Dungeon Journal

I need help picking a coat for Aeternitas. I can't post polls here (silly free account business), so go vote at my LJ, please!

Vote!

I really must rec this artist's gallery of HP fanart to everyone. His Severus is beautiful, his Voldemort perfectly creepy, everything is just...fantastic. Inspired equally by Aubrey Beardsley and Tim Burton, and not full of movie look-alikes.

Here.

The drawings are grouped into sub-galleries, making it hard to link to individual images, but be sure to look at the Severus (of course!), Voldemort, McGonagall and Book 7 galleries at the very least.

My reply to your post on Mary's thread:

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I have many invite codes for DW available. If the latest WTFery from LJ has pushed you over the edge and you want to join the dark side, let me know and I'll invite you!

Cheers

ETA: Please, please, let me keep my RL and fandom lives separate - DON'T crosspost comments from LJ, IJ, or DW! Thanks.

I thought Magicians would be the fandom I fell into on my eventual way out of HP, but apparently, no, that's not on the menu.

ZOMG RUN OVER BY NEW FANDOM TRAIN.

I really am terribly grateful to bookshop for the heaven-sent intro to Inception fandom, because currently my brain is trying to catch up to the experience of being run over by this most unbelievable complicated worlds-of-possibility fandom train.

I'm already planning crossover fic where Ariadne and Arthur go exploring in Severus' psyche.

Had to share that bit of news with you all. Now I think I have to go lie down because my mind is still exploding.

Does anyone know if plans for another round of ownficfest are or ever will be in the works?

You may remember that I posted a month or so ago to raise support for former comics writer Stephen Perry due to his financial and medical difficulties. Unfortunately there is very sad news now, and it's surreal to write this. It seems that Mr. Perry has been killed.

According to U.S. News Mr. Perry's roomate in Florida is being held by police, and possibly will be charged with first-degree murder soon. Possible motivation include drugs and money.

No word yet on his five-year-old son Leo.

Please, keep this dear boy and Mr. Perry's spirit in your thoughts, and signalboost. I'll post more when I have it, or know of ways to help. This is really a surreal tragedy.

I just signed up for the Snape Showcase on impulse.

However, if AUs are ok to write for the fest, I may have an excuse to write that new AU fic the mutant plotbunny urged on me, assuming I get category four....

Predictably, right when I should be working on papers I get bitten by a massive mutant plotbunny for a brilliant (well, hopefully; possibly it's just silly) AU fic. That I want to write right now.

A dark Sevitus fic, to be exact. (And when have I ever written Sevitus/Severitus?) Fourteen years ago, Severus Snape was delayed for a few minutes on his way to interview for the DADA position, and consequently a certain prophecy never made it to the Dark Lord's ears. For a decade and a half Severus Snape has dedicated himself to the creation of a truly stable magical society where talent, not wealth or charm, is what matters, and has loyally followed the man who seemed to promise it. Now after an agonizing war of attrition the Dark Lord finally has both Ministry and Hogwarts in his grasp, and only a newly-leaderless band of rebels remains to challenge his domination. His favored lieutenant is preparing to trade in his role as spy for the Headmastership of the only magical school in all of Britain and the isles. It seems that Severus Snape is finally about to come into his own. So why do doubts still remain? And will he still be able to keep his adopted son uninvolved once the latter begins to delve into the past?

Done! Yes! *does silly happy dance* Two papers down, two to go. Thank god. Then I can be social and sleep and do all those other things that don't involve trying to pour my brain out onto a computer screen at 2 am. *laughs*

As part of my unofficial, slow experimentation with various blogging and social media platforms I think I will be trying out tumblr in the near future. I've signed up for a blog, but have yet to put anything there. Probably nothing much will be up before June at the earliest, given the end-of-year crunch right now. I also have to think about what I want to use the blog *for.* At the moment I tend to use LJ as my default catch-all and as a foothold in LJdom to maintain relations with my non-IJ friends, IJ as my regular blog and fandom center, and I've yet to figure out what to do with DW. That is, should I be consolidating or switching there?

I have a vague idea for using the tumblr account to a specific purpose, one that's a bit hard to explain right now as it is nebulous (it involves a novel I'd like to write and/or a strict focus on very specific issues related to the novel, among other things). But that's very uncertain at the moment, and I have little time to deal with it at the moment (naturally I get the idea when I have no time for it, sigh).

Anyway. Anyone have experiences/advice they'd like to share, for when I get going with it? Or thinky thoughts? Demands for tea and cake? (Just checking ;P ).

On the one hand, I'm thrilled: I'll be in Orlando during Infinitus, and logospilgrim (squee!) is going to be speaking at the con about our favorite professor. I want so much to go to the talk, but it's awesome just that she'll be there (raising the possibility that I might, somehow, get a chance to meet her and chat, which would be fantastic).

On the other hand, I have no clue if or how I could attend the talk, seeing as how I have no con ticket and will be there for the annual vacation with X, who may have no interest in the talk (no clue here). We've got little enough time as it is there, so I'm not sure how well setting aside x amount of time for the talk and con stuff would go over; it may be hard enough as it is (I hope not too hard) to see Y while we're there. I've no clue how any of this would work out. So that is not so thrilling.

*mild angsting

I don't normally post appeals often, but this is quite a serious case and so I hope you all don't mind. Please, if you can, help out a writer who has given the fan community lots of wonderful work and his 5-year old son.

If any of you are familiar with Thundercats and SilverHawks writer Stephen Perry, you may already know this. If you aren't, check out his work sometime. Anyway, Steve is in rather desperate straits at the moment. He is on his second round of bladder cancer (not progressing well) and cannot afford all the copays and certain medications which Medicaid (here in the U.S.) will not cover. He's gotten some help from the Hero Initiative, but it not enough given the expense of the disease. I know he'd be extremely grateful for any assistance whatsoever.

If you have a paypal account, his address is sandramaples48@yahoo.com .

I've posted below the text of a statement he sent out in gratitude to those who've helped him out. Please see if you can spare a little. Thanks.

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janus gave me Roddy Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov and Igor Karkaroff for the Shag, Marry, Cliff meme. So, I suppose I would...

Marry Roddy - given his probable ancestor Sir Roger L'Estrange's involvement in the newspaper business, I wouldn't be surprised if the Lestrange family still has a share in the Daily Prophet...the money and the easy access to print would be tempting. ;)
Shag Antonin - for the thrill of it
Toss Igor off a cliff - hey, he tried to turn in my boy Severus!

Ah, happy day. /sarcasm

I hardly slept last night, I am behind on almost everything, and even Tweak is insulting me when I log on to IJ. And now I find out that

Ireland is running out of shamrocks. Just in time for St. Patrick's day. Jeez. The apocalypse is surely upon us. Can't even have a f***ing shamrock for f***ing St. Pat's day.

Feeling unreasonably angry and depressed at the moment, if you couldn't tell.

To those of you waiting for fic: I swear I haven't forgotten. I am working on it. I am sorry it's late. My professor (*squelches homicidal urge*) decided to remind us at the last minute that we had midterm papers due just when the fic was due - a fact which apparently I utterly failed to pick up from the syllabus I read and utterly out of keeping with every other class I've had thus far. Normally its the undergrads, dear professor, who have midterm papers, not the grad students. Alerting your grad students to the unusual requirement for your class clearly, and reminding them more than a week before the paper is due, would have been nice. No love. /rant So, RE fic, it is coming, I promise. In between all the other things I need to be working on now too. (I feel bad.)

To various people in my life who feel the need to communicate with me via text-message and IM incessantly regarding trivialities, to the point where I cannot put down my phone or step away from the computer for five minutes: SHUT UP STOP MESSAGING ME. PLEASE. FOR FIVE MINUTES. I swear I won't vanish from your lives entirely and for ever. Really. I know I'm being a bit uncharitable here, but I'm getting frustrated and I never know how you'll take it if I say "please go away for an hour or so, I don't want to talk to people right now."

To the credit card companies who punish you for paying *more* than the minimum payment: FU. FU so hard. Usurious bastards.

To the universe: stop with the crazy s**t, ok? And maybe, just maybe, I could actually SLEEP a few hours tonight, knowing that I will be awoken by jackhammers outside my window at 7am?

Feeling particularly Snapish today. *death glare* Humor me, if you have any mercy, please. It'll pass. Otherwise: warning for sarcastic mood.

I've officially converted to Mac. The icon from Avonlea seemed appropriate.

Come to the Dark Side! We have Chocolate Frogs AND Macs. *evil grin*