I know I'm not quite terribly active in fandom anymore, but I do follow along when the mood hits.

Firstly: I don't know exactly how active I'll be (many mitigating factors: work, writing an original novel, etc.), but I've made an account at InsaneJournal. I will be cross-posting work also making an archive.


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(It's a community...I find this logging out and logging in from real life to fandom incredibly frustrating.)

Secondly: I did not fall off the bandwagon. I saw Order of the Phoenix the night it was released with a good friend. We even dressed up as Cho and Hermione (I was Cho, she was Hermione). It was HELL. HELL. (Not the movie.) Lost tickets, delayed viewings, movie theatre asshattery...but overall, I thought the movie was quite excellent.

Thirdly: I had Deathly Hallows preordered forever, but in a fit of terrible planning, I realised that I wouldn't be in New York for its release as I agreed to go fishing with my dad in Chesapeake Bay that day. I had Amazon ship it to my parents' house. It was a trying weekend: I arrived in Philadelphia two hours later than anticipated because I got on the wrong train and accidentally made it to Delaware and then I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning to drive down to Maryland. The book itself didn't arrive until that afternoon. Then my parents and I went out to dinner. So I didn't start reading until 9:30 but I soldiered on and finished.

I still have mixed feelings about it.

'Tis all.

I'm in love with this icon:



Combines Firefly and Harry Potter? Hello, brilliant?

Made by phuck at last5.

The following were written for the Make the Yuletide Gay challenge hosted by violet_quill. I requested a buzzword, which was ornaments and the following fic appeared.

Title: The Gift of the Marauders
Rating: PG
Pairing: James/Sirius
Notes: Ripped shamelessly from O. Henry's famous story. Not exactly the fluffiest (or even really slashiest) story you will find, but being as this is me and I am incapable of writing fluff, this is the closest you'll get.

( The Gift of the Marauders )

Comments are always appreciated!

It's 2 degrees in New York City right now. No joke. I want to die.

This sort of weather is a little tough for this Los Angeles native to handle, you know.

Aieeeeeeee! Much love...conartist has coloured in one of my Ginny/Cho drawings.

Go congraluate her on her beautiful colouring skills.

You know, I've come to the realization that the real world hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. And I don't necessarily mean "life outside of HP-fandom" (although it certainly encompasses it); more to the point, I mean "life outside of school." Or really "financial independence from your parents now that you have graduated from university and trying to keep abreast of flying legal agreements in your first corporate job."

My daily schedule looks something like this:

7:30am Wrench self out of bed and try to find variations on the same dress-shirt-and-black-pencil-skirt combo have worn for three months.
8:00am Wish that just for once you want to wear something with more personality. Decide between the 50s floofy black skirt with cute cardigan and semi-ironic pearls or the 60s-mod outfit with thin silvery jewelry and white-and-black houndstooth jacket. Still in disbelief that argyle is too casual for the office.
8:30am Have calming cigarette with roommate (also in corporate legal assistant job) outside before catching subway.
8:50am Arrive in office. Have cup of tea, possibly balance bar for breakfast. Lurk in fandom, read Overheard in New York, The New York Times, and CNN.
9:00am to 8:00pm Frantically juggle five different client-matters simultaneously, edit agreements, compile signatures, distribute closing sets, and decipher what foreign clients have to say for 11 hours. Do not eat lunch, but maybe munch on another balance bar or other assorted 100 Calorie snack-packs.
8:30pm to 10:30pm Have two hour detox at gym.
10:45pm Glance around pitifully at refrigerator filled with condiments and beer. Peer hopefully into cupboards with two very old boxes of pasta. Contemplate ordering takeout. Decide it's too much effort. Eat another balance bar.
11:00pm Have shower.
11:15pm Lurk online some more until pass out.

So, looking back, it came as a slight shock to me that it has been TEN months since I last posted anything in this journal and probably a year or more since I've posted anything substantive. And now I think I know why. (Even as I type, I'm filing signatures at the same time.)

Sometimes I think I cheated myself out of an extra year of fandom fun by graduating from NYU early. But most times I think of the astounding ineptitude of NYU's bureaucracy and sigh with relief.

But anyway, in a sort-of-but-maybe-not-really symbolic rebirth (or really just snatching bits of sanity time and scribbing drabbles and doodling drawbles on the side), I am re-posting all my old art. In the near future, expect to see more...something.

I have a tablet now anyhow and I'm itching to use it for fanart.

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Massive re-post! This was back in my obsessive femmeslash + Cho phase (to which I am swinging back).

Title: Assorted Ginny/Cho drawings
Rating: From PG to very hard R
Comments: I like Cho. Except in canon.

( I choose my femmeslash pairings based on how it pleases me aesthetically. )

Title: Assorted Cho/Fleur
Rating: Mostly R
Comments: Seriously, prettiest couple ever.

( I need to reread Veela Magic. )

Title: Crush Me
Pairing: Hermione/Pansy
Rating: Strong R
Comments: This started out as a doodle of curly hair. No really.

( Crush Me )

Title: Quidditch Bitches
Characters: Cho Chang, Angelina Johnson
Rating: G
Comments: Nothing, except this may be the first time I have successfully drawn a character of African descent.

( Quidditch Bitches )

Title: Het, You?
Pairing: Fred/Cho
Rating: G
Comments: Done for an RPG I was in...oh dear Lord...back in 2002.

( Het, You? )

Title: Assorted Cho drawings
Rating: From G to R
Comments: Wow, I am awful Cho-aholic.

( I need to cut back. )

Title: Slytherin Pride
Characters: Pansy Parkinson, Draco Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Blaise Zabini
Rating: G
Comments: Also done for that RPG back in 2002 before we found out what Blaise looked like.

( Slytherin Pride )

Title: Ravenclaw Pride
Characters: Lisa Turpin, Cho Chang, Terry Boot, Mandy Brocklehurst
Rating: G
Comments: Also done for that RPG back in 2002.

( Ravenclaw Pride )

Whoo! Finis.

Poke poke.

I lurk.

And plan my return.

Oi, have been on HP hiatus for FAR TOO LONG. This is what studying abroad in London and being in your last semester of university does to you.

Because time is limited, I've decided that in lieu of any new artwork, I'm going to offer some old lineart to be coloured, because, hey I'm lazy and don't own a tablet, so colouring with a mouse is a pain in the wrist.

Title: Blue
Characters: Fleur/Cho
Rating: R (for some boobies)
Notes: Um, it was originally titled "Blue" because I coloured it with blue, but as this is lineart, it has no colour, so feel free to choose to rename this however you want!

( Fleur/Cho )

Title: Grudgefuck?
Characters: Snape/Lupin
Rating: PG-13 (nothing racy, just...sexual tension and some naked shoulders because I can't be bothered with clothes.)

( Snupin )

Title: Special Needs
Characters: young Sirius Black
Rating: NC-17 (for wanking)
Notes: I meant to colour this, but just never finished, so anyone who wants to give this a go has my wholehearted approval.

( Special Needs )

Title: Sirius, James, and Remus
Characters: Marauders-era Sirius, James, and Remus
Rating: G
Notes: Also meant to colour this on the computer, but I was lacking a mouse at the time and colouring with a touchpad is a BITCH. Thus I coloured it with natural media, but I scanned just the lineart, if anyone wants to try colouring it.

( Yay threesomes. )

P.S. New layout.

It tickles me thoroughly to hear my English professor talk about AU HP fic.

( And HP quizzes because I have an hour and a half before my review with my tutour. )