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The themes for November 2009 were:

1. clamps (nipple or otherwise)
2. costumes
3. eunuchs/castrati
4. symphorophilia (arousal by watching or causing destruction and/or death)
- with alternate pairing Professor Quirrel/Morfin Gaunt

( Monthly Masterlist, November 2009 )

Title: Honey To The Bee
Author: ragdoll
Characters: Bill Weasley/Neville Longbottom
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: frottage, drunk!sex (sort of), slash, a bit of Fleur-bashing
Themes/kinks chosen: costumes, frottage, slash
Word Count: 2275
Summary: When Neville was forced to attend the Ministry's Fancy Dress ball, the last thing he expected was to end being pulled by another man, least of all Ron Weasley's eldest brother. After all; who'd ever want to snog a grown man dressed as a daisy?
Author's notes: Thanks to r_grayjoy for the support, the betaing and the inspiration for the story in the first place.

( Honey to the bee, that's you for me  )

Fic for exchange: making me seriously crazy with just the very last little bit of it resisting like I'm asking it to give me all its candy and it's a two-year-old with a sugar fetish and a high degree of fondness for the word no.

Rar.

However, here, let me give you a ficlet from the kink meme from a few days ago. :D

Title: Twice as Nice
Words: ~675
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy/Spock
Warnings: none, I think.
A/N: For this prompt (Kirk/McCoy/Spock DP, bottom McCoy making whimpering sounds). As you might find unsurprising for a kink meme fill, this is straight-up porn.

( Twice as Nice )

I originally posted this at http://florahart.dreamwidth.org/1007052.html. Comments may be left here or there; you can comment there with OpenID even if you don't have an account.

Happy birthday, Clémence Poésy!

• Actors and Movies: David Yates and cast members talk Half-Blood Prince DVD and more.
  
  Adrian Rawlins to reprise James Potter role in Deathly Hallows.
  
  David Yates: Dan Radcliffe to be naked for silver doe and lake scene in Deathly Hallows.
  
  Tom Felton talks Deathly Hallows filming with Ralph Fiennes in Mizz magazine.
  
  Update and reminder: DVD signing in London December 6.
  
  Videos: Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright & Matt Lewis talk Potter and music at T4 event.
  
  
• Communities: Prompt claiming is open at hp_couplesremix.
  
  hp_yule_balls has a mod post.
  
  lupin_snape has a mod post.
  
  
• Essay: randomneses: In Defense of Lily Evans: A Brief Follow Up.
  
  
• Fandom: Potted Potter to begin third run soon.
  
  
• General Interest: Sign-ups for the 4th Annual HDS Beltane Gift Exchange will open Tuesday, December 1 at hds_beltane.
  
  
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The next-to-last Monday of the semester, woo hoo! Taught, had a couple of students come by during office hours, distributed cranberry bread, did some grading (have more to do tomorrow though). Came home and did financial stuff - bill-paying etc. - then finished making gumbo and rice for dinner, and since then have been dinking around mostly.

I'm getting excited for the beginning of the posting whirlwind, despite knowing that there's no way on earth I can read anything like all the fic I'd like to; heck, I have probably 30+ fics open in tabs already. Have started on my 3fan_holidays ficlet, have about 4 other drabbles to write, plus my Yuletide fic. SO wanted to know what I was working on tonight, and when I told him I was transcribing something and that it was schmoop, not porn, he wanted a definition for schmoop. The best I could come up with was, "like a Hallmark card." *headdesk*

Re: the filtered post from earlier, SO and I are thinking that Juno may not like walking in early-midafternoon. She tends to snooze then, if left to her own devices. So he's going to try walking her earlier, in the morning, on Wednesday and see if she has more energy then. (I usually walk her in the morning.)

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Posting for this year's Kinky Kristmas celebration begins tomorrow at noon U.S. Eastern time! We've received a ton of fantastic fic and art from both Daily Deviant members and watchers, and we're itching to show it off.

Behind the cut you'll find advertising banners for Kinky Kristmas. Feel free to use them and remind your f-lists to watch us throughout December. We've seen the pieces we'll be posting over the next month, and we can assure you that Daily Deviant is the place to be this holiday season!





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Title: Light as Iron, Singed as Pearl
Author: snegurochka_lee
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~13,800
Warnings: Dom/sub. Bondage. EWE.
Summary: The owner of the elite BDSM club M. had not gained his reputation as the most coveted Dominant on the scene by taking on just any riff-raff submissive who asked. It would take an unexpected letter to convince him to accept a new client, but it might turn out to be the biggest mistake he ever made.
Notes: Written for hd_career_fair last month for this prompt. "Thank you" does not begin to cover my gratitude to the divine marguerite_26, whose handholding, beta work and modly prodding went well beyond the call of duty.

Light as Iron, Singed as Pearl

Happy Birthday to Bill Weasley and Clémence Poésy!

• Actors and Movies:
  Clémence Poésy to reprise role as Fleur Delacour in 'Deathly Hallows'.
  Matthew Lewis, Bonnie Wright, and Tom Felton attended T4's Stars of 2009 at Earls Court in London.
  UPDATE: Bonnie Wright, Jason Isaacs & Jamie Campbell Bower attend EA Children's BAFTAs!
  
  
• Archive:
  The daily_snitch has posted its Special Edition featuring Helga Hufflepuff!
  
  
• Challenges:
  The HDS Beltane Fest will be running again in 2010!
  Claiming for ginger_lust will close on Tuesday, December 1st.
  
  
• Fandom:
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• General Interest:
  Media references to fanfic, the week ending 11/28/09 have been posted in fanthropology
  
  
• Nifty:
  The WB has lowered the price of the Harry Potter Spells application for iPhone...
  
  
• Searches:
  The daily_snitch is looking for art, fiction, communities and resources that features Godric Gryffindor!
  
  
  

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Did grocery shopping, finished LIS reading, baked 28 mini loaves cranberry-nut bread, talked w/ my mom, checked work & school emails.

Am grumpy for no discernible reason, unless maybe PMS. Or not wanting to have the last couple of weeks of the semester still to go. Perhaps I should go to bed early?

So that I can get out of the snarky attitude that suddenly hit about an hour ago...

1) Another NaNo down, with the epilogue left to go.

2) wolfish_cat should be back this week. *clings to her*

3) Another season of Merlin is likely.

4) 1/2 of the 2 most stressful holidays is dealt with.

5) All my writing for the next month is done!
5.1) Firefox tabs all cleared away for a new gathering of tabs starting the first
5.2) Reading list -
* HD_Holidays
* Snapelyholidays
* daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas
* lupin_snape's Snupin Santa
* Camelot Solstice
* Harry_Holidays
* HP_Yule_Balls
(there are probably more as well, but OMG, isn't that enough?)

One Shots:
lemondropseven: Bloodlust - (Severus, R *warnings*)
iulia_linnea: Posted various ficlets - (Luna, Neville, Lucius, George, various)

Works In Progress:
scribbulus_ink and arionrhod: Takes the Cake - was updated (Severus/Remus, R)

Drabbles:
leela_cat: The Signing - (Severus/Harry, PG13)
lemondropseven: Harry Potter, A Fairy Tale - (Severus/Harry, G)
nimrod_9: Another Kind of White Wedding - (Severus/Remus, PG13)
sweetmelodykiss: Always - (Severus/Harry, PG)
iulia_linnea: Posted various ficlets - (Luna, Neville, Lucius, George, various)
synn: Unasked - (Severus/Bill, Severus/Harry, G-PG)
alisanne: Patronus Interruptus - (Severus/Harry, Neville/Ginny, PG)

Art:
jin_fenghuang: Holiday Drawble - (Severus/Harry, PG)
bielol: Untitled - (Severus/Harry, PG)

Community News:
snape100: Posted their latest Challenge

Newsletters:
dailysnitch: Posted their Saturday Edition
dailysnitch: Posted their Helga Hufflepuff Special Edition
qubbler_report: Posted their Sunday Edition

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

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☞ It's been a while. I'm feeling a bit better now, but the last weeks were rough. My depression was really bad, I had the first full-on panic attack in years and my phobias acted up. *sigh* I'm still not entirely back to my normal medium depressed state. I didn't get much writing done and there are still 05:04:47 left. No idea how much I'll write today and tomorrow.

☞ I actually did work on my Merlin fic for the first time in months. I realised it sucked and that it needs a major rework. ( Spoilers for recent episodes )

☞ I think I finally found out why disaster films don't work for me. It's not the wildly improbable natural catastrophes, because those aren't necessarily improbable at all, it's the wildly improbable ways in which humans conquer nature and stop the catastrophes. More often than not by using a lot of explosives. I would like them if they showed humans surviving the catastrophe, I wouldn't mind if they showed humans fighting to survive and dying (The Day After Tomorrow I liked, despite the unrealistic premise). I do mind the age old "conquering the wilderness" trope that crops up again and again. It's not only inacurate, it also reminds me of how humans treat their environment in other situations.

☞ Yuletide: I really hope my recipient will like my story, since I haven't written for the fandom before and couldn't research as much as I would have liked to. It also won't be as long and will end rather abruptly. But I'm confident because we seem to like similar stories and share a few quirks, despite not having any non-Yuletide fandoms in common. Now I only have to find a competent beta and brit-picker who knows the fandom. Or someone who can tell me if the story works once I've typed it up, at least. (Why yes, I still use pen and paper for writing.)

As we say in these parts. Another pretty mellow day; got up late, and decided not to grocery shop today since we had sufficient milk etc. to hold us till tomorrow, and fridge space was still at a premium with various leftovers occupying it. (We ate up a few things for dinner tonight.) Ran an errand or two, though, and have done almost all the LIS reading (1.5 more chapters to go) and posted in discussion for one class. Also hung out in the front yard with SO and the neighbors for a while.

Tomorrow I'll grocery shop, then make a whole lot of cranberry nut bread mini-loaves for gifting, and make mashed potatoes for dinner with leftover turkey & gravy and more leftover veggies. Turkey Sun/Tues/Thurs, gumbo Mon/Wed/Fri, I think. Easy. Will just need to make more veg eventually. We're going to throw a little holiday party in a couple of weeks and I'm starting to plot food for that.

Fic-stuff: alisanne is modding adventdrabbles at IJ again this year; she posts a daily prompt from December 1-24, but it's not required to use it, and ficlets as well as drabbles are welcome, in any fandom. beren_writes mods adventdrabbles at LJ, although doesn't do the prompts.

Less than 2 weeks until 3fan_holidays ficlets are due, and I put up the header template post for that today. And hd_holidays starts posting Tuesday, as will daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas, and I believe also happy_trekmas. Whew - those are just the ones I'm participating in, too, and there are plenty of other fests kicking off shortly as well.

Happy birthday, Alfonso Cuarón!

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• Essay: randomneses has posted a brief follow-up to "In Defense of Lily Evans".


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Drabbles:
alisanne: Ready - (Harry/Draco, PG)
alisanne: The Appeal of Books - (Severus/Harry, PG)

Art:
jin_fenghuang: Holiday Drawble - (Severus/Harry, PG)

Community News:
lupin_snape: Posted a message from the mods
lupin100: Posted Prompt #271: "The seasons always change and life will find a way."

Newsletters:
snapenews: Posted Issue #792: Thursday/Friday

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

Did online holiday shopping tonight too. Now have only a couple of minor gifts yet to find/buy, plus stocking stuff, plus sew waistcoat for SO (which won't happen till the semester is over, but also doesn't have to be shipped anywhere). And I think he's decided on and possibly ordered something for me already. So basically - we are done with gift organizing. Wow. Now, whether we can get in gear with cards/letter remains to be seen.

It is, however, nearly 1 am so I think I'd better head for bed!