 1.07 The Gift )

• 19:41 apparently my grandpa on my dad's side passed away today #

It's like...if you stay home on a Friday night, you must have eclectic tastes. Right? It's certainly not Loser TV for Losers, nooooo. ~_^

(I am kidding, really!)

Ghost Whisperer
I didn't watch the early seasons of this show, trying to tell myself I wasn't interested, but I have a hard time resisting supernatural anything. I mean, I watched Charmed for a few seasons, for gawd's sake! Plus, I have to admit, Jennifer Love-Hewitt is awfully...Lush. It's actually not a bad little show. Usually, the ghost is put to rest at the end of the episode, and any mytharc the series flirts with fits into the regular episode. Ok, the husband's not bad either.

Ugly Betty
Bright, colourful, wacky, fun! I'm a little sad that more people don't watch Ugly Betty. I love the entire cast; I can't think of one character I don't adore. *clings to it*

Medium
This show is smart, the family and characters are real, and NBC is staffed by fools. The End.

Monk
The first half of this last season, the show was cruising hard. The cases were almost nonexistent, and the "bits" were tired. But now that we're into the second half, it's like a light went on and the people involved realised that they only have a few episodes left to say goodbye to one of TV's most original characters. If you watch The Mentalist or Numbers, you have Mr. Monk to thank.

Psych
Oh. How. I. Love. This. Show. Shawn and Gus are a great team, and I love the premise, of a man so observant that people wouldn't listen to him until he began doing his psychic schtick. It's funny, it's fun, it's smart. I actually like Corbin Bersen for once. If you have no idea what Psych is about, then ask me more, because this is a show you should be watching.

White Collar
Jury's still out on this one. The SO likes it, but I have a hard time cheering for criminals.

Sanctuary & Stargate BSGUniverse
Um, we have bazillion episodes sitting on the TiVO. Does not bode well. The first episode of Stargate Universe was a huge downer, and people keep telling us it finds sub-levels from there.

So, who's home with me? ^_^

love, lore

Title: Full Moon
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Summary: Severus is never shy to give his opinion, and neither is Harry.
Word Count: 100
Genre: Humor
Warnings: Er, humor. *g*
A/N: Written for veridian_dair, who yet again managed to successfully guess which fic was mine in the snarry_ldws week 7 competition. Also, please to be excusing the lame title.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Full Moon

Title: Full Moon
Author: alisanne
Rating: PG
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Summary: Severus is never shy to give his opinion, and neither is Harry.
Word Count: 100
Genre: Humor
Warnings: Er, humor. *g*
A/N: Written for veridian_dair, who yet again managed to successfully guess which fic was mine in the snarry_ldws week 7 competition. Also, please to be excusing the lame title.
Beta: sevfan
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( Full Moon )

So, I put up my first post to daily_deviant. For something I wrote quickly (having been obsessed with A Confusion of Will and Desire for the last two months), I'm pretty happy with it, except for the title, which is lame.

Title: Lost and Held
Characters: Sirius, Peter
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Castration, sex, cross-dressing, manipulation
Themes/kinks chosen: Eunuchs/Castrati, Costumes
Word Count: ~5,300
Summary: An accident gives Sirius and Peter a shared secret
Author's notes: November prompts included the theme "eunuchs/castrati". It's listed in the tags as "castration", which would have been a rather different story. I have been as accurate as possible with the theme, but do not guarantee all details are correct. ;-) Thanks to Clauclauclaudia for very short-notice beta work.

Link to post

This one was odd to work on. The themes for November were clamps, costumes, eunuchs/castrati, and symphorophilia (arousal by watching or causing destruction and/or death). "Costumes" didn't really seem like enough to me, and I hate clamps so much that it's hard for me to write about them. Symphorophilia would be easy ... but I wasn't in the mood for something that dark. So I wrote castration because I didn't want to write darkfic. Um....

Researching physiological details was truly weird. I found support services for castrated men, historical notes on castrati, and quite a lot about self-castration, either for practical reasons or as a one-use-only fetish. o_0

Writing Sirius/Peter was also weird. I'm generally a Sirius/Remus person.

This is going to be another one of those fics no one reads, isn't it?

Just a few points today:

• My final grade for school posted today and I'm ecstatic that it was a 98.5% it brought my GPA up to 3.8 which is still shy of honors but not by much. I can't even begin to tell you how great it feels to be done with school.


• Found a loaner Blackberry at work so I'm not without a phone this weekend. A new one's been ordered for me so it's only temporary but the poor thing is so old it has the Cingular logo on it. Hehehehe. It gets my email and I can get text and make calls so it's good for now.


• Mom finally caved and signed up for a 2-year contract with T-Mobile. She's been month to month for close to 10 years. I kid you not! In that time she's paid bills ranging from $140 to $210 but wouldn't sign a contract. I could not get her to budge. Today, she finally agreed and we got new phones and added the daughter to the plan.


• Tonight is family game night so we're waiting for orlando_mcnally to come home from his Poker gig to play. I should've taken a nap like I usually do. It's usually a late night.


• I'm going to search for silver and green Christmas decorations tomorrow. It's a Slytherin year. If you'd like to send me Christmas decorations this year in lieu of cards, I would greatly appreciate it.


• My medical benefits have gone up for next year but I had to choose the non-deductible plan. The plan I have now is $500 family deductible and we haven't even met that this year and it's NOVEMBER. Plan premium's gone up by $100 per month, at least I'm hoping it's per month and not biweekly or I'm going to have a coronary.

Okay, so yeah. We went to see Zombieland tonight. I was 500 words shy of daily quota (but am still ahead by nearly half of tomorrow's, thanks to yesterday's push,) and I decided that I wanted a real, grown-up date, with dinner out, and nice drinks, and, apparently, zombies.

It was laugh out loud, ridiculously funny, that movie. Predictable leik whoa, and probably the closest America will ever get to a zombie movie in league with Sean of the Dead. Zombies come from eating mad cows, apparently. Who knew?

Look, this movie isn't gonna change anybody's life, but it will make you guffaw at Woody Harrelson fan-humping *Secret Stealth Celebrity Cameo who's name I am withholding*'s leg in an epic geek-out moment. Or the four-gun funeral salute, with pause in the middle to reload the double-barrel. Or the Purel scene. Or the squeaky nose.

I'm just sayin.

And I'm also sayin, for a movie in which The Rules Of Survival play such a prominent role, how the HELL is it that when the Hummer rolls up on the gates of Pacific Playland, and pushes gently through as twilight gives way to dusk, Dominus and I were the ones who leaned over to each other and murmured "Rule one: Don't go at night. Rule two: Don't go alone. Rule three: Save the last bullet for yourself." Sadly, none of those rules made an appearance in this film. Though they should have done, as they were all broken at one point or another.

Still, I believe I will officially add Zombieland's rule two to the list from now on, as it bears keeping in mind.
Double tap. Always double tap.

Title: Stating the Obvious (written for Week Seven /snarry_ldws on LJ)
Author: joanwilder (RaeWhit)
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 300
Genre/Cliché: Romance
Word: disfavor
Summary: Knowing the truth is important, but hearing the words, priceless.
A/N: ♥ to jadzialove for beta reading. I owe drabbles to [Unknown LJ tag] (who clearly has my M.O.), and lemondropseven for correctly guessing my entry! I'm working on 'em.

Stating the Obvious

Title: Stating the Obvious (written for Week Seven /snarry_ldws on LJ)
Author: joanwilder (RaeWhit)
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word Count: 300
Genre/Cliché: Romance
Word: disfavor
Summary: Knowing the truth is important, but hearing the words, priceless.
A/N: ♥ to jadzialove for beta reading. I owe drabbles to accioslash (who clearly has my M.O.), and lemondropseven for correctly guessing my entry! I'm working on 'em.

( Stating the Obvious )

Wow, OK, hi. This week can go screw itself over on a pointy stick. Like, really. Wow. I've been back from the beach since Sunday morning and have done nothing but work since Tuesday. And that's because I had a holiday on Monday or else it'd have been non-stop work since Monday. And I literally mean non-stop, because I was even working in my sleep. What little sleep I managed to get anyway.

Anyway, Sunday I took to catch up on all the TV I missed over the week and then Monday I started on my skip-300 flisting spree and managed to get it down to skip=75. Then, I basically... wasn't online pretty much all this week because of all the overtime and all the bringing work home with me and the stormy weather and the power going out and, oh lookit, my flist is back up to skip=200 *flails*

Speaking of TV, on the way back home (after another hour of overtime at work, oh joy) I watched this week's SYTYCD which my sister downloaded for me because she's a sweetheart when she wants to be and she felt sorry for me heh ( Spoilers for SYTYCD 12 here )

Still haven't watched this week's SPN or Vamp Diaries. There was no new Glee this week and I don't think White Collar has even aired yet? If it has, the download isn't available yet anyway. Speaking of White Collar, let's talk about it up to last week, yeah? ( Cut for White Collar spoilers )

Tomorrow I get my hair cut YAY! Not that I'll do any drastic changes to it or anything but it's gotten to the point where it just won't behave *sighs*

It's the weekend, peoplez! \o/\o/\o/

My toes are partially numb but I am in a ridiculously happy mood. Why? I went to see Poe Evermore at the PA Ren. Faire tonight.

I spent a half an hour silently shipping Irving/Longfellow. Longfellow blew a cork into Irving's ear. Mary Shelly had a mental fit. And Poe cracked jokes about his own stories, and gave us the run down of Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher in under a minute.

He also insisted The Stylus would only involve happy, smiley poems.

Yeah. Yeah, it just was that kind of show.

Title: Lost and Held
Author: gatewaygirl
Characters: Sirius, Peter
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Castration, sex, cross-dressing, manipulation
Themes/kinks chosen: Eunuchs/Castrati, Costumes
Word Count: 5,317
Summary: An accident gives Sirius and Peter a shared secret
Author's notes: November prompts included the theme "eunuchs/castrati". It's listed in the tags as "castration", which would have been a rather different story. I have been as accurate as I could manage with the theme, but certainly do not guarantee all details are correct. ;-) Thanks to Clauclauclaudia for very short-notice beta work.


( Lost and Held )

Oh hell. I never should have tried it. And now I want what I can't have at the moment. I joined chemistry.com. I feel that I'm ready to meet someone now.

Before I got sick, I was still runnin from from relationships. But while I was sick, I was scared. Very, very scared. I was continuously sick and I had no idea why. And with the swine flu running rampant, I had a reason to be. At least ten peple have died in a hundred mile radious of me of the swine flu. When I fnally went to the ER, that was the first thing they checked for. And I was grateful for that. It put me at ease. Though finding out that I got pneumonia from a 2yo wasn't the best news either. lol.

So back to the subject at hand... I joined and got a few matches. No, no, hell no, and no, is what I kept saying. Some were possibilities. And then there was one that stood out. Whom I really want to meet. I move to click the "definately" button and suddenly remembered that this was a pay site. And at the moment, I just can't afford to suscribe to it. At least not till after Christmas. Crap. Such is my life...

So here is the deal, there was a recent post on spnstoryfinders asking for hurt Dean or something like that. Anyway, the topic interests me and there were a ton of links. I'm going through them. Some are really good. I'm still working through so there may be more to come.


We Belong Together by not_refined
SPN AU, PG-13
Wincest AU. Sam and Dean, growing up and growing closer together in the ordinary world. I'm not sure how I missed posting about this when I read it almost a year ago. But when I stumbled across it again I found it tore me up just as much the second time around. Hauntingly beautiful. Dean being fragile like this makes my heart clinch. I love how wonderful John is to both the boys in this. Anyway, I'm sure most people have read it as not_refined is well known for some really amazing stories. Like the Still Life 'verse. The damage done to Dean only makes him more beautiful. The innocence and struggle of life that make up the fabric of Dean and Sam's life in that story is breathtaking. These two stories just really touch something deep in me.


Nothing Dark by evening_spirit
J2 AU, NC-17
Jared thinks his life sucks (even if he denies feeling bad about). He starts college, which he didn't want and he swears he will not make friends there. But then he meets another student, a boy with emerald eyes, who draws and draws, and draws . . . Jensen is an amazing artist, he's mysteriously shy, and Jared finds himself fascinated to the point of obsession. Can anyone explain to me why stories like this are so immensely intriguing to me? I mean, yes, the writing is good and I like the characters and all that, but why is young, confused Jared and a 'damaged' Jensen so mesmerizing? (And I mean that in terms of 'damaged!Jensen', not as in someone with his disability being damaged, k?) Is it the childlike innocence that somehow can merge and weave seamlessly with mature, adult actions? I honestly don't know why, but stories like this always snag my attention. When they are written well then its a win-win for me - this was, btw, a win-win.


Of Black Dogs and ASL by smokeyhorse
SPN AU, PG, Gen
A miscommunication results in a hurt 10-year-old Dean and a heart-to-heart between Sam and John. AU - deaf!Dean. Schmoop! This is a short little thing, but it is absolutely touching and darling. Little Sam was adorably cute, Dean is more of a concept - and him being deaf is just plain interesting to me, and John is very John, but maybe he'll get a clue in this world. Anyway, I really really wish this were a larger 'verse. The author did the characters great and I love the emotion of the story.


Sleepless Night by prepare4trouble
SPN, PG, Gen
After being injured on a hunt, Dean tries to carry on as normal. Man, I think I might have actually sniffled on the last line. Poor Dean. My only complaint is that it is too short. I just got into it!

...you know better than to go snooping around prompt communities.

*headdesk*

One Shots:
alisanne: Immovable Unspeakable meets Irresistible Hit Wizard - (Harry/Draco, Percy/Hermione (implied); NC-17)
torina_archelda: Healing - (Severus/Harry; PG-13)
leela_cat: There Had Been a Plan - (Severus/Harry; PG)
paukenfrau: One Dark and Stormy Evening - (Al/Scorpius; NC-17)
Anonymous in fall_fantasia: The Deluxe Tour - (Draco/Charlie; NC-17)

Works In Progress:
the_con_cept: It Sucks to be Severus Snape, Part 11 - (Severus/Harry; PG-13)

Drabbles:
alisanne: Seeing Stars - (Harry/Draco; PG)
ellid: Chasing the Wolf, X - (Severus/Remus; NR)
alisanne: New Game - (Remus/Severus; PG)
sweetmelodykiss: Subtle Communication - (Severus/Harry; R)
mailroomy: Friends and Allies - (Severus; PG-13)

Art:
didodikali: The Greater Goodzilla and the Doomed Gingerbread Castle of Doom - (Albus, Gellert; NC-17)

Community News:
snupin100: Posted a new prompt - 233 - The Games We Play

Newsletters:
quibbler_report: Posted a new issue - 5 November
dailysnitch: Posted an issue - 5 November
snapenews: Posted a new issue - 5/6 November

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This week's challenge on snupin100 is The Games We Play.

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Thanks to the most diligent alicit, we all now have a Harvest sprite on our scroll! *smishes her* Please turn the eggs and pet the dragons if you wish. Mind the teeth.

Little Halo's scroll and hatchling:

Little Secret's scroll and hatchling:

My scroll and eggs: ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~

I've been reading lots of craft and food and other blogs recently and there's one mis-spelling/mistaken word use that's increasingly prevalent and increasingly frustrating to me.

Peak is not the same thing as peek.

NOT.

You can't (sensibly) 'peak' into your oven. Well, not in a blog that's supposed to be worksafe at any rate.

Argh.

Stasia

( Behind a cut, cause it contains so much bitchiness and whining that I must have used my quota for 2 whole months! )

Well, okay, here's what I'll be doing soon.

Pies in a jar

How many of these do I need to make? (The correct answer is Loads and Loads, oh my yes.)

Stasia

Bullet points!

• I finished the first draft of my long-overdue LLM fic for accioslash, the continuation of Thicker Than Water. Anyone want to beta? It's very very chan and mpreg (knocked-up 11yo Harry ftw).


• 2 out of 3 Mini-Commission spots got claimed, so unless the 3rd goes today, that'll be the only ones I offer for the holiday season.


• I've decided not to do Yuletide this year -- someone got my tiny fandom disqualified (if I'd known anyone would bother, I could have easily defended it, but since it didn't occur to me to check it's now too late), and I just don't have the heart to play after that.


• Which means I only have santas_lap to write this season, and that's it, since I'm also not doing nanowrimo. It hardly feels like the holiday at all!

Seriously. *points to header*

Her delicious header and tweaked coding to make it work properly.

*smooches qafmaniac*

I've got internet! I'd like to thank my new ISP SFR, who managed to give me internet access a whole 10 days before the estimated day, yay!

My new address is available in friends- or access-locked posts on DW, IJ, and LJ. If you want to send me a card and can't see any of these posts, let me know. Speaking of cards, have you signed up for your Holiday Card?

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Wow, I wouldn't have recognize her if M6 didn't use the same voice for the dubbing. The daughter in the xmas episode of NCIS of season 6, it's Daisy from Bones.

Another MW/SM video from 7x03, I wonder where the "No, keep going" was. I think it's just after, Sean is laughing and the shirt is opened.



Michael: *do his joke* *wait for Sean's reaction.*
Sean: *awed* "It's beautiful."

Master, bless.

My most precious ones,

I am still waiting for the proof copy.

The flawed master should be released next week, hopefully early next week.

I am trying not to climb walls.

Fortunately, I am having dinner with my dearest wolfraven80, and this weekend I shall be sewing a few sets of robes to take my mind off the delay.

robed_embrace

I can't believe I am having these thoughts again!

Should I or shouldn't I?

I don't often think meta thoughts on HP, but when I do they tend to not leave me alone until I share them. Funnily enough, this thought dawned on me as I was showering today. I'm also just as certain someone else thought of this long before I even knew what it was, but Tom Riddle has classic R.A.D. And it has flipped my view of him as a character upside down.

For those who don't know, R.A.D is Reactive Attachment Disorder and it is a diagnosable syndrome. R.A.D is often mistaken for ADHD or even ODD, but it differs in the fact that its onset is during infancy to year two. R.A.D is caused by a number of different things including lack of affection, touch, eye contact during infancy.

Is it hard to imagine that in a run down orphanage Tom was not held enough as a baby, or even touched enough. Remember all those incidents that Mrs. Cole said were strange and how no one wanted to really be near him?

Here is just a small list of noticeable traits children with R.A.D have:
1. Weak Crying
2. Extreme resistance to cuddling
3. No reciprocal smiles
4. Superficially engaging or charming
5. A strong need for control
6. Indiscriminately affectionate
7. Destruction of self, other people, or objects
8. Cruel to animals, friends, or siblings
9. Poor peer relations
10. Demanding
11. Steals and lies
12. No conscience
13. Poor impulse control
14. Preoccupation with blood, gore, other nasty things
15. Abnormal speech


As I said, I'm sure plenty of people have already thought of this, but it was pretty illuminating to me.

Thoughts?

This is for alisanne, eeyore9990, sassy_cissa, and unbroken_halo (who've been there from the beginning), and everyone who's ever spent time with us. I want to let you all know how much the chats and all the word wars have meant to me over the last few (is it almost three now??) years. I was initially ecstatic to find a group of like-minded, slash-inclined geeks with whom I could talk on a regular basis, OMG! It was amazing how physical distance never seemed to matter and I felt like you all were right there in the room with me at times. Giving and receiving so much feedback and encouragement helped my writing to improve more than I can possibly comprehend. It's been great watching all of us change and grow as writers and artists.

If you don't know what the heck this is all about, the explanation is here.

Title: It Sucks to be Severus Snape, Part 11
Rating: This part PG-13 (overall fic NC-17 in places)
Disclaimer: Belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Warnings/Enticements: *EWE, WIP.*
Betas: Unbeta'd from here on out, 'cause I'd rather post than edit while I have momentum. I'm open to making edits though, and if anyone can keep up with me (ever day, sort of thing) I'm up for it.
Summary: Crazy initiations, people out to kill them, and really biting sarcasm--it's just another day in the life for Snape and Harry.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11

Title: It Sucks to be Severus Snape, Part 11
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Warnings/Enticements: *EWE, WIP.*
Betas: Unbeta'd from here on out, 'cause I'd rather post than edit while I have momentum. I'm open to making edits though, and if anyone can keep up with me (ever day, sort of thing) I'm up for it.
Summary: Crazy initiations, people out to kill them, and really biting sarcasm--it's just another day in the life for Snape and Harry.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11
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Because I told eeyore9990 two days ago? yesterday? that I'd spam the heck out of my flist with word count updates, you all get to be subjected to a lovely screencap of my comp screen as visual proof!

*mad cackling*

I've changed my mind about updating every 100 words. Instead, you're getting this every 1000 words. Since I was still at 6000 words yesterday, I haven't had the opportunity to update until now.

Behold!

( WILL YOU LOOK AT THIS? )

( Cut for spoilers! )

Title: Subtle Communication
Author: sweetmelodykiss
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters.
snarry100 Challenge #187: Methods of Communication

Subtle Communication

Title: New Game
Author: alisanne
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Written for snupin100's prompt #233: The games we play
Characters: Remus/Severus
Beta: sevfan
Authors Notes: Excuse the silliness and special thanks to the slashchat girls for inspiring me. *g*
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

( New Game )

Title: Subtle Communication
Author: sweetmelodykiss
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters.
snarry100 Challenge #187: Methods of Communication

( Subtle Communication )