The Black Hole

+ Thanks to everyone who left me birthday wishes yesterday! Tweets, PMs, emails, v-gifts, facebook wall thingies, LJ posts and comments - I really rather love you guys. ♥♥♥♥ And I had a great day, btw. :D

+ miakun wrote me happy Merls fic what has Gwen/Morgana and OT4 at the same time! Go looky!

+ Yuletide signups! I'm excited but a little freaked out by them. I have the fandoms I nominated, but there are so many more to choose from and I don't know where to start! I'm going to think on it a bit more before I sign up for reals.

+ That's all for today. I have to give a presentation tomorrow at work, but I only have half a day to work on it because we all have to go to this award ceremony/holiday party/contract renewal celebration thing. Free food and the possibility of heading home early, always good.

My November daily_deviant is up!

Title: Required Relief
Author: alisanne
Characters: Neville Longbottom/?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM.
Themes/kinks chosen: Clamps
Word Count: 1850
Summary: There are some nights the Neville just needs a break from being in command.
Author's notes: Thanks to sevfan and eeyore9990 for their assistance.
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Required Relief

Also, I have reposted my October DD here in my journal. The Perfect Position.

I had awesome plans to go to bed with hubby and do the snuggly thing and just forget about my current fic for a while. And then the need to write propelled me out of bed (hubby was already asleep, so it's not like I interrupted anything *coughs*). So here I sit.

Like a lump on a log.

Which means, of course, that it's time again for another round of fic bitching! *crowd goes wild*

Character B... oh, Character B. Why must you intimidate me so? Also, what's with the personality disorder you seem to have? Don't you know I want to make you happy in the pants? Cuz I do. I want to make you so happy in the pants that you come back for more (yes, pun is totally intended).

So why, then, aren't you cooperating?

Character A? I'm not sure exactly where you're going with this, but it's unlike you to be reticent. So maybe just cut it out and jump Character B's bones? I realize you're trying to be a better person or whatever, but come ON, man. This fic is due in just over a week and we are at a stand still.

Characters C through infinity? Rock on with your bad selves. I love you all. Seriously.

Me? Please stop with the Britglish in this fic. It's not only not necessary but also... you're doing it wrong!

A whopping 369 words so far today. Which is kinda cool in the fact that any number with 69 in it is obviously shooting for porn, but less cool in the "I still have a lot to write" way.

So come on, self. Characters. We have an hour and a half. Let's get this thing going!

Issue # 778: Tuesday/Wednesday, November 3-4, 2009

Hello and welcome to today's issue of snapenews. Thank you all for your continuing support and useful links! Feel free to comment (either below or at snapenews@gmail.com) and let us know how we're doing!

COMMUNITIES

severus_shorts is looking for pinch hitters for its Brief Fics Showcase

NEWSLETTER/ARCHIVE UPDATES

The snarry_reader Master Lists have been updated for September and October 2009

hgss_digest has been updated here and here

CHALLENGES/CONTESTS

snupin100 has posted Challenge 233: The Games We Play

DISCLAIMERS: The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via email to snapenews@gmail.com. There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for 'This week in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.

( HERITAGE LAKE LODGE )

Title: Unconventional
Author:
Recipient: alisanne
Pairing: Severus/Harry
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2485
Summary: A wizard went into a bar...
Disclaimer: Harry Potter is © J. K. Rowling, Warner Brothers, Scholastic Books, Bloomsbury Books, and various other entities. Which is to say, not mine.
Highlight for Warnings: *dirty talk, wall sex, skirt porn, semi-public sex, "I-can't-wait-to-have-you" sex*
AN: Dearest alisanne, I was delighted to be able to write for you! I do hope that this suits your fantasy.

( Fantasy #4 )

Title: Firsts
Author: Alisanne
Challenge: Written for the snarry_ldws week 7 challenge.
Genre/Cliche: Romance
Word prompt: Disfavor
Summary: An evening of firsts leads to pleasures that last.
Rating/Warnings: PG/ None
Word Count: 300
Notes: Congratulations to joanwilder, who won this week's challenge! Thanks, as always, to my beta sevfan and to eeyore9990, who always manages to keep me calm.

Firsts

Title: Firsts
Author: Alisanne
Challenge: Written for the snarry_ldws week 7 challenge.
Genre/Cliche: Romance
Word prompt: Disfavor
Summary: An evening of firsts leads to pleasures that last.
Rating/Warnings: PG/ None
Word Count: 300
Notes: Congratulations to joanwilder, who won this week's challenge! Thanks, as always, to my beta sevfan and to eeyore9990, who always manages to keep me calm.

( Firsts )

I signed up for Yuletide today. WOOHOO!

Anyway, because else I will totally forget to write this...

I asked for Southland, Hunger Games, Castle, or Burn Notice fic, and this is my Dear Author letter.

( Hi! We share at least one fandom! )

I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/996719.html. Comments may be left here or there; you can comment there with OpenID even if you don't have an account.

I never got around to posting the last of the previous batch of mini-commissions, the romantic Snape/Harry kiss that dementordelta ordered for gaycrow. Bad me! I was waiting until it winged its way to its intended recipient, and then, um. Yeah. I just fail.

Aaanyway, let me distract you with Snape and Harry kissing!

( Smoochies! )

I opened another small round of mini-commissions yesterday, so go here if you want one of your own!

I've been working on Valet of Anize at a more intense pace since NaNo began; I'm a punk NaNo bootlegger, and I defy the Man by never signing up formally and subscribing to Simon's radical opinions on the topic of editing and rewriting, but that's okay because the essential concept still works. (More on this later.) Miraculously I've maintained almost a thousand words average a day, and will keep that up if I can do a little more tonight.

I find that as much as I love writing Carry and enjoy building Carry's view of Leigh Anizin, I have to work very hard to keep Bart and Stick at the periphery of the story where they ought to be. They're funny and weird and Bart's built on a sexual Jack Harkness model and Stick's kind of a kicked puppy of a puritan, and they're just so much fun.

Which informs me that even in stories I write, I prefer the sidekicks.

And given that I chronicle my life here with what I think is a reasonable amount of dry amusement, I think it's safe to declare that I am, in fact, my own Watson.

I suppose this is better than being someone else's Watson, but at least if that were the case sometimes it wouldn't be me breaking limbs and catching the plague.

You know I'm not an English native speaker, so you may disagree with me, but frankly, can a question be more confusing than:

Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?

????? No, seriously...

Just a big thank you and hugs to all who sent well-wishes on my having caught (and apparently caged deep in my lungs) the scourge of the ages; i.e. - h1n1.

I'm *still* badly fatigued and ill. I can manage sitting up a couple times a day and using the laptop, but most of the time I'm down and coughing my torso muscles into painful jelly. There is no energy for anything else.

I miss my flist. I hope to catch up eventually. For now... recovery.

I leave you with these words of wisdom: Letter to young American women

Here's a post from me, too!

I actually got a nice chunk of fic written today but somehow I've lost track of what number of words I started with. I am working from an edited doc and I looked at the word count when I started but didn't write it down or anything. I know I wrote somewhere between 500 and 1000 today at any rate. Progress!

One Shots:
fancypantsdylan: What makes Draco shiver - (Harry/Draco, R)
Anonymous in fall_fantasia: Unveiled - (Draco/Sirius, Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)

Drabbles:
alisanne: Pretty Hot - (Harry/Draco, PG)
alisanne: Whatever Comes - (Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)
torino10154: Bedfellows - (Severus/Harry, PG, *warnings*)
ellid: Chasing the Wolf, VIII - (Severus/Remus, Unrated)

Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

If you have any links or tips for us, please let us know. Email us at potterprophet.ij@gmail.com.

The Snarry Last Drabble Writer Standing competition results for week 7 have been announced and the winner is the inimitable joanwilder, who wrote the story 'Stating the Obvious'. Congratulations, my dear!

As I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone, the prescient veridian_dair has yet again successfully guessed which story was mine. *shakes head* This time she was joined by prayer_at_night, who also successfully picked mine out of the line up. Thus, they are both entitled to pick a prompt for a Snarry drabble. Just let me know what you'd like to see, ladies!

And, as I am by some miracle still in the competition, I guess I'd better head off to write my next fic for the community. ;)

Edit: Oh, and for anyone who still wants to try their hand at guessing which fic was mine in a fest, you have more opportunities to win drabbles by guessing here or here. *g*

I'm just tired of refreshing my flist to see that no one's updated.

How am I supposed to procrastinate if y'all aren't posting?!

I have many things to say today!

Actually I have many things to say every day, but a lot of time I don't have the time to say them.

First, cassie_phoenix and linlesiryn, if you're reading this, can you email me? Copperbadge at gmail. You have no contact info on your LJ pages and your numbers are up for Nameless signed copies. :)

Second, Adaigo Tea is doing The Roots Campaign, which is a cool setup where they profile a different tea farmer every month, and 10% of the sales of the tea they provide will be donated directly to them. Last month they raised something like $650 for the farmer (above, of course, what they pay for the tea to begin with). It's also an interesting look at the life of various tea farmers around the globe. And Adagio's a good company, I buy all my loose-leaf from them.

Third: If you are the USDA, and there is a major beef recall, surely the major beef recall should be linked from your home page. Or at least "food recalls" should be linked, instead of totally absent in any way from any area that a customer would intuitively visit. I know I should know what brand of beef I buy and where it comes from already, but I buy from Costco and then repack it in small serving sizes when I get home. I try to buy green and local, but sometimes I just don't have the energy to save the world through my choices in food consumption. Anyway, for everyone's reference, the USDA recall information page is here.

I also have some stuff to say about NaNo and some of its trends this year, but it's on the netbook and the netbook is at home. And by the time I prep it to post it might be irrelevant, so we'll see.

OH ALSO even my mother was less than impressed:

I didn't care much for the NCIS last night...seemed to much like a rehash of past shows and I don't like that guy Gibbs used to work for. Are Ziva and Tony ever going to go out?

<3 her.

Title: Whatever Comes
Author/Artist: alisanne
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Challenge: Written for harry100's prompt #57: Sugar and Spice
Rating: PG
Length: 100
Warnings: Mpreg!
Summary: Severus and Harry are prepared to take whatever comes.
Beta: sevfan
Notes: Yay, Snarry!
Disclaimer: The characters contained herein are not mine. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.

Whatever Comes