lacrimae rerum

I didn't have the time or energy to post this on the day itself, but March 27th was James Potter's birthday! Happy belated birthday, Prongs!



Also, I got a lovely Time-Turner necklace for $10 at the Perth Medieval Fayre last Saturday. :D

It is Hallowe'en! Aka Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead and so on. It's even one of the Ancient Egyptian feast days of Bast, Sekhmet and Ra.

Sigh, I wish Halloween was a bigger event here. I'd LOVE to don a costume and scary makeup and have fun with friends, but when I asked Mum if I could just have a Halloween party at home, with costumes and friends and scary movies, she was like, "And invite trouble?" She seems to think it'll attract evil spirits or something. Augh. ><

So as usual, I simply lit a candle (scented, this year!) and put it in the skeletal-hand candleholder I think of as my Hand of Glory.



Also, on Saturday I was going to a friend's house and stopped to run an errand first (had to buy my tickets for a horror writing workshop), and met a zombie at the mall! :D He kindly agreed to pose for a picture instead of eating my brains.



... yes, I look far too happy to be standing next to a zombie.

I will end with icon-quotes from one of my favourite chapters of The Shoebox Project, involving a very... interactive Halloween.



 

I've been on a cleaning/organisational frenzy at home since my job contract ended, and clearly it's extending to LJ. I thought I should try to collect all my fics (the ones I'll admit to, anyway) together in one place. I suck at ratings, so if you think something should be rated differently, please comment saying so. :)

Bear in mind that the earliest stories are most likely not all that good; I started writing fanfic in 2005 and I was only 12 going on 13 then. And that there is a fair amount of slash (male/male pairings: the pairings are stated clearly, so if it offends you, please don't read), and some of the role-play entries may be friends-locked (however, if you add my RP accounts as friends to read them, I will add you back ASAP).



( Harry Potter fanfiction  )


( The Chronicles of Narnia fanfiction ) . Autumn reminds Susan and Lucy of Narnia.

Perfumes of Narnia - Pevensies, Peter-centric, PG13, 2010. Peter is a man in a boy's body.

Constellations and Promises - Susan and Lucy, Lucy-centric, PG, 2011. It was hard to see the stars in London. [Titled Promise on FanFiction.Net]


( The Black Magician Trilogy fanfiction )


( Good Omens fanfiction )


( The Sandman fanfiction )



( Miscellaneous fanfiction )


( Role-Play and Original Fiction )


Hopefully I remember to update this thing. :D

So sunflower_mynah  linked me to this lovely 30-day book meme at book_memes , and I'll be doing it. :D

1. A fictional character you identify with and why

This is actually a pretty hard one. XD I think I share traits with many characters, and some years ago I'd probably have given you a long list of characters I thought I identified with, but now... I really don't know.

Hmm. Maybe Aziraphale from Good Omens? We both have what would probably be called an awfully outdated fashion sense (I'd like to think that I'm not nearly as bad, though... and since my two-week paid trial expired, my two Adam Lambert icons have replaced two of my GO icons, so I can't use this icon for this post; it'd have been fitting), we both worship books, particularly rare and/or old ones, we both call people "dear", and I have a dreadful fondness for tartan. Also... between Aziraphale and Crowley, it seems like Crowley's actually the more optimistic one while Aziraphale seems to have the more jaded view of humanity; Crowley's the one who has to go and get drunk for a week after seeing the Spanish Inquisition. While I am constantly shocked by what humanity's capable of, overall I do tend to take a more pessimistic view of it. XD However, I do prefer cocoa to tea.

There's also Remus J Lupin from Harry Potter, to some extent. Mostly because of the chocolate and books. XD Also, maybe it's just me reading too much into things and forcing my head!canon onto him, but it seemed to me that sometimes he couldn't quite get why he was a Marauder, why the popular James Potter and Sirius Black cared so much about him; he didn't see what he had to offer people, and we see that repeated later on with Tonks (putting aside my inner Remus/Sirius fangirl and my slashy reasons for that). And sometimes I, too, wonder (in a good way, usually) why my friends are here, what they see in me, what I can offer them.

And of course, from the same fandom, there's also Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood. Hermione for obvious reasons - I'm also a huge bookworm and I think all the answers to everything can be found in books/the library (or Google), and I'd like to think I'm as loyal to my friends as she is. I'm not always very logical, though, and I'm only a top student for certain subjects that I enjoy, like English/GP/Lit. And I am a proud nerd; with certain subjects, I genuinely enjoy learning and will voluntarily read more about them for fun. And my hair is just as bushy; I swear, it's like a longer, black version of hers. And Luna because, again, for obvious reasons. I'm not nearly as spacey as she is, but a lot of my peers would consider me "Loony" as well because of what I read, the things I say and do, the things I believe, the way I dress, etc. I say weird things at odd moments too. And I do love the way she dresses. XD

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Sirius Black.

He is, after all, my dream man. A day will not be enough, but if it's all I get, then I'll take it.

I'd like to meet Remus Lupin, Aziraphale, Crowley, James Potter, Lily Evans, Aragorn, Frodo, Sam, Gandalf, Faramir, Shadow, Anansi, Nobody Owens, Silas, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Agnes Nitt, Tiffany Aching, DEATH, Morpheus/Dream, Sandman Death, Hob Gadling, Lucifer (from Lucifer), Mazikeen Morningstar, Elaine Belloc, my own Gabriel, Elizabeth Bennet, and a whole bunch of characters, but the first person who came to my mind was Sirius.

Wow. It's been months, more than a year, since I wrote any Harry Potter fanfiction. O.o The last HP thing I wrote was Starry Night, in late 2008.

This fic has no title because I really could not think of one, so reviews, concrit and suggestions would be much appreciated.

Disclaimer: Aziraphale, Crowley and the bookshop are the property of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, in the fabulous Good Omens. Remus Lupin and all other recognizable Harry Potter characters belong to JK Rowling. 

 A/N: I realize Aziraphale might seem a little OOC towards the end, so here’s my explanation; I feel that angels and demons, or at least Aziraphale and Crowley, can sense if you’re about to die. In that sort of situation, there’s surely no harm in Aziraphale revealing what he is, to give a moment of peace and faith to the person (and I also think that people close to death can sense that sort of thing anyway). Also, for some reason, in my head!canon the Lupins are lapsed Catholics. 

 A gift to my dear friend June, aka nevermore_1106 ! 

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( For as long as he can remember, Remus Lupin has been coming to Mr. Fell's bookshop. )

As I said, there are still aspects of this I'm not happy with, and my beta isn't much of a HP fan, so concrit would be much appreciated.

I made a Twilight icon with a picture of the Cullens I found on Yahoo Image Search! And I shall try making more. This is simple, really, (simply added text) but I wanted a Twilight icon for my LJ very badly. :D

It has (in order from left) Emmett Cullen, Rosalie Hale, Esme Cullen, Edward Cullen (the hot guy in the foreground), Carlisle Cullen, Alice Cullen and Jasper Hale. :D

I was reading Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co recently; it's a very good book. The three titular chatacers, Stalky, M'Turk and Beetle, rather remind me of James Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin. :D They play pranks, particularly on the members of a rival house, and they sneak out of school to little sheltered clearings or the grounds of a nearby mansion to read in peace, slack off, and smoke. And no matter what they do, their Headmaster always sees right through it. :D

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This is rather angsty and Remus-centric.

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Harry Potter. If I did, I'd be sipping tequila on a Caribbean cruise right now with Johnny Depp, not typing this while munching dried slices of haw.