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essayelI think I owe myself a little squee - not that I make a habit of it but several things have happened lately that are rather nice.
First of all I had a birthday and the assorted kids who were about cooked a formal dinner for me and Snapeclone. Then we watched Troy and marvelled at the llamas!! Llamas in Bronze Age Turkey, hmmmm? Maybe the trading links were better than we thought.
I also had a fic from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katbeseroc which chuffed me to bits. Nobody's ever written a story specifically for me before, thanks a bunch.
The next day we took Jenny to a 'safari' park to see the animals and saw some very photogenic wolves and a pack of Afican wild dogs swinging cheerfully from the spare tyre on the back of a Landrover. There were also white tiger cubs with grey stripes and blue eyes - a very 'designer' look - who played so prettily that even strong men went "aaaawwww" and Jenny and I squeed unashamedly. You would have too if you'd been there.
Then on Fridaymetallumai pinged me saying "What's all this about Nano then and why don't we do one between us?" My initial reaction was something along the lines of "Are you out of your tree?" but after some negotiation we decided to play at it. We haven't registered and we're only going to do Half A Nano because we are both ladies of a certain age with jobs and commitments. So between Friday night and Sunday we hammered together a rough plot and a set of charries and are going to see what happens. If it happens and anyone seems at all interested I'll post a link here to the place it can be found. It's a Pre-Potterverse fic set in 1943 at the height of the Grindelwald War and NO neither of us remember it!
As someone so perceptively said with regard to my sudden reappearance, Restituere is dead and gone and the earth tamped down neatly. In a month or two, when everything's had a chance to settle, we'll have a whip round (literally in Oliver Wood/Lucius Malfoy's case)for a tasteful headstone. It was, as they say, a learning experience and I think it was worth doing. I learned to write NC17 slash from it, not particularly well and I found it helped to giggle hysterically while doing so, and I met some fabulous people of whom I became incredibly fond. It's sad to part from people whose company you enjoyed and I will miss some of them very much. Others, happily, I continue to write with in other places. I also miss Gilbert. When you write somebody for seven months and then quite abruptly abandon them in mid plot you can't help but feel a bit guilty - almost as though I killed the little blighter off. But there was no point in continuing with an anti-climax once the few readers had read their long awaited Sn/arry bunk-up (I've been told that to be fair they swapped ends at half time)which was the entire point of the story. Instead an alternative universe has been set up where a number of the same characters can explore the 'what if's Restituere raised. I hope they have fun there.
Tonight I have to work because we are having a Ghost Story Evening at the castle. Am I the only person in the world terrified by ghost stories? And I don't mean terrified in a good way. I'll be squeeing about that too, only a different kind of squee.
First of all I had a birthday and the assorted kids who were about cooked a formal dinner for me and Snapeclone. Then we watched Troy and marvelled at the llamas!! Llamas in Bronze Age Turkey, hmmmm? Maybe the trading links were better than we thought.
I also had a fic from
katbeseroc which chuffed me to bits. Nobody's ever written a story specifically for me before, thanks a bunch.The next day we took Jenny to a 'safari' park to see the animals and saw some very photogenic wolves and a pack of Afican wild dogs swinging cheerfully from the spare tyre on the back of a Landrover. There were also white tiger cubs with grey stripes and blue eyes - a very 'designer' look - who played so prettily that even strong men went "aaaawwww" and Jenny and I squeed unashamedly. You would have too if you'd been there.
Then on Friday
metallumai pinged me saying "What's all this about Nano then and why don't we do one between us?" My initial reaction was something along the lines of "Are you out of your tree?" but after some negotiation we decided to play at it. We haven't registered and we're only going to do Half A Nano because we are both ladies of a certain age with jobs and commitments. So between Friday night and Sunday we hammered together a rough plot and a set of charries and are going to see what happens. If it happens and anyone seems at all interested I'll post a link here to the place it can be found. It's a Pre-Potterverse fic set in 1943 at the height of the Grindelwald War and NO neither of us remember it!As someone so perceptively said with regard to my sudden reappearance, Restituere is dead and gone and the earth tamped down neatly. In a month or two, when everything's had a chance to settle, we'll have a whip round (literally in Oliver Wood/Lucius Malfoy's case)for a tasteful headstone. It was, as they say, a learning experience and I think it was worth doing. I learned to write NC17 slash from it, not particularly well and I found it helped to giggle hysterically while doing so, and I met some fabulous people of whom I became incredibly fond. It's sad to part from people whose company you enjoyed and I will miss some of them very much. Others, happily, I continue to write with in other places. I also miss Gilbert. When you write somebody for seven months and then quite abruptly abandon them in mid plot you can't help but feel a bit guilty - almost as though I killed the little blighter off. But there was no point in continuing with an anti-climax once the few readers had read their long awaited Sn/arry bunk-up (I've been told that to be fair they swapped ends at half time)which was the entire point of the story. Instead an alternative universe has been set up where a number of the same characters can explore the 'what if's Restituere raised. I hope they have fun there.
Tonight I have to work because we are having a Ghost Story Evening at the castle. Am I the only person in the world terrified by ghost stories? And I don't mean terrified in a good way. I'll be squeeing about that too, only a different kind of squee.
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Date: 2004-11-02 06:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-11-02 07:54 pm (UTC)I'm not mad keen on ghost stories either. Sometimes they can be a bit too real - I've had one or two creepy experiences in my life that I wouldn't care to repeat, and being last out of a place with as much (bad) history as the castle is not high up on my list of things to do.
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Date: 2004-11-02 08:45 pm (UTC)can I tell you i' mthe only one yearsa go who refused to take a jack-the-ripper-tour throgh London? bweeee!
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:44 pm (UTC)Good luck on the halfNaNo (it still counts!) and I'll miss Gilbert too. You should write a book about him -- somewhere outside the HP universe. Some poor blighter who got hit with an accidental magical backlash...:D
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:44 pm (UTC)Thanks - it was a fun birthday. You must see Troy just for the llamas so you can assure me I wasn't hallucinating!
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:46 pm (UTC)Jack the Ripper tours? Eeewwww.
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-02 09:54 pm (UTC)Thanks for the dancing fish by the way!!!
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Date: 2004-11-02 09:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-02 10:00 pm (UTC)Prologue is up to 5 pages; will send it this evening for tweaking. (or morning.) So you can change Jonathan's appearance if you like.
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Date: 2004-11-02 10:03 pm (UTC)Thanks for the kisses and hugs and cake!!
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Date: 2004-11-03 12:05 am (UTC)which castle/museu mdo yo uwor kanyway?I"m curious now since isuddenly remember a squee of months ago when i foudn out you lived in walesomgi've beenthere!!!
he-hem.
Don't knowwhy I chickened out back then. onot wantingtthink of what ifI were aske dto join one now. bweh.
different question but somethign ii ned to ask before I forget.
for shame on me to not have finished reading black dog at al lbut is this particualr story ending up het? just asking because I've read so far(ages ago) to yel lthat it's marvellosu angst and fantasticaly original plot adn I liek the post-war setting and so forth..but in my crumbled list of sirius recs (see my latest post) It's in the sack of gen, adn udner angst/drama. Just let me know if that's the wrong place. :) yes I will read it I promise I hope you haven't quit hp by the time I'm done but I SHALL. *pouts&
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Date: 2004-11-03 12:27 am (UTC)I work at Abergavenny Castle - quite a small one in comparisons with monsters like Caerphilli and Caernarvon.
Yes, Black Dog does qualify as het though it barely rates the R I gave it. I hope you enjoy the end of it.
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Date: 2004-11-03 03:51 am (UTC)Yes, remember you saying that event was coming up and you had zero desire to do it. Can't you barter with Boss Lady to let you out of it? I mean, you ARE doing her Romans exhibit after all. ;)
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Date: 2004-11-03 07:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-03 08:06 am (UTC)Whee...whoops, I"ll move the whoel link right away 8gulps* yes I wll read it yes I wil read all of my unread links this year...
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Date: 2004-11-04 02:54 pm (UTC)I haven't seen anyone else mention it, so I just wanted to express an interest in reading your NaNo fic when it's presentable! I'm always up for reading well-written war fics set in the Potterverse.
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Date: 2004-11-04 05:03 pm (UTC)