ThreeSidedOrchid

Have arrived in Sweden (but only been in the hotel so far) -- despite the fact that my arranged car to the ariport never showed up. Or, rather, showed up an hour late and well after I had given up waiting and was 3/4 of the way to the airport driving myself.

Anyway, hp_beholder posted reveals a bit ago and I'm terribly, horribly behind on keeping up with posts lately, but here's my story from it:

Title: Courtship of a Common Man
Rating: R
Pairings: Viktor Krum/Percy Weasley
Word Count: 4,544
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *none, except a sad lack of kink*.
Summary: Percy's so tired of nothing being right or perfect in the world that he's just about given up. Thank goodness Viktor doesn't believe in giving up.
Author's Notes: First, many thanks to the mod for her extreme patience with me. Thanks to my beta, Bironic, for the fast proof, as always. written for Coffee_n_cocoa.


( Courtship of a Common Man )

I have cats now! YAY! : D Aren't they pretty? They're still getting settled in, but they seem to be settling in quickly, and are very sweet. They came with the names Marla and Tyler, but I might rename them if I can think of something better... ideas welcome; you can tell from the pix. they look extremely similar.


( pics! I promise, this is actually two different cats... )

Here's my harryronholiday 2011 fic. (previously posted to Archive of our own and the fest.

Title: Just Another Teenage Epoch – Ron Weasley, 1999
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~3,800
Summary: Ron wants to be an Auror, and he wants to not grow up, and he really wants other people to stop kissing Harry.
Warnings: Harry kissing people other than Ron.
Beta: bironic
Author's/Artist's Note: Many thanks to my beta, as always. All remaining mistakes are my own. Gift fic in the Harryronholiday 2011 fest for slu64,
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement in intended.



( Just Another Teenage Epoch )

dear car dealers,
If you don't bother to read my emails, why would I want to do business with you?
"I want OTD pricing" does not mean I want you just to give me the MSRP on the vehicle and nothing else.
"I have test driven the vehicle already" does not mean you should invite me to the dealership to test drive the vehicle (which, by the way, none of you actually have in stock. I know because I had to drive 2 hours away to do the test drive).
"I want to use email to correspond and do not use my phone" is not a clever ruse, it's the truth. Trying to call me will result in you leaving messages that annoy me, and probably frustrate you. Telling me to call you to set up/discuss anything will only result in my emails becoming more abrupt.
"I know there are none of this specific vehicle in stock but am interested in ordering one to my specifications" does not mean I need you to tell me that there are none with that build/color in the US. Also, how stupid are those of you that just tell me there aren't any in stock and don't even suggest that I could order one built to my specs? Way to go after the sale, buddy.
Telling me I should call you so that we can discuss the options I want, after i've stated which options i want int the email, pretty much means I'm going to assume you are illiterate and ignore you.

Seriously, and I mean, Seriously, I am half tempted to rule out 90% of the dealerships I've requested quotes from because they don't actually appear capable of reading my email or responding to what I'm asking for. I really don't feel I'm being misleading or obscure in my statements here. WTF people.

and don't even get me started on how work is.

And then I was at work for 23.5 hours.

So. I haven't posted a lot lately because there isn't much to say other than that I am further behind at work than I have ever been.
seriously. last week I worked between 9pm and 4am just to try and skim the top off my work load.

I'm also going to lubricus on thursday, which is excellent, but means I need to be caught up before then.
I brought my laptop home tonight planning to work an all-nighter.
and just discovered that the program I need to connect to the internet outside of our office? Is gone.
just gone. mysteriously.
WTF people, WTF? seriously, I want to cry. I'm already in my pajamas. so. I can get dressed and go back to work now and have no rest time whatsoever, or I can get up at 3 am and go into work and maybe manage to get the stuff I absolutely have to do done.

: (

First, let me say, that I am *weeks* behind in reading the beholder fest entries myself, due to work, so if I haven't commented on your story/art yet, it's because I haven't gotten there yet. But -

Now that the reveals are up, I can fess up that I wrote 'walking shadow' for the hp_beholder fest this year.
I finally wrote Hagrid, as i've wanted to do for some time. It's not as pretentious as the summary makes it sound, I don't think.
In conjunction with the posting, I've made the two songs from the Mikado that are quoted in the story available for download, should anyone be interested: Plus a bonus song that was intended for a later scene that never made it into the story -

Our Great Mikado

The Sun Whose Rays

On a Tree by a River

Title: Walking Shadow
Author: synn
Rating: R/NC17-ish
Pairings: Hagrid/Draco, with a side of unresolved Snape/Draco
Word Count: ~4000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *A little non-sexual spanking? Maybe a hint of dub-con if you look at it sideways and backwards.*.
Summary: "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing." (Macbeth V.v.19-28).

Author's Notes: Many, many thanks to leela_cat  for the beta, and to the beholder_mod bethbethbeth , who was not only extremely patient, but went out of her way to clean up Hagrid's dialogue, being familiar with his accent. Without them, this story would be mostly incomprehensible, and naturally, all remaining errors are my own.
Written for Squibstress.
*All quoted lyrics come from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

( Walking Shadow )

Instead of ranting about work and how I managed to rack up 16 hours of overtime this week and *still* not be caught up, have a fun meme!

Gacked from atdelphi 

Movie Meme:
1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.


( quotes )


I don't know if it's accurate to say all of the above films are all-time favorites, but most of them are. I'm bad at the favorites game.

In other news, my mom is now hooked on neopets. mainly destruct-o-match.
Also, next week I go to see, for the first time, the area I'll soon be living in.

I have nothing useful to say, but it's post something or go to work for the 2 hour stint of overtime I'm to do today...

So have a meme.

Stolen fromisisanubis .

Top 5 ships in any fandom: (also known as the 'quick, find the pattern' meme )
In reverse order of preference --

( images/pairings )
You see? No patterns here. It's not like I gravitate to the exact same pairing in every fandom or anything. nope. Totally varied in my preferences, that's me.