Strangeness and Charm

While looking for Harry/Hermione stories at The Pit, I came across this summary: "Every man looks for a half-Swedish, half-Japanese, permanently 25-year-old, 5ft 8in bisexual gymnast with a penchant for slutty cocktail dresses and an erotically feisty side that meant arguments about the bills always deteriorates into sex" HP/HG

Me: Bwah?

I'm kind of tempted to read the story just to see if it's snark worthy.

Today is my fifth fan fic anniversary. I always think of Thanksgiving as my anniversary even though that date changes every year, but this is the official day.

Five years ago we were planning to go to my mom's boyfriend's parents house for Thanksgiving but my sister was having heart problems (I forget what it's called but sometimes her heart starts to beat really fast) and I had a bad cough so mom canceled on them and we stayed home. I'd been reading fanfic for about 3 months at that time (the day I started reading fic, I turned into an internet addict *points to icon*) and I decided to type up this fanfic I'd written the first chapter to. I posted it on fanfiction.net and then I got my first review and I got addicted. I wrote 4 (badly written and short) chapters that day because I didn't want the reviews to slow down.

I remember later on we invited dad (which was weird since at that point my parents had been divorced for 7 years and my mom hated dad and they had been fighting) to have a Thanksgiving dinner at Mimi's Cafe, so even though it wasn't an at home and home cooked dinner, we still got our meal.

In those three months, I'd wanted to write fic so bad. But the ideas never came. However, once the first fic was written, the ideas never stopped coming and they still haven't stopped coming.

I think I'm going to try to finish NaNoWriMo today since this date has special meaning and I only have 3K left to go, LOL.

So I just wrote my first Angel drabble. It didn't quite turn out how I wanted and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'd love feedback. For some odd reason, as much as I love this fandom, I was never able to write about it before.

Title: Forgotten Fairytale
Fandom: Angel
Pairing: Vague Angel/Cordelia
Rating: T
Word Count: 326
Summary: An added moment to season 4's Sacrifice
Spoilers: seasons 1-4

here at my fic journal

Name- All Hallows Eve
Pairing- Harry/Hermione
length- 1,400
rating- K+/12+
summary- When Hermione Granger falls ill with a bad cold on Halloween, she forgets all about the fact that it's Halloween. But Harry Potter hasn't, and he's convinced to make this Halloween her most memorable yet.

( HMS Pumpkin Pie )

According to my calculator, with all of my fics put together I have about 88,442 words written. Which is a lot for me. On fanfiction.net I am on the author alerts of 41 authors and the favorite author of 40, with a total of 533 reviews. On HPFF I have 1,232 reviews and am on 55 people's favorites.

Update wise, I've been writing more lately which is making me very happy. I haven't been writing much this year, sadly. Usually a chapter every 3 months or so. Hopefully this'll keep up, because I really want to finish my stories. I have been writing most of them for 3 years, and I am getting pretty tired of them. I want them over so I can work on new things, preferably for other fandoms since I don't really like Harry Potter anymore. I joined a community called ficfinishing  that I plan to participate in once I get settled in more to my new schedule with school and choir.  I also want to try to plan some of my stories out so that i have a more clear idea of where most of them are going. Figures that the one story I plan out, The Perfect Life?, has the notebook it was written in tossed in a box because we're packing up my room so that we can redo the carpets.
Anyway, here's a small list of what I hope to have up soon. HOPE, so if it's 6 months later and it's still not written, don't say I didn't warn you.
Harry Potter
Ghosts of Yesterday chapter 5 (Dear lord, it's been a year since I've updated already?)
Ship of Dreams chapter 5 (ditto)
Inheritance chapter 4
Speak chapter 18
The Perfect Life? chapter 2
A Single Deadly Sin (Dramione one-shot that I was challenged to write by Blue_Suede_Shoes of SAYS. I had to write Draco Malfoy for the sin lust)
Levels of Niceness (James/Lily one-shot)
Kissing You (a 7 one-shots story with a possible kiss scene for each book for Harry/Hermione, inspired by the Bones version written by ForaReason. Once I get her permission, that is.)

Bones

The Emily Brennan series:
A Day with the Squints (possible Nanowrimo thing)

Angel
Blood (Angel/Cordelia drabble

Wow, that's a lot. And I actually had to narrow a ton of things down since I have like, 12 work in progresses. *dies* I really need to complete some stories. Like, out of the 9 completed stories I have, only 2 are non one-shots. That's kind of sad. But I really love writing one-shots, and I've been writing more of them lately. I like it because you get an idea, sit down and write it for a bit, and then it's done. No real commitment, no more thoughts.

Looks like i have some busy months ahead of me. >_<




 

I am at heart a lurker. I read stories, I read entries, and usually unless I feel really strongly about something, I don't comment. On the occasion I have written really long thoughtful review, often times it either never gets responded to, or the response is "I'll try that thanks for the review" Yes, occasionally I'll get the long response back (and oh how I love it when I do) but those memories stay and tend to make me review less. If it's not that, it's something else: I'm too tired, I have to do something else, I get too caught up in the story, or I'm just plain lazy. 

But you know what? I might not review every single story I come across, but I want to review more. I want to be one of those faithful reviewers that you notice every time. Particularly since I have been getting so many reviews lately. 

I just wanted to say, partially because I'm more likely to do it when I have witnesses, and partially because I am up for recs, either for your own fics or for other people's. There isn't much I won't read as long as it's well written, though I prefer not to read slash (Unless it's Willow/Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or RHR/HG from Harry Potter. Even if I've read it before I'll read it again to review. I'm nice in my reviews, though I do give constructive criticism I usually manage to do it in a fairly nice way. I also fangirl a lot if I'm really enjoying something. 

So, any takers?

A/N- I’d like to reinstate the warning I wrote in the first chapter: the characters are going to be somewhat out of character. I will have some in character moments here and there, but if something puts you off, that’s why. I’d also like to apologize for the wait. I seem to have encountered a brick wall with all of my stories, this one being no exception. Hopefully now that I have taken this small step writing will come easier to me now.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Inheritance (3/?)
Pairing: Harry/Hermione
Rating: T/15+
Word Count: 1069
Summary: It's a game as old as life itself, used in war and in peace, for fun and for serious. But can two love-stricken partners-against-crime bring something to the table that has never been done before in the game?
Spoilers: Uh, books 1-6 I guess.

OMG! I AM ON FIFTY PEOPLE'S FAVORITES LISTS! I do realize that I have some pretty popular authors on my friend's list (*coughJenandSusancough*) but this is really big for me. I remember 2 years ago when I only had 2 people, and 1 year ago when I only had 19. OMG I AM SO HAPPY. Except I feel kind of bad because I haven't written much lately. :/

Oh, and I have 1,092 Reviews in all! Just 2 Christmases ago I had just made 200.

Plus, on the story I just posted, that little story I wrote at midnight in one sitting? Yeah, I've gotten 9 reviews, all of them positive! They said it was very realistic and a few of them almost cried/did cry.

I don't know what my fanfiction.net account stats are, I'll check when I go back home.

*dances around house happily singing off tune*

Well, I'm officially sick. Not surprising seeing as how I've had to sing this entire weekend (2 concerts plus a ton of rehearsals) and if there is a cold or cough going around, I'm going to get it. Seriously. This is my fifth time since September. As such, beware. I'm tired when I am sick, and when I am tired I get REALLY random. If you think I was random before, that was nothing, I promise you. And the fact that I spend the entire day yesterday trying to get my Tara mood themes to work and they just wouldn't? No help. So please, if you know how to put in your own mood theme, please let me know so I don't murder someone.

Fandom news: Yesterday I was at our local club working out (yes, I'm actually accomplishing something on my goals list for once!) and on top of each machine is a little television with a place to plug in your earphones and a remote so you can watch TV while you work out. I was browsing the channels when I came across the beginning of Law and Order SVU. I was like, "Hey, I used to watch this show (though another version) with my Dad sometimes. What the hell, I'll just watch it again." So I was watching it and the guest starring list was going on, when I noticed who was on the guest star list. EMILY DESCHANEL! I had a total fangirl moment, but I had to hold it back because all around me people were focusing on working out. So my pedaling went up to 190 pedals per minute before I calmed down and went back to 140. *end story*

Right now I'm reading a ton of parodies on Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, some of my least favorite books. Normally when I don't like something I might read a few negative things on it, feel better, and then move on with my life and feel a lot better. Not this time though. Every single fucking person at my school loves it, reads it, and talks about it. In fact, on Friday I saw someone wearing a Team Edward shirt. I'm not kidding. Even worse was that it was one of my friends. And it's everywhere else now, what with the entire internet population being obsessed with these books. As you can imagine, pure torture (why must I go to middle school/high school? Can't I just skip all that and go to college?). So as a way to let some of the bitchyness and anger and frustration out, and since I am not clever enough to do parodies like these people are (if you want to read these, let me know in a comment and I'll send you a link) and since either Bella and Edward are always doing something totally risky (not to mention it'll be kind of funny getting attacked by all the rabid fan girls) I'm going to write a story of all the ways they can die. (Wow that was a long sentence. *deep breath*) Since I don't have the first book with me at the moment, my first one will be my own creation.

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I apologize for any errors. I was so anxious to post it I didn't proof read it.
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